American Agriculturist, August 25,1923 
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Pool Price For July Milk $2.08 
New York Fruit Growers Contract With Federated — New York County Notes 
T HE Dairymen’s League Co-Oper¬ 
ative Association, Inc., announces 
that the gross pool price for the month 
of July is $2.08. This is .08 greater 
than the pool price for June. From 
this gross pool price of $2.08 there will 
be deducted .09% for expenses of de¬ 
monstration and advertising, leaving a 
net pool price of $1.98%. From the 
net pool pi’ice, the Association has de¬ 
ducted 15 cents per 100 pounds, which 
is borrowed on the certificates of in¬ 
debtedness, leaving a cash pool price 
of $1.93%. 
The July price for 1923 is the highest 
July price realized since the pool was 
organized. The net pool price of 
$1.98% is 36% cents greater than the 
price realized in 1922 and 28% cents 
greater than the July price of 1921. 
Class 1 Up to 30 Cents August 16 
The League has also announced that 
the wholesale price to dealers buying 
milk in class 1 will be raised on August 
16, to $2.73 per 100, wTiich is an in¬ 
crease of 30 cents over the price set 
on August 1 of $2.43. The reasons for 
this advance are the conditions in the 
producing territory. Due to lack of 
rain, poor pasturage has resulted £nd 
the cows have not yielded a normal 
output. 
League Farmers Receive Certificates 
The League is mailing to its mem¬ 
bers certificates of indebtedness aggre¬ 
gating $4,622,579.76. This amount rep¬ 
resents loans by members to the Asso¬ 
ciation during the past fiscal year for 
the erection of milk plants, and as 
working capital. The certificates bear 
6 per cept interest and are payable in 
equal instalments each year for a 
period of 5 years. 
The rate of deductions from milk 
cheeks during the past fiscal year was 
$.13760654 per 100 pounds of milk as 
compared with a rate of $.16791134 per 
100 pounds for the fiscal year ending 
March 31, 1922, when the deductions 
amounted to $4,307,727.48. 
The decrease in the rate is accounted 
for in part by the fact that during the 
past fiscal year the Association mark¬ 
eted about one billion pounds more 
milk than it marketed during the pre¬ 
vious year, although the number of 
actual poolers was not as large as in 
1921 and 1922. 
Where the deductions * from the 
farmers’ milk check amount to less 
than a dollar, a check for the amount 
will be mailed instead of a certificate 
of indebtedness. 
FRUIT GROWERS’ CONTRACT 
WITH FEDERATED 
The finest fruit markets of the coun¬ 
try were made available to the prod¬ 
ucts of New York orchards recently 
when the Western New York Fruit 
Growers’ Cooperative Packing Associa¬ 
tion contracted for the sales service of 
the Federated Fruit and Vegetable 
Growers, Inc. The Western New York 
growers have had the advantage of a 
national market for some time; their 
contract with the Federated gives-them 
the added benefit of a grower owned 
and controlled sales service with sales¬ 
men in over two hundred markets. 
The Federated Fruit and Vegetable 
Growers, Inc., was organized early in 
January of this year by a national com¬ 
mittee of fruit and vegetable growers 
appointed some time ago by the Amer¬ 
ican Farm Bureau Federation to study 
fruit marketing. The committee took 
over the entire organization of the 
North American Fruit Exchange which 
had been operating in a private way 
as a national organization and trans¬ 
formed it into a grower owned and 
grower controlled cooperative associa¬ 
tion to operate at cost and without 
profit for the growers’ cooperatives 
which desire to use it. In this way the 
experience and judgment of a service 
Which has been in operation for more 
than ten years was secured. Since 
January growers’ organizations in 
almost every State in the Union have 
taken membership in the Federated, 
giving it a total volume or tonnage 
which will make it probably the largest 
and most influential distributor of 
fruits and vegetables in the country. 
Confidence in the Federated was 
voted by the Board of Representatives 
of the Western New York Association 
last January, but the matter of joining 
the Federated was left with the Board 
of Directors.' Since that time a com¬ 
mittee of the Board has made a 
thorough study and investigation of the 
Federated and at its last meeting 
voted to use its sales service. 
It is expected that about 3,000 cars 
of fruit from Western New York will 
be marketed through the Federated 
Fruit and Vegetable Growers, Inc. 
Last year the association sold 3,600 
cars of fruit for 800 members. Apples 
were shipped steadily from October 7, 
until the first week in May; the move¬ 
ment did not vary more than 10 cars 
from the shipment of 70 cars per week 
throughout the entire seven month’s 
period./ 1 
Other large growers’ associations 
which are members of the Federated 
include the Maine Potato Growers’ Ex¬ 
change, The California Mutual Orange 
Distributors, The Georgia Watermelon 
Association, The Mississippi Truck 
Growers’ Association, The New Jersey 
Fruit Growers’ Exchange and The 
Michigan Grape Association. Organ¬ 
ized fruit and vegetable growers 
throughout the country have made con¬ 
siderable progress during the past 
year in a co-ordinated movement to 
market their fruit along national 
commodity lines. 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Ontario Co.—July was a very hot 
and dry month. The temperature 
reached neai’ly 100 in the shade on 
many days. At present we are in 
need of a good rain. Beans, potatoes, 
and garden truck are suffering from 
the dry weather. Those farmers who 
are plowing for wheat find no moisture 
in the turned furrow slice. Barley and 
oats are being harvested at this time 
and are making a good crop. Corn 
is earing up nicely. Some farmers 
have sold mixed hay for $14 a ton. 
The weather is very hot and sultry.’— 
E. T. B. 
Wyoming Co.—Hay harvest is prac¬ 
tically over in this section. The crop 
was better than usual. Oats are not 
yielding as well, due to the dry weather. 
In fact, everything is greatly in need 
of rain. Potatoes and beans are fair. 
Potatoes are selling at $2; butter, 45e; 
good broilers bring 25c a pound; eggs, 
30 to 35c. Raspberries and black caps 
have been light through the season, 
bringing anywhere from 25 to 30c a 
quart.—L. M. F. 
Along the Southern Tier 
Haying is well advanced. Some 
meadows that have been well fed and 
cared for have produced record crops. 
Others have been light and weedy. The 
crop estimate has been placed con¬ 
servatively throughout this section at 
from seventy to seventy-five per cent 
or a normal yield. Good timothy hay 
brings around $20 on the Binghamton 
market. 
The oat crop is being harvested at 
present. Late rains have much im¬ 
proved this crop. Little threshing has 
been done so far. 
New seeding which had been some¬ 
what damaged by the prolonged dry 
weather has been helped wonderfully 
by the rains of July and August. Old 
meadows have started up, too, very 
nieely. 
Potatoes that were planted early will 
be low producers this year. The 
drought of May, June and the fore 
part of July greatly curtailed the crop. 
Late planted pieces bid fair to be bet¬ 
ter. There is about an average acreage 
in this locality. 
Many pastures which had been 
shortened by dry weather are coming 
OP better now, but the milk flow will 
not come back to normal this year. 
Some have disposed of their cows. 
Other dairies have been greatly de¬ 
pleted through the tuberculin testing 
which has been in progress here since 
the first of the year. Many herds have 
been practically wiped out by the, test. 
As yet, little disposition has been shown 
to replace extinguished dairies. The 
price of milk works against such a re¬ 
building of the dairy industry. 
The purchase by the Dairymen’s 
League of the Empire State Dairy 
plant at or near-Windsor is considered 
as a marked victory for the poolers. 
Other similar purchases are in con¬ 
templation. 
The retail price of milk advanced in 
Binghamton August first to 14 cents 
a quart, due in part to a similar ad¬ 
vance to producers. 
The interests of the G. L. F. Ex¬ 
change are being actively promoted in 
this part of the State.—E. L. V. 
WESTERN NEW YORK NOTES 
Fruit growers in Western New York 
are much interested in the activities 
of the International Apple Shippers’ 
Association in attempting to better the 
shipping conditions. Secretary R. G. 
Phillips, of Rochester, states that the 
discriminatory rates, unfair freight 
charges, excessive icing costs, perish¬ 
able protective tariffs, express floatage 
charges and a number of related sub¬ 
jects have' been placed before the In¬ 
terstate Commerce Commission and 
similar State bodies with intra-State 
jurisdiction. 
Hay Growers Adopt Federal Grades 
The Seneca County Hay Growers’ 
Association has adopted the grades and 
standards of grading recently es¬ 
tablished by the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. Heretofore, hay 
has been bought and sold according to 
grades established by dealers in the 
several States with no definite stand¬ 
ards as a basis. Each buyer or dealer 
of hay had his own standards and no 
one could tell definitely or even know 
just why hay should be called by the 
various standard numbers of grade. 
Fruit Growers’ Notes 
The Keuka Lake Grape Growers’ As¬ 
sociation has entered into an agree¬ 
ment with the American Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Pittsburgh branch, for the market¬ 
ing of the 1923 crop. The Penn Yan 
Fruit Growers’ Cooperative Associa¬ 
tion, Inc., composed of some of the 
largest growers in that section, is 
planning to erect a building on the 
property purchased near the Pennsyl¬ 
vania tracks in Penn Yan. Additional 
land will be leased from the railroad 
company and a switch installed. It was 
also recently announced from Penn 
Yan that the growers of Stanley, Flint 
and Hall would erect a cold storage 
plant at Flint with a capacity of 50,- 
000 barrels at a cost of over $150,000. 
Directors for the first year are: T. D. 
Whitney, E. W. Ferguson, Abram 
Post, John Hutchinson and Frank Carr.' 
Oswego Lettuce Crop Heavy 
Better prices for Oswego county 
lettuce is in prospect as a result of a 
new method of distribution through 
chain stores in New York. In over 
1,500 stores of one company the lettuce 
was introduced at a special price of 
three heads for ten cents. The chain 
store concern makes no profit at this 
figure, but the customers are urged to 
call for Oswego lettuce and a trade 
developed. Two carloads daily are 
being moved at this special price by 
this one concern. The second week the 
concern places the price at a figure 
which will show some profit from the 
venture, after a demand has been fully 
established. 
Ail in all the lettuce growers have 
had a poor season with both weather 
and over production conspiring against 
them. In a number of instances the 
growers have only received fyom 25 to 
75 cents a crate for their product, a 
price that does not cover the cost of 
crates and fertilizer. From the Fulton 
district the forwardings often ran as 
high as 20 to 25 carloads daily. Some 
growers are about at the point of 
turning the crop under the soil for 
its fertilizer value. Of the two varie¬ 
ties, Romaine and Boston head, the 
Romaine has in most instances sold for 
more money than the other. 
