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NEW YORK STATE NEWS. 
F arm managers busy men.— 
There are 25 farm bureau managers 
in the State at this time and during 
the last six months, according to statis¬ 
tics recently published, they have visited 
4,S48 farmers. Of this number of farmers 
864 are conducting some kind of experi¬ 
ments. Farm help has been secured 
through these bureaus for 112 farmers 
this Spring and Summer. Survey records 
to the number of 111 have been taken. 
On 222 farms records and accounts of 
the farm business is being kept with the 
manager’s assistance. The 25 farm man¬ 
agers have addressed over 800 farmers’ 
meetings. In connection with the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture 25 cow-testing asso- 
eiations have been organized or are being 
conducted, in which over 15.000 cows 
are being tested. The business done by 
the cooperative associations, prompted by 
the bureaus, during the past six months 
amounts to $14,765. But it is difficult to 
set down in figures or estimate on paper 
the value of leadership and initiative ex¬ 
ercised in rural affairs by these expert 
farmers. 
Cortland Fair And Swine Exiiirits. 
—Having in view the recent communica¬ 
tion from Commissioner Huson relative 
to the withdrawal of swine exhibits at 
the fairs, the Cortland County Agricul¬ 
tural society has set a very sensible, ex¬ 
ample to other county fair associations 
by deciding to admit to competition such 
swine as has been vaccinated for hog 
cholera or are shown to be free and im¬ 
mune from the disease. A certificate to 
this effect from a veterinarian must ac¬ 
company all entries of swine. Some so¬ 
cieties are admitting only local animals 
known to be free from the disease while 
others will shut down on these exhibits 
entirely. 
Tiie Hop Growers. —While the pros¬ 
pect for a good crop of hops in Schoharie 
County, still holds, yet the outlook is not 
quite as good as a week ago on account of 
insect depredations. Blue mold, lice, and 
lioneydew are responsible for the changed 
situation. The vines have been sprayed 
but rains have made it less effective than 
is desirable. 
New Publicity Bureau.— It is an¬ 
nounced that Dean Galloway of the State 
Agricultural College will adopt a plan 
of publicity for the College similar to 
that used by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. The idea is to use the news¬ 
papers more largely, instead of bulletins. 
Conference On New Apple-Packing 
Law. —There were but few present at the 
conference called by Commissioner Iluson 
on Aug. 11, to discuss some of the feat¬ 
ures of the new apple-packing law. Rut 
there were lots of questions. What about 
the application of the law? How many 
inspectors will be necessary? Where shall 
they do their work? Shall they inspect 
while picking and packing is going on? 
Shall they inspect only at shipping sta¬ 
tions. or at terminals and city docks? 
Can 50 competent inspectors be found, 
readily, who can interpret and apply the 
law? Will the law be stringently en¬ 
forced? Is it permissible under the law 
to plate barrel or box? Who is the party 
to be held responsible for the quality con¬ 
forming to the mark? Is it packer or 
seller? Must fruit sent to cold storage 
be stenciled according to the law the 
same as when sold for immediate distribu¬ 
tion? What if the buyer lives in another 
State? Shall the grower guarantee the 
pack or the buyer? Would an inspector 
have any right to inspect fruit at a 
shipping station or terminal that was 
packed under the United States law? 
Will marking a barrel ‘Unclassified” be 
likely to secure for it a lower price? 
These are some of the questions that came 
up for discussion, and they will serve to 
show the uncertainty surrounding some 
of the provisions of the law. 
L. L. Morrell of Kinderhook was chosen 
chairman of the conference and said in 
opening the discussion that he believed 
the more the law was studied the more 
satisfactory it appeared, and that it 
seemed to him that it would work out 
greatly to the advantage of the apple 
business. He had found some who would 
pack under the United States law and 
some will mark the fruit “Unclassified,” 
this owing largely to the uncertainty of 
just what the new law demands in some 
of its provisions. On the whole he con¬ 
sidered the law the best thing that “had 
ever happened to our fruit growers.” Mr. 
Morrell was asked if the law permitted 
a man, if he cared so to do, to plate his 
barrel with the finest fruit allowable in 
the barrel under the classification of “A” 
or “B.” He believed that the law per¬ 
mits it. and that is one thing he did not 
like about it. Not all present shared 
this opinion, as to the permission of the 
law on this point. As to who is to be¬ 
come responsible for the pack, it was 
conceded that the packer or agent or 
buyer, was the responsible man. If a 
grower packs his own fruit he must put 
his name on the barrel. If buyer or 
agent for another packs it, or if it is 
packed by his authority, then his name 
must go on the package. It makes no 
difference if the fruit is to be shipped to 
a purchaser residing in another State. 
The law applies. The problems which 
the Commissioner of Agriculture particu¬ 
larly desired an opinion upon was the in¬ 
spection of the fruit to ascertain if the 
packing was done in accordance with the 
law. It was suggested by one that the in¬ 
spectors should visit the orchards when 
the packing was under way, but this 
wheat S3; oats 
18. Milk sold 
July. Apples 
$1.50 a barrel: 
would necessitate a large number of in¬ 
spectors to cover all orchards in the 
State. However, it was not considered 
wholly impracticable. Another suggested 
that the inspection should take place at 
the shipping station where one inspector 
could do the work of many in the or¬ 
chards. This idea appealed to all pres¬ 
ent. No doubt blit that inspectors will 
be found at the larger shipping stations. 
Also at terminals, particularly steamer 
docks. In tiie absence of a legal opinion 
on the subject, it was the consensus of 
opinion that an inspector could make no 
inspection of fruit packed under the 
United States apple grading law. But 
apart from that exception all apples must 
be packed under one of the classifications 
called for by the new law, namely : New 
York Standard Fancy grade: New York 
Standard “A” grade; New York Standard 
“B” grade or, lastly, “Unclassified.” It 
was stated by representatives of the 
Department of Agriculture that it had 
been reported > that buyers in the 
cities had advised growers and deal¬ 
ers that the new law would not 
be enforced and to pack “just as they al¬ 
ways had.” We would not advise grow¬ 
ers and buyers to bank too much on that 
statement. While injustice will be done 
no honest packer or grower who tries to 
conform to the law until he fully under¬ 
stands it. we imagine that the dishonest 
grower, if there be such, or the dishonest 
packer, if there be such, will find an in¬ 
spector camping out very near to his 
place of operations and will undertake to 
see that the law is enforced to the letter. 
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CROP REPORTS. 
Dairy cows sell for from $60 to $100; 
steers (fat) from 7 to S cents a pound; 
hogs 8% cents; poultry 12(4- Hay $10; 
32 to 38; butter 25; eggs 
to condensery, $1.30 for 
usually sell for $1 and 
peaches $1.25 to $1.50 a 
bushel; plums $1.50 to $2. Strawberries 
sold for 10 cents a quart and raspberries 
for 12)4. Potatoes sell in the Fall for 
from 35 to 50 cents a bushel. Very lit¬ 
tle gardening done in this vicinity. 
Michigan. j. a. w. 
August 6. Haying all done, crops 
about one-third larger than for several 
years; have had frequent showers and 
pastures are good. Corn, potatoes, oats 
and buckwheat are looking well. Apples, 
pears and small fruits are full crops, ex¬ 
cept plums. No late frosts last Spring 
to kill blossoms. Early potatoes $1.25 
per bushel at the stores; eggs 26 for 
white, 24 for brown; butterfat for June 
281/i cents net; broilers IS; old hens 14. 
This is one of the largest poultry sections 
in the State, several thousand pullets be¬ 
ing sold from here each year. b. h. g. 
Jefferson, N. Y. 
Fresh cows, in my neighborhood. $50 
to $.85; in western Washington. $S0 to 
$150, net casli price $50 to $150; veal, 
per pound, deduct 35 cents freight, per 
animal, commission paid by storekeeper. 
12 cents; fresh milk, in my neighborhood, 
for navy yard and adjacent towns. 18 to 
20 cents a gallon at the condenseries, no 
freight paid on milk to navy yard towns; 
collected by dealers who retail milk at 
12 quarts for $1; $1.40 to $1.60 at con¬ 
denseries. Potatoes, cash or trade, at 
local store, 1 (4 cents per pound; eggs, 
local store, 25 cents: butter, local store, 
30. Old hens, deduct 35 cents freight, per 
crate: commission paid by storekeeper, 
15 cents per pound; Spring chickens, 16 
cents. Poultry to meat market, Seattle, 
where storekeeper buys meat. Pork, 
dressed, nine cents; apples, bushel box 
costs 13 cents, commission 15%, 50 cents 
to $1.50 gross. Pears $1 gross. Logan¬ 
berries 90 cents gross, crate of 24 pint 
costs 18 cents, commission 15%, 75 cents 
to $1.25 gross; rapsberries $1 gross, 75 
cents to $1.25 gross. Strawberries 75 
cents to $1.25 gross. Bran $26; shorts 
$28; middlings $35; rolled barley $26; 
oats $31; corn, whole. $39 ; corn, cracked. 
$40; wheat $34; Alfalfa $16; Timothy 
$20; straw, wheat or oat $12. (Quota¬ 
tions from local storekeeper) not pro¬ 
duced here. Great quantities of poultry 
produced here; the leading local industry. 
Question to local storekeeper, “Anybody 
really making money on poultry?” An¬ 
swer: “No.” s. E. p. 
Kitsap Co., Wash. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Thirty-ninth Annual Convention of the 
American Poultry Association, to be held 
at Chicago, Ill., August 8th to 15th, 1914, 
inclusive. 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association, 
annual convention, Evansville, Ind., Au¬ 
gust 20-21. 
National Paving Brick Manufacturers’ 
Association, eleventh annual convention 
and paving conference Buffalo, N. Y., 
September 9, 19, 11, 1914. Secretary 
Will P. Blair, S32 B. of L. E. Bldg., 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Ill., 
October 22-31. The following meetings 
and conventions will be held in connec¬ 
tion with the show: American Associa¬ 
tion Creamery Butter Manufacturers, 
Oct. 26. IIolsteiu-Friesian Association 
of Am erica, Oct. 26. International Milk 
Dealers’ Association, Ocr. 26 and 27. 
Conference, Secretaries of State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association, Oct. 27. Official Dairy 
Instructors’ -Association, Oct. 27. Nation¬ 
al Dairy Union, Oct. 28. American .Dairy 
Farmers’ Association, Oct. 28. Council 
of the National Dairy Show, Oct. 28. 
National Association of Creamery Man¬ 
agers and Owners, Oct. 28. American 
Jersey Cattle Club, Oct. 28. National 
Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, 
Oct. 28, 29 and 30. International Asso¬ 
ciation of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, Oct. 
29. American Guernsey Cattle Club. Oct. 
29. Congress of Marketing, Oct 29, 
Milk Producers’ Association, Oct. 30. 
New England Fruit Show, in connec¬ 
tion with the Rhode Island Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association annual meeting. in 
Providence, It. I., November 9, 10. 11 and 
12, secretary A. M. Parmelee, Norwood, 
R. I. 
National Grange, annual meeting, Wil¬ 
mington, Del., November 11-14. 
Maryland Week Exhibition, State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Maryland Crop Im¬ 
provement Dairymen’s and Beekeepers’ 
Associations, Baltimore, November 16- 
21 . 
Annual Show of the Paterson, N. J., 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion, November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November 18-24. 
Western Connecticut Poultry Associa¬ 
tion of Danbury, Conn., Inc., nineteenth 
annual exhibition, Hull’s Armory Hall, 
Danbury, Nov. 26, 27, 28; secretary 
Thomas Deans, 39 Hoyt St, Danbury. 
Conn. 
Little Tommy, of the city, visiting his 
country aunt and uncle, declined to be 
satisfied until he had fished in the near-by 
stream. To this end he made the life of 
his uncle a veritable burden by continued 
coaxing to procure him the necessary 
bait One afternoon Tommy spied him 
plowing diligently. With a whoop of joy 
the would-be sportsman rushed forward 
to his uncle’s side, but here grow sud¬ 
denly thoughtful. “Gosh, Uncle,” he ex¬ 
claimed, gazing speculatively up the long 
stretch of furrowed ground, “ain’t that 
about enough worms?”—Evervbodv’s. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it”— Adv. 
Howto Get Lumber 
at Mill Prices Si 
delivered to your station. We can fur¬ 
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yellow pine mills and save you a large amount 
in. tiie cost of your lumber, and supply you 
with better lumber than sold by a great many 
retail yards. The capacity of our yellow pine 
mills is over 75 million feet per annum, and 
we carry in stock over 25 million feet of dry 
bright lumber from ■which to fill orders. If you 
contemplate building, write us now for information. 
Mill Work 
Home Owners 
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Contractors 
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also Building Paper, Plaster Board, aud Roof¬ 
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Procure our 
mill prices be¬ 
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will quote whole- 
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map of the Great European 
conflict with statistics. 
Size—31x38, in colors. 
15 cents postpaid. 
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MALONEY TREES 
In a class by themselves. Maloney Quality 
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First everywhere 
10 cents each 
For Fall Shipment. 
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illustrated catalogue. WELLS WHOLESALE 
NURSERIES, 6 Wellsley Avenue, Dansville, N. Y. 
TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS 
by the millions, quality guaranteed. 1 and 2 year 
APPLE, also PEACH trees, ASPARAGUS, DOWNING GOOSE¬ 
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STICK NURSERY, Box 129, Westminster, Md. 
FRUIT TREES 
All Leading Varieties at Less Than Half Agents’ 
Prices. Catalogue Free. Harry L Squires, Remsenbnrg, N. Y. 
Apple Barrels 
— Car lots or leu. Prompt 
shipment. KOBEltT 
GILLIES, Medina, N.Y. 
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Clean and 
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eeeds. High 
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7T, 
EEDLESS FIELD SEEDS 
We are trying to furnish. Write for samples f 
and booklet, “How to Know Good Seed. ” I 
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SWEETCLOVER 
circular how to 
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$S.50 for 10.000. CELERY PLANTS-all leading kinds' 
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SEED WHEATu Fos ^ er ’ s ? e „ d ^ Vave - $ 1 - 7r > pet- bu. 
OLLU linLHIuagsfreg C. G. Bower, Ludlowville, N.Y. 
WHEAT and Timothy Seed sold direct. 
--- Wliy not 
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QCCn lA/UCAT‘' TO L P J No . ,c ^ l(in ! , J s SI.35 per bu. 
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Grand Prize.” Prices right. Write for description 
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SEED WHEAT 
Gypsy Wheat grown on Woodland 
Farm produced 41 bushels per acre, 
absolutely pure and clean. 
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Box 523 Mechanicsburg, O. 
Mammoth White Rye fag 
Catalogue free. W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, Ohio 
Russian Pitkus Seed 
subject to advance. CL0VER 0ALE FARM, Charlotte. N. T.' 
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August, September, October. Layer plants-well 
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Price list free. J. KEIFFORD HALL, Rhodeodalo, Md. 
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