THE RURAL* NEW -YORKER 
-tol 
1913. 
AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION FOR OHIO. 
A bill before the Ohio Legislature, Sen¬ 
ate Bill No. 178, has stirred up the agri¬ 
cultural interest of the State to the bot¬ 
tom. This bill is a radical one. It pro¬ 
poses to establish an agricultural commis¬ 
sion in Ohio. This commission is to con¬ 
sist of four members, three of whom shall 
be appointed by the Governor with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, and 
the fourth member shall be appointed by 
the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State 
University. These members are to receive 
$5,000 a year salary, with a liberal expense 
account and allowance for clerical hire. 
Each member must give a bond for $25,000 
and they are to have charge of the agricul¬ 
tural activities of the State, in place of 
the divided control of the number of dif¬ 
ferent departments now in force. It is ex¬ 
pected that these four commissioners # will 
harmonize work now being conducted by 
various departments and institutions, and 
give to Ohio agriculture the benefit of a 
close organization. A hearing was held in 
Columbus on March 11, at which the friends 
and opponents of this bill fought out a 
part of their battle. Those opposing the 
bill stated that these commissioners need 
not be, and perhaps would not be in sym¬ 
pathy with agriculture, or have any knowl¬ 
edge of it. They claimed that the salaries 
and positions would be sufficiently alluring 
to attract politicians to work for a place 
on this board. Those in favor of the bill 
felt that it would eliminate the duplication 
or mix-up of the work of the State Depart¬ 
ment, the Experiment Station and the State 
University. This commission would elimin¬ 
ate the State Dairy and Food Department, 
the Fish and Game Department, and the 
State Board of Agriculture. The two sides 
lined up on about these propositions. 
A preliminary try-out was held in the 
Neal House, and Dr. W. I. Chamberlain 
was named to defend the interests of the 
existing order of things. Representatives 
of the Grange, the State Dairymen's Asso¬ 
ciation, the State Veterinarians’ Associa¬ 
tion, the Grain Dealers’ Association and 
the State Horticulturists were authorized 
to express views of their organizations 
against the bill. 
“Duplication can be remedied by an un¬ 
paid board of coordination,” was the dec¬ 
laration of Dr. Chamberlain in his oppo¬ 
sition of the proposed legislation, “and a 
law of 300 words could be framed which 
would solve the problems of the present 
bill. The commission would be supreme 
and during the six years which its mem¬ 
bers would hold office an irreparable harm 
could be done the agricultural interests of 
the State by selfish ambitious politicians 
as members. This bill also gives power to 
establish bureaus of chemistry, bacteriology, 
vital statistics and others, and empowers 
the Commission to employ experts and pay 
high salaries. It has the power to estab¬ 
lish bureaus, offices and positions when 
deemed necessary without the restraining 
influence of the farmers of Ohio to have 
their say in the matter. It gives the com¬ 
missioners power to junket over the coun¬ 
try at will at the expense of the State, it 
gives them power to license or withhold 
license from veterinarians. It would dis¬ 
place the State Board of Agriculture, the 
Fair Board, the board of control of the 
University and Experiment Station, w r ho 
have willingly and efficiently served the 
State for years without a cent of pay. 
We urge that a simple and Inexpensive 
Board of Coordination be established which 
would clearly outline the duties of the 
agricultural interests of the State in rela¬ 
tion to each other, and that the autonomy 
of the Experiment Station and Agricul¬ 
tural College and other forces for agricul¬ 
ture should still exist and be in the hands 
of their rightful holders, the farmers of 
Ohio. We should have time to consider 
the matter carefully and to tills we would 
give our hearty support.” 
President L. P. Bailey of the State 
Dairyman’s Association, declaring he rep¬ 
resented the interests of over 1,000 mem¬ 
bers. said the work of the three agricul¬ 
tural interests of the State were clearly 
defined and varied: that the Experiment 
Station is experimental and demonstrative, 
the Agricultural College educational and 
the Department executive, and he pro¬ 
tested against the three institutions being 
consolidated under a single board. “I do 
not believe,” said Mr. Bailey, “there are 
or ever will be four men who are capable 
of managing these three institutions. At 
our meeting in February this bill was dis¬ 
cussed, and over three hundred dairymen 
representing every portion of the State 
voted unanimously against it.” 
J. A. McCord, of the Grain Dealers’ As¬ 
sociation, voiced the objections of the or¬ 
ganization, and declared that the system 
would be so radical that agricultural con¬ 
ditions in the State would be disrupted for 
a period of years. 
One of the five members of the Fish and 
Game Department of the State declared 
that with a single stroke the work of this 
department covering a dozen years would 
be wiped out with a staggering blow, no 
said that the five members of the board 
had labored with an annual expenditure 
of less than $1,000 a year, had hatched 
over one-third of a billion fish annually 
and placed them in lakes and streams of 
the State, at no revenues from the State 
other than from the fish license law which 
had been secured through their efforts, 
and this license was supporting their ac¬ 
tivities. He stated that the members of 
the board had labored without pay, and 
hnd done their work efficiently. 
The Ohio Grange was badly split re¬ 
garding the bill. State Master Layland de¬ 
clared that Ohio Grangers stood firmly in¬ 
trenched against its enactment L. G. 
Spencer of the legislative committee of the 
Grange declared that it had never origi¬ 
nated with the the farmers, and that they 
were against it as was the executive com¬ 
mittee of the Grange and evidenced three 
hundred letters to support his views. F. 
P. Oranz, secretary of the State Grange, 
Intrenched himself with the defenders of 
the proposed bill, and talked in favor of 
its enactment. The friends of the bill de¬ 
clared that it was a movement in the in¬ 
terests of efficiency and economy. Mr. 
Lloyd declared that dulpieation was not as 
grievous as the losses from inefficiency and 
the jealousies existing between the three 
branches of the State’s agricultural inter¬ 
ests. 
Director Thorne and President Thompson 
declared the intentions of the Governor 
were in the best interests of agriculture 
and its institutions, and that the bill had 
been so modified that the individuality of 
the two institutions would be preserved. 
Secretary Sandies, Mr. Evans, President 
of the Franklin County Farmers’ Union, 
Mr. Simmonds, editor of the Farm News, 
Dr. F. P. Ames, and Mr. Baker of the 
Cleveland Plain Dealer, and others spoke 
in favor of the bill. The opinion of the 
farmers present representing the agricul¬ 
tural interests of the State was that they 
were not given a fair show. The possi¬ 
bilities of political prostitution of the in¬ 
tents of the bill were overlooked by its 
supporters in their declaration that it was 
the wisest and most advanced step in be¬ 
half of agriculture. The farmers were al¬ 
lowed only a few minutes beyond the hour 
for the discussion of their side of the 
proposition, while those favoring its enact¬ 
ment were allowed unbridled freedom both 
in numbers and time, carrying the discus¬ 
sion well towards midnight. 
On Wednesday morning the farmers held 
a conference with Governor Cox. 
“They have practically given us the fair 
thing,” was the declaration of Dr. W. 
I. Chamberlain after the conference. He 
declared that there should be some check 
on the power of the commission regarding 
expenditures, and with this Governor Cox 
heartily agreed. The Governor said that 
he wanted the members of the delegation 
to aid him in refining the bill and writing 
into it every safeguard against extrava¬ 
gance. At this meeting the Governor ex¬ 
plained his views in regard to the proposed 
agricultural commission bill. The Governor 
allayed the fears of the champions of the 
old system who were alarmed lest the new 
commission might become infested with cor¬ 
rupt politicians, by assuring those present 
that the new plan seeks to root out a 
system that has been full of politics, and 
proposes to supplant it with the very high¬ 
est efficiency. “This bill is sure to go 
through and we want to see that such 
amendments that are in the interests of 
the farmer should be made,” was the re¬ 
mark passed around among Grangers and 
farmers who had been lined up with the 
opposition. w. J. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
“Talk about the high cost of living,” 
said the disgusted retail market man. 
“Cabbage is still selling at from three to 
five cents a head if at all, and onions are 
just as dull at 50 cents a bushel. There 
is nothing that I usually sell but is very 
low, unless it is lemons, which went so 
high and ran so scarce that I have gone 
out of them. I have gone heavily into 
Pacific coast apples and oranges, but apples 
are cheap, too and oranges are not high. 
Here are plenty of Rome Beauty apples, 
not a blemish on them, fora cent apiece 
by the measure. They all come in paper 
wrappings. I can't see how they can be 
produced nnd shipped across the country 
for that price.” 
The dealer added that it was easy enough 
to produce perfect apples here if people 
went at work right. He had some friends 
near Lockport who last season spent >300 
for spraying their orchards. They found 
that the money was well spent. It looks 
ns if apples were going to sell at loW* 
figures all the season. In fact the feature 
of the produce market all through is a 
degree of plenty seldom seen at this time of 
the year, with Southern stuff soon ready to 
move in quantity. There has been an un¬ 
usual amount of such exotic stuff as straw¬ 
berries on sale all Winter, but as a rule 
they do not look very tempting. Straw¬ 
berries sell at about 40 cents a basket, 
retail. The snowy weather has cut out 
water-cress, but there are radishes in 
plenty and Some new Southern beets of 
good quality at five cents a bunch. 
Eggs have gone down along with other 
things, retailing now at 20 cents a dozen 
for storage and not above 25 cents for 
fresh. The enterprising farmer need not 
sell them on that basis, though, unless he 
chooses. Plenty of eggs straight from the 
farm are still selling at 28 cents delivered 
to the consumer, who seldom asks for 
prices to correspond with the market quota¬ 
tions. It is the rule for such farmer- 
dealers to adopt a good living price for 
almost anything he sells in that way and 
keeping it the year through. A Buffalo 
coal man, who lives on a farm, sells the 
butter he makes from a dozen cows at 35 
cents right through and merely brings it 
to his city office. The customers do the 
rest. He could sell several times what he 
does if he had it. All the customer wants 
to know is that the butter is of good 
quality. A farmer with a friend in town 
who keeps any sort of down-town office 
could do the same and sell everything he 
raises, if it is not too perishable in 
character. After that quality tells the 
story. Nobody will try to pin him down to 
market prices. 
Beans are among the high-priced foods 
and the buyer by the quart pays an ex¬ 
orbitant price for them. Retailers are sell¬ 
ing rial kidneys at 15 cents a quart, a rate 
of $4.85 a bushel. They buy them at not 
over $2.75. Such prices alone ought to make 
farmers eager to get close to the con¬ 
sumers. Here is a profit of over 80 per 
cent, not to mention wholesaler’s and rail¬ 
road profits. 
Buffalo, N. Y., March 8.—There is no 
evidence that the capricious Winter has 
done any harm to grass, Winter wheat or 
fruits. The snow has been very light till 
now, when there is about a foot on the 
ground. It has all gone off a number of 
times, but each time the grass shows very 
green and fairly growing. Lilac bushes 
started a little * during the last thaw in 
February, but there is no report of peach 
buds swelling. The weather is now turn¬ 
ing more sunny, which is a further reason 
for uneasiness. The open weather has 
favored the marketing of potatoes, though 
the going has been bad. Fortunate is the 
farmer who is located on the new paved 
roads, which now exteud in almost all 
directions from Buffalo. J. w. c. 
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AND 
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1857 STANDARD FOR OVER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS 1913 
Last week we showed you clearly from 
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Exposition for Best 10 Ears 12 Row 
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FIRST PRIZE— New England Corn 
Exposition for Best 10 Ears Sweet 
Corn, large or canning varieties from 
Maine—Dexter Burnell. 
FIRST PRIZE —New England Corn 
Exposition for Best 10 Ears Sweet 
Corn, small or table varieties from 
Maine—Dexter Burnell. 
FIRST PRIZE —New England Corn 
Exposition Shelling Out Contest from 
Maine_Dexter Burnell. 
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Corn Exposition for Best 10 Ears 8 
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Burnell. 
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Exposition for Best Single Ear of 
Dent Com from New Hampshire.— 
Ashton Rollins. 
SECOND PRIZE —New England 
Corn Exposition for Best 10 Ears of 
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Ashton Rollins. 
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Exposition, Grange Exhibits, Best 80 
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—Taunton Grange, grown by E. 
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Exposition for Best 10 Ears Yellow 
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Exposition for Best 10 Ears White 
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Exposition for Best 10 Ears Sweet 
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Exposition for Best 10 Cars Sweet 
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Grange Exhibit, Best 80 Ears Flint Corn 
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