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Up-State Farm Notes 
Responsible for Preventable Dis¬ 
eases. —The State Health Department 
calls attention of municipalities and pri¬ 
vate companies to the fact that they may 
be held responsible for lives lost by illness 
due to carelessness, ignorance or inaction 
in the face of threatened outbreaks of 
preventable diseases. There were 2.300 
jives lost in the State last year'from ty¬ 
phoid and diphtheria, all cases being pre¬ 
ventable. Water supplies and milk are 
the two great sources of these diseases. 
Farmers Pay Debts. —The Patriotic 
Farmers’ Fund of this State loaned a mil¬ 
lion dollars last year to 10.000 different 
farmers, with character as the only oollat- 
eral. The average loan was about ,$112. 
“We did not lose a dollar on account of 
crookedness or failure. We took no mort¬ 
gages. nobody was squeezed. One or two 
obligations were cancelled because of 
death, and now the affairs are wound up 
with no loss, placing the farmer above 
every other class as a debt payer.” This 
is a remarkable tribute to the farmers’ 
financial soundness and honesty. The 
fund, which originated in the mind of 
William Church (Isborne, was such a suc¬ 
cess that bankers and business men are 
ready to extend credit to the farmer, and 
it will be continued. 
Farmers’ Meetings.- —The Beekeepers’ 
Association of Oswego County had a tour 
of inspection of apiaries July 19, with 
Prof. George Rea to demonstrate bee man¬ 
agement and give talks on their care. On 
July 26 Lieutenant-Governor Walker will 
be the speaker at the hop growers’ picnic 
at Sylvan Beach. 
Wool Notes.—A 19-year-old girl clip¬ 
ped all the wool of the largest consign¬ 
ment made by any one grower of Tioga 
County. George Barber of Newark Val¬ 
ley sold 378 lbs., all of which was sheared 
by his daughter. The wool amounted to 
but 16,000 lbs., when 23,000 lbs. was ex¬ 
pected. The dealers went among the fann¬ 
ers at the last moment and in an effort to 
break up co-operative selling offered prices 
better than had been bid for the pooled 
wool. Tompkins County growers received 
an average of 10c a pound more than for 
last year's wool, and wore paid upon de¬ 
livery, instead of consigning it. 
Wins Case Against Railroad. —After 
many years of litigation between a cab¬ 
bage dealer of Ilomer and the railroad 
company, the latter appealing each time a 
verdict was found against them, until the 
highest court was reached, the dealer wins 
the case against the railroad. He had 
sued to recover damages on a car of frozen 
cabbage. 
Boards Raise Cheese Price. —The 
Gouverneur and Watertown Dairy Boards 
raised the price of cheese % of a cent this 
week, setting 31c as the basic price. The 
former board sold 4.061 boxes, and the lat¬ 
ter 7,525. The demand for cheese is now 
good. 
Wheat Fields Scored. —Prof. John 
Barron of the State College has scored 20 
wheat fields in Cayuga County in the 
wheat growing contest staged by the Farm 
Bureau of the county. Farmers are cut¬ 
ting one of the heaviest wheat crops in the 
history of the county. 
Broadening .Scope of Activities.— 
The directorship of the Onondaga County 
Co-operative Milk Association has been 
enlarged from nine to 15. and the amount 
of indebtedness they may incur has been 
raised from $50,000 to $500,000. They 
find the scope of their activities fast 
widening. There is now a membership of 
400. each pledged to contribute security 
of $300 each, guaranteeing a working fund 
of $120,000. 21. G. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Six men were killed in 
a gas explosion at the mine of the Taze¬ 
well Creek Coal Company, Kimball, W. 
Ya., July 18. More than 100 men were 
working in the mine at (he time. The 
cause of the explosion is unknown. 
Six persons were burned to death in a 
fire that destroyed the home of Lee Hur- 
teau, at! Massena. N. Y., July 19. The 
dead are: Mrs. Lee Ilurteau and two 
children; Mrs. Ernest Ainell, of Corn¬ 
wall. Ont.. a sister of Mr. Ilurteau, and 
her two children. 
A cloudburst which swept Belmont and 
other Eastern Ohio counties July 19 
drowned nine persons near St. Clairsville 
and flooded the power plant of the Webb 
mine, belonging to the Cambria Coal Co. 
Referendums on file against ratification 
of the Federal constitutional amendment 
and the act for (he enforcement of pro¬ 
hibition in California are sufficient to 
hold up the laws until the 1920 general 
election, the Secretary of State an¬ 
nounced July 21. 
Washington was the scene of wide¬ 
spread mob violence and race riots. July 
21-23. As a result of scattered affrays 
throughout the city, down town and in 
residence districts, six persons are dead, 
several are seriously injured and at least 
200 more injured to some degree. Mili¬ 
tary guards and machine guns were used 
to restore quiet. 
After cruising back and forth across 
Chicago’s loop district for hours, a dirig¬ 
ible balloon bearing five persons exploded, 
July 21. The blazing wreckage crashed 
through the skylight of the Illinois Trust 
and Savings Bank in tin* center of the 
financial district. It resulted in 13 
deaths and the injury of 28 others, and 
wrecked the interior of the Illinois Trust 
and Savings Bank. Three of the dead 
were passengers on the balloon, the others 
employees of the bank. Charges that 
several devices used on the giant blimp 
were practically untried and were used 
for the first time on this type of aircraft 
will he made the subject of rigid inquiry 
by officials. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Eastern 
Massachusetts Society of Beekeepers hold 
their thirteenth annual field day on the 
estate of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. O'Mal¬ 
ley. Newton Upper Falls, Mass., July 26. 
Twenty-four California wine grape 
growers filed affidavits in the United 
States District Court at San Francisco, 
July 16, iii an action to enjoin the 
United States District Attorney from en¬ 
forcing war-lime prohibition, asserting 
that banks, including Federal Reserve 
banks, have refused to loan them money 
on wine lands. The growers declare some 
of them are. facing starvation, that the 
value of their lands has depreciated and 
that war-time prohibition threatens a 
state of anarchy. 
While retail dealers throughout (he 
country are advr ing consumers that they 
have difficulty in obtaining normal stocks 
of sugar the Government has forecast a 
domestic crop Car above the average for 
the last six years. The Department of 
Agriculture in an estimate based on July 
1 crop conditions and announced July 20, 
predicts a crop of 2.21 <>,000.000 pounds. 
Such production would ho 1I7.0O0.000 
pounds more than the average of (lie pre¬ 
ceding six years, during which (1m total 
of the two crops of boot and cane sugar 
has slightly exceeded 2.000.000.00 ) pounds 
every year except in 3914-15. The beet 
sugar forecast this year is higher (lmn the 
record crop of 1935-36 by nearly 75 000 
tons, but the cane sugar crop of this year 
is almost 300.000 tons below the average 
of the six years. The sugar beet acreage 
this year is a record one. In recent years 
the cane sugar crop has been about one- 
fourth of the total cane and beet sn-nr 
produced in the United States, but this 
year the prospect is that it will be only 
about one-seventh. Smaller acreage and 
a wet. cool Spring are the causes of the 
smaller crop. Michigan. Colorado and 
l':ah show big increases in beet sugar 
prospects. Forecasts show Michigan’s 
crop as 1.159.000 tons, an increase of 
257.000 tons: Colorado’s 2.024.000 tons, 
increase 5.80.000. and Utah's, 1.208.000 
tons, increase 205.000 tons. 
The Agricultural Relief of Allies Com¬ 
mittee is arranging for gifts of British 
sheep to French and Belgian farmers who 
are returning to the devastated areas. The 
Department of the Somme has undertaken 
to place a flock of British sheep at the 
departmental farm near Bovos and to dis¬ 
pose of a portion of (ho progeny to sheep 
farmers as (hoy return to their holdings 
on the Somme; while the Belgian Minis¬ 
try of Agriculture is prepared to make 
arrangements in order that the committee 
njav assist the stricken farmers in the 
Yser Valley. 
New Jersey poultry men will make an 
auto tour through Connecticut during the 
first week in August. The start will be 
made from New Brunswick at 30 o’clock 
on August 2. The cars will pass through 
New York City and on through Con¬ 
necticut. reaching Storrs in time to at¬ 
tend Che Connecticut Poultry Growers’ 
meeting, August 4. 5. 6. A good route 
has been selected, and as those feathered 
Jersey men run through the country they 
will scratch up much information and ad¬ 
vertise the State. 
The annual Summer outing which the 
Now York State Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion has enjoyed each August for several 
years has been adopted as the policy of 
the New York State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. The executive committee decided 
to make an automobile trip of two days, 
August 6 and 7. through Niagara County, 
New York, and the fruit section of On¬ 
tario. Canada, starting from Medina. Or¬ 
leans County. 
Special exhibits of live stock and farm 
machinery will he features of the Erie, 
Pa . exposition. August 18-23. 
WASHINGTON.—The Bureau of Im¬ 
migration has 3.600 aliens awaiting de¬ 
portation. Anthony CaminctCi. Commis¬ 
sioner-General of Immigration, informed 
the House Immigration Committee July 
17. These persons, all of whom have been 
declared undesirable by the regular Gov¬ 
ernment procedure, will be sent back to 
their native countries as soon as shipping 
space is available, the Commissioner-Gen¬ 
eral said. This number is in addition to 
the 500 undesirable enemy aliens now in¬ 
terned whom (lie Department of Justice 
wishes to deport, but whom Mr. Caminetti 
recommended that his bureau should de¬ 
port. 
Amended to provide $14,000,000 instead 
of $6,000,000 for the rehabilitation of 
wounded soldiers, sailors and marines, the 
sundry civil appropriation bill, which was 
vetoed by the President, was passed July 
17 by the House and sent to the Senate. 
The original measure was vetoed by the 
President on the ground that the $6,000.-, 
000 was insufficient to care propei’ly for 
the country’s wounded men. To meet his 
objection, the House Appropriations Com¬ 
mittee increased the $32,000,000. Demo¬ 
crats insisted on a larger sum and Rep¬ 
resentative Buchanan of Texas. Demo¬ 
crat, moved to recommit the bill with in¬ 
structions to increase the amount to $18,- 
000 . 000 . 
'I’li*' House July 22 passed the national 
prohibition act providing drastic laws for 
the enforcement of war-time and constitu¬ 
tional prohibition. The final vote was 
287 to 300. the largest dry majority in the 
history of the House. 
August 2, 1010 
Coming Farmers' Meetings 
Farmers’ Week, Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College. Amherst, July 28-Aug. 2. 
Boston Market Gardeners’ Association, 
animal meeting. Amherst, Aug. 3-2. 
Connecticut Poultrymen’s Association, 
field meeting. Connecticut Agricultural 
College. Storrs. Aug. 4-5-6. 
Summer outing, New York State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, starting from Medina, 
Aug. 6-7. 
Summer meeting of Connecticut Swine 
Growers’ Association, Inc.. Connecticut 
Agricultural College, Storrs, Aug. 6-7. 
Exposition, Erie, Pa.. Aug. 18-23. 
Society of American Florists and Orna¬ 
mental Horticulturists, Detroit, Mich.. 
Aug. 39-21. 
Annual farmers’ pirnic of Cayuga 
County. Hamilton's Grove, Weedsnort 
N. Y„ Aug. 21. 
Annual field day. Connecticut Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station, Mt. Carmel 
Farm, Aug. 22. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, O., Aug. 
25_o;) ’ ’ ” 
Vegetable Growers of America, annual 
convention, Detroit. Mich., Sept. 9-13. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair, Burgettstown, Pa., 
Sept. 30-Oct. 3-12. 
Now England Fruit Show, State 
Armory. Hartford. Conn., Friday, Nov. 
14, to Tuesday, Nov. IS. 
Greater Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, 
Deo. 3-8. 
_ New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. annual meeting, Atlantic Citv, 
Dec. 3-3. 
National Farmers’ Exposition and 
Ohio Apple Show. Terminal Auditorium, 
Toledo, ()., Dec. 4-32. 
The fifty-third annual session of the 
National Grange will be held at Grand 
Rapids, Mieh.. beginning Nov. 12. All 
officers arc to be elected and much 
nationally important business will come 
before the meeting, which may continue 
for two weeks. 
. The New York Potato Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation will hold its fourth annual Sum¬ 
mer meeting at Fulton. Oswego Co., on 
Saturday, Aug. 9. Fulton is centrally 
located and the “going is good” for cars 
and railroads. There ought to he a big gath¬ 
ering—as there was recently at Ilolmdel. 
N. J. There will be good speakers and 
clear discussions about potato diseases 
and pests, as well as the seed problem. 
Boost the New York potato. 
New York Fairs. 1919 
Aug. 
12-17—Madison Co., De Ruyter. 
32- 36—Orange Co.. Middletown. 
33- 16—Livingston Co.. Caledonia. 
18- 22—Cortland Co.. Cortland. 
39-21—Green Co., Cairo. 
39-22—Oswego Co.. Sandy Creek. 
39-22—St. Lawrence Co.! Gouverneur. 
39-22—Ulster Co., Fllenville. 
39-22—Warren Co., Warrensburg. 
39-22—Washington Co.. Cambridge. 
19- 22—Wyoming Co.. Warsaw. 
25- 29—Saratoga Co.; Ballston Spa. 
26- 29—Chenango Co.. Norwich. 
26-29—Lewis Co.. Lowville. 
26-29—< Mieida Co., Rome. 
26-29—St. Lawrence Co.. Canton. 
26-29—Steuben Co., ITornell. 
26-29—Sullivan Co.. Monticello. 
26-29—Tompkins Co.. Trumansburg. 
26- 29—Washington Co.. Hudson Falls. 
27- 30—Monroe Co., Brockport. 
28- 30—AVayne Co., Newark. 
Sept. 
1- 3—Otsego Co.. Coonorstown. 
1- 4—Columbia Co.. Chatham. 
3- 4—Montgomery Co.. Fonda. 
3- 4—Rensselaer Co., Troy. 
1- .5—Oattaragus Co.. Little Valley. 
1- 5—Oswego Co.. Fulton. 
1- 6-—Monroe Co.. Rochester. 
2- 5—Broome Co . Whitney Point. 
2- 5—Delaware Co.. Walton. 
2- 5—Essex Co., Westport. 
2- 5—Oneida Co.. Boonville. 
2- 5—Steuben Co.. Tronpsburg. 
3- C—Orleans Co.. Albion. 
3- 6—Yates Co., Penn Van. 
S-32—Clinton Co., Plattsburg. 
8- 13—State Fair. Syracuse. 
9- 31—Livingston Co.. Avon. 
9-12—Allegany Co., Cuba. 
9-12—Chenango Co., Afton. 
9-12—Delaware Co., Delhi. 
9-12—Jefferson Co., Cape Vincent. 
9-12—Rensselaer Co.. Nassau. 
9-12—St. Lawrence Co., Ogdensburg. 
9-12—-Tioga Co.. Oswego. 
9-13—Chautauqua Co., Dunkirk-Fre- 
donia. 
10-12—Ontario Co.. Naples. 
15-39—Otsego Co., Oneonta. 
15- 20—Madison Co., Brookfield. 
36-38—Dutchess Co., Poughkeepsie. 
36-39—Albany Co., Altamont. 
16- 19—Allegany Co., Angelica. 
36-19—Franklin Co.. Malone. 
16-39—Suffolk Co.. Riverhead. 
36-39—Tompkins Co.. Ithaca. 
18-20—Ontario Co.. Canandaigua. 
38-20—Wayne Co., Lyons. 
22-25—Otsego Co., Richfield Springs. 
22- 26—Schoharie Co., Cobleskill. 
23- 25—St. Lawrence Co., Potsdam. 
23-25—Seneca Co., Waterloo. 
23-26—Schulyer Co., Watkins. 
23-26—Steuben Co., Bath. 
23-27—Erie Co., Hamburg. 
23-27—Nassau Co.. Mineola. 
25-27—Oneida Co., Vernon. 
25-27—Wayne Co., Pal.vmyra. 
Sept. 30-Oot 3—Otsego Co.. Morris. 
Sept. 30-Oct. 3—Chemung Co., Elmira 
Oct 
1- 3—Livingston Co., Hemlock. 
8-10—Yates Co., Dundee. 
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