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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
February G, 
NEW YORK FARM BUREAU WORK. 
T WENTY-SIX Farm Bureau managers 
visited S,647 farms in 1914, an 
average of 332 apiece. Counting 
revisits, 13,400 farm calls were made. 
Eight thousand seven hundred business 
i'alls were made by farmers on the man¬ 
agers at their offices, or 335 for each 
man. Fifteen thousand three hundred 
and seventy-five telephone calls or 767 
per man were made. Thirty-six thousand 
eight hundred and fifty-seven letters, or 
1,535 for each of 24 men, were written. 
A total of 1,436 meetings, with an at¬ 
tendance of 109,385 were held during the 
year. This means that an average of 55 
meetings, with an attendance of 4,207, or 
76 persons per meeting, was held in each 
county. Eighteen managers organized 47 
associations for adults, with a member¬ 
ship of 1,908, or 41 in each association. 
Twenty-seven of these organizations were 
cow-testing associations. Nine managers 
organized 31 boys’ and girls’ clubs, with 
a total membership of 2,182. 
Forty-three students were directly in¬ 
fluenced by managers to uttend agricul¬ 
tural colleges. Assistance was rendered 
the college in conducting 37 short courses 
or extension schools, with total attend¬ 
ance of 1,470 persons. Twenty farmers 
were influenced to attend short courses 
at college, 319 schools were assisted in 
developing agricultural instruction, and 
<;,5-i4 pupils were reached by such in¬ 
struction. The managers distributed 505 
library books to farmers. 
One thousand and twenty-two farms 
conducted demonstrations for the farm 
bureaus, 204 meetings were held to in¬ 
spect these demonstrations, and 5,865 
farmers attended them. 
With the relation to the farm and 
the farmstead, the following things were 
done at the suggestion of the managers: 
,b6 farm buildings were planned or im¬ 
proved, 22 silos constructed, 17 water 
supply systems introduced or improved, 
11 home grounds planned or improved, 
sanitary conditions improved on 14 
farms, 67 farm plans—partial or com¬ 
plete—made, and 138 drainage systems 
planned. One hundred and fifteen farms 
selected field corn, 83 acres were planted 
with selected seed; 72 farms made tests 
for germination and planted 356 acres 
with such tested seed, all under the di¬ 
rection of the managers, 218 farms 
treated seed oats for smut and 1,712 
acres were sown with tested seed, as a 
result of the managers’ work. Under the 
managers’ direction, 216 farms used hill- 
selected potatoes and 168 farms treated 
j>otatoes for scab. 
A striking feature of the work was 
that the managers influenced and as¬ 
sisted 362 farmers to put down 1,323 
acres of Alfalfa throughout the State; 
423 farms inoculated the soil for Al¬ 
falfa and planted 1,168 acres with inocu¬ 
lated seed, under the managers’ direc¬ 
tion. Fruit growers were assisted in the 
planting of 19 orchards and in caring 
for in whole or in part of 398 orchards. 
Assistance was rendered 17 farmers in 
improving wood lots. 
In relation to live stock, 36 registered 
bulls, six registered boars, were secured 
on the suggestion of the managers. Nine¬ 
teen registered sires were transferred 
from one community to another and 219 
dairy cows purchased. Twenty-seven 
cow-testing associations were organized 
by the managers with the assistance of 
the State Department of Agriculture 
and the College, and 21,700 cows were 
on test during the year. Seven live stock 
breeding associations were organized by 
the managers, 143 farmers were in¬ 
fluenced to feed more live stock on their 
farms, and 666 balanced rations were 
figured by the managers and adopted by 
farmers; 483 farms were given informa¬ 
tion on poultry management. 
As a result of the suggestion and as¬ 
sistance of the Farm Bureaus 60 farms 
made better use of manure and straw 
than formerly, 393 farms home-mixed 
1,169 tons of fertilizers. One of the most 
important accomplishments of the farm 
bureaus during the year was the fact 
that as a result of their work, 3,115 
farms used 20,214 tons of lime. Eleven 
local sources of lime were developed by 
the farm bureaus during the year. Six 
hundred and three acres of meadows and 
28 acres of pasture were top-dressed; 
216 acres of Soy beans, 2,497 acres of 
vetch (1,500 acres in Jefferson County 
alone) and 65 acres of Sweet clover 
were introduced through the managers’ 
efforts; 336 farms used one or more of 
the above mentioned crops for green ma¬ 
nure, upon the managers’ suggestion. 
Eight hundred and eighty-two farm sur¬ 
veys were made in 15 counties, includ¬ 
ing 300 in Chemung County; 151 farmers 
were assisted in keeping farm accounts, 
partial or complete, and the seasonal 
distribution of labor was improved on 
six farms. 
In a business way the managers ren- 
dex-ed assistance in organizing or in pro¬ 
moting the interests of nine purchasing 
and marketing associations, which did 
a total business of $134,100. Eight 
farmers’ exchanges were organized through 
the farm bureaus, doing a total busi¬ 
ness of $3,506, at little or no cost; 487 
farmers were supplied with farm labor 
through these exchanges, including 230 
in Cayuga County. 
In addition to this work a good deal 
of miscellaneous work of other kinds has 
been pei’formed, such as spraying pota¬ 
toes, assisting school children in the col¬ 
lecting of tent caterpillars, helping to 
control army worms and grasshoppers, 
making exhibits at the agricultural fairs, 
advertising the advantages of the county, 
making live stock surveys and publish¬ 
ing lists of purebred stock, lectui’ing and 
furnishing information to granges, im¬ 
proving Timothy by selection and breed¬ 
ing, assistance in making and laying 
down concrete work, etc. During the 
year the total membership in the Farm 
Bureau Association has increased from 
2,620 in 18 associations, an average of 
145 each, to 5,737 members in 23 as¬ 
sociations, an average of 250 each. The 
last seven associations organized have 
an average membership of 305, showing 
that the interest in the work is on the 
increase. There are now 28 farm bureaus 
in New York State. 
SOME RECENT BULLETINS. 
F ROM the College of Agriculture at 
Ithaca, N. Y.: “Making Cake—Part 
2.” In Part 1 of this bulletin the 
principles of cake making were discussed 
that the reader might be prepai-ed to 
utilize the receipes to be given later. In 
Part 2, many “selected and tested” re¬ 
cipes are given; from Dom-econ cake to 
Maggie’s molasses cookies. Dom-econ 
cake—beware !—is said to have been 
evolved by the students in the Depart¬ 
ment of Domestic Economy and named 
by them after their short title of that 
institution. Before giving recipes for 
frosting and fillings, the principles of 
sugar cookery are discussed, and the bul¬ 
letin ends with suggestions for a cake 
contest. 
“Peach Cankers and their Treatment,” 
Circular 26, is a finely illustrated bul¬ 
letin on the brown rot, and other 
cankers of the peach tree. 
From the Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion at Amherst, Mass., in Bulletin No. 
158, the composition, digestibility and 
feeding value of a number of widely 
advertised feeds are discussed. A state¬ 
ment of the suitability of each article 
for different classes of farm animals is 
made. 
“Inspection of Commercial Fertili¬ 
zers,” Bulletin No. 2: In this bulletin 
will be found tables of analyses of the 
different fertilizers sold in the State, in¬ 
cluding the “New Mineral Fertilizer,” 
and other stonemeal products. Emphasis 
is laid upon the economy of purchasing 
only high grade fertilizers, and the com¬ 
mercial value of the plant foods in the 
different fertilizers as well as the actual 
cost of the lime in the different lime 
compounds is given. A bulletin well 
worthy of the study of every fertilizer 
user in the State. 
From the Mississippi Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, Miss., Bulletin No. 167, “Corn 
Silage Compared With Hulls for Fatten¬ 
ing Steers.” The report of a feeding 
trial conducted for the purpose of de¬ 
termining the comparative value of corn 
silage and cotton-seed hulls as roughage 
for finishing beef cattle. Bulletin No. 
165 gives a report of the work done at 
the Holly Springs, Miss., Station. Pre¬ 
vention of soil washing is discussed and 
a number of illustrations from photo¬ 
graphs give a good idea of the results 
of reclamation work. Tables showing the 
results of variety tests of corn and of 
cotton are given, also of eight years’ 
test of fertilizers under cotton, and fertil¬ 
izer and lime tests with cow peas, straw¬ 
berry growing, Alfalfa, Lespedeza, sweet 
potatoes, Crimson clover and dairying at 
the Station are all briefly treated. 
From the New Jersey Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station at New Brunswick, N. 
J Circular 40 is entitled “Hog Cholera 
and Swine Production,” and is a well-illus¬ 
trated and valuable treatise on swine 
raising in New Jersey. Care, breeding, 
feeding and prevention and treatment of 
disease among swine under New Jersey 
conditions are discussed by Prof. F. C. 
Minkler. m. b. d. 
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