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American Agriculturist, Jun'e 23, 1923 
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An inventor who could develop an automobile, a railroad car or any 
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accomplishment by the Auto-oiled Aermotor during the past 
eight years in pumping water. 
Did you ever stop to think how many revolutions the wheel 
' of a windmill makes? If the wheel of an Aermotor should roll along the surface 
> of the ground at the same speed that it makes when pumping water it would 
encircle the world in 90 days, or would go four times around in a year. It would 
travel on an average 273 miles per day or about 30 miles per hour for 9 hours each 
day. An automobile which keeps up that pace day after day needs a thorough 
oiling at least once a week. Isn’t it marvelous, then, that a windmill has been 
made which will go 50 times as long as the best automobile with one oiling? 
The Auto-oiled Aermotor after 8 full years of service in every 
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Controlling Moisture 
Vegetable Growers Are Increasing Overhead Irrigation 
AS the value per acre 
.cAof our crops in¬ 
creases, the amount at stake grows, 
and it becomes increasingly necessary 
to see that the limiting factor is not 
neglected. When 
we invest land 
and labor and 
equipment and 
supplies in ex¬ 
pectation of a 
profitable crop, 
we can ill afford 
to see our outlay 
jeopardized 
through lack of a 
single essential 
item such as 
plant food or 
moisture. Dr. 
Warren says 
that the weather 
is the great fac¬ 
tor in determin¬ 
ing the yield of crops for a given year. 
Weather is not subject to human con¬ 
trol, but the supply of moisture in the 
soil may be modified to such an extent 
as to mark the difference between suc¬ 
cess and failure. Such control is es¬ 
pecially important with those vegetable 
crops which cannot wait for' rain. If 
cabbage or field corn lack water early 
in the season, they can be brought 
through by late rains. Lettuce and early 
cabbage must have moisture at the 
right time or heavy loss is the result. 
Even the cannery crops with their less 
intensive cultural methods must mature 
promptly, or quality, as well as yield is 
sacrificed. 
Intensive gardeners, in spite of the 
high cost of pipe and other materials, 
are increasing their areas under over¬ 
head irrigation. This is proving profit¬ 
able, for it frequently happens that one 
thorough watering may save a crop and 
there is seldom a summer when there is 
not a dry month. 
Control by moisture does not Aeces- 
sarily demand costly equipment. The 
part played by cultivation in retaining 
moisture is not quite so strongly em¬ 
phasized as formerly, but humus con¬ 
tent of the soil, time of plowing, and 
other soil management factors are of 
great importance. 
There is need for careful study of 
western irrigation methods as applied 
in the East. Plans that involve leveling 
would not be practicable on our soils, 
but the advent of cheap and portable 
power should make it possible in many 
cases to lift water from streams and 
distribute it in furrows without de¬ 
veloping the pressure that is necessary 
for overhead systems. 
We Must Know Our Varieties 
Frdit men know their varieties. Even 
the vegetable men who study the varie¬ 
ties the most diligently cannot know 
them well, for the standards are not 
established. 
It makes a difference whether the 
grower of kraut cabbage plants Suc¬ 
cession or Glory or Allhead Early. All 
three of these are used. Perhaps still 
more important is the strain of the 
variety chosen. There may be as much 
difference between Allhead from two 
different sources as between Allhead 
and Succession. One seed producer 
may select Succession for a flat head 
with as much solidity as he can get. 
Another may select for a deep head 
which will give the most and the best 
kraut cabbage per acre. This is a ques¬ 
tion that involves dollars. 
Neither cabbage growers nor any of 
the other vegetable growers may ex¬ 
pect to know what they are buying 
when they buy seeds until variety types 
have been carefully studied and until 
standard _ variety descriptions have 
been published and generally accepted. 
Congress did well in killing the Con¬ 
gressional free seed appropriation, but 
the appropriation for studies of 
types and varieties of vegetables died 
with it. 
By reason of its opportunity to study 
on a nation-wide basis, climatic and 
market requiremeits as well as varie¬ 
ties in use, the government is in a posi¬ 
tion of peculiar advantage for doing 
this work. The appropriations instead 
of being eliminated should be es¬ 
tablished on a basis that will bring re¬ 
sults much more 
promptly than has 
been possible in the past. 
The Vegetable Growers’ Association 
of America has been interested for 
over a year in developing the idea of 
ad-vertising vegetables. National cam¬ 
paigns of the type which has helped 
orange and raisin producers could 
hardly be carried out for the vegetable 
industry as a whole. The present 
movement contemplates offering to in¬ 
dividuals and local associations a ser¬ 
vice that will help them in local ad¬ 
vertising for their own territory. 
_ The first step has been the prepara¬ 
tion of an attractive illustrated two- 
color poster, promoting the use and 
canning of tomatoes. This is intended 
to help out with the annual glut which 
strikes practically every market about 
mid-season. It is to be available for 
this season and is intended as a feeler 
to test the demand for such service. 
Further possible developments include 
recipe books, “Eat Vegetables for 
Vitamins” signs for trucks and wagons, 
layouts for local newspaper advertis¬ 
ing and such other items as may he re¬ 
quired. 
National Vegetable Meeting in Buffalo 
New Yorkers will have an unusual 
opportunity to meet vegetable growers 
from all . over when the Vegetable 
Growers’ Association of America meets 
in Buffalo next Septeniber. The Al¬ 
bany meeting of 1921 was too far east 
for a truly representative gathering, 
Buffalo is almost ideally lopated. 
Plans are already well under way for 
the meeting apd an all-day trip about 
the Erie County producing territory 
will be a central feature. This will 
be of special interest to the general 
farm vegetable grower as the bulk of 
the crops are grown on a field scale 
rather than under the extremely in¬ 
tensive methods that are characteristic 
of most market garden sections ad¬ 
joining large cities. Even the more 
intensive men about Buffalo are grow¬ 
ing fewer crops on larger areas than 
formerly. Erie also produces great 
quantities to can and to ship as well as 
to sell locally. 
Oswego Leads in Lettuce 
The New York State Department of 
Farms and Markets reports a sur¬ 
vey just made by it shows that Os- 
'vvego leads all other New York coun¬ 
ties in carlot shipments of lettuce last 
season. New York State shipped a 
total of 3,166 carloads of lettuce to city 
markets last year, between June and 
November. The height of the season 
was in August, when 1,006 cars were 
shipped. 
In order of their importance, the fol¬ 
lowing are the main carlot lettuce-ship¬ 
ping counties in the State: Oswego, 
Genesee, Wayne, Orleans, Livingston, 
Madison, Oneida, Monroe, Cattaraugus, 
Niagara, Chautauqua, Orange, Seneca. 
Cayuga and Onondaga. 
FRUIT GROWERS TO MEET AT 
GENEVA 
The New York State Horticultural 
Society, with a membership of several 
hundred prominent fruit growers scat¬ 
tered throughout Western New York 
and the Hud.son River Valley, will hold 
its summer meeting on the grounds of 
the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Geneva on Wednesday, Au¬ 
gust 1, according to a statement issued 
by Dr. R. W. Thatcher, director of the 
station, and a member of the program 
committee. The details of the program 
have not yet been worked out; but, as 
in the past, it is expected that tours of 
the station experimental plats, where 
dusting and spraying experiments for 
insects and diseases of fruits and vege¬ 
tables are under way, will be a promi¬ 
nent feature of the day’s activities. 
A summer meeting of the society will 
also be held in the eastern part of the 
State later in the season. 
In the last issue and also in many 
others which I have had occasion to 
read, I have found some very good 
things and lots of valuable pointers. 
—Leslie M. Merwin, Fillmore, N. Y. 
By PAUL WORK 
PAUL WORK 
