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The State Fair 
A ST ATE FAIR is an arena for friendly competition. 
It is an educational opportunity. It is a medium of 
exchange for ideas and property. It is a social event. It is a 
reflection of agricultural optimism. It is an annual census 
of progressive agriculture. It is a pageant of progress. 
The crop and livestock products of a great common¬ 
wealth are on display. The best grains, the most nutriti¬ 
ous grasses, and the finest farm animals on exhibition 
give evidence of man's progress in soil husbandry. 
Ever keeping pace with the progress of the world’s basic 
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New York Farm News 
Vegetable Growers to Meet at State Fair 
P RESIDENT C. E. HAW, of the 
New York State Vegetable Growers 
Association, has called a meeting of this 
organization to be held in the Horticul¬ 
tural (Old Manufacturers and Liberal 
Arts) Building at the State Fair grounds, 
at Syracuse, at 11 o’clock Tuesday, 
September 9. This meeting is for the 
purpose of bringing together those who 
are interested in the further development 
of the vegetable exhibits and to further 
the drive for a new horticultural building 
on the fair grounds. It will also afford 
vegetable men an opportunity to visit 
the exhibits in this department at the 
Fair. This display is, without question, 
one of the best in the country, and with 
improved labeling and skillful judging it 
now offers an unexcelled opportunity to 
^compare variety types.— Paul Work. 
Among the Farmers 
ARMERS in many instances in Lewis 
County were still busily engaged 
during the third week in August in 
harvesting the bumper hay crop which is 
quite general in Northern New York. 
They have been greatly delayed the past 
three weeks by frequent heavy rains with 
the result that large fields of hay have 
become over-ripe, with a resultant loss to 
the dairyman, as hay in that condition 
loses much of its milk producing qualities. 
The frequent showers, though coming 
at this late season, are very beneficial to 
pastures and to early cut meadow's. This 
means that they wall produce an abun¬ 
dance of fall feed later on, as pastures 
seldom ever do more than just produce 
a bare living for dairy cattle at this season 
of the year. Therefore considerable 
benefit is derived from an abundance of 
rain in the latter part of the season. 
Grain Looks Good 
Although grain was sown late and 
delayed by much cold and frosty weather 
it is making fine growth of late and 
promises a heavy yield in case the 
weather improves in the very near future. 
It seems to be very late in ripening this 
year. Few fields are ready for harvest. 
Although corn and potatoes are main¬ 
taining a fair growth, it is a bit early to 
predict just what the outcome will be. 
An early frost, which often comes in 
September, would destroy the prospects 
of much of a crop of either commodity. 
The price of milk, which was around 
$1.70 per hundred pounds for the months 
of June and July, was very discouraging, 
and although dairymen have been prom¬ 
ised a substantial increase for the last 
half of August, the marked shrinkage in 
the flow of milk at the present time means 
a depleted check at the end of the month. 
Along the Southern Tier 
At the middle of August our farmers 
are mostly done with haying. The crop 
has been good in this section and most 
of it has been harvested in good condi¬ 
tion in spite of the catching w'eather we 
have had for a number 
of weeks. 
Robert Pitcher, a farm¬ 
er living near Maine 
village was severely and 
perhaps fatally injured 
August 9, when a pulley 
broke while unloading 
hay with a team and 
struck him in the head, 
fracturing the skull. Mr. 
Pitcher is a most estima¬ 
ble man, with a wife and 
several children. It is the 
hope of all his many 
friends that he may re¬ 
cover from this injury. 
The oat crop of this 
section is below' the aver¬ 
age in quantity, al¬ 
though it is believed that 
the quality of the grain 
w'ill be better than usual. 
Wherever taken off we find a fine seeding 
of clover and timothy. The moist weather 
has favored the growth of these grasses. 
The Broome County Fair was held the 
week of August 12 to 16, and attracted 
the usual crow'ds. The display in many 
lines was better than was expected 
because of the unfavorable crop-growing 
season. 
Frequent rains have kept pastures 
from drying up as much as in previous 
years. This has enabled cows to main¬ 
tain a fairly good yield of milk. Some 
wells, how'ever, have gone dry. 
Eldon Rozelle, farmer, who was badly 
hurt w'hen the ladder broke on which he 
was standing w'hile painting his barn, 
is so he can get around again after being 
shut in several weeks. 
Thieves recently went into a vacant 
house of the farm of L. J. Emerson, on 
the road from Delano’s Corners to West 
Chenango and took some old furniture 
in broad daylight. Mr. Emerson placed 
the matter in the hands of State Troopers 
and it is expected that arrests will follow. 
—E. L. V. 
New York County Notes 
Warren County—Farmers are nearly 
through haying and in general report 
more or less of a light crop. We had 
local show’ers during the second week of 
August. Potatoes are looking fine. 
Corn is very late and everything depends 
on w'eather conditions for a crop. We 
had a slight frost in some sections during 
the week ending the 16th. The apple 
crop w'ill be poor. Milch cows are not 
doing well on account of poor feed. 
Pastures were damaged by white grubs 
last year. Grain and feed are advancing 
in price each week. The traffic on the 
state road is the heaviest it has ever 
been. We had a good attendance at the 
County Fair at Warrensburg. Summer 
houses w'ere well filled during the last 
month.—R. T. A. 
Franklin County—The season has been 
several weeks late compared to normal 
in regard to practically all kinds of 
vegetation. Potatoes are making fairly 
rapid growth. Oats and other small 
grains have been doing very well. Nights 
have been too cool for corn which shows 
very uneven growth in most fields. A 
good many farmers have just finished 
hay harvest, the delay being due to wet 
weather and lack of help. The harvest 
this year is not so heavy as last year. 
Cows are shrinking rapidly in milk flow, 
but there are prospects of a better price 
for this month. Mill feeds‘ all remain 
very high in price. New potatoes are 
selling for a dollar a bushel; eggs 38c a 
dozen and butter 48c a pound. Farmers 
are getting their exhibits ready for the 
County Fair at Malone.—H. T. J. 
Nassau County—A severe storm, the tail 
end of a hurricane, hit Long Island on 
Tuesday the 26th. We needed the rain 
for corn, young cabbage, etc. However, 
the w'ind put corn down almost flat on 
the ground. 
