American Agriculturist, April 14,1923 
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Farm News From Albany 
Bills for TB Indemnities Await Governor's Signature 
T wo bills, providing a total of $5,- 
000,000 to pay for tubercular cattle 
condemned by the State and slaughtered 
at its direction, have passed both the 
Senate and the Assembly, and have 
gone to the Governor for his signature. 
One bill would provide payment for 
cattle slaughtered during the fiscal 
year of 1922-23. The other provides 
for catfie slaughtered during the bal¬ 
ance of 1923 and the spring of 1924. 
It is expected that if Governor Smith 
signs the bills—and it is believed he 
will—^the money will become available 
in about six weeks after the bills are 
signed. 
* 4: * 
A joint committee of Senators and 
members of the Assembly held a hear¬ 
ing on the Rural School bill on Wednes- 
nesday evening, April 11. Representa¬ 
tives of those who are for and against 
the bill spoke at the hearing. Full 
details of the hearing will be given 
next week. 
* * * 
The Downing bill providing *$8,- 
000,000 for maintaining improved State 
and county highways was signed by 
Governor Smith during the past week. 
* :): * 
Senator Nathan Straus, Jr., of New 
York, chairman of the Committee on 
Agriculture, has introduced a resolu¬ 
tion to appropriate $15,000 to investi¬ 
gate marketing costs and farm condi¬ 
tions. It is the belief that an investi¬ 
gation of this kind might solve the 
problem of wasteful marketing condi¬ 
tions which affect the cost of the farm 
produce to the consumer as well as the 
prices paid to the farmer. 
sc * » 
Governor Smith has vetoed the “20- 
mile speed limit” bill, which, it is said, 
was a measure aimed at speed traps. 
The bill sought to eliminate speed traps 
by providing that speed limits set by 
third-class cities, incorporated villages 
and “second-class cities in counties ad¬ 
jacent to a first-class city” must not 
be less than 20, miles an hour. Under 
existing laws, the limit which may be 
set by the municipalities is 15 miles 
per hour. 
* 8 : 4 : 
^ Three bills designed to provide equal 
rights for women, which have already 
passed the Senate, have passed the As¬ 
sembly unanimously. The measures 
introduced provide respectively for the 
descent of property to children without 
regard to sex; raising the age at which 
girls can make wills from 16 to 18, and 
giving women equal rights with their 
husbands in the matter of guardianship 
over children in case of separation. 
* 4= 4: 
Two measures designed to increase 
the salaries of members of the Leg¬ 
islature and Justice of the Court of 
Appeals Were killed recently in the 
Assembly. 
* 4 : 8 : 
A bill providing for “short-ballot” 
has been agreed upon by the Governor 
and a committee from the Assembly. 
This bill would provide for amendments 
to the Constitution by abolishing the 
office of Secretary of State, Treasurer 
and State Engineer as elective officers, 
creating 19 civil departments with the 
heads appointed by the Governor. Other 
changes were made in the Constitution 
by this bill, such as the consolidation 
of some departments with others to 
avoid duplicity of effort, where the 
duties of present departments are over¬ 
lapping. Inasmuch as this is a consti-, 
tutional amendment, it will be sub¬ 
mitted to the vote of the people before 
it could become a part of our Consti¬ 
tution. 
ever, to take care of the milk of the 
farmers. Takes more than a little 
thing like that to upset their plans 
very long. 
An order has been issued by the Post 
Office Department at Washington dis¬ 
continuing the office at Union, in this 
county. This now bebomes a branch 
of the office at Endicott, and mail must 
be addressed Endicott, Union Station. 
The post office at Union was one of 
the first, if not the very first, to be 
established in Broome County.—E. L. V. 
ALONG THE SOUTHERN TIER 
Maple-sugar making is now in full 
swing. The cold weather the latter 
part of March delayed this work very 
much. Some farmers were caught with 
their buckets well filled with sap. On 
the first of April, a foot of snow was 
reported to be in the woods. Frost 
went down last winter at least three 
feet. 
The fire at the Borden plant at Afton 
the last week in March created some 
confusion in the delivery of milk. Ar- 
I rangements were quickly made, how- 
WESTERN NEW YORK NOTES 
ALVAH H. PULVER 
The Rochester office of the Federal 
Bureau of Markets has closed for the 
season after a busy seven months’ serv¬ 
ice in providing shippers and growers 
with most valuable information. It is 
estimated that the tonnage of releases 
from this district in the last forward¬ 
ing season mounted to $75,000,000 in 
value, making the yeat’s service the 
most useful to growers since the incep¬ 
tion of the idea seven years ago. 
The work of the bureau is most in¬ 
teresting. The service consists of a 
daily mimeographed report sent out to 
nearly 800 growers, shippers, brokers 
and railroad officials, 'containing in¬ 
formation national in scope and giving 
data on every car of fruit and vege¬ 
tables shipped in the United States and 
the destination, together with prices 
and market conditions at shipping 
points. Information of this kind has a 
tendency to prevent evercrowding of 
markets with any one particular com¬ 
modity while a shortage may exist in 
another. 
The bureau also sent out much data 
giving tabulations of storage holdings, 
crop estimates with special reports on 
apples, celery, lettuce, grapes and other 
leading crops of Western New York, 
together with reviews of prices prevail¬ 
ing in other years. 
Women Endorse Rural School Bill 
The Executive Committee of the Mon¬ 
roe County Home Bureau has endorsed 
the Downing-Hutchinson bill, embody¬ 
ing the recommendations of the Com¬ 
mittee of 21 recently introduced into 
both houses at Albany. The members 
believe that all children of the State 
should have equal opportunities for 
education, and that the present system, 
designed in 1812, does not give equal 
opportunities to-day. The committee 
urges members throughout Monroe 
County to secure copies of the bill and 
press forward for its State-wide adop¬ 
tion. _ 
‘What Hath God Wrought 
{Continued from page 333) 
College of Agriculture, who has prom¬ 
ised American Agriculturist to broad¬ 
cast from this station next Wednes¬ 
day evening at 7:30 P. M. Profes¬ 
sor Warren is the author of the War¬ 
ren Formula for determining the cost 
of milk production, and is known as 
one of the best farm economists in the 
United States. A few of the other 
speakers whom we have in mind to talk 
to you are Dean Mann of the New York 
State College of Agriculture, Jared 
Van Wagenen, Jr., and H. E. Cook, 
those genial farm philosophers, well 
known and loved by farmers through¬ 
out the East, and Mrs. Bridgen, Presi¬ 
dent of the State Federation of Home 
Bureaus, who will have a special mes¬ 
sage for farm women. 
Whether or not the American Agri¬ 
culturist and American Telephone 
Company Farmers’ Radio Service is 
continued will depend upon the interest 
and appreciation by farm folks. In 
order to get some definite information 
upon which to build a better farm radio 
service, we are asking the questions in 
the box on page 333. Fill in the an¬ 
swers as best you can, cut out the whole 
page and mail it to American Agricuk 
turist, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York 
City. If you do not wish to answer 
all of the questions, answer some, any¬ 
way. Will yo# help by doing this? If 
you do not ojn a radio, perhaps you 
will give the ^estions to some one who 
does. 
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