ioi: 
i 
X. Y. Exchange price $1.81 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3% cents in 26-ccnt zone. 
The zones are fixed by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission as follows- 23 cents 
for the first 40 miles from New York; 26 
cents for the next 60 miles; 29 cents for 
the next 90 miles; beyond this, 32 cents. 
The railroads allow a discount for car lots 
of 10,000 quarts of 10 and 12 >4 per cent. 
THE RTJRAI> NEW-YORKER 
A SPOTTED COLT. 
Mr. E. A. Jackson, of Madison County, 
N. Y., sends us the picture of colt Don 
Pedro, shown at Fig. 441. His sire is a 
black Percheron weighing 1,300. The 
dam is a gray, Otego and Arabian, 
weighing 1,100, a very rapid walker and 
good worker. The mare has had several 
colts, but this is the first spotted one. 
He has evidently struck back through 
several generations on the Arabian side. 
1081 
CATTLE 
Dairying and meat growing in Australia 
are reported as very prosperous. A peti¬ 
tion signed by 1,500,000 persons has been 
presented to the King-Emperor, praying 
that steps be taken to feed the British 
troops stationed in India on frozen beef 
from Australia. It is pointed out that the 
present system of supplying the army with 
fresh meat necessitates the slaughter of at 
least 150,000 cows per annum. Apart from 
the fact that the cow is a sacred animal 
among a section of the population, the 
slaughter of such a large number of breed¬ 
ing animals will soon deplete the herds. 
This is what is called the Bayfield Penin¬ 
sula, and a cut-over country, and we are 
just opening it up for farming, so there is 
not much farm produce grown here as yet. 
The prices for such as the farmers have to 
sell are: Hay, loose, from $8 to $12 per 
ton ; potatoes, GO cents per bushel; butter, 
30 cents per pound; eggs, 25 cents per 
dozen; poultry, 10 to 12 cents per pound. 
Cattle and hogs, none to sell as vet. 
Butchers pay from $18 to $30 per head 
for cows at the beginning of cold weather 
and from eight to 11 cents per pound for 
hogs, dressed, at same time. t. b. 
Washburn, Wis. 
Wheat, 98 cents; rye, 55; corn, $1 per 
100; potatoes, GO cents per bushel; Tim¬ 
othy seed, $1.75; Timothy hay, $14 per 
ton; mixed hay, $11.50 a ton; oat straw, 
dry baled, $4.75 per ton; country butter, 
22 cents; chickens, 10 to 12 cents per 
pound; live hogs, $8.85 per 1 00; cattle, 
three to six cents per pound; calves, 7 y 2 
cents per pound; horses, $150 to $350; 
cows, $35 to $60. Some farmers send 
cream to Ft. Wayne and Chicago. Sugar 
beets, $5 per ton, crop running nine to 
12 tons per acre. Principal crops raised 
here, corn, oats and hay. c. w. l. 
Defiance, O. 
Cows, $35 to $75; hogs, dressed, 10 to 
11% cents; chickens. 15; hens, 14; tur¬ 
keys, 20. Wheat, $1.90 per 125-pound 
sack; shorts, $1.25; bran, 85 cents. But¬ 
ter, 30 to 40; eggs, 40 cents; potatoes, $12 
per ton, many rotten in ground. Apples, 
oO to 75 cents per box; pears, 50 cents to 
$1.25. Horses, $200 to $500 per team. 
Common labor, $2.25 per day ; farm hands, 
$40 and board per month ; man and team, 
per eight-hour day, $5. Dumber, common. 
$10 at mill; shingles, $1.65 per 1 . 000 . 
Heather fine; we are beginning to dig po¬ 
tatoes. B . s . w f 
Portage, Wash. 
I l2t ses > $ 100 t0 *200; cattle, milch, $35 
to 5; butcher cattle, five to six cents a 
pound; hogs, $7 to $8.20. Farmers have 
The One-Cow Silo. 
Did you receive any information as to 
one-cow silos and their use? Would the 
acids of silage probably destroy a galvan¬ 
ized tank used for the purpose?' M. p. h. 
St. Michaels, Md. 
The underground silo—a hole or well 
dug in the ground and enclosed with ce¬ 
ment or wooden walls seems the best for a 
few animals. The very small silo above 
ground does not seem practical—there being 
too large a proportion of waste. Metal 
silos of small size are not practical. 
Meat from Rabbits. 
You certainly gave M. I{„ page 858, 
some good advice. You bit it square when 
you mention about the public not being 
educated to use of the meat. But why 
don't they? That would kill the beef trust 
as quickly as any possible thing, as every 
family can keep enough Belgian hares to 
supply the table with meat. I raised quite 
a number while on the police force, and I 
found the meat could be produced for four 
cents per pound. I tried to find some 
green food they would not eat, and found 
pumpkin vine to be the only thing. I ex¬ 
perimented on one and found he ate poison 
ivy as well as Witch hazel, but the pump¬ 
kin vine was too much for him. “Pusley,” 
red-root, Lobelia, pepper-grass, yellow dock, 
pigweed, colt’s-tail. Mullein, horse-radish 
tops, in fact any old thing you happened 
to have. Of garden truck there seems to 
be nothing they dislike. If the public would 
take to eating hare the high cost of living 
would get a jolt. The meat is said to be 
72 per cent more nutritious than beef, 
therefore I often wonder why the hospitals 
don't take to using the meat, as it would 
be better and cheaper. If they started such 
a thing they would soon have plenty of 
followers. The demand will create a sup¬ 
ply. W. J. DOUGAN. 
New Jersey. 
AUCTION SALE 
OCT. 23 CAZENOVIA, N. Y. 
70 PUREBRED HOLSTEINS 
consisting of Cows, Heifers, Calves and 
Herd Bull. This bull is son of King of the 
Pontiac. All are tuberculin tested. Also 
about 
S'W'XTNTSD 
70 HEAD OF GRADE HOLSTEINS 
Cows and Heifers, some fresh, and springers 
and part fresh in spring. 
Remember the date— OCTOBER 23, 
9 O’CLOCK SHARP, at my farm 2 
miles east of the village of Cazenovia. 
Conveyance will meet all trains. : : 
R. D. LEE CAZENOVIA, N. Y. 
THE BUFFALO MARKET. 
Such a supply of everything in the vege¬ 
table line in the Buffalo markets! To look 
at it would give a person the idea that 
the high cost of living was a jest or at 
the worst a very bad dream. But of course : 
every farmer kuows that it is impossible j 
to keep prices high where the supply is so 
far removed from monopoly or cornering | 
as country produce during the producing i 
season. Let us look for a moment at the [ 
report sent out by Government authority 
based ou conditions at the middle of June. 
In it every article. mentioned has gone up 
since a year ago. and quite a good deal of 
it sharply. Let us look at it now in the 
Jersey Bull Bargains 
Calves by our imported Bull. Julia's Majesty, No. 
89,717. A. J. C. C. 
Also by the celebrated American bred Bull, Duke’s 
Romp, 75,300, A. J. 0. C., out of splendid cows of 
choice breeding—some of them imported. 
PRICES $25 TO $IOO 
To make room for young stock, will sell some good 
fresh Jersey cows. 
For prices and further descriptions, address 
W. M. HARRIS, Deep Spring Farms, WALPACK CENTER, N. J. 
JERSEY BULLS-FOR SALE 
Pi"i e ™iL? 0ld j e ’ S J - a P of Meridale 85989, who scores 
94.1 points and weighs 1350 lbs. at 3 yrs. 9 mo His 
l anvKti5 r;nn S -n? S - !ire R ' of M R,l]ls and his only 
JaD *105800 n 'milk is a credit to the Breed. Golden 
dap 10o89(i, A. J. < . C-, dropped Doc. 8, 1911, solid 
TnP?'^iS tIy first-class. Price, $100 Dam Fox 
was dropped May 9, 1912 Write us for 
other Bulls, also BKKKSHI KK PIGS. 
SHELOODJCROFT - SILVER LAKE , PA. 
Breed Up—Not DowBT.T«?‘i«S} T S 
aasss.x.ii'iasa. iif - 
East River Grade Holsteins 
... FOR SALE... 
40 Cows just Fresh 50 Holstein Heifers 2 yrs. old 
due in Aug. 40 Yearling Heifers 1 yr. old 
due Sept., Oct., Nov. 5 Reg. Bulls ready for service 
.H 1 ,' 1 f’ ow s and Heifers are 
High Grndesand will please you. 
BELT, PHONE JOHN IJ. WKIiSTKR 
,il1 r d I>ept. K, Cortland, N. Y. 
30 
100 
* * i-- 7 -- .ight of mostly large produce crops. Cab 
it for seed 1 ug, owing to having bage retailed with us in Western New York 
fro‘n 1 i°«i n t« U ci 1 -o t V Q }* r ’ the price being last Winter and Spring at four 
fioni $1 to $1.50. Oats, of which we had pound or more 
the most acres and the largest yield ever - - - - 
known, are selling at 27 to 33 cents. Hay, 
of which the acreage was small but the 
yield good, $12 to $14 a ton; Timothy seed, 
a very large yield, $1.25 to $1.75 a bushel. 
Chickens, 11 cents; eggs, 18 cents a dozen; 
butter, 25. This is not much of a dairy¬ 
ing country, not much butter sold; no milk 
or cream sold. This is a mixed farming 
country with a very large acreage of corn 
this year, owing to the wheat freezing out 
last Winter. Potatoes, 70 to 80 cents a 
bushel. All kinds of fruit plentiful, ex¬ 
cept peaches. A tremendous crop of apples 
ready to be harvested at $1 to $1.50 a 
barrel, sold to the packers in the orchard ; 
they furnish the sorter, packer and header, 
pay for the picking, and the farmer does 
all of the hauling, which amounts to a 
great deal, as the orchards are so very 
large here, ranging as high as 160 acres. 
Plalnville, Ill. A . K 
Ayrshires and their Judges. 
The enclosed is a copy or a letter mailed 
to-day to the Ayrshire Breeders’ Associa- 
tfon of America, which I thought might be 
of interest to some of the Ayrshire breed¬ 
ers reached by your paper: 
“The Ayrshire Breeders’ Association, 
“Brandon, Vt. 
“Gentlemen :—Based on my observation 
at the New York State Fair last week, I 
am led (to believe that the Ayrshire asso¬ 
ciation, if the exhibitors are representative 
members of the association, are going in 
the wrong direction, and if continued will 
do much to retard both the usefulness and 
the popularity of what I choose to call 
the best dairy cow in this country. She 
is the cow that is best acclimated "to this 
country, less liable to disease, best able to 
browse through hard pastures during the 
dry Summer months; able to produce in 
Winter more milk from the same amount of 
fodder consumed than any other cow. These 
qualities are enough to bring her into 
favor. But if she is allowed to degenerate 
into a mere prize winning beauty, with 
teats so small as to disqualify her for any 
practical use, then her days are numbered. 
My object in attending the fair was merely 
to get information on Ayrshire stock, with¬ 
out the least acquaintance with either 
judges or exhibitors, hoping to see the 
best exhibited. In this I was not disap¬ 
pointed. There were plenty of cows carry¬ 
ing all the points of merit and at the same 
time having teats long enough to make 
them of practical use. But these were not 
always recognized by the judges, who 
seemed to use the same points of merit 
they would use if judging babies and 
roses, that is, color and plumpness. One 
of these prize winners I saw being milked. 
The process consumed about one-half hour 
A dairy of 30 cows of this kind would re¬ 
quire two men 15 hours per day for milK- 
iog- manson l. smith. 
“New York.” 
Spring at four cents a 
. . for the crop pretty nearly 
failed last year. This year the crop is a 
monster, so that a great part of it will be 
fed to stock. I heard a farmer say this 
week that he had a field full of cabbage 
so large that he could not reach around 
ii plant that had the loose leaves still on. 
So cabbage is. of course, the cheapest of 
food to-day. The Western New York peach 
crop also ran over and they are still giving 
peaches away at the orchards. The local 
potato crop is not so very large, but the 
report that the yield was generally ex¬ 
cessive drove prices down from $1.50 or 
so at retail to a matter of 50 cents in a 
few days. The apple crop is generally 
large and buyers are offering only from 
$1.50 to $2.25 for a barrel that includes 
the barrel itself, which has cost about 45 
cents. Farmers are holding back, with the 
idea that an export, demand will bring 
better prices later on. for it is said that 
Europe has few apples. The Chautauqua 
grape crop promises better prices than last 
year, for the yield is not quite so large, 
but it is large enough to prevent high 
prices. Hay is a big crop, so the price 
on the Buffalo market is to-dav $17 for 
select Timothy or $14.50 for No'. 1 clover 
mixed. I^ast year the crop was short and 
prices went up as high as $31 at Spring 
country auctions. There is nothing In 
produce that I recall now but iuillfeed that 
is abnormally high, as certbpared with the 
greatly reduced prices of all grain. Even 
millers are puzzled over Spring wheat bran 
at $23 a ton, mill prices, with the wheat 
down to 92 cents a bushel here, instead of. 
say, $1.20 or more last year. All they can 
say is that it will not last, for the law of 
supply and demand has not been repealed 
yet. either by political ranters or public 
scare stories. “I will tell you where high 
prices come from,” said an Erie County 
farmer this week. “I can take you in an 
automobile in this county and in two 
hours I cau show you a thousand acres of 
naturally good land that has not been cul¬ 
tivated to amount to much in a score of 
years. The owners have concluded that the 
old style of farming would not bring them 
as much profit for their work as something 
else that they could do, so they are letting 
the land lie idle. It will remain in that 
condition till the new farmer comes along 
and astonishes the natives with his crops 
and his profits.” John w. chamberlain 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
50 Grade Holsteins 
An entire dairy of 50 large, fine cows, all voting 
nicely marked and extra heavy milkers. Tu¬ 
berculin tested. Price, $10l).UU each. 
THIS IS ONE OE THE BEST DAIRIES 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON, Certland, N. Y. 
The Brookside Farms 
YORKSHIRES 
Registered in England and America. Purebred 
boars and sows, in fine condition for brooding, 
some particularly good yearling studs. For in¬ 
formation and prices, address 
THE BROOKSIDE FARMS, 
Great Barring ton, . . . Massachusetts 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD 
We have sold more registered Berkshires each year 
during the past 8 years than any other breeder in 
ttie United States. There is a reason. No animal 
good enough unless large enough. 400 registered 
Berkshires in herd Selected individuals, all ages, 
for salo. Visitors always welcome and met at train 
if expected. H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING Dundee N. Y. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES.- Z. r'j 
in Connecticut. Sows bred for April litters all sold 
Have4 sows bred to farrow In July; late, toser- 
vice of Watson's Masterpiece. Wit) book orders 
! £» Man* and April pigs now. Send for new 
Booklet. J. E. W ATSON. Pioorietor, Marlileilale, Cotm. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires, G. Whites. 
Fine, large strains; all ages, mated 
not alun. Bred sows service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collie 
■ c 1 ups Beagles and Poultry. Write for 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co.. Krcildouu, Pa. 
Mv stock of pigs and 
hogs was never better. 
If you want the best 
all-around breed raise 
Jersey Reds 
Fatten easily and quickly, 
small boned, Ion^r bodied, 
vigorous, prolific. Meat 
u ns urpitssed. Choice offer- 
i»p< now. Allpltfsaud hofcs 
vaccinated with serum. 
Vt’ rite today for free catalog 
Arthur J. Collins, Box R, Moorestown, N. J. 
HOGS and POULTRY-,BEST'S 
nor Duck Eggs, White and Brown Leghorn Eggs 
2.1 _ es * ; strains, Bled Berkshire Sows and Pigs 
CHERRY HILL FRUIT FARM, Toboso, Licking County, Ohio. 
TAMWORTHS~?, r P m her<1 that won over 100 
. . ribbons. A bunch of cham-. 
pionships in 1911. One spring litter < averaged 84 lbs 
at .Hi days. (Pigs not fat.) H. S. Green, Powhatan Point, 0. 
0. I. C ’S “^Superior Quality-17 choice young 
, , , . “ an ‘ H 1 "PT young Boars; pairs; 
no akin. FRED NICKEL. Monroe, Mielil 
| ARGE YORKSHIRES-Sows bred for June and August 
L I arrow. Boars ready for service. May pigs 
order now. GuKNMAiiK Farm, Bober tsville, Conn. 
MULEFOOT S0WST f:u , r o ve<1 N . ov -i 911 ; 
, *■ ~ bred. Some pigs farrowed 
Ducocnu d- 1 ir ex6 r S ‘ Brices reasonable. 
J. N, MacPHERSON, Pine View Farm, Scottsville, New York 
DUROC PIGS-mcmGnEKD. per pair. 
UUI1UU riUG 8ereuo O. Weeks, DeGraff, O. 
OHELDON FARM registered Durocs. Pigs of both sex 
° Bred -Service Boars. Best of breeding 
C. K.TbAUNES, Oxford, N. V. K 
JS 
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For Salo 
For Sale~i5f l£y B1 & 5D hampshiredown 
„ w . T T i ? 1 BEST op Bkkeding. 
H. W. ALLISON, Route 9, Mercer, Fa. 
Registered Holstein Mele Celt Registered Shropshire Rams for Sale 
Choicely bred, tine individual, attractively marked 
. . , . $25— with all papers. 
Also choice young cows at reasonable prices 
HILLHURST FARM, F. H. RIVENBURGH, M nnnsyille. N Y. 
HAVE SIX THOROUGHBRED 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES FOR SALE 
from three to six months old, from selected stock 
Also some very fine grade HOLSTEIN HEIFERS. 
P. B. McLennan, 412 Court House, Syracuse, N. Y. 
—also 
RAM 
LAMBS. E. K. STEVENS & SON, W ilson, N Y. 
Elm Place—Rambouillet Merino Rams 
X. CHOICE ANIMALS FOR SALE. 
* LUFFKK, Avon, Livinoston Co.,N.Y. 
F <, „ , f; S ‘7; K ' ut Moderate price. Shropshire Ewes and Rams- 
r.r 1 Hampshire Hams from Registered, Imported and 
I ri/.c winning stock. E. 4. COIBKKT, East Chatham, >. Y. 
OHR0PSHIRE YEARLING RAMS by imported sire. Price 
bright. FILED VAN VLEET, Lodi, New York 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves For Sale ~ w,ite 15 Shropshire ewe lambs for sale 
. iiiwioii uun woue» r special Also Yearling Rnms. H. B COVERT Lodi N V 
offer THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM, CthllenanW. N. Y -—- ' LBdt ’ T 
If You Want Guernseys 1"s\ f0 „ r f th .!m 1 new 1 york 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Box 96 Peekskill, N Y 
RARE OPPORTUNITY 
We will sell three A. R.O. Holsteins for herd forni¬ 
cation rows, bred to a 35.61 lb. bull. Send for 
pe«hgrm;s and prices. 
t'LOVERDALE FARM, Charlotte, N. Y. 
Shropshire Rams -8 ™" 0 <mes ; it UeM 
,, prices, f lock contains Eng¬ 
lish blood from < oopey, I horn, and Buttar; is well 
covered and tight woo led. Traver Farm, Wynantskill.N.Y. 
NIAGARA STOCK FARM 
-Shropshire” Rams for sale at good value to the 
purchaser. Write J. C. DUNCAN, Mor.. Lewiston, ,T. V. 
HIGHLAND STOCK FA KM OFFERS 
SHRQPSHIRES—RAMS AND EWES 
^ TION, Box B °i ’ r mn ;um! x'. 'L-Bivmlms ble<i fl '° m Brit $‘ j '‘"V'p'' I [ ’ i ty. 
stem, Jersey & Guernsey cattle and the lead- V. 1. I>LACIv t Ka il, V i. 
HAMPSHIRE-DOWN SHEEP 
ing breeds of sheep and swine. Write for sale list. 
Milk Producers *».»•**«* City market 
,. . , . desiring information how to 
form branches ot the Dairymen’s League, write to 
the ^secretary. Albkkt Manning Otisville. N. Y. 
Dogs and. Ferrets 
THOROUGHBRED Beagle Dogs and Pups, bred fronireaistered 
stock, tor sale. Horace Lawrence,Uont« 2 tWestChestcr,Pa . 
10,000FERRETS FOR SALET'I r a i , t ? l f " rpn ' ca 
it’s free. 
n _ , list and catalog. 
DeKJeme Bras., Jamestown, Micb. Box 50 
AYERDALE TERR FRS _For &ile a «»•. 
17 \- O ,,7 S0ven weeks’ old pup- 
pies. Exceptionally well bred and entitled to regis- 
tiy. HERBERT BROOK, Arlington Farm, Pittsford, N. Y. 
Lice on Hogs.—I f L. v. f., page 898, 
will try a simple remedy I believe he will 
have no more lice on hogs. Same is used 
with good results on all animals or poultry ; 
even on human heads when the pest gives 
us an unlooked-for call For lice on ani¬ 
mals, get 25 cents worth of calomel at drug 
store, mix into a paste with grease or vase¬ 
line, use stick or brush and rub some of 
paste back of the ears, in creases and along 
backbone. For poultry put a little under 
the wings and on top of head. p. v s 
New York. 
Unequaletl for Winter Lambs 
A few choice thoroughbred Yearling Rams and 
older Ewes for salo at money-saving prices 
W. 1*. ItL'CKKT & SON, Seneca, N. Y. 
USES 
□ 
SHETLAND PONIES 
An nnctMing source of pleasnro and robust beoltb tochiMron 
Safe and Meal playmates. Inexpensive u> keap. Highest ui*. 
Complete outfits. Satisfaction suai-miteed. Illustrated Cata¬ 
logue. BEI.LK MCA DK FA KM, Box 2u, Markham, Va 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASS’N, 
Pu rebred Registered 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
In the opinion of Supt. Smith of the Geneva Kxpori- 
ment Station, the average production of butterfat per 
ear per cow in New York State is about WO lbs. The 
Itate College in Ithaca has a cow descended from com- 
moil stock on one side and from a line of purebred 
Holstein sires on the other. This cow has produced 479 lbs 
of rat in a year. 
Not a startling record, as several purebred Holsteins 
have records of more than twice as much, but it is inter¬ 
esting as proof that intelligent improvement of a herd of 
grades can multiply the butter yield by four and five. 
Send for Free Illustrated Descriptive Booklets. They 
contain valuable information for any Dairyman. 
F, L. HOUGHTON. Sec’y, Box 105, Brattleboro, Vt. 
