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American Agriculturist, July 14,1923 
Boys and Girls Prominent at College Field Days 
skillful; to train the health so as to 
resist disease, to be 100 per cent effi¬ 
cient and enjoy life; and finally, to 
train the heart to be true and kind 
and sympathetic.” 
In addition to the large attendance 
of boys and girls, many adults were 
present, including nearly all of the 
county farm bureau agents and the 
farm bureau executive committees. 
Visits were made to the State experi¬ 
ment station at Geneva and to the 
great farms belonging to the State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture. 
NON-POOLERS ANNOUNCE JULY 
PRICES 
At a meeting of the Executive Com¬ 
mittee of the Non-Pooling Dairymen’s 
Cooperative Association and a com¬ 
mittee of the New York Milk Confer¬ 
ence Board, held June 26, the price 
negotiated for non-pool milk for the 
month of July was as follows: Class 
No. 1, $2.30; class No. 2, $2.00; flat 
price, $2.20; class 3A the differential 
was increased from 55c to 80c; class 
3B the differential was increased from 
40c to 65c; class 4A the differential 
was increased from 20c to 25c. In 
Grade A the 20c differential was in¬ 
creased to 30c, the 25c differential in¬ 
creased to 40c, and the 15c differential 
increased to 25c. The principal in¬ 
crease is in the increase of the flat 
price from $2.11 to $2.20. Most of the 
non-pool milk is sold on the flat price 
basis. All prices are for 3 per cent 
milk in 201-210 mile zone with the ad¬ 
dition of 4c per point of butter fat con¬ 
tent above 3 per cent, and the addition 
or deduction on account of the freight 
differential. 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Montgomery Co.—On July 3, the 
date of writing, a large amount of 
buckwheat is being sown in this local¬ 
ity. Farmers are using the crop ■ with 
other small grains for feed. Milk is 
bringing a fair price, but hay sells at 
from $9 to $12 per ton. The new crop 
of hay will not yield as heavily as was 
expected early in the season. The stand 
is good, but short. Some farmers are 
cutting alfalfa and June clover. En¬ 
silage corn is making slow growth 
owing to cool nights. The acreage of 
potatoes is not large, but the fields 
look to be in good shape. Eggs are 
selling at 25c a dozen, veal 9c, live 
weight. Not many broilers on the 
market here, only about 40 per cent. 
Farm help is so scarce here that many 
acres lie fallow and many meadows 
will be left unharvested. Many good 
farms are for sale, but buyers are few 
and far between. Town highways are 
being well repaired as there is plenty 
of help for that work at a good daily 
wage. The plum crop will be small in 
this locality owing to the heavy rains 
at blossoming time.—G. P. Van V. 
Ontario Co.—We have had some 
very hot weather during the latter part 
of June; in fact, during the last week 
the temperature was above 90 in the 
shade. We have been in need of rain 
all along, but lately we have had some 
good showers. It has been too hot 
and dry to set cabbage. Some growers 
are complaining about the lack of 
plants due to maggot injury and poor 
seed. Greening apples have not set 
very heavily in comparison to the 
amount of bloom. Corn is making good 
growth. Some farmers are harvesting 
alfalfa, which is not very heavy.— 
E. T. B. 
Warren Co.—All crops are very late 
and are not looking especially good. 
The hay crop will be light. Recent 
l’ains have improved the outlook to 
some extent. Old meadows will be 
very light and in some places will not 
more than pay the high prices of labor 
to cut them. The price of farm help 
is out of reach of most people. Farm¬ 
ers are doing what they can without 
hiring help. Prices for produce are 
lower than a year ago. Old potatoes 
are scarce and nearly all gone. The 
new crop is not ready yet. Farm Bu¬ 
reau meetings are being held every 
month. Interest is good—R. T. A. 
T HE outstanding event of the Sum¬ 
mer field days held at the New 
York State College of Agriculture, 
June 27th to 29th, was the large at¬ 
tendance of boys and girls who are 
interested in junior project work. Over 
500 boys and girls were present from 
sixteen counties. They were welcomed 
to the College by Dean A. R. Mann 
and by Livingston Farrand, president 
of Cornell University. 
The first day was spent in visiting 
various points of interest about the 
campus and university buildings. On 
Thursday and Friday the boys at¬ 
tended demonstrations on judging 
dairy cattle, gardening, rope-splicing, 
sheep and hogs, poultry and potatoes. 
The girls spent the two days attend¬ 
ing demonstrations by teams from 
some of the counties and by the ex¬ 
tension workers of the Home Economics 
Department. 
In talking to the boys and girls, 
Dean Mann said: “The great purpose 
of junior extension work is not that 
a boy may learn to raise a quarter 
acre of potatoes or a girl learn to can 
tomatoes. Those are not the import¬ 
ant things we have in mind. They 
are the means we use to accomplish 
the important things. The reason we 
do this work is to train the head, the 
hands, the heart and health as repre¬ 
sented by your emblem; to train the 
head to think and plan and reason;* 
to train the hands to be useful and 
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