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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September G, 1924 
The State Fair 
A STATE FAIR is an arena for friendly competition. 
It is an educational opportunity. It is a medium of 
exchange for ideas and property. It is a social event. It is a 
reflection of agricultural optimism. It is an annual census 
of progressive agriculture. It is a pageant of progress. 
The crop and livestock products of a great common¬ 
wealth are on display. The best grains, the most nutriti¬ 
ous grasses, and the finest farm animals on exhibition 
give evidence of man’s progress in soil husbandry. 
Ever keeping pace with the progress of the world’s basic 
industry—agriculture—has been the development of the 
Nation’s arteries of transportation. Interdependent as are 
agriculture and transportation, it is becoming more and 
more evident that the prosperity of one depends upon the 
success of the other. 
Always in the lead to recognize the needs of the country, 
the New York Central Lines have spent millions upon 
millions of dollars in providing livestock cars, box cars 
for grain, and refrigerator cars. 
When visiting the State Fair, consider also the fact that 
the progress reflected there is, in a large measure, pos¬ 
sible through the foresight and progressiveness of the 
builders of our great railroad systems. 
At the New York State Fair the New York Central 
will have on exhibition one of the latest type of 
heavy locomotives, under full steam, and also three 
fully^manned railway mail cars. 
NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES 
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Cash with order. Cloverdnle Farm, Charlotte, N.Y. 
Peach Tree Borers Killed by Krystal Gas 
(P-C Benzene) 1-lb. $1; five-pound tin, $ 3 . 75 ; with directions. 
From your dealer ; post paid direct; or C.O. D. Agents wanted. 
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The thoroughness of automatic irrigation matures crops 
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James G. Greene President 
Rural School Association 
.Tames G. Greene of Brighton, Monroe 
County, N. Y., president of the New York 
State Rural School Improvement Society, 
whose picture appears on page 1149, was 
reared on a farm in Wayne County, N. 
Y., received his elementary education in 
a one-room district school and was grad¬ 
uated from Union College. After serving 
as vice principal of the high school at 
Clyde, N. Y., he studied law there with 
State Senator Thomas Robinson, a for¬ 
mer school commissioner, and was ad¬ 
mitted to the bar at Rochester in 1888. 
After serving two years as clerk in the 
office of George F. Danforth. a former 
Judge of the Court of Appeals, he set 
out for himself at Rochester where he 
still has an office. For several years he 
was the attorney for the State Hospital 
Commission and while in active practice 
published numerous reference hooks for 
lawyers and edited the New York An¬ 
notated Cases. 
Mr. Greene was the first president of 
the Wayne County Society of Rochester, 
District Deputy of the 33d Masonic Dis¬ 
trict and is now president of the local 
Union College Alumni Association. He 
holds a life teacher’s certificate, is a 
Presbyterian elder, a Shriner, Chairman 
of the Grievance Committee of the Roch¬ 
ester Bar Association. 
In 1910 he moved his residence into the 
agricultural section of Brighton where he 
has carried on a small farm as a side 
line. He was a pioneer in the revival of 
interest in milk goats and developed a 
large herd of choice Toggenbergs. His 
neighbors made him Master of Brighton 
Grange. IBs two children attended the 
one-teacher school but in spite of that 
“handicap” (?) have continued through 
high school and college courses. 
Mr. Greene early scented the battle to 
save the rural school. As a delegate to 
the State Grange in 1917 he was in dis¬ 
favor because of his opposition to the 
Maohold township law but nevertheless 
entered aggressively into the campaign 
for its repeal after everybody discovered 
that the Grange had been tricked and 
something “put over.” That campaign, 
which was called by some at its start as 
hopeless as “moving the capitol” and 
was such a success, was a signal demon¬ 
stration of the power of the people when 
aroused. 
Starting independently, one in Monroe 
County and the other in Montgomery 
County, Mr. Greene and D. Boyd Deven- 
dorf began the movement for State-wide 
organization to defeat the Downing-Por- 
ter bill. At the State conference in Syra¬ 
cuse January 31 last the society was 
born of which those two logically became 
the president and secretary. How the 
rural forces were marshalled at Albany 
on March 19 to give the quietus to that 
bill will be long remembered by those 
there. Equal success in constructive 
work for rural schools is foreshadowed in 
the conference at the State Fair next 
week under the auspices of the society 
and which we hail as another notable 
achievement in the busy life of its presi¬ 
dent. 
To Consider Rural School 
Problems at State Fair 
A State Conference to consider rural 
school problems will be held under the 
auspices of the New York State Rural 
School Improvement Society in the As¬ 
sembly Hall of the Coliseum «n State 
Fair Grounds, Syracuse,. on Friday, Sept. 
12. with morning and afternoon sessions. 
All friends of the rural school are invited 
and any who contemplate a visit to the 
State Fair are urged to come that day. 
A full progx-am of prominent speakers 
covering briefly all phases of the prob¬ 
lems, to be followed by an open forum, 
will be announced later. All districts and 
county branches of the society are re¬ 
quested to send at least one delegate. 
Hon. Adelbert Moot of Buffalo, Vice 
Chancellor of the Board of Regents, State 
of New York, will speak on the “Equal¬ 
ization of School Taxes and State Aid,” 
and school finance generally. Secretaries 
of county branches are requested to for¬ 
ward reports to the State Secretary, D. 
Boyd Devendorf, R. 1, Amsterdam, N. Y., 
at once. For details, address the head¬ 
quarters of the State Society, 332 Powers 
Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
“Aw, what good is percentage?” 
growled little Tommy. “Now, Tommy,” 
asked his teacher reproachfully, “don’t 
you want to learn how to figure hatting 
averages?”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
Kill the 
woodchucks 
Crops destroyed by moles and wood¬ 
chucks represent an astounding loss. 
And the worst of it is that these losses 
are unnecessary. 
For the prudent grower takes the step 
in time, which saves his crop from these 
and other rodents. The newest, surest, 
most economical and scientific method 
is the use of Calcium Cyanide. This 
unique chemical releases a gas that 
instantly kills rodents. 
There is an effective way to use Cal¬ 
cium Cyanide in the control of practical¬ 
ly any insect or rodent pest in your 
vicinity. For the sake of economy in the 
protection of your crops, learn how 
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