BI-COUNTY FAIR

IS ONLY FIVE WEEKS OFF
It is a little over five weeks to the greatest event of the fall season, the Bi-County Fair at Altamont, which will draw thousands from city and country to the village in the shadow of the Helderbergs.

Altamont is reached in every direction by fine roads which is one reason so many thousand automobiles turn in that direction during the week of the exposition; and then there are so many more reasons that we can give you only a few. With increased purses for the racing there is sure to be better fields and more spirited contests. That’s an important reason for the travel Altamontward that will take place in September.

T.B. TESTING STARTS IN

WESTERLO TOWNSHIP

A great demonstration of community spirit took place in the townships of Westerlo and Coeymans recently during an effort of Farm Bureau committeemen to sign up their neighbors on applications for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis before August 1. The county committee working with Dr. George H. Hewitt newly appointed county veterinarian, had previously announced that the township which first secured the nearest of 90 percent of its cattle represented on signed applications would be the township where testing would start first.

An ANNUAL EVENT

THAT DRAWS THE CROWD

The annual clam bake of the Reformed Church by friends of the church for miles around. All that needs to be said is that it will start at 4 p.m. new time and the cost is $1.75. There is never any backwardness about buying tickets for this event as it is one of the standard suppers of the year at Guilderland Center which takes place on Labor Day is always looked forward to.

NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF
FORESTRY EXHIBIT
New York is the greatest wood using state — but she grows only one twentieth of the tiber she consumes. In 1850, she ranked first in lumber production, today she has to import 75 percent  of the lumber she uses, and is obliged each year, to pay a freight bill of about $36,000,000  in order to get it. There are more paper mills and other wood-using industries in New York than any other state, but with the rapid depletion of nearby forests they are confronted with a very serious problem of where to secure sufficient raw material at reasonable prices. During the 10 years prior to 1019, one-third of our wood-using industries were forced to move outside the state or go out of business primarily because of a lack of supply of wood.

On the other hand, there are in the state of New York some 16,000,000 acres of forest land, one-fourth of which is either completely idle or growing nothing of any commercial value. The other three-fourths is growing only a small part of what it could and should produce.

The problem is to grow more timber on our millions of acres of land only suitable for that purpose and the only way to do it is to practice forestry.

The exhibit to be displayed at the Altamont Fair by the New York State college of forestry shows how forestry will solve our timber supply problem ….

Pay your State forestry Institution a visit and see what service it can render you.