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American Agriculturist, March 31, 
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Vegetable Growers Meet 
Indorse Standard Fertilizer Mixtures 
PAUL WORK 
See what you’re doing 
N ew YORK vege¬ 
table men, through 
the New York State Vegetable Grow¬ 
ers’ Association, went on record in no 
uncertain terms regarding the elimina¬ 
tion of surplus fertilizer analyses and 
the use of high-analysis goods. At the 
annual meeting 
at Syracuse Uni¬ 
versity, March G 
and 7, the Asso¬ 
ciation indorsed 
the five analyses 
for vegetables 
which were pre¬ 
sented by Prof. 
E. L. Worthen 
and which were 
approved at t h e 
conference of col¬ 
lege and trade 
representatives la 
few weeks ago. 
Prof. Worthen 
pointed out the 
advantage of buy¬ 
ing a 5-10-5 instead of the customary 
4-8^-4, thus securing an increased 
amount of plant food without increase 
in the overhead cost of $13.50 per ton. 
The Association also inilorsed the ad¬ 
vertising program which has been un¬ 
dertaken by the Vegetable Growers’ 
Association of America, and which 
aims to encourage the use of vegetable 
food through the efforts of local asso¬ 
ciations. The National plans to supply 
the locals with posters, lay-outs for 
newspaper ads, and the like, to be used 
for such crops and at such times as are 
likely to be most effective. The G. L. 
F. was asked to continue its efforts 
toward the establishment of a vege¬ 
table seed service. 
Officers were chosen as follows: 
President, R. W. McClure, Syracuse; 
Vice President, C. E. Haw, Collamer; 
Secretary-treasurer, T. H. Townsend, 
Utica; Executive Committee: C. F. 
Mason, Williamson; L. H. Myers, Al¬ 
bany; Albert Schillroth, Orchard Park; 
Walter Henry, Eden. 
Syracuse Market Prospects 
At the banquet of the New York 
growers at Syracuse, County Agent 
D. D. Ward told of plans which are 
taking form for a new market for that 
city. Syracuse, like many other cen¬ 
ters, is assuming increased importance 
as a distributing point for vegetables. 
The old market has long been wholly 
inadequate for handling the city’s own 
supply, and of recent years the crowd¬ 
ing has become unbearable. Trucks 
are crowded in as they arrive, and no 
alleyways or passages are provided, 
and one gets out when he can. The 
new plan calls for the utilization of 
canal land and also certain adjoining 
property. The Central New York Vege¬ 
table Growers’ Association, which com¬ 
prises the local producers, is actively 
pushing the project and will have a 
share in shaping the plans. 
Premium List Appears Early 
During the past two years Mr. 
Charles H. Riley of Sennett, N. Y., 
Superintendent of the Farm Products 
Department at State Pair, has been 
instrumental in bringing about a num¬ 
ber of marked improvements in the 
vegetable exhibits. The premium list 
for 1923 has now been issued. This is 
as it should be, for the exhibitor may 
lay his plans in advance of planting- 
time. Also nearly $800 in premiums 
has been added. Nearly all of the 
firsts are now between $4 and $10, and 
the total is nearly $6,000. The offer¬ 
ings are certainly most attractive and 
the number of exhibitors should show 
a marked increase in response. 
By PAUL WORK 
BARLOW LEAVES OTSEGO COUNTY 
Floyd S. Barlow, who has been 
County Agricultural Agent in Otsego 
County for several years, has resigned 
to accept the position of field secretary 
of the Ohio State Guernsey Breeders’ 
Association. During the time that Mr. 
Barlow was in office, many changes have 
been brought about in Otsego County 
agriculture. Improved cropping sys¬ 
tems, improved varieties of crops, live¬ 
stock improvement have all featured his 
work. One of the noticeable pieces of 
work inaugurated dur¬ 
ing his term of office 
was the Junior Extension program. 
Mr. Barlow is succeeded by H. P. 
Beales, formerly assistant Farm Bu¬ 
reau Manager in Franklin Clountv. 
N. Y. _ 
Are Hog Producer-s Over¬ 
doing It? 
{Continued from page 289) 
country by which purchases were fi¬ 
nanced in 1921 and early 1922 have 
dropped off decidedly in the last nine 
months. In short, Europe appears to 
be in a poorer position to buy than at 
any time since the war ended. 
Judged by all such standards, a satis¬ 
factory export trade in hog products 
would not be expected. Nevertheless, 
in the first ten weeks of 1923, a total 
of 471,235,000 pounds of hog meats and 
lard were cleared from the United 
States, compared with only 326,756,000 
pounds in the same period last year. 
Nor is there any indication that it is 
going out on consignment. The move¬ 
ment is the result of actual buying. 
Will the same rate be maintained or 
will it he increased or diminished later 
on? About all we can do is to hope 
that political conditions will become 
more settled, that sound finance will 
displace unsound and that Europe will 
settle down to work out her economic 
salvation and in that way be able to 
buy what food products she needs. 
Production Costs Higher in 1923 
Prices furnish the court of last re¬ 
sort as to the way a supply and de¬ 
mand situation is working out. In the 
last six weeks, hog prices at Chicago 
have averaged about $2 per 100 pounds 
less than in the same period of 1922. 
As explained before, however, receipts 
at the leading markets are hardly likely 
to show the same increase over last 
year in the next nine months as they 
have done since early January. 
Quite as important as these matters 
of prospective supply and demand, is 
the outlook for production costs. Even 
if hog prices go lower, if a proportionate 
drop occurs in the price of corn and 
other feeds used in pork production, the 
h)og industry may continue to pay big 
dividends. 
Corn prices, however, have shown a 
distinct upward trend in the last year. 
Om February 1, 1922, the average farm 
prifce for corn in the United States was 
45.S cents, rising to 54.8 cents a month 
later, and to 74.3 cents on March 1, this 
yeaA This is the highest since Novem¬ 
ber, U920. Farm prices for hogs on 
Marq'h 1, on the other hand, were not 
over ‘$7.75 compared with $8.66 a year 
ago. 
Wfth corn going up and hogs going 
down', naturally the time honored corn- 
hog isatio has become much less favor¬ 
able. ! The chart on page 289 shows 
the course of this ratio as measured by 
farm for corn and hogs back to 
1910. [ The decline in the ratio in the 
last fifteen months has been due mostly 
to a co5Utinuous advance in corn prices. 
The decline in hog prices has helped. 
Beginnilng with January, 1923, the ratio 
has beeti slightly below the average. 
Such m line does not tell the entire 
story oB profit and loss in corn-hog 
farming. \ If corn prices are extremely 
high, ho^ prices may show a loss as 
compared* with the price of corn, yet 
raising cd^m and feeding hogs may still 
be a profiitable type of farming. This 
seems to \have been the case during 
most of the period from 1916 to 1919 
inclusive, m which the corn-hog ratio 
was below the average much of the 
time. Corh-ho;^ farming probably was 
quite profitable ■ although less profitable 
than corn farm^ng alone. 
On the other Hand, in the fall of 1921 
when the corn-Hog ratio was at the 
highest poiiit reached in the entii’e 
period covered, cWn prices were ex¬ 
tremely low and mog prices were not 
high enough to paw cost of productit^ 
for most of the corTn fed. 
Corn prices prolpably are not bring¬ 
ing much if rny ^bove cost of produc¬ 
tion right row land since hog prices 
{ContW^^ on page 297) 
