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American Agriculturist, October 4, 1924 
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Seasonal Crop Notes 
Indications for Smaller Bean Crop 
O EPORTS corning from all over New 
A L York State seem to indicate that 
this year’s bean crop is going to be below 
that of last year, at least. A late spring, 
with consequent late planting, made the 
crop two weeks late all along the line, 
with the result that fall rains, cold nights 
and frost in some sections cut the crop 
materially. Further reductions in yields 
will depend entirely on the weather we 
experience during the last week in Sep¬ 
tember and the first week in October. 
Advices from Geneseo in Genesee Valley 
are as follows: 
, There is a great deal of variation in the condi-* 
tion of the bean crop in various sections and of 
different varieties in the same section. We do 
not look for as large a crop of beans as we had 
last year. In some sections Red Kidneys are 
practically a failure as in the Perry section. 
Yellow Eyes are very short, while Marrows are 
v ® r y good. Red Kidneys in the Eastern sections 
of the State are in fair condition, but they will 
not yield as they did last year. The prices 
should range about as they did last year on all 
varieties except pea beans, which may be 
higher. It is too early for anything definite as 
the next two or three weeks determine in what 
condition beans will be harvested.’ ’—H. A. D. 
The following letter from Bath, Steu¬ 
ben County, seems to indicate similar 
conditions as those in Genesee: 
“Our acreage, we feel, is a little larger than 
last year. Owing to weather conditions, the 
seed went in later, and in some cases it has 
blighted, been hit by frost and set back to such 
an extent that at the present time prospects 
point to a yield a little under last year. To 
begin with new beans will be about 10 days to 
two weeks later on the market this year than 
they were last. From now on we must have 
ideal weather to cure the beans because if we 
should have a severe frost or exceptionally heavy 
fall rains our crop would be seriously damaged.” 
—J. B. C. 
Orleans County, like Genesee and 
Steuben, is also looking for a short crop, 
according to the following letter from 
Albion: 
“The acreage * planted in New York State this 
year is somewhat heavier than last year. How¬ 
ever, very unfavorable weather conditions which 
have prevailed, both during planting time and 
during the growing season, have made the crop 
two or three weeks later than last year, and on 
account of excess rainfall, has been consider¬ 
ably damaged. Our estimate is that the crop in 
the State will produce about 15% less than it 
would have produced had weather conditions 
been normal. This wet season has caused the 
spread of considerable disease and inasmuch as 
we must have two weeks at least of good weather 
to insure any kind of a crop and the thermomet¬ 
er almost every night is hovering around the 
freezing mark, it is altogether too uncertain to 
attempt to predict either the yield or prices.” 
i "G. E. C. 
A Silo Insures the Corn Crop 
E. S. Savage 
T'kffi season has been a rather poor 
•A one for corn in many of the sections 
here in the East. Many farmers who 
were trying to grow corn for grain found 
that a late spring coupled with cool, damp 
weather and frosts early in the fall made 
the growing season too short to mature the 
crop. As the planting season approaches, 
some of these farmers are hesitating 
about putting in much corn again this 
year. Thus, it is timely to call attention 
to the fact that the best way to insure 
getting the most out of the corn crop is 
to have a silo. 
Corn which is frosted before the ears 
mature cannot be husked for grain un¬ 
less it can be fed immediately, because 
the kernels contain too much water for 
storage or shipment. Further, the 
leaves begin to drop off as soon as corn 
is frosted, while rains may leach out the 
most nutritious parts from the stalks and 
remaining leaves. Thus, the curing of 
frosted corn as dry fodder means a large 
loss in feeding value. On the other hand, 
all the nutrients in frosted corn, both 
ears and stalks, can be saved if it is im¬ 
mediately put into the silo, and enough 
Water added so that it will pack well. The 
best way to add the water is through the 
blower as the silo is filled. Every farmer 
in the northern sections of the East must 
take some chanje on frost to grow his 
corn to maturity. He does not need to 
worry if he has a silo. 
Frequently, the weather permits the 
corn to mature but proper curing is pre¬ 
vented by a period of damp or rainy 
weather. The silo can be filled in any 
weather and good silage can thus be 
secured from a crop which would 
otherwise yield a very poor dry fodder. 
For a given acreage and for a given 
amount of labor, corn excels all other 
cereals as to yield of animal food in both 
grain and forage. Fortunate is the farmer 
who can grow plenty of it. Of course, 
there are areas where the growing sea¬ 
son is so short or the weather conditions 
so unfavorable that a good yield of prop¬ 
erly matured corn can seldom be ex¬ 
pected. Here again the silo comes in. 
For silage, mature corn is not necessary. 
There are many who prefer an immature 
corn for silage anyway. The point I 
want to make, however, is that the silo 
affords a means by which the growth of 
this premier source of animal food can be 
extended into regions where it is not prac¬ 
ticable to grow it otherwise. Through the 
silo, the farmer who is otherwise denied 
this crop which makes for cheaper milk 
production, may have it abundantly. 
Dusting Cantaloupes Pays 
T. M. Smith 
T AST year in this section many acres 
. of cantaloupes did not ripen right, 
bringing the growers little or no profit. 
They used good seed, planted in good soil 
properly fertilized and gave them careful 
cultivation. But'because they did not pro¬ 
tect the vines from the bugs and beetles 
the vines prematurely shed their leaves, 
leaving the melons exposed to the sun. 
This year our vines were dusted and 
sprayed until the melons formed, as we 
did for several years with success. Several 
years ago we lost part of the crop and 
learned we had to protect the vines until 
picking time, which we have been doing 
since. We have a duster that sends the 
dust with some force and we get it on 
top and underneath the leaves. For the 
leaf-eating beetles it seems to do more 
good to apply the dust when the vines 
are damp and for the sucking variety 
when the vines are dry. The vines that 
were dusted yielded from ten to twelve 
merchantable melons to the hill, while 
the ones not dusted after the melons set 
were not good after the first week. We 
used a dry bordeaux mixture which 
costs us $9.00 per 100 lbs This dust is 
very fine, green in color and sticks to 
the leaves. The dust paid us and other 
growers who used it. 
Will the readers of this paper help 
stop the picking and shipping of green 
cantaloupes? Put eastern melons in the 
class where they belong, at the top, and 
all the growers will benefit. 
Why Lancaster County Leads 
C'ORN and wheat production on Lan- 
^ caster County, Pa., farms offers a 
basis for some interesting comparisons. 
The real importance of the figures given 
below is to be found when the comparisons 
are made in the acre yields, the relation 
to the amount of fertilizer used, and the 
number of farmers using fertilizers. 
Lancaster 
County 
Pennsylvania 
3 Iowa 
Counties 
Iowa 
6 Kansas 
Counties 
Kansas 
It is evident that Lancaster County 
farmers are maintaining an unusually 
high production of corn and wheat. 
They are averaging 25 per cent, more corn 
and 30 per cent, more wheat per acre than 
the whole State, about 32 per cent, more 
corn than the three largest corn-producing 
counties of Iowa, and nearly 37 per cent, 
more than the Iowa average. They 
are also raising over 73 per cent, more 
wheat per acre than the six best wheat 
counties in Kansas and 69 per cent, more 
than the Kansas average. 
Bus. 
Bus. 
Value of 
nil crops 
% 
Amt. 
Corn 
Wheat 
per im¬ 
Farmers 
Used 
Per 
Per 
proved 
using 
per 
Acre 
Acre 
acre 
fertilizer 
farmer 
57.0 
21.5 
68.56 
94.0 
3.2 ton 
45.0 
1G.6 
48.51 
80.0 
2.3 tonf 
48.2 
34.84 
.85 
_ * 
41.2 
31.13 
1.5 
_ * 
12.4 
20.17 
.79 
_ * 
18.1 
19 24 
3.7 
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