American Agriculturist, May 31, 1924 
Among the Farmers 
of New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
519 
A RECENT release from the Bureau 
of Markets of the New Jersey State 
Department of Agriculture states that 
after July 1 a new law will go into effect 
which forbids the use of dry measure in 
selling farm products except as packed in 
original containers. When a package is 
broken for the sale of a small quantity, 
the sale must be based on weight or 
numerical amount. Under the last inter¬ 
pretation of the new weights and measures 
act, the owner of the roadside market, if 
he is the grower, can pack and sell his 
produce in baskets of any standard size. 
Undoubtedly many will follow the new 
city plan of selling fruit and vegetables by 
weight, unless packed in large containers, 
such as half-bushel and bushel baskets. 
In commenting on the roadside market 
situation the department recommends 
that where roadside markets are estab¬ 
lished, plenty of parking space is advo¬ 
cated. A stand directly on the highway 
is fast becoming a menace to traffic, to 
say nothing of the exposure to dust from 
the highway. Mention is also made of 
comparative prices, it being recommended 
that the roadside dealer keep in daily 
touch with city markets and adjust his 
own prices accordingly. 
Somerset County Notes 
Rain and cool weather have greatly 
retarded the sowing of oats while corn 
planting is two weeks late. Meadows are 
showing up well despite their dried up 
condition last fall, although the clover 
crop will not be large. All sorts of fruit 
trees are excessively full of blossoms but 
some apprehension is felt on account of 
the many successive days of dull, rainy 
weather and it remains to be seen if fruit 
will set under such unfavorable condi¬ 
tions. No change in the labor situation. 
The slowing up of production is increas¬ 
ing year by year. Few farms are run to 
capacity. Some owners are dispensing 
with hired help entirely. There have been 
large plantings of apple and peach trees. 
Unless there is a greater supply of labor 
in a few years from now many will have 
trouble in picking and marketing their 
fruit. Very little of last year’s farm 
products left. The county does not raise 
enough of hay and grain for its own needs. 
Hay sells in barns loose at $25, bales by 
dealers $33. Feeds $2 to $2.30, eggs 30 
to 40c.—G. E. Schwartz. 
Holstein Friesian Annual 
Meeting, June 4 
T HE Thirty-ninth Annual Convention 
of the Holstein Friesian Association 
of America will be held at Richmond, Va., 
on June 4. 
New York will be represented by: 
Prof. H. H. Wing, Ithaca; R. E. Chapin, 
Batavia; W. D. Robens, Poland; A. W. Brown, 
West Winfield; Wing R. Smith, Syracuse; 
A. A. Hartshorn, .Hamilton; Harry Yates, 
Buffalo; George N. Smith, Watertown; G. A. 
Abbott, Cortland; F. H. Thomson, Holland 
Patent; D. B. Armstrong, Watertown; C. F. 
Bigler, Syracuse; H. F. Farrington, Lowville; 
D. M. White, Bath; R. M. Thompson, Heuvel- 
ton; E. M. Hastings, Pulaski; Ward W. 
Stevens, Liverpool; Carl L. Amos, Syracuse; 
H. V. Noyes, Kenwood; Fred A. Blewer, 
Owego; Carl Schmid, Montgomery; Robert 
Austin, Chittenango; S. T. Wood, Liverpool; 
and Frank T. Price, Syracuse. 
Pennsylvania will be represented by: 
John A. Bell, Jr., Pittsburgh; H. E. Robertson, 
York; Dr. L. M. Thompson, Montrose; Abner 
S. Deysher, Reading; Ivo V. Otto, Carlisle; 
Frank A. Keen, West Chester; J. B. Hender¬ 
son, Hickory; O. A. Shirey, Williamsport; 
James M. Paxton, Houston; John B. Kendig, 
Willow Street; and John H. Shirk, Lancaster. 
New Jersey will be represented by: 
G. D. Brill, Jamesburg; M. H. Keeney, 
Cedargrove; and H. A. Davidson, Ramsey, 
Eastern Pennsylvania Notes 
Oliver D. Schoch 
IHREQUENT showers caused a rapid 
A development of all kinds of vegeta¬ 
tion and as a result the floral wealth and 
beauty was never surpassed. Retail 
seedsmen were inclined to complain of the 
backward season, but the May sales were 
extraordinarily large. Market gardeners 
are more numerous than ever before. 
The upper section of Berks County is 
noted for reptiles. A farmer of Tulpe- 
hocken township was confronted by a 
black snake that measured when killed 
nearly 11 feet in length. The species is 
harmless and many farmers regard them 
as beneficial as they destroy many mice 
and noxious insects. 
Eastern Pennsylvania counties are 
threatened with a serious invasion of the 
Japanese beetle and a determined fight 
against the pest will be inaugurated by 
State and national officials. The results 
of the expensive but unsuccessful com¬ 
bat against the pernicious chestnut tree 
bark disease forms its own commentary. 
The present price of yellow corn is an 
incentive for the planting of an increased 
acreage. Yellow' Dent, as usual, leads in 
popularity. Flint corn has waned to a 
small percentage. Stowell’s Evergreen 
sweet corn maintains its high reputation 
regardless of many newly introduced 
varieties. 
Farmers mutual fire insurance com¬ 
panies are making large gains in member¬ 
ship and volume of business, due to the 
approach of the summer season when 
lightning is the cause for many losses of 
farm buildings. 
Central Pennsylvania Notes 
J. N. Glover 
(CONTINUED wet and rainy weather 
has hindered oats seeding and corn 
planting which is usually mostly done by 
the 20th of May. But other jobs have 
been done in the meantime as repairing 
fences and hauling out manure. 
The usual acreage of corn will be plant¬ 
ed, but less acres of oats will be seeded, as 
it usually is not a paying crop here. Some 
orchards have been sprayed a second time 
and the bloom has been good on most of 
the apple trees. 
Not many persons are planting trees 
in old orchards, except those who make 
fruit growing a business. A few farmers 
have baled hay not needed on the farm, 
but many more farmers must buy hay than 
usual. Some cows are out on pasture, 
but grass is short for the time of the 
year. 
In a few townships in Union County, 
nearly every farmer has signed papers to 
have his cows tested for tuberculosis, 
though the}' do not expect the testing to 
be done for nearly a year. Young pigs 
are scarce, as the loss of young pigs this 
spring was heavy and pigs may be as 
scarce this fall as they were cheap and 
plentiful last fall. 
There is more farming being done by 
the field for half the crop on untenanted 
or big farms w'here one has no help, than 
has been done for many years, as it is 
hard to get enough help on farms for the 
wages farmers feel they can afford to pay. 
But it Ls a long road that has no turning 
and prices for farm products will adjust 
themselves without any unwise legisla¬ 
tion such as is proposed by Congress. 
Pennsylvania County Notes 
Tioga County —There has been so much 
rain, everything is late. Very few farmers 
have any oats sown and very little plow¬ 
ing has been done. Roads were never so 
bad as late as this in the spring. Plum, 
cherry and apple trees are blowing full. 
New seedings look good. Stock on most 
farms look rather thin in flesh and not in 
the best of condition. Not many auctions 
were held this spring,— Mrs. W. C. G. 
Cumberland County—During the early 
part of May w'e had a few warm days. On 
May 6, it was 85 in the shade. The turn 
from cold to warm was very sudden and 
was very hard on working horses. It did 
not last long. That same night we had a 
thunder shower followed by much colder 
weather. No corn has been planted as 
yet and there is much plowing to be done. 
Prices remain about the same. Fall sown 
wheat is growing nicely.—J. B. K. 
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