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February 3, 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
ALL SORTS. 
New York City had 500 fires in 10 days 
of the first part of January. 
On January 3 there were 135,938 idle 
freight cars in the United States. 
Kansas turned out 9,872.401 pounds of 
oleo last year, 203,675 pounds being colored. 
The 1911 crop of walnuts on the Pacific 
coast was the largest on record, 12,500 tons. 
The past year broke all records for ship¬ 
building, the total number of vessels com¬ 
pleted being 3,199. Nearly one-half were 
built in Great Britain. Other countries in 
order of number were: Holland, 480; Ger¬ 
many, 330 ; Japan, 183 ; United States, 160 ; 
France, 106. 
Aroostook County. Maine, potato grow¬ 
ers have an association capitalized for 
$100,000. shares $5 each. Only members 
of the Grange can become stockholders. 
The handling of seed stock and improve¬ 
ment in methods of grading and marketing 
are its purposes. Guy Porter, of Houlton, 
Maine, is secretary. 
Our total exports of farm products and 
oils for the year amounted to $888,623,692, 
an increase of $56,000,000 over last year. 
The largest single item was cotton, $515,- 
930,120. Breadstuffs amounted to $122,- 
836,878; meats, dairy products and live 
stock, $150,919,899, and mineral oils, $98,- 
936,795. We shipped 4.992.373 bushels of 
corn, 3,054,155 of wheat, and 1,086,728 
barrels of flour. 
Following are the principal points In 
the cold storage bill reported by the Massa¬ 
chusetts commission that has been investi¬ 
gating this matter: Complete supervision 
by the State Board of Health ; full records 
of receipts and withdrawal of stored pro¬ 
ducts ; no food stored more than a year, 
except by special permission; prohibiting 
return to cold storage of any food once 
removed, and full power with health board 
to shorten the time to less than a year on 
30 days notice to the storage house. Cold 
storage is interpreted as meaning a tem¬ 
perature of 40 degrees or less and storage 
for upwards of 30 days. No article of food 
kept in storage can be sold without notify¬ 
ing the buyer of this fact, and all articles 
must be branded with the date of storage. 
Books Worth Buying. 
Law for the American Farmer, by John 
B. Green, of the New York Bar. A con¬ 
cise comprehensive work.$1.50 
Farm and Garden Ilule Book, by Bailey. 
This is the Horticulturists’ Rule Book, re¬ 
vised and greatly enlarged.$2.00 
Fertilizers, by Voorhees. The standard 
work on this subject.$1.25 
Swine in America, by Coburn. A large 
and finely illustrated book by an expert. 
$2.50. 
Feeds and Feeding, by Henry. A thor¬ 
ough discussion of rations for live stock. 
$2.25. 
In this neighborhood corn at the present 
time sells for $4 a barrel, meaning “three 
flour barrels full to the barrel.” Milk in 
the Summer sells at 10 cents a quart; that 
is to private parties. I know of no farmer 
shipping milk from here. Fruit, that is 
good fruit, always demands its highest 
price. Sweet potatoes also sell at Washing¬ 
ton Market prices; the same can be said 
of sugar corn, peas, etc. Hay is raised and 
sold sometimes, as for example in this 
year, it sells at $23 a ton. The land is 
good and sells at very reasonable figures. 
Some land sells for very little, but is worth 
no more : the land around my farm sells at 
from $50 to $100 an acre. G. R. 
Charles Co., Md. 
On account of credit of nine to 12 months 
given at auctions prices on stock and fod¬ 
der are usually higher than they would be 
If bought for cash. Fresh cows, early Win¬ 
ter and late Fall, $30 to $40 ; dry farrow 
and those that freshen in March or later, 
from $15 to $25, according to condition, 
age, etc. Horses, good, heavy and young, 
$175 to $200: lighter, $100 to $140; poor, 
old and verv light, slow sale at any price. 
Sheep, from $2.25 to $2.50 per head. Mules, 
25 per cent higher than horses, other things 
being equal. Hay, $16 to $20 per ton, ac¬ 
cording to grade and quality of goods. 
Silage, none being sold. Dry corn fodder 
or corn stover, about $8 to $10, according 
to condition. M - M - s. 
Aima, N. l r . 
Horses are bringing from $40 to $90 
for “plugs” and $100 to $200 or more for 
good drivers or draft horses. Cows at auc¬ 
tion bring from $30 to $50, and young 
cattle at about usual market price. Good 
wethers bring from $1.75 to $2.50. and 
ewes from $2 to $4. Hogs are worth six 
cents a pound on foot. Pigs at weaning 
time bring from $1.50 to $2. Timothy hay 
sells from $23 to $25 a ton. and mixed hay 
about $2 under these figures; straw, $10 a 
ton. Very few farmers through this sec¬ 
tion have silos. Wheat sells at 95 cents a 
bushel; corn, 70 cents; oats. 50 cents; 
rye, 90 cents. Potatoes are $1 a bushel, 
and apples from 50 to 75 cents a bushel. 
Chickens, geese and ducks sell at 10 cents 
a pound ; turkeys, 15 cents. Eggs are now 
bringing 25 cents a dozen, although a few 
merchants are paying 30 cents. Butter 
sells from 27 to 30 cents a pound; milk, 
seven cents a quart. Manure is very sel¬ 
dom bought and sold except what is hauled 
away from the cities which the farmers 
pay for at the rate of 25 cents a load. 
Commercial fertilizer costs us from $18 to 
$30 and $35 a ton. o. f. 
Ohio. 
Horses sell for a lower price now than 
in the Spring. Good ones can be obtained 
for $100 to $150 that later would com¬ 
mand $200 and over. Fair milch cows 
bring $50. Good ones, $75. Dressed pork, 
$8 to $9 per 100. Live poultry, 14 cents; 
dressed, 17 to 18 cents; retail, 20 to 22 
cents; eggs, 45 and 50 cents retail a dozen. 
Good hay is selling for $25 a ton. No sale 
of silage. Horse manure from the stables 
in town sells at $1 a two-horse load. Milk 
at retail in Red Bank at nine and 10 cents 
a quart. Farmers get five cents a quart for 
the Winter; 4% cents in Summer. Good 
eating potatoes, $3 and $3.25 a barrel; 
apples, $2.50 and $3 a barrel; turnips. $1 
a barrel. Corn on the ear brings 85 cents 
a bushel at auctions; wheat. $1 a bushel; 
good cornstalks, four cents a sheaf; wheat 
straw for bedding, $5 a two-horse load; 
cabbage, $1.25 a barrel. Farm produce and 
live stock sold at the auctions bring usually 
10 to 15 per cent more than for cash. This 
is on account of the eight or nine months 
credit given. J. E. M. 
Everett, N. J. 
Hay, per ton, $20 to $25, but little for 
sale owing to light crop. Silage not for 
sale, grown only for home use. Manure 
not sold ; eggs, 40 to 45 cents per dozen. 
Chickens for market, 18 cents, with an oc¬ 
casional sale at 25 cents per pound for 
breeding. Tigs are a drug, large numbers 
for sale; now and then one sold at $2.50 
to $3 each. Veal calves seven cents per 
pound. Work oxen but little in use; horses 
have taken their place. Farrow cows, $18 ; 
fresh, $35 to $60; yearlings, $14 to $20. 
Only a limited number of sheep are kept, 
owing to ravages of dogs; $3 to $5 each 
about an average price. Potatoes in good 
demand at $1.10. Apples, $1 per bushel. 
Dairying is a leading industry, but cream 
sold to creameries at 40 cents per pound 
for butter fat. M. H. 
Barkhamsted, Conn. 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture, Rome, Italy, gives the following in¬ 
formation about crops : 
“The area sown to Winter wheat in Bel¬ 
gium this season is 104 per cent of last 
season’s area; in Spain, 95 per cent; in 
France, .112 per cent: in Great Britain, 106 
per cent; in Canada, 97 per cent; in 
British India, 99 per cent. The weather 
conditions in the countries named are fa¬ 
vorable for Winter cereal crops and their 
germination is regular. The production of 
lint cotton in Mexico, this season, is 70.- 
500.000 pounds; in British India, 1.240.- 
750,000 pounds; in Egypt, 630,500,000 
pounds. The combined production of lint 
cotton of the three countries named, this 
season, is 115.8 per cent of last season’s 
production.” 
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Bellows Falls, Vt. 
Distributing Warehouses in every dairy section of the country. . 
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First Aid to 
Busij Farmers 
■ H E farmer’s champion helper is an I H C 
Gasoline Engine. On thousands of farms 
throughout the country, they are kept busy 
every day, running the cream separator, churn, pump, feed 
grinder hnd cutter, fanning mill, thresher, wood saw, grindstone, 
washing machine, dynamo for electric light plant, and many 
other machines. They are saving work, time, and money at every 
turn of the wheel. 
I H C Gasoline 
are built for hard, steady work and years of it. They 
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The size and style I H C engine you I 
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All I H C gasoline engines are marvels of 
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CHICAGO (incorporated) USA 
4 
IHC 
Service Bureau 
The purpose of 
this bureau is to 
furnish farmers 
with information 
on better farming;. 
If you have any 
worthy questions 
concerning; soils, 
crops, pests, ferti¬ 
lizers, etc., write to 
the IHC Bureau 
and learn what our 
experts and others 
have found out 
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subjects. 
EMPIRE MFG. CO. 
Box 854. Quincy, III. 
