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Crops and Farm Notes 
The New York College of Agriculture 
May I ask the privilege of expressing 
through the columns of your paper the 
sincere appreciation of the staff of the 
New York State College of Agriculture 
at Cornell University to the great number 
of individual farmers and farmers’ or¬ 
ganizations who co-operated so heartily 
and successfully in presenting the needs 
of the State College to the Governor and 
to the Legislature? To a large extent 
the recommendations'made by the commit¬ 
tees of farmers which studied the college 
intimately last Fall have been accepted 
by the Legislature and approved by the 
Governor. • . 
The appropriation bill recently signed 
by the Governor carries substantial in¬ 
creases in salaries for members of the 
staff. While these inci-eases are not so 
great as recommended by the farmers’ 
committees, and do not yet bring us to a 
basis comparable with a few of the other 
leading agricultural colleges of the coun¬ 
try, they are nevertheless generous, and 
bring great relief, and we feel that the 
Legislature and the Governor have been 
liberal. The bill also carries the two 
much-needed positions of Vice-Dean of 
Resident Instruction and Vice-Director of 
Research. The items for the teaching 
staff are grouped in such a way as to 
allow the authorities of the-institution a 
limited amount of freedom in the adjust¬ 
ment of salaries. There is an authoriza¬ 
tion for new construction in the amount 
of $3,017,000, of which $517,000 is im¬ 
mediately available. 
The successful accomplishment of tins 
large program was made possible by the 
careful and sympathetic consideration of 
the needs of the college by Senator H. M. 
Sage and Assemblyman II. E. Machold, 
in charge of financial matters in tlm Leg¬ 
islature ; State Architect a.. F. Pilcher 
and Governor Alfred E. Smith, to all of 
whom acknowledgment is due for their 
generous response to the requests made 
of them by the trustees of the university 
and the farmers of the State. 
Especial credit is due to the Farmers’ 
Joint Committee, consisting of William 
A. Mather, chairman; E. R. Eastman, 
secretary ; James Fear, Mrs. Lewis Sey¬ 
mour, F. A. Salisbury. C. F. Mason, 
Daniel Dean, E. C. Gillette, II. C. Troy, 
W. N. Giles, S. L. Strivings, Mrs. A. E. 
Brigden, II. D. Cooper and C. F. Boshart. 
This committee discharged the responsi¬ 
bility placed in its hands with earnest 
devotion and conspicuous success, and the 
people of the State are under permanent 
obligation to its members for the work 
they have done. They were greatly helped 
by the very general support of farmers 
throughout the State. The sympathetic 
support of the press, and particularly the 
agricultural press, was an indispensable 
aid. 
The College of Agriculture has desired 
these enlargements for no selfish purpose, 
but that it might be enabled to do its 
work more efficiently and more nearly to 
meet the demands that are made upon it. 
We are deeply sensible of the increased 
responsibility that is ours as a result of 
the larger appropriations that have come. 
A. R. MANN, 
Dean of the Agricultural College. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The New York Assem¬ 
bly April 24 passed Senator Walker’s 
bill, which is intended to permit the sale 
and manufacture of beer containing not 
more than 2.75 per cent. The vote was 
87 to 57. The Democratic members, with 
the exception of Jared Van Wagenen, of 
Schoharie, voted for the bill. 
Max Silver, president of two private 
banks in the Ghetto of Chicago, who dis¬ 
appeared suddenly four years ago after 
closing the doors of his banks, has been 
found in Oshkosh, Wis. There were 1,136 
depositors in Silver’s banks, who had 
saved $227,000. Two of them committed 
suicide; several became insane and hun¬ 
dreds were reduced to penury. 
Fire destroyed April 26 the interna¬ 
tional foot bridge at Laredo, Tex., con¬ 
necting the United States and Mexico. 
All communication, including telephone 
sendee, was cut off as a result of the fire. 
The loss was estimated at $300,000. 
Negotiations have now been completed 
by the German import department with 
an American packing firm for a supply 
of bacon, meat, lard, milk and other fats 
on a credit basis to a total of $45,000,000. 
Payment is to be made under a special 
amortization plan, to be put in effect 
early next year. Delivery of the goods, 
now in warehouses in Hamburg, Rotter¬ 
dam, Amsterdam and in Scandinavia, will 
begin immediately. 
The Federal grand jury in Brooklyn 
returned indictments April 23 against 
Armour & Co., Swift & Co. and Wilson 
& Co., as well as against the local agents 
of the firms, who were arrested on charges 
of profiteering. The principal testimony 
before the grand jury was given by 
butchers, who declared that two prices 
had been charged for meat of the same 
grade bought at approximately the same 
Seven armed bandits April 26 entered 
the First National Bank at Sandy 
Springs. Montgomery County. Maryland, 
shot and killed one of the directors, locked 
the clerks and officials in a vault and 
made off in a big touring car with $4,500. 
In their haste, the robbers, who wore 
masks and carried rifles and revolvers, 
overlooked several thousand dollars. It 
was because of his deafness that Francis 
M. Hallowed, one of the directors of the 
bank, lost his life. At the time of the 
entry of the robbers his back was toward 
the door, and he did not hear their com¬ 
mand “hands up.” One of the outlaws 
interpreted Hallowell’s failure to obey as 
either defiance or an attempt at a subter¬ 
fuge, and killed him. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—As a result 
of a special meeting of the Board of 
Directors held at the Manhattan Hotel. 
New York, April 2, it has been decided 
that the forty-fifth annual meeting of the 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association will be 
held at the Hotel Kimball, Springfield, 
Mass., on June 9, and the National Sale 
at the Eastern States Exposition 
Grounds, Springfield, Mass., on June 10, 
instead of in Chicago, as originally an¬ 
nounced. This decision was made as a 
result of the fact that, the National 
Republican Convention will be in session 
in Chicago, Ill., the week of .Tune 7. mak¬ 
ing it practically impossible to obtain 
either railroad ti’ansportation or hotel ac¬ 
commodations. 
The annual meeting of the New York 
State Guernsey Breeders’ Association 
will be held at Albany, N. Y., May 8. 
Prizes that were offered in the 1919 
Advanced Register Testing Contest will 
be awarded. One hundred and three New 
York State Guernsey cows completed Ad¬ 
vanced Register records during 1919. 
This included a number of unusual re¬ 
cords. New York State cows won eight 
positions among the 10 leading cows of 
their respective classes during the past 
year. With one exception New York 
State has more registered Guernsey cat¬ 
tle than any other State in the Union. 
Due to the railroad strike the Aber- 
deen-Angus sale to be held at Albany, N. 
Y., on April 20 was postponed, and the 
date of the sale will be announced later. 
Reargument of the constitutionality of 
the Farm Loan act of 1916 was ordered 
April 26 by the United States Supx-eme 
Court, which reassigned to the docket 
appeals' from Kansas attacking the 
statute. The case, however, will not be 
heard until Fall. 
WASHINGTON.—Declaring that the 
anti-dumping bill recently passed by the 
Hoxise would prevent American consumers 
from reducing living costs by buying 
cheaper European wares, Senators Thomas 
of Colorado and Nugent of Idaho, Demo¬ 
crats, filed April 23 a minority repoi*t 
urging defeat of the measure. They 
charged that the moving force behind the 
bill was the eelfish interests of American 
manufacturers, who desired to hold a 
monopoly of the domestic maiket. 
Attorney General Palmer April 23 
asked Congress for $500,000 for prose¬ 
cuting and detecting crime, in addition to 
$2,600,000 already appropriated for the 
curi-ent year. 
Walker D. Hines, Director General of 
Railroads, has resigned, and his resigna¬ 
tion has been accepted by President Wil¬ 
son, effective May 15. Much work in 
liquidating the affairs of the Railroad 
Administration will remain after May 15, 
and a successor to Mr. Hines will be 
named. 
A shrinkage of almost $1,000,000,000 
in the bank deposits of the country, with 
a commensurate shrinkage in the total re¬ 
sources of the national banks, is noted in 
a compilation by Comptroller of the Cur¬ 
rency Williams of the reports of the 
national banks on the call of February 
28. Total deposits in the national banks 
February 28 were $16,965,122,000. a re¬ 
duction in just two months from Decem¬ 
ber 31 of $901,291,000. The December 
31 deposits, however, were slightly under 
the highest ever recorded, and the deposits 
for February 2S were $1,500,000,000 
greater than for approximately the same 
date a year ago. 
The Rivers and Harbors bill was 
passed April 26 by the Senate after it had 
been amended so as to make the total 
$24,000,000. as against $12,000,000 in the 
Douse bill and $20,000,000 recommended 
by the Senate Commerce Committee. The 
measure, which was approved without a 
l-ecord vote, now goes to conference, where 
a sharp fight is expected. Both the Senate 
and House agreed to the genei-al principle 
of a lump sum appropriation rather than 
specific grants for the various pi-ojects. 
No new work was authorized. At the 
request of Senator Reed, Democrat 
(Mo.), Senator Harrison sought early in 
the day to amend the bill so as to make 
the total $27,000,000, but this was de¬ 
feated, 26 to 2S. Senator Harrison then 
proposed $24,000,000, which was accepted 
after a long discussion, the vote being 34 
to 22. 
May 8, 1920 
is looking very fine. Hay is selling at 
a good price. Hired help scarce and high 
in price. E. T. b. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
Many farms are changing hands at 
high prices. A number are selling out on 
account of scarcity of labor and high 
wages. Auction sales are quite common. 
Many are planning to cut down their 
farm operations at the cost, of lowering 
production. Some have just finished husk¬ 
ing their last year’s crop of corn. Labor 
was so scarce last Fall they did not get 
through husking. George T. Iloffeeker 
has sold his 220-acre farm, near Dover, 
for $30,000, and purchased a farm near 
West Chester-, Pa., containing 240 acres, 
for $45,000. Prospect for fruit of all 
kinds is good, the cold weather having 
held the buds dormant late in the season. 
Corn brings $1.60; wheat, $2.30; hay, 
$40; eggs, 40c; weanling pigs, from $5 
to $10 each. Fai-mers busy hauling ma¬ 
nure, trimming grape vines, fruit trees 
and plowing for corn. Wheat, wliieh 
looked poor all Winter, has brightened 
up and is beginning to look well. c. ir. 
Kent Co., Del. 
This is the center of the great corn belt 
of Central Illinois. Only about one-third 
of the oats sown to date, and no show to 
get into the field for a week more. No 
potatoes planted; no gax*dens made; no 
work at all in fields for corn. Wheat 
sown later than September 30 is all right; 
earlier wheat nearly all taken by the fly 
last Fall. Pastures slow, and orchards 
late. Corn, $1.65 per bu. of 70 lbs. Oats, 
93c per bu. of 32 lbs. E. L. 
Sangamon Co., Ill. 
Five daii-ies have gone out of business 
this Spring around here, and there are 
some going to cut down their number of 
cows. At the price of feed, help and 
cows, it is a bad outlook. Milk should 
be sold at 10c a quart at present before 
the farmer can make any money on in¬ 
vestment. E. B. c. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
A poor year for maple sugar; the 
woods have been filled with snow, so that 
it was impossible to work in them. Wheat 
Senator Hitchcock recently repeated 
a story told him by the Prince of Wales 
during his visit here. Visiting a dug-out 
occupied by American doughboys, the 
Prince was surprised to find there, side by 
side, large pictures of his fatlier and 
mother clipped from some illustrated mag¬ 
azine. He stepped closer to note the in¬ 
scription. Under one was “King George 
the Fifth”; under the other, “The Other 
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