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American Agriculturist, September 1,1923 
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Among the Farmers 
The Vegetable Industry—New York County Notes 
T HE New York Can- By PAUL WORK etable exhibits in new 
ners’ Association re- and enlarged quarters 
alizes that the success of their busi¬ 
ness is dependent upon the prosperity 
of the crop growers and upon the 
quality of the raw products. Through 
a fund that the association has es¬ 
tablished, the New York State College 
of Agriculture is making a thorough 
survey of the industry, to discover the 
chief needs and to learn in what ways 
it can help. On July 18 to 20 a three 
day tour of the canning counties of 
western and central New York was 
staged. About fifteen took part, includ¬ 
ing canners, and representatives of the 
different departments at Cornell and 
Geneva. In this way the attention of 
the leaders in research was focused 
upon the canning problems and the 
way was prepared for a careful con¬ 
sideration of the data gathered in the 
survey. 
Here is a method that might well 
be commended to the attention of veg¬ 
etable growers in general. Will it 
be surprising if the canners succeed 
in gaining at least a part of the help 
that they need? The unfortunate 
feature is that the Canning Crop Grow¬ 
ers’ Association and the Canners have 
not been able to work together to .an 
extent that would enable them to make 
common cause of this movement which 
is unquestionably in the interest of 
both. 
Cabbage is Dry 
Drouth in Central New York is 
hindering the development of the cab¬ 
bage crop. Acreage is somewhat re¬ 
duced as well, and prospects at this 
early date seem to favor good prices. 
It is true that good rains after the 
date of this writing will be in ample 
time to greatly increase the yield. In¬ 
sects however are causing serious dam¬ 
age, aphids in particular. 
Bad Lettuce Deal 
The muckland lettuce deal in New 
York has been one of the worst in 
years. At no time since the beginning 
of the season have prices been satis¬ 
factory, although at this writing there 
is slight improvement. Acres have 
been plowed under. 
The lettuce crop is a gamble at best. 
The 1923 season will doubtless weed 
out numbers of marginal growers— 
the ones who are more interested in 
something else—the ones who are not 
willing to find and pay for the best 
seed, who do not give the crop the 
best of care and who do not study 
the markets as thoroughly as is pos¬ 
sible. Even the best of the growers 
are having a hard time. Perhaps out 
of the trials of ’23 will grow up some 
plan of orderly marketing—a thing 
that has been utterly lacking in the 
past and which is more needed in this 
field even than in most others. Robert 
Bier of the United States Department 
of Agriculture and F. 0. Underwood 
of the Department of Vegetable 
Gardening at Cornell have been in the 
field sounding out sentiment with re¬ 
gard to establishing United States 
standards for the crop. Four or five 
packing house associations in the lead¬ 
ing centers with a State-wide com¬ 
modity organization to handle distribu¬ 
tion would seem to be a possibility 
worthy of careful study on the part 
of the producers. 
New York Challenges Ohio 
T. H. Townsend, secretary of the 
New York State Vegetable Growers’ 
Association, has issued a challenge to 
the Ohio Vegetable Growers for a 
deadly combat to be settled in favor 
of the State bringing the largest dele¬ 
gation to the Buffalo meeting of the 
Vegetable Growers’ Association of 
America, September 17 to 20. Ohio 
has been a headliner in attendance at 
practically all previous meetings, even 
at Albany. Townsend thinks it is time 
for a showdown and he is out to rout 
the crowd from the whole Empire terri¬ 
tory. In the interest of a fair show, 
he has suggested that the Erie County 
delegation be not counted. 
Both the New York State Fair and 
the Rochester Exposition the former 
September 10-15, the latter, September 
3-8, are planning: to house the yeg- 
this fall. The interest in these shows 
as well as in the county fairs has 
been steadily increasing during the 
past few years. Growers are begin¬ 
ning to realize that they must have 
the best of varieties and strains if 
they are to meet the keen competition 
of the day, and there is no better place 
to compare types than on the exhibi¬ 
tion bench. The two big shows have 
already reached a high stage of use¬ 
fulness in this respect and the others 
are fast following. At Rochester and 
Syracuse one can not only see the 
prize winning samples, but he can com¬ 
pare the different strains of Davis 
Perfect and Danish Ballhead. There 
is also usually someone on hand who 
can tell where to get things and a few 
hours among the displays at either 
place—or both—is sure to be profitable. 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Essex Co.—The hay crop on most 
farms was good and was put in the 
barn in good shape. Early grains 
have turned out to be very satisfactory. 
Corn, late potatoes, gardens and pas¬ 
tures are suffering from the continued 
drought. Many brooks are dry and 
wells and cisterns are low. Red squir¬ 
rels have been a terrible pest all sum¬ 
mer. One of our neighbors killed 100 
on his place. They have been very 
destructive in granaries and have 
caused much damage to pears and ap* 
pies.—N. E. B. 
Rensselaer Co.—Farmers are well 
along with their harvesting. Oats are 
under cover awaiting the threshers. 
The hay crop was quite heavy and was 
harvested in good condition. Buck¬ 
wheat looks fine considering the time it 
was sown.. Pastures are greatly in need 
of rain with the result that cows are 
shrinking. Farmers are compelled to 
buy grain to even maintain the flow of 
milk.—C. H. W. 
Broome Co.—Our 53’d annual County 
Fair was held on August 14-18. One 
of the features of the Fair was a his¬ 
torical pageant which was held on one 
of the evenings. Haying is practically 
all done. Most farmers have their 
oats cut and under cover. We had an 
excellent rain that did buckwheat a 
great deal of good. All other crops 
look much better of late.—M rs. E. M. C. 
In Western New York 
Chautauqua Co.—F a r m e r s are 
through haying. If it were not that 
the weather had been so favorable, 
there is a question whether they would 
have finished in time to get in next 
year’s crop, due to the fact that help 
was so scarce. Farmers were never so 
handicapped for help during haying, in 
this neighborhood at least, as they were 
this year. The help they usually de¬ 
pend upon was either employed on the 
State road or in the neighboring cities. 
As a result, farmers had to get along 
the best way they knew. Two men that 
I know of in particular did a great deal 
of their haying alone, pitching hay 
both ways. No one can blame some 
farmers for throwing up the job and 
looking for an easier one where they can 
make more money. The drought, which 
started in May still continues. We have 
occasional showers but they are not 
enough to even settle the dust. We 
have had only one good soaking rain 
this summer and that was on the 28th 
of June. Crops show the effects of the 
dry weather. Buckwheat is almost an 
entire failure. Corn, oats potatoes and 
hay made only from 50-75 per cent of a 
crop. Many farmers have cut their 
oats for hay. Cows are drying up 
rapidly with the result that some dairy¬ 
men are feeding heavily of grain try¬ 
ing to keep up the milk flow. Dairy 
cattle are generally looking pretty thin 
for this time of the year.—A. J. N. 
Ontario Co.—Harvesting is practi* 
cally over. Some farmers still have 
their oats in the field. We have had 
little or no rain leaving the ground ex¬ 
tremely dry for fall plowing. Some 
farmers have finished their threshing. 
Grain turned out fairly well. Some 
early cabbage is being cut.—H. D. Si 
