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American Agriculturist, March 3i l953 
CRAINE 
SILOS 
give three-fold protection to your silage. 
They keep warmth and juices in and keep 
cold and weather out. 
Every square inch of a Craine Silo is pro¬ 
tected against stress and strain in any 
direction. 
You can tell a Craine from any other wood 
silo. Smooth and handsome. No hoops to 
tighten or loosen. Once up, a Craine stays 
put. Craine Silos are cheapest to own. 
Send for illustrated catalog. 
Any old stave, iron hooped silo can be 
rebuilt into a Craine 3-waIl Silo at about 
half the cost of a new one. Catalog 
shows how. 
CRAINE SILO CO. 
Box 120 NORWICH. N. Y. 
A leaky Silo is like 
a leaky boat — 
you can*t trust it 
B e sure your silo is air tight- The 
Harder Patent Spline Dowel and 
square tongue and grooved staves pro¬ 
duce a tight joint that absolutely 
excludes the air. This combination 
makes a rigid silo that cannot shear 
or lean. 
If there are any leaning silos in your 
did 
neighborhood. Harder 
them. 
not make 
SILO BOOK FREE 
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HARDER MANU¬ 
FACTURING CORP. 
Box F Cobleskill, 
New York 
HARDER SILO 
Prices of Milk Cans 
and 
Dairy Supplies 
are less than 
they were a 
year ago. 
For 33 years 
we have sold 
dairymen high 
quality equip¬ 
ment at mod¬ 
erate prices. 
J. S. BIESECKER 
Creamery, Dairy and Dairy 
Barn Equipment 
59 Murray St. New York City 
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ABOBNO LABORATORT 
II .loM Streat, Lancaster, Wl*. 
League Price for March 
Farm News From New York and New Jersey 
T he Dairymen’s League Cooperative 
Association, Inc., has announced the 
following prices for the month of March, 
on the basic butter fat test of 3 per 
cent, in the 201-210 mile freight zone 
from New York City. 
Class 1, for fluid consumption, $2.80. 
Class 2, for cream or ice cream, $2.50. 
Class 3-A, milk used chiefly in the 
manufacture of evaporated, condensed 
and powdered milk, a differential of 59 
cents per hundred above the price paid 
for milk going into the manufacture of 
butter (in Class 4). For Class 3-B milk, 
used chiefly in the manufacture of hard 
cheese, a 40 per cent differential was 
voted above butter prices. 
Class 4, milk used chiefly in the 
manufacture of butter and American 
cheese, prices to be determined by New 
York market quotations on these com¬ 
modities. 
These March prices are the same as 
February prices, except that there is a 
reduction of 10 cents per hundred on 
Class 1 milk. The February price was 
$2.90 a hundred. 
WESTEEN NEW YOEK NOTES 
ALVAH H. PULVER 
After a series of years replete with 
problems, the canneries of Western 
New York are preparing for a season 
when it is felt that more certainty will 
prevail in all the ramifications of the 
industry. Sugar and fuel shortages in 
the past have given mpch trouble, not 
to mention labor scarcity and the irreg¬ 
ular supply of tins from time to time. 
Much of this bother is now in the past 
and while in some direction a sugar 
shortage is being talked about as one 
more thorn this year, the canners as a 
whole do not anticipate any great dif¬ 
ficulty in getting ample supplies. The 
year opens auspiciously for the factor¬ 
ies and considerable expansion is be¬ 
lieved to be in store for various plants. 
Definite announcement has been made 
that a large plant will be erected at 
Knowlesville, the project being fostered 
under the direction of the New York 
Canning Crops Co-operative Associa¬ 
tion. The Orleans county unit, includ¬ 
ing the associations at Medina, Albion 
and Knowlesville, has subscribed to 
enough stock to guarantee the success 
of the project. It is proposed to put 
up a $75,000 building with additions to 
come later. All kinds of vegetables and 
fruits will be processed. 
Potato Situation Bad in Steuben 
County 
Growers of potatoes in Steuben 
county see little or no encouragement 
in the market situation with prevailing 
prices around 40 cents per bushel and 
dealers only luke warm at this figure. 
Many growers who put their crop in 
storage were certain of a sustantial 
advance in the market during the winter. 
A rot has now developed, many growers 
losing heavily on the stored tubers. 
Potatoes that were dug early in the 
season have shown the most decay, and 
it‘is believed that they were infected 
when stored, and their blight later 
spread to the sound ones. 
The government weather station at 
Ithaca has established a cooperative 
weather station at Sodus, placing it in 
charge of the writer. Daily records of 
temperature with maximum, minimum 
and mean records for the month and 
the precipitation from day to day will 
be recorded. From records of other 
stations in Western New York it was 
shown last year that considerably more 
precipitation was recorded in this sec¬ 
tion than in the extreme western coun¬ 
ties of the state with a resultant heavier 
development of fungus troubles in 
Wayne and other counties than was 
experienced in Orleans and Niagara 
counties. 
Nurserymen Hold Annual Meeting 
At the annual meeting of the New 
York State Nurserymen’s Association, 
held in Rochester, officers were elected 
for the year as follows: President, W. 
H. Masten, Newark; vice presidents, 
William Pitkin, F. T. Burke, Rochester; 
R. T. Brown, Queens; Frank Hartman, 
Dansville and Paul V. Fortmiller, 
Newark; secretary and treasurer, Chas. 
J. Maloy, Rochester; executive commit¬ 
tee: Chas. H. Perkins, Newark; Horace 
Hooker and William Pitkin, Rochester, 
and John P. Rice, Geneva. 
Chas. S. Wilson, prominent fruit 
grower of Hall, Monroe County, has 
been appointed to succeed the late J. 
B. Pease as President of the New York 
State Horticultural Society. 
John D. Miller, Vice President of the 
Dairymen’s League Cooperative Asso¬ 
ciation, was elected President of the 
National Milk Producers’ Association, 
at their recent meeting held in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. Mr. Miller succeeds Milo 
D. Campbell who resigned to accept 
President Harding’s appointment to the 
Federal Reserve Board. 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Ontario Co.—We are having a real 
old-fashioned winter. On Januai’y 30 
the temperature hit 8 degrees below 
zero. All roads were filled with snow, 
making it hard for the mail man. 
There is an effort being made to open 
the roads for autos, which will be a 
hard thing to do. Some have been talk¬ 
ing of widening sleighs to the same 
width as wagons, so that we could have 
sleighing and wheeling at the same 
time. Hens have been working too 
hard lately and have brought the prices 
down. Some folks are selling potatoes 
at 50c. Stock of all kinds is doing 
well. The health of folks in our section 
is generally good.—C. T. B. 
Montgomery Co.—The weather thus 
far has nearly equaled that of ’88. 
Farmers are making every effort to 
harvest ice. Thus far the quality has 
been poor owing to the depth of the 
snow. Very little hay is moving to 
market. The demand is very light. 
Milk prices are very good, but feeds 
are still high. Dairy butter to custom¬ 
ers is 50c a pound. Beef has been plen¬ 
tiful at from 9 to 12c per pound by the 
quarter. Farmers have started to place 
their orders for grass seeds and fertil¬ 
izers. Farm Bureau meetings held 
throughout the county are generally 
well attended.—G. P. V. 
Dutchess Co.—Farmers are putting 
in 12 to 14-inch ice. Roads are being 
kept open for autos. Many farmers 
are killing their own beef. All avail¬ 
able help is cutting cordwood, for 
which there is ready sale. It is prac¬ 
tically impossible to get coal. Farmers’ 
institutes have been very well attended. 
—H. J. H. _ 
PROMINENT HOLSTEIN 
BREEDER DIES 
John J. Walrath, East Springfield, 
N. Y., the well-known Holstein breeder 
and owner of the First Accredited 
Herd in Otsego County, died February 
16. Mr. Walrath was a man of splen¬ 
did character and a leader in his com¬ 
munity. 
TEACHERS’ TENURE OF OFFICE 
ACT UP FOR HEARING IN NEW 
JERSEY 
The Senate hearing on its bill No. 
129, which would repeal the so-called 
Teachers’ Tenure of Office Act, brotight 
out a large delegation of farmers from 
central and southern New Jersey last 
week in support of the repeal. Accord¬ 
ing to the law as it now stands, any 
teacher who has taught three successive 
years in any one place is exempt from 
discharge without cause. This means 
that a teacher must be brought up on 
charges to be dismissed, a method of 
removal often impossible and very un¬ 
popular in rural communities where 
the teacher’s home may be in the com¬ 
munity. 
In rural schools, where funds are 
seldom available to attract the best 
teachers, it has been felt that the 
teachers’ tenure of office prevents the 
efficient operation of the local school 
boards. The farm groups were repre¬ 
sented by delegations from Monmouth, 
Gloucester, Hunterdon, Camden, Bur¬ 
lington and Mercer counties. The chief 
opposition came from the State Teach¬ 
ers’ Association and some of the north- 
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