1911 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
176 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a souare deal." See guarantee page 10. 
Genasco 
Ready Roofing 
Put it on the roof of all your 
buildings, and you’ll have peace 
of mind, comfort, satisfaction, 
and economy ; you’ll have abso¬ 
lute and lasting weather-protec¬ 
tion. 
Genasco is made of Trinidad Lake 
asphalt—the natural and only perfect 
waterproofer. 
The Kant-leak Kleet keeps seams 
waterproof without cement. Supplied 
with Genasco, when specified. 
Ask your dealer for Genasco, and be sure to 
look for the trademark. Mineral or smooth 
surface. A written guarantee, if you want it. 
Write for samples and the Good Roof Guide 
Book. 
THE BARBER ASPHALT 
PAVING COMPANY 
Largest producers of asphalt, and largest 
manufacturers of ready-roofing in the world. 
PHILADELPHIA 
New York San Francisco Chicago 
Cross-section, Genasco Stone-surface Roofing 
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V^KUmOd WARRINER 
STANCHION 
H. A. Moyer, Syracuse, 
N. Y., says “ they 
SAVE COST 
in feed in one winter.” 
Send address for speci¬ 
fications of inexpensive 
yet sanitary cow stable to 
WALLACE 11. CRUMB, Box M2, Forestvllle, Conn, 
COW COMFORT 
Means additional profit. Simple, 
durable, easily locked. Foster 
Steel Stanchion* cannot bo 
opened by the cattle. Top and bot¬ 
tom chains permit free head move¬ 
ment, standing or lying down, yet 
keep cattle lined up and clean. 
Write for new booklet showing 
model stables. 
Foster Steel Stanchion Co., 
906 Ins. Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION 
Warranted The Best. 30 Days’ Triag 
Unlike all others. Stationary when open 
Noiseless Simple Sanitary Durable 
The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
Box 60, -t- Cuba, N. Y. 
ROBERTSON’S CII AIN 
HANGING STANCHIONS 
“I have used them for more 
than TWENTY YEA US, and they 
have given the very best of satis¬ 
faction In every way,” write* 
Justus H. Cooley, M.I>., Plainfield 
Sanitarium, Plainfield, N. J. 
Thirty days* trial on application 
©. II. KOBERTSON 
Wash. St., Forest vl I Je t Conn. 
N^EELB ARROW LABOR 
Sows evenly. No need \J r SEED 
to wait for quiet day. ^ 
Sows Timothy, Clover, Alsike, Alfalfa, Millet, Turnip, etc. 
Two sizes: H ft. and 16 ft. Auger feed. Wood frame. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Prompt shipment. If your dealer 
doesnot handle the “STAR” write us for booklet. 
STAR SEEDER CO., Box R, Shortsville, N. Y. 
It Will Please You 
because of its long wearing qualities, its modern 
and sanitary construction ana its superior finish, 
these wagons forma strong contrast to the ordi- 
nary delivery outfits owing to their individual 
style and pleasing appearance. A new catalogue 
illustrating and describing our modern, sanitary 
unlk wagons will he mailed on request. Address 
the parsons wagon CO., 
Daibx Dept. Earlville, N. T. 
MILK.. 
New York exchange price is $1.81 per 
40-quart can, netting 3% cents to shippers 
in 26-cent freight zone who have no addi¬ 
tional station charges. 
Nearly all milk is sold through dealers; 
price paid to producer 15 cents per gallon, 
retail price from wagon, seven cents per 
quart, four cents per pint. Some few 
peddle their own milk. Cream is furnished 
confectioners and ice cream manufacturers 
. t 40 to 60 cents per gallon, delivered, ac¬ 
cording to per cent of cream. r. l. r. 
Lancaster, O. 
In answer to E. M. R.’s recent inquiry 
\ as to the practicability of milking ma¬ 
chines, I am pleased to state we have 
operated two machines for about four 
weeks, and pronounce them a grand suc¬ 
cess ; one man operating two machines can 
easily milk 20 heavy milkers in an hour. 
The cows take to the machines readily, 
and we believe do the work better than 
the average man would do the old way. 
Eden, N. Y. h. a. b. 
Retail price of milk is eight cents per 
quart, the year around. Producers get an 
average of 12 cents per gallon wholesale. 
Perhaps half of retailers produce their own 
supply, the rest buy from farmers. My 
observations lead to the conclusion that 
the retailer has much the best of it. Poul¬ 
try varies so with the season that no quo¬ 
tation would stand for more than one week. 
Early broilers wholesale at 25 cents per 
pound, live weight, and scale down as 
the season advances to as low as 12 cents 
live weight for fowls. J. A. H. 
Mingo Junction, O. 
In Lancaster milk is supplied by dairy¬ 
men and farmers who deliver direct to con¬ 
sumers at six to seven cents per quart. 
Some dairymen buy from their neighbors 
when they do not have enough to supply 
their trade; they pay 12 cents per gallon 
in Summer and 15 cents in Winter. Price 
of butter, 26 cents ; eggs, 25 cents ; chickens, 
10 cents; apples, $1 to $2 per bushel, de¬ 
livered at store; potatoes, 70 cents; hay, 
$15 per ton. A good deal of spraying was 
done here last year, but most of the fruit 
was killed by late frosts. Lancaster has a 
population of something over 13,000 ; is the 
country seat of Fairfield County. Land 
here is high, from $50 to $150 per acre. 
Lancaster, O. j. c. H. 
Most of the milk produced in Tuscarawas 
County is consumed in our several towns 
of New Philadelphia, Canal Dover, Denni¬ 
son and Uhrichsville, which have a combined 
population of 22,000. Part of this milk 
is sold by the producers and part by ped¬ 
dlers, who buy direct from the producer. It 
is now retailing at seven cents per quart; 
the wholesale price varies from 12 cents to 
15 cents per gallon. There is considerable 
Swiss cheese manufactured, but not as much 
as a few years since. The price they re¬ 
ceived at the cheeseries was based on 
the price the cheese sold for. Hence the 
price varied from $1 per hundred pounds to 
$1.20. Recently there has developed quite 
a trade in cream. It is mostly shipped to a 
Columbus creamery, the price of cream is 
fixed by the quotation from the Elgin Board 
of Trade, and varies from 28 cents to 32 
cents per pound of butter fat. A very small 
amount of milk is shipped to outside cities. 
New Philadelphia, Ohio. h. s. b. 
The New York City Board of Health at 
its meeting January 31 decided that after 
Dec. 31, 1911, all milk and cream sold in 
New York must be graded or pasteurized. 
This is not to include, however, milk used 
for cooking or manufacturing purposes. It is 
the intent of the board that milk used for 
the feeding of infants and children must 
be certified, guaranteed or pasteurized un¬ 
der special regulations of the department 
and must he sold only in bottles. This is 
to be known as grade A. The B grade of 
milk may be used by adults. It may be 
sold in bottles or containers, but it must 
not be dipped. It will include the A grade 
and milk pasteurized under the depart- 
inert’s ordinary -regulations. No milk in¬ 
ferior to this shall he sold for drinking 
purposes. The supervision of the depart¬ 
ment is to be specially concentrated on 
these two grades. The third or C grade 
embraces all other milk complying with 
department regulations and may be sold in 
bottles or from cans. 
lhis is not a dairy section, but devoted 
to general farming. A very large portion 
of the farmers keep mongrel stock of beef 
varieties. Some milk is sold close to the 
towns. The dealers pay from $1.25 to 
$1.75 per 100 pounds on the farm, and the 
consumer pays from five to seven eents a 
quart. All our surplus milk is either made 
into butter on the -farm or sold as cream 
at so much a pound for.butter fat. The 
local creamery pays 24 eents a pound for 
butter fat and gets the cream. The Ohio 
Dairy Co., of Toledo, is also buying cream; 
they pay more, but we have to take the 
cream to the railroad station and pay 
transportation to Toledo. Our own herd 
consists mostly of I-Ierefords; some give 
lots of milk. We keep cows to improve 
the farm and for beef, and if two cows do 
not give a certain amount of milk and 
butter we keep three, and get out ahead, 
because the local markets do not want 
Jersey calves or beeves for butchering, un¬ 
less they can buy them for about 25 per 
cent less than good Ilerefords or other good 
beef cattle. Land values are going up. 
Land in Henry County is assessed for taxa¬ 
tion at $80 an acre on the average. It is 
assessed the highest of any farm land in 
Ohio. Land is selling at from $100 to 
$180, according to improvements. Keep up 
the good work of hitting the grafters. 
Jewell, O. h. G. p. 
Whitewood for Building. 
I have on my place a lot of large 
Whitewood trees (Liriodendron tulipifera). 
Would this wood be suitable for the build¬ 
ing of chicken houses? I have a sawmill 
only about 10 minutes away, where I could 
have it cut in the necessary lumber. Or is 
this wood more valuable for other purposes, 
so It would pay to sell some and buy 
other lumber? F. c. L. 
Madison, Mass. 
In our country this wood would be more 
valuable for other purposes. It is used 
for making rolling pins and light utensils. 
We should sell the whitewood and buy 
other lumber. 
(No 5) 
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