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Vegetable Growers to Meet at Buffalo 
National Association Meeting an Opportunity to Eastern Vegetable Growers 
J UDGING from past experience, the 
forthcoming meeting of the Vegetable 
Growers’ Association of America, which 
will be held at the Hotel Statler, Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., September 17-20, will find 
market gardeners, greenhouse men, and 
truckers in attendance from twenty-five 
to thirty of the States of the Union. 
The men who attend such meetings are 
the top-notchers 
of the industry— 
the growers who 
are up-to-date and 
successful — the 
ones to whom the 
rank and file look 
for leadership. 
To have such a 
national gather¬ 
ing within easy 
reach of all the 
eastern garden 
centers is a real 
privilege. 
The program 
for this year is 
without question 
the best on rec¬ 
ord, centering as it does about a few 
great subjects of interest to all, and 
enlisting some of the strongest leaders 
of the country. The head-line topics 
are as follows: 
The Program 
Tuesday morning—Good Seed, with 
A. B. Clark, President of the Ameri¬ 
can Seed Trade Association, to present 
the seedman’s side and several grow¬ 
ers to tell of their needs. R. H. Garra- 
han of Kingston, Pa., will discuss the 
seed problem of the commercial veg¬ 
etable grower. 
Tuesday afternoon—Types, varieties 
and strains, with George Starr, seed 
grower leading the discussion. Dr. J. 
C. Walker of the Bureau of Plant In¬ 
dustry will have for his subject, “Seed 
Treatment as Crop Insurance.” 
Wednesday—tour of vegetable grow¬ 
ing sections about Buffalo. This is of 
special interest because Erie County is 
meeting modern conditions by using 
more land, more machinery, more fer¬ 
tilizer and more green crops. The lat¬ 
ter part of the afternoon is to be given 
over to a demonstration of labor-sav¬ 
ing devices at which at least ten makes 
of garden tractors are expected, as 
well as vegetable washers, tiers, and 
other helps for these days of labor 
shortage. 
Thursday forenoon is to be devoted 
largely to Association business—par¬ 
ticularly to the development of adver¬ 
tising plans which have already been 
nicely started, and the perfecting of 
plans for affiliation of State and local 
associations in the national. 
Sapiro Speaks on the 20th 
Thursday afternoon will be the ses¬ 
sion of outstanding interest of the 
week. Aaron Sapiro, best known of 
authorities on cooperation, is to lead 
the discussion of marketing, while 
others will take up the details of both 
distant and local selling. 
Cooperation for distant marketing— 
“What the Southern Produce Co. has 
done and how”—is the subject of C. W. 
Banks,, Manager of the Southern Pro¬ 
duce Co., Norfolk, Va. This is the co¬ 
operation that handles the Norfolk 
products. 
Cooperation for local marketing— 
“What the Providence Market Garden¬ 
ers’ Association has done and how”— 
by E. J. Locke, Manager, Providence, 
R. I. 
Thursday p. m. Policies of the 
American Farm Bureau P'ederation, 
President, O. E. Bradfute, Chicago, Ill. 
The session adjourns Thursday even¬ 
ing, but provision is being made for 
several tours among garden sections 
during Friday. One party will visit the 
Irondequoit greenhouse and garden dis¬ 
trict near Rochester, another will 
take in the mueklands at Elba, and 
a third will make stops along the 
South Shore grape, berry, and canning- 
belt from Buffalo to Dunkirk. Other 
parties will be arranged as there is 
demand. 
The general public is not to he neg¬ 
lected at Buffalo. On Tuesday even¬ 
ing there is to be a popular program* on 
the food value of vegetables. Garden¬ 
ers will be there to learn the points that# 
By PAUL WORK 
the public should learn about the things 
we produce. Bob Adams, gardener and 
rhymester, is to open the evening. Dr. R. 
A. Dutcher of Penn State, a student of 
the vitamins and other nutrition ques¬ 
tions, will explain why vegetables are 
needed in the diet and just what they 
have to offer. Miss Flora Thurston, 
of Cornell will then point out some of 
the delicious, but often neglected pos¬ 
sibilities in the preparation and serv¬ 
ing of vegetable foods. 
' Judging Tourney a Feature 
Another new feature at Buffalo will 
be a vegetable judging tourney on 
Tuesday afternoon. It is to begin with 
a formal judging match, open to gar¬ 
deners and students under twenty-eight, 
for which L. H. Vaughan of Chicago, 
has offered a pair of beautiful medals, 
specially designed for the occasion. 
Afterward score cards will be fur¬ 
nished all who wish to try a hand and 
later the correct answers, as deter¬ 
mined by a board of judges, will be 
announced. The contest is to cover 
eight classes of four to six plates each, 
and some fifty specimens to identify. 
This feature is expected to mark the 
beginning of a movement which will do 
much to bring about uniform judging 
standards among the hundreds of 
shows and fairs in the country. 
Already reports of touring parties 
for Buffalo are coming in. It is hard 
to find a good time for a meeting when 
crops are growing, but mid-September 
seems to fit best of all, coming after 
the heavy rush of August and before 
cleaning up and storing for fall. Ohio 
and New York will likely send the 
largest delegations, but New Jersey 
has promised twelve motor loads at 
least. Buffalo is at the gateway be¬ 
tween East and West, for rail, boat 
and highway, and the officers are figur¬ 
ing on not less than a thousand. 
Hotel accommodations in Buffalo are 
of the best. The Statler is brand new 
and as good as is, with moderate rates 
besides. Then there is the Ford, with 
700 rooms in a modern fireproof build¬ 
ing and at somewhat lower rates, be¬ 
side the dozens of others, all of them 
ready to do their share. 
LAWS PERTAINING TO KEEPING 
ROADSIDES CLEAN 
American Agriculturist has repeated¬ 
ly had some inquiries as to the laws 
in different States requiring the cut¬ 
ting of weeds and brush along high¬ 
ways. We have obtained the facts 
from the different State Departments 
of Agriculture, which are as follows: 
Secretary Alva Agee of the New Jersey 
Department of Agriculture writes: 
“The law provides that it shall be the 
duty of the overseers of the highways 
of the several townships of this State 
to remove or cause to be removed, dur¬ 
ing the months of August and Septem¬ 
ber of each year, the briars, thistles, 
and weeds growing on the highways 
of their respective districts, and to 
clear out and open all gutters, drains 
and ditches along or across said roads 
within their respective limits and di¬ 
visions, or so much thereof each year 
as may be determined upon by the 
legal voters of their respective dis¬ 
tricts at the annual road meeting.” 
In Pennsylvania, there is no law re¬ 
quiring the cutting of brush and weeds 
along public highways. There is a law, 
however, on the Canada Thistle which 
has been amended so as to include 
Chickory. It provides that the owners 
of land where Canada Thistle or 
Chickory is growing so as to become a 
nuisance can be compelled to eradicate 
these weeds or to pay for officers who 
dd the work. 
In New York State, there is a rather 
radical law in regard to the keeping of 
the highways clear of brush and weeds. 
A portion of this law reads as follows: 
“It shall be the duty of the owner or 
occupant of lands situated along the 
highway to cut and remove the noxious 
weeds growing within the bounds of 
the highway, fronting such lands, at 
least twice in each year, once in the 
month of June, and once in the month 
of August. It shall be the duty of 
such owner or occupant to cut and 
remove all brush and briars growing 
within the bounds of the highway, 
fronting such lands, once in the month 
of August in each year. 
The law provides that if the owner 
of the land neglects to keep the high¬ 
ways clear himself, officers of the law 
may do it and charge the expense to 
the land owner. 
There are farms cut up to such an 
extent with roads running through 
them that the work of removing weeds 
and briars each year is a considerable 
factor. • This is especially true when 
labor is. so scarce. 
COMBATING BEAN WEEVILS 
AND SQUASH BUGS 
Can you tell me what causes soy beans 
to become infested with little brown bugs? 
The bugs are on the inside of the beans. How 
can they be combatted?—E. H. S., Pennsylvania. 
Beans when stored in a warm place 
often become infested with the com¬ 
mon bean weevil. This insect attacks 
beans in the field during the summer 
and in the fall follows the dried beans 
to the house and attacks them in stor¬ 
age. The weevil lays its tiny eggs on 
the beans, where they hatch and the 
small white grub knaws its way into 
the bean and lives there until it be¬ 
comes grown. The grubs devour near¬ 
ly all of the contents of the beans and 
when grown change to the weevils, each 
one of which emerges from the bean 
through a small round hole. 
The weevils can usually be kept away 
from the beans if the latter are placed 
at once when thrashed in tight jars 
or tins with very tightly fitting covers. 
If the beans are left in bags or loose 
containers they will have to be fumi¬ 
gated once* in a while with carbon bisul¬ 
phide. In this event the beans should 
be placed in a tight box and a half 
teacupful of carbon bisulphide to each 
bushel should be poured on the seeds. 
The box should then be covered over 
the top with several old blankets to 
make it tight and to hold the fumes in. 
The beans should be allowed to stand 
three or four days to give time for the 
gas to do its work. Carbon bisulphide 
is inflammable and explosive and no 
light or fir.e of any kind should be 
brought near the box while fumigation 
is going on. Matches, lighted candles, 
lanterns, lamps, pipes, cigars, and simi¬ 
lar agencies of fire should never be 
brought near carbon bisulphide. 
CONTROLLING THE ROSE CHAFER 
An insect, that is a new one to us, is at¬ 
tacking our grapes. It seems to sting the 
fruit.—J. J. A., New York.' 
In view of the fact that you have not 
described the insect that is attacking 
your grape vines it is quite impossible 
to absolutely identify it and recommend 
a remedy. Undoubtedly, however, it is 
the common rose chafer. You can 
verify this by closely examining one of 
the insects and comparing it to the de¬ 
scription that we give here. 
The rose chafer is about the size of 
a lightning bug. It has spreading, 
scrawny legs that seem to be very 
sharp and angular. The wing coats 
are striped black and yellow. It is a 
very slow-flying insect. They give 
one a most miserable sensation when 
they alight on the arm or neck. They 
are commonly found in rose blooms. 
It is quite useless ‘to try to combat 
this insect with an ordinary applica¬ 
tion of Paris green or arsenate of 
lead. This is due to the fact that the 
insect is particularly resistent to ordi¬ 
nary poisons. Contact sprays such as 
tobacco dust, nicotine sulphate, have 
no effect upon it. Some growers have 
been successful by adding molasses or 
sugar to the arsenate of lead, which 
sweet.ens the poisons and induces the 
insect to consume such a great deal 
of the spray that it often has the de¬ 
sired effect. 
One of the best remedies that we 
have ever seen, at least in a small vine¬ 
yard, is to cover it with netting so at 
least the upper half of the arbor is 
covered. It is the peculiar habit of 
the insect to fly down upon the grape 
vines rather than to approach them 
from below. Obviously this is imprac¬ 
tical where arbors are extensive. 
