The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
New York Potato Growers Meet 
The New York State Potato Growers’ 
Association is an organization really 
worth while. In addition, there are 
county associations. Cortland County 
has one of these. The State meeting was 
held in Cortland this year. For a few 
years this county has gone into the busi¬ 
ness of producing seed potatoes, and many 
of the growers are taking steps to have 
them certified. A two-days’ trip was 
planned for August 6-7, to cover the 
major portion of the territory of members 
of the county association. We saw many 
fields, and they all looked well. Spraying 
has been thorough. There is no blight 
to date. True, we found a little mosaic 
and a little leaf-roll. Steps are being 
taken to eliminate these as fast as pos¬ 
sible. Then, too, the improvement of seed 
by selection is going on very nicely. I 
do not know how profitable seed potato 
production may prove to be, but would 
think if followed lip it will pay. At any 
rate, it is conducive to the good appear¬ 
ance of the potato fields. 
On the trip we saw several tuber unit 
test plots conducted under t.he direction 
of the State College. As stated on the 
program, the test plots of the president 
of the State association, E. E. Units of 
Marathon, is worth study. Some potatoes 
show all leaf-roll and some all mosaic. 
Mr. Units’ seed was the very best that 
he could select from his entire stock, but 
these plots, the experts state, demonstrate 
that every grower should have a test plot 
every year. The tests of seed from New 
Hampshire and Canada as compared with 
the homegrown and those planted at dif¬ 
ferent dates, June 1 and June 30. wi'.i 
need more tune yet to determine results. 
Of the 35 members listed there are 
seven varieties grown. Sixteen had Nor- 
cross, six Green Mountain, five Mills 
Pride, three Ttusset and one each had 
World’s Fair. Cobbler and World 
Superior. 
A banquet was served in the evening, 
with speeches. Mr. Robinson, president 
of Cortland County Seed Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. and E. E. Units, both of Mara¬ 
thon. were ideal in giving short speeches 
of welcome and response. A. S. Mer¬ 
chant. formerly the County Agent, de¬ 
tailed the work of organizing the county 
association. Not. much about it, only 
keeping at it. The association is two 
years old. The next step is to get Mr. 
White and his associates to come in and 
secure the formation of a selling organi¬ 
zation. Work has already been com¬ 
menced to bring about this. There seems 
to be much in the county that is organi¬ 
zation. At the banquet the potatoes were 
furnished by the Potato Association, the 
Jamb by the Sheep Breeders’ Association, 
th' 1 honey by the County Beekeepers’ As¬ 
sociation. the milk, cream and ice cream 
by the County Dairymen’s League. 
Daniel Dean, a former president of the 
State Association, had been asked to fore¬ 
cast the price prospect for 1920. This 
he went at in a very sane and careful 
manner, yet with his accustomed-energy. 
Tt is still too early to be perfectly sure 
ns to crop production. To the present 
moment the evidence points to a produc¬ 
tion of 383,000.000 bushels, yet we do not 
know what the crop will be. Blight may 
strike at any moment. On the other, hand, 
there may be a continuance of favorable 
conditions until the end of the season. 
Should that be the case, it is likely that 
we can hardly expect rising prices. With 
the present forecast of production con¬ 
tinued, my understanding of Mr. Dean’s 
opinion is that prices may have an up¬ 
ward tendency in some degree from Octo¬ 
ber on. as a rule. It was clear that Mr. 
Dean did not care to influence decision 
as to the advisability of holding potatoes: 
not at least at present. 
The State Potato Growers excel on a 
banquet, and they are in no backward 
position on speeches. Prof. Scoville 
brought along an accumulation of figures, 
copies of which he had distributed after 
the banquet, and then undertook to ex¬ 
plain them. Think of digesting a big 
dinner and a startling array of statistics 
and trying it. out away along towards 
midnight! The professor showed how the 
price probability is figured. Taking the 
proposed 388.000.000 bushels and getting 
its percentage of 420.090 000, the possible 
usable production according to past ex¬ 
perience, he'finds 92 per cent. The 420 
is obtained by computing the increase of 
city population and the decrease in the 
country and from a knowledge of what 
has been used. Money is now so cheap 
that it takes 83.30 to secure the com¬ 
modities that once were bought with one 
dollar. Some further figuring develops 
the fact that a production of 388.000.000 
hjisiicis- would bring an average price of 
about 60 cents in the 10 years. 1890-1900. 
and on. the 83.30 this makes the prospect 
" r this year $2.14 per bushel. This 
would indicate that if the reports on pro- 
ui'i tmn do not change, and potatoes com¬ 
mence to sell, say in October, at around 
a dollar, it will probably pay to hold. 
Di\ Harms has been in the West 
studying the potato situation. The West 
' s '"'"during more potatoes, and them SPil 
and market conditions are good. It is 
r f> .‘|- v *hat they will materially inter- 
mre with onr Eastern markets. They are 
improving seed, but that is likely to - help 
\u business rather than harm it. 
•pH told, he prefers the East to the West 
HZ "rowing potatoes. There were 65 
Tl 0, ‘ the trip, and about 165 at- 
M il the. banquet. The meeting was a 
^.interesting all the time, and an 
< 1 1unity to learn at every point. A 
m ''ment is already commenced to form 
a federation for selling. H . u. L. 
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