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American Agriculturist, April 7,1923 
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“Tune In” on April 11 
A. A. Starts Radio Farm News Service 
I AM pleased to 
announce that 
beginning Wednesday evening, April 
11, the American Agriculturist in co¬ 
operation with the American Telephone 
Company through its broadcasting sta¬ 
tion WEAF will start a series of talks 
of special interest and value to farm¬ 
ers. 
E. R. Eastman, editor of American 
Agriculturist, will open the series, 
which is planned as an experiment, to 
find out just how radio can best serve 
the farmers’ interests. Mr, Eastman 
will speak at 7:30 P. M., April 11, to 
all farm people who tune in at that 
time for the WEAF program. 
Mr. Eastman will emphasize the 
wonderful possibilities that the radio 
has for farm people, that the great 
invention is just in its infancy, and 
that Western farmers are already us¬ 
ing it to a much greater extent than 
Easterners. He will announce the ar¬ 
rangement of cooperation between the 
Telephone Company and the American 
Agriculturist, an experiment to serve 
farmers through the radio, and if the 
farmers respond to this experiment, 
they themselves can largely determine 
the future usefulness of this great in¬ 
vention. 
News the Fundamental Aim 
One of the functamental aims of 
American Agriculturist is to distribute 
through its columns the latest news of 
greatest interest to farmers, this news 
to be written and interpreted entirely 
from the farmer’s standpoint. The 
daily newspapers are good and every 
farm family should have one, but they 
are written too often by and for city 
people and do not handle or interpret 
the news from the viewpoint of farm 
folks. Moreover, it is difficult, no mat¬ 
ter how much reading of the news¬ 
paper one does, to get an accurate and 
concise idea of any situation like that 
which American Agriculturist recently 
summarized on what is taking place in 
the Ruhr Valley. Farmers are taking 
a part themselves in public matters 
and public affairs as they never have 
before, and, as I see it, it is a function 
of the farm papers to take the lead in 
reporting and interpreting these pub¬ 
lic events of such great importance. 
It is this thought of reporting the 
farm news that led us to make this 
temporary arrangement for broadcast¬ 
ing farm news. In Editor Eastman’s 
first talk, he will illustrate how the 
radio might be of service to farmers 
in giving and interpreting the news, 
by briefly explaining the credit legisla¬ 
tion which has just been passed by 
Congress, and how such legislation 
might be of use to Eastern farmers. 
No subject is of greater interest to 
farmers in New York State than that 
of the recommendations of the Com¬ 
mittee of Twenty-one on rural schools, 
and of the Bill now in the New York 
State Legislature containing those rec¬ 
ommendations. A discussion of this 
subject will be particularly interesting 
to farm women and American Agricul¬ 
turist will broadcast on some Wednes¬ 
day evening a discussion of the Rural 
School Bill. 
An Aid in Production and Marketing 
While the agricultural news will be 
the chief feature of American Agricul¬ 
turist broadcasting service, yet Mr. 
Eastman will show in his first talk of 
what great value the radio can be in 
making timely suggestion to farmers on 
both the production and marketing ends 
of their business. For instance, the San 
Jose scale, which once threatened the 
entire apple industry of the East, is 
now again rapidly spreading. Mr. 
Eastman will mention this fact as a 
matter of news, and suggest that the 
persistent use of lime sulphur, or scali- 
cide, applied just before the buds begin 
to swell, will hold this pest in check. 
Other members of the American Agi’i- 
culturist staff will lend their aid to 
make the Wednesday evening farm pro¬ 
gram broadcasting interesting and 
valuable. The farm women will be 
interested in Miss Gabrielle Elliot, 
household editor, who will gossip over 
-the radio about those things of interest 
to farm women, about which mere men 
know little and 
care less. The 
service will probably include broadcast¬ 
ing messages from those genial farm 
philosophers’, well known and loved by 
farm people throughout the East, 
Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., and H. E. 
Cook. 
If the interest and appreciation by 
farm folks justifies a continuance of 
the American Agriculturist and Ameri¬ 
can Telephone Company farm radio 
service, it will be possible to have 
messages from farm leaders such as 
Enos Lee, President of the State Fed¬ 
eration of Farm Bureaus; Mrs. Bridgen 
of the Home Bureau, Dean Mann of 
the State College of Agriculture and 
many others, including possibly talks 
from New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
and national leaders. 
These are just a few plans showing 
some of the possibilities for a farmers’ 
real radio service. Whether or not we 
can continue it will depend largely on 
the interest of farmers themselves. 
WESTEKN NEW YORK NOTES 
ALVA H. PULVER 
The first half of March was favor¬ 
able to the wheat growers of the Gene¬ 
see Valley, as a generous blanket of 
snow protected the young plants from 
the heavy winds. A heavy acreage of 
wheat is reported in the valley in spite 
of the flat prices prevailing last fall, 
and if all goes well from now on a 
bumper crop is in prospect. 
C. A. MeVean and others of Le Roy 
interested in the preservation of wild 
game have just released 20 cock and 
hen spe.cies of Northern Quail on the 
preserve near Le Roy. There are no 
Northern Quail in this part of the 
State outside the new arrivals from 
Michigan. 
In the Clean district the veterans 
of the maple syrup industry are only 
looking for a poor season this yeai*. 
The heavy snow, coupled with mid¬ 
winter rains, put on a coat of ice while 
the ground was not frozen deep enough 
to provide a good flow of sap. Only a 
cold spell after a thaw will start the 
sap working through the trees. Trees 
already tapped indicate but limited 
flows. In the southern tier of counties, 
prices this season are expected to run 
at approximately $2.25 per gallon for 
syrup and from 28 to 30 cents a pound 
for the sugar. 
One of the most pretentious reclama¬ 
tion projects in the Arkport and Burns 
district yet put through is under way 
whereby an outlay of about $85,000 will 
be made for the complete reconstruction 
of the drainage system, restoring not 
only the 700 acres now given to cultiva¬ 
tion, but opening up 300 virgin acres. 
This makes it the largest project of its 
kind attempted in Western New York 
for some time. Originally the muck 
area was a swamp running fi’om Ark¬ 
port northward several miles. By a 
cooperative effort several years ago a 
drainage ditch was put through, drain¬ 
ing about 700 acres into ^he Canisteo 
River. 
The spraying of potatoes last year 
under the dii’ection of the Onondaga 
County Farm Bureau increased pro¬ 
duction 62 bushels an acre for members 
of five spraying associations, with a 
total of 300 acres. As a resHalt of this 
success, meetings have been held by 
the East Camillus and West Camillus 
associations for pooling orders for cop¬ 
per sulphate and arsenate of lead. The 
spraying associations of Elbridge, 
Baldwinsvillc and Little Utica will soon 
hold similar meetings. 
Genesee Co.—We are all thankful 
that the spring weather will soon l>e 
with us again. We have had a winter 
that was far more serious than we 
have had in It-any years. For nearly 
four months snow has been deep 
and at times traveling was out of the 
question. Prices, of farm' products are 
on the upward trend. Potatoes are 
now bringing 60c‘ a bushel, beans are 7 
and 8c a pound, and wheat is selling 
at $1.30. There has been a great deal 
of sickness in this section during the 
past few months. We' are hoping that 
with the coming of milder weather 
there will be an end to it.—J. C. J. 
By HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR. 
