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American Agriculturist, March 24,1923 
Fight Daylight Saving 
T he daylight saving bugaboo is not 
dead in New Jersey, and the issue 
will again be up in another few weeks. 
The intention of cities in the northern 
part of the State to go into the new 
time schedule, promises the same incon¬ 
venience and loss experienced in recent 
years, to those who use the markets of 
New York City and New Jersey cities 
in the Metropolitan area. Philadelphia 
will go upon daylight saving on April 
29, unless the present ordinance to that 
effect is repealed in the coming month. 
The organized farm groups of South 
Jersey are planning active opposition 
to the change from standard time, which 
greatly interferes with their working 
conditions. The New Jersey Federa¬ 
tion of County Boards of Agriculture 
has the ultimate abolition of daylight 
saving as one of its planks, which the 
New Jersey State Grange has continu¬ 
ally voiced its disapproval. There was 
no controversy over daylight saving 
during the current session of the New 
Jersey Legislature. Pressure of the 
dairymen in northern counties of the 
State has brought about a certain reci¬ 
procity with the railroads, and the i 
milk producers now understand that | 
some of the milk 'trains will be run on 
schedules which allow collection of milk 
according to sun-time. 
Here and There in the Counties 
The warm days of early March were 
improved by South Jersey farmers, who 
started plowing on such land as was 
not too wet. The snows and rains 
which immediately followed, put a stop 
to the field work, although mid-March 
held better promise for early outside 
work. Throughout most of New Jersey, 
however, the ground is still heavy with 
moisture and frost, the latter penetrat¬ 
ing farther than in i-ecent winters. 
In Salem County, onion growers are 
preparing for their usual acreage, ac¬ 
cording to early estimates. Onion sets 
are being received in quantity, par¬ 
ticularly around Cedarville, N. J., 
which is in the heart of the biggest 
onion producing center in New Jersey. 
It is the practice of growers in this 
territory to purchase practically all of 
their sets, except on the occasional 
farms where irrigation has been in¬ 
stalled. Experience shows that the 
weather is usually too dry in this sec¬ 
tion at the time when the sets should 
be fit for transplanting, and home 
growing of the onion sets is seldom 
accomplished successfully. The Salem 
County growers market their crop im¬ 
mediately after harvest, few onions 
being stored for the late fall and winter 
markets. 
From a survey of the hay situation 
in Burlington County, the County 
Agent’s office found that 202 farmers 
in that county had 2,629 tons of hay 
for sale and that 474 tons were needed 
for feeding purposes. This indicated 
200 cars of hay to be disposed of out¬ 
side of the county. County Agent, 
Clarke W. Clemmer, used the survey 
to inform those in need of hay as to the 
location, amounts and kinds of hay 
available in their communities. This 
service of the County Board illustrates 
the practical way in which the farrhers 
may be brought into touch with each 
other on products which they need to 
buy or sell. The farmers reach their ' 
own agreement upon terms of sale, us¬ 
ing published market reports as the 
basis of prices and values. 
Monmouth Co.—The Monmouth Coun¬ 
ty Board of Agriculture through its 
county agent, Ellwood Douglass, reports 
several satisfactory strains of corn as 
the result of community corn variety 
demonstrations in the past few years. 
These demonstrations have been running 
on 25 farms. They show that the yellow 
^nt corn, grown by J. P. Hulsart of 
Manasquan, is an all-round sort; good 
stalk, good depth of kernel, medium to 
small cob and heavy yielder. It is 
adapted to most corn soils in the county, 
b. D. Solomon of Freehold, has a white, 
smooth corn adapted to questionable 
land as well as good corn ground. For 
white cap yellow dent, the W. H. Reid 
^orn stands out as one of the highest 
m these community test^. It does well 
on a variety of soils, especially on the 
oest corn land. Further tests will be 
^nducted on the white corn grown by 
W. Wiuson, the yellow corn grown 
Dobbins, /Long’s Champion 
bellow and the yell<^ of I. B. VanDer- 
veer. W 
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