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THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Apples. —The market shows no improve¬ 
ment, except that a few extra choice 
Baldwins have sold above quoted prices. 
Fotatoes. —The market continues dull. A 
large amount of old stock is running under 
?2, and Bermuda new potatoes are selling 
at figures that leave but little profit for the 
growers. 
The Board of General Appraisers has 
ruled that dogs are not “articles of wear¬ 
ing apparel, articles of personal adornment, 
or toilet articles,’’ and hence are subject 
to customs duty. 
Heavy Canal Trade. —Manchester, Eng¬ 
land, is an inland city, yet on account of 
its ship canal facilities has developed a 
large steamer trade, and is an important 
distributing point. The business handled 
at this port during 1907 was over 5,000,000 
tons. Exports of coal and imports of lum¬ 
ber and cattle are the heaviest items. 
Business with Jamaica. —Our trade with 
that island has been usually large the past 
six months. Among other items im¬ 
ported from the United States were 120,- 
000 barrels of flour; 145,000 bushels of 
corn; 500,000 pounds of butter and oleo; 
8,000,000 feet of lumber and 30.000 barrels 
of cement, the building material being 
largely required to repair the damage done 
by earthquake at Kingston. 
Egos. —The unusually mild weather has 
favored increased production. Hundreds of 
small flocks that on account of inferior 
housing and care ordinarily lay but little 
in Winter are surprising their careless 
owners. This item alone makes a decided 
increase in current offerings. The well-used 
flocks also appreciate a Spring-like January. 
No matter how well a hen is fed and 
housed she prefers bare and unfrozen 
ground to snowbanks and cold winds, and 
shows her approval of the weather in the 
egg basket. Prices on all grades have 
gone down two to four cents since last re¬ 
port, and some of the lower grade storage 
stock is going below 15 cents. 
“What will cotton be worth next 
Spring?” T. p. 
North Carolina. 
On the basis of mill stocks of raw mate¬ 
rial It would seem that cotton should sell 
for 13% or 14 cents within three or four 
months. There are reports of mills de¬ 
creasing their output on account of slack 
trade, as, because of the financial troubles, 
wholesalers and jobbers have been unable 
to buy or carry normal quantities of goods. 
But people must have cotton goods and 
lots of them. They may economize on 
silk and wool, but cotton goods are a 
necessity next to food, and on this account 
the mill demand for raw cotton is not 
likely to lessen. Manufactured white gOods 
'n the staple lines are more expensive than 
they have been for some time and this 
increase of price is shown even in the Jan¬ 
uary bargain sales, which usually prove of 
great advantage to buyers. In this state¬ 
ment no account is taken of speculative 
manipulation of the raw cotton market, a 
very important item but manifestly out of 
the field of safe price forecasting. 
w. w. H. 
FATTENING CALIFORNIA CATTLE. 
An article in the Iais Angeles Times 
gives an interesting account of the opera¬ 
tions on the great Patterson ranch near Ox¬ 
nard. This ranch contains 5,656 acres. A 
few years ago It was little more than waste 
land. The development of methods in 
handling this ranch have followed the lay¬ 
ing of over three miles of tile and the 
establishment of a thorough underground 
drainage, the water being carried to a dump¬ 
ing station at the southwest part of the 
property and pumped over the sand dunes 
into the Pacific. Then came the rotation 
of crops, only about one-third of the ranch 
being ’devoted to sugar beets at one time, 
the other years growing beans and grain. 
Lastly has come the development of the 
cattle fattening industry, thousands of head 
each year being fed upon beet pulp from the 
beets of the ranch, bean straw from the 
beans, and molasses from the sugar factory, 
shipped to the stock yards in tank cars 
and stored in big tanks.' 
One of the most interesting features of 
the stock fattening process is the large beet 
pulp silo, which is 300x300 feet and when 
full contains 60,000 tons of pulp. Pulp 
cars are filled at the sugar factory and are 
run to the silo on the tracks of the Bakers- 
ticld-Ventura Railroad. The track runs over 
the center of the excavation and the pulp 
drops through to the silo below, where It 
seeks its own level and is forced by the 
weight of that coming later to the full 
capacity of the excavation. It gradually 
becomes heated by the process of fermenta¬ 
tion and after resting for a few weeks be¬ 
comes hard and is cut away with spades 
and shoveled into cars which run down be¬ 
tween two lines of troughs and connect a 
series of corrals on either side, in each of 
which are a hundred head or more of cattle. 
In this manner 3,000 head of cattle are fed 
each day. Beet pulp also needs something 
for coarseness, the pulp alone being too 
rich and watery for exclusive food. On 
this ranch, where Lima beans are used to 
rotate with sugar beets, to the mutual bene¬ 
fit of both, the residue of these two crops 
is employed in the feeding of cattle. One 
would be insufficient without the other. 
The straw is scattered in the corrals, and 
the stock feed on it, along with the pulp. 
In the early days It was placed in the 
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troughs with the pulp, but this method has 
lw»en discountenanced on account of the ex¬ 
tra expense, and the results were no more 
effective than in the present method. The 
managers of the Patterson ranch find the 
beet pulp gives a bigger percentage of 
nutritive ratio to the meat of pulp fed stock 
than almost any other food. It is claimed 
by prominent, stock feeders that these 
cattle develop in a good thrifty manner, and 
are even superior to the Alfalfa-fed cattle 
of the north. Horned cattle gain an aver¬ 
age of one and one-half pound per day, and 
dishorned cattle two pounds per day. After 
30 days they gain very rapidly and on the 
Patterson ranch seem to reach their ideal 
condition in a little less than 90 days. 
It would seem that the feeding of beet 
pulp to beef cattle is destined to be the sal¬ 
vation of cattle feeding in southern Cali¬ 
fornia. following the development of the 
sugar-beet industry. It may be secured in 
the greatest quantities at. that time of the 
Winter when almost all of the ranges of 
the south are crying for rain and after the 
rain comes must wait several weeks before 
the starving stock can get the benefit of 
slow-growing grass. From November until 
the pulp gives out in the Spring, this date 
being only dependent upon the number of 
cattle to feed, many thousands of head of 
stock can not only be kept alive, but put 
in the finest possible shape for the market. 
Cattle take to siloed pulp much more read¬ 
ily than might be expected. The Patterson 
ranch management has hit upon the scheme 
of furnishing beet molasses that is of no 
avail at the sugar factory and by another 
season will feed more sugar molasses to 
stock than any other ranch in the world. 
A tank has been built at the pulp silo that 
contains a total of 200 tons of molasses. 
This molasses is run into tank cars on the 
same tracks upon which the pulp cars r"un 
and from these is distributed in the long 
lines of troughs the same as the pulp. It 
is mixed with the pulp to give it a more 
pleasing taste, and, as a matter of fact, is 
a most, nutritious stock food itself, also 
having been found to be of great value for 
horses. 
“Pedigree.” —Originally men kept care¬ 
ful registers of the breeding of cattle in 
order that they might, successfully pursue a 
certain definite policy in breeding, which 
they hoped would improve the breed. The 
record was like a label on the animal. 
Under that system the animal had back of 
it the record and the breed. Under our 
modern system the main thing is the pedi¬ 
gree, then the, animal, the breeder we pay 
little attention to. We have lost the spirit 
entirely and retain only the letter, which 
will kill the whole business. J. h. c. 
Nova Scotia. 
ONE MAN DOES 
WORK OF TWO 
With Iron Age Riding Culti¬ 
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lines that make this possible. 
Hoes are under perfect 
control. Can regulati 
depth and keep hoes 
desired distance 
from growing 
plants. More 
advantag¬ 
es in our 
Iron 
Age 
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With the New 
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At every conference and convention of the De Laval traveling' 
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there has been just one criticism made in connection with the 
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for the asking. 
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42 E. Madison Stkkkt, 
CHICAGO 
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President, 
The Manson Cumpbell 
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