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STATE___ AGE. 
Among the Farmers 
Of New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
N EARLY one thousand persons at¬ 
tended the annual summer meeting 
of the New Jersey State Horticultural 
Society, held on the Campus of the 
State Normal School at Glassboro on 
July 25. 
An auto tour starting from the Nor¬ 
mal School at 10 o’clock visited numer¬ 
ous orchards and vineyards in the vi¬ 
cinity. The members and guests gath¬ 
ered for lunch in the beautiful grove 
of oak trees on the Campus of the 
Normal School, where friendships were 
renewed, and the Japanese beetle and 
the drought were informally discussed. 
Dr. J. J. Davitz welcomed the guests 
to the Normal School and told of how 
they were trying to meet the needs 
of rural education. The pupils sang 
and gave a gymnastic demonstration. 
The meeting, held in the State Nor¬ 
mal School building, was opened with 
prayer by Rev. A. B. Corlin. Mr. 
Charles F. Repp, vice-president of the 
society, welcomed the guests to Glass¬ 
boro, and spoke of the pioneer work 
in cold storage development that had 
been started there. The first commer¬ 
cial cold storage in South Jersey was 
built by John Repp in Glassboro in 
1884, and consisted of a frame build¬ 
ing with a capacity of 4,400 baskets 
with ice stacked around the walls. 
Cooley Addresses the Meeting 
Mr. L. A. Cooley, secretary of the 
State Federation of County Boards of 
Agriculture, stressed the importance of 
legislation for farmer cooperation. He 
said the first cooperative marketing 
association for apples was started in 
Hammonton in 1867, and lasted twenty 
years. Since then the movement has 
grown until the Jersey Fruit Growers’ 
Cooperative Association has come as a 
result of the efforts of the horticultural 
society and the State federation. 
The veto of the new cooperative bill 
in New Jersey, which was in line with 
the Capper-Volstead Bill recently en¬ 
acted by Congress, should not dis¬ 
courage our farmers, but should im¬ 
press on them the importance of cor¬ 
recting the unwarranted assumption 
that the law is aimed to fix high prices 
or to ignore the law of supply and 
demand. 
Professor M. A. Blake, State hor¬ 
ticulturist, said that old varieties of 
fruit are giving place to new and bet¬ 
ter sorts. The small, green, early 
kinds are not as easy to sell now as 
formerly. Inferior apples likewise de¬ 
moralize the market price of apples 
of the better quality. The consumer 
is looking for fruit of a better qual¬ 
ity and the grower must meet this de¬ 
mand with better varieties. 
Professor A. J. Farley, State pomol- 
ogist, who developed the new dry- 
mixed sulphur lime as a substitute for 
self-boiled lime sulphur, said that the 
burning of fruit when dry-mix had 
been used was caused by sun scald 
rather than by the ingredients of the 
spray. In spraying experiments with 
peaches on Seabrook Farm, dusting had 
caused the least burning and a com¬ 
mercial sulphur spray the most burn¬ 
ing. Dusting gave good control of 
insects and fungus troubles on peaches 
and took less labor than spraying. 
Dr. T. J. Headlee, entomologist, re¬ 
ferring to the Japanese beetle, spoke 
optimistically of the results obtained in 
fighting it. Spraying with six pounds 
of lead arsenate to 100 gallons of water 
in combination with the dry-mix lime 
sulphur spray at the time of spraying 
for the second brood coddling moth 
will repel the beetles on apples.—H. H. 
Albertson. 
NEW JERSEY COUNTY NOTES 
Salem Co.—J. L., a farmer of this 
county, risked the cost of seed last 
spring and planted a couple of acres of 
Fordhook limas about a week earlier 
than usual, the third week in April. 
He now has the satisfaction of picking 
beans ahead of the season and getting 
a nice fat price, about $5 per bushel. 
Many farmers, though failing to raise 
a crop of early potatoes on account of 
the drought and heat, are planting 
many late potatoes, consisting of Red 
Skins, Superb, and Second Cobblers. The 
latter crop goes for seed. One of the 
farmers of this county who was so dis¬ 
appointed with prospects of farming 
the past few years, especially with ref¬ 
erence to the prices of farm products, 
such as potatoes, sweets and peppers, 
that he has allowed his nice fields to lie 
fallow, now works at the carpentering 
trade. Hay is scarce. The corn crop 
looks good.—S. B. 
Sussex Co.—The drought has had the 
farmers guessing. It is a problem of 
what we are going to do. The hay crop 
is drying up as well as pastures. Corn 
is feeling the drought. During the mid¬ 
dle of the day the leaves of the corn 
roll up and the crop seems as though 
it is practically dead. Last May farm¬ 
ers were out buying cows. To-day, 
owing to the drought, prices have 
dropped and several farmers are plan¬ 
ning to sell their cows. Two large cow 
sales were held on the first of August. 
Poultry demonstrations are being held 
by the county farm bureau in different 
places of Sussex County. These demon¬ 
strations have been very well attended. 
New potatoes are bringing $3 a bushel, 
eggs 30 cents a dozen. The weather is 
very hot and dry. The thermometer is 
standing at 90 in the shade.—O. Van H. 
Hunterdon Co.—Oats are being har¬ 
vested. The crop in general is very 
poor, very short, and light. Many 
farmers have cut their oats with a 
mower and harvested the crop for hay. 
The hay crop in turn was a decided 
failure. Farms that in the past have 
yielded two tons to the acre now yield 
only a ton on three or four acres. 
Early potatoes are a failure. The 
wheat crop is the best in many years, 
yielding thirty bushels per acre and in 
some cases more. Corn growth looked 
good, but the dry weather is .beginning 
to show its effects. Pastures on the 
upland are all dried up and since 
farmers have no hay to feed, they are 
feeding their oats to the cows. Some 
say that when their oats are gone 
they will begin to cut corn for the 
cows. There are many cows for sale 
but no buyers. There is also little or 
no sale for horses. One horse dealer 
who had two carloads shipped in last 
winter has thirty head now on hand. 
New wheat is starting at $1 a bushel. 
Corn, 85c; oats, 45 to 50c; potatoes, 
$2.30 to 2.50 per bushel; butter, 50c; 
eggs, 28 to 30c. Early apples are very 
poor and the demand is dull. Winter 
apples are almost a failure. The 
drought we are experiencing in this 
part of New Jersey is the worst since 
1876. Thrashers are charging 12c a 
bushel for wheat and rye. The wheat 
crop has cost the farmers this year 
$1.50 a bushel to raise it.—J. R. F. 
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA NOTES 
J. N. GLOVER 
Haying is a job of the past as far as 
this year is concerned. The quality 
of the hay this year was excellent, but 
the yield was comparatively light. 
New hay sold from $12 to $18 a load 
from the field and was in good de¬ 
mand with very little for sale. Wheat 
is all cut, stored, and in some cases 
thrashed. Yields are reported varying 
from twelve to twenty-five bushels per 
acre. New wheat is selling at 75 cents. 
Oats are being cut and will likely be 
light in weight as the weather has 
been too mild for the crop to fill well. 
Early potatoes are ready for digging; 
however, the crop is pretty light. 
Farmers still are hoping for rain in 
order that the late crop will not be a 
failure. 
Manure is being hauled out into the 
wheat stubble, but it is too dry to do 
good work ploughing. The stand of 
grass in wheat fields is poorest in 
thirty-five years. On account of this 
many farmers have sown clover in the 
hope that rain will come to make a 
stand of hay for next year. We have 
got to have rain soon if we are to get 
anything out of the corn crop. The 
price of beef and hogs, combined with 
dry weather, has caused several farm¬ 
ers to decide to hold a sale in the 
spring; but it is a long road that has 
no turns, and we hope farming may 
be better next year than this. 
