American Agriculturist, January 26, 1924 
*5 
Sheep and Cow Men Plan Year’s 
Business 
{Continued from, page 76) 
York State Breeders Association, which 
association was organized in 1887, “the 
progress of tuberculosis control work and 
plans for future work,” received the most 
attention and discussion. Byrne A. 
Pyrke, Commissioner of State Depart¬ 
ment of Farms and Markets outlined the 
work that is being done. Dean V. A. 
Moore of the State Veterinary College 
at Ithaca said “There is a shortage of 
veterinarians, and this shortage will prob¬ 
ably grow worse.” 
Representative of Canada Addresses 
Sheep Growers 
“Cutting down overhead expense by 
increasing the volume of wool pooled” 
was the unanimous desire of the twenty- 
five delegates representing thirty-eight 
organized local wool growers cooperative 
associations, who attended the fourth 
annual meeting of the New York State 
Federation of County Sheep Growers 
Association, Inc. 
The reports of the management showed 
the fourth annual pool with something 
over 471,000 pounds of wool pooled. 
Some of the grades have been sold. Indi¬ 
cations are that when tire pool is finally 
closed the return to growers would be 
favorable, perhaps not in excess of prices 
paid by some local buyers. Because of 
the shortage of wool, sheep men were 
favored by the increased activities of 
local buyers this last year over some 
years. The outstanding and lasting work 
of the wool growers cooperative is that 
during the past four years there has been 
an opportunity for growers to know more 
about the quality of the wool that they 
have produced and to sell the wool on its 
merits by grade. The man who has good 
clean wool has profited and the amount 
of rejects or off-quality wool is being cut 
down every year according to the man¬ 
agement. 
A large mass meeting of sheep growers 
is planned with the next annual meeting. 
This will make it possible for new ideas 
and worth-while suggestions to be pre¬ 
sented by the wool growers from 
different sections. 
Canadian wool growers have been 
pooling their wool with success according 
to Hon. A. A. McMillan of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, 
who addressed the delegates at their eve¬ 
ning session. The Canadian pool proceeds 
on the basis that it must return to the 
grower as good a price as he can get else¬ 
where if it is to succeed. So far the 
Canadian pool has been able to do this. 
There is no contract with the grower, his 
pooling is purely on a contributing basis. 
Resolutions favoring the completion of 
the sheep building at the State Fail- 
Grounds at the earliest possible moment, 
that the Truth and Fabric law be passed, 
and that legislation affecting the dog law 
lie carefully followed, were passed at the 
closing session. Throughout the meeting 
a fine spirit of cooperation was mani¬ 
fested by delegates. This was prompted 
by the ever-apparent effort of the man¬ 
agement and officials to keep the over¬ 
head costs just as low as possible. 
Holstein Association Conducts Sale 
Following the annual meeting of the 
N ew York State Holstein-Friesian Asso¬ 
ciation held in the Yates Hotel, the fourth 
annual two-day sale was held in the 
Coliseum at the State Fair Grounds. 
( lias. F. Bigler of Syracuse, president of 
the association, said: “This is a real busi¬ 
ness sale. Consigners and buyers are 
discriminating as to conformation, type 
and breeding. The sales that we have 
held have been of wonderful value in 
helping our breeders and the breed gen¬ 
erally in this State.” 
Over 120 head were sold and some forty 
breeders of the State consigned. Con¬ 
sidering that the selections were made by 
local committees in each county, the 
group offered for sale run very uniform. 
The first day of the sale the ten highest 
averaged $326.00. 
Much discussion regarding member¬ 
ship fee took up the afternoon of the 
meeting. The dues were left as they were, 
no changes having been made. Delegates 
to the meeting of the Holstein-Friesian 
Association of America were elected. 
They include Harry Yates, Orchard Park, 
D. M. White, Bath; H. H. Wing, Ithaca; 
W. W. Stevens, Liverpool; Harvey F. 
Farrington, Lowville; A. W. Brown, West 
Winfield; Carl Schmidt, Montgomery; 
N. G. Ellis, Fort Edward; O. II. Johnson, 
Ticonderoga; Robert Austin, Chitten- 
ango; D. D. Armstrong, Watertown; A. 
A. Hartshorn, Hamilton; C. F. Bigler, 
Syracuse; W. D. Robens, Poland; John 
M. Hamm, Poughkeepsie; Carl Amost, 
Syracuse; John M. Dewey, Turin; R. N. 
Thompson, Heuvelton; J. R. Wait, Au¬ 
burn; Frank P. Price, Syracuse; Geo. A. 
Abbott, Cortland. 
The officers for the coming year are: 
Chas. F. Bigler, Syracuse, president; 
Maynard Smith, Elmira, first vice-presi¬ 
dent; C. Y. Marshall, Morrisville, second 
vice-president; Geo. Smith, Watertown, 
treasurer; M. C. Bond of Syracuse is 
secretary. 
The meeting favored Syracuse as the 
place of meeting for 1924 Dairy Show. 
Mr. Bigler, president of the association, 
is very much in favor of a winter show at 
Syracuse, and as chairman of a committee 
is working with the other farm organiza¬ 
tions in the State to make that possible 
the coming winter. 
Directors elected for the State Associa¬ 
tion are: Harry Yates, Orchard Park; 
R. E. Chapin, Batavia; George W. 
Smith, Alfred; Maynard Smith, Elmira; 
C. F. Bigler, Syracuse; George N. Smith, 
Watertown; II. F. Farrington, Lowville; 
A. W. Brown, West Winfield; E. J. 
Chaffee, Wassaic; H. V. Bump, Cam¬ 
bridge; Eugene West, Wellsboro; and 
C. B. Marshall, Morrisville. 
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