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NEW YORK STATE NEWS. 
T i IF HOP HARVEST.—The hop har¬ 
vest is practically completed in Scho-'' 
harie County and the yards are being 
cleaned up for the Winter. As a whole 
the crop has been a good one, in some 
sections better than last year. This is 
not saying that it has been good every¬ 
where, for black mold and blue mold and 
lice have absolutely destroyed the crop in 
some yards. Several fields which ordin¬ 
arily would have harvested several thou¬ 
sand boxes had to be abandoned as a 
total loss. On one farm a crop of 3.500 
pounds was left on the poles as there 
were no marketable hops to be found. 
Quite in contrast with this is the im¬ 
mense crop on the farm of H. V. Pindar 
of Middleburg, which, according to re¬ 
ports, will yield 120,000 pounds which 
at the prices now offered, and they may 
go higher, is worth $00,000. A conserva¬ 
tive estimate places the yield of Schoharie 
yards at 750.000 pounds with a present 
market value of $375,000. 
Season For Wild Fowl. —The tang 
of Autumn make the hunter think of his 
gun and his dog and his game. In re¬ 
lation to the conflict between the State 
and the Federal laws governing the shoot¬ 
ing of wild fowl the State game protector 
has issued a statement that his protective 
force has been instructed to enforce the 
State law and, not being unfriendly to the 
Federal statute, he also advises that the 
hunter comply with the Federal law also 
as the Department of Justice at Washing¬ 
ton intends to prosecute all known viola¬ 
tions of the Federal law. Under the 
State law the open season for ducks, 
geese and brant is from September 16 to 
January 10, except on Long Island where 
it begins a month later. Rabbits may be 
taken from October 1 to January 31, not 
more than six in one day, and ferrets 
must not be used. Mink and muskrat, 
from November 10 to February 10. 
Skunks same. Squirrels October 10 to 
November 15, not more than five in one 
day. Partridges October 10 to November 
30. 
Apple Crop Statistics. —The State 
Fruit Growers’ Association, collated 
from 300 replies to a list of questions the 
facts that the five counties bordering on 
Lake Ontario produce over half the apples 
grown in the State. From this section 
the average was found to be 99.6 per 
cent. The Hudson River counties pro¬ 
duce the next largest quantities, with an 
average of 70 per cent, for this year. 
The Baldwin and Ben Davis will go es¬ 
pecially heavy. 
Big Shipment of Cattle. —The larg¬ 
est shipment of high bred cattle ever sent 
out of Cortland County went from the 
Miles J. Peck farm, near Cortland, Sep¬ 
tember 14. It consisted of 75 Holsteins 
and 26 Guernseys, which made up the 
first installment, it is said, of 300 cattle. 
They were shipped by express and were 
purchased for the Willis Coal and Min¬ 
ing Company of St. Louis, to be placed 
on a 2,500 acre dairy farm. 
New Building At Cornell. —The two 
new buildings which will be opened at 
the State Agricultural College this Fall, 
are the animal husbandry building and 
the stock judging building. The institu¬ 
tion now has about 20 buildings, the ma¬ 
jority of which are completed. The new 
agronomy building is nearing completion 
and will be opened about December 1. 
Canning Clubs. —Cortland County 
has numerous canning clubs. These have 
recently federated and Mrs. E. II. Foris- 
tall has been chosen the first president. 
It is looked upon as one of the most im¬ 
portant meetings in the interest of home 
makers that has ever been held in that 
county. At the recent meeting there were 
present Mrs. Freeman of Manteno, Ill., 
who is president of a club of 500 girls. 
Miss Clara B. Nye, in charge of the can¬ 
ning club work of this State, and Miss 
Bertha Tittsworth of Cornell university. 
Commissioner IIuson On State 
Fair. —-In a recent, newspaper interview 
Commissioner IIuson outlined his views 
relative to the improvement of the State 
Fair in some important particulars. He 
is quoted as saying that the night shows 
have proven a failure as far as attract¬ 
ing people to the grounds is concerned. 
He would welcome a return of the carni¬ 
val parades in Syracuse. The running 
races failed as a drawing card although 
liberal purses were offered. In place of 
the runners he suggests steeple chase at¬ 
tractions and a fox hunt to sandwich the 
circuit races or supplement them in case 
the fair is carried over a week. Concern¬ 
ing opening the fair on Labor Day the 
commissioner is said to favor the plan 
and to reduce the admission price on that 
day to 25 cents. He would have a mon¬ 
ster Labor Day demonstration on the 
grounds. The railroad rates are not low 
enough to warrant the largest attendance 
of people. Outside a 100-mile radius the 
rate has been almost prohibitive for the 
attendance of the farmer and his family. 
Health Officers In Session. —There 
were about 600 health officers of one rank 
or another at the opening session of the 
sanitary conference at Saratoga Springs 
on the 15th. Gov. Glynn addressed the 
conference and he was followed by Dr. 
Albert W. Ferris, medical director of the 
State reservation and Geo. Foster Pea¬ 
body. An interesting discussion on the 
vaccination law and the relation of the 
Department of Education to it, was led 
by Dr. Thomas E. Finnegan, assistant 
commissioner of education. Miss Julia 
C. Lathrop, chief of the Children’s Bu¬ 
reau of Washington, spoke on the Physi¬ 
cal Examination of School Children. 
j. w. D. 
CROP NOTES. 
WING to the extreme drought in our 
County (Mason) it. is not in as good 
condition as in former years, and 
consequently the dairymen have not been 
very enthusiastic, and are disposing of 
their stock to a considerable extent, owing 
to the scarcity of feed and the high price 
of food products. Consequently the out¬ 
look is not very flattering. j. g. 
Ashton, IV. Va. 
Eggs 25; butter, dairy, 30; potatoes 
75; pork, live, nine cents; beef five to six 
cents; veals 10 cents per pound, live; 
chickens 13; hay $14 per ton. s. A. w. 
Alba, Pa. 
Sept. 14. The hustle and bustle of the 
peach and cantaloupe season has given 
way to tomatoes, pears and sugar corn. 
Notwithstanding the fact that the ean- 
ners contracted for large acreages of to¬ 
matoes, owing to a light yield many of 
them are not running on full time. The 
contract price for tomatoes was 14 cents 
per basket while the price to those who 
did not contract has ranged around 20 
cents. Kieffer nears are bringing 20 
cents per basket and sugar corn $9 per 
ton. Hog cholera has made its appear¬ 
ance in some sections and many valuable 
porkers have been lost by hog raisers. 
Fodder saving and corn cutting is causing 
the farmers to hustle. The crop of both 
corn and fodder is better than for several 
seasons past. It is estimated that 20,- 
000 baskets of peaches have been taken 
from tin* Chandlier orchards near Milton. 
It was figured out that the price realized 
was about $1 per basket which will make 
the total amount reach the $20,000 mark. 
No other man in lower Delaware is so 
successful in raising fruit. It is thought 
his yields are made possible only by the 
running of smudge fires in the early 
Spring when there are threatening freezes 
and heavy frosts. Mr. Chandlier has 
demonstrated within the past few seasons 
that the peach industry can be revived in 
this State and made a paying proposi¬ 
tion. Labels on produce shipped this sea¬ 
son showing that the fruit or truck has 
been properly packed and the grower’s 
name has brought much higher prices 
than the unmarked. The cantaloupe 
growers in the Williamsville district were 
the first to take up the idea. c. H. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
National Apple Day, October 20. 
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. IIolstein-Friesian Association 
of America, Oct. 26. International Milk 
Dealers’ Association, Oct. 2(5 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 Prov¬ 
idence, R. I., November 9, 10, 11 and 12; 
secretary, A. M. Parinelee, 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’ 
Association, 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. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915, 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds, Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
“Doctor, a year ago you predicted that 
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you were wrong.” “Oh, well, better luck 
next time.”—Boston Transcript. 
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Agricultural Lime at Forced Sale 
Pending sale of Plant. Receivers of Large Ver¬ 
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This is from High Analysis Carbonte Iiock, 
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