American Agriculturist, May 3, 1924 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
Among the Farmers 
Dairymen s League to Elect Eight New Directors 
T HE terms of eight of the twenty-four 
directors of the Dairymen’s League 
Cooperative Association, Inc., will expire 
in June, as follows: 
District No. 5, Chester Young; Dist. 
No. 11, D. F. Putnam; Dist. No. 12, F. H. 
Sexauer; Dist. No. 13, H. J. Kershaw; 
Dist. No. 16, John Rosenbach; Dist. No. 
20, H. L. Seeley; Dist. No. 21. Paul 
Smith; Dist. No. 24, G. W. Slocum. 
Local associations in each of the eight 
districts will meet on Saturday, May 3, 
to select one delegate and an alternate 
delegate to the district conventions on 
Tuesday, May 6, at which nominations 
for directors will be made. Each dairy¬ 
man chosen as a delegate will serve as his 
local’s representative at sub-district meet¬ 
ings during the year. He will also repre¬ 
sent his local at the annual meeting of 
the League at Utica, N. Y., Thursday, 
June 19. 
The delegate to the district nominating 
convention will cast as many votes for his 
local as the local casts on May 3 for 
delegate. After a local elects its delegate, 
it may or may not instruct him to vote 
for the nomination of a director. The 
nomination made at the district conven¬ 
tions on May 6, will be voted upon by all 
members at meetings of locals in the 
twenty-four districts on Saturday, May 
24. 
Tellers will canvass the vote and for¬ 
ward the ballots to League headquarters. 
These ballots will remain sealed until 
canvassed by a committee of three tellers 
appointed by the Board of Directors, 
who must be members holding no office 
in the organization. The tellers will 
announce the results at the annual meet 
ing at Utica. 
New York County Notes 
Franklin County.—Maple sugar season 
in this part of the country is over. Most 
folks report a good harvest. Maple 
syrup is now selling for $1.50 a gallon and 
sugar at 20c a pound. Potatoes are 
being marketed at 75c a bushel. Plowing 
has commenced in a few places on high 
ground. The potato acreage in this 
section will not be as large as last year. 
Some farmers are buying loose hay at $16 
a ton; oats, 50e a bushel; eggs, 25c a 
dozen. Auction sales have been quite 
numerous. A good many are leaving the 
farms and going into other lines of occu¬ 
pation.—H. T. J. 
Greene County.—This is a very late 
spring. April has been wet and cold. 
Cows have wintered well. Hay is scarce 
at $20 a ton. Butter is bringing 43c at 
the creamery, eggs, 24c a doz.; young 
pigs 4 weeks old, $5 to $6 each and very 
scarce. Help is exceedingly scarce and 
high. Many farmers are without any 
help at all, so not as much will be raised 
this year as formerly. Roads have 
washed badly and are generally in poor 
condition.—J. A. 
Genesee County.—Winter wheat is 
looking very poor. Spring has been late 
and little or no spring seeding has been 
done up to late April. Eggs are selling 
at 25c a doz.; butterfat, 40c per lb.; 
potatoes, 65c a bushel; red kidney beans, 
45c a lb.—J. H. 
Genesee Valley Flood Causes 
Heavy Damage 
T HE farmers in the Genesee Valley 
have experienced one of the worst 
floods in the memory of oldest inhabitants. 
Although the river has not receded 
sufficiently to give any kind of an estimate 
relative to the amount of damage, never¬ 
theless it is known to be very heavy. 
The heavy rain period during the third 
and fourth week of April was responsible 
for the rapid rising of the river. 
Measurements taken at the power dam 
at Mount Morris showed that nearly eight 
feet of water passed over that point, 
which almost equals the high water mark 
reached several years ago. At one time 
it was believed that a new high water 
mark would be established, but a sudden 
change in the weather and the cessation 
of rain saved the valley from this ex¬ 
pectant danger. 
At Sonyea there were several points 
along the Pennsylvania Railroad where 
it was expected that the road-bed would 
be washed away. In fact, the water made 
inroads at several places both at Sonyea 
and Tuscarora and other points south. 
Extra crews of workmen were rushed to 
these places and temporary repairs were 
made. K 
Several State highways throughout 
the valley were flooded and travel over 
them was made impossible for some time. 
The road between Mount Morris and 
Leicester, and the road from Groveland 
that goes across the bed of the valley and 
meets the Mount Morris-Dansville road, 
was covered with water and was im¬ 
passable for one entire day. Thousands 
of acres of valuable farm land between 
Mount Morris and Dansville were sub¬ 
merged and it is believed that the strong 
current that was in evidence in many 
places caused a great deal of damage to 
the land. 
News From the Farm Bureaus 
F ARM Bureau membership in New 
York State is on the up grade. On 
April first eighteen counties had in¬ 
creased their membership over the total 
for 1923, and most of the other counties 
had exceeded the membership of April 1, 
1923. It is apparent that the total mem¬ 
bership for New York State will be con¬ 
siderably higher than last year. 
* * * 
A Boys’ Cattle Judging Club has been 
organized at West Winfield, Herkimer 
County, N. Y., under the direction of 
H. D. Stebbins and Frank Griffith, local 
dairymen. The twenty boys in the club 
meet monthly at some good dairy farm 
to receive instruction m the care, breed¬ 
ing and feeding of cattle and especially 
in cattle judging. They will visit the 
best herds of different breeds in the 
county during the year and have already 
developed marked ability in picking out 
the best cattle in each herd and explain¬ 
ing why. 
Twelve of these boys are raising calves 
for competition at the County Fair. 
8= * * 
A. D. Davies of Herkimer County has 
resigned to begin farming May 15th. 
He will be succeeded by R. F. Bucknam 
of Washington County. 
L. F. Lee of Cayuga County will begin 
farming May 1st and will be succeeded 
by Chas. L. Messer, Jr., cf the Fertilizer 
Department of the G. L. F. 
The rock-bound hills of Clinton County 
are resounding to the blasts of a carload 
of sodatol, a high-powered explosive used 
in the place of dynamite. A carload was 
recently shipped in by the Farm Bureau 
for ditching and land clearing purposes. 
This sodatol is a part of the war surplus 
and is being delivered to farmers at a cost 
somewhat below the price of dynamite. 
* * * 
The St. Lawrence County Cheese Pro¬ 
ducers Cooperative Association is the 
outgrowth of work begun by the Farm 
Bureau among the cheese producers in 
the township of Macomb, two years ago. 
The organization has been extended 
during the past winter to the point where 
it now includes 25 cheese factories in 
central St. Lawrence County, that have 
an output of from five million jto six 
million pounds of cheese. The producers 
around each factory are organized into a 
local association under Article 13-A cf 
the State Cooperative Marketing law. 
These twenty-five locals are federated 
into the St. Lawrence County Cheese 
Producers Cooperative Assn., with a 
sales committee of five-men. Each meru- 
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