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r l'H13 RURAL NEW-YORKSR 
January 31, 
NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
The convention of the New York State 
Agricultural Society was hold in Albany 
last week. This convention represented 
the comprehensive needs of the farm in¬ 
terests of the State at this time more 
completely, we think, than the current 
needs were ever before represented by a 
convention of the State. The close of the 
convention coiping so close to our time for 
going to press, our references to it this 
week are necessarily brief. We shall re¬ 
fer to it at more length later on. 
At the close of the convention resolu¬ 
tions were adopted recommending a law 
to-establish the grading of apples; to 
oppose the single tax on land; to op¬ 
pose additional appropriations for State 
forestry schools and secondary agricul¬ 
tural schools until a comprehensive plan 
for this kind of education is adopted by 
the State; to revise the commission law ; 
to restrain the commission merchants 
from dealing in consigned products, and 
requiring them to keep records of sales 
for the inspection of shippers; to favor 
the organization of a land mortgage bank 
as a revision of the saving and loan as¬ 
sociation laws of the State; to create 
a food and market commission ; to con¬ 
serve the food products of the farm ; to 
establish grades and measures; to encour¬ 
age and assist in the establishment of lo¬ 
cal markets, to preserve the wastes by 
cold storage and canning factories; to 
furnish information as to general mar¬ 
kets; to direct shipments to markets 
where they would find the host demand 
and best prices. 
A feature of the convention was the 
interest and enthusiasm manifested by 
Governor Glynn in farm needs and par¬ 
ticularly in the subjects of his especial 
adoption—farm credits and farm mar¬ 
kets. He delivered a stirring address on 
these subjects to the convention, and 
the day after the sessions closed, he 
threw wide open the doors of the Execu¬ 
tive Chamber and invited the farmers to 
come in and discuss the agricultural needs 
of the State with him. They did so fully 
and without reserve. As Secretary Giles 
of the State Grange put it: “The farmers 
had reason on that occasion to congratu¬ 
late themselves.” Heretofore, he said, 
they had come knocking for admission at 
the door of the Executive Chamber. For 
the first time in the history of the State, 
farmers had found on that occasion the 
doors wide open and a ready welcome and 
sympathy within. The Governor did 
most of the listening and the farmers did 
the talking, but before departing they 
were assured of an executive recommenda¬ 
tion to the Legislature for their needs, 
and an executive influence in an effort 
to get what they wanted from the Legis¬ 
lature. 
One of the most important results of 
this executive conference, and indeed one 
of ’the most important results of the 
whole convention, was the appointment 
of a committee instanter by the Governor, 
at the suggestion of the interests affected, 
to begin at once an investigation of the 
sale and distribution of liquid milk in the 
city of New York. In this committee the 
producers, the consumers, the dealers, the 
State Department of Agriculture and the 
City Board of Health, will be repre¬ 
sented. The object will be to determine 
a fair price for producing and a fair 
price for distributing milk, and the sum 
of the two will be a fair price for the 
consumer. For 30 years this subject has 
bden agitated and discussed. Heretofore 
the dealers have refused to take any part 
in a disinterested effort to determine a 
fair price for this important and neces¬ 
sary article of food. They have now 
wisely expressed a willingness to do so, 
evidently conscious of the fact that it 
would be done with or without their aid. 
The officers of the Society elected for 
the ensuing year are as follows: 
President, John J. Dillon. New York; 
vice presidents, first district, Mrs. Julian 
Heath, New York; second district, 
Ezra Tuttle, Eastport; third district, 
Gilbert Tucker, Albany; fourth dis¬ 
trict, C. Fred Boshart, Lowville; fifth 
district, W. R. Smith, Syracuse; sixth 
district, Samuel Fraser, Geneseo; sev¬ 
enth district, James W. Wadsworth, 
Jr., Mt. Morris; eighth district, Sen¬ 
ator Frank N. Godfrey, Glean ; ninth 
district, Dr. G. H. Davison, Millbrook; 
secretary, A. E. Brown, Batavia; treas¬ 
urer, Harry B. Winters, Albany; ex¬ 
ecutive committee: A. Denniston, Wash¬ 
ington* illo; J. A. D. S. Findlay, Salis¬ 
bury Mills; William Church Osborn, 
Ga'rrison; Dr. Thomas F. Finegan, Al¬ 
bany ; Franklin I). Roosevelt, Hyde 
Park; E. A. Van Alstyne, Kinderhook; 
George W. Sisson. Potsdam; Senator T. 
B. Wilson, Hall; F. W. Sessions, Utica. 
Poplar Near Well. 
I have planted a small poplar about 
•J."> feet away from my well. I am in¬ 
formed that in time the tree will be in¬ 
jurious to the well. We use the water 
for drinking purposes. Is there any dan¬ 
ger? If so I will take up tree and plant 
elsewhere. Would an English walnut 
thrive there? It is gravelly soil, red 
shale. Would an English walnut be in¬ 
jurious? I judge it would make about 
as much shade as the poplar, j. F. F. 
Ottsville, Pa. 
In my opinion the danger of your well 
ever being injured by the roots of any 
tree standing at a distance of 25 feet 
away, is so remote it is hardly worth 
while considering. In my boyhood, a 
large yellow willow stood very much 
nearer my father’s well, perhaps not over 
10 or 12 feet away. I assisted in clean¬ 
ing the well two or three times, and to 
the best of my recollection, no roots were 
ever inside the wall, which was con¬ 
structed of boulders. The willow is nat¬ 
urally a moisture-loving tree, but for some 
reason, this particular tree seemed very 
well satisfied with its roots outside the 
well. If the feeding roots should in time 
(perhaps a long time) extend to, and 
through the wall of your well, they will 
be near the top, and will be nothing more 
than a bunch of fibres which cannot pos¬ 
sibly do any injury to the well, and can 
easily be removed at any time. If the 
Vinters are not too severe in your sec¬ 
tion for the English walnut, it is cer¬ 
tainly much to be preferred to any pop¬ 
lar. I think your soil will be all right. 
As a rule the walnut will readily adapt 
itself to almost any kind of soil that is 
fairly good and not too wet. k. 
Growing Early Tomatoes. 
I have a seed catalogue in which the 
Earliana tomato is given as an 80-day 
and the June Pink as a 70-day tomato. 
If the claim as to the time required for 
these tomatoes to reach maturity is true, 
I presume it is only when the seed is 
sown in the open in their natural season. 
I know growers, who raise Earliana, who 
sow the seed in the greenhouse about 
February 20, and do not get tomatoes 
at the earliest before June 20. This is 
about 120 days after the seed is sown. 
Would they not come on almost as early 
and be much finer and more productive 
plants if they were started April 1 and 
kept growing vigorously from the start? 
Would not the addition of a fertilizer 
rich in phosphoric acid and potash to the 
soil (in the cold frame) to which the 
plants are first transplanted, hasten the 
blossoming and the setting of the fruit? 
Cleveland, O. H. n. 
Tomato plants started early in the 
greenhouse or hotbed always require a 
longer time for their development and 
ripening of fruit than those started later 
in the season when the days are longer 
and warmer. The tomato plant must 
have a certain high temperature to ripen 
its fruit, and when the heat that it re¬ 
quires is lacking, growth will be retarded, 
and the time of ripening the first fruits 
may he lengthened to many days beyond 
the time required under favorable condi¬ 
tions. Plants started early under glass, 
seldom ripen their first fruits under 120 
days, and the time is more often extend¬ 
ed to 130 to 140 days from the time of 
sowing seed, and the application of fer¬ 
tilizers will not do very much if anything 
toward hastening the time. As a rule 
the earliest hot-bed plants do not begin 
ripening their fruits much before the 
middle of July. 
I am doubtful if any variety can be 
made to ripen fruit under 100 to 105 
days, from the time of sowing seed even 
under the most favorable conditions, at 
least not in the northern section of the 
country. It may be accomplished in 
Florida in 70 to 80 days, under certain 
very favorable conditions, but surely not 
in any of the Northern States. Some 
growers make a practice of planting the 
seed in hills where the plants are to 
stand, for second or main crop. The hills 
are prepared same as for cucumbers; 
about the middle of May a dozen or so 
seed are planted in each hill. When the 
plants are four to six inches high, all but 
the most promising one is removed. 
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