American Agriculturist, January 6, 1923 
7 
New York County Notes 
Winter Meetings Are Now the Order of the Day 
F rom practically every corner of the 
State folks report an increase in the 
number of farm meetings. These meet¬ 
ings not only include the meetings of 
farmer cooperatives, but institutes and 
farm schools. The main topic of dis¬ 
cussion seems to be the milk problem, 
according to reports from the various 
counties. Undoubtedly this winter will 
determine which way many of the. co¬ 
operatives will finally head. 
In the Northern Counties 
Essex Co.—During the last week in 
November, 0. H. Benson, Director of 
the Junior Achievement Bureau of the 
Eastern States League, held meetings 
throughout the county in the interest 
of boys’ and girls’ work. The Pomona 
Grange met in Jay early in December. 
On December 4 the Guernsey breeders 
met at Westl)ort and organized a coun¬ 
ty association. Farmers are much con¬ 
cerned about the fuel problem. The 
increase in Farm Bureau dues from $2 
to $5 a year is creating much discus¬ 
sion. Eggs are now bringing 60 cents 
a dozen, pork 16c a pound dressed. 
—Mary E. Burdick. 
Lewis Co.—Interest seems to be quiet 
here in Lewis County at present. Farm¬ 
ers are discussing the milk situation to 
considerable textent. Hay is selling 
from $12 to $13 a ton. Potatoes are 
bringing 60 cents a bushel. Good 
creamery butter is 65 cents a pound, 
with light demand. Farmers are hard 
pressed for water for their stock. Rain 
is needed badly at present.—Charles 
S. Stiles, 
St. Lawrence Co.—Gas Engine schools 
were held the middle of December. New 
officers were recently elected into the 
Grange. Milk is the chief topic of con¬ 
versation among the farmers. Opinions 
vary; many are not satisfied with the 
prices. Turkey sold for 60 to 65 cents; 
eggs are plentiful. The fairly mild 
weather we have been having has 
relieved the fuel situation.—H. S. 
Howard. 
In Central New York 
Chemung Co.—Farm and Home Bu¬ 
reaus held a joint meeting in Elmira 
recently when plans were made for 
1923. Beekeepers are determined to 
eliminate foul brood. The tobacco crop 
is about half bundled. We had about 
8 inches of snow for Christnias. Dairy¬ 
men in the county feel quite content 
with the price of $2.20 per hundred 
and up, depending on the test. Su¬ 
pervisors of the county have voted $26,- 
000 for road improvement. The Hol¬ 
stein men met in Elmira on December 
18 to plan the coming year’s program. 
One of the subjects that is being most 
generally discussed by farmers at 
Grange meetings, is the problem of the 
rural school. 'New Grange officers will 
be installed the second week in Janu¬ 
ary.—C. J. G. 
Tioga Co.—“Drives” for financing the 
County l''arm and Home Bureaus, the 
Home for Aged Ladies and the Red Cross 
are going on this week. The conci’ete com¬ 
munity hall that has been erected at 
Cattatonk was recently dedicated with 
appropriate exercises. Various public 
officers and prominent citizens support¬ 
ed this movement. There is no ques¬ 
tion but what this building will add 
greatly to the life of the community 
and the surrounding territory. Weather 
continues mild. We have had some 
snow during early December, but it 
disappeared quickly. We certainly 
need rain, as wells and streams are 
very low. The bigges't problem in this 
section is a fuel problem. Although 
most farmers have plenty of wood, the 
scarcity o;f labor has compelled them to 
use coal.—A. N. Drews. 
A Doomed Countryside 
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with cut-stone towers into the air. 
Above it all, spring the slender skele¬ 
ton masts up which the concrete is 
hoisted and poured off through iron 
pipes like so much liquid mud. Below 
the dam, in the valley, has grown up a 
mushroom town that suggests one of 
our army cantonments—a sprawling 
collection of stores, barracks, mess- 
halls, machine shops and engineering 
offices, together with a vast litter of 
pipes and rods for reinforcing concrete, 
broken and rusty machinery, and all 
the debris that accumulate around a 
great engineering job. 
How New York City Works 
One is impressed with the thorough¬ 
ness with which the biggest city in 
America does its work. For example, 
where the former roads will be flooded, 
she has replaced them with splendid 
boulevards skirting the hillside above 
high-water mark. The sanitary polic¬ 
ing of the whole watershed is a big 
problem, and every home in that area 
will be provided at the expense of the 
city with an approved system of sew¬ 
age disposal. 
The great city even reaches out its 
strong arm for the maintenance of law 
and order in this remote village. Up 
and down the town and throughout the 
large area controlled by the city ride 
the Metropolitan Mounted Police. I 
must say that in appearance at least 
they make our youthful State Troop¬ 
ers look like jokes. The city police are 
much older, middle-aged, handsome—I 
might almost say distinguished looking 
—men of grave courtesy. They are 
splendidily mounted and equipped, and 
they sit their horses like kings. More¬ 
over, they seem to do their work. Our 
County Judge said to me that he had 
fully expected the _ County Courts 
would be choked with cases of the 
“assault and battery” type. As a mat¬ 
ter of fact, there has been almost 
nothing of the kind, a remarkable 
thing when you remember that here is 
employed a small army of what we 
usually think of as ignorant, low-grade 
emigrant labor. Evidently the for¬ 
eigner instinctively fears and respects 
authority as personified by “the man 
on horseback.” 
Countryside Awaiting Extinction 
The whole village and many square 
miles of the valley is now the prop¬ 
erty of the City of New York, a rather 
easy-going landlord, I am told, who 
continues to allow the former owners 
to occupy their houses and farms at a 
rather nominal monthly—not yearly— 
rental. Of course, no one ever paints 
a house, or repairs a sidewalk, or nails 
on a shingle. It is a strange spectacle, 
this—a town just waiting for final ex¬ 
tinction. But some day-—it may be 
two years, it may be longer—the dam 
will be completed, the woodlands cleared 
off, the village and farms razed, all 
sources of pollution cleaned up and dis¬ 
infected. Then the massive steel gates 
will slide into place and a mountain 
lake will blot out the fat valley and 
bury many fathoms deep the farms 
where men have made their homes 
since pre-Revolutionary days, and 
never again will the Schoharie go slip¬ 
ping down its natural channel to the 
sea. Then may the Keeper of the Rec¬ 
ords of the ancient and honorable com¬ 
munity of Gilboa write “Finis and 
close the book. 
There is pathos in all this. Of 
course, the city has paid—in most cases 
paid liberally for the tangible things 
she took. But she did not and could 
not pay for the associations and loves 
and memories that cluster around all 
good homes. There seems to me to be 
a certain sort of ruthlessness in the 
legal doctrine of eminent domain, 
which permits a great city to put forth 
its hand and wipe from the earth an 
obscure village in its mountain setting. 
Happy is he whom neither wealth or fortune 
Nor the march of the encroaching city 
Drives an exile 
From the hearth of his ancestral homestead. 
Some future golden summer day I 
hope to again journey up the valley 
until I come to the towering gray ram¬ 
part of the dam that joins hillside to 
hillside. And above it the clear water 
will sparkle and gleam in the sunshine, 
and the little waves will lap the shores 
and the tourists rolling along the wide 
boulevards that skirt it will speak of 
its beauty, but I—I shall remember the 
drowned valley as I saw it many years 
ago, and I shall be a little sorrowful 
for the folk whom a great city drove 
from their quiet farms beside the 
pleasant stream. 
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