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VoL 83. No. 22. Established in 1863. MABGAKETVILLE, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1945 $2 FiBr

Expert Says Hen MarketSoonMust Expect Big Drop

Demand for Eggs and Poul-try Has Brought Top

Figures

Post-W^Merent Government Wfll Curtain

Purchases and May Re-lease Many Meats

The poultry business, like the proverbial dog, has had its day, according to Dr. L. B. Darrah of Agricultural Economics at Cornell university. This section of Dela-ware and Ulster counties, near the great mountain boarding section, has raised large amounts of poultry and many will be interested in what the Cornell professor has to say.

"The demand for poultry and eggs during the past few months has been at an unprecedented high level. Supplies of both poultry and eggs have been very short of trade needs." Dr. Darrah con-tinued: "One thing that I believe, many poultrymen have forgotten about during the past few months is the fact that you were dealing directly with the world's best buyer, namely the United States government." The one difficulty with this best buyer is, that he is likely to change his mind and his plans very rapidly.

Dr. Darrah said (hat the number of layers on New York state farms was estimated 17 per cent below the number last year at this time and* seven per cent fewer layers in the country as a whole. Storage stocks of eggs are only about two-thirds as high as at this time last year. "If I were to guess," Dr. Darrah said, "about the outlook for egg prices, I would say that for the top quality nearby eggs, the market is likely to continue strong throughout most of the remaining months for 1945, the seasonal low point occurring around the last part of November."

"Cta the poultry meat side, there are several danger signals just ahead," Dr. Darrah said. "Hie number one is tiie termination of the government set aside order on poultry produced in the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia area, sev-eral southern areas, and in the midwest, besides the cancellation oi orders in other sections for live and processed poultry- The sec-ond danger signal is the fact that hatdiery operations continue at record levels. The third danger signal is the fact that the govem-m ^ t has indicated the set aside requirements for beef, veal and ham. Frankly," Dr. Darrah said, "I expect poultry prices to drop ^considerable below present levels before the end of this year." He also said he looked for egg prices to be lower in the spring of 1946 than they were this last spring due to thef fact that low meat ^ ices will mean saving more pul-lets for production.

"We are in a postwar period," .Dr. Darrah continued, "and that means the time is near when effi-cient production and quality of -products will again be the pass-words to success in poultry farm-ing."

Prof. John Vandervort of Penn-sylvania State college, who at-tended high school at Unadilla, said that the broiler industry is here to stay. He said that grow-ers in the northern section could produce hi ier quality broilers, but that it would cost more money because of the higher wages and higher feed costs. He believes that the broiler industry tends toward huge dressing plants and he cited examples where some |d«Bts already have facilities for dressing 3,500 broUers a day vhere

Dogs KiU Valuable Sheep on Ronay Farm Sheep-killing dogs entered

the sheep field of the Ronay farm on the mountain north-east of the village Monday night, killed seven and in-jured several others of the valuable purebred Doreet sheep being raised Jhere by the owner,. E. H. Ronay, well-known New York hotel man.

The sheep are of an excel-lent strain and have a ready market value of $150 each. Mr. Ronay is rearing them for breeding purposes and would not sell at that price. The township assessors viewed the damage Tuesday and allowed the maximum the law permits, $600. Many of the animals not killed were terribly bitten. The sheep pasture is surrounded by a woven wire fence nearly seven feet high with a barb wire on top of that. The killera must be experienced.

Granges Will Meet to Consider ^Soldiers of Soil'

A series of Neighbor night meet-ings is planned for Delaware coun-ty Granges as follows:

Sidney, Franklin, Davenport, West Kortright, Maywood and Ouleout on Sept. 10; Hamden, Mundale, East Branch, Cannons-ville, Masonville and Walton at Walton Sept. 18; Delaware VaDey, Shavertown, Pepacton and Wawa-ka ^t Wawaka Oct. 15; Charlotte Valley, Col. Harper, Utsayantha, South Kortright, Delhi and Bloom-ville Oct. 26.

The theme of ^he^ meetings'is 'Soldiers of the SoiL" Eadi

Grange vdU present a ten-minute number on the program. AU are asked to bring sandwiches and one other article of food for lunch.— Roxbury Cor.

Andrew Archibald Discharged S/Sgt. Andrew W. Archibald,

who has just been mustered out at Fort Dix, N. J., arrived at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Archibald, late last Thurs-day evening after three years in the European theatre of war.

Sgt. Archibald put in four hun-dred days of actusd fighting, be-ginning in Africa and ending in Italy. He was awarded the Bronze Star far exceptional bravery in action, has a Good Conduct badge, a campaign ribbon and five battle stars.—^New Kingston Cor.

Shinhopple Game Refuge Will Soon See Changes for the Better Is Hope

Hie State Conservation depart-ment is making radical changes in the 7,114-acre Bear Spring Moun-tEiin game management area, other-wise called Shinhopple for short.

Ten years ago the Federal gov-ernment began buying wild land in the Shinhopple area and acquired about 6,000 acres of cut-over terri-tory. Corbett & Stuart had cut off most of the timber and wood for their acid factories. The Fed-eral government paid about $5 an acre on the average, and before Dr. Tugwell and others got through close to $400,000 had been spent, not counting the cost of bureau-cratic conttol at Washington and elsewhere. About four years ago the Federal government turned the project over to the State Conserva-tion department. Land owners up and down Trout Brook, including to the top of Bear Spring Moimtain and down the other side to Walton and Beerston were bought out and moved off and Conmussipper Os-borne started the policy of letting the area go "wild" again, which it did. At one time there were 200 or 300 "Relief workers on the payroll and buses were rim from Hancock and Downsville to take

them to and from work. Candor compels the statement that, aside from setting put about 25,000 ever-green trees and rebuilding two dams little was done, and the area soon reverte^ to a A^der state.

Last year the State Conserva-tion jdepartment made a study of its possession. At the beginning of the study 4,818 of the 7,114 acres was inclosed as a single refuge. Now, however, according to a department engineer, only 1,360 acres (19 per cent of the area) is in refuges. Also, that refuge area, instead of being in a large solid block as before, has been broken down into three sepa-rate sections. The rearrangement of the refuge areas was dictated by the department's desire to open a greater proportion for public hunting. In addition, it was pos-sible, by the new arrangement, to open up two fairly good sized pbnds for public fishing'which previously had not been available. Post-war plans caU for the construction of one dam'on the lower end of East 'Drout Brook. It will be construct-ed to flood six to seven acres and fishing.—-Hancock Herald.

Arkville School Opens School opened Tuesday with Mr.

Shultis principal and Miss Red-mond primary teacher. Pupils entering the first grade were Jac-queline Eighmey, Ivan Germond, Gene Snyder, Mary Lou Decker, Harry Bell, Betty Spencer, Letty Spencer, Aim Griffin and Keith Robbin.—Arkville Cor.

Woodstock Man Dies Frederick L. Behman of Wood-

stock died in the Benedictine hos-pital, this dty, on Saturday after a brief illness. Mr. Behman was a gardener by occupation and had charge of many lawns and gardens in Woodstock and vicinity.—^Kings-ton Freeman.

the birds would be prepared for the housewife so that all she would have to do would be to drop them in the frying i>an. He said that he also believed that the in-dustry would develop a bird that would grow faster and feather faster for this indus^.

Mr. Vandervort said that in dis-cussing buildings for poultrjr, that he believed the tendency was toward large multi-story houses with labor saving, equipment so that one man would be able to take care of 5,000 layers instead of 1,000 which is commcm today. He said that the hardest job, ^ d he sighted example erf this type erf business, would be in handUng t h e e ^ .

Observance of Rosh Hashannah Starts Friday

Rosh Hashannah, the annual Jewish New Year religious observ-ance, will begin at simset Friday and will continue for two days.

"This year," a prominent rabbi points out, "will be of more than ordinary significance because the ideal of the Jewish holy days is the ideal on which the entire Judaeo-Christian ethical character of our western civilization is based, an ideal of 'peace, peace to those who are far away and to those who are near'."

According to tradition, Rosh Hashannah is the anniversary of the creation of the world. The day ushers in ten penitential days during which time Jews seek to make peace with themselves, God and their neighbors.

The blowing of the Shofar, or ram's horn, as a call to repentance, is a part of the synagogue service for the New Year. It was a ram's horn with which people were sum-moned to servicfe and assembly for ^portant proclamations in ancient Palestine.

Rosh Hashannah is being ob-served this year as a raU to a new era of better understanding, of greater sincerity, and dedica-tion to the pursuits of peace.

Dunraven Post Office Established in 1849

New Kingston Farms Had No Soil Rental

Many of our citizens were in Andes Monday attending the one himdred year anniversary of the now famous Anti-Rent war. ^

The five thousand acre New Kingston tract was fre6 of this soil rental, but probably all farms north of the village were subject to the rent at one time. Many of these have been paid in recent years.

Attorney Arthur F. Bouton of Roxbury, whose family owned some of these, reports that the last one in this valley was paid a few weeks ago by Mrs. Vernon BrowneU on their farm. ^

•Hie rental on this small farm was $24.37 per year, which in , one hundred years would be around twice the value of the farm.—^New Kingston Cor.

Mrs. Muller Dies Mrs. Hilda Haffner Muller,

widow of Edward Muller of Fleischmanns, died in this dty Friday. Funeral services were held Monday morning at 9 o'clock from the E. B. Gormley funeral home in Phoenida, and thence to the Sacred Heart churdi at Ark-ville, where a high mass of requiem was offered at 10 o'dock. Burial was in the family plot in Montre-pose cemetery, this dty.—^Kingston Freeman.

The following letter from William A.VVermilya of Bingham-ton gives the complete history of the Dunraven post office which was recently discontinued:

Binghamton, N. Y. Sept. 1, 1945

Dear News: I read your article regarding the

passing of Dunraven post office. I have done some research and

find it was named Vifter the Earl of Dunraven, England. I have sent a clipping of your article to the present Earl, who is William Henry, Earl of Dunraven, Mount Earl at Dunraven Castle, Souther-down, Slamorangshire, England. I also have the history and post-masters of Dunraven, N. Y., as follows:

Established' as Clark Factory Feb. 8, 1849, with Egbert A.-aark as postmaster.

Henry A. Qark appointed Oct. 6, 1854.

Smith A. Taylor appointed June 9,1873.

Office discontinued Jan. 9, 1882. Reestablished May 29,1882, with

Olney M. Smith as postmaster. Ettie O'Brien appointed April 3,

1886. Name of post office changed to

Dunraven, N. Y., March 17, 1890. Etta O. Bamett appointed May

21, 1903.. John B. Knickerbocker appoint-

ed Oct. 5, 1904. Ina Scott appointed Jan. 2,1913. Office discontinued June 30,

1945, and mail ordered sent to Margaretville, N. Y.

There is one town left with name of Dunraven which has a population of 30 and is located in Perry county, Kentucky.

Sincerely youra, Wilber A. Vermilya 46 Demiison Ave. Binghamton, N. Y

Two Thousand See Andes Anti-Rent Pageant Mcmday

A perfect day and a perfect anniversary said himdreds of folks who attended the pageant at Andes on Labor day to commemorate the climax of the anti-rent troubles of 1845 which culminated in the shooting of Sheriff Steel on Dingle hill less than two miles from Andes in the summer of that year.

Over 2,000 people witnessed the pageant at the scene of the one himdred-year-ago shooting. There were 300 automobiles parked at the foot of the hiU. John Monroe and H. Christmas, authors, spoke. The costumes of Indians were ex-cellent as was the entire affair.

There were 75 covers ^t the Historical sodety banquet an the evening. There was also a meet-ing 'of the County Historical sodety. The real attraction of the evening was a handsome display of fireworks. The day's festivities wound up with a dance in the late evening.

Cauliflower Prices Reach $2.70 Here Wednesday

Cauliflower at the Margaretville auction block on Wednesday sold at approxmately the following prices: Crates of No. 1, top at $2.70, averaged about $2:50; No. 2 crates sold for top of $2.15 and averaged about $1.50.

Prices in New York yesterday morning for -the cauliflower sold here the previous day averaged about $2.25 for No. 1 and about $1 for No. 2, this giving the grower who sold here a great advantage.

Had City Folk in Uproar Quite a bit of exdtement pre-

vailed throughout this village on Mraiday evening when the report came that a strange animal ,had been seen in the vicinity of the farm of Kenneth Spaulding in West Settlement, which assembled an ape and was the size of a man. It is reported that the animal has been in the vicinity for several days and early in the evening be-gins wandering about in search of food. It has been seen by several people and Monday evening a posse of local men went to the Spaulding farm with searchlights and were unable to find any trace of the animal which looks like a man and gives out a honible screedi as it wanders through the fields.— Prattsvine Cor.

DownsvUle Wins I.eague Contests In Susquehanna Valley league

games at Downsville over the holi-day weekend, Downsville Blade Sox defeated Worcester,16-5, and Laurens, 11-7.

Worcester got away to a two-run lead in the first inning, but Downsville tied the score in the second round and uncorked a four-run drive in the fourth to dinch the contest.

Score by innings: R H E

Worcester 200 000 021— 5 11 6 Black Sox 020 406 40 —16 11 5

N. Tompkins, A. Gladstone and G. Gladstone; Farro, Jones and Pochkar, and Jones and Golja.

R H E Laurens 001 500 100— 7 9 1 Blade Sox 104 202 20 —11 16 3

G. Townsend, Dryher and Cable; Barton, Mattice £md Quintin.

New York Opens BidsToComplete Lackawack Dam

Secures High Rating From WPB for First Great

Project

East Branch Third Future Construction Costs

Will Be Interesting. Dam Is Long

Surveys Sal^ Territory William Davis (the Rawleigh

man), who serves quite a bit of territory with his line of goods, has been anxious to see the terri-tory which he covers by car on all kinds of roads, from the air. Last week he left Sidney, took in the sights of DeLancey, Cabin Hill, Andes. Dingle H ^ Arena. Maiv garetv^e. New Kingston, other valleys, and other sights of inter-est which he states was very en-joyable. He was piloted by E. M. Woolheater. "Bill" will drop you a bottle of anti-pain oil in the future from the air.—^Andes Cor.

USES Reports mi Unemployment Since V-J day about 4,560 men

have been laid <rff work in Otsego and Delaware counties. Of these 800 have alreaify secured jotet

Real Estate Changes Colchester: :^ard of Education,

Central School District No. 1, Towns of Roddand, Callicoon, Fre-mont, Colchester and Hancock, to Lucellia Zahn, $300.

Middletown: Central School Dis-trict No. 1, Towns of Middletown, Andes, Bovida, Roxbiuy and Hard-enburgh, to John R. Hubbell, $800; Herman T. Lukow to Russell T. Morrison and another, $1; Scudder T. Whipple (executor of) to Garden State Linnber Co., Inc., $400.

Roxbury: National Bank of Rox-bury to John Kunzler and another, $1.

Seven Newqpapen SuB^ended Seven Long Island weekly news-

I^)ers h a ^ been suspended on account of using more newsprint than they were entitled. They are the Long Island Indei)endent, Nas-sau Bulletin, Long Beadi Life, Queens County Times, Queens Ctounty Hiane News, Ridimond HiU Courior, the Sunrise Times.

The Board of Water Supply (rf New York dty will next Tuesday open bids for the completion erf the construction of the Merriman dam at Lackawack, Ulster county. The core waU was completed two or three years ago, but the Wsue Production Board would not per-mit construction to go on because needed materials were wanted for war purposes. A preference ratings of AA-3 has been assigned by the War Production Board for the materials induded in this new contract. .

The Merriman dam is No. 1 of the projected Delaware water siqn ply reservoirs, the others being the-Neversink dam and then the biggest of aU, the Dowiisville dam, or East Delawsure reservoir as the engineers call it. Completed and in use four or five years hence the. Delaware water supply will have ^ cost the city of New York at least $300,000,000. The cost mark waa IIP to $298,000,(M)0 a year ago.

The bids to be opened on Sept^ 11 will shed*! a lot of light on fur-ther construction costs. From the- ^ present outlook the costs will ru» ' higher than three years ago.

The advertisement for bids fop-the Merriman dalri of the Rondout reservoir indudes also the effluent-chamber of that reservoir together with a superstructure, the waste wire and waste channel and the appurtenances of all of these structures, together with the dosures of the existing diversion tunnel and the existing emergency connection to shaft 1 of the Dela- ware aqueduct, the reconstructicm of about two-thirds mile of bitu-minous macadam highway and the final grading in the vldnity of the dam. The work is located in the-village of Lackawack.

The Merriman dam will be apN-proximately 2,500 feet in length with a height of about ^ feet and. wiU be constructed of earth com-pacted by rolling. A concrete cut-off wall has been constructed, for the entire length of the dJun except for- gaps left as passage ways through the waH, the dos-ures of which wiU be made u n ^ r this contract. The Rondout e f f l u ^ t chambers will be of concrete re-inforced with steel and wiU extend about 150 feet deep into ledge rock, a superstructure faced with stone will be constructed over the chamber. The waste weir wiU . be of stone masonry and approximate-ly 600 feet in length.

The contract for the completion of the Delaware aqueduct from Ladcawack to the dty line wiB be let shortly after the first of the year, to be followed by the con-tract for the construction of the Neversink dam before the middle of 1946.

In the Downsville area work is being progressed on the topo-graphic, re^ estate and highway surveys for the proposed Downs-ville reservoir and on the designs for the various structures for the reservoir and the tunnel connect-ing with the Rondout reservoir.

The building of the Merriman dam will afford employnMnt for several hundred men and the use of various lypes of earth removal and labor-saving madiinery.—HSIH cock Herald.

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