<Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 17, 1920 
TOP DRESSING TALKS, No. 3 
Study of 51 years' Experiments on Wheat 
At the Rothamsted Experiment Station, Eng¬ 
land, wheat has been grown with the same fer¬ 
tilizers, upon the same land, year after year for 
more than half a century. The following results 
reported by A. D. Hall, M. A., Director of 
the Station, tell their own story. 
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Plot No. 
Yearly Treatment 
3 
No fertilizer 
5 
Minerals only 
6 
Minerals and Ammonia 
Yield of wheat grain per acre 
Avevage 61 voars 
1SS52 to 1902 
13.1 bu. 
14.9 bu. 
37.1 bu. 
Yield in 1902 
51st year 
13.3 bu. 
15.5 bu. 
45.2 bu. 
Plots 5 and 0 received same amount or minerals, appnoa in ian. ... , . .. , . 
Plot 6 received ammonia from muriate and Sulphate of Ammonia equal to 129 pounds of nitrogen, 1-6 applied in 
fall and 5-6 applied in Spring aa a to p-dressing. ___.— 
Tairnr nresent nriees for wheat and for ammonia (from Sulphate of Ammonia) the net profit from tile ammonia top- 
dre^ng wSuld average approximately $21 per acre each year for fifty-one years, increasing to„$39 per acre on the 
fifty-first year. _ — . . — — 
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Governor Alfred E. Smith. 
lion. Thaddeus C. Sweet, Speaker of 
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Hon. Asbury F. Lever, member of Con¬ 
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Dean Mann, of Cornell; Calvin J. 
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Up-State Farm Notes 
Regarding Canxers’ Methods.— Never 
has there been so great a demand all over 
the State for better marketing conditions. 
In Onondaga County there is a demand 
for a farmers’ organization that shall pro¬ 
tect farmers’ interests in selling produce 
to the canning industry. There is a com¬ 
plaint over prices and methods and of the 
fact that canners withhold the farmers’ 
pay until the finished product is sold. A 
meeting has been held in Fayetteville 
with the aim of farmers’ co-operation in 
dealing with canners. There are already 
organizations for better marketing in 
Niagara, Monroe and Orleans counties. 
The Tompkins County Farm Bureau 
program for 1920 calls for a market re¬ 
porting system, whereby the variations in 
prices of commodities will be furnished 
to both producer and consumers, and the 
pooling of products for volume and stand¬ 
ardization will be arranged for. 
Holstein Men to Form State Feder- 
eration. —The need of an extension move¬ 
ment along Holstein lines in this State, 
which leads in breeding and sales of pure¬ 
bred Holstein-Friesian cattle, has been 
keenly felt of late, particularly since other 
States have organized. The latter arc now 
able to bid for the trade from the South 
and Southwest which New York alone 
formerly enjoyed. Consequently a big 
two-week’s campaign will open January 
19, with men noted in national and state 
Holstein circles, as speakers. The first 
meeting will be held in Syracuse, accom- Sow unhuilefi White how. S9 Bu. Ex. imid. 
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in motion machinery to arouse interest in 
raisers of purebred and grade cattle, to j 
increase county and State memberships. 
The Farm Bureaus will assist. 
Urges Farmers to Name Presiden¬ 
tial Candidates. —S. J. Lowell of Frc- 
donia. Master of the State, also the Na¬ 
tional Grange, publicly urges the farmers 
to take an active part in selecting a pres¬ 
idential candidate, saying they are vitally 
affected by the choice, and that they have 
the machinery to name candidates. lie 
urges a study of the men suggested, of 
their records, aud while not uecesarily 
casting aside all party affiliations he ad¬ 
vises insisting on the selection of a strong 
man who is known to understand and 
appreciate agricultural problems, and who 
can be depended on to give farmers a 
square deal. lie says the farmer must 
be an important factor iu politics, for his 
own protection and that of the country. 
Every Grange in the State should take 
this advice to heart and act upon it seri¬ 
ously. Failure to take an active interest 
in the selection of a candidate will mean 
practically the loss of the vote at election 
time, he says, if as it usually happens, 
candidates are selected neither of whom 
is desirable from an agricultural point 
of view. M. G. F. 
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so mean as to swindle people who put 
confidence in you?” Prisoner: “Well, 
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