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American Agriculturist, September 22,1923 
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League Net Pool Price $2,085 
What New York Farmers Are Doing and Thinking—Price Prospects Good 
T HE Dairymen’s League Cooperative 
Association announces that the gross 
pool for August is $2.. 18. From this 
gross price there will be deducted 
$0.095 for expenses, leaving a net price 
of $2,085. From this price the Asso¬ 
ciation will borrow 10 cents a hundred 
on the certificate of indebtedness plan, 
leaving a cash price to farmers for 
August milk of $1,985. 
The organization is making satisfac¬ 
tory progress in marketing milk from 
its own plants in the higher classes. 
On September 15 the Association an¬ 
nounced increases of 15 cents to 25 cents 
per case on all Dairylea Evaporated 
Milk. 
Ice cream sales of the Association 
totaled $172,626.47 for July as against 
$137,549.16 for July a year ago. 
“NORTH COUNTRY” NOTES 
The fair season is in full swing. The 
effect of the dry weather is clearly 
seen in the exhibits of garden stuff 
and fruit. Many of the cattle show 
poorer condition than on many years 
too. The poor pasturage is probably 
to blame for much of this. 
Jefferson County has the largest reg¬ 
istration of Junior Project workers of 
any county in New York State. A. H. 
Adams, the club leader is a hustler and 
well liked. He has just finished hold¬ 
ing nineteen community fairs for 
juniors, and the best exhibits from each 
commuity are competing at the county 
fair this week for the county prizes. 
Many of the young farmers have beaten 
their parents in the vegetables, poultry, 
' or calves that have grown. 
The National Dairy Show is receiv¬ 
ing a good deal of interest and many 
are planning to attend. As so many 
prefer to drive their cars, it is still un¬ 
decided as to whether a special train 
will be run. The County Confinittee with 
B. L. Johnson, County Pomona Master 
as chairman, is pushing hard toward 
a large delegation. 
The Farm Bureau is doing all that 
it can to help the poultry owners help 
themselves in staying in the poultry 
business during the time of rather de¬ 
pressed prices that seems to be in store. 
A series of culling demonstrations, fol¬ 
lowed by a paid culler have covered 
most communities of Jefferson County, 
as well as St. Lawrence and Lewis. 
Most efficient methods of feeding have 
received attention and discussion at the 
same time. 
Feeling toward the Dairymen’s 
League seems to be changing some¬ 
what as the season wears away. The 
appointment of Director J. A. Coulter 
of Woodville to the Executive Com¬ 
mittee has had no small part in this 
change, as Mr. Coulter is held in the 
highest regard by poolers and non¬ 
poolers alike, and has already had a 
part in solving some problems peculiar 
to the north country. 
Hard times financially is having its 
effect on the farm organizations up this 
way. Membership in the farm bureaus 
is much reduced this year as are the 
Granges. Reports given at the Jeffer¬ 
son Pomona Grange last week showed a 
falling off of membership in most of the 
locals. One or two showed an increase 
as a result of an intensive campaign. 
The drought has hit the seed in¬ 
dustry here. Peas were a fair crop, 
but did not fill out and the peas are 
small. Beans stood the dry weather 
better than some crops, but many of 
the pods have but one or two mature 
beans in. The canning factory peas 
were a good crop, but the corn is almost 
a failure. 
Retail price of milk in Watertown 
advanced to 13 cents on September 1, 
and Grade A milk reached 16 cents. Eggs 
are bringing 40 to 45 cents.—W. I. R. 
ALONG THE SOUTHERN TIER 
The new public market at Bingham¬ 
ton is now open for business and con¬ 
sumers of the city are more and more 
learning the advantage of buying direct 
from the farm. Both open-shed and 
inclosed booths are provided for farmer 
patrons. 
Although pastures have been short¬ 
ened up for good this fall, the recent 
rains have freshened them materially. 
Some farmers, however, are feeding 
their cows quite as they would in winter. 
Up to the second week in September 
no killing frosts have visited this sec¬ 
tion. 
A large barn on the farm of L. J. 
Emerson, in Maine Township of Broome 
County, was burned recently. A large 
amount of hay and many valuable tools 
were lost. Most of the hay was cut in 
1922, and the origin of the fire is un¬ 
known. A small insurance had been 
carried on the property. 
A stretch of highway about a mile 
n length is being improved from a point 
a mile north of the village of Maine. 
Early potatoes are practically a 
failure in Broome County. The late 
ones will he fairly good, but few in a 
hill. They are selling for $1.50 a bushel, 
when sold at all. Apples are scarce 
and small. Late rains will, it is hoped, 
add somewhat to the size. We had 
very few blackberries here. Dry 
weather dried them on the canes. 
Silc^ filling is under way earlier than 
usual. Farmers find . the crop better 
than earlier reports indicated. Some 
fine yields of oats are reported. The 
grain is of good quality. Buckwheat 
fields are uneven and filling only fairly 
well. Timothy hay is selling from $23 
to $25 a ton. Most farmers have none 
to sell.—E. L. Y. 
WESTERN NEW YORK NEWS 
Preparations are rapidly going for¬ 
ward to move the fruit crop of west¬ 
ern New York. About 5,000 refriger¬ 
ator cars have been put in shape for 
the season and eighteen special trains 
will be put on the New York Central, 
tapping the fruit belt, to take care of 
the harvest. The engines which will 
haul the trains are now at the Oswego 
shops being conditioned. It will be 
along towards the middle of September 
before the traffic gets under big head¬ 
way. Surveys made by the agricultural 
experts of the railroad, place the har¬ 
vest this year at about 70 per cent of a 
normal crop. 
Onion growers in the Elba district, 
embracing about 800 acres of muck soil 
devoted to vegetables, are beginning 
their harvest. The onions will aver¬ 
age in yield from 450 to 500 bushels 
per acre, though a few growers by 
superior cultural methods are expect¬ 
ing 1,000 bushels to the acre. The 
price has not yet been set, but the talk 
is around $2 per bushel. Out in 
Genesee county the growers dispute the 
claims of the government experts that 
there will be a plentiful crop this 
year. It is held by them that the gov¬ 
ernment officials are entirely too opti¬ 
mistic. Growers who have visited the 
best fields of Ohio and Indiana, state 
upon their return that there will not 
be more than a forty per cent crop and 
the quality is inferior to that of York 
State onions. 
A sudden jump in the prices of 
evaporated raspberries is noticed in the 
Dundee district. Growers are now 
selling their product for fifty cents 
per pound. It is freely predicted 
that prices will go still higher. High 
prices prevailing for early berry crops 
are believed to be the cause of the 
jump. 
The largest potato crop in the State 
outside of Long Island is believed to be 
that in the Oswego district. Those 
touching at Kasoag this summer are in¬ 
terested in the largest field ever grown 
in this section of the State, consisting 
of 8314 acres on the farm of Earl R. 
Smith, often styled as the “Kasoag 
Potato King.’' In all, Mr. Smith has 
105 acres of potatoes under cultivation. 
Within a radius of two miles of Kasoag 
there is a greater acreage of potatoes 
than in any other spot of like area in 
the State. The crops are certified by 
the State department of agriculture as 
being practically free from all potato 
diseases and practically all potatoes 
grown are sold as seed. In spite of the 
fact that serious results have been 
brought about by the dry weather dur¬ 
ing the summer the crop in this section 
has done well and a good yield is ex¬ 
pected when the harvest is completed. 
Heavy dews and cool nights have been J 
a great aid to the growing plants. 
The annual picnic of the Ontario 
County Farm Bureau, Grange and Su¬ 
pervisors of Ontario County was held 
on August 30 at the Geneva Experi¬ 
ment Station grounds with an attend¬ 
ance of fully two thousand people. The 
event of the day was an address in Jor¬ 
dan Hall by Enos Lee, of Yorktown, 
president of the New York State Farm 
Bureau Federation, whose subject was: 
“World Markets as Related to Agricul¬ 
tural Products in the United States.’’ 
His general tone was along optimistic 
lines, taking the point that the agri¬ 
culturist at the present time is in a 
better condition financially than a year 
ago. 
The Penn Yan Fruit Packing As¬ 
sociation, Inc., has started work on the 
erection of a new building, 40 by 100 
feet, of fireproof construction. This 
company controls the only cooperative 
plant in Penn Yan. It is expected that 
temporary use can be made of the plant 
this month. The officers of the associa¬ 
tion back of the project are: President, 
E. C. Gillett; secretary, A. C. Williams; 
manager, Michael F. Buckley.— Alvah 
H. Pulver. — 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Ontario Co.—August was dry and hot 
and we have not had a good rain for a 
long time. The rains have all been 
local. Some farmers that have tractors 
cannot plow for wheat. All crops are 
suffering for rain, especially potatoes, 
beans and cabbage. Late set cabbage 
is very backward. Wheat has yielded 
well, also oats and barley. Apple buy¬ 
ers are holding off in buying. Bartlett 
pears are 4c per pound at canneries.— 
E. T. B. 
Wyoming Co.—Grain threshing is 
nearly over in this locality, the average 
yield of wheat and oats a little less 
than usual. The few showers we have 
had helped the beans and late potatoes 
wonderfully. The frost in August has 
caused many farmers to pull their 
beans earlier than usual. This of 
course, will lighten the yields. Pota¬ 
toes are selling at $1.50 per bushel, 
eggs 35c per dozen.—L. M. F. 
Saratoga Co.—The attendance at the 
Saratoga County Fair broke all previ¬ 
ous records. The exhibits in all lines 
were of the finest order. In everyway 
the fair of 1923 was pronounced a 
grand success. No frosts in this vicin¬ 
ity and vegetation making rapid 
growth.—E. S. R. 
FAMOUS LOCAL FAIRS 
There are fairs and. fairs, ranging 
all the way from exhibitions worth go¬ 
ing many miles to see> to those which 
come pretty close to being humbug. 
Among those fairs which are justly 
celebrated as worth anyone’s time and 
money to attend and which will be held 
in the near future, are: 
Mineola, N. Y., September 25-29. 
Trenton, N. J., September 24-29. 
Brockton, Mass., October 2-6. 
Danbury, Ct., October 1-6. 
NEW YORK APPLES TO BE 
MARKETED COOPERATIVELY 
With the assistance of the State 
Bureau of Markets, Albany, N. Y., the 
Hudson Valley Fruit Growers’ Cooper¬ 
ative Association, Inc., which was or¬ 
ganized and incorporated for the pur¬ 
pose of acting as a central sales agency 
for the local cooperative packing houses, 
already established and to be established 
in the Hudson Valley, has completed its 
plans for the central selling of 35,000 
to 40,000. barrels of apples, mostly 
winter varieties. This estimated volume 
of business is being, furnished by five 
local member associations. All fruit 
will be pooled and the operations of the 
central will be conducted on a cooper¬ 
ative basis. 
Take, your local editors with you to 
the Dairy Show. They will get one of 
the biggest dairy stories they ever 
printed. Boost your own business. 
