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Ai^erican Agriculturist, January 27, 1923 
i^ndorse Rural School Plans 
Agricultural Society Urges Important Legislation 
S TATING that agriculture was fed 
up on words and needed some 
action, Governor Smith told the an¬ 
nual meeting of the New York State 
Agricultural Society that the State 
Department of Farms and Markets 
was not efficiently functioning and that 
it should be reorganized. The meeting 
of the Society was held in the Assembly 
Parlors in the Capitol Building at 
Albany on January 16 and 17. The 
Governor spoke on the evening of Jan¬ 
uary 16. He said that it was his 
thought that the Department of Farms 
and Markets would be much improved 
if the Commissioner was appointed 
directly by the Governor in.stead of by 
the Council of Farms and Markets, as 
at present. 
The Governor was proceeded in the 
evening session by Lieutenant-Gover¬ 
nor Lunn, who outlined the needs of 
farmers as he saw them, and expressed 
the desire of the present State Admin¬ 
istration to cooperate with farmers in 
working out their problems. 
H. E. Machold, Speaker of the As¬ 
sembly, told the farmers that he did 
not think so much talk about farm cred¬ 
its was of very much help to farmers; 
that one of the difficulties of all kinds 
of business at the present time is that 
they had too much credit during the 
war. He also suggested that if farm¬ 
ers would come as a unit when they 
asked for legislation they would be 
much more likely to get it. 
Officers of the State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety for the coming year were elected 
as follows: President, A. L. Brockway; 
Vice-presidents—E. R. Eastman, New 
York City; H. B. Fullerton, Medford; 
Peter G. Teneyck, Albany; George W. 
Sisson, Jr., Potsdam; W. A. Parsons, 
Syracuse; Henry Burden, Cazenovia; 
W. P. Schanck, Avon; S. J. Lowell, 
Fredonia; J. A. D. S. Findlay, Salis¬ 
bury Mills; Secretary, Charles H. Bald¬ 
win, Albany; Treasurer, Harry B. 
Winters, Albany; Executive Commit¬ 
tee, John J. Dillon, New York City; R. 
W. Thatcher, Geneva; T. E. Cross, La- 
grangeville; W. H. Manning, Saratoga; 
F. J. Riley, Sennett. 
Committee of 21 Endorsed 
Among the important resolutions 
adopted was one heartily endorsing the 
work and suggestions for the improve¬ 
ment of rural schools of the Joint Com¬ 
mittee of 21, and resolving that the 
recommendations of the committee be 
drafted into legislation and enacted 
into law, and that such action be spon¬ 
sored by the State Agricultural Society 
and all other farm organizations. An¬ 
other resolution heartily endorsed the 
work being carried on by the Port of 
New York Authority for simplifying 
of transportation and marketing mach¬ 
inery in the metropolitan district. An¬ 
other resolution urged the resumption 
of construction of needed buildings at 
the State College and the State Experi¬ 
ment station. And, another one pledg¬ 
ing the support of the Society to get 
the World’s Dairy Congress at Syracuse 
and to make its program and attend¬ 
ance a success. An important resolu¬ 
tion effecting local taxes was adopted 
by the Society to the effect that the cost 
of building and niaintaining bridges on 
improved highways of the State be de¬ 
rived from the same sources that builds 
the roads- 
BIG FARM WEEK AT TRENTON 
The farm organizations of New Jer¬ 
sey, cooperating with the New Jersey 
State Department of Agriculture, the 
College and Experiment Station, the 
their annual Agiacultural Week at 
Trenton, N. J., January 16 to 19. It 
was one of the best annual conventions 
since the creation of Agricultural Week 
in 1915. In conjunction with the edu¬ 
cational and business programs of the 
various organizations, a Farm Products 
Show was held in the large Armory 
which displayed the potatoes, fruit, 
corn, poultry, swine, cattle and dairy 
cattle produced on New Jersey farms. 
The large educational exhibit of the 
New Jersey State College of Agricul¬ 
ture depicted the splendid progress 
which this institution has been making- 
in recent years. The New Jersey State 
Bureau of Markets, cooperating with 
'*■ } 
the individual farmers of the State, 
portrayed the work of that department 
by an attractive booth. 
The legislative program of the New 
Jersey State Federation of County 
Boards of Agriculture, at its annual 
meeting during Agricultural Week, 
called for aJi active season ahead on 
the part of the Federation. The New 
Jersey State Highway Commission was 
requested by the farmers to determine 
the means of building substantial rural 
and township roads at a cort in keeping 
with the taxing ability of adjacent 
property, this in conjunction with the 
Good Roads Program collectively urged 
by the farm organizations in New Jer¬ 
sey. The Federation also endorsed the 
reorganization of the New Jersey State 
Highway Commission into a small gov¬ 
erning body of not over three men and 
renewed its previous endorsement of 
open competitive bidding for all high¬ 
way construction work. 
Motor vehicle fees more nearly com¬ 
mensurate with the wear and tear of 
the vehicles upon the road were also 
recommended by the Federation mem¬ 
bers, who demanded that “in keeping 
with such requirements the registration 
fees on heavy trucks should be greatly 
increased, and the weight of such trucks 
should be reduced until such time as 
definitely designated roads are con¬ 
structed which will permit the use of 
heavy trucks.” The improvement of 
rural schools and a more centralized 
agricultural program for the farmers’ 
organizations of New Jersey were rec¬ 
ommended. 
The Goal of Organized Agriculture 
Participation of all of the New Jer¬ 
sey agricultural institutions and farm 
organizations in a broad, centralized 
program was pointed out as the goal of 
organized agriculture in New Jersey by 
Dr, Fi’ank App in his General Secre¬ 
tary’s Report for 1922. He said: “Dur¬ 
ing the past two years we have mgde 
rapid strides in this direction. This is 
particularly true in all matters per¬ 
taining to agricultural legislation. A 
lai’ge measure of the success has been 
due to the hearty cooperation of the 
New Jersey State Grange, working in 
conjunction with the Federation.” 
For the coming year the officers of 
the New Jersey Federation of County 
Boards of Agriculture are; President, 
H. E. Taylor, Freehold; Vice-president, 
H. B. Hancock, Bridgeton; Treasurer, 
Dr. Frank App, Trenton; Secretary, 
W. H. Bullock, Trenton; Trustees: E. 
E. Logan, Mt. Holly; Joseph Barton, 
Moorestown; W. H. Whiton, Neshanic. 
The Executive Committee is composed 
of: Henry Tapken, Egg Harbor; C. B. 
Lewis, Riverton; H. H. Bell, Mt. Eph¬ 
raim; Joseph Camp, Pierces; R. C. 
May, Vineland; Lester C. Genung, 
Chatham; Harry Lafferty, Sewell; 
John Tine, Lebanon; William H. Black- 
well, Titusville; D. J. Perrine, New 
Brunswick; H. W. Herbert, English- 
town; W. H. Haines, Dover; R'. Franke, 
Whitesville; C. E. Moore Daretown; 
W. H. Whiton, Neshanic; Ralph Deck¬ 
er, Sussex; and Ernest Race, Belvidere. 
all of New Jersey. 
Potato Men Seek Aid 
The most important business before 
the annual meeting of the New Jersey 
State Potato Association was a discus¬ 
sion of the ways and means to bring 
about a better situation for potato 
growers in New Jersey. The associa¬ 
tion requested the Governor in his an¬ 
nual budget to the Legislature to add 
an item of not less than $5,000 appro¬ 
priated to the Division of Agricultural 
Economics at the State Experiment 
Station, in conjunction with the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, to go into a 
study of the economic production and 
marketing of New'Jersey potatoes. 
Annual meetings of the New Jersey 
State Poultry Association, Guernsey 
and Holstein Breeders’ Associations, 
Beekeepei-s and Dairymen -were hehl 
during the week. Considerable interest 
was shown in th activities of the Poul¬ 
try Association in its efforts to boost 
New Jersey eggs, and to bring about 
better prices for members by the furth¬ 
er stabilizing of their product and the 
placing of it on the market in uni¬ 
formly labelled cases. 
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