^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July <1, 1918 
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Up-State Farm Notes 
Tjtti.e Fam-s to Dei.tver Milk. —The 
dairymen of Little Falls think if it is 
profitable for the dealers to retail milk 
that they are entitled to a share of the 
profits. The Dairymen's LeaKue of that 
city has bought two auto trucks and will 
retail milk at a price that it is hoped 
will lead to a much more generous use of 
it by the public. If the experiment is 
profitable, other cities will follow the ex- 
ami)le. Fortland is beginning a campaign 
foi‘ cheaj)er milk, the dealers having re¬ 
fused to modify the retail price of i2c a 
(juart. when i)aying 4c or thereabouts. 
Fow-Testi.xg Assoct.vtio.x.s Active.— 
W. P. Frost, who is in charge of dairy 
improvement in New York State, reports 
the following communities as having ac¬ 
tive cow-t('sfing associations, with the 
number of cows tested: Carroll. 292 
cows; Hartford. TO! ; Tioga. 454; West 
Kxeter. .501 ; Oswego. 487 ; Mohawk Val¬ 
ley. 178; !^^alone. .580: Erie. 120); Pe- 
pacton. .200; Franklin. .207; Bovina. 091 ; 
Delhi. 701: Texas Valley. .2.27; North 
Chenango. 421 ; Chenango Valley. 094. 
llichfield and Chatauqua have new or¬ 
ganizations beginning the work, and oth¬ 
ers are being formed. X. M. Congdon of 
Earlville had a dairy of 10 cows. After 
a year in the cow-testing association he 
.'^old eight cows and then made more profit 
from the eight remaining than before 
from the entire herd. 
Mii.k Campaicx Bears Frot.—B. 11. 
Hawkins of the Cloverland Dairy f’om- 
pany of Syracuse reports that his firm 
finds a much better demand for milk than 
one year ago. The retail price in that 
city is still 10c for certified milk and 
12 and 1.2c for other grades. Yet the 
work of the food specialists in showing 
the food value of milk at even the high¬ 
est retail prices as greater than any 
other known food is beginning to show 
in an increased use of milk as a food by 
the public. There is a fast spreading 
de.sire on the part of the people, finding 
expression through various organized 
bodies, for better retail methods, bulk 
milk to be sold from stores, city owned or 
farm-owned distributing plants—anything 
but the old. high-priced, uneconomical 
system of delivery. Even the daily pa- 
per.s. the last agencies to see the rights of 
farmers and consumers, are beginning to 
handle the question without gloves. The 
selling of entire dairy herds, as of one 
farmer near Marcellus. who has reduced 
his herd of 150 cows down to a one-m.an 
dairy of 14 cows—and the closing of fac¬ 
tories and creameries is awakening the 
public. Eureka and Tyler Hollow skim¬ 
ming stations closed this month, with a 
part of the cream of the section going 
to the Amber creamery in Marcellus. 
Sheep Breeders Poor. Wooi..—The 
Tompkins County Wool Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation is arranging to sell its wool direct 
to the government, eliminating middle¬ 
men’s profits. 2Tie a.ssociation has an 
agreement with the Jeremiah Williams 
Co. of Boston to take all their product, 
to be graded by an expert from the mills 
at the time of loading, the following mini¬ 
mum prices to be paid when wool is 
graded, or 90 per cent of the prices to 
be paid when the Federal inspectors 
grade the finished product: Medium 
grade. 09c per lb.; Delaine. 02c; short 
and rejects. .50c. The Cayuga County 
Farm Bureau will arrange for 150 Cayuga 
County wool growers to unite in selling 
their wool with Tompkins County by ]iay- 
ing a 50c fee for membership in the 
Tompkins Farm Bureau. 
State Fair Pi.ax.s. —The War De¬ 
partment will fill 2,500 feet of space at 
the State fair with guns, infantry equip¬ 
ment. models of battle.ships, dreadnoughts, 
destroyers, projectiles, uniforms, .subma¬ 
rine equipment, and a great variety of war 
exhibits. The Department of Commerce 
will have a large exhibit from the Bu¬ 
reau of Fi.sheries. The Food Administra¬ 
tion will show the scope of its work, and 
the Department of the Interior will show 
one of its mine rescue cars, with crew to 
explain intricate re.scue apparatus. The 
commission Avill attempt to acquire 78 
acres of the north side of the grounds 
for additional exhibition and parking 
areas. 
Notes from Great Hoi.steix Friesiax 
Meet. —A Cortland firm. Abbott & Clark, 
sold three cows and a calf at the great 
Milwaukee sale for .$20,150. These cows 
were all producers of 41 to 4.2 lbs. of but¬ 
ter in seven days, and had been developed 
by this firm quite recently. Of only 35 
cows in all Holstein history, there have 
been developed by this firm the past year, 
with ten others that jiroduced over 30 lbs. 
of butter, a remarkable accomplishment, 
when it is considered that the average 
cow produces about 10 Ib.s. of fat in 7 
days. W. B. Mace, also of Cortland, sold 
a 41-lb. cow for ,$.2,850; a bull calf for 
,$1,200. and a yearling heifer for $1.3,50. 
8t.ate Crop.s Promise Wei.i... —Peas 
are podding heavily. Early cut Alfalfa 
is curing and shows a good crop. Corn 
and potato planting is practically finished, 
with beans neai’ly in. Tomatoes are a 
larger acreage than ever, with plants 
somewhat scarce. Cabbage setting is be¬ 
ing completed earlier than usual, with 
jdants in unusually fine condition, owing 
to good weather and an unusiual number 
of screened beds for growing the plants. 
Potatoes are decreased in acreage about 
20 j)er cent, it is believed, with corn in¬ 
creased 10 to 15 per cent. But poor ger¬ 
mination of the latter will reduce pro¬ 
duction to about normal. Apples will be 
a good crop, though thei-e have never 
been so many reports of winter-killed 
trees, both old and young. Cherries have 
suffered heavily, leafing out and even set¬ 
ting fruit as usual, only to succumb to 
the strain suddenly, with the whole top 
writing and dying. The bark was sepa¬ 
rated from the trunk in many instances 
by long freezing. The cherry crop of 
Central New York will be very light. 
Homegrown strawbeiu-ies and peas are 
coming into most ui)-$tate markets, with 
prices on the top floor. M. G. F. 
Western New York Notes 
The Ontario County Brotherhood of 
Thrashermen recently held a meeting in 
Phelps at which prices for the 1918 sea¬ 
son were established and the co.st of out¬ 
fits discussed. Charges for thrashing 
grain were fixed as follows: Oats. (1 cents 
]jer bushel ; barley and whe.at. 8 cents; 
rye and buckwheat. 10 cents, and a set 
job. where the producer has less than 100 
bushels of grain to thrash. $10. These 
figures are slightly in excess of the 1917 
figures. The ,tuly meeting of the organi¬ 
zation was arranged for Canandaigua. 
The first instance of wheat being re¬ 
quisitioned in the State of New Y^ork oc¬ 
curred in Benton, where 1.000 bushels 
on the Ketcham farm were taken by A. 
2’. Beardslee. deputy food commis.sioner 
for Yates County. The wheat was taken 
to Penn Yan. where it was sampled, grad¬ 
ed and shipped to a Government ware¬ 
house. Payment will be made for the 
wheat, less expenses. 
Fifty cherry growers in the Geneva dis¬ 
trict appealed to the Chamber of Com¬ 
merce for help in harvesting the cherry 
crop, estimated at nearly 1.000.000 pounds 
of fruit. City harvesters were secured, 
the growers paying transportation to and 
from the farms. 
2’he Steuben County Agricultur.al So¬ 
ciety has arranged to pay as far as pos¬ 
sible all premiums in War Savings 
Stamps this year. Exhibitors in submit- 
their entry blanks are requested to state 
what percentage of premiums won by 
them will be acceptable in stamps?. 
Representing 14 bean-growing counties 
of the .State, the New York State Bean 
Growers’ Associ.ation was recently organ¬ 
ized at Rochester with the following offi¬ 
cers ; President. Fitch II. Davis of Li¬ 
vonia ; vice-prc.sident. Charles G. Porter, 
Albion : secretary-treasurer. II. E. Cox, 
North Rush; directors. Earnest Olluu, 
Perry; M. E. Ross. Avon: .Tohn Q. 
Wells. •Shortsville; 't Willis P. Rogers, 
AVilliamson ; ,T. I. Dillingham. Auburn; 
Senator Charles .1. lYhite, Brockport; 11. 
F. Collister. Fillmore; Frederick N. 
Smith, Trumansburg; W. L. Rowe. Way- 
land : A. W. Densmore. Albion ; Howard 
^ S. Fullagar, Penn Yan. and Charles E. 
' Shepard. Batavia. The purposes of the 
organization are summarized as follows: 
To increase the consumption of beans: to 
obtain va uniform system of weighhig, 
picking and marketing the crop ; to stim¬ 
ulate better growing methods, including 
the control of diseases and in.sect troubles 
and improvement ofthe crop by plant 
selection. 
Application has been made on behalf 
of the State growers that the Government 
])ut beans on the wheat substitute list. If 
this can be effected, it is thought the dam¬ 
age that has been done the State growers 
by the preferential policy of the Govern¬ 
ment can be largely oi-ercome and an out¬ 
let for the thousands of bu.shels held by 
the dealers and grower will be furnished. 
Beans are one of the most concentrated 
food products, and rank higher in food 
content than many of the substitutes al¬ 
ready on the list. As the matter now 
stands, rice, which is a wheat substitute, 
has increased in volume of sales ten times 
over what it was last year, according to 
the report of one of the big concerns op¬ 
erating c-hain stoi-es over the country, 
while sales of beans have dropped to one- 
sixth in the same time. Accordingly, it 
is estimated that a decrease of 25 per 
cent in the State acreage of beans has re¬ 
sulted. The low average production of 
the last two years has discouraged many 
growers in the principal bean-growing sec¬ 
tions. Oats, barley and Spring wheat in 
some districts have supplanted the beau 
crop. A- ir. P. 
From the outlook at present I believe 
we will have blunper crops. We have 
had considerable wet weather this season 
winch will give us an exceptionally heavy 
hay crop. Considerable wheat has been 
sown last Fall, and the same is looking 
fine. The corn crop seems to be the 
most backward, owing to wet. cold 
Aveather. dropping to as low as ,22 degrees, 
with a little touch of frost at night, which 
has done some damage to the bean crop, 
also some pieces of potatoes, but not so 
bad but what they will come along, pro¬ 
viding we have no harder frosts. We de¬ 
pend almost entirely on dairying for our 
income. I have before me statement for 
milk sold the International Milk Products 
Co. during the month of May, which net¬ 
ted me per hundred for ,2 per cent milk 
$2,217 after carrying charges, can charge 
and League assessment had been taken 
out. I received a test from a grade 
Guernsey dairy of 3.75. Farmers in this 
section, except in rare cases, make and 
market no butter or cheese, depending on 
shipping stations for disposition of their 
milk. TNliere butter is sold we receive 
45 to 48c for good dairy butter packed in 
1-lb. prints or ,5-lb. crocks. Old stock po¬ 
tatoes are being sold for 70c per bushel. 
’These are the only products from the 
farm that have been marketed so far this 
season. m. j. c. 
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