1914. 
FHS RURA& NEW-YORKER 
299 
NEW YORK STATE NEWS. 
Inspection Work. —The inspection 
work of the Department of Agriculture 
is one of the chief activities of that de¬ 
partment, and it is highly important. In 
its relation to “pure foods,” of which 
so much is said these days, these inspec¬ 
tions are of vital concern to all. To illus¬ 
trate something of the work done by the 
department it may be interesting to know 
that during the first two months of the 
present fiscal year, October and Novem¬ 
ber, agents of the Department made food 
and sanitary inspections in 716 cities and 
villages outside Greater New York, 
which included 1,971 of food, 9,000 of 
milk, 360 of veals, 307 of oleo, etc. The 
total inspections numbered 4,676. Dur¬ 
ing the same period in Greater New York 
2,426 food inspections were made, 3.500 
of milk, 1,459 of veals and 2,855 of oleo, 
making a total for the entire State of 
10,545 inspections. 
Apples In Storage. —Not all the ap¬ 
ples of the United States are grown in 
the Hood River country. Western New 
York districts, the apple belt of the Em¬ 
pire State, at this writing have in stor¬ 
age about 517,000 barrels and 25,000 
boxes of apples. It is to be remembered 
that the bulk of the crop has been mar¬ 
keted several months prior to this. There 
are 78,000 barrels at Albion, 67,000 at 
Lockport, 64,000 at Medina, 46.000 at 
Leroy, 45,000 at Gasport, 41,500 at Hol¬ 
ley, 34,000 at Brighton, and so on. The 
25,000 boxes are at Canandaigua. 
Another Holstein Club. —The Hol¬ 
stein breeders of Allegany and Steuben 
counties have organized a local Ilolstein- 
Friesian association with 60 charter 
members. They represent about 3,000 
head of the black and white cattle. E. 
E. Poole of Alfred, is president; A. L. 
Spencer of South Canisteo, secretary 
and H. L. Stephens of Greenwood, treas¬ 
urer. 
Large Apple Sales. —Barreled fruit 
has been in demand in Wayne county 
this month. Addison Weed of Rose sold 
2,000 barrels for .$10,000 and W. II. Cole 
10,000 barrels for $45,000. Williamson 
and East Williamson are great shipping 
centers. From the former place there 
have been shipped this season 1,535 car¬ 
loads of fruit and vegetables and from 
the latter place 797 cars, making a total 
of 2,332 cars from one township. Of 
these shipments about 800 carloads were 
apples. 
Milk Committee Meets. —The com¬ 
mittee recently appointed by Gov. Glynn 
to inquire as to the desirability of new 
legislation regarding the production and 
distribution of milk and its proper in¬ 
spection, held its first meeting February 
16. A majority of the committee was 
present and elected Commissioner Iluson 
chairman and W. N. Giles secretary. 
It was decided that public meetings 
should be held by sub-committees on the 
questions of production, distribution and 
marketing of milk and at the following 
places: Buffalo Chamber of Commerce 
Feb. 24; Rochester Chamber of Com¬ 
merce Feb. 25; Middletown Grange hall, 
Feb. 26; Sidney town hall, Feb. 27; 
Syracuse Court House, Feb. 27; Water- 
town Chamber of Commerce, Feb. 28; 
and at Albany at a date to be announced 
later. 
That Traction Engine Bill. —Com¬ 
missioner Carlisle talked to representa¬ 
tives of the Brotherhood of Threshermen 
the other evening at Rochester and ad¬ 
vised them to bring their complaints and 
wishes to Albany. His opinion seems to 
be that a weight limit for engines should 
be established that would permit the 
use of the old cleats on the lighter en¬ 
gines and make flat cleats compulsory on 
the heavy machines that really do the 
damage. 
State Rural Credits. —Another step 
has been taken to give the farmer the 
benefit of easier loans. Assemblymen 
Fish introduced a resolution that laws 
should be enacted which would provide 
ample funds in banks in rural communi¬ 
ties for loans to farmers; facilitate the 
“procuring of proper securities by any 
person engaged in agriculture who is 
found to be thrifty and honest “though 
of scanty means” ; provide for a low rate 
of interest on such loans, and provide 
for postponing to the utmost possible 
limit the forced sale of property pledged 
or mortgaged by a farmer to secure a 
loan which he has failed to repay through 
circumstances beyond his control. 
Grange To Incorporate. —Gouver- 
neur Grange is agitating the question of 
incorporating and building a new hall. 
The Grange has a membership of about 
420 and it is increasing monthly. 
Hired Help For The Farm. —Com¬ 
missioner Iluson states that there are a 
large number of men familiar with farm 
work who are making application to the 
Department for employment. Many of 
these men have drifted to the cities from 
farms but as work is slack with the man¬ 
ufactories just now they have been 
thrown out of employment. Farmers 
who will be in need of help in a few 
weeks are advised by the Department to 
take advantgae of the present oppor¬ 
tunity to secure help as later it is likely 
to be scarce. While wages are only nom¬ 
inal just now, in March and April the 
usual prices will doubtless prevail, and 
good men can be had at about $20 or 
$25 per month. The Department is re¬ 
ceiving applications from men with fam¬ 
ilies who want to work on farms and 
among them are many good immigrant 
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HABITS OF GEESE. 
Geese are naturally monogamous, but 
association with man has blunted their 
moral sensibilities and they are easily 
persuaded to adopt polygamy, but if one 
wishes for the best fertility of the eggs, 
not more than two geese should be al¬ 
lowed with one gander. The mating by 
separation from the other geese should 
be done in the Fall and they should be 
kept apart till Spring. After they have 
become thoroughly mated they may be 
allowed to run with tne rest of the flock, 
unless one wishes to remate one of them, 
or an unmated gander attempts to alien¬ 
ate the alfeetions of some matron. 
Geese will choose some quiet nook ot 
corner for a nest, and if a low box or 
other receptacle be provided in the pen it 
will usually be occupied and, once used, 
will be the nest for the season. The eggs 
should be collected as laid, kept in a 
cool (not cold) place and turned daily. 
The first clutch of from 12 to 20 eggs 
should be set under hens, or in an incu¬ 
bator. When the goose becomes broody 
she should be placed in a small, dark en¬ 
closure and given water but no food for 
two or three days. Upon release from 
solitary confinement she will soon get 
busy and lay a second clutch of eggs. A 
goose can frequently be induced to lay 
three sets of eggs. She should be allowed 
to sit on the last clutch. Incubation re¬ 
quires 30 days. It is recommended by 
some that the eggs be placed for about 
one minute in water heated to a temper¬ 
ature of 104 degrees Fareuheit, when 
they have been incubating 25 days. Upon 
hatching the young ducks should not be 
fed for 24 hours. Their first food would 
consist of mash, slightly moistened, and 
plenty of grass on the sod, which they 
will pick for themselves. Some feed a 
mash of cornmeal, some rolled oats. 
Later bran, middlings, cooked vegetables 
and meat scraps may be added. A little 
fine grit and a pinch of salt should be put 
in all mash. A handful of ground char¬ 
coal added to the mash occasionally will 
help keep the goslings well. 
By the time they are a week old 
goslings need no hovering by a hen in 
ordinary weather, and may be allowed to ' 
run as they please during the day. Of 
course at night they should be penned 
up. At all times they should have ac¬ 
cess to growing grass, and they will feed 
on it till their necks are stuffed almost 
to their heads. This will be digested 
during the night, and turned into meat 
that will compare favorably with any ! 
that is put upon the table for dainty 
digestions. If any are to be killed at 10 
weeks of age they should be confined in 
small pens when eight weeks old, and fed 
on mash that contains more cornmeal 
than their ordinary food. Great care 
should be taken not in any way to scare 
the fattening birds. Every fright means 
a loss of weight, fat and profit. 
The birds that are to be kept for 
breeders, or at least till cold weather, 
need little feed but grass. A feeding 
of corn at night will attract them to 
their house or pen, where they will be 
safer than in the open. If one is breed¬ 
ing birds for exhibition, or wishes them to 
attain the maximum size, he will of 
course see that the growing geese get an 
abundance of feed. Young Toulouse 
geese from standard weight parents may 
be fed to a weight of 20 pounds by Christ¬ 
mas. As cold weather approaches geese 
should be fed more corn than is needed 
earlier in the season. As the breeding 
season comes on the amount of corn 
should be decreased to prevent an over¬ 
fat condition that would interfere with 
egg-laying and fertility. 
Geese should have a dry pen at night, 
especially in cold weather, with protec¬ 
tion from storms, but will prosper in less 
elaborate quarters than almost any other 
domestic bird. They are remarkably in¬ 
different to atmospheric conditions, spend¬ 
ing the day out of doors in the severest 
weather. The small amount of feed that 
suffices to keep geese in good condition 
and contented, makes them the most 
cheaply kept birds on the farm. 
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post. Money back if not satisfied. 
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