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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Roller-Bearing 
International Manure Spreader 
Is a Money Maker 
T HE BASIS of profitable farming is a fertile soil. In farm¬ 
ing, as in other businesses, there are poor years and good 
ones, but the farmer who keeps up the productivity of 
his soil will forge ahead. 
No method of maintaining soil fertility has proved so effi¬ 
cient as the proper application of barnyard manure. It is a 
foresighted policy to build up crop yields with an International 
Roller-Bearing Manure Spreader. Put manure on your fields 
finely, evenly, uniformly, and economically; the extra fertility 
will in a short time pay for the International spreader. 
Note again these features in International construction: 
I. Roller bearings at seven points. 2. Power delivered from 
both wheels. 3. Double ratchet drive with six feed speeds. 
4. Short-turn front axle—no pole whipping. 5. Rear wheels 
track with front wheels. 6. Tight bottom. 7. Two beaters 
and wide-spread spiral. 8. All-steel main frame. 
International Harvester Company 
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93 Branch Houses and 15,000 Dealers in the United States 
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“The safest investment is 
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TO WITHDRAW—simply sign your name to a check on this 
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for so much or the entire balance of your account including 
interest—and New York Draft will be sent to you. 
IN TWO NAMES 
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of two persons or the survivor. A man will save HIS WIFE a lot 
of unnecessary trouble by opening a joint account to be used by 
her in many cases of illness or other emergencies. 
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November 4, 1922 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
Farmers’ buying power less than be¬ 
fore T'E AVAR—FARMS NEARING BAR¬ 
GAIN LEVEL—SOME PRODUCTS MAKE A 
FAIR SHOWING. 
Prices of farm products are low enough, 
but the real pinch comes when the fanner 
tries to buy anything. Discussion of the 
increasing cost of living was a favorite 
indoor amusement long before the war, 
but the cost level in 1918 now looks very 
low front the farmers’ present position. 
Tables put together by the Department 
of Agriculture show that the farmer was 
able to buy as much of the supplies he 
needed in exchange for t>4c worth of aver¬ 
age leading farm products as he can get 
for one dollar’s worth of the same prod¬ 
ucts now: that is, he ig only two-thirds 
as well off as in the none too prosperous 
times just before the war, assuming that 
yield and fixed cost are about the same. 
The yield in some crops is more and 
in others less than in 1013, and whether 
the farmer has a larger quantity of stuff 
to sell now depends on what he raises. 
He has more potatoes, apples and hay, 
about the same as thou of grain, and less 
of cotton and miscellaneous crops. His 
fixed costs are higher because of advances 
iti land, rents and tuxes, and labor is 
higher. When he tries to turn crops into 
what he needs to use, no wonder lie feels 
dead poor. 
The worst fix of all is that of the 
farmer who bought land at the top of the 
'...1 is trying to keep up payments 
Fortunately, only 
cent of farms were sold dur- 
Tt is a much better 
young 
There are 
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Only 1 $ 63 
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under these conditions 
a small per 
ing the war boom 
time to buy farms now if one is 
and willing to stand hardship _ 
fair bargains offered in some farming sec¬ 
tions. and a brighter time will come, as 
in times before. Many a young mau who 
picked up a farm when conditions seemed 
darkest will find himself some time the 
owner of desirable property. 
WHEN FARMS WERE BARGAINS 
In 1894 one of tlie popular farm papers 
advised young men to buy farms. To 
some readers the idea must have seemed 
a wild one. Nobody wanted farms. Grain 
growers in Kansas were buruiug corn to 
keep their shacks warm. Eastern mort¬ 
gage holders considered it the worst of 
luck to have a prairie farm on their hands 
through foreclosure. Hut young men who 
struggled through and paid the mortgage 
found themselves owners of properties 
which even under present conditions are 
selling for u small fortune. Anyone who 
believes in the United States cannot rea¬ 
sonably doubt that farms are a bargain in 
times of hard conditions because they are 
bound to go higher than ever when the 
prospect becomes bright, again. This is 
not to sav that prices of farms are at 
bottom. Nobody can tel!. Sonic farms 
are still obstinately held at boom prices. 
Others look cheap when compared with 
valuations in 1920. 
WHICH PRODUCTS PAY 
8peaking of prices of farm products 
now, compared with 1913, bay, corn and 
cattle are actually lower in dollars and 
cents as well as in buying power. Wheat 
and potatoes are a shade higher. Cotton, 
wool, eggs and butter are considerably 
higher, and the four products last named 
seem just now like promising links in the 
tow chains that will pull the farmer out 
of the mud hole of high cost. 
APPLE MARKETS HOLD 
Main crop apples, compared with other 
crops, seem to be selling at comparatively 
good prices for a full-crop year; that is, 
in comparison with such crops as hay, 
corn, potatoes and cabbage. Standard 
grades, like A-244 Baldwins, are bringing 
$3.78 a barrel in Michigan and $3.50 in 
New York and New England producing 
sections. The quality of the crop the 
country over seems rather ordinary, ex¬ 
cept in the best orchards. No. 2s sell 
about $1 below the best grade. Cider 
stock averages about 40c per 100 lbs,, 
and canning stock about $1, Buyers are 
not taking hold of the Winter crop with 
much zeal. Shortage of cars checks ship¬ 
ments in some places. Eastern city prices 
range from $3.50 to $4 per barrel. Box 
apples at Western shipping points bring 
$1 25 to $1,50 for top grades of standard 
table kinds, like New Jonathan. A few 
fancy binds, like Delicious, sell higher. 
The Winter apples so far are doiug bet¬ 
ter iu the markets than the Fall kinds 
have done. The Winter apples have the 
advantage of a long market season, while 
Fall varieties must be sold quickly or not 
at. all. Cranberries, with a larger crop 
than last year, sell at $7 to $10 per bbl. 
under the careful marketing system of tlie 
Association. 
TOTATO CHOP SHRINKS 
The big potato crop seems likely to 
shrink some more in the Northeast, ac¬ 
cording to further news of damage by rot. 
The price is holding its own in the great 
cities at $1 to $1-35 per 100 lbs. The 
.crop is coming to market ns fast as ears 
can he provided. Supplies at city markets 
seem to be as liberal as ei;n be handled. 
At Pittsburgh an embargo had to be 
placed on further shipments of produce 
until the yard situation could be cleared 
up. 
It was an off year in quality for Mas¬ 
sachusetts onions, now selling at $1 to 
$1.25 per 100 lbs. They have been selling 
50c below best Western stock in Eastern 
cities. Cabbage is selling slowly in the 
city markets, sometimes no higher titan 
in the country, where the range is from 
$0 to $10 per ton. o. u. F. 
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