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THE RURAI» NEW-YORKER 
January 15. 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Following is the programme for the 
convention to be held under the auspices 
of the New York State Agricultural 
Society next week, beginning January 
18: 
Tuesday evening, Lieutenant-Governor 
White on the State Fair; Dean H. E. Cook, 
on Slate School of Agriculture; Dr. \V. II. 
Jordan, on State Experiment Station. 
Wednesday morning, business session and 
brief addresses by Bro. Barnabas, of the 
Lincoln School of Agriculture; President 
Boothe C. Davis, of Alfred University ; H. 
B. Fullerton, of Long Island. 
Wednesday afternoon, address for the 
plant societies of the State, by B. ,7. Case, 
president of State Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion; address for the animal societies, by 
George W. Sisson, Jr., of Potsdam; address 
on agricultural education in the West, by 
Dean Eugene Davenport, of Illinois. 
Wednesday evening, principal addresses by 
President Brown, of the New York Central 
Railroad, and President Sclnirman, of Cor¬ 
nell ; brief talks by Senator Allds, president 
pro tern of the Senate, and Mr. Merritt, 
loader of the Assembly. 
Thursday morning, short talks by Mr. 
Van Alstyne, for the institutes; Mr. God¬ 
frey. for the Grange; and Mr. Crosby, upon 
agricultural methods in the West; and Dr. 
I'inegan, of the State Education Depart¬ 
ment, upon what is being done and can be 
done in the schools of our own State. Lieu¬ 
tenant-Governor White will be asked to pre¬ 
side at the evening session Tuesday; the 
president of the society Wednesday morn¬ 
ing; E. A. Powell. Wednesday afternoon: 
and Mr. Wadsworth and Mr. Barry have 
been asked to preside respectively Wednes¬ 
day evening and Thursday morning. 
This is an interesting programme, and 
the convention is an important one. It 
is a compliment to the Society and to 
the farmers of the State that such men 
of national reputation as Dean Daven¬ 
port, President Brown and President 
Schurman should give their time and 
thought to the work, and the farmers of 
the State ought to attend the meeting 
in large numbers. 
A New Yorker in “The Bashful State”. 
I have lately made a tour through the 
eastern half of the “Bashful State.” I 
found a large per cent of the farmers 
prosperous, good buildings, good dairies, 
good horses, and good people; but their 
best and surest crop was the Summer 
boarders. I saw very few abandoned farms 
that a Western New York man would 
not think should have been abandoned 
long ago. The rocky ridges running down 
from the mountains, real mountains too, 
stuck their toes out on about every square 
rod of soil, and made me shudder to 
think of ever plowing such fields. The 
mountain lands, generally covered with 
second growth, have passed into large 
holdings, the original holders, or their 
descendants rather, tiring of paying taxes, 
and sold at from one to three dollars an 
acre, and I was credibly informed that a 
wealthy gentleman at Middlcbur.v, Vt., 
owned many thousand acres, and was re¬ 
ceiving from the pulp mills and lumber 
men for selections, as many dollars per 
acre as he paid cents. As to the deer, the 
open season had just closed, and r>,000 
deer were said to have been shot, and the 
few remaining, had sought refuge in the 
most inaccessible retreats, I saw none. 
At the north, the Champlain section, are 
many good orchards, and the flavor of their 
Spy and McIntosh is most excellent, but 
they do not get the color of our New York 
fruit. Orchards are generally sod and 
grass mulch, but their most successful and 
thinking men said they must go to culti¬ 
vation. and clean culture at that, on 
account of the ravages of the “railroader,” 
a worm that tunnels the fruit in zig-zag 
course, leaving it perfectly worthless. For 
this, spraying is of no avail. Clean culture 
destroys the weed growth, on which it is 
fed. I have seen but very little of this 
post in our section. As to the bashfulness 
of the people, I doubt it, at least the 
hotel men have lost the trait, or they are 
not natives. But the scenery is grand 
and the view from a steamer on Lake 
Champlain, will stand comparison with any 
place, and with its accessibility, the only 
wonder is more do not enjoy it; perhaps the 
few thousands who do. are selfish enough 
to keep the knowledge for their own pleas¬ 
ure. Apples were a failure in the State 
this season. w. L. B. 
Pavilion, N. Y. 
I saw in The R. N.-Y., page 1062, potato 
experiments with coal ashes. On a pile of 
coal ashes which 1 took from my cellar one 
year ago last Spring, a potato vine grew, 
the top of the heap being about 12 inches 
from the surface of the soil, (where it 
grew.) I paid no particular attention to 
the vine until Fall. After the vine was 
dead I pulled the fine and to my surprise 
I found five good-sized potatoes, smooth 
and nice. w. h. b. 
Rhode Island. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
What Stock for Grafting Cherries ? 
On page 003, J. L. B. enquires as to best 
stock for cherries. E. S. Black answers 
that the Mazzard is the best for sweet 
cherries and should be the only stock used. 
Could we not have this discussed further, 
and reports from others who have had ex¬ 
tensive experience, as it is certainly quite 
important to use the very best stock. We 
have always used the Mazzard as a stock 
for the sweet cherries, with good success, 
and supposed they were used almost ex¬ 
clusively for budding to sweet cherry. 
Stark Brothers claim the Mahaleb ts the 
only stock to use. Can we have some re¬ 
ports from growers who have tried trees 
grown on both stocks? J. w. B. 
Union, Oregon. 
It. N.-Y.—Let us hear from the cherry 
tree growers. 
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Wanted —To buy 5 bus. 1909 Crop Seed Cory 
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Old Fashioned Buckwheat Flour, $3.00 per 100 
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$4 (10 bushel: Seed Potatoes, $3.50 bag. 
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WANTED AT ONCE. 
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