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November  11,  1016. 
SKUNK 
We  pay  top  prices  for  Skunk,  Mi"1'. 
Muskrat,  oud  a, I  i-'vim  knee  I.c.1. 
free,  M.  J  .IKWKTT  &  SONS. 
KEDWOOD,  N.  Y.  -  DEi  T.  20 
RAW  FURS  WANTED 
Highest  Cash  Prices.  Liberal  assortments.  Send 
tor  Price  List. 
SAM’L  LEWIS,  153  W.  29th  St„  New  York 
SKUNKS 
and  all  otherfurs  will  boliiprh  this  winter.  Itrapped  from 
Ik. io  t  ■  U'.i9  the  year  1  t.  acted  in  busioucs  and  1  know  the 
ha rdthipa  a  trnppor  has  to  tto  thru  to  be  r.uooe«sful.  Why 
not  Kliip  your  furs  this  season  to  n  man  who  understands 
the  busiriesa  from  the  trap  lineto  the  tlnjhhed  garment.  I 
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We  charge  no  commission  and  gf*de  lirierally.  Wn’.e 
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'Follow  the  lead  of  the  best  men  in  & 
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and  set  accurnto,  com¬ 
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both  ways. 
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Ivlfc  we  give  trappers,  hunters  and  farmers  lor  their  pelts 
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Canadian  Wheat 
to  Feed  the  World 
The  war’s  {earful  devastation  of  European  crops  has 
caused  an  unusual  demand  for  grain  from  the  American 
_  Continent.  The  people  ol  the  world  must  he  fed  and  there 
is  an  unusual  demardfor  Canadian  wheat.  Canada’sinvi- 
tationto  every  industrious  American  is  therefore  especially 
attractive.  She  wants  farmers  to  make  money  and  happy, 
prosperous  homes  for  themselves  while  helping  her  to  raise 
immense  wheat  crops. 
You  can  get  a  Homestead  of  160  acres  FREE  and 
Other  lands  can  he  bought  atremarkahly  low  prices.  Think 
of  the  money  you  can  make  with  wheat  at  its  present  high 
prices,  where  for  some  time  it  is  liable  to  continue.  During  many  years  Canadian  wheat 
fields  have  averaged  20  bushels  to  the  acre — many  yields  as  high  as  45  bushels  to  the 
acre.  Wonderful  crons  also  of  Oats,  Barley  and  Flax. 
M  txe4 1’artulrur  tfl  fully  as  profitnMu  an  industry  au  pram  raising.  The  excellent  grasses 
full  f  Mil  i  mil  mi'  n  r  only  I  ml  rvqiilivd  cither  for  beef  or  dairy  purposes.  Good 
schools,  iunrkets  couvenieut,  clm.-sto  •iCvJout. 
Military  service  in  not  cotarulnory  In  Canada,  but  there  Is  an  extra  demand  for  farm 
labor  to  replace  the  meny  jinmg  men  who  have  volunieercil  fertile  war. 
The  Government  thisy-e-ir  is  u  pine  farmers  to  put  extra  acreage  into 
grrin.  V  ittr  for  liter  Cure  hud  :  tin  cul:  rs  ea  tf*  reduced  railway 
AjP  jutes  to  Supoiliitenclcnt  iniiritgrat  on,  OUuivit,  Canada,  or 
O.  G.  RUTLEDGE 
301  E.  Genesee  Street,  Syracuse.  N.  Y. 
Canadian  Government  Agent. 
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Crops  and  Farm  Notes 
Everybody  busy  in  Lancaster  Co.,  Pa., 
now.  There  were  probably  2.000  acres  of 
tobacco  injured  severely  by  frost.  The 
demand,  however,  is  so  great  that  buyers 
are  ottering  7c  to  8c  for  this  frost-killed 
stock.  Corn  in  many  instances  was  in¬ 
jured  too.  E.  J.  w. 
Pennsylvania. 
Corn  crop  is  not  ns  good  as  average 
reports  make  it  in  Central  Illinois.  A 
good  ucreage  of  wheat  is  going  in  and 
it.  is  fine  weather.  Elevators  offer  to  con¬ 
tract  new  corn  at  65c  per  bn.,  70  lbs., 
when  it  will  shell  well.  As  usual  pota¬ 
to  crop  is  short:  in  fact  potatoes,  cab¬ 
bage,  tUnrps  and  beans  will  be  shipped 
f-om  cities  to  supply  this  territory. 
Ilcgs  and  cattle  bring  good  prices.  No 
apples  to  speak  of.  They  must  be 
shipped  here  to  supply  us.  J.  B.  A. 
Taylorville,  Ill. 
A  large  firm  in  Reading  Terminal  Mar¬ 
ket,  Philadelphia,  is  paying  me  32c  lb. 
for  dry-picked,  yellow  leg,  6-!b.  chicken 
roasters.  Farmers  get,  th's  week,  $1.-10 
to  $1.45  for  wheat,  according  to  quality ; 
45c  for  oats ;  $1  bu.  for  corn ;  25c  to  50c 
lb.  in  New  York  for  mushrooms  accord¬ 
ing  as  weather  in  New  York  is  hot  or 
cold.  c,  B.  B. 
Concordville,  Pa. 
Wheat  $1.50;  corn  82;  oats  43;  hay 
$8  to  $11 ;  eg'-s  28 ;  butter  2S :  shorts 
$1.60;  bran  $1.45  (retail):  potatoes, 
Early  Oh:o.  shipped  in,  $1.40  at  the  car. 
Fowls  lri^c  per  lb.;  young  16c.  jr.  f. 
Astoria,  Ill. 
We  have  a  very  fine  corn  crop,  and 
corn  from  the  field  will  sell  for  $3  per 
bbl. ;  at  present  corn  is  worth  $  1.25  per 
bfcl.,  5  bu.  Wheat  bran  $24  per  ton ; 
middlings  or  shorts  $35  per  ton  ;  shel’ed 
oats  50e  per  bu. ;  cottonseed  meal  $38 
per  ton  here  in  cn riots ;  corr meal  $1  per 
tu.  Prime  Timothy  hay  $14  per  ton; 
Alfalfa  $13  to  $14.  Tto  potato  crop  is 
very  short  in  Warren  County,  as  there 
was  a  very  small  ac-  ’ago  planted.  Wo 
pay  at  the  store  $1.25  per  bu.  Wheat 
was  very  light  and  a  short  crop.  Fann¬ 
ers  generally  are  preparing  for  a  big 
acreage  in  wheat,  and  a-e  becoming  very 
much  enthused  over  Alfalfa  culture.  I 
have  a  50-acro  farm,  three-quarters  mile 
from  city  limits,  and  as  you  call  them,  I 
am  a  back-to*thc*landcr.  I  am  in  the 
grocery  business,  but  am  building  my 
farm  for  fruit.  I  have  11  acres  in  El- 
berta  peaches  and  seven  ac-es  in  straw¬ 
berries.  Having  served  the  public  for 
28  years  I  am  delighted  t.o  arrange  to 
live  on  a  farm  the  remainder  of  my  life. 
I  want  to  be  a  producer  instead  of  a 
consumer.  Farmers  generally  around 
here  are  prosperous  and  are  beginning  to 
become  educated  to  scientific  farming. 
Bowling  Green,  Ky.  n.  c.  P. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.— In  the  Yosemite  Na¬ 
tional  l’ark  all  the  Government  rangers 
stationed  in  the  Tuolumne  meadows  sec¬ 
tion  were  called  in,  Oct.  26,  leaving  that 
vast  Sierran  district  deserted  hut  for  one 
caretaker.  Heavy  snow  at  Lake  Tenaya 
is  holding  three  automobiles,  which  can¬ 
not  be  brought,  out  until  a  warm  spell 
melts  the  drifts. 
Four  incendiary  fires  occurred  within 
24  hours,  Oct.  26-27,  at  Fnrnbam,  Que¬ 
bec,  causing  Hie  death  of  10  persons,  and 
property  loss  of  $125,000.  The  most  ser¬ 
ious  fire  was  in  a  hospital  under  the  care 
of  Gray  Nuns, 
Virginia  will  enter  the  ranks  of  prohi¬ 
bition  States,  Nov.  1,  swelling  the  total 
to  IS.  Although  the  law  makes  the  pos¬ 
session  of  liquor  in  certain  quantities 
prima  facie  evidence  of  intent  to  violate 
the  statute,  large  supplies  wore  laid  in 
by  individuals. 
Treasury  secret  service  agents  an¬ 
nounced,  Oct.  30,  that  with  the  arrest 
of  II.  It.  Willcen,  formerly  of  West  Ho¬ 
boken,  N.  J.,  in  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.,  as  he 
was  trying  to  pass  a  bogus  $10  note  of 
the  Minneapolis  Federal  Reserve  Bank, 
the  Government  got  its  hand  upon  the 
most  skillful  and  elusive  counterfeiter  of 
recent  years.  The  prisoner  is  said  to 
have  confessed  manufacturing  the  three 
most  puzzling  series  of  counterfeit  bills 
encountered  since  the  notorious  Monroe 
head  affair.  When  the  secret  service  men 
raided  Wilken's  place  in  Los  Angeles 
they  found  not  only  plates  from  which 
bills  were  turned  out,  but  also  a  minia¬ 
ture  paper  mill  capable  of  producing  a 
fine  quality  of  stock  very  nearly  exactly 
like  that  used  by  the  Treasury  for  print¬ 
ing  its  notes. 
Constitutionality  of  New  Jersey’s  auto¬ 
mobile  license  tax  lows,  involving  tax¬ 
ation  powers  of  States  and  traffic  privil¬ 
eges  of  non-resident  motorists,  was 
argued,  Oct.  31,  before  the  Supreme 
Court  in  a  suit  in  which  the  American 
Automobile  Association  and  National 
Automobile  Chamber  of  Commerce  were 
represented  by  counsel.  Whether  States 
have  authority  to  raise  through  motor  li¬ 
cense  taxes  road  maintenance  revenues 
and  whet  h  r  automobile  pleasure  touring 
is  interstate  “commerce”  were  said  to  be 
new  and  undetermined  questions  pre¬ 
sented.  The  case  came  up  on  an  appeal 
by  Frank  J.  Kane,  of  New  York,  from 
conviction  of  motoring  in  New  Jersey  with¬ 
out  paying  the  registration  license.  The 
Now  Jersey  court  uphold  the  State  laws, 
declaring  that  the  license  taxes,  though 
designed  to  raise  revenues,  were  not  un¬ 
constitutional  or  an  interference  with 
interstate  commerce. 
Charles  Taze  Russell,  known  as  Pastor 
Russell,  an  independent  minister,  editor 
of  the  TFcfc/i  Totter  and  author  of  stu¬ 
dies  on  Scriptures,  died,  Oct.  31,  ou  an 
Atchison,  Topeka  and  Santa  Fe  train  en- 
roijte  from  Los  Angeles  to  New  York. 
Heart  disease  was  given  as  the  cause. 
l  av  more  than  a  qr'"ter  of  a  century 
“Pastor”  Russell  sto<  d  a  unique  figure 
among  the  m'n.'stora  cf  all  creeds  and 
sects.  Ille  ho’onged  to  no  denomination 
a::d  subscribed  to  the  tenets  of  no  re- 
hrion,  basing  tvs  preaching  only  on  the 
Like.  I  La  activities  had  frequently  at¬ 
tracted  to  him  widespread  publicity  and 
on  several  occasions  be  bad  sued  news¬ 
papers  for  defamation  of  character  as  the 
result  of  a?”  cies  printed  concerning  him. 
Oct.  31  there  wore  serious  reports  of  a 
general _  coal  farm  -  e,  o-n!  for  domestic 
going,  in  some  cases,  na  high  as  $12  a 
ton  in  New  York  City.  Car  shortage, 
freight  rates,  labor  difficulties  and  in¬ 
creased  consumption  were  blamed  for  the 
shortage.  In  Ohio,  nering  on  the  report 
that  brokers  and  middlemen  are  holding 
hundreds  of  cars  loaded  with  coal  and 
paying  demur ra-e  in  anticipation  of  huge 
profits  throii-h  the  rise  in  quotations,  the 
Public  Utilities  Commission  sent  to  all 
railroads  telegraphic  request  for  a  report 
on  "tlio  number  of  all  cars  under  load 
with  con!  in  transit  and  at  stations  Oc¬ 
tober  30.  showing  the  number  of  days  de¬ 
tention  on  ail  cars  ou  demurrage.” 
FARM  AND  GARDEN. — The  Penn¬ 
ey  Irani  u-Mury  I  nd-Delawane  joint  milk 
commission,  which  began  public  hearings 
Nov.  3,  will  endeavor  to  learn  the  actual 
cost  of  producing  rri’h  at  the  farm;  the 
amount  the  farmer  has  invested  in  the 
business ;  what  profit,  if  any,  he  makes 
at  present  prices ;  the  advanced  cost  of 
production  as  compared  with  the  period 
between  1000  and  1910;  bin  system  of 
estimating  expenses ;  what  price  he  con¬ 
siders  reasonable,  a-d  other  details  hav¬ 
ing  to  do  with  production.  It  will  ask 
the  distributor  wlat  it  costs  him,  per 
quart,  to  deliver  milk  to  the  consumer; 
what  increased  expenses  he  has  to  meet 
over  the  period  between  1900  and  1910; 
what  he  considers  a  fair  price  for  the 
dairyman  ;  whether  the  cost  of  distribu¬ 
tion  cau  bo  lessened  fcy  cooperative  meth¬ 
ods;  what  his  profits  are  from  by-pro¬ 
ducts;  what  his  prices  will  bo  in  case 
the  demands  of  the  producer  ore  granted, 
and  other  information  relating  to  dis¬ 
tribution. 
Ebon  Eugene  Rexford,  well  known  as 
a  horticultural  writer  and  poet,  died  at 
Green  Bay,  Wis.,  OcL  IS.  In  addi¬ 
tion  to  his  contributions  to  muny  per¬ 
iodicals,  Mr.  Rexford  wrote  several 
books.  His  best  known  poem  wag 
“Silver  Theads  Among  the  Gold.” 
Plans  for  bring'ng  about  closer  co¬ 
operation  and  for  strengthening  the  agri¬ 
cultural  branch  of  tie  Industrial  Work¬ 
ers  of  the  World  were  di  scussed  at  length 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  agricultural 
workers  at  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Oct.  30. 
William  D.  Haywood,  general  secretary 
of  the  Industrial  Workers  of  the  World, 
in  an  address  advocated  a  strike  of  all 
farm  hands  in  the  midst  of  the  harvest 
season  ns  one  means  of  obtaining  ade¬ 
quate  wages  from  farmers  and  compel- 
ing  “fair  treatment  on  the  part  of  the 
authorities.”  Efizaboth  Gurley  Flynn 
also  urged  au  agricultural  strike  in  case 
other  measures  to  bring  about  higher 
wages  during  the  harvest  season  fail. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
New  England  Fruit  Show  and  Ver¬ 
mont  State  Ilortx-u’tural  Society,  joint 
meeting.  City  Hall,  Montpelier,  Vt., 
Nov.  13-1S. 
American  Poraological  Society,  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  C„  Nov.  1 6-1 8. 
Indiana  Apple  Show,  West  Baden, 
Nov.  14-20. 
Paterson,  N.  J.,  Poultry  Association 
annual  show,  Paterson,  N.  J.,  Nov.  21- 
25;  Dr.  Gilbert  Johnson,  eeeretary- 
treasurer. 
#  Holyoke  Poultry  and  Pet  Stock  Asso¬ 
ciation  annual  exhibition  Ilolyoke, 
Mass.,  Nov,  22-24. 
Quannapowitt  Poultry  Association, 
third  annual  show,  Wakefield,  Mass., 
Nov.  23-25. 
Northwest  Live  Stock  Show, -Lewiston, 
Idaho,  Nov.  26-Dee.  2. 
International  Live  Stock  Show,  Chi¬ 
cago,  Ill.,  Doc.  2-9. 
Fourth  National  Conference  on  Mar¬ 
keting  and  Farm  Credits,  Chicago,  Ill., 
Doc.  4. 
Pacific  International  Live  Stock  Exhi¬ 
bition,  North  Portland,  Ore.,  Dec.  4-8. 
Virginia  State  Horticultural  Society, 
twenty-first  annual  meeting,  Roanoke, 
Va.,  Dec.  5-7. 
Maine  State  Poultry  Show,  Portland, 
Dec.  12-15. 
New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  So¬ 
ciety,  annual  meeting,  Burlington,  N.  J., 
Dec.  12-14. 
University  Horticultural  Society  of 
Ohio  State  University,  sixth  annual  show 
of  fruit  and  vegetables,  Columbus,  O.,  De¬ 
cember  14,  15  and  16. 
Oneida  Poultry  Association  fourth  an¬ 
nual  show,  Oneida,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  9-12,  1917. 
