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CONTAGIOUS ABORTION 
Describes cause, effects and treat¬ 
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of U. 8. are stopping the ravages 
of this costly malady. 
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Money back if not satisfactory 
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cost 
NEWTON’S 
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: Horses, Cattle and Hogs. 
Heaves, Coughs, Distemper, 
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BERRY AND FLOWER PLANTS 
CTD A U/R17BBV Plants for August and fall planting. 
01 iirYYVDCslvlX 1 Pot-grown and runner plants that 
will bear fruit next summer. Raspberry, Blackberry. 
Gooseberry, Currant, Grape, Asparagus, Rhubarb plants; 
Delphinium. Hollyhock, Columbine, Gaillardia, Poppy, 
Phlox and other Hardy Perennial flower plants; Roses, 
Shrubs; for fall planting. Catalogue Free , 
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FRUIT TREES 
SHRUBS 
and Roses 
atreduced prices 
SHIPPED C. O. D. PREPAID 
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Pomona United Nurseries 
2 Tree Avenue. DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
KITSELMAN FENCE 
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News From Among New York’s Farmers 
Hudson Valley Fruit Growers To Market Cooperatively—County Notes 
T HE Hudson Valley Fruit Growers’ 
Cooperative Association, which is a 
federation of local grower-owned pack¬ 
ing houses in the Hudson River Valley, 
started on its first season of cooperative 
marketing last week. This federation 
was organized and incorporated about a 
year ago, with the object of ultimately 
spreading the fame of Hudson Valley 
fruits through use of modern methods 
of grading, packing and marketing. 
Included in the central association are 
the local cooperative packing associa¬ 
tions at Claverack, Coxsackie, Ulster 
Park, Germantown, Red Hook and 
Ravena. The packing of the fruit will 
all be under central supervision. The 
Herschel Jones Marketing Service has 
been engaged to take over the sales 
management and distribution. All the 
fruit of a given variety and grade will 
be pooled from all the locals. 
The business of the central associa¬ 
tion will be conducted by a board made 
up of one representative of each local 
association. The officers are President, 
Clifford L. Miller, Claverack, New 
York; Secretary, K. B. Lewis, Red 
Hook, New York; and Treasurer, R. R. 
Livingston, Germantown, New York. 
NORTHERN NEW YORK NOTES 
The drought that has held Jefferson 
County ever since spring’s work, was 
broken by a two hours’ rain during the 
latter part of August. It will help 
some late potatoes, a few pieces of 
corn, and new seeding, and, most of 
all, the pastures. 
This has been the most disastrous 
drought from the point of view of the 
dairy farmer that has occurred in the 
memory of old farmers. Only a small 
percentage of silos will be filled this 
fall. Many farmers have turned the 
cows into the cornfields as the corn is 
too short to harvest and would give lit¬ 
tle tonnage if left. Potatoes will be a 
small crop for the most part, both in 
numbers and in size. Buckwheat is 
short and the rain is too late to do 
much good. 
Hay Crop a Redeeming Factor 
The good hay crop, which was, per¬ 
haps, just a trifle over normal in ton¬ 
nage and contained much clover, has 
been a redeeming feature and will help 
the fodder problem of the coming win¬ 
ter. Many farmers have been feeding 
hay during the latter part of July and 
the month of August. Hay buyers are 
out after the new crop and are prepar¬ 
ing to fill storehouses. But few sales 
have been reported at over $12, and 
from that range down to $10. Most 
are holding—both for higher prices and 
because they do not know how much 
they will need to winter through their 
stock. 
Oats Better than Expected 
Oats have filled better than was ap¬ 
parent the end of July. The straw is 
short and the yield will be around 50 
to 60 per cent, but much of the grain 
fairly heavy. Spring wheat has made 
a good crop, as has most of the bar¬ 
ley. Mixed grain is turning out well, 
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STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK 
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considering the moisture conditions, 
and is leading those who have grown 
clear oats for feeding to thinking of 
mixed grain. 
Moisture conditions in St. Lawrence 
and Lewis Counties have been some¬ 
what better in most parts, which re¬ 
sulted in a larger hay crop than nor¬ 
mal and of much better quality. Corn 
is much below normal. Grain crops 
are much the same all through this 
part of New York. 
League Purchases Five Plants 
The purchase of five plants on the 
New York Central Railroad by the 
Dairymen’s League has created much 
interest. They were formerly owned 
by the E. W. Coon Cheese Co., and are 
equipped both for shipping market milk 
and for making cheese. As the farm¬ 
ers are already complying with the 
Board of Health requirements, it is be¬ 
lieved that the buy is most advantage¬ 
ous. Brownville, Chaumont, Rosiere, 
Clayton, and La Fargeville plants were 
taken over. 
Threshing Fires Alarming 
Threshing machine fires have already 
started. Last year a number of the$e 
around the north country led to many 
conjectures as to the cause. In many 
cases the straw catches fire—apparent¬ 
ly all at once, and in a few minutes 
the whole barn is gone. As practically 
all the fires were started while the 
threshing was being done by gasoline- 
driven motors, and always in the 
straw, it seems that there is some sort 
of spontaneous combustion caused 
while the straw is being driven through 
the blower pipe. The number of these 
fires last season caused an extra as¬ 
sessment by the Patrons’ Fire Relief 
Association, which insures many of 
the North Country farm buildings.— 
W. L. R. _ 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Jefferson Co.—The first heavy rain 
in two months is falling to-day (Au¬ 
gust 21), and it is music to the farm¬ 
ers’ ears. Cows have been on grain 
rations for some time and their milk 
flow is continually shrinking. Corn 
was at a standstill, and new seedlings, 
which had a good start, began to look 
like a failure. Early potatoes are 
being dug. In some places they are 
very good, while in others they are 
very small. Growers think, however, 
that this rain will help the late crop. 
July milk in the F. X. Vaumart 
brought $2.10 for 3 per cent milk. But¬ 
ter is 50c a pound; eggs, 30 to 40c; 
fowls, 20 a pound, live weight; 30c 
dressed; veal, 1114 to 13c. Hay buy¬ 
ers are beginning to press new hay and 
are offering men $10 to $13 a ton, but 
farmers are holding off as there is a 
lot of good hay in this locality and 
they want more money for it. The 
grain crops were very good this year. 
—Mrs. C. J. D. 
Sullivan Co.—The weather has been 
very cold. The berry crop has been 
a failure. Apples, peaches, and plums 
won’t do much better. The extremely 
dry weather has been responsible. 
Gardens are not up to normal. The 
summer boarder business this year has 
been very poor. Butter, 45c; eggs, 
40c.—C. P. M. 
Chautauqua Co.—The spell of dry 
weather that we have been experiencing 
is the longest in many years. As a 
result, the potato crop will be short. 
Buckwheat stood absolutely still for 
weeks. We have had a few showers, 
but the rainfall was not enough to give 
much relief. As a result of this dry 
spell, many farmers are very short of 
water for their live stock.—P. S. S. 
but in late years have usally bought i 
only trees he has grown for us—trees 
worked with scions or buds provided 
by us. This is no little extra trouble 
for the nurseryman, but we are glad to 
pay for this extra service, and I be¬ 
lieve that between the lines above you 
can read our reasons for doing this. 
We also sometimes set a block of 
apple trees to all extra one year North¬ 
ern Spy whips to he top-worked one or 
two years later from our own bearing 
trees, and this too, is an excellent way. 
There is nothing to beat a Spy body 
for hardiness and thrift whereas we are 
too far South to properly grow the 
fruit of this wonderful apple. 
In a less degree all of the above is 
true when buying other tree fruits 
than apples, while caution is even more 
vital in wholesale purchase of such 
small fruits as raspberry, strawberry 
and the shrub fruits, especially in re¬ 
gard to diseases. Particularly with the 
strawberry plant market is there a 
wide variety of standards of honesty, 
and in consequence, many commercial 
fields are too badly mixed to replant 
from, even upon the same place, for 
uniformity is exactly as desirable in 
packing this delectable fruit as in box¬ 
ing apples. It pays. 
And finally, given an entirely honest- 
to-name berry plant, there is still the 
grave question of that plant’s vigor 
and fecundity—for herein, poorly se¬ 
lected plants, from the same field may 
vary 1,000 per cent—but that is another 
story. 
Nature Abhors a Vacancy 
{Continued from page 171) 
the best orchard stock, knowing that 
that acre will soon be worth one thou¬ 
sand dollars—or nothing if a whole¬ 
sale mistake has been made? 
In conclusion: In anticipation of the 
reader’s question upon the point, we 
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Plant Trees This Fall— 
Save Time Next Spring 
Trees planted this Fall form new root contacts 
with the soil before Winter sets in. They 
start to grow with the first warm days of 
Spring. We have a big block of Peach T rees 
ready for immediate shipment. Also a fine 
lot of one-year-old Apple Trees, just right for 
orchard planting. Pear and Cherry Trees in 
standard varieties. 
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from us. Get your planting done this Fall. 
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NURSERY 
Box 15 
YALESVILLE, CONN. 
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