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'I'MEC RUHAIi NEW-vqRKER 
November 30, 
World’s Crops. 
The Interantional Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture gives the total area of wheat in the 
Northern Hemisphere as 226,000,000 acres, 
which is 97.1 per cent of last year’s area, 
and production 3,546,000,000 bushels, 107.2 
more than last year’s crop. The largest 
acreage was in Russia, approximately 60,- 
000,000 acres. North America was next, 
52,000.000; India, 30,000,000 ; France, 15,- 
000,000; Italy, 10,000,000; Spain, 7,- 
500,000; Hungary, 7,500.000; Roumania, 
5,000,000; Algeria, 2,750,000; Prussia, 2,- 
550,000; Bulgaria, 2,500,000; Great Bri¬ 
tain, 1,800,000. Denmark gave the heaviest 
acreage yield, 42 bushels; Belgium, 40; 
Prussia, Great Britain and Switzerland, 30 
to 32; United States, 20; Russia, 11 bush¬ 
els. 
The total rye area was 99,175,000 acres; 
yield, 1,612,000.000 bushels, 117 per cent 
as compared with last year. Russia far 
excelled all other countries, 970,000,000 
bushels. 
The barley area was 62,000,000 acres; 
yield, 1.390,000,000 bushels. Russia leads 
all other countries in barley, 440,000,000 
bushels, the United States being the next 
largest with about half the yield. 
Oats, with an area of 122,000.000 acres, 
yielded 3,500,000,000 bushels. The United 
States stands first and Russia next. 
Indian corn area was 126,000.000 acres; 
yield, 3,675,000,000 bushels. The United 
States produced four-fifths of this. 
The staple crops of this section are corn, 
potatoes, wheat and fruit. Corn sells for 
about 55 cents per bushel; potatoes, 65 
cents; wheat. $1 ; apples, 50 to 60 cents. 
Cheshire, O. a. t. 
Eggs are selling for 60 cents a dozen. 
Live hens, 13 to 14 cents; chickens, 14 
to 15 cents over 1% pound; live cockerels, 
nine to 10 cents; young ducks, five pounds 
or more, 14 to 15 cents. These are the 
prices dealers in live poultry are paying. 
This is not much of a farming section, al¬ 
though some market gardening and hot¬ 
house market gardening is done. 
Beverly, Mass. G. p. g. 
Wheat, 93 cents per bushel; oats, 40; 
corn, old, 75; new, 65; buckwheat, 65. 
•Fat cattle, live weight, five to eight cents; 
fancy, more. Milch cows, average, about 
$50 each. Apples sold in Philadelphia at 
$2.10 to $4 per barrel, selling here at 60 
cents per bushel; potatoes, 45 to 50 cents 
per bushel. Not much dairying in this 
vicinity. R. w. m. 
Fannettsburg, Pa. 
One of the best seasons in years for 
crops has just closed here in Vermont. 
Potatoes, extra good and 200 bushels to 
the acre. Corn all got ripe, 50 bushels 
shelled corn to the acre. Oats heavy and 
good, 70 bushels per acre. Buckwheat less 
than usual, 30 bushels per acre. Hay good 
and heavy, 1% ton per acre. Cows, $50 to 
$60; horses, $100 to $200; hogs, eight 
cents live; calves, 10 cents live. Hens, 13 
cents live. Hay, $10 to $15. Potatoes, 50 
cents per bushel. Milk, $1.50 per 100. 
Milk is shipped to Boston, and few calves 
or hogs are raised. Thousands of tons of 
feed is brought in here from the West. 
Farmers raise little grain and feed is high ; 
few farmers own their farms free from 
debt, as they buy more than they sell. 
Bennington Co., Vt. A. l. b. 
I give report of retail prices of Cleve¬ 
land markets: Timothy hay, in bulk, 
wagon lots, $20 ; mixed, $1S; wheat straw, 
$10; oat straw, $10. Wheat, per bushel, 
$1.05; oats, 35 cents; corn, 60; potatoes, 
75 ; apples, hand picked, 90 ; Kieffer pears, 
60; butter, per pound, 35; eggs, strictly 
fresh, 45 ; poultry, per pound, dressed, 18 ; 
poultry, live weight, 15; ducks, 17; tur¬ 
keys, 20. Milk, wholesale, 19 to 20 cents 
per gallon; retail in Cleveland, eight and 
nine cents per quart. They are the high¬ 
est prices ever received for milk in this 
section. Hogs, per pound, dressed, 11 cents; 
live, eight cents; lambs, dressed, eight 
cenfs; lambs, live, six cents; calves, live, 
10 cents; steers, live, grass fed, 6^ cents. 
Fresh cows, $65 to $75. Horses, five to 
seven years, $200. The above are the re¬ 
tail prices we have been getting the last 
90 days. C. G. N. 
Brecksville, O. 
Hay is a leading market crop here, and 
has been selling all the Fall for $20 de¬ 
livered in Greenfield, for No. 1 ; prices for 
the best are $1 to $2 advanced at present. 
Potatoes selling in local markets for 70 
cents, natives; cabbage, one cent, butter, 
30 cents per pound. Eggs are bringing 45 
cents and scarce. Fowls are worth 15 
cents, live ; chickens, 14. Pork sells for 10 
cents, dressed, local markets; veal calves 
at railroad station, eight cents. New milch 
cows bring from $45 to $75. Store cattle 
plenty at two to three cents per pound, 
live. Pigs are a glut around here, being 
offered for $2 each at eight to 10 weeks 
old. Apples are not over plentiful here, 
but slow sale at $1.50 to $2 for No. 1. 
Dry four-foot wood sells in Greenfield for 
$6 per cord. Auctions have been plenty 
around here this Fall, with generally satis¬ 
factory sales. L. l. a. 
Bernardston, Mass. 
I grow cranberries and truck crops. I 
sell at retail to private customers and 
wholesale to grocery stores and markets. 
At present I am selling at the following 
prices. Wholesaling and some retailing is 
done in Fall River, the rest in Assonet 
village. Retail — Cranberries, quart, 10 
cents; cabbage, pound, two cents; carrots, 
pound, 2% cents; cauliflower, pound, four 
cents; beets, pound, 2% cents; onions, 
pound, three cents; pumpkins, pound, two 
cents; squash, pound, two cents; parsnips, 
pound, three cents; potatoes, peck. 23 
cents; turnips, pound, two cents; leeks, 
bunch, eight cents; red cabbage, pound, 
three cents; apples, peck. 35 to 45 cents. 
Wholesale—Cranberries, barrel, $6.75 to 
$7.50 ; cabbage, 100 pounds, 75 cents; car¬ 
rots, bushel, 65 cents; beets, bushel, 75 
cents; pumpkins, 100 pounds, 85 cents to 
$1; squash, 100 pounds, $1 to $1.25; pars¬ 
nips, bushel, 90 cents; turnips, bushel, 65 
cents; leeks, 12 bunches, 60 cents; red 
cabbage, pound, two cents. H. A. v. 
Assonet, Mass. 
National Grange Meets. 
The National Grange opened its annual 
convention at Spokane, Wash., November 
13. About 500 persons were in attend¬ 
ance at the first session. In his annual 
address Master Oliver Wilson said : 
"The condition of the order has been 
gradually increasing throughout the year, 
and 472 new Granges were organized from 
October 1, 1911, to OctoDer 1, 1912. The 
total assets of the National Grange October 
1, 1912, were $99,390.35 and the expenses 
for the fiscal year were $64,047.72. Co¬ 
operation in the underlying principles of 
the Grange, and, in my opinion, a system 
of practical cooperation can be inaugurated 
whereby the patron of one section can buy 
or dispose of products to the patron of 
Grange in other sections, thereby eliminat¬ 
ing all intermediate profits. 
“Almost a quarter of a century ago the 
Grange advocated the direct election of 
United States Senators by the people and 
was scoffed at and ridiculed both by men 
in office and the metropolitan press, but 
the sentiment has become popular, and it 
now remains for the States to ratify the 
measure passed about a year ago. For 
many years the Grange has been on record 
in favor of parcels post, and this law will 
be effective January 1. 
“The question of conservation of our 
National resources is one of great import¬ 
ance and measures should be taken to 
protect our people against wanton waste 
and extravagance and to conserve the 
health and morals and intellect of the 
American child. 
“The Canadian reciprocity law remains 
on our statute books, and if conditions 
should so change that Canada would adopt 
a measure, they could force reciprocity 
upon us without further action by us; 
therefore, the Grange should demand its 
early repeal. 
“The Grange is not a political or party 
organization and the word ‘political’ in 
the constitution refers only to partisan 
politics. 
“Some of the important measures the 
Grange favors are Federal aid for road 
improvements, conservation of our Na¬ 
tional resources, a just and equitable sys¬ 
tem of coSperation, effective railroad and 
express regulation and international peace.” 
Other speakers were Aaron Jones of In¬ 
diana, John Creasy of Pennsylvania and 
N. P. Hull, National Lecturer. 
VERMONT CORN SHOW. 
The second Vermont corn show and po¬ 
tato exhibit, held at Windsor, Vt., No¬ 
vember 6-8, was a success beyond expecta¬ 
tion, and much was expected in the light 
of the x’esults at the first show a year ago. 
The number of entries increased threefold, 
and the quality was remarkable. It is a 
fine thing that so much superior corn can 
be produced in this State, and that so much 
can be produced by boys who are the farm¬ 
ers of the future. It is safe to say that 
most of these bright young corn growers 
will stick to the farm, and therein lies the 
success of the State. 
The g’rand sweepstakes for the best 10 
ears, any variety, at the show, and any 
class, both juveniles ana adults competing, 
was won by a boy of 16, William Jackson 
of Windsor County. His prize was an $85 
traveling feed silage cutter. The sweep- 
stakes prize in the juvenile class alone, 
for the best 80 ears of eight-rowed yellow 
flint corn grown by the boy himself, was a 
registered Jersey bull calf. This was won by 
Chester Pratt, of Windsor County. 13 years 
old. The sweepstakes for the best single ear, 
any variety and all classes, was won by 
another boy, J. Wade Webster, of the 
same county. This was the boy who 
originated the slogan that was adopted at 
the first corn show, held a year ago, “Corn 
is king and Vermont is its kingdom.” The 
boys are proving this slogan to be true 
in both quality and quantity, some of 
them having raised 20 bushels of corn in 
the ear on their eighth of an acre. 
Three boys won a special prize of a trip 
to Boston to attend the coming New Eng¬ 
land corn show. Here they may win further 
prizes, as the prize-winning corn at the 
Vermont show is to be entered at the 
Boston show. 
Another Windsor County boy, Lloyd 
Kendall, read in a farm paper about the 
judging of corn. When he went to the 
Vermont corn show' last year he entered 
the judging contest, and did so w’ell as to 
win the first prize, a registered Berkshire 
pig. One of the features of this second 
Vermont corn show was this same pig 
with her litter of nine young, every one a 
straight-backed, round, solid little pure¬ 
bred. 
The variety of potatoes raised by the 
girls was Carman No. 3. Twenty-six girls 
entered a peck each. The first prize of $5 
was awarded to a 12-year-old girl, Irene 
Kendall. She w r as also the proud winner 
of the sweepstakes cup for the best peck 
of potatoes at the show. The winning of 
well-earned prizes is not the greatest re¬ 
sult of the Vermont corn show. The giving 
to the boys and girls of an interest in farm¬ 
ing and the desire to excel therein is of 
far greater importance, a result of lasting 
benefit to themselves and to the State. 
M. D. 
NATIONAL APPLE SHOW.—The great 
apple exposition opened at Spokane, Wash., 
November 11, at the Interstate Fair 
Grounds. There w'ere 20 carload exhibits 
of fruit and several thousand boxes of less 
than carload lots in the racks, making 
more than 2,500,000 individual apples on 
display, outside of plate displays. The 
apple growers assembled in conference in 
the Mineral Building on the opening day, 
with Governor Hay presiding. A number 
of important subjects were discussed by 
prominent growers and horticulturists. A 
packing school W'as also in operation under 
the supervision of J. M. Carroll of Mosier, 
Ore., while Miss Gertrude Mclvav, formerly 
head of the Department of Domestic Econ¬ 
omy at the Washington State College, lec¬ 
tured on apple cookery. 
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The Middletown Machine Co., 
First St., Middletown, Ohio 
We buy Skunk, Mink,Musk¬ 
rat and all other raw furs at 
highest market prices, and 
give liberal assortments and 
“A square deal” to everyone. 
Price-list free. 
M. J. Jewett «& Sons, Redwood, Ji. Y„ Dept. 29 
SHIP YOUR 
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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, 
illustrated Circular Free to anyone interested i 
. RAW FURS. 
Trappers Guide Free to those who ship to u: 
RAW FURS WANTED 
Write in Now for our Market 
Quotations. We will send 
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AMERICAN RAW FUR CO. 
130 West 25th Street, New York City 
RAW FURS 
If you want the Highest Prices, Liberal 
Grading and Prompt Returns, write 
now for Market Report and Price List. 
B. J. Maiback 
130 W. 25th St. - New York 
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HEBERLING MEDICINE to EXTRACT CO. 
1 Box 027E Bloomington, Illinois ' 
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FUR SHIPPERS 
WE WILL PAY YOU YOUR 
OWN PRICE FOR YOUR FURS 
Make us a trial shipment stating how much you 
want for same and we will pay you as much, or 
more, than you expect, or we will return your furs, 
express prepaid. 
Send in your name and address, at once, and we 
will send tags; also “ The Schoenen Fur Reporter” 
our own publication, containing market reports 
and LATEST QUOTATIONS. We keep you 
posted all winter. Write today. 
H. A. SCHOENEN 
277 Seventh Avenue, - New York, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Cattle or Horse hide. Calf, Dog, Deer, 
or any kind of skin with hair or fur on. 
We fan and finish them right: make 
them into coats (for men and women), 
robes, rugs or gloves when ordered. 
Your fur goods will cost you less than 
to buy them, and be worth more. Our 
nhistrated catalog gives a lot Of in¬ 
formation which every stock raiser 
should have, but we never send out this 
valuable book except upon request. 
It tells how to take off and care for 
hides; how and when wo pay the freight 
both ways | about our safe dyeing pro¬ 
cess which is a tremendous advantage 
to the customer, especially on horse 
hides and calf skins; about the fur 
goods and game trophies we sell, taxi¬ 
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your correct address. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave.. Rochester. N. Y. 
RAW FURS WANTED 
IF YOU WANT Highest Market 
Price, Liberal Grading, 
Prompt Returns 
Write for price list and ship your furs 
to the fastest growing Raw Fur House 
in New York. 
DAVID RLUSTEIN & BRO. 
24 ERST 12th STREET , NEW YORK 
The Largest Dealers in Ginseng in the United States 
RAW FURS WANTED 
I PAY THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES for all 
kinds of raw furs, and GUARANTEE YOU 
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SLENKER 
East Liberty, 0. 
FUR SHIPPERS 
What’s the use of guessing at the value of your furs 
during the coming season when all that’s necessary 
to find out their real value is to hook on one ot my 
little ltKIr TAGS and say HOLD SEPARATE. 
Let me bear from you at once so 1 will be sure to 
have your name on my mailing list. Price list issued 
first part of November, free to every trapper between 
the ages of six and ninety-three. 
J. P. ELLIS, 137-139 W. 29th St., Box 25. New York City 
RAW FURS WANTED 
^■ Highest Prices—Libers! Assortment 
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279 Seventh Avenue, New York City 
Cash for 
Raw Furs 
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middleman’s profits. 
New York is best market 
and we pay highest prices 
for hides of Skunks, 
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DtLI , DU I LtttliU., Exporters, 4 E. 12th St.. New York 
RAW FURS WANTED 
Highest Market Prices Liberal Assortment, 
Prompt Returns 
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Louis A. Rubenstein Fur Co. 
Dept. B, 52 West 26th Street, New York 
ATTENTION 
Manufacturer’s Samples; Gentlemen’s black broadcloth 
Fur Lined Overcoats ; lined throughout with Australian 
Mink; large Persian Limb Collars. Sizes 36 to 48, $30 
each. These coats have never lieen worn. Similar gar¬ 
ments not used as samples, retail at $75. Several Ladies’ 
Furs; beautiful Scarf, large stylish Muff, $15 set. Also 
few large size Fur Robes, plush lined, til each. All guaranteed 
new. Sent by express with privilege of examination beforo 
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HERTZLER & ZOOK CO., 
Box 3 , Belleville. Pa. A 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
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Formerly SUSKIND & LEVY. 159 W. 24th St., New York 
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