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Among the Farmers 
Big Fruit Meetings Coming-County Notes 
DLANS for the summer meeting of the 
New \ork State Horticultural Society 
to be held on the Wilson and Jones Locust 
Hill Fruit Farm at Hall, N. Y., on 
Wednesday, July 30, were announced 
recently by Chas. Wilson, President of 
the Society. About 1,500 western New 
5 ork fruit growers are expected to be 
present, and the day’s program will in¬ 
clude something of interest to everyone. 
Among other things to be seen on the 
ilson and Jones farm will be an exten¬ 
sive experiment on spraying and dusting 
for apple pests, including scab, aphids, 
and red bugs, which is being conducted 
by the entomologists from the Experiment 
Station at Geneva. These experiments 
have been under way for three years now 
and many interesting things can be 
learned from them, according to the 
Station workers. The College at Ithaca 
will also give a demonstration on pruning 
and will have other features relating to 
fruit growing. 
The time-honored ballgame, tug-of- 
war, and other diversions will be staged 
in the afternoon under the direction of 
R. W. Pease of Canandaigua, and Pro¬ 
fessor Salton of the College at Ithaca. 
American Pomological Society 
Tour to Cover 17 States 
HE Amer ican Pomological Society 
is planning the biggest horticultural 
tour ill its history. The tour will cover 
seventeen states and these are cooperat¬ 
ing so that the meetings which have been 
arranged for every two or three days will 
not conflict and each follows in geographi¬ 
cal order. 
The tour starts in Kentucky on July 
14. The following day will find the party 
entering Indiana, and then comes Illinois, 
Michigan, Ohio, Maryland and West 
Virginia. By the 2nd of August the party 
expects to be in Virginia. On the 4th 
they plan to visit orchards in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 
In Our Territory in August 
The New Jersey State Horticultural 
Society has planned to hold its summer 
meeting and automobile tour in coopera¬ 
tion with the American Society on August 
7 and 8. The famous Seabrook orchards 
will be visited as well as the farms of 
Minch Bros. Each of these farms in¬ 
cludes about 1,300 acres of orchard. On 
August 8 the party will visit the Camden 
Packing House of the Jersey Fruit 
Growers Association. 
The Hudson Valley will be the center 
of attraction on August!). Through New 
Jersey the party will also have ail oppor¬ 
tunity to observe the cranberry bogs and 
blueberry plantations near Browns Mills. 
The balance of the trip after the Hud¬ 
son Valley tour, will include Connecticut 
on August 11 and 12, Rhode Island on 
August 13, Massachusetts, August 14, 
Maine, August 15 and 10; New Hamp¬ 
shire, 18 and 19; Vermont 21 and western 
Massachusetts, August 22 and 23. 
New York County Notes 
Nassau County. —The other evening 
we took a drive across the Hempstead 
plains through the vast potato fields in 
that section. In several stops we saw 
unmistakable indications that blight 
had started. There is no doubt but 
what this is due to the weather we have 
been having. It has been extremely hot 
and muggy, ideal for the development of 
blight. In the morning it has been very 
sultry and when the sun did come out 
the humidity was intense. On the 11th 
the weather turned clear and brisk and 
the chances are that this will have a 
tendency to check the spread of the 
blight. Those farmers who are spraying 
regularly need not expect very extensive 
developments of the disease.—F. W. 0. 
Essex County. — A drouth that has 
prevailed in this section for several weeks 
was broken during the last week in June 
by rains that benefited crops greatly, 
Meadows are looking 50% better than 
they did June 1 and corn fields are be¬ 
ginning to show up well. Summer 
boarders are beginning to reach the 
Adirondacks. Some farmers are taking 
a few to help piece out a scanty income, 
Eggs are now 35c a dozen, veals 9e live 
weight. — Mrs. M. E. Burdick. 
Wyoming County.—During the latter 
part of Jime, Wyoming County was 
visited by a severe electrical storm ac¬ 
companied by wind and rain. Three 
barns were burned, 2 were blown off their 
foundations, killing three horses and 
smashing machinery and tools. One 
house burned. Nearly all silos were 
moved or torn down. Many forest 
trees were broken or uprooted, also shade 
and fruit trees damaged. No damage to 
crops except some washouts. Potatoes, 
corn and beans are all ready for the 
cultivation. Weeds doing fine. Spring 
grain and hay coming on rapidly. TB 
testing going on, a large number of daffies 
are clean. Fruit trees bloomed very' late 
and have set full.—O. F. R. 
Ontario County. —We have been hav¬ 
ing lots ol rain, a shower most every' day. 
Not much hay made as y r et. Things are 
growing fine. Cherries are now ripe. 
Grass and wheat are looking good.— 
H. D. S. 
Central Pennsylvania Notes 
T EE HERMAN bought the Alfred 
' Schoch farm of 220 acres for $8200 
at public sales to settle the estate. The 
barn is a large new bank one and the house 
is brick. The farm has plenty of pasture, 
which makes it a good stock farm. 
Haymaking is in full blast, but the 
weather has not been favorable for curing 
heavy green grass. The hay crop will be 
better than early indications, as the 
weather has been favorable for a rank 
growth of clover and timothy. Garlic 
and wild mustard are more in evidence 
this year than formerly, and the former 
will require more attention to keep it in 
check than heretofore. Corn is growing 
rapidly with warmer weather and is being 
cultivated when weather permits. 
Wheat harvest will be ten day's later 
than usual. Sour cherries are a good crop 
and so are strawberries, but apples and 
plums will be only half crops. Corn needs 
to be cultivated, but weather conditions 
have been such that low fields of corn 
have not been cultivated at all. Wheat 
is very rank and has lodged on many 
farms, so as to make a harvesting a hard 
job. Oats are heading out well and prom¬ 
ise to be a good crop.—J. N. Glover. 
A part of the Otsego County, N. Y., Pomona Grangers who met at the Grange Hall at 
Westville, on June 11 
