700 
Zohe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  29,  1910. 
Speed  reduced  10  revo¬ 
lutions.  Loss  of  butter 
7.28  pounds 
Speed  reduced  20  revo¬ 
lutions.  Loss  of  butter 
12.74  pounds 
Separator  running 
at  full  speed.  Loss 
ofbutter  1.75  pounds 
These  figures  from  the  Purdue  Experiment  Sta¬ 
tion  Bulletin  No.  116,  show  the  loss  in  butter 
resulting  from  not  turning  a  fixed-feed  sepa¬ 
rator  at  exactly  the  speed  stamped  on  the  crank. 
And  investigations  showed  that  19  out  of 
every  20  separator  operators  thruout  the  country 
turned  their  machines  too  slow  much  of  the  time. 
SUCTION— PEED 
is  the  on/y  separator  made  which  will  not 
lose  cream  at  varying  speeds .  The  wonder¬ 
ful  "Suction-feed”  always  feeds  the  milk  to  the 
bowl  in  exact  proportion  to  the  separating  force 
being  generated.  At  45  revolutions  it  skims 
clean;  at  55  it  skims  clean  and  at  35  revolu¬ 
tions  it  skims  equally  clean .  No  other  separator 
can  do  it. 
No  matter  how  you  turn  the  New  Sharpies 
you  always  get  even  thickness  cream.  Just 
set  the  cream  screw  at  the  desired  thickness 
and  it  will  come  out  velvety  and  even — no 
matter  how  you  vary  the  speed.  No  other 
J  separator  can  do  it. 
The  Sharpies  Tubular 
| w  bowl  is  the  simplest  and 
ilk  lightest  in  existence.  It  has 
|fl  only  one  plain  part  in  it— 
».l  no  discs  to  wash  and 
bother  with. 
All  these  and 
many  other 
features  explain 
why  the  New 
Sharpies  is  the 
profitable  sepa¬ 
rator  for  you  to 
use.  It  is  des¬ 
cribed  in  detail  in 
catalog  “Velvet” 
for  Dairymen . 
Send  for  your 
copy  today. 
Write  Dept.  12. 
See  how  easy  he 
pours  into  the  low 
supply  tank. 
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abrasive  makes  a  keen  edge.  The  other  side  oiled  calf-akin,  makes  II  smooth  for  comfortable  shaving.  Both 
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The  Rural  .Vew- Yorker  and  you’ll  get 
a  quick  reply  and  a  "square  deal.”  See 
guarantee  editorial  page. 
Milk  and  Live  Stock 
April  11.  Our  milk  is  sold  to  a  cheese 
factory,  and  they  give  the  Borden  price 
with  a  premium  for  butterfat.  Potatoes 
are  selling  for  $1.25  per  bn. ;  eggs  25c. 
Good  fresh  cows  $80  to  $00.  Hay  in 
barn  $18  per  ton.  Almost  all  the  apples 
are  sold  in  the  Fall  on  the  trees,  on  ac¬ 
count  of  the  high  price  of  labor.  Help  is 
very  scarce,  day  men  get  $2  for  nine 
hours’  work.  A  friend  w*ho  lives  about 
three  miles  from  my  place  sold  his  farm 
of  100  acres  for  $80,000.  M.  M. 
Monroe.  X.  Y. 
Apri.  11.  We  are  in  the  fruit,  truck 
and  poultry  business  and  sell  in  the  sub¬ 
urbs  of  Philadelphia.  At  present  we  are 
selling  potatoes  $1.50  per  bu. ;  carrots 
65c  per  basket;  onions  75c  per  %-basket; 
turnips  50c  per  basket.  Eggs  82c;  chick¬ 
en  25c  per  lb.  Some  Winter  broiling 
chicks  85c  per  lb.  Horses  sold  here  at 
public  sale  this  week  from  $200  up,  _$325 
for  good  farm  horses.  Cows  bring  $70  to 
$100 ;  live  chickens  IS  to  22c. 
Jarrettown,  Pa.  8.  F.  F. 
April  18.  Good  horses  bring  from  $150 
to  $250.  Fresh  cows,  $110  to  $115; 
calves.  lO'/gc.  per  lb.  Not  many  dairies 
around  here;  what  there  are  retail  their 
milk  foi'  9c.  per  quart.  Hogs,  12c.  per 
lb.;  bay,  choice,  baled,  $22  per  ton  ;  corn, 
80c.  per  hu. ;  oats,  50c.  per  bu. ;  chickens, 
22c.  per  lb. ;  eggs,  26c.  per  dozen.  Crops 
are  late  getting  iu  this  Spring,  owing  to 
the  wet  weather.  J.  V.  C. 
Kingston.  N.  .T. 
April  14.  Potatoes,  will  bring  $1.10  per 
bu.  wholesale  and  $1.40  at  stores.  Apples, 
none  locally,  but  from  stores  $1.40  to 
$1.60  per  bu.  Butter,  country.  40c.; 
creamery,  45c.  lb.  No  cattle  selling  ex¬ 
cept  dry  cows  at  $4  per  ewt.  on  foot. 
Wheat,  $1.15  bu.,  but  farmers  are  bold¬ 
ing  for  $1.50.  Cabbage,  wholesale,  one 
cent  per  lb.  Parsnips,  75c.  per  bu.  Eggs. 
25c.  dozen,  retail,  22c.  wholesale.  Chick¬ 
ens,  dressed  old  hens  or  yoarliugs,  28c.  II). 
Milk,  wholesale,  22c.  gallon,  retail  10c. 
quart.  Oats.  70c.  bu. ;  hay,  $16  ton ; 
wheat  straw,  $8.  baled.  Fresh  cows,  $50 
to  $00 ;  horses,  $200  per  head.  w.  M.  A. 
Jeannette,  Pa. 
One  hundred  cows,  mostly  heifers,  two 
and  three  years  old,  sold  at  public  sale 
from  $45  to  $00.  The  average  was  $63.50. 
Apples.  90c.  per  bu.  at  stores ;  potatoes, 
$1.25 ;  eggs,  retail.  28c.  Fresh  creamery 
butter,  45c.  retail.  Hay,  $15  in  barn. 
Corn  and  meal  at  mill,  $1.65  per  ewt. ; 
oats,  58c.  bu. ;  mixed  feed  (bran  and  mid¬ 
dlings  mixed),  $1.50  per  ewt.;  turnips. 
65c.,  retail,  per  bu.  Seed  corn  from  $2 
to  $8  per  bu. ;  veal  calves  at  farm,  9c.  per 
lb.  Horses,  from  live  to  seven  years, 
1.200  lbs.,  $250.  s.  w.  F. 
Dalton,  Pa. 
April  14.  Farmers  are  very  much  dis¬ 
gusted  over  the  labor  question.  The 
greatest  demand  in  this  locality  is  for 
help  in  Summer  and  Autumn  during  the 
growing  season  and  harvest  time.  Wages 
have  advanced  about  $5  a  month  during 
the  last  five  years.  But  few  bauds  can 
be  depended  upon.  Many  farmers  start 
in  the  season  with  a  hand  and  plan  their 
Summer’s  work  accordingly.  Hn fortun¬ 
ately  without  a  moment’s  warning,  the 
help  is  gone.  It  is  feared  the  situation 
will  be  worse  than  was  ever  known  be¬ 
fore*  during  the  coining  harvest  season, 
which  is  due  to  so  many  laborers  having 
to  work  in  the  munition  plants  in  the 
northern  part  of  our  State.  The  employ¬ 
ment  of  machinery  and  the  co-operation 
of  the  farmers  seems  to  be  our  only  hope 
of  solving  the  question.  Many  are  using 
the  sulky  plows,  gang  plows,  manure 
spreaders  and  farm  tractors  are  coming 
in  fast.  The  average  price  paid  for  farm 
help  is  about  $18  to  $20  per  mouth,  with 
board,  washing  and  in  many  cases  a 
horse  boarded.  Those  who  work  by  the 
day  nud  board  themselves  usually  get  $25 
per  month  for  the  year,  with  a  house  to 
live  in  and  ground  enough  to  raise  vege¬ 
tables  for  their  families  and  fruit  and  in 
many  cases  their  fuel  is  furnished. 
Dover,  Del.  C.  H. 
Apr.  13.  Silage  sold  at  auction  last 
week  for  $4.20  per  ton.  I  have  sold  some 
at  private  sale  for  $5.  Good  hay  will 
bring  $25  to  $26  delivered  in  Newburgh; 
at  auctions  this  Spring  it  has  gone  as 
high  as  $31.50  with  a  credit  of  six  to 
eight  months.  Potatoes  $1.25  per  bu. 
Veal  is  lower ;  it  is  hard  to  gel  10c*  per 
lh.  for  nice  calves.  Most  all  fruit  was 
sold  last  Fall,  very  little  in  storage.  I 
see  a  few  apples  going  to  New  York  in 
crates  which  sell  for  about  75c  per  crate. 
We  get  the  Borden  price  for  milk  a|- 
thimgh  the  creamery  is  conducted  by  It.  | 
F.  Stevens  &  Co.,  of  Brooklyn.  Eggs  21c 
from  a  man  who  goes  through  every 
week,  20c  at  the  store.  Oats  at  the  feed 
store  52c  per  bu.,  while  at  auctions  they 
have  brought  over  60c  per  bu.  Weather 
still  continues  cold  and  windy.  April  12 
a  few  farmers  with  high  ground  began 
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thousand.  They  arc  fine  bushes.  Thou¬ 
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past  year  or  two.  I  am  planting  on  the 
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