American Agriculturist, June 7, 1924 
New York Farm News 
County Notes From 
EPRESENTATIVE dairymen from 
all sections and from all producers’ 
organizations in Cortland County met 
at the Farm Bureau Office, Thursday, 
May 22nd, on invitation of County 
Agent H. L. Vaughn, to discuss the pres¬ 
ent milk market crisis. A free discussion 
of the condition of markets and prices 
brought out a general agreement that 
milk prices are materially below the cost 
of production, that the producers in all 
the organizations have identical interests 
and that all groups should unite in an 
effort to correct present conditions. The 
meeting praised the move of the dairy 
groups to get together as a result of the 
Utica meeting, May 14th, and gave the 
“Committee of Fifteen” a unanimous 
vote of confidence. 
Such county meetings as this one in 
Cortland County and the splendid meet¬ 
ing called by the Farm Bureau in Mont¬ 
gomery County on April 5th, demon¬ 
strate that the dairymen in the several 
milk organizations are ready to pull to¬ 
gether for the good of their industry. 
This should be a good example for the 
local community groups of producers to 
follow.— C. A. Taylor. 
* * * 
North County Notes 
HE middle of May arrived with 
practically no seeding or planting 
done. A very few scattered days in 
April were fair and enabled the planting 
of some gardens and sow’ing of oats on 
land that is high and dry. For the most 
part farmers are becoming discouraged 
with] the outlook for grain this year, for 
it will be the first of June before much of 
the plowed ground will be dry enough to 
work up readily. 
Pastures are slow in coming on and 
very few have turned out as yet, though 
some who ran out of hay turned out on 
practically no grass. Old hay is pretty 
well used up this spring, both on farms 
that sell and those that feed, and the 
outlook at present is for a fair crop this 
season. The ground is better filled with 
water than for several years and should 
be able to stand up under later drought 
conditions. 
* * * 
Milk conditions are the subject of 
discussion in most sections. The con¬ 
stant dropping of the prices and the very 
low starting price for cheese has cut the 
farm income to a point where it can 
scarcely be stretched to cover absolute 
necessities—let alone pay up back bills. 
Some hope is being pinned on the con¬ 
ference and the committee of fifteen ap¬ 
pointed at Utica- to consider ways and 
means of getting together the various 
groups for concerted action. However, 
after the efforts of Dean H. E. Cook in 
this direction last year and the subse¬ 
quent disregarding of the work done by 
the joint committee by those most vi¬ 
tally concerned, many are skeptical as 
to the outcome of the latest endeavor, 
although praying that it may be the means 
of alleviating conditions. 
The purchase of the Dry Milk Com¬ 
pany at Adams by the Dairymen’s League 
has caused comment in Jefferson County. 
It seemed to be the only way out, however, 
for about 50,000 pounds of milk had been 
coming to a farmer’s plant there since the 
first of May and the only thing that could 
be done with it was to separate and dump 
the skim-milk. With the 125 pool patrons 
of the purchased plant and the 50,000 
pounds from poolers rejected by the 
Northern New Milk Corporation, a very 
satisfactory operation should result.— 
W. I. Roe. 
News From Lewis County 
ARMERS hereabouts are just com¬ 
mencing to make a little showing 
with their spring work. Although the 
. almost continuous rains we had for sev¬ 
eral weeks have now practically ceased, 
cold frosty nights are predominating with 
Among" the Farmers 
the result that cows are falling short of 
their usual flow of milk at this season of 
the year, the grass not having the usual 
succulence or milk-giving qualities which 
it otherwise would have had, had nice 
sunshiny weather predominated. 
* * * 
During a trip down through the valley 
to Utica recently after a heavy rain of the 
day before, I noticed many fields on 
which water stood in pools. In many 
places where fall plowing had been done, 
the furrows were all grown up to quack 
grass and other foul matter, which will 
necessitate the taking of a lot of pains to 
prepare the land for the proper seeding 
of any kind of grains, especially on ac¬ 
count of the lateness of the season. 
* * * 
Farm help seems rather scarce and diffi¬ 
cult to obtain and, in extreme cases, I 
know where as much as $75 per month 
with board is being paid. However, the 
average wage is somewhat under that 
figure. 
* * * 
The New York State Nursery, situated 
a short distance east of Lowville, is doing 
a thriving business this spring. At the 
present time they are engaged in trans¬ 
planting young seedlings and have a large 
force of men, also women, engaged in the 
wrnrk and earlier in the season were ship¬ 
ping quantities of young trees by express 
to different points where reforesting was 
being done. 
* * * 
It is an easy thing to see now what a 
big mistake was made a few years ago 
when the farmers here in the Black River 
Valley had the opportunity to purchase 
the cheese factories in close proximity 
to the branch of the New York Central 
and did not do so. It would have kept 
them well equipped and insured against 
the day when the fluid milk market is 
being clogged, when a large percentage 
of the milk could be manufactured into 
butter and cheese, and thus equalize mat¬ 
ters to some extent anyway. 
While w r ith nearly all dairies out on 
pasture at the present writing, and with 
the milk war on among the large shipping 
companies, the situation is not very rosy 
at the best, though it might, of course, 
be worse.— Chas. L. Stiles. 
* * * 
Along the Southern Tier 
ROOME COUNTY has now 8 herds 
of cows which have been pronounced 
free from tuberculosis, while 143 other 
herds have passed the first test, and 172 
herds showing a reaction on second test. 
Out of 44,851 cows in the county, 7,733 
have now’ been tested, the percentage of 
reaction being about 20. It is expected 
to complete the work of the testing cam¬ 
paign by the first of July in the townships 
of Union, Vestal and Maine. 
Few r oats have yet been sow T ed, no po¬ 
tatoes planted nor a kernel of corn, except 
in a few r gardens, as we come into the last 
week of May. Many farmers have sowed 
no oats at all. The w T et weather has, 
however, brought grass on wonderfully 
well. There w r as a sharp frost on the 
night of May 21st, but vegetation was 
not far enough advanced to do any par¬ 
ticular injury. 
For the first time in perhaps seventy- 
five years the Dayton homestead near 
Maine village in Broome county is with¬ 
out an occupant. Henry Dayton, long 
owner of the farm, passed away last No¬ 
vember at the age of about 93, and on May 
21st, Miss Nellie also died, leaving the 
place vacant. Since the death'of her father 
she had lived quite alone on the place. 
George Wakefield, wffiose house on the 
road from Delano’s Corners to West Che¬ 
nango was recently burned has bought 
the farm originally owned by James M. 
Emerson, adjoining, making him about 
140 acres. Since the death of Mr. Emer- 
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