The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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New York Agricultural Society Meets 
The New York State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety meeting was held in Albany as 
usual. It had but a small representation 
in attendance, although there were im¬ 
portant questions discussed by able speak¬ 
ers. Commissioner Pyrke gave a history 
of the Agricultural Department and as¬ 
sured the meeting that neither politics 
nor religion have any influence in its af¬ 
fairs. It is a service department fully 
and is operating economically as well as 
efficiently. The fact that it handles vast 
sums in tuberculosis eradication work 
perhaps tends to the idea that it is spend¬ 
ing money lavishly. That work is a 
health question, just as was the case 
when the bureau that led up to the estab¬ 
lishment was first organized to protect 
consumers of milk from adulteration, and 
dairymen from adulterated butter. 
Extension work from the college of ag¬ 
riculture was a question handled by Prof. 
Burritt, and includes the lecture service 
from the college, the farm and home bu¬ 
reaus, the boys’ and girls’ clubs and corre¬ 
spondence clubs. He holds that the col¬ 
lege has been particularly essential 
through these agencies in promoting agri¬ 
culture. Much of farm practice must 
come from the laboratory, he thinks, and 
these agencies are the ones that must car¬ 
ry the message of improvement to the 
farms. 
Marketing, particularly at the New 
York City point, was a topic of the sec¬ 
ond session. The difficulty of adequately 
handling the New York marketing situa¬ 
tion has often been stressed, and this was 
no exception. The improvement of the 
New York port by the joint effort of New 
York and New Jersey is held out as some¬ 
thing of promise. It is undoubtedly to be 
a costly venture, but the service per¬ 
formed, it is said, can be so handled as 
to pay off the obligations incurred in the 
course of 30 years or so. 
The Governor is not satisfied with the 
Department of Farms and Markets, but 
in his address it appeal’s that his objec¬ 
tion is mainly because the head of the de¬ 
partment is not appointed by the Gover¬ 
nor and responsible to him, but chiefly re¬ 
sponsible to the Legislature through the 
council. Gov. Smith reiterated his belief 
that rural schools should be handled dif¬ 
ferently, as after the manner of city 
schools. For that reason he seems to 
favor the newly proposed school bill. This 
bill was not discussed at all, and only 
carefully alluded to in the discussions. 
My information is that the bill is to be 
introduced soon but that it will not be 
passed at this session. It is not impos¬ 
sible that some modifications may be made 
in the bill by another year. 
Agricultural education in high schools 
and in the State agricultural schools was 
discussed by A. K. Getman of the Educa¬ 
tion Department, and boys’ and girls’ club 
work by W. J. Wright of Cornell. Both 
presented arguments for education which 
were well received. The junior w'ork may 
be for the purpose of leading up to the 
agricultural schools, or at least to some 
further interest in agriculture and to ed¬ 
ucation in various schools. Both are for 
training, of course, and many of those 
who take one or both of these lines do 
become farmers. Not so many are looking 
towards farm life,' perhaps, as at some 
times, for farming has fully enough people 
engaged in it already. There is reason 
to think that there will be an increase of 
those who will take vocational work in 
agriculture. 
Co-operation was considered by H. E. 
Babcock, who is fully favorable to it, and 
he believes that we should all get behind 
the co-operative associations and so help 
each other. We must not let them fail if 
it can possibly be avoided. They may 
need revision in some features, at least 
some of them, but to let them fail will set 
back progress for a long time. h. 
Bears in Pennsylvania 
Noticing last week mention of bears in 
New England, I will give you recent data 
of them in Pennsylvania. You may know 
that bears there are protected as strictly 
as deer, but in the Fall of 1922 they were 
so “active” that the ban on killing them 
was raised, and I think it is still. In 
Potter Co., Pa., bears killed, G5; deer, 
59 (three does) ; McKean Co., bears, 25; 
deer, 75. The open season is Dee. 1 to 15. 
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ORGANIZED 
CO-OPERATION 
A NEW BOOK -;- By JOHN J. DILLON 
(1) How has the need of farm 
co-operation developed? 
(2) What is organized co-opera¬ 
tion, and how does it differ from 
the ordinary help of neighbors 
among each other? 
(3) What are the principles of 
organization and practice best 
suited to success in organized co¬ 
operation? 
(4) How may organized co-oper¬ 
ation serve the farmer in the mar¬ 
keting of crops so as to return him 
a fair price and an equitable share 
of the consumer’s dollar? 
These questions arc answered in 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30tH St., New York City 
