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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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NEW YORK FRUIT AT THE STATE FAIR. 
A special effort is being made this year 
to make the fruit department at the State 
fair the most successful in the history of 
the work. The totai value of the prizes is 
about $3,500, over $300 more than last 
year, and several important changes have 
been made in the prize list. These changes 
and additions are particularly attractive 
to the fruit growers of the State. One of 
the most important changes is the exclusion 
of exhibitors outside of New York State. 
Heretofore the New York State growers 
were compelled to compete with other grow¬ 
ers where the season was earlier and tin; 
fruit more mature. Excluding these out-of- 
State growers makes a big vacancy in the 
exhibit, and the New York men are urged 
to make special efforts to fill this vacancy. 
The entry fee has been removed from 
single plates, and the prizes on ail single 
plates have been greatly increased, in some 
cases as high as $25. The removal of the 
entry fee makes it possible for every grow¬ 
er to compete for these large single plate 
prizes, with no expense and but little ef¬ 
fort. Exhibits of individuals will be re¬ 
ceived at Syracuse and set up by the com¬ 
mission, if so desired. Every grower, of 
course, is urged to attend the fair per¬ 
sonally, but this is not always possible. 
Every fruit grower in the State is warmly 
urged to send something—a single plate at 
least, a collection if possible. The com¬ 
mission appeals to the New York State 
men to make up for the absence of out-of- 
State exhibitors and also to make the fruit 
exhibit worthy of New York State. 
STATE FAIR INCREASES ADMISSION. 
The State Fair Commissioners of New 
York decided to increase the price of ad¬ 
mission to the State Fair from 25 cents to 
50 cents. It was thought necessary to do 
this in order to raise more money. One 
argument in favor of the increase was the 
fact that the larger fairs throughout the 
West almost without exception charged 50 
cents admission. On the other hand, 
while increasing the general admission, the 
commissioners agreed to take down the 
fence around the racing enclosure. This 
does away with tin; charge of 25 cents ad¬ 
mission to that part of the fair. There 
were strong arguments both for and against 
this increase. The fail- is supposed to be 
an educational institution for the benefit 
of the people of the State. The only good 
reason why it should be supported by the 
public is the fact that it is supposed to 
teach by illustrations and exhibition how 
to conduct a farm profitably. It does a 
different work than the farmers’ institute, 
the -agricultural college or any other de¬ 
partment of education. This object is to 
teach through the eye by presenting the 
finest specimens of animal and vegetable 
life, the best tools and farm Implements. 
From this point of view it was argued 
that an education should be made as free 
and fair to all as possible, and it was 
claimed that the farmers of the State, tak¬ 
ing this view of the case, would be likely 
to resist the effort to double the price. On 
the other hand, it was pointed out that 
large sums of money are needed to conduct 
such an exhibition; granting that the fair 
is an educational institute there is a limit 
to appropriation even for this. As a busi¬ 
ness enterprise tin? fair ought to be more 
nearly self-supporting, and there is no fair¬ 
er way of increasing income than to in¬ 
crease the price of admission, it was also 
argued that a larger and better show will 
be given this year than ever before. Those 
who enter the ground will have greater 
value for their money. They will have a 
chance to witness the horse show and the 
horse trotting free of extra charge, and 
many public entertainments will be given 
for their benefit. Naturally the increase 
of price will affect the citizens of Syracuse 
more than anyone else; at least it will be 
noticed more by these people. The chances 
are those who buy railroad tickets to the 
fair will not bo apt to complain. Person¬ 
ally we have been opposed to the increase 
in price, but tin 1 commissioners, after go¬ 
ing over the matter with great care and 
study, conclude that there was nothing else 
to do under the circumstances but raise the 
price to 50 cents. They have been con¬ 
fronted by a hard problem all through this 
matter, and they have acted as they think 
for the best. _ 
CROP NOTES. 
Everything dried up in this country. The 
farmers are chopping off oak limbs for the 
cattle to eat the leaves; nothing like it be¬ 
fore in this country. North of us they 
turned their cattle into the oat fields sev¬ 
eral weeks ago; unless wo have rain soon 
there will not be an ear of corn. 
Brooklyn, Wis. c. C. s. 
Early fruit and berries are nearly all 
marketed, with the exception of English 
Morello cherries. These are selling at $2 
per case and better. One carload was 
shipped last week by the Traverse City 
Fruit Growers’ Association, which sold for 
$2.10 per case. One grower consigned 600 
cases. Buyers are offering from $2.50 to 
$3 per barrel for Duchess apples. The 
crop will be fair, but the quality not very 
good. A great many potatoes are grown 
in this section, and the crop looks very 
good About the same acreage planted this 
year as last year. e. a. 
Traverse City, Mich. 
We are having pretty good weather, and 
everybody is busy, August 2. Much hay 
remains to be made and lots of wheat yet 
to be thrashed. Thrashers report yields of 
from four to 15 bushels per acre, one-third 
to two-thirds of a normal crop Corn is 
doing well and pastures are ‘luxuriant. 
Hogs are cheaper and grass cattle and 
Stockers are lower in price. However, veals 
are higher. New wheat is selling at 97 
cents, and there seems to he but little in¬ 
clination to hold for better prices. High 
wheat prices do not seem to be in prospect, 
as fair yields are reported from most wheat¬ 
growing sections. w. e. d. 
Hillsboro, Ohio. 
PARCELS POST IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
During the year 1909 the British Post 
Office exported 2,808,051 packages by par¬ 
cels post and received from other countries 
1,534,054. The English people sent away 
from their country in these postal pack¬ 
ages $25,163,030 worth of merchandise, 
and imported $7,029,640 worth. Here we 
have a business of over thirty-two million 
dollars as tin* result of a fail- parcels post. 
There has been a very great growth in this 
parcels post between England and the 
United States, because now packages weigh¬ 
ing 11 pounds may be sent at the rate of 
12 cents a pound. Thus a merchant in 
London can, so far as mailage privileges 
are concerned, send II pounds of merchan¬ 
dise to an American citizen in Massachu¬ 
setts for $1.32. A merchant in Boston, 
Lowell and Worcester, in order to do this, 
would be obliged to pay $1.76 postage, and 
put the goods into four separate packages, 
and this is but one instance of the way 
this matter is working out. It must give 
the average American citizen a great feel¬ 
ing of pride to contemplate such a situa¬ 
tion as this. Here are the people of Great 
Britain developing millions of trade in our 
country and elsewhere through the liberal¬ 
ity of our Government in giving them 
access to our markets at a cheaper rate 
than our own merchants can obtain. The 
English people have carried this idea so far 
that they now actually have the cash on 
delivery system extending through the 
Mediterranean and to Constantinople. Un¬ 
der this system packages arc sent by post 
on a foreign order and the money for the 
goods is collected on delivery by' the gov¬ 
ernment and sent hack and returned to the 
sender. A small charge is made for this, 
hut it is a great convenience at both ends 
of the deal. The British l’ostinaster-General 
says that this service in connection with a 
parcels post has been the means of de¬ 
veloping a very large trade in small articles 
sent out of England to foreign countries. 
This will be pleasant reading to the 109,000 
of our readers who have worked so bard 
for a fair parcels post. Their Members of 
Congress are now apparently engaged in try¬ 
ing to mend their political fences. The 
thing for the farmers to do is to take an 
ax and smash a hole in that fence, anil 
then stand guard over it with the ax until 
they are permitted to patch it up with a 
parcels post plank which the Congressman 
will not dare to get away from. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Virginia 
Fruit Growers’ Exchange, made up of fruit 
growers of Virginia and West Virginia, 
August 3 filed with the Interstate Com¬ 
merce Commission a complaint against the 
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Norfolk 
and Western Railroad, the Western Mary¬ 
land Railroad, and the Cumberland Valley 
Railroad, alleging that on August 1 these 
carriers had made an increase of 29 per 
cent in the freight rates on their products, 
particularly on peaches and apples. The 
complaint asks the commission to suspend 
the increased rates pending an investiga¬ 
tion. The complaint sets forth that the 
members of the exchange are mainly en¬ 
gaged in the growing of peaches and apples 
and the shipment thereof to distant mar¬ 
kets by way of the railroads named. The 
most accessible markets for most members 
of the exchange are St. Louis, Chicago, 
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, 
Buffalo and Detroit, but it is stated that 
the largest markets for fruits are the large 
eastern seaboard cities. Baltimore, New 
York, Boston and Philadelphia, and in 
these cities then* is the keenest competi¬ 
tion. The complaint states that the (ieor- 
gia crop this season is greatly in excess of 
the average output and the members of the 
Virginia fruit exchange experience diffi¬ 
culty in marketing their fruit in eastern 
seaboard cities on this account and in con¬ 
sequence are compelled to look to other 
markets if they are to continue in busi¬ 
ness without serious loss. 
The- National Association of Apple Ship¬ 
pers convention closed at Niagara Falls 
August 3 with the election of officers. W. 
T. Wagner, Chicago, was chosen presi¬ 
dent; E. N. Loomis, New York City, vice- 
president; C« P. Roth well, Martinsburg, 
W. Va., secretary, and William French, 
New York, treasurer. The executive com¬ 
mittee elected consists of R. G. Phillips, 
Chicago; A. W. Patch, Boston; A. E. W. 
Peterson, Toronto; 8. A. Wheeler, Chicago, 
and R. II. Pennington, Evansville, lnd. De¬ 
troit was selected as the place for the 1911 
convention. 
Mr. E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Did., a 
well-known florist and rose grower, has re¬ 
ceived from the French government the 
diploma of a chevalier of the Morite Agri- 
cob-. Mr. Hill was one of the jury at the 
recent international gathering of rose grow¬ 
ers at Bagatelle, near Paris, France. 
The second State Convention of the 
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative 
Union began at Loogootee, lnd., August 4. 
The convention was presided over by W. W. 
Myers, of Wheatland, who is the State 
president. The union is similar to the 
Burley Tobacco Society of Kentucky, ex¬ 
cept that the union disposes of the grain 
of the members instead of the tobacco, as 
in Kentucky. The Burley Tobacco Society 
establishes storehouses to hold the tobacco 
of its members and the Farmers’ Union 
will build elevators and warehouses for 
the grain which it will hold until a suitable 
price is reached. In order to raise money 
the members will buy stock in a company 
that will erect the grain elevators and the 
warehouses, the insistence being that each 
member shall own at least one share of 
the stock, the price of the stock varying ac¬ 
cording to the number and the wealth of 
the members. The meeting this week may 
place a regular value on the stock. An¬ 
other purpose of the union is to get laws 
that will prohibit gambling in grain, to en¬ 
force the laws against stock gambling of 
any kind and to see that the law against 
bucket shops is enforced. The union stands 
for postal savings banks and parcels post 
laws also. The headquarters of the na¬ 
tional association is at Texarkana, Tex. 
The Indiana headquarters is at Vincennes. 
The national organization has a member¬ 
ship of three million. The State organiza¬ 
tion is composed of a few more than four 
thousand. Eight Indiana counties are 
thoroughly organized. They are Daviess, 
Pike, Owen, Gibson, Martin. Knox, Greene, 
Monroe and Lawrence. Besides these there 
are a large number of locals in different 
counties in the west and southwest parts 
of the State. Tlie locals are made up of 
members in the communities of the.county, 
tile locals are joined into a county or¬ 
ganization and the county lodges or socie¬ 
ties form the State organization. Until 
there are a sufficient number of locals to 
form a county lodge or society the county 
is not recorded as organized. The State 
organization is building a big grain eleva¬ 
tor at Wheatland, Knox Countv. and as 
fast as the money can he obtained more 
will go up. The Indiana State officers are : 
President. W. W. Myers, Wheatland: .1. B. 
Elkins, Elnora, vice-president; Stanton 
Johnson. Vincennes, secretary and treas¬ 
urer. The executive committee is made up 
of W. II. Brown, Spencer; Edward Brown, 
Loogootee; .1. B. Cate, Oakland City; 
James Wells, Lyons; J. D. Barter, Peters¬ 
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