JAMESTOWN (N.Y.) POST-JOURNAL-Saturday Evening, June 28, 1952

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Continued Hurts Area

Haying Schedule Record Set 'Good Worm Rain' Is Badly Needed The prolonged dry period, which became hotter and

drier this week, has done tremendous harm to crops in this area and a few days of warm rain would be just what the dcotor ordered, Roger W. Cramer, county agri­cultural agent, reported. This spring has been marked by periods of either too much or too little rain.

*• 1 v c r iVi r.. >2 will set a D gt%x. T D l ! „ m of hay in l \ Q y t . DlISS

The sunny spring has had its advantages, h o w e v e r . Mr. Cramer said that 1952 record for percentage the barn by July 1. _ .

•There is a lot of excellent j T r n n e f a | i r A H quality grass in the haymows! I l U l l d l C l l w U and silos," the agent stated. _ * g The haying season will continue 1 n Kinnhnmfrm at its peak for another two, • U U l N ^ n U l l l I O i l weeks, then begin to taper «K.| Raymond E. Bliss, dairy The second cutting will begin service and field representative the latter part of August.

The bad news has been dam­age to most crops for lack of moisture. Pastures are drying up, are not growing and the palatability of the grass has suffered.

CM the current crops, straw

for the Dairymen's League here fo» three years, has been transferred to the Binghamton Division office, effective June 9.

He will continue in the same type of work. Mrs. Bliss and their son, Robert, 9 are re

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berries have been hit hardest. m a i n ing temporarily at their The harvest is in j t s U « j S E S T * * * * on North Main Street Ex-and its end has been hastened tension, Jamestown, by dry weather. Normally thet\ A n a t i v e o { Vermont, Mr. season, in the southern part of B l i s s i s a graduate in science the county would continue about o f Middlebury College, Vt. He two weeks beyond that in. the began his work for the cooper-north, but this year they are a t i v e a t Wolcott, where he both ending at the same time, worked for one year, then

The Pennsylvania Department transferred to Syracuse where

NOTED FOR TOP PRODUCTION— These buildings, on the Hamlet^Cassadaga Road, mark the Glenn Spencer farm, 101 years in the family, and now well known for its excellent herd of Holstein cattle. This house was built in 1895, and the barn shortly afterward. —Curtis Photo

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he worked in the main labora­tory for three years.

He moved next to Rochester, where he stayed for nine years, then moved here to work with the Erie Division Office.

No-decision has been reached on a successor. Howard Hanna and Kenneth Frazier, of the Er­ie office, have taken over field work in this territory.

of Agriculture reported the smallest strawberry crop in eight years.

Damage to tomatoes has ma­terialized in the form of slow growth. Corn, which "l ikes" hot weather, has had its fill in the past week or 10 days and has been taking advantage, but it could use a little rain also, Mr. Cramer said.

Field work has been hot work, with temperatures bump- I ing the 100-degree mark, but K J p W I p r e A W M p n most farmers have been work- " ' w " « # d » c y I V I ^ I K ing through it to get the hay in while the getting's good.

In the northern section, first

f rape sprays for berry moth ave been going on this week,

and the second >vill follow in about 10 days. Grapes were in blossom in most vineyards last week, according to T. D. Jor­dan, a s s i s t a n t agricultural agent.

In Erie County, N.Y., agent John A. Birkland reported poor stands of corn, potatoes and

Family Century Farms

Favorable Reports Spur Central Testing Lab

400 Owner-Sampler Members Needed; Site in Jamestown Area Sought Chautauqua 'County may hive a central milk testing

laboratory next fall, if a. site' can be found and if interest is as high- as present signs indicate.

At a meeting of directors of the county's Dairy Herd Improvement Association Wednesday in the Farm Bureau office, it was decided to begin taking names of farmers interested in joining the owner ̂ ampler program.

Meanwhile, committee mem-*1 =— • • bers are continuing their search

Fruit Field Day Attracts Large Crowd

North East — A day-long ex­hibition of farm machinery,

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for a suitable location for a laboratory. Requirements are location in Jamestown or within " a 10-mile radius, accessible, with 400 square feet of floor space, water, heat and elec­tricity. A lease prohably would be desirable, since some instal­lation for equipment would be necessary.

Oppose Inclusion In New York Pool . .Newark, N.J. CAP.) — Three more New Jersey dairymen are on record as opposed to includ­ing 13 North Jersey counties in .the New York Metropolitan Milk Marketing Area. They gave a variety of reasons for wanting to lock the barn door on federal milk controls as

beans in cases of late plantings, i hearings resumed Tuesday. Thomas Lawrence, general

manager of the United Milk Producers of New Jersey, dubbed the controls "illegal, un­just and uninvited."

In a separate statement, Law. rence said the New York Pool price consistently was lower than the price established bv the New Jersey Office of Milk

in «,me "area , <*t pollination ^ 3 ^ 0 , ^ m w r t e r 0 ,

the New Jersey Grange, and William ML Nelton, Jr., field secretary of the New Jersey Guernsey Breeders Association, joined Lawrence in condemning federal controls.

although crops seeded early enough to take advantage of the rainy spell during May look better.

Meanwhile, the New York tate Department of Agricul­ture forecast a 15 per cent cut in . the sour* cherry crop, this year, principally because of cold, rainy weather and frosts

time An increase of 14 per kcent

Was noted h* the spring pig crop this year. There were 207.-200 head sent to market, the largest number since 1949. How­ever, reports on breeding inten­tions for the fall crop this year indicate a 10 per cent drop from 1951.

The state's hens have also been busy, producing more than a billion eggs in the first five months of the year. This wa« a nine per cent gain over last year. There were fewer eggs in cold storage than last year, but the department re­ported a 68 per cent increase in poundage of chickens in cold storage over 1951. attributed to more rapid culling from the spring's larger flocks.

Brownell Honored By Dairy Group

Consistently high average prod action of milk is the rec­ord of Glenn Spencer, Town of Villenova, operator of a farm which has been in the Spencer name and family for 101 years.

Mr. Spencer, well known as a Holstein breeder, has a herd average fox 23 years of 10,970 pound of milk and 397 pound of butterfat, a record most dairymen would be proud to hold even for one year. He now has about 35 head, many of them prize winners.

This outstanding farm was purchased in 1851, but the family's history in the Ham­let area dates back to 1820 when John Spencer moved here from Otsego County.

His son, Rev. Arden A. Spencer, was a United Breth­ren minister, who preached in several charges ,in Chau­tauqua County, including Vil­lenova. In 1851, he purchas­ed the 120-acre farm, located a mile and a half west of Hamlet on the Cassadaga Road, from Ashavel Scott.

The clergyman had been married in 1848 to Harriet Town, and they had two sons, Halsey, "born in 1852, and Fenton, born March 14, 1854, on the farm.

Arden died in 1874, and the brothers inherited the farm. They operated it to­gether until 1883, when Fen­ton bought out Halsey's in-

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terest. In that- same year crocheted lace tablecloth of John Spencer, who had original design which won brougfit the family to this, first place here, and won her county and had been living at the farm, died.

Fenton married Mattie Smith, Cherry Creek, Oct. 22, 1884. She was then 20. Their children are Blanche, now Mrs. Clarence Helmkk, Mt. Vision; Floy, widow of Carl Jacobson, Hamburg; Eliza­beth, wife of Earl Brainard, Ellington; Julia, now deceas­ed, who was the wife of Har-ley Hessler, Cleveland; Belle, wife of Fred Ruttenbur, Hamlet; and the only son, Glenn, who married Gladys Sample, Jamestown, in 1926.

Fenton, who had spent his entire life on the farm, died Dec. 24, 1899. His widow, Mattie Smith Spencer, 89, is known by the community as "Aunt Mattie" and" is noted for her dexterity with nee­dles. She has entered fancy work in Chautauqua County Fairs at Dunkirk for more

an honorable mention in the National Women's Day Con­test in New York City. She estimates that she has made more than 40 quilts, and plans to keep right on mak­ing thera. Except for fre­quent visits with her daugh­ters, Aunt Mattie spends her time in the home she helped plan and build.

The present house was built in 1895 by J. W. and Hoyt Smith, Mattie's father and brother, and the barn was built two yeans later. Except for timely improvements, there has been little change to these buildings in that time. A part of the original house, which was the home of John, Arden and Fenton Spencer for most of his life, still stands on the Hamlet-Cassadaga Road.

Glenn* Spencer, in addition to management of the farm,

than 30 years, and has a has ateo been very active in large collection of b}Sf rib- community affairs, and has bons won for her -worxr^^-v served as justice of the

Last year, she entered\%...- peace for, 16 years. .

Davis, Calif. (A.P.) — Prof. Stanley J. Brownell, Cornell University, was awarded the DeLaval Extension Dairymen's Award at the 47th annual meet- ture for plant needs. Where ing here of the American Dairy there is sufficient ram at the Science Association Wednesday. I proper time this is no problem,

Three other agricultural spe- but where it may or may not rain

FUNDS SOUGHT State College, Pa. — Farm

organizations of Pennsylvania have launched a campaign tO(Periment Station of the Penn-raise $37,500 to* match a legis- sylvania State College.

lative appropriation s o t h a t equipment and personnel may be provided for a proposed live­stock and poultry research lab­oratory at the Agricultural Ex

Conservation Farm Visits:

Wood Mulches Hold Moisture, Help to Condition Soil

By RALPH G. ECKERT Soil Conservation Service

Warren, Pa. We certainly h a v e had

enough heat this last week to push the growth of most any crop. There was a possibility of cooking the vegetables right in the ground a couple of days.

The next big problem now is to maintain sufficient soil mois-

cialists received awards. They are Dr. John W. Hibbs, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta

when needed other things must be resorted to

Irrigation is one method, but tion: Dr. Emerson W. Bird, (very few f us are equipped Iowa State College; and Dr . ' to use it. Mulching is another Hamilton D. Eaton, University ! and this has possibilities for of Connecticut.

Prof. H. B. Henderson. Uni­versity of Georgia, was elected president of the ADS A.

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all of us. A lot of Warren County farmers have, for years, been using wood shav­ings or sawdust for cattle bed­ding, some for poultry litter, and a few for mulching. This last use is the one I want to stress a little.

First we must all start think-^ 'h^ j ing along the same lines to

' Trefoil Versatility Shown at Meeting

A demonstration of birdsfoot trefoil will, do under ad- g e t anywhere. A lot of people verse conditions was given for | s t in believe that chips, shav-20 farmers at a community j j n g S ) o r sawdust "make the meeting at the farm of Hallie; ground sour". This has been Ehmke. Fredonia, Thursday tproven false time after time, evening. and normal lime requirements

The 10-acre plot displayed continue to do the required job. previously had been unsuitable W o o d m u i c h e s are not fertiliz­e r any other crop because of j e r s o u t ^ i conditioners,-even poor soil conditions. Roger w. though they have the analysis of . C , r a i m ! , r ' T ! g r i c u l t U r ^ ^ e n M ^ " ] a *** fertilizer. This of course swimming, plained. It was seeded to birds-* . z. foot four years ago, and now: has one of the best stands in the county.

varies with the species. Hay, straw, and corn fodder have an analysis of about, a 4-4-4 fertilizer.

After using sawdust on my garden for the last four years, I know it reduces the loss of soil moisture, and improves the soil structure by adding organ­ic matter. It also has a stab­ilizing effect on soil tempera­ture, and on slopping land pro­tects the soil from erosion. And believe me, it reduces work as far as weeding is concerned. 2 or 3 inches of sawdust and the weed problem is gone.

There is one "must" to be observed by the wood mulch-ers if they are to succeed. In­creased nitrogen must be fur­nished to replace that used in the wood rotting process. Yel­lowing of leaves and slow growth are signs of nitrdgen deficiency. In the small gard­en this can be offset by side dressing with a nitrogen fertil­izer.

Fred Jensen, down Columbus way, has another answer to the water problem. While not maintaining the soil moisture in his fields it has certain pos­sibilities of being used. He has completed the .3 acre pond called for in his conserva­tion farm plan. Fred built the pond especially for fire protec­tion and stock water but is now thinking about fishing and

New York Fair Admission Rates Boosted

Syracuse. (A. P.)—The New York State Fair is jacking up its prices.

A spokesman said yesterday that the daily admission for the annual exposition, Aug. 30 to Sept. 6, would be $1.00, com­pared to 60 cents in previous years. Tickets sold in advance will be at the rate of 50 cents a day, a boost of 15 cents.

Changes in the state's "Blue Laws" will permit the staging of shows and operation of the entire midway on Sunday, Aug. 31, following the traditional religious service. Only child­ren is rides were run on Sunday last year.

Birdsfoot Cooperative Will Meet Monday

The first annual meeting of the Western New York Birds-foot Trefoil Seed Producers Co­operative will be held at 8 P.M. Monday at the Agricultural Headquarters at Salamanca.

The cooperative, which now has about 25 members, sold most of the trefoil seed pro­duced in Western New York during its first year of opera­tion.

The quality of milk is largely determined by federal market­ing orders, state milk legisla­tion and municipal health de­partments.

Oak Wilt Infestations Found in Pennsylvania

Harrlsburg, Pa. — The 16th outbreak of oak wilt in Penn­sylvania has been discovered in a farm wpodlot a mile north­west of Gettysburg, the Depart­ment of Agriculture announced this week* J

The disease, if unchecked, may destroy thousands of oak trees. The disease is known to spread underground through crossed roots, but its scatter­ing over wide areas remains a mystery. An extensive air and land survey of the state is underway.

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State Fair Offers Livestock Premiums

Syracuse. I A,P.) - Visitors to the New York State Fair will see $3,000,000 worth of blue blooded livestock, fair officials said today. The eight-day ex­hibition will open Aug. 30.

Breeders of the state's top animals will compete for $49,-315 in premiums, a fair spokesman said. Classifications and awards are cattle, 523,-575; poultry, pigeons, rabbits, and caries, $4,925; sheep, $5,-902; swmt, $3,316 and goats, $936.

P.M.A. DISTRICT MEETING Representatives of the Chau­

tauqua County Production and Market Administration will at­tend a district meeting on price supports Monday an Tuesday at Bath. State and county PMA officers will attend the session, to review price supports affect­ing this year's crops.

Glenn W. Cline, assistant county agricultural agent, has begun sending letters to dairy­men on the Farm Bureau mail­ing list to determine interest in owner-sampler meroberships. Persons desiring information should inquire of directors or at the office in Jamestown.

This type of testing program would cost about half that of membership in the DHIA, al­though the actual cost would be determined by expenses. It would include a monthly test, and compiling of individual records and herd averages in milk and butterfat.

At present, the DHIA has about 25 owner-samplers, the

home-built and commercial, was witnessed by a crowd esti­mated at from 5,000 to 10,000 persons on six adjoining farms in this area at the Erie County, Pa., fruit growers field day Sat­urday.

Represented were the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Guests includ­ed Kenneth Bullock, executive secretary of the New York State Farm Bureau Federation; Porter Taylor, marketing spe­cialist of the American Farm Bureau Federation; and Dan Dalrymple secretary of the New York State Horticultural Socitey.

More than 1,100 persons of capacity of the present system | the North East area gave their of sampling. Owner-samplers i services as hosts to the crowd, take their own milk samples, j Buses carried visitors from which are picked up by the the site of the field day to the supervisor and tested. i fruit and vegetable laboratory

Mark J . Haakins, Jamestown, reported on visits to labora­tories at Batavia and Warsaw, made by C. W. Ryder, Fre­donia, Raymond Hewes, May-ville, and Mr. Haskins. He stated that both members and supervisors in these associa­tions favored the system, and had found more accuracy and greater flexibility resulting.

Mr. Cline stated that about 400 owner-sampler members

of Pennsylvania State College, four miles distant, where an open house was held to demon­strate work done at the station.

Many types of sprayers worked in one section, and in others tillage machinery was in constant operation. An old or­chard was given a workout with power primers. ' Farm-built machinery was

the feature of the f#ld day, and many of these machines

twere in operation. Commercial t^^JS^SSLSJ^SS^^Si B»iA|Ber^«4l t t» l t i lined the laboratory efficiently. The final > highway in the area decision on whether to set up ^ p r o g r a m f o r w o m e n i n . the lab must be made by the d u d e d demonstrations of freez-full membership of the associa­tion. *

In operation of the central laboratory, supervisors would take samples, then return them to the lab for testing, rather than to make the tests at farm as is done now. It would enable office personnel-, to compute production and make out rec­ords.

Testing kits for owner-samplers would be left at the farm, and picked up by the supervisor on his return tr ip.

At least one supervisor has already set up his own "central laboratory," finding that he can save time by leaving his equip­ment set up at his home and returning the samples there for test* f.h^/fjj • *iff

Twenty publishers turned down "Robinson Crusoe" before it was published. It has been a best seller for more than 200 years.

ing foods; cherry pies baked by Shirley Miller, Corry, Erie County pie champion; a puppet show on weight control put on by 4-H girls; and an exhibit of work of adult extension clubs. Fruit recipe booklets, prepared hy Erie County women, were given free to visitors.

The field day was staged by the Erie County Horticultural Association in conjunction with the agricultural and home economics staff. K e n n e t h Youngs and Jack Naylor were co-chairmen, with Harry J. Poorbaugh, Erie County- agri­cultural agent, assisting.

TOP 1,009 POUNDS Brattleboro, Vt. — Cows

owned by Edward anpV Kenton Rounds, *: Green«,f atorf At. Rose, Pine Plains, have made butter­fat records of more than 1,000 pounds, both on three times milking, according to the Hol­stein - Fresian Association of America.

Action to Be Taken Before October; Cream Market Sought

, Disincorporation of Dairy­men's League locals in . .Sue-District 17-A will begin follow­ing a meeting of officers ojf all locals, and is to be completed before the annual meetings, held in October. j

Each local will hold a meet­ing for the •purpose, A. Morelle Cheney, director, stated at a meeting of the Sub-District Thursday evening in the Busti Grange -Hall. The time and place of the meeting of officers will be announced later.

Locals throughout the cooper­ative are taking the action, in a move to decrease corporate taxes on cooperatives and ef­fect other economics. The loc­als will become segments of the parent organization.

In his brief report, Mr. Cheney also told members that because of substitutes now on the market, the dairy industry is* faced with the problem of finding a market for cream.

Principal speaker was Harry Inglesen, Jamestown, who des­cribed the use of milk in the making of new textiles. Choos­ing "The Miracle of Milk" as his topic, Mr. Igleson also discussed the manufacture "of

other types of synthetic fab­rics.

Howard Hanna, of the Erie Division Office, gave a report. Harry Cale, Sugar Grove, pre­sided as Chairman .at the meeting.

The program included guitar music by Miss Ethel Wake. Sugar Grove, and by Mrs. Harold Carlson and her daugh­ter. Mrs. Cale gave a reading.

The members voted to hold a sub-district picnic this sum­mer. Mr. Hanna heads the committee on arrangements. The group will meet again July 24, with the Jamestown Local as hosts.

The Kiantone and Sugar Grove Locals were hosts for Thursday meeting, and served refreshments following t h e meeting. f

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GEN. HAYDEN NAMED Washington. (A.P.) — The

Army announced today that Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Hay-den, assistant commandant of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery and guided missiles center, For t . Bliss, Tex., will be the next commander of the eastern Army Anti-Aircraft Command at Stewart Air Force Base, Middletown. He will suceeed Brig. Gen. William M. Hamil­ton, a national guard officer, who will return to civilian life.

WANNA BUYA DUCK? Vancouver. (A.P.)—Passenger

cars arid trucks were lined up for 100 yards in both directions as traffic halted on the Lions Gate bridge approach in Stanley Park recently. The cause was a mother duck leading her newborn family sedately across the pave­ment. «. .••• '*.

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Dr. Gillette Resions As Statistics Head

Albany — After 30 years in the Bureau of Statistics, New York State Department of Ag­riculture and Markets. Dr. Roy L. Gillett. Delmar. is retirtnc on June 30. He has seryed 28 years as director of that bureau.

Succeeding him in charee of the statistical office hi Albany will be his present assistant. William I. Bair, Albany, who has served as ftWl assistant Since January. 1944.

TO DISCONTINUE BUSES Albany. (A.P.) — The El-

mira-Watldns G l e n Transit | Corp. has been authorized to discontinue bus service on its Ithaca-Watkins Glen route. The Public Service Commission ap­proved a company request to eliminate the run on the fcround that increased use of private automobiles had reduced bus >atronage to an unprofitable

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