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American Agriculturist, November 1, 1924 
Among the Farmers 
Of New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
T HE New Jersey Federation of County 
Boards of Agriculture in cooperation 
with the Atlantic County Board of Agri¬ 
culture has invited the New Jersey Fish 
and Game Commission to make a field 
inspection of damage done by deer in 
Southern New Jersey counties. The in¬ 
vitation was given as the result of re¬ 
peated attempts on the part of organized 
farmers in southern New Jersey to focus 
public attention upon the', tremendous 
harm which the increasing numbers of 
protected deer in New Jersey are doing to 
young fruit trees, vegetables and general 
field crops. 
The plan of inspection by the farmers 
and the Game Commission calls for an 
automobile tour covering a random list 
of orchards and farms in Atlantic and 
adjacent counties, including the northern 
end of Cape May. The program is in 
charge of Arthur R. Eldred, Atlantic 
County Agricultural Agent, at whose 
office in Mays Landing, N. J., the farmers 
and State officials will be scheduled to 
assemble for the trip. 
Tentative details of the proposed tour, 
announced this week by the New Jersey 
Federation of County Boards of Agricul¬ 
ture, list a visit to the farm of William J. 
Slack of Hammonton, N. J., prominent 
member of the Atlantic County Legisla¬ 
tive Committee and Executive Commit¬ 
teeman of the County Board of Agricul¬ 
ture. The third week in November has 
been suggested as a logical time for the 
inspection tour, although the exact date 
has not yet been fixed. 
Commenting upon the importance of 
public interest in the deer situation in 
New Jersey, Secretary Louis A. Cooley 
of the New Jersey Federation said: 
“The rapid increase of deer in the State may 
not appear to be a menace in itself, but when 
losses of $100 to $2,000 in young trees and vege¬ 
table crops are reported from hundreds of 
farms the seriousness of the damage is appar¬ 
ent. Estimates presented at the fall legislative 
conference of the organized [farm groups in 
New Jersey last month indicated an increasing 
number of deer per county in several of the 
southern New Jersey counties, in spite of the 
number killed off during the open season. 
“The proposed tour of the farmers and the 
Fish and Game Commission should establish 
the facts concerning damage by deer, and the 
proper course for the State to take concerning 
its rapidly increasing wards will become 
apparent.” ~ _ 
Home Buyers Strongest at New 
s Jersey Holstein Sale 
EW JERSEY buyers took practically 
the entire offering at the New Jersey 
State Holstein Consignment Sale at Col¬ 
lege Farm, New Brunswick, October 15. 
Only one out-of-State buyer, a Pennsyl¬ 
vania breeder, was a successful bidder. 
The sale was attended by about 135 
people. 
\ The fifty-six animals sold for an average 
of $175, a low price considering the gen¬ 
eral quality of the animals offered. A 
number of the cows had calves at side, and 
a number were near springers. These 
animals drew the greatest interest from 
the buyers. Albert Winters of Mahwah, 
N. J., paid $425 for the cow that topped 
the sale. Mr. Winters owns one of the 
finest Holstein herds in New Jersey. He 
developed Tranquility Sadie Yale Wayne, 
a cow with a 44-pound record, in seven 
days. Bernard Meyers of Finderne, N. J., 
was the heaviest buyer, paying $1,125 for 
eleven head. 
Four head sold for over $300, thirteen 
head brought between $200 and $300, and 
twenty-five head were bid off between 
$100 and $200. Col. George W. Baxter 
did the selling with R. Austin Backus as 
the pedigree expert.—H. W. Baldwin. 
Eastern Pennsylvania Notes 
Oliver D. Schock 
r PHE Kreitz Valley grangers of York 
*- County made a phenomenal display 
of field, orchard, garden and domestic 
Products at the York County fair. It was 
the largest grange exhibit seen at any 
Pennsylvania fair this year and attracted 
much attention. 
York County fruit-growers produced 
the largest and finest colored apples ever 
seen in Southern Pennsylvania. The 
trees did not overbear, but size and ap¬ 
pearance surpassed. About 80 per cent, 
of Lancaster County’s tobacco crop was 
cut and housed in an excellent condition, 
having escaped injury from early frosts. 
Stalks with leaves measuring forty inches 
in length were prize-winners at the Lan¬ 
caster fair, where growers made a very 
creditable display. 
Lancaster cattle markets are fairly 
firm but irregular, higher prices of com 
having some effect upon buyers of steers 
for fattening. Even speculative operators 
exercised unusual caution in their selec¬ 
tions. 
William L. Hampton of Pottstown, 
Montgomery County, constructed a large 
trout hatchery on his fruit farm expected 
to produce 125,000 fingerling trout yearly. 
S. T. Smith of Buttonwood, Lycoming 
County, harvested 155 bushels of potatoes 
from one-fourth of an acre. Fertilizing, 
spraying and cultivation accomplished 
this result. 
Recent sales of farm properties show a 
renewed trend toward small farms as 
investments for city buyers who desire 
suburban homes. 
Central Pennsylvania Notes 
J. N. Glover 
T HE Hughesville fair, which was held 
last week with good weather and big 
exhibits, ends the fairs in this section of 
the State. Generally, they were clean of 
gambling devices. 
Corn is nearly all in the shock and 
husking has begun, but there will be very 
much soft corn which will have to be fed 
to hogs or cattle this fall and winter to 
get any good from it. To select good 
seed corn \%ill be difficult on many farms. 
Potato digging is being done and they are 
being marketed at from 65 cents to $1 and 
then one has to hunt for a market for 
them, as they are one of the most difficult 
crops to sell to advantage. Apple picking 
is about done, though the crop is only 
half a crop in most orchards, so prices are 
better for perfect apples, which are selling 
at $1.50 a bushel for choice varieties. 
There are a number of farms still for 
rent on account of so many farmers 
quitting and very few new men are 
taking up or beginning to farm. Some 
second crop hay is being made on wheat 
stubbles which were not pastured. There 
were fewer cattle sales in this section this 
fall than any time for years, as very few 
farmers are stocking up with either steers 
or extra cows. 
What YOU Are Thinking About!! 
('Continued from 'page 303) 
The thought was supposed only to be 
funny, but taken seriously and ad¬ 
ministered advisedly, it might not prove 
so bad an idea after all. Surely it would 
deter the perfectly incompetent back- 
to-the-lander from launching his farm 
enterprise, though it is doubtful if he 
would produce much anyway. Obviously 
multitudes of him might swell the sur¬ 
plus, so it might be well to curb the 
multitudes. The man who is not farming 
at present but who has previously done 
so and knows perfectly well how to do it, 
would undoubtedly have no trouble in 
securing a license, so only the incom¬ 
petent would be hindered and the 
ultimate result would be somewhat 
similar to that of weeding out the boarder 
cows in a dairy or cutting the poor layers 
from among the poultry (since the poor 
farmers now farming won’t live always), 
and perhaps agriculture as a whole might 
be materially benefited by such an inno¬ 
vation.— Mrs. E. M. A., Chautauqua 
County, New York. 
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