1912. 
THE RURA1) NEW-YORKES 
1265 
M I TLm 
In effect Nov. 11, different exchange 
prices were made for N. Y. City Board of 
Health, grades B and C : B (selected raw 
and pasteurized), $2.11 per 40-quart can; 
C (for cooking and manufacturing), $2.01. 
to shippers in 26-cent zone. 
The zones are fixed by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission as follows23 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% per cent. 
TROUBLE OVER MILK TESTS. 
Situated so that it is easy to ship milk 
to Cleveland or Pittsburg, farmers in this 
vicinity have had a great deal of dissatis¬ 
faction. Pittsburg company offers to buy 
by test, Cleveland factory by 100 pounds. 
Either company paid for milk by 100 
pounds, selling by the quart. The Pitts¬ 
burg company paid for April $1.45 for 3.5 
milk, while we all know the legal milk is 
three per cent. Thus they were able to 
sell milk at three per cent, while they 
were exacting 3.5 from farmers. For May 
$1.25, June $1.15, July $1.25. In May 
and June farmers know the test will be 
lower than in other months, but no farmer 
to our knowledge had any 3.5 milk. In 
June all sending received a test varying 
from three to 3.2, July the same. Then 
they began to talk. August was very little 
better as to test. They then became angry 
and unlike their usual placid ways, they 
had their milk tested by an expert tester 
who was doing official testing near here. 
Every bit of milk tested wav above the 
test given at the factory. Men who had 
part Jersey cows found they had milk test¬ 
ing above four per cent. Other men found 
their test had not varied in the whole 
year. This we all know could not be true. 
It was also found that there were people 
getting butter at this factory ; in fact two 
families had been supplied all Summer. So 
two of the progressive farmers got up a 
paper and went among the farmers asking 
if they were satisfied. Some of the men 
who had a test of 3.2 while the official test 
gave over four refused to sign; however, 
over half the patrons signed, and the letter 
was sent in. It only took the bead man. 
of the company just as long as it took the 
first train out of Pittsburg to get here. 
He claimed to want every farmer to get 
his full test, and himself tested the milk, 
and got the Same result, or practically the 
same, that the official tester made. 
This same company built last year a 
$50,000 ice cream plant in Pittsburg, and 
while they claimed to have plenty of milk, 
he was overheard to tell the creamery man¬ 
ager here that they must not lose a man's 
production, as there was never a time 
when they had so little milk in Pittsburg, 
or when it was so hard to secure their 
usual quantity. They very well knew that 
“Satan always finds some work for idle 
hands to do,” and they did not want farm¬ 
ers to find out that they could not run 
that $50,000 ice cream plant without farm¬ 
ers to produce the milk. Neither did they 
fancy the reports of farmer after farmer 
selling his dairy rather than to produce 
milk under the present conditions. While 
the only way farmers can ever hope to 
get just treatment is to organize as other 
business firms do, they cannot hope to get 
all the men to cooperate, but if two-thirds 
of the patrons of these creameries would 
stand together they would get better treat¬ 
ment. This incident was onlv a little 
straw, but it shows which way the wind 
blows. MBS. JAMES LAMPMAN. 
Geauga Co., Ohio. 
beets, 50 cents per bushel; carrots, 60 
‘ cents per bushel; turnips, 50 cents per 
bushel; parsnips, 75 cents to $1. Cabbage 
still -4oa«#lepiiful and. most sales at 50 
cents per barrel, both for Drumhead and 
Savoy. Squash do better at from $1 to 
$1.50 per barrel for Marrow, Turban an;’ 
Bay State, while Hubbards go at $30 to 
$40 per ton. Hothouse tomatoes in good 
supply, 15 to 20 cents a pound. Cauli¬ 
flower about done, $1 per bushel or $2.25 
per long box. Radishes, about 75 cents per 
bushel in bunches. 
Butter still advancing; best, 36 to 37 
cents per pound, by tub; good, 34 to 35; 
on other grades, 30 to 33 is about the 
figure. Eggs hold the same, with no im¬ 
provement in supply. Best selected fresh, 
50 to 55 cents per dozen; good fresh, 45 
to 48 for Eastern stock, while Westerns 
bring 42 to 45 for fresh and 30 to 40 for 
good storage stock. 
Meats are firm and prices no lower, with 
pork products higher. Best dressed beef, 
J5 cents per pound for sides, 18 for hind¬ 
quarters and 12 for fores. Y r eal, dressed, 
best, 13 to 15 cents per pound ; fair, about 
12, and poor at seven to eight, are the 
general prices. Dressed hogs sell at Brigh¬ 
ton at about 10 cents per pound, while 
Squire’s prices for Western hogs, dressed 
here, are 12 cents per pound. Live hogs 
go at about eight cents per pound. Lamb 
in good supply; best dressed, 12 cents; 
others, eight to 10. Poultry in good supply 
and demand at this time. Fowls and chick¬ 
ens went at about 14 cents, live weight; 
dressed fowls, 18 ; chickens, 20 and 22 per 
pound ; ducks, 18; geese, 16 ; turkey prices 
varied very much, best fancy Northern 
birds wholesaled at 30 to 35 cents per 
pound, and retailed in some cases as liign 
as 45; good Western wholesaled at about 
25 cents per pound and many of these 
were good eating birds ; some storage birds 
were sold as low as 15 cents on Wednes¬ 
day night. 
Horse hay, $22 per ton ; stock hay, $15 
to $17; rye straw, $16. Meal, $1.35 per 
bag, wholesale; oats, average about 40 
cents per bushel; bran, $23 per ton ; mixed 
feed, $24 per ton; cotton-seed meal, $30 
per ton. Potatoes, wholesale, at $1.50 per 
two-bushel bag. Onions, 75 to 90 cents per 
bushel for nearby grown stock; others 
about $1 per 100 pounds. 
A. E. PROCTOR. 
Milk is about our only product in this 
section. Our Summer price was $1.25 to 
$1.40 per 100 pounds. Our November and 
December price is $2 per 100; January, 
February and March will be less, about 
$1.75 per 100 pounds. These are much 
higher prices than we have been getting. 
Antwerp, N. Y. p. H. b. 
Milk at the milk station in October, 
$1.70 per 100. Butter is selling from 28 
to 30 cents a pound. Potatoes at the car, 
85 to 38 cents; they are a good crop in 
this section. Oats are poor, 45 cents a 
bushel. Hops were not very good in some 
sections, 20 to 25 cents a pound. There 
is not much wheat raised here. Potatoes 
and hops are raised more than anything 
•lse in this section. e. w. 
Burke, N. Y. 
I will tell you only of the things I am 
selling myself at the stores in Portland. 
We get 60 cents a bushel for potatoes, 60 
or 75 cents for apples, 60 Cents for tur¬ 
nips and $18 a ton for hay in the Port¬ 
land market. We also sell some milk at 
six cents a quart and cream at 36 cents 
a quart at our country store. A. G. 
Cumberland Ctr., Me. 
Corn is very good, except on clay ground, 
where it is rather a poor crop ; hay is very 
good, not very much sold as yet; oats were 
not very good ; potatoes are a good, heavy 
crop, but rotting badly, the price paid is 
about 60 cents per bushel for good stock. 
Most of the milk produced hove is shipped 
to New York; $1.90 per hundred is paid for 
milk of grade B. Buckwheat was generally 
very good and about $1.35 per hundred is 
the price paid. Nearly all the corn has 
been moved from the fields and quite an 
amount of plowing has been done. e. v. 
Whitehall, N. Y. 
We are located 200 miles from Boston 
and the farmers here are dependent mostly 
upon the local market, excepting a mar¬ 
ket for their milk, which most of them are 
shipping to Boston, and at the present are 
receiving $2 per 100 pounds. New milch 
cows are bringing from $50 to $75 per 
head, those coming to milk in the Spring 
from $35 to $50; butter, 30 to 35 cents; 
eggs. 35; fowls, dressed, 16 to 18; live 
weight, 10 to 12; dressed hogs, nine to 
10; live, seven; hay, $14 per ton, de¬ 
livered ; turkeys, 30 cents per pound. Po¬ 
tatoes are rotting badly; some estimate 
that there has already been a shrinkage of 
five per cent. Buyers are scarce at 00 cents 
per bushel. Sixteen-inch dry hard wood is 
finding a ready market at $7.50 to $8 per 
solid cord. g. l. c. 
Whitefield, N. H. 
1C REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE EWES for sale-Bred to 
imported siro. 6 Ewe Lambs hr imported sire. 
K. E. STEVENS & SON, Wilson, N. Y. 
Unadilla Silos 
are the best 
/ 
Give superior silage. Possess best con¬ 
struction and greatest convenience. Get 
free catalogue. Agents wanted. 
Unadilla Silo Co., Box C. Unadilla, N. Y. 
THE BOSTON MARKETS. 
The supply of fruit, vegetables, meats 
and other things, which are in season at 
Thanksgiving time was plenty large enough 
for the demand this year in nearly all 
cases. This with a few exceptions kept 
the prices within, reason, and in some 
cases the prices asked might be called 
cheap. This especially applies to nearly 
all kinds of _ vegetables and some of the 
fruits, especially our mainstay, apples. 
The demand for these was not as heavy 
in local markets as we expected, for reason 
of many who had always laid in a few bar¬ 
rels and so did not need to renew at this 
time. However, the exports have been 
fairly heavy and returns fair, which helped 
our home market very much. McIntosh is 
short and sells for $2.50 to $3 per bushel 
and $6 to $7 per barrel. Best Baldwins, 
$3.50 a barrel ; good quality Baldwin. 
Greening, etc., $1.50 to $2.50 per barrel. 
Other varieties go at from $2 to $4 per 
barrel. Box fruit brings from 50 cents to 
$1 for nearby stock. Pears are the excep¬ 
tion and sell high at $3 to $5 per bushel. 
Cranberries in good supply and fair prices 
in most cases, $6 to $8' per barrel, and 
$2.25 to $2.50 per box are the rule. For¬ 
eign fruits all sell at fair price for Thanks- 
giving trade. Nuts are also firm and prices 
inclined to be high. Mixed nuts, 15 cents 
per pound, wholesale. California walnuts 
and Naples bring 17 cents per pound and 
native shellbarks $2.75 to $3 per bushel. 
Celery is plenty just at this time, white 
going at 50 to 60 cents per dozen ; Pascal 
and Boston Market, 75 cents to $1.25 per 
dozen. Lettuce, 25 to 40 cents per box of 
18 heads; spinach, 30 cents per hnshel; 
The“Quality 
SILOS 
Why buy a tub when you can get a SlloT Why 
accej>t a substitute which only holds your com 
when you can get a Harder Silo which preserves it 
and convorts it into rich, succulent silage of great¬ 
est milk-producing value ? Why not investigate the 
feeding value of Harder Silage ? Literature free. 
HARDER MANUFACTURING CO., 
Box 1 I , Cobleskill, N. Y. 
SILO 
This Cralne Patent Triple 
Wall Silo is Five Times as 
Strong and Three Times as 
Warm as ordinary Silos 
Tnside rtavps, 2 inches thick, run np and 
down; outside is a continuous spiral wooden 
covering from bottom to top. Between the two 
is a heavy layer of shenthini?. No iron hoops 
to watch and keep tightened up. It’s an air- 
tight silo of wonderful rigidity—does not dry 
apart or getout ofround or out ofpiumb when 
empty, but stands np straight and tight. 
A_great feature isits refiigerator door system. 
We build any sire. Let us seudyou particulars. 
Catalog flee. Don’t place order till you scud 
for It to 
W. L. SCOTT LUMBER CO. 
63 Main St., Korwlch, N. Y. 
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proof. Don’t wait! Send postal at once. Book No. 11 
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Feed Carriers, and feed trucks. 
No. 10 tells about stalls, stanch¬ 
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stalls. Either or both FREE. 
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•vUII > how many dairy cows 
you own. Also ask for “Helpful 
Hints to Barn Builders,” our 
most valuable book If you are 
planning to build 1 Address 
JAHE9 MANUFACTTRIXO COMPANY 
70110 Cane St. , Fort Atkinson, Wig. 
(Formerly Kent Mfg. Co.) 
Originators of Sanitary Barn Equipment and 
Barn Plan Service Idea. 
Barn Plan 
Service 
FREE 
Mr* W. D. James, 
America’s foremost 
Dairy Bam Design¬ 
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you plan your barn. 
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Horsos andl Mules 
Adirondack Farms, 
Glens Falls, N. Y. 
The greatest Breeding 
Establishment in the East. 
Champion Stud of Perch- 
eron and Belgian Stallions 
and Mares. 
Catalogue if interested 
B ueeder’s auction— l’ERCHERON 
STALLIONS, MARES, GELDINGS. FIL¬ 
LIES— Pure-bred aud grade at .Meadow-crest Farm, 
Ovid, Seneea Co., N. Y., Dec. 18th, 1912. 
Address for catalogue, J. M. PAYNE. 
P ercheran and Belgian Stallions and Mares for sale 
at fanners’ prices. A. W. GREEN, Route 1, 
Middlefield. (>. Railroad station, East Orwell, ()., 
on I’einia. It.lt., 30 miles north of Youngstown, O. 
For Sale—Shetland and Welsh Ponies 
spotted and solid colors. All ages. Suitable for 
Christmas presents. Nothing so much appreciated. 
SHERMAN SANFORD - Seymour, Conn. 
Handsome, Strong 
Yr. Dorset Ewe. L. Thyson, 43 Ashford St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
j DAIRY CATTLE ) 
“Latest Meridale Facts” 
gives some interesting figures of progress in 
herd development at, Meridale Farms. A copy 
will bo sent on request to any who are suffi¬ 
ciently interested to ask for it. 
ayer & McKinney 
300 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. 
East River Grade Holsteins 
.. .FOR SALE.. . 
GO Cows duo to enlve in tli© Spring 
TO tows due to ealve soon 
30 Cows just fr.esh 
30 Heifers one aud two years old 
These cows are high-grade Holstein and best that can be 
raised. Records for past year, Si,(W0 to 11,000 ll>s. of milk. 
BELL PHONE JOHN li. WEBSTER 
3U-F-5 Dept. R, Cortland, N. Y. 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
60 Extra Fine, Large, Heavy Milking Cows 
All young, nicely marked and due 
to freshen within sixty days. 
IF YOU WANT GOOD ONES COME AND 
SEE THESE COWS. 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON, Certland, N. Y. 
ALLAMUCHY FARM 
offfors 
Registered HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES 
AT FARMERS’ PRICES 
They are wed grown and from six to ten months 
old, out of official tested dams and by null whose 
dam has record of over 30 lbs. as a f6ur-year-old. 
4* fat. All stock shipped on approval. 
ALLAMUCHY FARMS. - Allamuchy. N. J. 
Acorns in Your Stables 
25% More Milk 
Self-regulating; no leveling 
tank. Bach cow controls own 
supply. Agents wanted. Write 
for catalogue and prices. 
M METAL SHINGLE COMPANY, 
351 Bellevue Ave. Detroit, Mich. 
Patented TJ. S. and Canada 
3Dogis and Ferrets 
PflI I IF PUPC— The intelligent kind. Also Shet- 
^ULLIC ■ UrO land Ponies. Nelson's, Grove City, Pa. 
FERRETS FOR SALE'S,-' 
catalogue and price list. KEEFER BROS., Greenwich, 0. 
SWIWE 
HWQI 
-w. ..w.... ww. 
Fine, largo strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collie 
Pups,Beagles and Poultry.Write for 
•«*—*"• Pups,Beagles and Poultry. Write for 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co.. Ercildonu, Pa. 
HOGS and POULTRYTlrn^S 
ner Duck Eggs, White and Brown Leghorn Eggs 
of best strains. Bred Berkshire Sows and Pigs. 
CHERRY HILL FRUIT FARM, Toboso, Licking County, Ohio. 
DlfiC—8 weeks’old Berkshire—Chester W hite cross 
* I® 1 ® $5 e.’icli. CLARK FARM, Boonton, N. J. 
0 1 P !« of Superior Duality— 17 choice young 
, Ui o (HRs and 11 Tnpy young Boars; pairs; 
no akin. FRED NICKEL, Monroe, Mich. 
Chester Whites—“ Registered ” Sows 
bred for Spring litters. Prolific strain. Special price 
for December. Address, Eugene T. Black, Scio, New York 
P|CC—PFDIGRKF.D. SI* per pair. 
i IOO Soreno O. Weeks, DeGraff, O. 
CHELDON FARM registered Durocs. Pigs of both sex 
** Bred Sows. Service Hoars. Best of breeding 
_ C. K. HAKNKS. Oxford, N. V. 
L ARGE YORKSHIRES— Sows bred for June and August 
f;wrow. Boars ready for service. May pigs, 
or der now, Glicnmakk Eak m, Robertsville, Conn. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES. ^^S 
in Connecticut. Sows bred for April litters all sold. 
Have 4 sows bred to farrow in July; late, to ser¬ 
vice of Watson's Masterpiece. Will book orders 
for March and April pigs now. Send for new 
Booklet. J. E. W ATS0N. Piuurielor, Marhledale, Conn. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES at HIGHWOOD 
We have for sale service boars, brood sows and 
pigs, all ages. These are sired by Berryton Duke’s 
Model, the hoar that headed the first prize herd at 
tho Royal in 1909; Higlnvood Duke 75th, a half- 
brother to the Grand Champion boar, at the last In¬ 
ternational, and other boars of equal merit. 
II. C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee, N. Y. 
Berk shir es—Sheldoncroft—Jerseys 
Cows on authenticated tost. Young Bulls for sale. 
Berkshire Pigs, either sox. True to type. $10,00. 
AYHS XI IRES 
We have a small but select Ayrshire herd for salo. 
Head of herd sired by Itorrie's Majostic No. lOuOO. 
Address for prices. Sheldoncroft Supt., Silver Lake, Pa. 
JERSEY REDS—CHOICE PIGS 
10 weeks’old, $6; 3 for $15. E. L. ALBERTSON. Hope. N. J. 
DAIRY CATTLE 
OntarioSegisBurke sep^u b " h'<>" r 'y 
markings; rich brooding: lino individual.’Price, $75. 
Send for pedigree, etc. Cloverdale Farm, Charlotte, N. Y. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves f“% Sa 'V'c ia" 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM, Chittenango, N. Y. 
For Sale 
Registered Holstein Male Galt 
Choicely bred, fine individual, attractively marked. 
$25—with all papers. 
Also choice young cows at reasonable prices. 
HILLHURST FARM, F. H. RIVENBURGH, Munnsville, N. Y. 
LAUREL FARM Breeds Registered JERSEY 
CATTLE and BERKSHIRE SWINE 
Small adv. but I will deduct from the price of the 
animal what the other fellow pays for big advertise¬ 
ments. J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. Y. 
Breed Up—Not Down' J 7 e „ , r , c .“" , i„S''“ 
bay. Superior dairy dams. No better sires. K. F. 
SHANNON. 9U7 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
- - QUALITY- - 
FOR SALE-JERSEY BULL CALF 
Dropped Feb.22,1912. Sire, Tonona Pogis No. 78657, 
whose first daughter to freshen enters the Registor 
of Merit with a record of over 600 lbs. butter as a 
two year old. Dam of calf is Alcamo’s Molly No. 
176488, a Register of Merit cow, having two years 
authenticated tests producing 18,385.5 lbs. milk, 
924.3 lbs. fat, equivalent to 1,087 lbs. 11 oa. butter, 85* 
fat. He’s good enough to head arty herd. For des¬ 
cription ami price, address E. W. MOSHER, Aurora, N. Y, 
for tho Official Sales 
of the NEW YORK 
Box 36, Peekskill, N. Y. 
'TOMPKINS CO. BREEDERS’ ASSOCIA- 
* TION, Box B, Tnimansburg, N. Y.—Breeders 
of Holstein, Jersey & Guernsey cattle and the lead¬ 
ing breeds of sheep and swine. Write for salo list. 
Mi]U ProdllfArc New York City market 
ITI11K riUUUberi desiring information how to 
form brandies of the Dairymen’s League, write to 
the Secretary. Albeut Manning Otisville. N. Y. 
If You Want Guernseys ■£& 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASS*N, 
Purebred Registered 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
After a 6-yoar study of dairy operations on over 20 
farms in rhree different partsof Minnesota, Prof. Cooper 
of the State Experiment Station finds that dairying is 
most profitable in tire “ Holstein section ” of the State. 
In 1905 tho average profit per cow was only $10.10. In 
1909 it had increased to $38.4o per cow or 43* on capi¬ 
tal invested. Increase was due to improved herds, purebred 
Holsteins having been substituted for grade Shorthorns. 
As soon as dairying is put on a systematic basis, the Hol¬ 
stein cow comes to the front. If facts and figures mean 
anything to you, send for our illustrated literature. 
Send for Free Illustrated Descriptive Booklets. They 
contain valuable information for any Dairyman. 
F. L. HOUGHTON. Sec’y, Box 105. Brattleboro, Vt. 
