American Agriculturist, March 8, 1924 
Among the Farmers 
League Cancellations Light—New York News 
F IGURES obtained on ancellations of some sleighing. There is not much doing 
Diarymen’s League Cooperative As- in general. Quite a few auctions are 
sociation contracts just before going to being held—things are not selling as well 
press- including those received by the as a year or two ago. There is a fairly 
association through February 27th, make strong demand for wood. A good deal is 
a grand total of 3,380: of this number, now being cut up for fire wood.—H. D. S. 
onlv 1,897 are withdrawals from actual 
poolers who receive their milk checks 
through the Association. At this writing 
the withdrawal period will last only one 
more day, and even though the cancella¬ 
tions should be large on this last day. the 
total will be far less than half what they 
were last year. Therefore, the League 
farmers are to be congratulated upon their 
ability, again proven, to work together in 
organization. 
New York Farm News 
Rensselaer County — We are having 
good sleighing and zero weather. About 
20 farmers have been drawing ice for the 
H. P. Hood Creamery, who are paying 
the farmers sixty cents a load for hauling. 
Most of them haul ten loads a day. Eggs 
are bringing 40c wholesale and are selling 
for 45c at the stores. Oats are 69c a 
bushel, bran $2.25 a hundred. Pork has 
been selling as low as $10 a hundred 
dressed, which is not enough to pay for 
fattening. Calves are bringing from 12 
to 14c, Hot-house lambs 15c to 18c.— 
C H. Y. 
In Western New York 
Wyoming County.—The most severe 
storm of the season passed over this 
section during the third week in February. 
A great deal of snow fell and drifted 
badly. As a result roads were almost 
impassable. Sleighing is very good now. 
Many farmers who held their apples for 
better prices are getting them out now 
and selling them to the evaporators for 
75c a hundred. Butter is 43 to 44c, eggs, 
40c.—J. H, E. 
Genesee County,—Lack of snow dur¬ 
ing the early part of the winter hastened 
the harvest of ice. Workers .were not 
handicapped by having to shovel deep 
snow. Most of the ice is harvested and 
is of excellent quality, being 12 to 15 
inches thick. The harvest was finished 
just in time, for during the last week of 
February we got some very heavy snow.— 
W. H. 
Genesee County.—The weather in our 
section, around Batavia, has been very 
mild all winter. W T e have had little or no 
sleighing until the third week in February 
when extremely cold weather, consider¬ 
ably below zero, and floods of snow came. 
As a result the roads were made almost 
impassable. The change was so severe 
that folks are hoping for better weather 
soon and every one will be glad to have 
spring with us again. Farm crops are 
tending somewhat higher. Wheat is 
$1.10. Potatoes have gone up to 90c and 
good apples are bringing from $1 to $1.50 
a bushel. Coal is plentiful now, for which 
we are very thankful.—J. C. J. 
In the North Country 
Franklin County,—We have had plenty 
of snow up here in the North Country 
with the result that we are having fine 
sleighing. By Washington’s birthday 
farmers had finished filling their ice¬ 
houses. There is quite a lot of wood being 
cut which brings $3 a cord. A canvass is 
being made of farmers in Franklin County 
for the T B test of cattle. A good many 
are signing up to have their herds tested. 
There does not seem to be very many 
cancelling their contracts with the Dairy¬ 
men's League. Hay is bringing $17 a ton, 
oats 50c a bushel, potatoes 62c a bushel, 
eggs 35c a dozen.—H. T. J. 
Jefferson County—Ice harvest is pro¬ 
gressing rapidly. Especially fine ice is 
being packed. The F. X. Baumert Com¬ 
pany just erected a new ice house of con¬ 
siderable size. H. L. Lawton is superin¬ 
tending the filling of this house as well as 
that of the Lanna Company. Milk at the 
F. X. B. plant brought $2.40 per 100 
for 3% milk for the month of February. 
Many dairy cows have been sold owing to 
T B test. Fat beef cows are bringing any¬ 
where from $20 to $30 a head. Owing to 
the scarcity and high wages of farm labor, 
many farmers are going to milk fewer 
cows. Butter is bringing from 58c to 62c 
a pound, eggs 50c a dozen. Hay meets 
slow sale at around $15 to $17. The 
F. X. B. Company is now manufacturing 
a new kind of cheese in their plant at 
Evans Mills. This new product is becom¬ 
ing so popular they are finding it hard to 
keep up with their orders. The cheese is 
made from whole milk with a large per¬ 
centage of sweet cream. It is put up in 
5-pound boxes and called “loaf cream.” 
This is of decided advantage to the farm¬ 
ers.— Mrs. C. J. D. 
Albany News 
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of the United States, in our oath of office, 
it means every part of that Constitution 
whether we agree with the principles 
involved in any one section or not.” 
* * * 
Every honorably discharged ex-service 
man or woman who was a resident of New 
York State between April 6, 1917, and 
November 11, 1918, will share in the 
State bonus adopted by the New York 
legislature. The measure providing for 
the issuance of $45,000,000 in bonds has 
been passed by the legislature. It is 
expected that payments will start about 
May 1st. The bill provides for the pay¬ 
ment of $10 a month for every month of 
service with a maximum payment of 
$150. 
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Monroe County —This has been an 
ideal winter as far as prospects for farm 
crops are concerned. The land has been 
covered with a sufficiently heavy blanket 
of snow to px-event winter killing of wheat 
and grasses. Conditions have been ideal 
lor fruit also. Ice is beixxg harvested. It 
is now 12 to 14 inches thick. Soixie fann¬ 
ers are hauling logs to saw mills in order 
to have timber for building. Farmers are 
starting to get iixto the orchards to trim 
Iruit trees. Apples are bringing from $1 
to $1.50 a bushel on the Rochester 
market, potatoes 85c to 90c, eggs 45c to 
50c, butter 50c, poxdc 12c. The market for 
beef cattle is dull. The bewy outlook is 
not very promising. Mosaic is taking 
heavy tolls. Farmers are more or less 
discouraged at this time, but when spring 
comes they feel that there will be a much, 
better outlook and feeling, — J. J. H. t 
Ontario County — We are having ex-" 
eellent winter weather—plenty of ice and 
A bill has been introduced in the As¬ 
sembly by Assemblyman Smith of Orange 
County and in the Senate by Senator 
Bouten which, if passed, would do away 
with daylight-saving in this State. As the 
law now stands, it is possible for any city 
or other municipality to 'pass a local 
daylight-saving ordinance. Many cities 
have done this with the result that there 
is great confusion and tremendous loss 
by the people having to use two kinds of 
time during the summer. If the bill 
mentioned above is passed, daylight- 
saving will be no longer permitted any¬ 
where in the State. 
Considerable credit should be given to 
Thomas J. Owexxs, Secretary of the Em¬ 
pire State Anti-Daylight Saving Associa¬ 
tion, at Poughkeepsie, New York, for the 
hard work he has done in organizing 
oppositioix to the daylight-saving laws 
which cause such heavy loss to farm 
people and others. 
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