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_ American Agriculturist, December 27, 1924 
News From Among The Farmers 
Short Courses Announced For Farmers--County Notes 
D IRECTOR H. S. Knapp of the State 
Institute at Farmingdale, Long Island, 
announces that two short courses will be 
given at the school this winter, one in 
poultry and one on general farming. Both 
will begin on January 5 and continues 
through the month of February. A tractor 
school is scheduled for January 19 , 20 
and 21 . Thirty farmers enrolled in this 
course last year. It is not a white collar 
course by any means but one in which the 
students learn about doing the same things 
that he will have 'to do later on his own 
farm and with his own tractor. 
After the tractor school one day will be 
devoted to each of the following subjects: 
blasting and use of explosives on the 
farm; concrete mixing; soldering; saw 
filing and care of tools; framing and con¬ 
struction of small farm buildings; farm 
water supply and sewage disposal; rope 
splicing, knots and belt lacing; electric 
lighting plants for the farm; use of the 
forge on the farm. 
It is believed that this is the first time 
that such courses dealing with one specific 
subject and covering such a short period 
have been offered. This should appeal to 
busy men. Persons may come in for one 
or more days, selecting only the subject 
about which they desire information. De¬ 
scriptive circulars can be obtained by writ¬ 
ing Director Knapp. 
When writing to adi/crtisers be sure to 
mention the Amerism Agriculturist. 
New York Horticultural Society 
Announces Meetingss. 
T HE New York State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety through Secretary Roy P. Mc¬ 
Pherson of LeRoy, N. Y., announces that 
the annual meeting of the Society will be 
held in Rochester on January 14 , 15 and 
16 , The guest of honor at the annual 
meeting will be Lieutenant-Governor Sey¬ 
mour Lowman. 
Secretary McPherson calls special at¬ 
tention to a radio address by C. S. Wilson, 
President of the Society on December 29 . 
This radio talk will be broadcast from 
station WGY, Schenectady. 
The Eastern meeting of the New York 
State Horticultural Society will be held at 
Poughkeepsie on February 18 , 19 and 20 , 
according to advice from T. E. Cross of 
LaGrangeville, N. Y. 
New York State Breeders to Hold 
Annual Meeting 
The New York State Breeders Associa¬ 
tion will hold its annual meeting in Roch¬ 
ester on January 6 to 8 . 
New York County Notes 
T HERE was no evidence here in 
Columbia County of the rain that 
helped out other sections of the state a 
week or so ago. Streams and wells are 
very low. Many have been forced to 
carry water for a considerable distance 
for their stock. Several men have been 
drawing water to fill their home cisterns. 
A couple of weeks ago we experienced 
a severe change in temperature together 
with very high winds. Little provision 
was made for the lowest temperature of 
the year thus far on account of this wind 
and as a result split cylinder heads were 
numeroi^ as well as damaged radiators. 
Many fruit growers who were just fin¬ 
ishing up their crop lost heavily. The 
lowest temperature reported for the 
county was zro and the average about 
7° above. 
Similar to all sections of New York 
State, those who have a potato crop, are 
mightily discouraged. The men were 
in hopes of at least a dollar but local 
concerns are buying and delivering local¬ 
ly by auto truck in large or small am¬ 
ounts for seventy-five cents per bushel. 
Offers on the basis of an entire crop 
range around forty-five to fifty cents 
with some sales. Offers as low as thirty 
cents have been reported. In general 
the farmers are holding their stocks be¬ 
lieving that colder weather and the holi¬ 
days will relieve the congestion in the 
market. The diary demonstration train 
which made two stops in the county re¬ 
cently, was well received. A goodly 
number of farmers and their families 
visited the train and many favorable 
comments were heard. Corn husking is 
w T ell under way and the more progres¬ 
sive have taken advantage of the favor¬ 
able weather and have completed it. 
Little or no fall plowing has been done 
because of the dry season. The usual 
number of post-season products being 
harvested have occurred this fall. The 
latest one is that of a farmer in the 
southern part of the county who indulged 
in green sweet corn for dinner and a 
strawberry shortcake for supper. The 
origin of the same was asserted but not 
verified.—D. V. Rivenburgh. 
Greene County. —The recent cold spell 
froze a lot of apples, coming as it did 
very unexpectedly. Corn was a little 
late and a lot of it froze before it was 
ripe. Buckwheat is bringing $1.25 and 
corn $1.55. The hay crop was light this 
year. Farm sales are bringing large 
crowds and offerings are bringing good 
prices with the exception of cows. 
Strippers are meeting poor sale and 
there is practically no demand for hors¬ 
es.—J. A. 
In Central New York 
Cortland County. —Practically all the 
cabbage in this section was cut before 
the freezing weather came last month. 
Many farmers have stored their cabbage 
at home as dealers up to the cold spell 
were offering $5 to $6 a ton and some 
less. Some farmers had a few apples 
unpicked and these are now worthless 
as they have been frozen on the tree. 
Farmers have been unable to do much 
fall ploughing due to the lack of rain. 
During the latter part of the month we’ 
got a shower that helped a little.—G. 
A. B. 
Oneida County. —October was a won¬ 
derful month as was November up to 
the 16th. As a result farmers were able 
to fill silos and harvest their potato crop. 
On heavy soils potatoes rotted quite a 
bit, while on other fields they were quite 
free. The yield was good. Potatoes 
have been bringing any where from 75 c 
to 95c a bushel for good quality at stores 
and individual homes. We had an abun¬ 
dance of cider apples and a fair supply 
of good apples that brought anywhere 
from $1.25 to $2 a bushel. We had no 
rain at all during October and during 
the first part of November it was pretty 
dry for plowing, The Karlen Cheese 
Company offered $1.75 a hundred for 
milk for November. There are many 
farmer auction -sales but cattle is selling 
at a low price. Pork is now selling in 
the neighborhood of 14c dressed.—E. 
N. A. 
. $1 a bushel and has gradually dropped 
to 75c and in some cases 50c and less. 
At the present there is little demand at 
any price. Cabbage has been selling to 
stores at $1 a hundred. Eggs are very 
scarce and the stores are paying 65 to 
75c per dozen. Milk is shrinking rapid¬ 
ly. Farmers are not buying much grain. 
At the Sinclairville Borden condenseries, 
poolers receive 50c per hundred more 
for 3% milk than the non-poolers. 
Some League members who had decided 
to cancel their contracts changed their 
minds. At an auction recently 60 dairy 
cows were sold at an average of $40 
each. High taxes are causing the farmer 
a lot of worry.—A. J. N. 
Ontario County—We had some very 
mild weather during the second week in 
December, after a hard freeze. Some 
farmers are still plowing and there is 
quite a lot of corn stalks in the fields to 
be hauled in. Good apples are scarce while 
potatoes and cabbage are quite low. 
—H. D. S. 
Central Pennsylvania Notes 
^ORN is nearly all husked, with very, 
much soft corn which is being fed as 
fast as possible. Corn stover has been 
housed in parts as it is too green or 
heavy to store in large quantities. 
Potatoes have been mostly marketed the 
price being only 45 cents now. 
A good part of the wheat crop haj 
been sold, since it reached $1.50 though 
some wheat is being held for higher 
price. Manure has- been hauled to sod- 
for corn and some sod has been plowed 
for corn, though the ground has been 
too dry to do much plowing until recent 
rains fell. 
Winter wood is being hauled and 
saved for future use. A number of 
farmers have had sales of stock and 
implements this fall, due to lack of grain 
and financial shortage. Very little 
clover seed was made in this section of 
the state, and it is a good idea to buy 
seed this fall. The farm bureau of 
Union county will be held on the 30th. 
of this month when a talk on tubercu¬ 
losis will be given by a Mercer county 
man. Some townships of this county 
have their cows all signed up for testing 
by spring. 
Mifflinburg has completed a nice and 
convenient high school room with a 
large auditorium and gynasium in the 
basement. The writer wishes a Merry 
Christmas and a pleasant and prosperous 
year for 1925 to American Agriculturist 
readers.—J. N. Glover. 
In Western New York 
Erie County. —Farmers are all busy 
sawing wood. Some are even doing 
some fall plowing. At least that was 
the case up to the middle of November 
before the frost set in. We have had 
some excellent weather. Our first snow 
came the 16th. The potato crop was a 
bumper. Not many farmers have sold 
any to speak of. Roads are fine. But¬ 
ter is bringing 42c a pound and eggs 
63c a dozen.—Mrs. T. C. 
Chautauqua County. —We have had 
a wonderful fall since the first of Octo¬ 
ber, for finishing up farm work. Most 
of the threshing and silo filling has been 
done since that time. Corn in general 
was a poor crop, while grain was fair, 
oats averaging about 40 bushels per acre 
and buckwheat around 30. The potato 
crop turned out more or less good, but 
is hitting a poor market. At James¬ 
town and Dunkirk the price started at 
New Jersey Agriculture Week 
Jan. 13-16 
(Continued from Page 444 ) 
men’s get-together banquet at Hilde- 
brecht’s. 
On Friday morning the New Jersey 
State Horticultural Society will open its 
meeting at the Y. M. H. A. auditorium. 
The swine breeders will meet in the 
Squad Room of the Armory, and the 
beekeepers will get together at the Re¬ 
publican Club. 
The Fourth Annual Rural Church 
Conference, conducted under the aus¬ 
pices of the New Jersey Federation of 
Town and Country Church Workers, 
will be held in the State Street M. E. 
Church in the Sunday school room. 
As was said above, the Farm Pro¬ 
ducts Show will be held in the Armory. 
Taking all in all Agricultural Week has 
become a real institution in New Jersey. 
It embodies all the different industries 
and ramifications of the business. In 
short, it meets all of the agricultural 
interests up into one grand get-together 
and display reflecting the progress which 
the Garden State farmers are making 
from year to year. 
