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Equipped with right- and left- 
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Extra wide bearing base pre¬ 
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Automatic shifting hitch main¬ 
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American Agriculturist, August 2 , 1924 
With the Barnyard Golfers 
Things Are Warmimg Up far the Contests 
T HE farm bureaus and the American 
Agriculturist certainly started 
something when we set out to find the 
best barnyard golfer in New York State. 
Many contests are already arranged in 
many of the counties, and interest is 
to win the county contests and then go to 
the State Fair to get the prizes of $100, 
$50 and $25 offered by American 
Agriculturist for the teams who can 
pitch horseshoes better than anyone else 
in the State. 
in my field notebook which says. Get a picture 
of Donald Black,’ and as soon as I get one I 
will send it in.” 
M. C. Hammond, county agent for 
Broome County, asked for copies of the 
rules so that he could send them to the 
’ ’ ~ ‘ ‘ " tie 
warming up among the horseshoe pitchers Grange and the Dairymen’s Leag_ 
locals, with the idea of holding county 
contests either at the Whitney Point 
Fair the week of August 11, or at the 
Farm and Home Bureau Picnic the 
following week. He says: 
- 7 , „ . “I have hopes of being able to work up 
V • A. t ogg, county agent ot Chenango enough interest to make a good live county 
County, claims he 
is going to have over 
15,000 people this 
year at his coming 
county picnic on 
August 6. He sends 
us a picture which 
we publish on this 
page of Mr. Charles 
Merrill of Sher¬ 
burne, who is on the 
County Big 4 Picnic 
Committee and 
chairman of athletic 
events. Mr. Merrill 
will be in charge of 
the horseshoe pitch¬ 
ing contest and will 
have several men to 
assist him. Mr. 
Fogg writes: 
“Mr. Merrill is a 
large farmer and a very 
busy man, but he finds 
time to work for the 
good of his community 
and county, and states 
that he is going to see 
to it that there will be 
fun and recreation 
throughout the day on 
August 6. 
“Our committee is 
well under way and 
men in charge of the 
contest are very en¬ 
thusiastic. It has al¬ 
ready created a lot of 
interest around the 
county and I am sure 
contest from which we 
can send a county team 
to the State Contest at 
the State Fair.” 
Mr. Charles Merrill of Sherburne, Chenango 
County, New York, who will have charge of 
the barnyard golf contest of the County Big 
4 Picnic on August 6th. 
it will be one of the biggest drawing cards of 
the day.” 
Earl D. Merrill, county agent of 
Monroe County, is also enthusiastic about 
this good old-fashioned game of horse¬ 
shoes. He writes: 
“Our County Horseshoe Pitching Tourna¬ 
ment is developing with much interest under 
the direction of Harold Barnum and Adams 
Basin, who is chairman of the committee in 
charge and an enthusiast of the sport. The 
contest will be held in connection with the 
County Picnic at Genesee Valley Park, south 
of Rochester, about August 22.” 
Harlo P. Beals, county agent of Otsego 
County, evidently is planning for a con¬ 
test, but he does not say when. He wrote 
to us July 21 and asked us to send a supply 
of copies of the rules. 
Charles L. Messer, county agent of 
Cayuga County, says: 
“I am very much interested in horseshoe 
pitching and expect to have a contest at our 
county picnic August 27. Would appreciate 
it very much if you would send us copies of 
the rules for distribution.” 
W. C Stokoe, county agent of Living¬ 
ston County, writes as follows: 
“Our County Picnic will occur on August 21 
at Long Point. The custom in this county is 
to call the head of each of the agricultural 
organizations in the county into the farm 
bureau office where the work of putting on a 
good picnic is divided up into committees and 
the personnel of the committee is chosen. 
“Thos. Burgett of Avon is Chairman of our 
Sports Committee. We have had two Horse¬ 
shoe Pitching Contests to decide the individual 
championship of the county and both years 
Donald Black of Geneseo has won. We 
State Vegetable 
Association 
Tours Markets 
and Nassau 
Paul Work 
r PHE New York 
-*■ State Vegetable 
Growers Association 
has been for some 
years in the habit of 
holding summer field 
meetings up - State. 
In response to re¬ 
peated requests a 
tour was planned for 
the New York 
markets and Nassau 
County gardens for 
July 14 and 15. 
The crowd was not 
large but those who 
made the trip were 
deeply impressed 
with what they saw 
and they will be 
boosters for the fu¬ 
ture. One visitor 
arranged with the 
County Agent for a 
bit of guidance for 
his two sons whom 
he expects to send 
down shortly. The same grower picked 
up an idea which he plans to put to work 
and which he thinks will save him dollars 
in both cost and yield. He will plant his 
cucumbers in drills instead of hills in the 
future. 
The trip began at 12:30 A.M. with a 
tour of the markets under guidance of 
Mr. S. G. Evans of the State Department 
of Farms and Markets. Up-State growers 
saw Oswego lettuce, Madison County 
peas and New Hampton celery at the 
produce houses and were able to tell the 
difference in the salability of different lots. 
The visit to the piers gave an impression 
of the vastness of the food-handling enter¬ 
prise. On this morning there were 22,000 
barrels of potatoes, 100 cars of musk- 
melons and 135 cars of peaches. Mr. E. 
A. W illiams, foreman of the Pennsylvania 
piers, has been'studying marketing as well 
as freight handling and he predicted that 
if the day’s shipment of peaches, which 
broke all records, resulted in a serious 
price drop, there would not be over fifty 
cars on hand Tuesday morning. Diver¬ 
sion orders would catch the cars at the 
Potomac V ards near Washington and 
scores of cars would go to other cities. 
This ready response to conditions has 
developed only within a few years and is 
only possible with commodities that are 
graded and standardized so that they 
can be sold by wire. Another interesting 
exhibit on this pier was a car of melons 
on their way to the Jersey Meadows to be 
dumped. Probably the shipper will be 
peeved when he gets a freight bill, but the 
visitor could readily see the troubles— 
somewhat un-uniform fruit as to size 
t . . and ripeness and also poorly made crates 
5.T SoX SSeSfcSy 1 "“f — w easily broken, 
here, had charge of the contest last year and Alter a brief rest and a short trip 
ran it off under the same rules as published in about town, the party in charge of 
the American Agriculturist. I have a note (Continued on 'page 72) 
