Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday, December 9, 1897.
STATE
COURT OF CLAIMS
Marks Its
Coming Retirement by Settling Many State Claims.
ALBANY, Dec. 9.—The members of the state court
of claims, who retire on Jan. 1 next, mark their retirement by making awards in
claims pending before them aggregating about $66,000.
Several claims were dismissed, the most
important of which was the one brought by the New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad company for $93,123 for damages to its roadbed by reason of the
damming back of the waters of the Black river for the Forestport reservoir.
The largest awards made were to The Argus
company and The Journal company of Albany, each of whom received $16,841.25 for
the printing of the proceedings of the constitutional convention.
The following awards were made for damages
by the stopping of the flow of water from Skaneateles lake: Glenside Woolen
mills, $5,790; Lakeside Paper company, two awards of $3,178 and $3,346;
Skaneateles Paper company, two awards of $2,789 and $2,563; Forest G. Weeks,
two claims of $3,140 and $3,532; Simon D. Paddock, $900.
Claims for damages from the same causes of
the Hartlot Paper company and John E. Waller were dismissed. Awards were made
for the appropriation of land in Remsen, Oneida county, for the construction of
the Forestport reservoir in the Black river as follows: Clinton R. Thomas, as
supervisor of the town of Remsen, $125; John S. Kent, $750; John G. Jones, $125;
John J. Vaughn, $20; Lydia M. Francis, $300.
Joseph Stickney was awarded $3,000 for
injuries inflicted upon his son by being struck by a bullet while attending a
state rifle range at Bath. The injury resulted in the loss of his eye.
Mary Flannigan received an award of $3,500
for damages for the death of her husband, who was killed at Auburn by an insane
convict. Flannigan was a keeper in the prison.
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| Frank S. Black. |
EXECUTIVE
CLEMENCY.
Governor
Black Issues Pardons to Four Convicts.
ALBANY, Dec. 9.—Governor Black liberated by
pardon four prisoners who have been serving terms in state prisons for various
crimes, for which they had been convicted. The most important pardon was
granted to Thomas Gallagher, a telegraph lineman, who was convicted in Washington
county of murder in the second degree, for killing a fellow workman with whom
he had a fight, and was sentenced on Dec. 10, 1883, to Clinton prison for life.
The other pardons were given to Joe Perrota,
who was convicted of manslaughter in Orange county, and was sentenced to Sing
Sing in 1889 for 20 years. John Horning of New York city, a reformatory
prisoner transferred to Sing Sing, who has been serving for larceny since Dec.
13, 1893, and to Robert H. Waldron of New York city, who was sentenced to Sing
Sing on July 24, 1896,
for two years and six months for forgery in the second degree.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
Danger
of Social Relapse.
The Elmira Gazette warns woman of the danger
that when she shall become able to earn her own living lazy man will expect her
to support him. The Gazette looks up the records and finds that in barbarous
times the women had to do all the work while the men went fishing and talked
politics. The masculine member of the human family learned to work only when
woman told him that unless he would dig the potatoes she would go home to
mother's. Now that women are playing football and arguing cases in court and
showing their capacity to make a living in various arenas of contention, The
Gazette is afraid that man may resume his indolence and insist that the
earnings of the fair sex keep him in smoking tobacco and hammocks. The Troy
Times however, thinks it doubtful if indolent man would ever be willing to
accept a life of idleness, if he were compelled to find his wife's pockets in
order to get money for a new hat or forced to pull off her shoes when she came
home nights from the club. There are redeeming features even in the present
serfdom of man.
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The bicycle tends to draw
population away from overcrowded cities. Where the workingman can wheel to his
daily tasks, he will not be slow to go out from the stuffy rooms which are all
he can afford in town to the open country, where he may have a house and garden.
In Germany this tendency is especially pronounced. Germans love nature more than
people of other nationalities.
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The editor of a British
newspaper tells his readers that the best and most highly cultivated writers in
America are returning to the British spelling and putting again into such words
as "labor" and "honor" the "u" which Webster so
wisely dropped out. The British editor is dead wrong. We have a number of
Anglomaniacs in America, but not one of them is idiot enough to want to put an
extra letter into words where it never belonged, even in the original Latin.
Life is too short to write "labour," " honour,'' etc.
THE STATE DAIRYMEN.
TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION
IN FULL BLAST.
Annual Address of
the President, Dr. L. L. Van Slyke of Geneva—Convention
Committees
Announced—Interesting and Instructive Papers by the Best Men in the State—Beet
Cultivation the Topic To-night.
The twenty-first annual convention of the
New York State Dairymen's association, which began in the Opera House yesterday
morning, has brought together some of the best agriculturists the state affords,
and the papers presented are full of thought and practical suggestions that cannot
help from being of great value to the farmer. Cortland county farmers seem to
be taking much interest in the convention, nearly every town being well
represented, and many of the tillers of the soil being provided with notebooks
in which they jot down thoughts and suggestions brought out in the papers and
discussions.
At the opening of yesterday afternoon's session
President Van Slyke announced the following committee appointments:
Arrangements—B. R. Knapp, C. M. Lamont, N.
F. Webb.
Resolutions—Prof. H. H. Wing, A. R. Eastman,
J. D. Smith.
Nominations—Jesse Owen, A. Chase Thompson,
Prof. I. P. Roberts. W. W. Hall, Geo. A. Smith.
Program—L. L. Van Slyke and B. D. Gilbert.
The president then read his annual address,
which dealt largely with the history of the association, its present work and
took a look into the future. It was a carefully prepared article, and was
listened to with the deepest attention. The association, he said, was founded
March 8, 1877, and of the charter members, three are now living and retain
their membership, Prof. I. P. Roberts of Cornell university, Mr. B. D. Gilbert
of Clayville, and Mr. Jesse Owen. The convention of 1882 was held in Cortland.
Reference was made to the subjects discussed at the different conventions, and
to the fact that the subjects now discussed, such as ensilage, soiling, etc., did
not formerly receive attention. The association has had much to do in shaping
legislation affecting the dairy interests, and in the establishing of the state
experiment stations. More or less of the language of to-day was not
intelligible at the first convention. To-day the most important means of
disseminating information is through the experiment stations and the farmers'
institutes. Dairy schools have also played no small part. These meetings are as
much needed to-day as ever. [Where] else can the farmer, the cheesemaker. and
the creamery manager meet for the interchange of ideas for mutual benefit? Our
energies should be applied in the right direction. President Van Slyke closed
by referring to the untiring efforts of F. E. Dawley, director of state institutes,
in arranging the details of the present convention.
The president then read a communication from
State Dairy Commissioner Charles A. Wieting
in which that official stated that he had it upon good authority that cheesemakers
in other states had been placing the New York brand on their products, and
urged the convention to adopt resolutions calling upon congress to enact a law
prohibiting false branding of dairy products. The communication was referred to
the committee on resolutions.
F. S. PEER ON
"SOILING."
The subject of soiling was well handled by
Mr. F. S. Peer of Mount Morris, who said that soiling is a discovery which came
to him. He did not discover it. Without it he would have been stranded. He was
called a crank by some and others tried to excuse it by saying he had wheels.
He has lived to hear men quote his book on soiling in his presence, not knowing
him to be present. Ensilage has produced something of a revolution in farming,
but summer soiling is far ahead of ensilage. The two combined will make an even
greater revolution. Ensilage was popular because it was new and in a degree
sensational. Soiling is so fortunate as not to require any patent machinery.
Soiling costs nothing in the way of machinery or buildings. Yet no one talks of
it very much. I meet a farmer, and he says he has been soiling all his life. He
says he has sown some corn alongside of pasture, and when grown has cut it and
thrown it over to the cows. That was his idea of soiling. Mr. Peer spoke of the
dilapidated condition of the farm on which he began farming. The fences were
down and the cows were kept in the barnyard, and later in the barn. He began
feeding them clover, and soon found that an acre of clover would provide 320
feedings, and that five acres would feed a cow one yea. He very soon became a
thorough convert to soiling. His cows nearly doubled their yearly butter
records. He referred to the beneficial results obtained on the islands of
Jersey and Guernsey. Cattle prefer soiling to pasturing at any time. The sight
of cattle under soiling compared with those under pasturing is enough to
convert any one to the practice of soiling. Feed cows only what they will eat
up clean. Don't feed too much at a time. A cow breathing on her food will not
eat till hungry and will shrink in milk. The farmer has to compete with
foreigners who are urged to come to this country by the government offering to
give each a farm of 160 acres. This is a great detriment to the American farmer
whose only solution to keep from getting down to their level is to cheapen their
production; make one acre produce what five acres formerly did; try soiling. The
paper was followed by a short discussion.
PROF. I. P.
ROBERTS.
Prof. I. P. Roberts, director of the
agricultural experiment station at Cornell university, then
addressed the convention on "Forage Crops and Winter Dairying." He
held that food is the greatest factor in improving breeds of cattle. Its
character, quality and quantity has all to do with production. A large share of
the address was devoted to the advocacy of corn as a food instead of hay.
Alfalfa serves very well as a forage plant. He has tried nearly everything, but
nothing has been found equal to corn. It can be raised and harvested with but
little hand labor, and that is what all want to get rid of. Economy is the watch
word. We are going to raise the sugar beet in New York, but it will be a
failure unless we have the machinery for doing it. He referred to the idea that
some people have that they should only be up with the average in their
production. They should strive to exceed it. The rule of averages is a fair one
to follow when rightly applied. But when wrongly applied it is very misleading
as in this illustration. A roadster can travel fourteen miles in one hour, and
a jackass one mile in fourteen hours. Therefore, the mule, which is the average
between the roadster and jackass, can travel seven and one-half miles in an
hour. He advocated winter dairying together with ensilage corn as feed for the
reason that in the summer the price of butter is low, the men are tired and the
pastures are sparse.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The session of Wednesday evening was not so
largely attended as the afternoon, but the practical thoughts expressed by the
speakers were many and of value. The first speaker was Prof. H. H. Wing of the
experiment station at Cornell university on "What Can We Learn From
Europe?" Prof. Wing has recently returned from Europe, where he was
afforded the best opportunities for examining and studying the dairy system of
the most prominent European countries. He visited Great Britain, Denmark,
France, Holland, and Switzerland, and learned much of value to the American
dairyman. He spoke especially of buttertmaking in Denmark, saying that the
butter of that country is of a uniformly high quality, but he has seen and
tasted just as good butter in America. Nothing is done in Denmark that the
American cannot do or does not know how to do. The chief lever used by the
Danes to insure the perfectness of their butter is in the artificial culture of
ferments to ripen butter. In the skilled use of the cultures of lactic acid, the
Danes are certainly ahead of the Americans. The European demand is for a
uniformly characteristically mild butter, while the Americans demand good flavor,
but in a greater degree. As to the texture of the foreign butter, it is distinctly
lower than ours. He spoke of the Danish butter shows, as a system of
semi-government inspections, which have had much to do with their getting so
great a foothold in the European markets. Prof. Wing recommended such a system
for New York state dairymen. In England there is a great diversity of dairy
products. American butter is eaten more readily in England when it is not known
to be American butter. This is because of the great English prejudice against
American goods, and also because so much adulterated stuff has been forced on
the English markets. Yet, much of the American butter sold in London is sold as
English butter, and the consumer supposes he is eating English butter.
AMASA THORNTON, Esq.
Amasa Thornton, Esq., of New York City gave
an interesting talk on "The Farmers Position in the Polities of the
Future." He said that as an attorney he had had much to do with the
preparation of the present oleomargarine laws. He was not there to talk party
politics, but he made the assertion that if free silver alone had been the
issue at the last presidential election, in his opinion Bryan would not have
received 50,000 votes in New York state. He discussed…and the doctrine of state
ownership of real estate, and gave reasons why the farmer should be opposed to
such principles. He closed by making the prediction that in the near future the
farmer will be called upon to vote directly on the question of socialism.
MR. A. R. EASTMAN.
The last speaker of the evening was Mr. A.
R. Eastman of the state Institute's force on the subject, "Seeking a
Trail." He related his experiences in the Adirondack wilderness in getting
lost, and told of one of the guides who climbed to the top of a tree to get
their bearings. Farmers it is a good idea for your agricultural investigations
to get up a tree and get your bearings. Take, up the compass and profit by the
experience of others.
THURSDAY MORNING
SESSION.
The morning session of the convention opened
at 9:30 o'clock with an increased attendance over the first day. The farmers
are taking a lively interest in the proceedings of the convention and are
present from all parts of the county. A part of the forenoon was taken up in the
discussion of questions before the regular program was taken up.
Three able and interesting papers were
presented during the forenoon. The first was by the secretary of the
association, Mr. B. D. Gilbert, on "The Causes of a Bad Cheese Market This
Fall." Mr. Gilbert is secretary of the Utica board of trade, an
institution that handles something like two million dollars' worth of butter
and cheese every season, and is an authority on matters pertaining to the cheese
industry.
He believed there were three principal causes,
first and most obvious was the over-production of cheese in all cheesemaking
countries this season. The receipts of cheese in New York from May 1 to Dec. 1
were 425,000 boxes in excess of last year.
The second reason lies in the action of the
English co-operative associations a year and a half ago. At that time these
associations bought heavily of American cheese and stocked up for the year with
May, June and July goods. Other jobbers and retailers in England did not buy
until September and October goods were in market and had to pay from one to two
cents more for them than the cooperatives paid earlier in the season. All
winter the latter were able to undersell their competitors, so last spring and summer
these competitors decided not to be caught again and they also stocked themselves
for the entire season with early made goods.
The third reason given was the heavy
curtailment in demand from home trade. A large part of this demand in the fall
usually comes from the southern states but the wide spread prevalence of yellow
fever in the South had a serious effect upon the trade of those states The
merchants in these cities either held off from buying any cheese at all, or if
they bought they did so only in a small and limited way.
At the same time the cheese dairyman has
reason to congratulate himself. During the season of heaviest production he was
getting prices that were 1 1/2 cents in excess even of last year, while
his September and October stock which is always much less in amount than the
earlier make, sold at about 1 1/2 cents discount from last year.
Mr. Geo. A. Smith of the state institute force
spoke upon the subject, "Our Milk Markets" and answered numerous
questions which were brought out by his remarks.
The last paper of the morning was upon
"The Bright Side of Dairy Farming" by Josiah D. Smith of Delhi, which
brought out some of the best thoughts in connection with the dairy farmers'
work.
The committee on resolutions submitted its
report and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The honorable commissioner of
agriculture of this state, in a most important communication, has called the
attention of this association to the dishonorable use of the New York state
full cream cheese brand by cheesemakers or dealers in other states, a practice
calculated to bring New York cheese into great disrepute, and has advised us
that national legislation is the only remedy for this violation of the rights
of New York dairymen. Be it therefore
Resolved, That this association hereby expresses its hearty appreciation of
Commissioner Wieting's efforts in behalf of our dairy interests.
Resolved, That this association respectfully presents to the attention of our
national legislature, especially the representatives in congress from this
state, the necessity of enacting such laws as may be leasable to prevent this
fraudulent appropriation of the well earned reputation of New York cheese.
Resolved, That the secretary of this association is requested to furnish the representatives
in congress from New York and Commissioner Wieting with a copy of these
resolutions.
Resolved, That this association recognizes its obligations to F. E. Dawley,
director of institutes, for his earnest efforts and substantial aid in making this
meeting not only possible but successful.
WHEREAS, The possible use of incorrectly
graduated Babcock test bottles may cause great injustice to both sellers and
buyers of milk and cream,
Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that the legislature of New York should enact a
law imposing a penalty upon whoever sells or uses in this state for commercial
purposes Babcock test bottles showing errors of graduation beyond a reasonable
limit.
WHEREAS, Farmers in this and other states
have been repeatedly duped and swindled by so-called promoters of creameries.
Resolved, That the promotion of creamery plants in this state on the stock basis at
a cost to farmers greatly exceeding the actual cost of construction and
equipment is greatly detrimental to the interests of dairying and should be severely
condemned.
Resolved, That the thanks of the association are due to Mr. B. R. Knapp and to
other citizens of Cortland and vicinity for their generosity in providing this
place of meeting and for their efficient co-operation in the plans and
proceedings of this convention.
THURSDAY
AFTERNOON.
At the opening of the session this afternoon,
a short time was devoted to questions and answers, which brought out
many valuable points, among them the following:
If all of the poor butter were made first-class,
would it increase its price, and would it affect the amount of butter consumed?
It would tend to cheapen the price of Elgin make, and raise the average price
of butter. It would probably increase the consumption.
What is the best remedy for chronic fouls?
Burn it out well with spirits of salts, two mornings in succession, followed by
a liberal and persistent application of coal tar. But the best way is to
treat it before it becomes chronic by using blue vitriol dissolved in vinegar.
The committee on nominations made the
following report, which was adopted unanimously, and these officers were unanimously
chosen for the coming year:
President—A. R. Eastman of Waterville.
First Vice-President—C. M. Lamont of Owego.
Secretary—S. Brown Richardson of Lowville,
Treasurer—F. E. Dawley of Fayetteville.
Directors—Prof. H. H. Wing, J. R. Van Wagenen,
Jr., W. W. Hall, H. E. Cook, J. D. Smith, Harvey W. Richardson.
Vice-Presidents—Hon. F. S. Black, Hon. C.
A. Wieting, Hon. W. Carey Sagner, J. S. Woodward, Prof. I. P. Roberts, G. A.
Smith, Jesse Owen.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted
expressing the appreciation of the association for the faithfulness and
cheerfulness with which the secretary, Mr. B. D. Gilbert, has performed his
duties for the past seven years; also thanking the Cortland county dairymen for
their efforts in making the convention a success. President Yan Slyke said that
the convention of this year had been most satisfactory in all respects.
The convention was still in session when The
STANDARD went to press.
BREVITIES.
—The Woman's Relief corps to-day shipped a
box of canned fruit to the Oxford Home.
—The O. U. A. M. initiated thirteen new
members at their regular meeting last evening.
—The Cortland County Medical society held
their regular meeting in the supervisors' rooms to-day.
—Captain H. W. Carver of the Y. M. C. A.
handball team calls a meeting of the members of the team for this evening at
7:30.
—The regular conclave of Cortland
commandery, No. 50, K. T., will be held at the asylum at 7:30 o'clock to-morrow
evening.
—Tracklaying on the new E. & C. N. Y. R. R. is now completed to a
point about one-half a mile within the cheese factory at East Freetown.
—The Choral society last night put in good
hard work on the music to be given at the concert Dec. 17. The chorus work showed
a marked improvement over the last rehearsal.
—Bulletin No. 140, just issued by the Cornell
university agricultural experiment station, is entitled "Second Report on
Potato Culture." Farmers will find it a valuable pamphlet.
—About forty men are employed at the glass
works. Three blows have been made since the works started up last week and the
glass is said to be of a most excellent quality.—Ithaca Journal.
—One "Wandering Willie," who gave his
name as John Roberts, and his residence as nowhere in particular, was an occupant
of one of the cells at the police station last night and was this morning given
one hour in which to leave town.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Able
& Willing Mfg. Co., Slot Pencil Sharpener, page 6: Dey Bros. & Co.,
Ready for Christmas, page 2; S. Rosenbloom & Sons, Furniture, etc., page 8; Smith & Beaudry,
A Good Book, page 8; A. S. Burgess, Grand Holiday Sale, page 8; National Stamp association,
Trading Stamps, page 7.
HOMER.
Gleanings of News
From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, Dec. 9.—The meeting of the Leisure
Hour club will be held on Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. J. Arnold
on Cayuga-st. instead of on Friday on account of the lecture before the club on
Friday by Rev. N. N. Beauchamp of Baldwinsville at the home of Mrs. F. A. S.
Storer.
The Homer band have donated their services
to the hospital fair managers at Cortland and will furnish music this evening
at the opening of the fair.
Mrs. Paige of Schenevus arrived in town yesterday
and is staying at the home of her brother, Mr. Emerson D. Seward, on River-st.
M. Seward has been resting quietly for the past twenty-four hours and is
relieved from pain to a great extent.
The regular monthly meeting and election of officers
of Triumph Hose Co., No. 4, will be held in Fireman's hall this evening at 8
o'clock.
The Young Men's club feel very grateful to
Mr. H. Davis for the donation of a large parlor stove and also to Mr. J. Delos Heberd for the
donation of a fine kitchen range and would be very thankful for any thing [sic]
in the line of games, pictures, literature, curtains, etc. The young men have
repapered the east room which will be used as a reception room and parlor and
will lay the crash on the floor this afternoon. They have also cleaned and arranged
two rooms upstairs for game rooms. At a meeting held in the rooms last evening
one new member was admitted.
The remains of Mrs. Elisha Wagoner of Cold
Brook, who died at the Cortland hospital of fever, were brought to the Briggs
Bros. undertakingrooms [sic], where they were embalmed and interment was made
to-day at Cold Brook.
Mrs. William Foster entertained the members
of her Sunday-school class last evening at her home on Main-st. The members
assembled early in the evening and after having had supper at 6 o'clock the
balance of the evening was spent in games and music.
Mrs. Will Ramsey and two children left the
forepart of this week for Pleasantville, Mo., where they will spend the winter with
her mother who is in poor health.
Tickets for the Friday evening electromotiscope
entertainment to be given under the auspices of the Young People's Baptist
union are for sale at C. A. Watson's pharmacy. Prices, children under 12 years
15 cents; reserved seats 35 cents. General admission 25 cents.
A dancing school is to be started in the
large hall over the Homer National Bank, and music is to be furnished by Babcock's
full orchestra. A competent teacher will have charge of the lessons and all who
desire to know more about the school may learn by inquiring of M. G. Babrock, the
leader and manager of Babcock's orchestra.
Many of the boys about town are contemplating
attending the donation for the Methodist pastor at Scott this evening.
Mr. Geo. Foster of DeRuyter passed through town
this morning on his way to visit his father,
John Foster, at Little York who during a sudden attack of heart disease fell on
his face and broke the cartilage in his nose. He is doing nicely though at the
last report.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wake and son of Prestonville
returned from Weedsport where they have been attending the funeral of Mr. Waite's
father, Mr. Anson Waite of that place. Mr. O. P. Chrysler of this place was
also present at the funeral.
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