The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-14
FARMERS CONVENE
The State Board of Agricul-
ture Opens Its Twenty
fourth Annual
Meeting.
VALUABLE PAPERS PRESENTED
Agriculturists Told That Farming
Does Pay-Results Secured
at the Experimental
Station.
Special to The Jerscu Cay Neacs.

TRENTON, Jan. Ia, 1S97.-Three ses-
sions of the twenty-fourth annual meet
ing of the New Jersey State Board OF
Agriculture were held in the Supreme
Court room at the State Houe yeter-
day.
At 1890 o'clock yeterday morning Presi-
dent D. D. Denise of Freehold called the
meeting to order. and prayer was Of
fered by Rev. George c. Maddox, the
prison chaplain.
Theodore f. D. Baker, Of Bridgeton
read the report of the Executive Commit
tee. The committee hoped to nave the
State Board of Education endorse THE
First Principles of Agriculture as a
text book for use in schools attended by
farmers children.
The committee visited the stock farm of
]. B. Lozier at Oradell. N. j., which is a
celebrated trotting horse farm. A visit
was also made to the farm of ex-Maycr
Hugh J.. Grant, of New York. This visit
manifested the Importance of having city
| gentlemen build summer homes in the
country
Hon. John T. Cox made a report for the
State Grange. which ADVOCATES free rural
mail delivery and opposes any reduction
of letter postage until after free delivery
is an accomplished thing in rural COM
muntties. The report also referred to the
fraudulent products on the market. 1t did
not oppose the manufacture of oleomar-
garise, provided that product wa not
placed on the market in the guise of but
ter.
Franklin Dye, Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, submitted his am
nual report for 1896. Among other things
Mr.. Dye said New Jersey was becoming
more and more a dairy State. That be-
ing the case. he asked what crop can the
farmer grow that will pay him better
than corn?
The greatest hindrance to the success
of the dairy business was that those en-
gagged in it do not understand the re-
qu1rements of the business. A large
portion of dairy cows, kept as such, are
profitable cows only in name.
Another hindrance is that milk in all
cases is not produced in absolutely
heaIthy surroundings and scrupuiously
Clean conditions. Another hindrance is
the limited demand for this perfect, ma
tural food. Milk is doled out to families
OF i've or six by the pint or quart for
the days use, whereas DIT should be
among the home food products, of the
From 1887. to 1895, ten years. the num-
Der of mich COWS in New Jersey has in
creased from l72, 926 in 1887 to ZOO 47 in
ny, a sa aotal increase Of 27.42l head. The
e Crease IS 81 81 s Sc 81. $50 IN 1885, a total in
ot bn the dattS other hand, the decrease in
been %, s53 and of total valuation amount.
ing to $l.0s5, 6S4, showing that less atten-
men mers = = general tba has been given by. far
use or sale as dairy cows.
Iouching the question of good roade
MI. Dye said that while stone roads were.
u course, desirable, it is fair to presume
pnat DIRT roads Will continue in MANY sec
lions. And these roads should be kent IN
good repair. The best roads are those un-
Ief Weekly SUPERVISION OF men appointed
70 that work. With suitable material
placed at his disposal, a man with a
shovei, rake and w1leelbarrow could keen
IN repair a centatn section of a township;
on This plan has been tried and found
TO be the best way of keeping In, rerra4-
common dirt roads,.
The yields of the several crops During
the year have been generally good. and the
stock IN the State is in a healthy cordi-
ton
President Denise in his annual address
saad efaat 1t was wsBthdn the recollection of
most OF those present that to be a farmer
g. man was supposed to work from dawn
I'M dark at the severest drudgery. AL
1hough such tanners are to be found to-
0Hys OfCh lfMlUO6IS dfE wv smaller.
times. e"e
The latest methods OF -halsbanary. the
most profitable breeds of stock, and the
pest methods of perpetuating them must
be familiar to him, as must also the COM
merclal side of the business. Keen bust
ness competition requires the farmer to
be a good business man.
President Denise urged the farmers To
carry on their business on a cash basis.
Just as soon as possible every farmer
should disentangle himself from the al
merchants are enabled to charge on their
books almost any price they choose for
articles paid for on long credit or by ex-
change of goods.
Commercial fertilizers are valuable TO
the farm. If judiciously handled. In buv-
ing fertilizers the farmer should know
what eaements they contain and, second,
Agriculture should be made a study in
the common schools.
The wide locking of farmer boys to the
cities has attracted widespread attention.
much Of which is due to the farmers con,
stantiy talking of the hard times Of the
PAST = present on the farm. There is
no place IN life that is so good as the
farm. II there is anything raised he has
the first slice. and he has more leisure
hours than the business man.
A scientific education plays an impor-
tant part In successful farmiug. The
farmers institutes are doing much good
Professor p 2. Voorhees,. OF the expert
per or the Work of the EXPERIMENT sfa-
tons. The station was founded in ISS0
In that year ifty-four samples of fertlli-
zer were anaayzed; in 1896 nine time as
many-486. In 1890, nineteen samples Of
folders and feeds and thirty-nine samples
on milk were examined; in 1896 this NUM-
Der was more than fripled.
Field experiments with FERTILIZERS aaos,u
chemical lines were very successful. IN.
experiments with Fertilizers upon sweet
potatoes It was demonstrated that the rui-