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American Agriculturist, August 18,1023 
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T HE Empire State Federation of 
Beekeepers’ Association held its an¬ 
nual summer meeting and picnic on 
Friday, August 3, at the home of Mr. 
F. W. Millier, Mottville, Onondaga 
County. It was a real old-fashioned 
get-together for beekeepers, their fam¬ 
ilies and friends. In spite of the warm 
weather about 400 people were there 
from all over New York State, some 
from Pennsylvania, and a few from 
other States. 
There was a feeling of optimism 
among the honey producers as to the 
crop and market outlook for this year. 
New York State promises to have an 
exceptionally good crop of honey, 
whereas practically all other parts of 
the country are reported to be very 
short. The quality of the New York 
honey, of which many beekeepers 
brought samples, is so far excellent. 
The most interesting feature of this 
summer meeting was the contest ar¬ 
ranged by Mr. R. B. Wilson, Extension 
Specialist in Apiculture of the State 
College of Agricul¬ 
ture at Cornell. 
Mr. Wilson, who 
has succeeded 
George H. Rea in 
that position, has 
been the first to in¬ 
troduce these con¬ 
tests at beekeep¬ 
ers’ meetings in 
New York State 
and they have 
proven very in¬ 
structive. The con¬ 
test in the use of 
smokers was won 
by Roger Lane, 
Trumansburg, N. 
Y. All those en¬ 
tering the contest 
were required to 
place their fuel, 
matches, and 
smokers on the 
ground and to 
start at a given 
signal to light the 
fuel to prepare the 
smokers. The win¬ 
ner was the one who had the largest 
volume of cool smoke at the end of 
half an hour. Mr. Lane used burlap 
dipped in saltpeter solution as fuel. 
Mr. Brownie Coggshall of Groton, N. 
Y., won the first prize for skill in han¬ 
dling bees. Mr. Harry Beaver of Troy, 
Pa., won the first prize for the best 
five-pound honey container with his 
own lithographed pail. The contest 
for the best labor-saving device for 
use of beekeepers was won by F. W. 
Millier, Mottville, N. Y., for a special¬ 
ly constructed knife for the cleaning 
of sections. Mr. Millier also won the 
first prize for the best comb drawn out 
from a sheet of Dadants foundation. 
The prizes awarded to the winners of 
these contests were donated by bee¬ 
keepers’ supply houses and others in¬ 
terested in the honey industry. 
The program included addresses by 
the following: J. B. Howe, Sacketts 
Harbor, N. Y., president of the Fed¬ 
eration; George H. Rea, service rep¬ 
resentative of the A. I. Root Company, 
Medina, Ohio; Kenneth Hawkins of G. 
B. Lewis Bee Supply Company, Water- 
town, Wis.; R. B. Wilson, State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture; W. J. Birdsall, 
New York State Department of Farms 
and Markets. S. B. House of Camillus, 
N. Y., made a report for the Commit¬ 
tee on market conditions and prices. 
For several years the beekeepers’ 
cooperative associations of New York 
State have been discussing the. possi¬ 
bilities of cooperative marketing of 
their honey and last year the Empire 
State Honey Marketing Cooperative 
Association was formed for this pur¬ 
pose. So far, however, the orig¬ 
inal plan has not been put into op¬ 
eration, but there was a great deal 
of discussion of the subject at the 
State Picnic. Mr. Birdsall of the De¬ 
partment of Farms and Markets, out- 
l'ned clearly to the beekeepers the pro¬ 
cedure that they could follow in put¬ 
ting their marketing organization into 
working order and it was. a general 
consensus of opinion that this would be 
a generally good year to start with 
some kind of pooling of surplus honey 
for wholesale sales. Any such pooling 
plan should, in the opinion of most 
of those who discussed the subject at 
the picnic, allow for local consumption. 
The opportunity offered the bee¬ 
keepers to advertise New York State 
honey through exhibit at the Eastern 
Apple Exposition and Fruit Show was 
pointed out by Mr. R. B. Wilson. Un¬ 
der the direction of Mr. Wilson, the 
Federation is planning to put on the 
largest and most instructive honey ex¬ 
hibit ever shown in New York State 
at this exposition to be held at the 
Grand Central Palace, New York City, 
November 3 to 10. 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Schenectady Co.—The dry weather 
has affected all crops, probably oats 
more than any other. Potatoes are 
very much in need of rain. Rye is a 
good crop. The hay fcrop is about 80 
Beekeepers inspecting the home apiary of F. W. Millier, Mottville, 
Onondaga County, N. Y. 
per cent normal. New seedings are 
better than old meadows. Much hay 
will not be good on account of short¬ 
age of help. Many meadows will be 
pastured. Not a great deal of buck¬ 
wheat was sown this year. Corn acre¬ 
age is about normal.—S. W. C. 
In Western New York 
Allegheny Co.—Farmers are harvest¬ 
ing wheat, which made a very good 
crop in this section this year. Oats 
are also good. Hay made a good aver¬ 
age crop. Most farmers are finished 
with hay harvest. There is a large 
crop of beans this year which looks 
fairly well. There were not as many 
potatoes planted as usual, but they are 
looking very good. The dairy farmers 
are doing well in this section this year. 
Most of them are selling their milk 
through the Dairymen’s League. The 
League has put up a big plant here, 
which markets all the farmers’ milk. 
It is hauled to the factory on motor 
trucks. Help is very scarce and wages 
are high, much higher than farmers 
can afford to pay. There will be a 
small crop put in next year, according 
to what farmers are planning now.— 
F. E. B. 
Genesee Co.—Since writing my last 
letter we have had two severe thunder¬ 
storms; one was accompanied by some 
hail which did some damage. We also 
had one heavy windstorm. Wheat is 
mostly all cut and barley is about 
ready. With wheat at 90c a bushel, the 
farmers are surely up against it, espe¬ 
cially when they have to pay $5 a 
day for help. Hay made a good crop 
this year and oats are also looking good. 
The fruit in Genesee County is little 
over half a crop this year. Apples, 
all varieties, run about 55 per cent; 
pears, 45 per cent; peaches, 60 per cent. 
Butter is bringing 50c per pound, eggs 
28c a dozen.—J. C. 
Erie Co.—Farmers are all busy hay¬ 
ing, which made a good crop. Corn 
is doing well. Winter wheat made a 
light crop. Many farmers are leaving 
their farms and working in Buffalo. 
Farming is not paying in this section 
as products find little sale at any price 
at all. Furthermore, help is very 
scarce. Eggs are 25c; butter, 50c. 
Ontario Co.—We are having fine har¬ 
vesting in this section. All crops look 
well. Some corn is small, but is coming 
on well. Most of the wheat is in the 
barn, oats are almost ripe. Some bar¬ 
ley cut and a lot of cabbage planted. 
Most all looking well.—H. D. S. 
In Central New York 
Broome Co.—The drought, which has 
been the most severe in years, was 
broken recently by an all-night rain. 
Crops have been suffering severely on 
account of the dry weather and con¬ 
sequently are not up to normal. Pota¬ 
toes are scarce. New potatoes have 
been growing very slowly. Garden 
truck and fruit of all kinds are finding 
a ready market in Binghamton and 
Johnson City. Very few early chicks 
were hatched this year. The price of 
eggs is steadily advancing and many 
predict that eggs 
will be the highest 
for this fall and 
winter. Some oats 
which were sown 
early are ready to 
cut. Prices at 
Johnson City mar¬ 
ket are as follows: 
Eggs, 33c; butter, 
44c; live broilers, 
40c; fowls, 30c; 
potatoes, 60c a 
peck; peas, 8 to 12c 
a quart. Several 
farmers have been 
selling day-old 
ducks on the John¬ 
son City market 
for 30c each.— 
Mrs. E. M. C. 
Tioga Co.—Far¬ 
mers are very busy 
getting in hay and 
harvesting wheat. 
The yield of hay 
is not up to nor¬ 
mal as the season 
was late and also 
very dry. V^e have had occasional 
showers, but none were sufficient to 
soak the soil for any length of time. 
On dirt roads the dust is dreadful when 
automobiles pass. During the past 
week or two, corn and other crops have 
grown amazingly as we have had all 
those heavy rains on the 21st and 22nd. 
Even then there was not enough. Many 
farmers in the neighborhood are seri¬ 
ously handicapped through lack ol 
water, both for home use and for stock. 
Cherries, currants and gooseberries 
were abundant this year. However, 
raspberries suffered on account of the 
dry weather. Apples and pears prom¬ 
ise a short crop, but peaches are fairly 
heavy. Peaches are dropping rapidly 
now, so we cannot tell what the out¬ 
come will be. Prices of farm products 
remain exceedingly low, while those 
things the farmer has to purchase seem 
to soar sky-high in price.—D. B. 
- Cortland Co.—Most farmers have 
finished haying in spite of the extreme 
shortage of labor. Hay made a fairly 
good crop in this county this year. Cab¬ 
bage and corn are doing well, but need 
considerably more rain. The weather 
has been too dry for oats, leaving the 
crop short in straw. The crop will be 
light. Oats harvest will begin earlier 
than usual, due to the fact that . the 
dry weather has matured them rapidly. 
Potatoes are growing very slowly, due 
to the dry weather.—G. A. B. 
During the excessive heat period. of 
weather many horses die from being 
overheated. A good plan that I have 
followed for a number of years is to 
wash the horses when coming in from 
work. The water should not be too 
cold, just a bit warm. This, can be used 
with a good sized sponge in removing 
dirt, sweat and gum from the horse’s 
body. Many a horse’s life has been saved 
by this simple treatment, and requires 
but very little time. Ground oats are a 
much cooler feed in summer than corn, 
and makes the horse strong and vigor¬ 
ous.— Peter Wiley, Jr. 
