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News from Among the Farmers 
Dean Mann Heads Mission to Foreign Lands—County Notes 
Dean Mann Heads Mission to 
Foreign Lands 
D EAN A. R. MANN of the New York 
State College of Agriculture has been 
granted a leave of absence for two years 
to organize a movement for the promotion 
of agricultural science and education 
through international exchange. Dean 
Mann will sail some time in the latter part 
of August. It is expected that the work 
will require at least two years. Head¬ 
quarters will be established in Paris or 
Rome, although most of the time will be 
spent in travel or in consultation with 
scientists and officials in the countries of 
Europe. 
Cornell Poultry Judging School, 
July 7-12 
npHE Seventh Annual Cornell Poultry 
-*■ Judging School, which has become a 
fixed event for poultrymen of New Y ork 
and nearby States, is scheduled for July 
7-12. Last year 126 students and instruc¬ 
tors attended the school. 
Poultrymen who have attended the 
school in the past have found it a decided 
benefit in their business. The course 
includes the study of egg production and 
how egg producers are identified from the 
various physical characteristics. It has 
enabled these men to discard the unprofit¬ 
able birds from their flock and select for 
breeding the most productive individuals, 
which is the best way to meet low egg 
prices and mounting expenses. 
Some are getting 45c. Many farmers 
are seen hauling bailed hay to their 
homes with empty milk cans. Consider¬ 
able property is changing hands but most 
of it is village property. Farm sales are 
few with some auction sales of personal 
property including tools and stock. — 
C. A. B. 
In Western New York 
Ontario County.—We are having fine 
growing weather. Grass and wheat are 
looking very good. Some potatoes and 
corn are still being planted. The weather 
has been quite cool most of the time with 
enough rain to keep things growing. All 
are hoping for a good year.—II. D. Seely. 
Chautauqua County. — All crops are 
in at last, except buckwheat. Quite a few 
farmers have sold their cherries. Grass 
is growing fine with a promise of a fair 
hay crop. Fruit trees have set a fine crop 
of fruit. A heavy storm hit this section 
of the county on the 20th and did a con¬ 
siderable amount of damage blowing down 
a barn and several silos. Apple and forest 
trees were also blown down.—P. S. 
Scriyen. 
Among the Farmers of New 
York; County Notes 
Nassau County. —Potatoes are looking 
fine and Long Island growers in general 
are looking forward to another good po¬ 
tato year. Of course no one knows what 
is in the offing, because blight comes 
quickly. On the afternoon of the 25th 
we had a very severe thunder storm that 
supplied much needed moisture to many 
crops. Long Island sandy soil doesn’t 
hold water very long. Corn has not grown 
very well up to within the last week. The 
weather has been too chilly but just 
before the storm we had intense heat. 
Tent caterpillars are still on the rampage. 
Early green peas are now being picked. 
The crop is not very promising. Indica¬ 
tions are that the potato acreage this 
year is slightly larger than normal. 
Jefferson County. —Ruth A. Prittie of 
Natural Bridge, a student in the high 
school at Carthage won the champion¬ 
ship of the eastern district in the National 
Meat Store Contest in which nearly 
12,000 high school girls competed. The 
winning of the championship carried with 
it a cash prize of $100 award by the Na¬ 
tional Live Stock and Meat Board. 
Along the Southern Tier 
Tioga County.—We have been having 
a great deal of rain and cool weather con¬ 
tinues although the past few days have 
been passably warm. Very few days, so 
far, but what fires were needed for com¬ 
fort and only during the middle of the 
day were the fires allowed to go out. A 
great deal of planting is yet to be done at 
this writing (the middle of June). In 
fact our gardens are not yet planted and 
many seeds that were planted rotted in 
the ground. Even grass and winter 
grains have not developed as usual at this 
time of the year but grass stands thick if 
not high. The old saying “cold wet May, 
barn full of hay” may be true. 
Some people from the west have been 
in this section looking over eastern 
farmers with a view of settling in this 
section. Letters from friends in Ohio 
state that the season there is about the 
same as here and fears are expressed that 
there will be “nothing to winter on.” 
Eggs are low, selling at the store at 
23 to 24c a dozen. Butter delivered to 
customers from the makers, 40c a pound. 
New Jersey County Notes 
Hunterdon County. —We have had 
the wettest early season ever known. Corn 
is only half planted and here it is with 
June almost over. Many fields of oats 
have been destroyed due to the wet con¬ 
dition of the soil. Lots of plowing of corn 
has got to be done even at this late date. 
Cherries are rotting on the trees. Every¬ 
thing is late. Gardens are ruined and 
the hay crop will only be fair. Wheat 
is making lots of straw but the heads are 
not filling out very well. Lots of land is 
lying idle. Many farms have no one on 
them, some being sold for taxes. The 
unnecessary drop in the price of milk is 
discouraging. Dairymen are turning 
more to the hay business which will 
flood that market no doubt. Good hay 
is bringing $30 a ton; wheat, $1.10; oats, 
60c; potatoes, $1.50 a bushel; veal calves, 
11c; eggs, 26c a dozen; butter, 50c; 
spring lambs, $9 to $10; wool, 40 to 50c. It 
seems that no help is to be had for farm 
work at any price.—J. R. Foster. 
Mercer County. —Potatoes look fine de¬ 
spite much and many rains. Weeds 
starting well too. Tent caterpillars very 
bad in apple orchards and along road¬ 
sides. Corn well planted, some fields 
well up. Grain looks fine.—J. E. H. 
Central Pennsylvania News 
J. N. Glover 
YEARLY planted corn on low land did 
i not germinate well. Late planted 
corn has come along rapidly though cut 
worms are doing much damage. 
Continued rains each week have helped 
along the growing grass very much and a 
good crop will follow where the stand is 
fairly good, which it is not in many fields. 
Potatoes are still being planted though not 
as many acres will be put out as was 
intended. More acres of buckwheat will 
be seeded than has been in this section 
for many years as this is no buckwheat 
section. Apple orchards are being sprayed 
as the weather permits. 
Fresh cows are selling lower due to 
less demand for them on account of low 
prices for milk. 
Veal calves are more in demand and 
eggs are advancing a little. 
Eastern Pennsylvania News 
O. D. Schock 
C ORN has not had the good start 
anticipated by the early planting. 
Wet weather caused some roiling in the 
ground and in other instances germina¬ 
tion was poor. 
The rainfall during May exceeded every 
year since 1889, the year made memorable 
for its Johnstown flood, when thousands 
of lives were lost and millions of dollars 
worth of property destroyed. Winter 
cereals, however, are growing finely and 
promise an average yield of wheat and rye. 
The Japanese beetle situation remains 
practically unchanged, so far as eastern 
and south-eastern Pennsylvania counties 
is concerned. A cooperation of State is 
assured in making the fight against its 
further spread, but extreme vigilance and 
activity is essential just at this period. 
The incalculable loss inflicted by the 
chestnut bark disease left a salutary 
lesson. 
The 600-acre fruit farm established at 
Leesport, Berks County, in a limestone 
district about five yeafs ago has just been 
sold at private sale by the owner, Wilson 
E. Schmick of Hamburg to a Reading 
syndicate, for a sum said to exceed a 
quarter of a million dollars. The buyers 
expect to realize a crop of 125 carloads 
of peaches alone this season. Mr. 
Schmick formerly established a fruit farm 
near Hamburg which realized $115,000 
when sold to a fruit corporation. 
Pennsylvania officials distributed an 
extraordinary large number of young 
trees of various commercial varieties, such 
as pines, hemlock and spruce, this season 
and weather conditions being favorable, 
the loss through shipping and transplant¬ 
ing was very small. 
An Ancient Tale With a Modern Moral 
{Continued from page 6 ) 
we are to-day. I cannot even begin to 
enumerate the various plans that were 
tried out. 
Great efforts -were made to limit pro¬ 
duction. For example at one time it was 
decreed that no man might grow more 
than 1,000 tobacco plants for each one 
of his household including his servants—• 
a provision that proved so easy of evasion 
that it accomplished nothing. Then 
again it was ordained that only twelve 
leaves could be retained from any one 
plant, the rest of them being destroyed. 
Then again Virginia and her sister colony 
of .Maryland tried to agree that no tobacco 
might be transplanted after June 25 
only to lead to a bitter outcry on the 
part of the Marylanders because with 
their later season it gave the Virginians 
an unfair advantage. Again and again 
and many times legislation was passed 
providing for the inspection of the crop 
and the public burning of that which fell 
below a certain grade—a provision that 
would lead to the improvement of any 
planter who was so unfortunate as to 
produce an entire crop of inferior leaf. 
Time would fail me to set down the 
many and strange measures that were 
undertaken in the effort to stabilize the 
industry although it is only fair to say 
that I do not remember that any one 
suggested the pooling plan. 
But worse than all—certainly the most 
discouraging and disheartening was the 
fact that even when Virginia did succeed 
in some measure in reducing the surplus, 
then the planters of the Bermuda Islands 
who were their worst competitors, prompt¬ 
ly and thankfully increased their acreage 
and profited in the English market. I 
suppose they were the “riders” and 
“slackers” of that time. It was a long, 
long struggle against economic law which 
Bruce sets forth with much minutas and 
at great length. I think it has in it a 
lesson for some of our organization 
wizards of to-day. I say this with 
regret, but it is a creed that has grown 
out of my own thinking that upon the 
whole there is more to be hoped for hi 
striving for an economy of production 
that shall meet the established markets 
than there is in efforts to limit production 
or to arbitrarily raise prices as fixed by 
the law of supply and demand. Some 
day we shall learn the hard, almost cruel 
law that eventually every man will buy 
in what is the most advantageous market. 
