1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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In effect Noy. 11, •different exchange 
prices were made for N. Y. City Board of 
Health, gTades B and C : B (selected raw 
and pasteurized), .$2.11 per 40-quart can; 
C (for cooking and manufacturing), $2.0], 
netting 4% and 4% cents to shippers in 
26-cent 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% per cent. 
THE OUTLOOK FOR MILK. 
In northern New York some of the sec¬ 
tions nearly 400 miles from the city of 
New York, which is their most natural 
market for milk, the prices are higher than 
in places that are no more than 200 miles 
from the city. Other sections that are 
300 miles away also have good prices. It 
is of these localities that I wish to say 
something. I found milk selling at $2 
to $2.12 a hundred. Some of the big dealers 
there were paying $2.05 or more and haul¬ 
ing the milk at their own expense eight 
miles at least. This milk was going to 
New York, Boston or similar markets, and 
was from stables that had not been in¬ 
spected. The stables were good, as I saw 
them, but the expense of producing milk 
as it was there produced is not nearly as 
much as where the inspector tries to earn 
a salary by causing the farmer expense to 
fix up his barns for dress parade. Of 
course the reason for this increase of prjfce 
is the shortage of milk. Creameries and 
cheese factories are selling to the shippers 
as the milk is wanted at a price that cheese 
will hardly warrant. These cheese fac¬ 
tories are in the lead all the year I think, 
for they were much ahead in the Summer 
when making the most cheese. At present 
the current price in my own region is $1.80 
unless the stable and the methods suit the 
fancy of the inspector to a score of 68 
points suitably distributed, in which case 
the farmer gets $1.90. In one or two cases 
the independent dealers have raised the 
price by five cents over the regulation 
price. 
There is a shortage of milk in the cities, 
and it seems as though that is likely to 
continue for some time. Dealers talk it 
otherwise, and say that they are unable to 
contract for milk deliveries in the city 
longer than the first of January. Many 
hint at a slump in business, but they seem 
to be unable to give any tangible reason 
for their fears. At my point of inspec¬ 
tion I am unable to make any more than 
an intelligent guess, as to the future of 
the milk business. Judging from the great 
number of cows that are being shipped 
out of the dairy localities it would seem 
that the supply of milk cannot be increased 
for some time. At one point in the midst 
of this dairy district I saw cattle being 
loaded for shipment. Upon inquiry it was 
found that cows and other stock are 
shipped away from there about every week. 
One Saturday not long ago 20 cars were 
shipped and all taken from a radius of 15 
miles. It is true that these animals are 
not all cows, and most of them are not 
prime cows at that, but taking out so 
many must make a difference in the amount 
of milk offered for sale in the next year 
or more. The big milk-shipping concerns 
are requiring the farmers to go to all the 
expense of fitting the milk for bottling, 
and they are refusing to make a price that 
is suitable for so much trouble and expense. 
It is no more than is to be expected that 
the supply will be cut, and that the dealers 
will have to look closely to find what milk 
they need, unless they are looking into the 
future further than we can and can see 
things that do not appear to the ordinary 
mortal. If business goes to pieces as some 
of the people are claiming, then these deal¬ 
ers may be wiser for their own pockets 
than we are inclined to give them credit 
for being now. We hope and believe that 
they are not true prophets when they insist 
that milk will not be in as much demand 
after a little. In the meantime those who 
are at work on some plan of co-operation 
are doing the thing that seems to be wise. 
H. H. L. 
The milk from this section is quite 
largely shipped to Buffalo, 27 miles, at 
four cents a quart f. o. b., though many 
big contractors are forced to sell to various 
factories at much less figures, and the 
“powdered milk” plant at Arcade (10 
miles away) uses 60,000 gallons daily. I 
think it only recently that our farmers 
have had as much as four cents in Buffalo. 
If the consumers in Buffalo would unite 
as they are doing in some cities, our 
farmers, many of them would gladly ship 
to them and save the middleman. Some 
farmers drive to Buffalo with produce, but 
that ordinance exacting $100 for a license 
compels them largely to sell to the re¬ 
tailers after all. F. M. s. 
Holland, N. Y. 
In this county horses, cattle, etc., are 
much cheaper in the back districts than 
near the larger villages. At an auction 
held December 11 three miles from Ben¬ 
nington, Spring calves brought from $7 to 
$15; cows, 20 in number, all high-grade 
Ilolsteins, due to freshen in from six weeks 
to three months, sold from $26 to $45; 
two new milch cows with calves beside 
them brought $70 and $75.50, respectively. 
Horses vary as to quality, but natives can 
be bought for from $150 to $200 and up 
for good drivers or workers. Eggs, strictly 
fresh, 45 and 50 cents per dozen. Farmers’ 
one-pound prints butter, 35 and 40 cents. 
Apples, hand picked, $2.50 a barrel. Milk, 
six cents a quart. Pork, $10 per 100 
pounds wholesale; poultry No. 1, heavy 
Spring chickens and choice yearlings. 16 
cents dressed. Many of our farmers have 
solved the problem of the consumer’s dol¬ 
lar here by selling direct. Bennington is 
a prosperous manufacturing town of 10,000, 
and farmers from a distance of 12 to 14 
miles have regular routes, coming in once 
each week. D. c. H. 
Bennington, Yt. 
THE “ GUERNSEY GENTLEMAN.” 
The bull shown on the first page is 
Masher’s Galore 8572 by Imp. Francis 
Masher 2d out of Ch. Guernsey Zara. 
This bull has 10 daughters in the Guern¬ 
sey Advanced Registry. “Their records 
exceed the requirements 2,000 pounds in 
milk and 50 per cent, in butter fat.” 
Thus we are justified in saying that his 
daughters “have to act like father’s 
folks.” 
Good new milch cows, $50 to $100; to 
freshen in Spring, $35 to $50. Live hogs, 
8 cents a pound; dressed, 10 cents; six 
to eight weeks pigs, $2 to $3, and plenty 
of them. Live poultry, 15 to 16 cents; 
strictly fresh eggs, 50 cents per dozen, very 
scarce. Butter, 35 to 38 cents per pound. 
Potatoes, 50 to 60 cents per bushel. Ap¬ 
ples, $1.50 to $2 per barrel; strictly fancy 
table apples sell as high as $5 per barrel; 
squashes, $2 to $3 per 100 pounds. These 
prices are received by producers. 
Bellows Falls, Vt. ’ A. A. H. 
Milk, 3% cents at creamery ; butter, 34 
cents; eggs, 40 cents a dozen. Potatoes, 80 
cents per bushel; wheat, 95 cents per 
bushel; oats, 50 cents; rye, 72 cents; 
shelled corn, $1 per bushel; new car corn, 
65 cents. Cows, very high, from $50 to 
$100. Good horses, $200 to $250. Light 
pork, 10 cents per pound; live chickens, 12 
cents per pound. Apples, very scarce, but 
sell for $1 per bushel; ICieffer pears retail 
at 25 ■ cents per 16-quart basket; peaches 
sold from 75 cents to $1.50 per basket, but 
they were very scarce. I grew' peaches 
which were a failure with me this year. 
Annandale, N. J. f. w. a. 
I attended an auction recently and all 
household goods went high. Cornstalks, 
$5 per large load; fat hogs, eight cents, 
alive, 8% cents, dressed. Some common 
old horses, $30 to $100; best cattle went 
high ; one cow with calf, $67.50; others, 
$55 to $60. Some two-year-olds, fresh next 
Spring, $50 to $55, and only the common¬ 
est stock. Hay, $10 per ton. This is a 
dairy country, and great demand for cows. 
Cream brings one cent above Elgin prices 
in Summer. Hunters are very lawless 
here, too ; I lost a steer by being shot; a 
neighbor a horse in pasture, by shooting 
close, jumped a fence and disemboweled it¬ 
self on a post, and rifle balls come whizzing 
through my yard many a time. L. A. K. 
Anivva, Wis. 
BUFFALO MARKET REVIEW. 
The city retail markets are full of very 
low-grade apples, many of them looking 
as if they had lain on the ground till 
they are fairly tasteless. They sell for all 
prices from five cents a small measure up. 
A farmer who was asked what it meant 
and where the better grades were, tells 
me that he suspects the good apples are 
being hold back in hope of better prices. 
Apples sold very low as a rule the past 
season, and now' if the host of low grades 
can be worked off for something there may 
be a profit for the others later on. Very 
few farmers got more than $2 for the best 
Kings, which are usually highest priced 
with us. Even cider has been low. Some 
people seem still to need to learn that it 
is next to impossible to make cider that 
is good for anything in warm weather. 
One farmer here took some good windfall 
russets, supposed to be the best for that 
purpose, and found that his early cider was 
watery stuff early, but rich and waxy at 
the end of the season. 
There are also Kieffer pears in the mar¬ 
kets, almost to the exclusion of others, 
hut that pear is no good here. It has 
about as much taste as a piece of wood 
and never gets mellow. An effort is made 
to W'ork the fruit off by putting it in quart 
baskets, but it moves slow. 1 have a small 
tree that I bought for a Bartlett that 
begins to have all the appearance of a 
Kieffer. I will sell it very cheap. As our 
city markets now look, it ought to be a 
paying venture to put in a good line of 
both apples and pears of attractive qual¬ 
ity. They will sell from five cents a quart 
up and ought to pay well. 
The question of getting produce to mar¬ 
ket within trucking distances is agitating 
our farmers and produce men. It will not 
be long before all our towns of any size 
will have roads either of the best macadam 
or brick. This means a bottom that is as 
good for hauling loads as can be desired, 
and that every day in the year. Farmers 
find that the pavements w’ear out horse¬ 
shoes very fast. One of them declares that 
the brick will actually wear out a set of 
horseshoes in a week of steady use on it. 
This is a new argument for the use of auto¬ 
mobile trucks. A farmer w'ho lives far 
enough out of Buffalo to be able to make 
a daily trp in with a team undertook last 
Fall to make daily trips to market with 
three-ton loads, but the work used up his 
team. It is estimated that with a good 
automobile truck he could have made three 
daily trips with a five-ton load or perhaps 
seven tons. At the smaller rate he would 
have been doing a daily business of moving 
15 tons with the truck to three with -the 
team. I have no figures as to the cost per 
ton, but it seems to be the idea that the 
truck can be made to save money over the 
team, and where it comes to rapid moving 
of large amounts, and especially of very 
perishable crops, like berries or melons, 
there is also a big saving from that side of 
the question. joiin w. Chamberlin. 
Our market is Lewiston, Me. Young 
beef, eight cents, dressed; pork, 10; fowls, 
live. 12; chickens, 14; potatoes, 50 cents a 
bushel; butter, 35 cents a pound; eggs, 
48; onions, 75 cents a bushel; apples 
(Baldwins), $1.25 to $1.35 a barrel. Hay 
(at barn), $12. Vegetables, beets, cab¬ 
bages, etc., about one cent a pound. 
Greene, Me. a. m. h. 
Hogs, seven cents; beef cattle, 4% to 
six; sheep three to 3%; apples, $1.50 to 
$2.50 per barrel; potatoes, 60 cents per 
bushel; butter 25 cents per pound ; eggs 30 
cents per doen; turnips 25 cents per 
bushel; tobacco from four to 15 cents per 
pound; corn, 50 cents; oats 30. There is 
practically no market for garden truck. 
Bidwell, O. a. l. s. 
DAIRY CATTLE 
ONE HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN BXJI.L-CALF 
Born Dec. 14, 1912, mostly white. Sired by Gene 
Segis; Dam, Gretchen Hengerveld AaggieGraee 3d. 
ONE HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN BULL-CALF 
Born Dec. 17,1912, mostly white. Sired by Gene Segis; 
Dam, Gretchen Hengerveld A aggie Grace 4th, to 
quick buyer: will sell cheap considering the blood. 
WM. S. VAN VALKINBURG, Little Falls, N, Y. 
If You Want Guernseys york 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION, Dox 96. Peekskill, N. Y. 
-QUALITY- 
FOR SALE— JERSEY BULL CALF 
Dropped Feb.22, 1912. Sire, Tonona Pogis No. 78657, 
whose first daughter to freshen enters the Register 
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 oz. butter, 85li 
fat. He’s good enough to head any herd. For des¬ 
cription and price, address E. W. MOSHER, Aurora, N. Y. 
I Want to Purcha se 1 5 Grade 
Jersey Cows 
fresh or near fresh. Not older than those with a 
second or third calf. Plenty of substance and 
vigorous. Must stand tuberculin test. Write, 
LOUIS P. GILLESPIE, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Breed Up-Not Dowr^r„,“ u ",,SSi’£ 
buy. Superior dairy dams. No better sires. U. F- 
SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street. Pittsburg, Pa. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves £ ° 0 % Sa sV<^ui 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM, Chittenanqo, N. Y. 
Ontario Segis 
markings: rich breeding; fine individual. Price, $75. 
Send for pedigree, etc. Cloverdale Farm, Charlotte, 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, Cortland, 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. 
EAST RIVER HOLSTEINS 
...FOR SALE.. . 
70 Cows, grade Tlolstein, due to calve soon. The kind 
that till the pail. 10 Registered 2 and 3 year old Hollers 
bred to good sires. 10 Registered Bulls ready for ser¬ 
vice, with extra good breeding. 10 Registered Bull 
Calves. Most of these bulls have good A. R. O. Dams, 
and large record sires. 
bell phone JOHN B. WEBSTER 
3U-F-5 Dept. K, Cortland, N. Y. 
Xompkins CO. I 
* TION, Box B, Tru 
BREEDERS’ ASSOCIA- 
. _ 'umansburg, N. Y.—Breeders 
of Holstein, Jersey & Guernsey cattle and the lead¬ 
ing breeds of sheep and swine. Write for sale list. 
Millr PrnHlirprv for New York City market 
iulltv I UIUUUC1A desiring information how to 
form branches of the Dairymen's League, write to 
the Secretary, Albert Manning Otisville. N. Y. 
JS-WIUM-IE 
PICO— 8 weeks’ old Berkshire—Chester White cross 
r,uo $5 each. CLARK FARM, Boonton, N. J. 
BEFORE YOU BUY WRITE FOR 
NEW CATALOG DESCRIBING THE 
IUARANTEED MONEY-SAVING 
strongest built, simplest to put up and easiest operated 
on the market. Adjustable automatic take*uphoop- 
continuous open-door front—air-tigbt door and per* 
manent ladder are some of the unusual features. Tlw 
International Silo Co* 1 Bain St* L/hmyUIa. I*» 
Licensed under Harder Patent on Round Silos. 
Every Borden 
Experiment Farm 
has a Unadilla 
Silage of the highest quality is the 
final test of a silo. It convinced the 
Bordens that the Unadilla was best 
suited to the needs of their great milk 
farms. Such merit also Indicates su¬ 
perior mechanical construction and 
ease in handling silage. Catalogue 
free. Send for it and learn how and 
why they meet every need. Discount 
for orders in 30 days. Agents wanted. 
UNADILLA SILO CO., Box C, Unadilu, 
CAVE 25 TO 50 PER CENT. ON HARNESS. Buy direct 
«4from factory. No traveling men. Get our illus¬ 
trated catalogue. Cast iron contract given on all 
work. Road what our Grange say of us. 
BROWN, WHITTEN & CO.,Pine Busli.N.Y. 
RAW GROUND LIME 
For rise in stable gutters as an absorbent. 
F. E. CONLEY STONE CO., Dept. L, Utica, N. Y. 
IE REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE EWES for sale-Bred to 
imported sire. 6 Ewe Lambs by imported sire. 
E. E. STEVENS & SON, Wilson, N. Y. 
Dogs Hncl Ferrets 
pf|I I |C PUPO— The intelligent kind. Also Shat- 
UULLIL ruro land Ponies. Nelson's, Grove City, Pa. 
FOR SAI F~ PEDIGREED engl,sh BEAGLES— Good 
I VII vNLL hunters; not gun-shy. Also pedi¬ 
greed pups. GARRETT'S KENNELS, West Chester, Pa. 
FERRETS FOR SALEiSrsfefe??" 
catalogue and price list. KEEFER BROS., Greenwich, 0. 
HORSES 
Great Combination 
New Year’s Sale 
of 100 head of imported Belgians, Percherons and 
German Coach Stallions and Mares will be sold at 
this great sale on Tuesday, January 4, 1913, 
at the Sharon Valley Stock Farm, Newark, Ohio. 
This sale of horses are from one year old to five 
years old. Weight from 1600 to 2100 lbs. Such a 
lot of horses and mares has never been offered at 
an auction. 16 bead of registered one year old 
stallions and mares will be sold. 100 head of grade 
geldings and mares bred from my best imported 
stallions will be at this sale. They are from two 
to six years old. Suitable for truckman, farmers 
or the eastern market. Anyone wishing to sell one 
or more, let it be a stallion, gelding or mare from 
two or more years old, and will bring it to this sale, 
I expect to have the buyers to buy them. At this 
sale a commission of 10 per cent, on stallions, 
5 per cent, on geldings and mares, 2 per head 
on all horses listed and not sold. Come and 
bring your friends and buy one or more. Auction 
sale in the new barn. Lunch served. Free 
automobile or carriage to the sale. 
Col. Geo. W, Crawford, I J roprietor 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, 
Fred W. Andrew*, Auctioneer. Newark, Ohio 
HOGS and P 0 ULTRY-» 7 S;„ p ,Si,“ 
ner Duck Eggs, White and Brown Leghorn Eggs 
of best strains. Bred Berkshire Sows and Pigs. 
CHERRY HILL FRUIT FARM, Tolioso, Licking County, Ohio. 
B erkshire pigs at hubbell bros. 
Are good as some and better than others. Fall 
pigs, service boars, bred sows, FISH'S EDDY, N. Y. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES at HIGHWOOD 
We have for sale service boars, brood sows and 
pigs, all ages. These are sired by Berryton Dnke’s 
Model, the boar that headed the first prize herd at 
the Royal in 1909; Ilighwood Duke 75th, a half- 
brother to the Grand Champion boar, at the last In¬ 
ternational, and other boars of equal merit. 
H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee, N. Y. 
Springbank Berkshire Herd 
Has bred more high-class hogs than any in Connec¬ 
ticut. Have sows bred for Spring litters and some 
Summer farrowed sow pigs that are right to be bred 
for next Snmmer farrow. Write me. Address, 
J. E. WATSON, PROP., MARBLEDALE, CONN. 
CHELOON FARM registered Durocs. Pigs of both sex 
w Bred Sows. Service Boars. Best of bleeding 
C. K. BARNES, Oxford, N. V. 
L ARGE YORKSHIRES— Sows bred for June and August 
farrow. Boars ready for service. May pigs, 
order now. Gi.knmakk Farm, Robertsville, Conn. 
0 1 f» % of Superior Ouality —17choiceyoung 
• li U, o Gilts and 11 Topy young Boars; pairs; 
no akin. EREI) NICKEL, Monroe, Mich. 
Phnira fl I P Rnare Seven mouths old. R. E, 
bllUlltf U. I. U. DUdlo FREAR. Tunkhannock, Pa, 
Chester Whites—“ Registered ” Sows 
bred for Spring litters. Prolific strain. Special price 
for December. Address, Euoene T. Black, Scio, New York 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires, C. Whites. 
Fine, large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collie 
Pups, Beagles and Poultry. Write for 
pricos & circulars. Hamilton & Co.. Ereildoun, Pa. 
60 Percheron 
Belgian and Hackney Stallions and Mares 
Your pick of my sale Stallions for $1,090.00. New ship¬ 
ment arrives the first of the year. Big ton boys, 
lots of bone, quality and action; the kind that will 
look good to you. Come and see them ; you caD't 
beat it in America. Look what my horses did at 
Wheeling, our State fair. Everything in Hackneys. 
Six prizes on Belgians; four of the six were first 
prizes. Percheron won almost everything in three- 
year-old stallions and over; first prize under three, 
first and second prizes, second on mare, first and 
second on young mares. Stallion and four of his 
gets, first prize. Mare and two of her get, first and 
second prrzes. Stud group, consisting of stallion 
and four mares, first prize. Five best stallion, first 
prize. Champion Stallion, Reserved Champion Stal¬ 
lion, Reserved Champion Mare. Doesn’t this look 
like 1 have the goods In both Imported and Ameri¬ 
can-bred stock from weanlings up. My new ship¬ 
ment is the best I have ever had. Be sure and come 
and see them or write DR. OTIS M. TREVEY. LOCUST 
GROVE FARM, MOUNOSVILLE, W. VA. Moundsville is 
only 11 miles south of Wheeling, has trains, each 
way, 8 times a day on the B. & O., and O. R. street 
cars every 30 minutes to Wheeling, where you can 
get tlieW. & Lake Erie and Pennsylvania lines. 
Don't forget where you find your money’s worth. 
Come early and get your choice. 
Adirondack Farms, 
Glens Falls, N. Y. 
The greatest Breeding 
Establishment in the East. 
Champion Stud of Perch¬ 
eron and Belgian Stallions 
and Mares. 
Catalogue C if interested 
For Sale—Shetland and Welsh Ponies 
spotted and solid colors. All ages. Suitable for 
Christmas presents. Nothing so much appreciated. 
SHEHMAN SANFOKI) - Seymour, Conn. 
P ercheron and Belgian Stallions and Mares for sale 
at farmers’ prices. A. W. GREEN, Route 1. 
Middlefield, O. Railroad station, East Orwell, O., 
On 1’enna. R.R. 30 miles north of Youngstown, O. 
PUREBRED REGISTERED 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
yon are getting results, you don’t mind the 
milking and caring for cows, but it’s up-hill 
work to look after a string of cows that don’t make good. 
With good purebred HolSteins you are repaid for every 
bit of time ami labor you devote to them. Where the cream 
is sold to a local creamery and the skim milk is fed upon 
the farm, after deducting the cost of feed, a good Holstein 
will return a net profit of from $69.00 to $100.00 per year in 
addition to a valuable calf. 
There’s some satisfaction in keeping such cows. 
Send for Free Illustrated Descriptive Booklets. 
-FRIESIAN ASS’N, F. L. HOUGHTON, Sec’y, Box 105, Brattleboro, Vt. 
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