THtfi RURAL NEW-YORKER 
29 
‘Thirty-six” Touring' Car 
S-passenger,—$1800 
, Long stroke motor, Chalmers self-starter, 
four forward speeds, Bosch dual igni- 
tion. Solar Sas lamps and Prest-O-Lile 
tank, ventilated fore-doors, 36x4-inch 
tires. Continental demountable rims. 
“Leans Right Up In the Collar 
and Pulls ” 
T HIS expression describes 
very well the mule-like 
pulling qualities and the 
bull-dog endurance of the 
Chalmers “Thirty-six” motor. 
Chalmers cars are built for dura¬ 
bility; for day-in-and-day-out ser¬ 
vice; they have a reputation which 
has made them standard. 
The new Chalmers “Thirty-six,” 
the leader of the 1912 line, gives to 
the farmer, at $1800, a car which 
he can compare favorably with the 
high priced cars. When the “36” 
was planned we instructed our en¬ 
gineers to build a four-cylinder, five- 
passenger car that would leave ab¬ 
solutely nothing to be desired. We 
said we would fix the price when 
the car was ready. 
We think in the Chalmers “36” 
we are offering a car that actually 
does leave nothing to be desired. 
The“36”has a splendid 
motor, with large cylinders, 
long stroke (4x 5^"). 
This motor is a great puller 
on high speed; a wonderful 
hill-climber, and will give 
you all the speed you 
want. Although rated at 
36 h. p., it will actually 
This monogram on tho 
radiator stands far all 
you can ask in a motor car 
develop 40 h. p. It is a motor 
that will “lean right into the collar 
and pull.” 
The Chalmers Company was the 
first to offer a real automobile at a 
low price. We believe that the 
“36” is the first medium priced car 
which will compare with any five- 
passenger motor car, no matter 
how costly. It is a car, so reliable, 
so sturdy, so durable, so good look¬ 
ing, that it will appeal to the far¬ 
mer as no car heretofore offered can. 
The well-tried Chalmers “30,” 
the car that won the last year’s 
Glidden Tour, the car which last 
year, fully equipped, sold for $1750 
—now, through improved methods 
of manufacture—is this year offered 
to you at $1500. 
We invite you to inspect Chal¬ 
mers cars. Comparison has sold 
more cars for us than all our ad¬ 
vertising. Your local dealer will 
be pleased to give you a 
demonstration of Chal¬ 
mers cars. A postal 
card will bring you our 
latest catalog and an in¬ 
troduction to your nearest 
dealer. Let us get ac¬ 
quainted. Let us hear from 
you today. 
Qialmers Motor Company. Detroit?'Mich. 
SHED ROOM FOR PEACH ORCHARD. 
8 . M. H., Hoiceil Co., Mo .—Can you give 
us some pointers as to the size of a pack¬ 
ing shed adequate for the handling of a 
good average crop of peaches from an 800- 
acre orchard? Trees from three to eight 
years old at present. How much, approx¬ 
imately, should an up-to-date packing shed 
of above requirements cost? 
Ans. —We have found a building 
about 35 feet wide and 60 feet long 
about right for 50 acres of peaches 
yielding 25,000 baskets. Building is lo¬ 
cated on a hillside, so that it is handy 
to load and unload fruit and baskets. 
The unsorted fruit comes in on one side 
and is set off in building. A long table 
runs entire length of building; fruit is 
sorted on table and set off on floor and 
then loaded into wagons. This arrange¬ 
ment saves labor, as there is no lost 
motion; the fruit moves only in one di¬ 
rection. Cost of building would depend 
upon local conditions and material used. 
If a two-story building was erected, 
space overhead could be used for basket 
storage. A. T. henry. 
Connecticut. 
As to a suitable packing shed for 
handling the peaches on an 80-acre pro¬ 
position, an estimate in bushels of car 
lots would be a mighty sight more 
definite. Lots of people are planting or¬ 
chards, scattering over big acreage and 
yet do not have, nor ever will have, 
crops that will require half as big pack¬ 
ing sheds as some people would with 
150 to 250-acre orchards, where better 
methods were followed. Assuming that 
your correspondent has perhaps the 
average orchard, so located that one 
central packing shed will answer for all, 
I should say that it ought to be at least 
150 feet long, 36 to 40 feet wide, with a 
lean-to shed along either side for the 
teams to drive under in delivering and 
taking the fruit from the packing shed. 
It needs to be two stories high and 
built exceedingly well and strong, so as 
to carry the large quantity of packages 
necessary in the second story. The cost 
of such a building would vary from 
$2,000 to $4,000, according to lumber 
and labor cost and how well it is con¬ 
structed. I put up a building like this, 
only about half the length, in my Pero 
orchards last season, which cost about 
$1500, and I believe it is one of the best 
sheds anywhere around. j. h. hale. 
Connecticut. 
We built in our orchard sheds that 
answer the purpose well; used posts 12 
feet for outside, 20 feet for inside, set 
in ground bound together with 2x6, well 
spiked to posts. We use the upper part 
for box material, or rather boxes and 
crates made up. We cover with tight 
ship-lap and then cover with roofing 
felt. All this is cheaply done and can be 
done by common labor. It will take to 
handle a full crop from 800 acres a 
shed 24x128 or 32x128. We set posts 
eight feet apart, so as to support the 
whole roof without a heavy lot of frame 
work. Large doors are made to unload 
at. and so team can drive in in case of 
rain. The upper floor is only 2x6 or 
2x8 feet, so that box material and boxes 
can be laid on them, and they are mov¬ 
able and put 12, 14 or 16 inches apart 
as needed. L. a. Goodman. 
Missouri. 
YOURS FOR PARCELS POST. 
„ A Suggestion for Parcels Post. 
While parcels post ideas are being formu¬ 
lated with the prospect of the passage of 
a parcels post bill during the present ses¬ 
sion of Congress, I would respectfully offer 
the following suggestions: 
Abolish the fourth classification of mail 
matter by including in the third classifica¬ 
tion all transient matter not now first class. 
Maintain the present third class rate of 
postage. Increase the weight limit to 11 
pounds. This would give the simplest pos¬ 
sible classification of mail matter, and 
would with almost no jar or friction estab¬ 
lish a reasonable parcels post service in the 
United States and possessions. I worked 
for nine years in a large postofiice. and I 
know how foreigners and even our own 
citizens feel when they learn that they 
cannot mail to one of our postofllces as 
large a package as they can mail to a for¬ 
eign country, nor even any size package 
at as low a rate. Many thousands of 
packages within the international limit of 
size intended for the domestic service only 
are annually refused admission to our 
mails, and many more go. to the dead letter 
office because underpaid, this mainly be¬ 
cause of our unreasonable classification 
with two rates of postage in a single class. 
The general public cannot keep up with 
anything like this. It leads to confusion 
and trouble both in and out of the post- 
office. 
The plan that I have proposed would so 
simplify the classification that it would 
greatly lessen if not entirely dispel the 
confusion now existing in the public mind 
regarding the classification of mail matter 
and rates of postage. It would thus facili¬ 
tate the postal serviee, and its inauguration 
could be accomplished with far less labor 
and expense than could that of any other 
plan thus far proposed, f. e. aspinwall. 
Kentucky. 
I am very much in favor of parcels post. 
The only question in my mind is how it is 
to be worked out practically. I believe 
Mr. Sulzer’s bill calls for a uniform rate 
all over the United States of eight cents 
per pound with a limit of 11 pounds. That 
of course would be better than the present 
system, but it would be of no use in short 
hauls. I can now send via express a three- 
pound package to New York, about 90 
miles, for 25 cents, seven pounds for 30 
cents and 10 pounds for 35 cents, I believe. 
From this you will see that in the thickly 
populated sections of the East, such a rate 
would be of little help. Only in the long 
hauls to the West would we receive any 
benefit. My idea would be to divide the 
United States into section. Say the New 
England States, New York. New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland: second. 
West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina. 
South Carolina; third. Georgia. Florida, 
Alabama, Mississippi. Tennessee, Kentucky; 
fourth, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, 
Michigan; fifth, States west of Mississippi 
River to be divided in like manner, only 
making the sections larger as the popula¬ 
tion grows less dense. Then make the rate 
two or three cents a pound within each 
section, adding one cent per pound when 
passing from any section to an adjoining 
one in any direction, adding one cent per 
pound for each section crossed or entered 
into to the original first section cost. Of 
course it might be necessary to use some¬ 
what higher rates to start with, but much 
higher rates would be of little benefit 
except for the long hauls, as I have said. I 
do not think any single rate per pound 
for the whole United States would be a 
success. Our country is too large, our 
population too scattered, to apply the same 
rule as in European countries. If a single 
rate was made low enough to be of any 
real use in the thickly settled sections the 
Tost Office Department would lose too much 
money on the long hauls. To my mind let¬ 
ters and heavy packages do not stand in 
same class, and the same rule will not work 
for both. D. W. MEEKER. 
Connecticut. 
A FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIA¬ 
TION. 
A farmers’ association has just been in¬ 
corporated here under the laws of the State 
under the name of “The South Shore 
Growers & Shippers Association.” The 
originators, comprising some 20 represen¬ 
tative farmers of the towns of Sheridan 
and Hanover in Chautauqua County, started 
six weeks ago to better their conditions on 
the canning factory contracts, which for 
the past five years, to say the least, have 
been about the worst proposition that the 
farmer of this vicinity has had to meet 
with. After holding two meetings with 
the representative men. the demand for 
stock and the desire to become members 
and shippers in the Association became so 
great that we were compelled to raise our 
capital stock, which originally was $1,000, 
divided into 200 shares of $5 each, to 
$5,000, consisting of 1.000 shares of $5 
each, and I am most happy to say that in 
the past two weeks we have succeeded in 
selling nearly 200 shares of stock in this 
community with only one man making ap¬ 
plication for more than one share. This 
does not mean that the men who have 
signed for stock will not take more than 
one share, but it means that the men have 
taken one share each and at least half of 
them stand ready to take more if the 
board of directors will give their permis¬ 
sion, but the board deems it advisable at 
the present time to distribute the stock 
at one and two shares each, among as 
many individual farmers as it is possible 
to reach, and we are certainly surprised at 
the rate that the stock is being taken up. 
After careful consideration of the matter 
we have come to the conclusion that the 
contract system so generally used between 
shipping associations and various farmers 
is in itself fundamentally wrong, and we 
are therefore discouraging this system and 
endeavoring to have the men that grow 
the products take at least one share of 
stock in this association, pointing out to 
them the value to them of being a stock 
holder in the association, and having a 
voice in the management of its affairs. It 
is the aim of the Association to purchase 
all farm supplies in large quantities; to 
make a single contract with the canneries 
of which wo have six or seven within our 
immediate vicinity ; to find a better market 
for the growers of a small amount of the 
various kinds of small fruits and vegetables 
that are raised in this section ; to encourage 
the farmers to plant more of certain kinds of 
fruits that some of us have found to be the 
most profitable, among others I might say 
gooseberries, and to act as a unit upon 
all matters pertaining to the betterment 
of the conditions in this Chautauqua belt, 
and the raising of the standard of the 
products that we grow. H. K. palmer. 
Secretary. 
Plant Potatoes 
You can make large profits from growing pota¬ 
toes. They thrive in practically every state in the 
Union, and, since they are used universalb^^s 
food, the average market price in theArfcJr of 
quickly increasing population is bouncU^DJmigh. 
Any intelligent farmer can grow rfn^oa^Lith 
good profit. The old time drudfl/ry^jw^Jed. 
Modern implements for plantiip. cufcSting, 
spraying, digging, etc. have madejf^^ermar easy to' 
handle. They have also given t^suraMT of yield. 
We wish to lay especial emphasiSwr^kiBi the im¬ 
portance of the planter to securing stla, and con¬ 
sequently a big crop. Also, spraying, as it effects 
both quality and yield. Farmers! get busy on the 
potato growing. 
MAKE MORE MONEY 
Grow more potatoes per acre by having a 
perfect stand. In other words, use a planter 
you can depend upon—one that will drop a 
seed piece absolutely every time. It makes a differ¬ 
ence of 10 to 57 bushels per acre, With an Iron Age 
Planter you can secure a 100 per cent, stand. 
Isn’t that the planter you want? It 
makes no misses, no doubles, 
injures no seed. Let us 
tell you what the Iron 
Age has done for its 
users. Ask for Mr. 
Lambing's letter. You 
are the loser if you 
don't. Write for plan— 
booklet today. 
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40,000 Farmers Plant L“° 
WITH THIS MACHINE 
You can handle your crop economically—and properly—by 
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There are many localities where we have no agent, and if you 
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ELKHART CARRIAGE & HARNESS MFG. CO. 
Elkhart, Indiana 
