668 
September 7 
A GOOD JERSEY HEIFER. 
In the right place there is no more use¬ 
ful cow on earth than a good Jersey. 
We mean a cow* that is a good performer 
and one that carries under her hide fat 
blood or blood of ancestors that have been 
noted for butter production. 
Such animals are dairy missionaries, 
not only setting a good example of what 
a butter cow ought to be but scattering 
dairy ability among her descendants. 
Such a cow is pictured on our first page. 
She is owned by J. Grant Morse, of 
Hamilton, N. Y., who makes a business 
of producing good breeding stock and 
family cows. Mr. Morse says 'about 
Magnolia Bunker 199869: 
“This is a two-year-old just fresh and < 
is about a perfect type of what we try 
to produce at Laurel Farm. She has a 
very nice form with a good-sized, per¬ 
fectly formed udder with good teats. 
Just the kind of heifer to develop into a 
nice family cow.” 
AMERICAN FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 
The 236 annual meeting of the Society of 
American Florists and Ornamental Horticul¬ 
turists was held at Horticultural Hall, 
Philadelphia, Pa., August 20-24. There was 
a large attendance and a fine exhibition of 
flowers, plants and florists’ supplies. The 
trend of the papers read and discussions that 
followed was the furtherance of popular 
liking for ornamental horticulture among the 
people. Horticultural education in rural and 
suburban schools was strongly recommended. 
A National parcels post for the economical 
distribution of plants, bulbs and seeds among 
the people was unanimously favored. The 
society is a most important and well-con¬ 
ducted one, fairly expressing the desires of 
the florists’ trade. The next annual meeting 
will be held at Niagara Falls, N. Y., in Au¬ 
gust, 1908. . 
DAIRYMEN'S LEAGUE ORGANIZED. 
A meeting of about 700 milk-producing 
farmers for the New York City market was 
held at Middletown, N. Y., Saturday, August 
24. Farmers have been watching the success 
of labor unions in bringing about conditions 
that are advantageous to themselves and 
families and are at last convinced that our 
only hope lies in co-operation and organiza¬ 
tion. These 700 men have signed an Ironclad 
agreement, whereby they expect to stand or 
fall together, and emancipate themselves from 
the shackles which milk dealers and health 
department officials seem determined they 
shall wear. They have signed an agreement 
to place the contracting of their milk all info 
one man’s hands through a power of attor¬ 
ney, and not dispose of the product of their 
dairies in the form of sweet milk or sweet 
cream for a period of 30 days, should he at 
any time be unable to make satisfactory sale 
of the milk, under a forfeit of $100 each, 
this agreement to be binding as soon as sign¬ 
ers are secured representing 50,000 cows or 
more. 
The 700 men present were from Orange, 
Ulster and Sullivan counties, N. Y., and Sus¬ 
sex county, N. J. The meeting was held for 
the purpose of organizing a Dairymen’s 
League. The membership secured prior to 
this first meeting already represents over 
15,000 cows. Temporary officers were elected 
as' follows : John Y. Gerow, president, Wasli- 
ingtonville, N. Y.; Walter Tallman, vice- 
president, New Paltz, N. Y.; Henry Young, 
.secretary, Goshen, N. 1. J I>cwis Ilaiding, 
treasurer, Sussex, N. J. 
The directors arc: .T. Y. Gerow, C. H. 
Tuthill, M. A. Lain, George E. Marlin, C. S. 
wells, Albert Manning, Orange Co.; A. E. 
Rutherford, W. D. Haggerty, Frank Arm¬ 
strong, Frank Dalrymple, L. II. Morris, Sus¬ 
sex County; J. D. Mlnard, Walter Tallman, 
Ulster County; and G. Crumrn, of Sullivan 
County. 
These men are to constitute the board of 
managers with full power to fix the pi ice 
at which the milk shall be sold, have general 
charge of the business and property of the 
organization, etc. 
The first business to claim their attention 
will be to increase the membership to repre¬ 
sent 50,000 cows. Local branches are to be 
organized at any point at which there is a 
creamery, condensery or shipping* station, 
from which milk has been regularly shipped 
to the New York market during the past 
year, provided the milk from 250 cows can 
lie secured at. that point. Any producer liv¬ 
ing within reasonable wagon haul may ^oin, 
provided he Is not interested as a dealer in 
milk. It is expected to secure more than 
50,000 cows, but not to secure the whole of 
the milk supply of the city. What is wanted 
is enough to make a controlling factor. A 
meeting of the board of managers is to be 
held September 2 and the work of organiza¬ 
tion will doubtless be pushed with all possi¬ 
ble speed into all parts of the territory, re¬ 
gardless of State or county lines. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Farmers as units are helpless when they 
come up against great corporations and firms 
of dealers with their millions of capital, or 
against health departments of great cities 
with their almost unlimited power to adopt 
drastic rules. Hound together into a great 
partnership or organization, they will have 
a power which will readily be recognized and 
respected. They will hold in their hands 
an Important food supply of the greatest 
market for milk in the country, if not in the 
world, and own the only farms equipped to 
ship and produce crude milk in the best 
condition. There will then be no trouble 
about securing the full market value of the 
product With producers receiving only 
three-eighths of the price which consumers 
are paying for the milk, there is something 
radically wrong with existing conditions. 
There could be no better time for farmers 
to get together and right those wrongs. 
The liquid milk markets have drawn on 
the butter producing supply until hardly 
enough butter is produced in this country to 
supply the demand for home consumption. 
The market reports show that not a pound 
of butter has been exported to European 
markets this season. Formerly there has 
been some surplus for export and the price 
at which that surplus could be sold abroad 
affected the price of the whole output. We 
will soon be looking abroad to get enough to 
go around. l'rospective buyers in foreign 
markets will find the tariff wall surrounding 
this country whose gates swing outward, but 
not inward, and turn back to our own farms 
and pay higher prices for butter, rather than 
pay the du’ties on the foreign-made goods?. 
Health departments are demanding a quality 
of milk made at an increased cost, and all 
these facts show that dairymen may look 
for brighter times ahead, if they put them¬ 
selves in position to act in a body, instead of 
individually. _ O. w. macks. 
For the land’s sake use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers.—They enrich the earth.—Adv. 
nf££S 
Specialties for 
fall Planting 
Prepare your orders now. 
We offer for Fall 1IHI7 an unusually large 
and well grown stock of— 
Fruit Trees for Orchard and Garden. 
Oriinmental Trees, Shrubs, etc., 
consisting of rare and beautiful species 
and varieties for the embellishment of 
public and private grounds; Shade trees, 
Street trees and Flowering Shrubs, includ¬ 
ing l.emoine’s marvelous New Double 
Lilacs, Deutzias, etc. 
The Rose is a specialty with us, and 
our assortments embrace all the old favor¬ 
ites as well as the newest kinds. 
Pennies, Phloxes and Iris. Of these 
showy, beautiful, hardy, easily grown 
plants, we offer the choicest kinds, also 
llurdy Plants, including the most orna¬ 
mental, flowering from early Spring till 
late Autumn. 
Our beautifully illustrated Descriptive 
Catalogue—a manual Indispensable to 
Planters, mailed free on request. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY 
Nurserymen—Horticulturists, 
Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 
f s'SENO FOR 
CIRCULAR SIOTHEsiZ 
i CUTAWAY % 
HARROW CO-o 
HIGGANUM C0NN«J 
U. S.A. < 
TAWAY TOOLS FOR LARGE HAY CROPS. 
•00 of Clark’s Intense Cultivators Produced 
i year on U'-z acres. 102 tons of well dried Altana, 
mtliv and Hod top Hay. If you want to k now h ow 
DOUBLE ACTION JOINTED POLE CUTA 
£3 NO 
Jointed Foie takes all the weight off Horses 
and keeps their heels away lrom the Disks. 
His Rov. Disk Plow cuts a 
furrow 5 to 10 in. deep, 14 in. 
wide. All (dark's machines 
will kill witch-grass, wild 
mustard, charlock, hard¬ 
back, sunflower, milk weed, 
thistle or any foul plant. 
CUTAWAY HARROW COMPANY, 
83 Main Nt., Higgnmnn, Conn. 
SILOS. 
Write for our 
prices and 
circular, and 
let us quote 
you on any 
size you wish 
to erect. We 
are large 
shippers. 
VAN SLYKE 
6 CO., 
North Tonawanda, 
New York. 
Rust Is a Disease Which 
Attacks Feeble Wheat 
Potash 
is the health food for wheat, 
and makes it strong and 
vigorous, so that it keeps itself 
•j clear of rust. 
We shall be glad to send you 
pamphlets and circulars and reports 
that show what Potash does for 
soils and crops. These most inter¬ 
esting and helpful books cost you 
nothing except the postal card on which 
you ask for them. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS. 93 Nassau Street, New York 
Monadnock Bldg., Chicago Candler Bldg., Atlanta. Ga. 
Address office nearest you. 
BASIC SLAG PHOSPHATE. 
(THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER.) 
'he Best Phosphate for Seeding Down to Grass, Wheat, Rye, 
and All Fall Sown Grains. Unequalcd for Fruit 
Trees, Clover, Alfalfa, and Pasture Lands, 
8eml U8 a jiontal card with your mime and addrenn, mentioning 
Tuk Xijkal Nkw-Yohkkk and wo will tell you WIIY the above 1 h 
true, and we willHend you our Booklet, “A Remarkable Fertiliser, 
Ruble Slug Phosphate and Its Uses/* 
THE COE-MORTIMER CO., 
Speslal Importer, of BASIC SI.Afi, NITRATE OK BOI»A ami 
POTASH SA1.T8. Sole United State, A (rent, for fJeimlne 
I’eravian tJnano, Manufacturer, of Illph Grade Kerf lIII.r,. 
24 Stone Street, New York City. 
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Wood’s Grass 
and Clover Seeds. 
Best Qualities Obtainable and 
of Tested Germination. 
Fall is the best time for sowing. 
You rest and improve your land, 
and rest yourself, by putting fields 
down in permanent grasses and 
cloverB. 
Write for Wood's Descriptive 
Fall Catalogue, telling best kinds 
to sow, quantities to sow per acre, 
and giving full information about 
all seeds for fall‘planting, both for 
the 
Farm and Garden. 
Catalogue mailed free on request. 
T. W. WOOD & SONS, 
Seedsmen, • Richmond, Va. 
Our beautifully Illustrated 
BULB CATALOGUE, with 
full and reliable Cultural direc¬ 
tions, and containing the 
largest and most varied as¬ 
sortment of high class BULBS 
in America is now ready. 
Write for a copy. We 
mail it free. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
33 Barclay St., thro’ to 38 Park Place. 
NEW YORK 
The Largest Seed House In The South 
- O O- 
sro* 
PJ” Largest 
STARK 
Nurseries Pay Cash Weekly 
and Want More Salesmen Every¬ 
where. Best Contract, Best Outfit, 
' Largest Nurseries—with an 82-Year Record. 
STARK. BRO’S, LOUISIANA, MO. 
S ILVER QUEEN WHEAT THE BEST. 
Two other grand now sorts this year. The Best 
of the Rest. Free samples and catalog No. 22 
telling why our Seed Wheats are best. Thou¬ 
sands of fanners already know. Write today. 
MAPLEWOOD SEED WHEAT FARMS, Alleyn, Mich. 
BUY SEED WHEAT 
on a plain guarantee. 
_ Choiae. Red bearded or 
smooth wheat at reasonable prices. Booklet. 
WILLIS R. KNOX, 14Newport Ave., Intercourse, Pa. 
rnn OKI C—2.000 bushels Crimson Clover 
rUn OltLE Seed, $3.75 bushel. Address 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Delaware. 
"Ill I PDfiD UK18 FROM OUR MID-SUMMER 
‘ULL unur STRAWBERRY PLANTS. Send 
or List. Kkvitt’k Plant Farm, Atheuia, N. J. 
Keen Your Mone y 
_II In Your Fist 
Don’t givo us a cent until 
you are satisfied. Bushel crates 
handle eeonomieally youreropof 
potatoes, garden truck, fruits, 
etc. They’re best for stor¬ 
age. Tier them higli as you 
please; they hold a bushel 
even full. More time for 
other work, quicker ser¬ 
vice, more profit from bet¬ 
ter kept fruit, less sorting 
when you use Geneva 
Bushel Crates. Write 
for information how wo 
send goods—no cash in 
advance. Book free. 
Geneva Cooperage | 
Co., Box 20 , 
Geneva, Ohio, 
It/. 
CHOICE SEED WHEAT. 
"Rural New Yorker No. 0,” White, Bald, "Shepards 
Prolific.” Rod, Bearded. Both excellent hardy vari¬ 
eties that often yield 30 to 40 bus. per acre. Under 10 
bus. $1.25 per bu., 10 to 50 $1.20, 50 to 100 $1.15, 100 or 
more $1.10 per bu. Sacks free. Cash with orders. 
J. N. MAC PHEBSON, 
l’ine View Farm - Scottsville, N. Y. 
SEED 
WHEAT 
The Right Quality. 
The Right Varieties. 
The Right Prices. 
Booklet Free. 
A. H. HOFFMAN. 
Buinford, Lane. Co., Pa, 
Strawberry Plants. 
A Full List of Varieties for Delivery After 
September 10th. 
$1.50 per IOO and $10.00 per M. 
AdUrt'.s J0S> H BLACK, SON 6 CO., 
HIGHTSTOWN, N. J. 
APPLE BARRELS. 
Four Factories. 
P r o m p t Shipments. 
l(»l)t. Billies, Medina, 8. Y 
A nni p TDCPO KTOTHIWGr BUT iY3?3?XjE8 
APPLE I REEO KOGKKS ON THE 1 I 1 LL, Dansville, N. Y. 
Dwyer’s Pot Grown Strawberry Plants 
Strong. h«ilti.y gjanta ^n. select^sU^ck **«*Z^W^ *° ^ 
We also have a full lino of Fruits and Ornamental Trees, Plants, Vines, etc., for 
Fall Planting. We do Landscape Gardening in all its branches. Catalogue Tree. 
T. J. DWYER & CO., P. O. Box I, Cornwall, New York. 
