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portation to move fuel, raw materials and finished products 
that will be needed later in the year will not only protect 
themselves against business losses due to traffic congestion, 
but will help to insure the prompt movement of the crops 
to market. 
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Dairy Conference Meets 
Committee of 15 Recommends Multiple Price Plan 
T HE second meeting of the Dairymen’s 
Conference Committee of Fifteen was 
held at Utica on Saturday, May 24th. 
The following organizations and indi¬ 
viduals were present: Dairymen’s League: 
F. H. Thompson, Holland Patent, New 
York; Henry Burden, Cazenovia, New 
York, and Charles Tuck, New York City; 
Eastern States: M. B. Garlock, Utica, 
N. Y.; B. G. Van Alstyne, Canajoharie, 
N. Y., and Roscoe Sargent, Sandy Creek, 
N. Y.; Sheffield Producers: C. Fred Bosh- 
art, Lowville, N. Y.; Fred E. Mather, 
Ulster, Pa.; C. W. Halliday, Secretary, 
North Chatham, N. Y. ; Non-Pool Associa¬ 
tion: C. W. Newton, Buffalo, N. Y.; 
A. P. Williams, Mannsville, N. Y.; 
W. S. Rhodes, Little Falls, N. Y.; 
Independents: G. A. Piszczek, Newport, 
N. Y.; F. W. Bauder, Fort Plain, N. Y.; 
Homer Jones, Homer, N. Y. 
The meeting was called to order by 
Chairman Henry Burden, at 2 p. m. A 
communication from Mr. C. F. Bigler, 
President-Secretary of the New York 
Holstein-Friesian Association, containing 
the following resolution, was read: 
WHEREAS, in conference at Utica, N. Y., 
May 14, 1924, five groups of milk producers 
elected a committee and agreed to meet 
May 24 and formulate plans for establishing 
a basic price for milk, 
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that 
the breeders of Holstein-Friesian cattle in 
New York State assembled at Earlville, 
N. Y., urgently request this committee to 
formulate such plans as will insure uniform 
prices by all groups selling milk to distri¬ 
butors. 
Morgan B. Garlock, President of the 
Eastern States Milk Producers Associa¬ 
tion, was elected Treasurer of the Com¬ 
mittee. 
Motion was carried that each organi¬ 
zation contribute $25 for the expenses of 
the Committee. 
The Committee voted that the Rural 
New Yorker, American. Agriculturist, 
Dairymen’s League Nexus and Non- 
Pooler be invited to send representatives 
to meetings of the committee; that copies 
of the Secretary’s minutes be furnished 
to these papers, and that John J. Dillon 
and E. R. Eastman be made honorary 
members of the Committee. 
After a long discussion the following 
important resolutions were unanimously 
adopted: 
WHEREAS, the price of milk has reached 
such a low point that its production cannot 
be carried on profitably, thus depreciating 
values of farms, cattle and equipment and 
causing great hardship and financial distress, 
and 
WHEREAS, this Committee representing 
the various existing groups of dairymen was 
created to recommend some plan that may 
save from disaster the dairy interests con¬ 
tributory to the New York milk market, 
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that 
it is the sense of this committee that all milk 
be sold by all groups on the same price plan 
and at present such plan be the so-called 
multiple price plan, and 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that 
this committee recommends to the various 
organizations of dairymen supplying the 
metropolitan market that said organizations 
offer Class I milk of their producers for the 
month of June, 1924, at $2.33 per hundred 
pounds for three per cent, grade B milk in 
the 200-210 mile zone with the usual 
differentials. 
After the meeting of the Committee of 
Fifteen on Saturday, individual organi¬ 
zations and groups, except the Dairy¬ 
men’s League Cooperative Association, 
met early the following week and passed 
resolutions endorsing the work of the 
Committee of Fifteen. These endorse¬ 
ments included the approval of the 
suggested price of $2.33 for three per cent, 
milk for June in the 200-210 mile zone 
with the usual differentials. The League 
directors had already met on the previous 
Wednesday and established a price of 
$1.86 for 6lass I milk, although they did 
not make this price public until the 
beginning of the following week, and it 
was not announced to the Committee of 
Fifteen when it met at Utica on Saturday, 
May 24 th. _ 
Eastern Pennsylvania News 
Oliver D. Schock 
ARMERS throughout Eastern Penn¬ 
sylvania are considerably in arrears 
with farming operations in consequence 
of the excessive rainfall. There were 
only a few days during the month of May 
that failed to record rain. 
Poison ivy vines are particularly lux¬ 
uriant in growth this spring and doctors 
are treating many infected persons as a 
result of folks coming into contact with it. 
Southern counties with extensive peach 
and apple orchards expect to realize large 
crops, as no frosts occurred when the trees 
were in bloom. The embryo fruit is de¬ 
veloping finely. Newly planted trees 
made an excellent start, an ample supply 
of moisture accelerating their develop¬ 
ment and growth. The tent caterpillar, 
however, is a veritable nuisance and 
prominent in many orchards where early 
attention to spraying was delayed. Wild 
cherry trees are a favorite host of the tent 
caterpillars and many farmers deter¬ 
mined to exterminate from their prop¬ 
erties all trees of this species by cutting 
them down. 
Pennsylvania tobacco growers are solic¬ 
itous for this year’s crop because of the 
threatened invasion of the disease known 
as “wildfire.” There were a few infected 
localities last year. 
Pennsylvania Leghorns Leading 
Farmingdale Egg-Laying 
Contest 
HE New York State Egg Laying 
Contest that is being conducted at 
the State Institute of Applied Agriculture 
at Farmingdale, L. I., is now past its 
28th week with Single Comb White 
Leghorns in the lead. 
The pen owned by C. L. Flaccus of 
Glenshaw, Pa., is leading with a total 
production of 1,128. The pen of West 
Neck Poultry Farm, Huntington, L. I., is 
the highest of Rhode Island Reds with a 
yield of 964 eggs. H. V. Byerly of Sharps- 
ville, Pa., has the leading pen of White 
Wyandottes with a record of 892 eggs. 
Of the White Plymouth Rocks the pen 
entered by Ellen D. Ranken of Hunting- 
ton, L. L, is leading with 919, while 
the A. C. Jones flock of Barred Rocks, 
Georgetown, Del., is leading that breed 
with 998. 
The four highest pens are all single 
comb White Leghorns with the Jones 
flock of Barred Rocks fifth. 
National Grange to Meet in 
Atlantic City 
The National Grange will hold its 
annual convention November 1 12 to 
21 in Atlantic City, N. J. The New 
Jersey State Horticultural Society plans 
to hold its annual meeting during that 
period, the exact days being November 
10 to 15. 
The Horticultural Society is cooperat¬ 
ing with the New Jersey State Grange 
and other organizations in staging a 
New Jersey exhibit on the Steel Pier. 
Heavy Frost in Drake County, 
Ohio 
N May 22, Drake County^ had the 
worst freeze experienced for that day 
in many years. It was cold enough to 
form ice in exposed vessels and to ruin 
the strawberry crop. There is no doubt 
but that considerable damage was done 
to other fruits as well. Wheat is looking 
well in the county. Farmers have corn 
practically all planted. Pastures are 
good. The wet and cold weather tins 
spring has delayed all spring work. E- 
M. Buechley. 
