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TnH® RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 3 , 
CORNELL FEED HOPPEk. 
Could you give diagram and directions for 
making the feed hopper used at the Cornell 
Station for feeding dry mash to hens? 
Norwich, Vermont. c. w. b. 
The accompanying- cuts illustrate the 
feed and grit hoppers invented by Prof. 
James E. Rice and Rolla C. Lowry, of 
the Cornel] Experiment Station, at Ith¬ 
aca, N. Y. These cuts were made after 
those in Cornell Bulletin 248, which is 
now out of print. The feed hopper is 
made of No. 26 galvanized iron, and 
will hold about 60 pounds of meal or 
ENI) VIEW OF HOPPER. Fig. 485. 
100 pounds of grain. The back is made 
rounding near the bottom, so that the 
feed is forced downward without clog¬ 
ging. The openings are high enough to 
prevent waste of the feed, and cause 
the fowls to reach down for it. The 
door can be closed at will, thus prevent¬ 
ing the fowls from overfev. ling, and 
making the hopper rat-proof. The wire 
FEED HOPPER. FRONT VIEW. Fig. 480. 
mesh at either end is for the purpose of 
affording light. The hopper is divided 
into three compartments for different 
kinds of feed if desired. It should be 
hung up by the hooks so that the bot¬ 
tom is about five inches above the floor. 
A platform should be made directly un¬ 
derneath, and extending about six 
inches, for the fowls to stand on while 
feeding. This prevents litter from be¬ 
ing scratched into the hopper, while 
the sloping cover prevents roosting up¬ 
on it. The total cost of construction is 
about $4. 
The grit hopper is made of the same 
material. Wire is hemmed in about the 
edges of all openings for strength and 
protection. The grit hopper is divided 
into three compartments for grit, shell 
and charcoal respectively. The rounded 
back forces the material down without 
clogging. The cost is about $1. The 
grit hopper can be enlarged considera¬ 
bly and used for a feed hopper very 
successfully. c. F. b. 
Bijtteb Prices.—N ewspapers have been 
printing prophecies that butter will sell for 
50 cents during the coining Winter. Some 
of these reports are evidently the work of a 
type of space writer who can handle murder 
and scandal cases with facility but gets 
badly muddled when he tackles either agri¬ 
culture or religion. There is another class' 
of reports that look as though inspired by 
the publicity bureau of the oleomargarine 
and butter speculative interests, who would 
like to have the public educated to the idea 
of 50 cents per pound in Winter. If one 
can buy butter at 25 or 30 cents, store a 
few months and then unload his holdings at 
40 or 45 cents, what a bunch of money he 
can make. Dealers who are in close touch 
with butter consumers do not look with fa¬ 
vor on any increase in price other than 
that arising from an actual shortage in the 
make, and would be glad if they never had 
to charge more than 30 cents or 35 as a 
limit. As soon as the price reaches 40 
cents consumption drops off at a rapid rate, 
and this is the one thing above all others 
that the legitimate butter trade fears. It is 
this habit of the consuming public of mak- 
FEED HO I'PER. SECTION THROUGH 
CENTER. Fig. 488. 
ing one pound of 40-cent butter take the 
place of 1% to two pounds 1 at 30 or 35 
cents that makes 50-cent butter improbable 
except in a year of actual butter famine. 
At several times during the past two weeks 
the wholesale price of fancy butter in New 
York has been forced up to 32 cents. Per¬ 
haps the conditions of supply justified the 
advance, and perhaps they did not, but, at 
any rate, the consuming trade slackened 
enough to cause a one-cent drop in price. 
The butter retailers do not have a uniformly 
happy time, being between the speculators, 
who are trying to force the price up, and 
the rank and file of consumers who balk 
most effectively at every advance when the 
price gets above the limit of moderation. 
It is generally thought that the butter crop 
of the present year throughout the country 
has been short, but who knows how short? 
The butter has been put on the market and 
has disappeared. How much went to the 
consumers and how much into the ware¬ 
houses owned by large interests who make 
public no report of their holdings? Butter 
prices that are higher than the conditions 
of actual supply warrant are a detriment 
to both producers and consumers and a 
benefit solely to speculators. This produces 
an unhealthy state of trade that cannot be 
remedied so long as the privilege of un¬ 
limited secret storage of a staple product of 
this sort is permitted. w- w. h. 
Express fVniPANiES Again. —Don’t you 
think that Burbank must be related to the 
express companies? Ilis delay in paying 
you the $10,000 ($1,000 you generously al¬ 
low him) would indicate it. I have been 
11 months and 15 days so far trying to 
collect $1.40 from the American Express 
Co. for a broken casting, broken in transit. 
The latest from them was a request for a 
sight, of the casting, although the break 
was called to their agent’s attention at the 
time. Fasting was put info scrap heap 
some six months ago. I think those of us 
who have claims against express companies 
will have to form a corporation; some¬ 
thing that will go on forever, as an in¬ 
dividual can’t live long enough to collect; 
at least not more than one claim. 
New Hampshire. k. d. 
Congo on 
Babcock Mills, Davis, W. Va. 
/^ONGO is a roofing- that is made 
and sold in handy rolls all ready 
to lay. Nails, cement and caps in 
sufficient quantity are packed in¬ 
side so that there is nothing else 
to buy. The caps are galvanized 
iron instead of the usual tin, and 
so they do not rust. Ordinary 
caps soon rust and become useless. 
Leaks and trouble result. 
Any man can lay Congo Roofing. 
It demands no special skill or ex¬ 
perience. 
Congo is applicable to any building 
and to any kind of roof, although 
it will give best results on sloping' 
roofs. It can lie laid on farm build¬ 
ings right over old shingles ; it is 
ROOFING 
so tough that the rough surface 
will not hurt it. It can be used 
on factories and the fumes of coal 
smoke will do it no damage. 
Congo suits every purpose and 
every purse, because it is made in 
three grades, namely: 1-ply, 2-ply 
and 3-ply. The 3-ply is guaranteed 
for 10 years. The guarantee is a 
real guarantee, and doe3 not require 
a lawyer to enforce it for you. It 
consists of an Insurance Bond is¬ 
sued by the National Surety Com¬ 
pany and is enclosed with each roll 
of Congo Roofing ready to be filled 
out and sent in for registration. 
Sample of Congo and new booklet 
mailed free on request. 
UNITED ROOFING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
532 WEST END TRUST BLDG., PHILADELPHIA, PA. ^n C fra°ncisco 
These Low Prices Sell 
reese 
RUBBER 
ROOFING 
Freight Prepaid 
Lowest Direct 
Factory Prices 
Freight Prepaid on 
lOO Lbs or More 
35-lb. Roll, 108sq.ft, 1-Ply,$1.35 
45-lb. Roll, 108sq.ft 2-Ply, 1 45 
55-lb. Roll, 108sq.ft 3-Ply, 2.25 
Yon can’t buy highest quality moling 
like this anywhere else for anything 
■ ■ e these low prices. It's because 
we Bell direct to you from our 
factory and sell thou Bunds of 
rollB where others sell hun¬ 
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.Iowa, Missouri, and north of the southern line of Tennes¬ 
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We guarantee Broeso Bros. Rubber Roofing not to crack—shrink—wrinkle— 
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Double Saving till Nov. 15th 
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Even at regular prices you will save money yf / 
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5 % off 
1908-1909 
Catalog 
Prices. 
_ Jier materials are rapidly advancing in cost 
— and next year’s prices will be higher. 
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Save Your Crops 
From Early And Late 
Frost* With The 
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ORCHARD 
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Millions saved this year. 
Write us for prices and 
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In house, stable and anywhere else, If 
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THRESHERS 
Do Your Own Threshing 1 
You can save the cost of a rig 
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are equally well suited to thresher-men 
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Pottstown, Pa• 
