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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
January 4, 
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Dried Grains 
Matchless for young cattle 
as for grown cows—no milk- 
increaser like it. Costs little, 
yet rich in the nutrients 
cattle need to thrive. Excels 
its guarantee. 
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Milwaukee Grains & Feed Go. 
452 Third St. Milwaukee, Wig. ^ 
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After the most thorough, exacting and 
exhaustive tests the Borden Condensed 
Milk Co.,have adopted the Unadilla Silos. 
I The only Silo made that meets every re- 
[ quirement of this world-famous milk com¬ 
pany. If it’s good enough for them, it 
should be good enough for you. The su¬ 
perior mechanical construction and qual¬ 
ity of the ensilage is what sold the 
Unadilla Silo to the Borden’s. Catalog 
free on request. Extra discount for 
early orders. Agents wanted. 
UNADILLA SILO CO, Box C, Unadilla, S.Y, 
You throw away half 
ifb'idHiinHSr - 
of your corn when 
you feed without an 
INDIANA SILO' 
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Only about half of the 
food value of your corn 
| crop is in the grain. The 
^ rest is in cobs, stalks and 
jUk leaves. The Indiana Silo saves all this 
M w and gives you summer forage all year 
M round. 25,000 farmers have proved it. 
I Write for Booklet. Address nearest office 
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INDIANA SILO CO. 
Anderson, Ind. Des Moines, la. 
318 Union Bldg. 318 Indiana Bldg. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
318 Silo Bldg. 
ECONOMY SILO 
Our simple yet perfect-fitting doors, 
forming air-tight silo ; entirely pre* 
vent possibility of ensilage spoiling. 
Quick, easy adjustment without 
hammer or wrench. Free access. 
Every silo easy to erect. Seasoned 
white pine or cypress staves. Refined 
iron hoops form easy ladder. 
Write for free catalogue with proof 
of our claims from delighted users, i 
ECONOMY SILO & MFC. CO., 
Box 38>J Frederick, Md. 
ROSS SILO 
REASONS why the 
is the BEST 
We use Guaranteed Long Leaf Yel 
low Pine that will last longer thai 
any other wood, except cypress. Thi 
highest possible grade of Oregon Fii 
is used. 
The Ross Silo has features thai 
are exclusive, and absolutely neces 
eary to make a good silo. 
FULLY GUARANTEED 
to be as represented. Our 63 year* o 
manufacturing experience is valuable to you 
FREE catalog explains all. Write for it to¬ 
day. Agents Wanted. 
The E. W. Ross Co.,Box 13 Springfield.O. 
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FROST-PROOF 
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No hoops to tighten or 
loosen. 
Don't order your Silo 
before you get our free, 
catalog'. 
CRAINE TrfpV.w’.u SILO 
3 Walls 
—therefore 3 times as warm 
and 3 times as strong'. 
L«t us tell you more. 
The W. L-. Scott Lumber Co„ 
63 MAIN ST., NORWICH, N. Y. 
529-544 WATKIN’S BLDG. Milwaukee,Wi». 
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In effect Nov. 11, different exchange 
prices were made for N. Y. City Board oi 
Health, g'rades B and C: B (selected raw 
and pasteurized), $2.11 per 40-quart can; 
C (for cooking and manufacturing), $2.01, 
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; 20 
cents for the next 00 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. 
BUFFALO MILK MARKET. 
Terhaps never in the history of Buffalo 
has there been such a limited supply of 
milk as this Fall. The producer, retailer 
and consumer, and even the shipper, are 
in turns blamed for the shortage and con¬ 
sequent advance in price. Retailers are 
nearly all from one to three eight-gallon 
cans short of their regular supply, and are 
paying from 10 to 22 cents per gallon for 
extra milk at the depots, and sometimes 
cannot get it even at that price. On No¬ 
vember 0 the Queen City Milk Company 
advanced the price of their milk to eight 
qents a quart and five cents a pint; at 
any other time this advance would have 
meant an enormous loss of customers, but 
the shortage of milk is so acute that 
there is no competition. On November 19 
the small retailers advanced their price 
also, and since then there has been a con¬ 
tinuous howl of the high price of living in 
the daily newspapers. The farmer is 
blamed for not living up to his contract, 
which is all too true; many farmers who 
contracted three or four cans of milk last 
Spring are now shipping only one or two, 
although feed is more plentiful and mill 
feeds are cheaper than last year. The price 
of milch cows is such that the average 
farmer cannot afford to buy them; the 
health department dairy improving cam¬ 
paign has been so expensive that the av¬ 
erage farmer cannot afford or does not 
care to buy high-priced milkers to fill his 
contracts. Other large cities, such as New 
York, Rochester and Cleveland, are en¬ 
croaching on Buffalo’s supply territory, 
and it will be the competitive price alone 
that can win hack for Buffalo its supply 
territory. The retailer has to put up 
with too many uncollectable credit ac¬ 
counts. which is- very detrimental to his 
business, and therefore must have a large 
per cent of profit to make ends meet, and 
not until the retail milk is sold on a cash 
basis can the consumer hope to see the 
price reduced. G. e. s. 
The Sheffield Farms Slawson-Declccr 
Company has advanced the price of milk 
10 cents per hundred pounds above sched¬ 
ule prices for December and January milk, 
making the price now paid $2.15 for 4.5 
milk. \Ye assume that more milk is needed 
titan is being delivered. The opinion has 
been expressed by many farmers that there 
is not enough profit in producing Winter 
milk to compensate for the extra labor and 
expense, consequently they have not made 
preparations to supply so much milk as 
formerly. The actual number of cows 
kept has also been reduced. The cows 
that have proved to he practically failures 
naturally comprise the bulk of those sold, 
and some I saw going to the shipping sta¬ 
tion last week made me wonder that they 
should have been allowed to remain in 
the country so long, for they had not a 
point to commend them to a dairyman. 
Even a poor cow will give some milk. One 
of two feed dealers in a town told me 
that he has about 300 dairy customers, and 
the other feed dealer probably has as 
many. If eacli of those 600 dairymen lias 
two unprofitable cows and each town in 
a dairy county has an equal number, the 
aggregate number of pounds of milk pro¬ 
duced without adequate returns would be 
no small quantity, and would help to lower 
general prices without benefitting the pro¬ 
ducers. Foor cows are also consumers of 
good feed, and the more feed is used by 
unprofitable cows the higher will be the 
price of mill feeds, and the smaller will he 
the returns from home-grown produce. We 
do not want good-for-nothing cows in the 
country and we are glad to see them going 
to the city where any kind of junk can be 
made to return full value when put into 
a tin can under a showy label. One un¬ 
accountable fact is that farmers themselves 
often buy considerable quantities of city 
prepared meats at an enormous advance 
on the price for which they sell their own 
products, at the same time neglecting to 
preserve their own meats in the numerous 
ways that make well fattened meat whole¬ 
some and palatable for future use. 
Otsego Co., N. 1". c. m. 
A neighbor bought a cow the past week, 
said to give 18 quarts of milk daily, for 
$75. We are receiving five cents per quart 
for milk at the door; local customers, de¬ 
livered. eight cents per quart. For fruit 
and garden crops we get all we can of the 
consumer’s dollar, sold at retail to private 
customers in Pawtucket, R. I. Apples, $1 
to $1.50 per bushel; potatoes, 80 cents per 
bushel; squash and pumpkin, two cents per 
pound; turnips, 75 cents per bushel. Cab¬ 
bage we buy at 75 cents and sell for $1 
per barrel. Eggs, 60 cents per dozen. 
Adamsdale, Mass. a. I. N. 
Net Price of Milk. 
Our association has contract based upon 
N. Y. Exchange prices - for milk. We get 
16% cents per can less than Exchange 
price for'26-cent zone, and are now getting 
$1.92 per 100 pounds, which I cannot figure 
out from your published report for De¬ 
cember 1, 1912. f. s. 
New York. 
Since December 1 the N. Y. Exchange 
price for milk of B grade lias been $2.11, 
gross. Deducting from this the 16% cents 
discount mentioned in the question, 26 
cents freight and five cents “ferriage,” a 
not of $1,635 per 40-quart can remains. 
Commercial milk is figured at 85 pounds 
per can of 40 quarts, which would make 
.0192 per pound, or $1.92 per 100 pounds. 
Perhaps the sellers did not understand that 
the freight and ferriage charge of 31 cents 
was to be deducted in addition to the 16% 
cents. 
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Thrive and 
Owners Prosper 
tn the 
San Joaquin 
California 
Here is the dairyman’s opportunity. Conditions are just right for 
his business and there’s a hungry market right at home. Great cities 
like San Francisco and Los Angeles make steady, profitable markets 
for fresh milk and dairy products. And think of the thousands who 
devote their time to orchard and vineyard, who have no room for 
cattle. And the other thousands devoted to mining and lumbering. 
The creameries paid an average of over 32 cents a pound last year for 
butter fat. Can you get as much where you are? 
The 200,000 people now in the San Joaquin Valley have only made 
a beginning in developing its marvelous agricultural resources. Over 
seven million acres of, wonderful crop-producing soil are awaiting the 
men who will set them at work. Your dollars will have greater earning 
power here; your brain and muscle will count for more. 
The best of it is that you can buy this land with water developed. 
Or with water rights, at about $125 an acre, on favorable terms. You 
can get. quick results. Most of the land was wheat-fields or grazing 
land, and it is easily put into alfalfa. There’s a creamery in nearly 
every hamlet which will sell you cows on time. Little shelter is 
required, as stock thrives out of doors the year around. There is no 
time that you can not do out-of-doors work comfortably and profitably. 
You will find here good schools, good roads, telephones, rural 
delivery, electric light and power, trolleys, and a “ get-together-and- 
help-each-other ” spirit that makes the newcomer feel at home at once. 
The Santa Fe has published a folder about the San Joaquin Valley 
which is filled with information for the homeseeker. It gives the 
experiences of people who have taken up different lines of farming, 
and tells of the results they have secured. 
Read the book; then see the country. It will cost but little. Go 
now, while work is slack. The Santa Fe runs low-fare homeseekers’ 
excursions to California, and elsewhere southwest, on first and third 
Tuesday each month. Time on the road, only three days from Chicago. < 
I will gladly send the Sarr Joaquin Valley folder free and give you full , 
h information about trains and fares. 
QAVE 25 TO 50 PER CENT. ON HARNESS. Buy direct 
° irom factory, No traveling men. Get our illus¬ 
trated catalogue. Cast iron contract given on all 
work. Read what our Grange say of us. 
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Try Them 30 Days 
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If not satisfied after testing 30 days, return them at 
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■ EMPIRE MFG. COMPANY, Box. 196, Quincy, 111. 
Easy Loading—Perfect Spreading 
These two things are absolutely necessary in a good manu 
spreader. They are combined in 
The Johnston “Easy Loader” Manure Spreader 
Drop 6ides to make loading easy. Rear only 43 inches from ground. No high pulverizing ra 
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BojIOO —D Batavia, N. 1 
Built of Vitrified Clay Blocks. Cannot blow over or burn down. 
No staves to paint, no hoops to tighten. Never costs a cent for re¬ 
pairs. Easily built by any mason. Convenient to fill and feed from. 
Costs Less in the End because It Needs No Repairs 
Air tight hollow sides keep silage fresh and palatable. No 
drying out or rotting. No freezing. 
Our 32 page illustrated book on the NATIONAL 
silo is worth reading for its valuable FIRE PROOFING 
information. Every farmer should COMPANY 
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