THE KUKAO NEW-YORKER 
845 
State League of LoanAssociations 
The New York State League of Sav¬ 
ing and Loan Associations held its an¬ 
nual convention in Port Jervis on June 
10th and 12th. The convention was 
largely attended by members from all 
parts of the State. 
Iu the State now there are 245 asso¬ 
ciations. Eight new ones were organized 
during the past year. The increase of 
membership for the year was 10.000. 
making a total now of nearly 180.000. 
The resources of the association in the 
State increased $4,000,000 during the 
year, and now amounts to $08,500,000. 
The assets and membership since Janu¬ 
ary first, when the above figures were 
computed, have each increased five per 
cent, above these figures. 
The associations and membership have 
increased rapidly in many sections since 
the organization of the Land Bank, and 
as soon as the bank is in full swing, as 
it soon will be, the increase will un¬ 
doubtedly be still greater and more rapid. 
The problem of farm loans was discussed 
at great length. This probably received 
greater consideration than any other one 
question. Many of the delegates spoke 
in the highest terms of farm loans and 
the general disposition is to handle the 
farm credits of the State effectively. 
Only one exclusively farm association 
has yet been formed, but considerable 
sums are being loaned by some of the 
existing associations on farm property, 
and in some places farmers are taking 
membership in the associations now 
formed in neighboring towns and in some 
instances making rather heavy deposits 
of money with them. It is hoped that 
farmers will continue to form new asso¬ 
ciations among themselves to connect 
themselves with the associations now ex¬ 
isting. and Granges and cooperative fire 
insurance companies will encourage this 
work. There is no formality about be¬ 
coming a member. You simply signify 
your intention and make your first pay¬ 
ment of a dollar or more, send as much 
and as often as you like later, and with¬ 
draw your money and membership when 
you like, but draw your dividends in the 
meantime. Some of the shares require 
regular payments, hut the savings shares 
which allow the above liberal privileges 
are probably most attractive to farmers. 
The Land Bank has now sold 
its first installment of bonds. It is 
for $50,000 at par at 4% per cent, 
interest. It was taken by one of 
the largest and most conservative hank¬ 
ing institutions of the State. This is a 
recognition of these bonds as a high-class 
conservative security. As fast as tin! 
money is needed new installments will be 
issued, and the bonds will be available 
for investment by the public. 
This system of realty credits must be¬ 
come one of the great institutions of New 
York State. It is right in principle and 
it is good in practice. It is true that 
the towns which have a well-developed 
association are far ahead in the system 
of a farm community with no organiza¬ 
tion at all. or with a new association; 
but the new farm association is much 
stronger in a system with seventy mil¬ 
lions of assets than it would be without 
them. Besides the farmer may become a 
member of the existing association, and 
in many cases share the benefits of the 
struggles and sacrifices made by other 
men to develop the organization under 
circumstances less favorable than are 
now enjoyed, through tlie service of the 
Land Bank. 
The plain people of the State have a 
great opportunity in this institution to 
benefit themselves. It is especially prom¬ 
ising for farm communities, and it is 
hoped that farmers will identify them¬ 
selves with it and profit by it. .T. J. i>. 
Care of Tulip Bulbs. 
Last Fall I planted tulip bulbs; they 
flowered well this Spring. How shall I 
care for them during the Summer 
months? m. h. d. 
Scluiylerville, N. Y. 
All the ordinary Spring flowering 
tulips do better when the bulbs are lifted 
each year after flowering, though the Dar¬ 
win tulips do well when only lifted about 
once iu three years. After flowering let 
them remain until the leaves become dry 
and withered; then lift the bulbs care¬ 
fully, let them become dry in an airy 
shaded place, clean off adhering soil, if 
any remains, and store in paper bags in a 
dry cool place. The proper time to lift 
them is when leaves are withered, but the 
stem is not absolutely dry; if left too long 
the outer skin may slip off the bulb, and 
this injures the keeping. Sometimes, 
when bulb beds are to be filled with bed¬ 
ding plants, it is necessary to lift the 
bulbs before the foliage is ripened. In 
this case, lift very carefully leaving any 
soil that will cling to bulbs or roots, and 
heel them in carefully in a sheltered or 
partly shaded place, where they may be 
left to complete ripening before final lift¬ 
ing and storing. If this is done, do not 
put them so close together in the shallow 
trench that there is no air space about 
the leaves, as it is desirable to dry them 
off naturally before storing. 
Notes and Comments. 
Cantaloupes And Asparagus.—I 
have planted my cantaloupes between 
alternate rows of the early peas. As 
soon as the peas are finished I shall dig 
the vines under for the benefit of the 
melons, and then cultivate the melons 
clean. As soou as cutting stops with the 
asparagus I use nitrate of soda along 
the rows, and cultivate well to get a 
strong growth of crowns for another sea¬ 
son, and when frost comes I cover the 
whole bed heavily with manure and mow 
off the tops. During the late Summer I 
find it an advantage to cut out all seed- 
hearing stalks, as seed making is an ex¬ 
haustive process and I get stronger roots 
by taking the seed off as soon as they 
show. 
Beans And Corn. —I plant but one 
row of string beans at a time, and as 
soon as one planting is well up sow an¬ 
other row, and in this way can keep up 
a regular succession till frost, and then 
have a good lot of tender pods to gather 
and put down in stone jars in brine for 
Winter use. These soaked over night are 
almost as good as the fresh beans. Sweet 
corn I plant in the same way, except 
■ that to insure good pollination I plant 
several rows at a time, and for all the 
later plantings till mid-July I use Coun¬ 
try Gentleman and Stowell Evergreen. 
We always get better ears on the late 
crop as the boll-worms are then not so 
troublesome. 
Controlling Moles And Mice.—A 
fine lot of Chinese Giant pepper plants 
grown in the greenhouse and turned out 
from pots have been riddled by the cut¬ 
worms and the field mice running in the 
mole runs. These “submarines” or sub¬ 
terrenes get hold of a plant and simply 
pull it down to devour. I catch some 
of the moles but seldom catch the short¬ 
tailed mice, but by using carbon bisul¬ 
phide in the runs I am sure that I get 
many of both. By punching holes along 
the runs and pouring a teaspoonful of 
the stinking liquid in each, the fumes 
will spread a good way. I find that the 
old plan of planting castor beans doe* 
have some effect in keeping moles away 
from the neighborhood of the plants. But 
one cannot grow castor beans all over his 
garden. 
Grapes And Rose Chafers. —Just 
now we are watching the grapevines for 
the appearance of the rose-chafers. 
Sometimes they miss a season, but usu¬ 
ally they come in countless number just 
as the bloom is forming on the grapes, 
and in a little while will eat every bloom 
cluster before a flower opens if not 
checked. I use lead arsenate, one pound 
in 25 gallons of water, with a goodly ad¬ 
dition of corn syrup to make it stick, 
and try to have this on the bloom buds 
ready for them when they come. Last 
year they swarmed in my absence and 
got nearly one-fourth of my grapes be¬ 
fore I got the poison on them. We are 
here about on the Northern limit for suc¬ 
cess with the Scuppernong and its class 
of grapes, and fortunately these bloom 
after the rose-bugs are over, and I have 
never seen any of this class of grapes 
attacked by rot. Our sandy soil seems to 
be peculiarly adapted to the Delaware 
and Niagara grapes, and they thrive even 
better than Concord. w. f. massey. 
Maryland. 
District Visitor: “And how are you 
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all badly, thank you, ma’am. The doc¬ 
tor is doing his best. I’ve told him there 
will be nobody to pay him unless I get 
well.”—Cardiff Western Mail. 
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