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February 10, 1!)1S 
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Western New York Horticultural Society 
T’art T. 
It \va.s under serious disadvantages 
that the sixty-third annual meeting of 
this, the oldest of the horticultural so¬ 
cieties, convened at Itochester the last 
week in January. Because of the coal 
shortage the meeting wa.s postponed one 
week. There was not time to announce 
the change in the date, and the result was 
misunderstanding and smaller attendance. 
As the meeting closely followed the 
former large meeting of the New York 
State Fruit Growlers’ A.s.sociation, ex¬ 
hibitors did not wish to duplicate ex¬ 
hibits. The result was the display of 
machinery, supplies and fruit W'as much 
smaller. One result of the meeting seems 
to be the agreement to merge the tw'o 
societies into one strong one with the 
name of “New York State Horticultural 
Society.” The committees will work out 
legal firocedure to consolidate and at the 
<*ne meeting next Winter new officers will 
be elected. Commissioner of Agriculture 
C. S. AYilson addressed the meeting and 
gave a brief history of the life of the late 
Fdward A’an Alstyne, director of Farm¬ 
ers’ Institutes, and closed with a fitting 
tribute to his work and character. His 
effi<dency as an agricultural worker, he 
said, is beyond question. He always W’as 
large enough for his job. He told men 
not only how to make a living on the 
farm but to live a life on a moral and 
spiritual basis. 
Following are the leading jirizes taken : 
Best three barrels. J. Tj. IMiillips, Ro¬ 
chester, Is. Y., first premium. Best bar¬ 
rel of Rhode Island (froening, .Tohn A. 
Page. Phelps. N. Y., first premium. Best 
barrel of Northern Spy. .Tames Ready, 
Onondaga A’^alley. N. Y.. first premium. 
Rest box of Northern Spy, .Tames Ready, 
first lu-emium. Be.st box of Wealthy. C. 
H. Mills. Sodus, N. Y.. first prize. Best 
three boxes difl’event, Dewey Land Com- 
])any, Kettle Phills, Washington, first 
prize. Collections on five specimen plates: 
I>arge.st and bi'st. not less tlian TO va- 
rieti'ss, (\ H. Mills, Sodus, N. Y.. first 
jiri' ' 5 five specimens on 
jilute ■•e-‘ t;-‘ v.^rS’Ces for cooking, 
Georgo r -'on 1-ake, first 
jirize. Best five varieties for dessert, 
Janies Ready. Onondaga Valley, first 
jirize. Collections pears, largest and best, 
single plate, D. K. Tiell, Rochester, 
R. F. D. No. 2. 
In his address. T’resident Bush recom¬ 
mended price fixing, jiarticularly with 
reference to prices to be paid by farmers 
for feeds, seeds, agricultural implemtuits, 
fertilizers, sjiraying materials, etc.; the 
enactment of laws for the encouragement 
and protection of farmers’ co-operative 
organizations; country-wide prohibition 
for the duration of the war; improvement 
of the trunk-line railroads and utiliza¬ 
tion of canals for the transportation of 
freight, including farm produce; more 
liberal credit to farmers in the matter of 
farm loans; the standardization of farm 
tractors (there are said to be over .S.’iO 
different makes of tractors on the market 
and at least 200 of these could be dis- 
lionsed with in the interest of economy 
and efficiency) ; endorsement of the h"!*!!- 
eration of Agriculture recently formed in 
this State; the dissemination of facts 
relative to the cost of production of all 
Rirm products to the end that the con¬ 
sumer may know what the fanner is 
entitled to receive and an end put to the 
inexcusable and very harmful distortion 
and misrepresentation of the facts con¬ 
stantly appearing in city newspapers; 
encouragement of the standardization of 
all food products and particularly the de¬ 
sirability of having a uniform Federal 
ajiple packing law; protection of the 
grower and shipper from unfair rejec¬ 
tions by commission men and speculat¬ 
ors ; consideration of the serious conse¬ 
quences to the fruit industry, both green, 
dried and canned, of a sugar shortage 
next Summer and Fall; better transpor¬ 
tation facilities and more equitable freight 
charges for the products of the farm and 
orchard. 
The following points are selected from 
L. J. Farmer’s address on “The Latest 
Ideas in Berry Culture”: “I believe to 
the berry grower that the variety ques¬ 
tion is the most important question of all. 
The fruit gi’ower does not obtain maxi¬ 
mum results until he finds the exact va¬ 
riety that fits into his niche. The suc¬ 
cessful berry grower must keep testing 
varieties himself. A^arieties of berry 
fruits are continually improving and 
what was good enough for us several 
years ago is not good enough now. It is 
safest to i)lant several varieties, as no 
one variety will pay the best of all every 
year in a period of five years. A few 
years ago we, in common with other berry 
growers, came to the conclusion that 
pistillate varieties of straw'berries Avere 
unnecessary. After going through three 
years of frosty weather during blossoming 
time and losing most of our crops of 
strawberries except the pistillate varie¬ 
ties, we came to the conclusion that we 
cannot safely discard the pistillates. 
“I used to send most everything I 
raised into New York, Boston and other 
i)ig cities. Now I seek the small markets, 
ship small lots to individuals and en¬ 
courage the local demand. The big city 
is the best {dace to secure a long price 
when there is a great shortage, provided 
your transportation facilities and your 
dealer are all right. There are always 
one or two pickings during the height of 
the season that bother the grower to dis¬ 
pose of at fair prices. Anticipating these 
days, I urge the dealers to make an 
especial effort to sell for canning on these 
days at reduced prices. I am also ac¬ 
cumulating a list of people in different 
towns and cities who secure orders from 
their friends and neighbors for canning. 
I ship to these people on these days that 
otherwise would be glut days were it not 
for this foresight. One Avoman in a city 
25 miles from ns handled 25 crates of 
strawberries in one day for ns last sea¬ 
son. supplying her neighbors Avith them. 
“I find that one of the greatest values 
of a Winter mulch for straAvberries is in 
killing the early crop of Spring Aveeds. 
If the mulch is left on until the plants 
have groAvn a little and look a little 
sprouty, it kills myriads of weeds. If 
on your soil your plants do not winter- 
kill by heaving, try mulching part of 
your bed and leave the rest unmulched, 
in picking time notice how clean your 
mulched portion will be, compared to the 
unmulched, CA’en if the straAV is all re¬ 
moved. Cultivate the rows close up to 
the plants, but shalloAV, from the time the 
berries set until picking is over, and you 
Avill be snirprisod at the quantity and 
quality of the fruit produced. 
“We numbered each berry picker the 
past season, put their name and number 
doAvn on a sheet of paper each day and 
gave them each small slips of paper Avith 
their number on the little slips. When 
a picker brought or sent in his four-quart 
handy of berries, he placed a number on 
it. In this way Ave were able to tell all 
about Avho picked that handy of berries. 
.\ff a result, the standard of picking Avas 
raised.” AV. ir. .T. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC,—The 0.000 j)atriotic in- 
vesRirs Avho suhscrihod for Liberty bonds 
through Klmor DAviggins, Avho absconded 
Avitli the funds and Avas sent to the I'Vd- 
eral 1‘enitentiary at Atlanta for three 
years, will not lo.se a cent of their savings 
as a result of the embezzlemeut, accord¬ 
ing to announcement made by .Tamos 
Freeman ('urtis, counsel of the Federal 
Reserve Ba: -'' of New Y'ork. Mr. Curtis 
states til'-'- a arraugemoiit has been made 
Avith the .liankers Life Company, one of 
the largf.st life insurance comiianies of 
this country, under which sub.scribers to 
both Liberty loans Avill be protected and 
reimbursed. 
Plans to destroy the steamship Mar’- 
erick, so-called munitions runin'r '(.aded 
Avith arms for revolutionists in I; dia, in 
the event of danger of capture, we, : re¬ 
vealed at San Francisco .Tan. .“i in tre 
trial of 21 Hindoos and others ace ;sed <.i 
a conspiracy to overthroAV British rule in 
India. .Tohn B. Starr Hunt te.stified that i-. 
•Tebsen, a German to whom the Mavcri<s 
belonged, gave orders that the ship A\e..s 
to be sunk if capture by enemy warships 
seemed imminent. No attempt Avas to be 
made to evade search, hut the vessel was 
to pose as a merchant ship. Jehsen has 
been missing since TllTo. and one report is 
that he is in command of a German sub¬ 
marine. 
Indictments charging six postal em¬ 
ployes Avith stealing packages intended 
for members of the American expedi¬ 
tionary force Avere filed Jan. 21 by the 
Federal Grand Jury at Noav York. All 
the accu.sed are under arrest and will he 
tah.eii before Federal Judge Fdwiii S. 
'I’liomas for pleading. These charges are 
the result of an inquiry Avhich Frank M. 
Itoosa, Assistant United i^tates Attorney, 
and post office inspectors have been con¬ 
ducting into rei)orted petty thefts of 
presents for soldiers. 
Fire believed to IniA'e been started by 
incendiaries Feb. 1 destroyed two huild- 
ing.s of the Driver-Harris Gonipany, at 
Harrison, N. J., crippling the great plant 
that has been Avorkiug night and day for 
months making Avire used in the manu¬ 
facture of projectiles. The monetary 
damage is estimated by Frank L. Driver, 
the president of the company, at .$500,()(X). 
Charlotte, !Mich., is the first city in 
the United States to report a 100 per 
cent sale of thrift stamps and Avar sav¬ 
ings certificates. Every man, Avoman and 
child residing in Charlotte has at least 
one stamp, it was announced. Charlotte’s 
population is about G,000. 
Blame for the collision betAveen the 
French munitions ship Mont Blanc and 
the Belgian relief ship Imo, resulting in 
the explosion of the former vessel, Avhich 
destroyed a large part of Halifax on De- 
ceinhoi- 0. Avas placed upon I’ilot Mackay, 
of Halifax, and Capt. Lamodee, of the 
French ship, in a judgment announced 
Feb. 4 by the Government Commission 
which investigated the collision. The 
Commission held that Capt. Lamedee and 
the pilot violated the rules of the road. 
WAS'HINGTON.—The Treasury ,Tan. 
21 bought its first parcel of $2,()(X),()00 
farm loan bonds from the $i0.()00,000 
fund provided or this purpose by Con¬ 
gress. 
Government control of the railroads of 
the United States Avill be limited to a 
period of eighteen months from the end 
of the Avar and the rate-fixing poAver will 
he reposed in the President, subject to re¬ 
view and adjudication by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission, under the terms 
of a compromise agreement adopted Feb. 
2 by the Senate Committee on Interstate 
Commerce by a vote of 11 to 4. 
Ten months of the war have cost the 
Ignited States about $7,100,GOO.GOO—at 
the rate of .$710,000,000 a month, nearly 
.$24,(X)0,000 a day. More than half of 
this huge sum, or $4,121,000,000, has been 
paid as loans to the Allies, and the Bal¬ 
ance, _ about $.2,000,000,0()0, represents 
America’s outlay for its OAvn war pui*- 
poses, exclusive of more than .$000,000,000 
for ordinary governmental e.xpenses. The 
Avar’s toll in money i.s increasing at the 
rate of more than $100,000,000 a mouth, 
and indications are that the two remain¬ 
ing months of the nation’s first year as 
a belligerent will raise its war bill to 
almo.st .$T0.000,000,00(), of which .$5,(X>0,- 
(K)0,000 will be for allied loans and about 
the^ same amount for the army, navy, 
Shipping Boar dand other Avar agencies. 
By an order by President Wilson Feb. 
5 power is given to A. Mitchell Palmer, 
alien property custodian, to take over and 
man.age the property of alien enemies of 
large means Avho have been permanently 
interned in this country. By this regul.a- 
tiou Hugo Schmidt and other NeAV York¬ 
ers who Avere placed in the custody of 
the War Department must pay their hills 
through the alien property custodian, who 
shall have full power to accept or reject 
any proposals they may make in the con¬ 
duct of their proiierty. Mr. Palmer an¬ 
nounced the order of the President is 
strictly limited in, its operation to thos(> 
who haA’e been found to be dangerous and 
AAho_ have been transferred to the juris¬ 
diction of the War Department for jier- 
mauent mention. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Export 
Grain (’ompany, acting for tlie Board of 
drain Supervisors at Winnipeg, avIH con¬ 
trol the distribution of grain to Canadian 
millers until the reoiieuing of navigation 
on the great lakes. For this purpose 
tlie stocks in government elevators at 
Fort William and Port Arthur have heou 
j)ut in their hands. The same organiza¬ 
tion has for some montli.s controlled the 
export of Canadian grain, ainl orders is¬ 
sued recently by the grain supervisors 
provide for an extension of its activities. 
Wheat in elevators at the other lake ports 
and olseAvhere in eastern Canada has not 
been j)lacod under control. 
Tlie annual meeting of the Noav .Tersey 
Association of NurserymiMi Avas held at 
Trenton, N. .1.. on .Tan. 25. The follow¬ 
ing ofiicers Avere elected for the next 
year: President, Carl 11. IJeiner, Spring- 
field, N. .T.; vice-president. William Do 
Breo, Plainfield, N. .1.; secretary-trea.s- 
urer, A. F. Meisky, Flizaheth, N. .T. 
Sheep raising is to be a feature of the 
Tiidustrial f'luh Avork among tlie .scliool 
(Tnl'lren of Klamath County. Oregon, the 
( lining yeai', according to County School 
^•'•'•'''’•Mitendent I^Iiss Edna Wells, of 
I’nlls. From uoav on the dif¬ 
ferent c’will be startl'd in sections 
. ’’ ti'e eo.iiity Avliore conditions are suit- 
■ ‘ le. Tlie stock raising chibs avIH he 
rmed in tl'C country devotc'd principally 
to thii. industry and the same plan holds 
Avith gni'.icn production. 
(’omplete co-operation between tlie 
T’uiti'd States and Canada in the effective 
distribution of labor for Avar piiriioses 
Avas inaugurat('d h’eh. 5. The Dejiart- 
ineiit of Labor aiinomiced that by mutual 
agreement (’anada Avill not import labor 
from this country Avitliout the consent of 
tlie Thiited States, and American em¬ 
ployers Avill not import Canadian labor 
Avillioiit the con.scn of Canada. Can¬ 
ada’s labor r('quiremonts Avill he reported 
to the T’nited States employment service 
Avhich, through its various offices. Avill fill 
the demands across the border Avith any 
siii'iilus of unemployed that may be avail¬ 
able here at the time. 
A factory at tlie mouth of the ^lispil- 
lioii Iviver. Delaware, Avhicli converts 
king crabs into fertilize'!' and fish into oil, 
lias just rejiorti'd a profit of $JKS,0()0 for 
the yc'ar. The jilaiit employs about TOO 
men and runs one fishing ^eamsliiii. its 
machinery grinding up king crabs to he 
spread on farms for growing crops. The 
higli cost of other fertilizer lias made the 
king crab an important factor. 
Tielndeer meat from Alaska as a possi¬ 
ble .source of supply to help out the short¬ 
age of beef and pork is being discussed liy 
San I’l'anci-sco butchers. Alaska soon 
Avill he in a position to supply a large 
portion of the meat consumc'd on the 
i’acific Coast, according to figures aji- 
pearing in the annual report of the F<'d- 
eral 'Bureau of Education for Alaska. 
The first reindeer. _ according to the h’ed- 
eral report, Avere introduced into Alaska 
from Siberia in 1S92. The first importa¬ 
tion numbered 1.200. and in .Tune, 1910. 
there were S2,151 reindeer distributed 
among 85 herds. They are uoav thought 
to uiimher nearly 100,000. The new in¬ 
dustry has given the Alaska Indians a 
vocation and made many of them jiros- 
lierous. The total valuation and incomes 
of the herds in .Tune, 1910, amounted to 
$2,2.22,842. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
NeAV York State I’otato Association, 
annual meeting. College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 12-12. 
Ncav York State Vegetable GroAvers’ 
Association, annual meeting, Ithaca. 
N. Y.. Feb. 12-14. 
New York State Fruit Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, Poughkepesie, N. Y., March 0-8. 
