THIS RURAL IMISW-YORKER 
1071 
1913. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
"square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
PARSONS 
“LOW-DOWN” 
MILK WAGONS 
Must Appeal 
To You Mr. 
Milkdealer, 
BECAUSE — 
—Parsons’ Wagons are FIRST IN QUALITY. 
—Parsons' Wagons are PERFECTLY BUILT. 
—Parsons’ Wagons are GOOD-TO LOOK AT. 
—Parsons’ Wagons are A CONTINUOUS 
"AD”—they carry your name all over 
your city. 
—And Parsons' Wagons, like the finest horses' 
ARE PEDIGREE STOCK 
True, it has taken us twenty-seven years to 
reach our present Standard of perfection. 
We have made a name for ourselves and our 
product. Time, brains, money have been 
spent in achieving our success. PARSONS’ 
is a sufficient guarantee. 
ASK THE MILK DEALER ANYWHERE! 
Milk Dealers’, Bakers’, Batchers’ 
Wagons Exclusively. 
“FOR 27 
YEARS THE 
STANDARD” 
^Li ^'X Vftsk for Catalog D. 
THE PARSONS WAGON CO. 
EARLVILLE, NEW YORK 
Saved 23% on Feed Bills 
and produced healthier, stronger, sleeker and fatter stock. 
That's the actuai record of one man who fed 
DeSoto’s Brand Molasses 
Molasses is high in carbohydrates but low in cost. Animals 
like it—thrive on it. Horses have more “work-energy"; 
cows produce more milk. Feed molasses to your stock 
(or a month and not# results. 
Write for free booklet, “ Feeding Molasses.” Tells how 
to properly mix rations for different stock. 
John S. Sills & Sons, 612 W. 38th St., NewYork City 
Pure Feeding Molasses 
We are first hands and can qnoto yon absolutely 
bottom prices, delivered your station, in lots of 
anywhere from one barrel to a trainload. 
THE MEADER-ATLAS CO. 
Me Y. Office, 107 Hudson Street, Now York City 
Cows Love Unicorn 
Ready mixed dairy ration 
It cuts down the 
amount of grain used, 
lowers the cost.increases 
the flow of milk and 
pleases the cows. 
Unicorn isn’t a single 
feed. It is muny in one— 
so FEED IT STRAIGHT 
and stop your worrying and 
expense. 
Proof of the strength and 
efficiency of Unicorn furn¬ 
ished in abundance on 
application. Write today. 
~ CHAPIN & CO. 
Box R, Hammond, Ind 
II o 
8ES 
Birmingham Stock Farm For Sale 
PERCHERON, COACH, AND HACKNEY STALLIONS. Prize 
winners at the Lending lioi^e Shows, Prices right 
to quick buyers ami long time given on payments. 
Agents wanted. For further particulars apply 
•Birmingham Stock Farm, Manassas, Vn, 
50 STALLIONS 
and MARES, $250 to $1000 each 
Write for my Illustrated 
Circular telling why I can save 
you money on the purchase of a Per- 
cherou or Belgian Stallion or Mare. 
A.W. Green, Middlefield, O. 
R. R. Sta., E. Orwell, on Penna. Ry. 
Midway between Ashtabula & Warren 
HANDY BINDER 
JUST the thing for preserving files of 
The Rural New-Yorker. Durable 
and cheap. Sent postpaid for 35 cents. 
‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York City 
Milk 
Prices paid producers by New York 
wholesalers range from 3% to four cents, 
net, for Class B pasteurized milk. Res¬ 
taurants using two to five cans per day 
are now paying jobbers o 1 /: to six cents 
per quart. 
MASSACHUSETTS MILK 
As the time draws near for the making 
of prices for our Winter milk the upper¬ 
most thought in the producers’ minds is: 
‘Shall we receive a price which will 
make it worth our while to continue in 
the business, or shall we be obliged to 
follow the example of so many of our 
brother producers, sell the cows and take 
up some other line?” The N. E. M. P. A. 
are asking a very reasonable price of the 
dealers, 40 cents per 8%-quart can in the 
middle zone. At present high feed prices 
it will take close counting and strict at¬ 
tention to small details in the lines of 
this business to come out whole at that 
price, and to think of selling our milk at 
anything less is extreme foolishness, and 
should not be done. We do not believe 
one man in 10 can, the coming Winter, 
get back 100 cents on a dollar at this 
price under present conditions. Good 
cows are at highest level ever known. 
Grain is also above the top notch; rough 
fodder outside of corn stalks is under¬ 
stood to be less than normal in supply 
as a general average. Now in regard to 
labor cost let us compare the recent ad¬ 
vance in salary granted to city drivers, 
helpers and route bosses with our re¬ 
turns. We cannot call ours salary, as 
we receive none. The Whitings, and 
companies controlled by them, will pay 
the route bosses 832 a week, drivers $19, 
helpers $14. Is there a milk-producing 
reader of this paper who expects to get 
anything near these figures for his time 
in taking care of his dairy and herd, no 
matter what its size? I will state that 
many farmers will put in as many hours 
each day in just cow work as these same 
milk handlers. 
The trouble is just here. We. the pro¬ 
ducers, have been helping pay these city 
salaries all the time. The consumer has 
also helped of course, but probably 
neither of us has realized the fact, yet it 
is a fact. The contractor has and always 
will make his profit, and we believe his 
profit is^ larger than he many times ad¬ 
mits. Now it is time we wake up to the 
fact that we must make a profit and not 
do business at a loss, or make up in 
some other way what we have lost many 
time in conducting our milk-producing 
business. 
There was a talk of changing the 
freight charges on milk on one of our 
railroads, so that practically all shipping 
territory should pay an even rate, instead 
of, as at present, the farther-away milk 
coming in cheaper than the nearby, but 
some inside influence had this put on the 
shelf and the old rate will continue awhile 
longer. Our milk producers’ association 
can do a whole lot if we back them up 
both financially and otherwise, and if we 
do not we may as well say good night, 
for it will be night all right for us. 
In the last few months we have re¬ 
ceived fairer treatment from the State 
and city milk boards than ever before. 
Also the city papers are putting in a 
word now and then, if not of praise at 
least of fairness, and admitting that we 
should receive a reasonable price for 
good clean milk, they are admitting that 
we do produce clean milk as the rule, 
and they also are advising the consum¬ 
ers of the fact, and that they, the con¬ 
sumers, should be willing to pay a little 
more for this kind of milk. In many 
ways things look brighter and if we 
stand up on our feet and say we must 
have 40 cents a can to come out whole i 
and meet present conditions, we can I 
get that 40 cents. Will you do it? I 
think you will. a. e. p. 
Milk, 25 to 30 cents per gallon; but¬ 
ter, 25; eggs, 20. Wheat, 90; corn, 75 
to $1; potatoes, 85-90; apples. 50 to 80 
cents; peaches, $1 to $1.50 per bushel; 
pears, $1 per bushel: grapes, three to 
five cents per pound. Tomatoes, two 
cents a pound; sweet corn, 15-20 cents a 
dozen; sweet potatoes, three cents a 
pound. Cattle, $5 to $0.25; hogs. $X.75 ; 
poultry, seven cents for old, 12 for young. 
Cape Girardeau, Mo. l. r. j. 
Milk, retail, seven cents in Summer, 
eight cents in Winter. Veal, 10 cents; 
beef,, seven to nine cents, according to 
quality. These are butcher’s prices to 
the farmers. Potatoes, 75 cents at gro¬ 
cer’s, $1 retail. Cabbage, one cent per 
pound; tomatoes retailing at $1.50 to $2 
per bushel; apples, $1 per bushel. But¬ 
ter, 25 cents and up; eggs, 25 to 30 
cents. Chickens, live weight, old hens, 
12 cents at butcher’s: Spring chickens, 
14 cents; were 10 and IS cents a few 
weeks ago. Cows selling from $35 up 
to $100. These prices are unusually 
good on account of dry weather now and 
late frosts in June. Last year potatoes 
were sold for 30 cents to shippers, while 
tomatoes retailed at 50 cents per bushel. 
Brookville is our market town ; it is the 
county seat of Jefferson Co., Pa. 
Baxter, Pa. u. h. h. 
ADMINISTRATOR'S CLOSING-OUT SALE OE REGISTER OF MERIT JERSEYS 
Mr. C. D. Hazen, Administrator or the Estate of the date C. D. Hazen, Jr., 
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION AT 
BROOKSIDE FARM WHITE RIVER, VERMONT 
HB entire herd of 75 REGISTER OF MERIT JERSEYS 
ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1913 
~~~~~— This Celebrated Herd is Headed By 
GAMBOGE’S OXFORD LAD 67284 MERRY MAIDEN’S MARQUIS 84301 
a SOU of Oxford Lad P. 3123 H, C. and Gamboge’s arid a son of Merry Maiden’s 3d Sou 6Dale and Golden 
Gray Princess 180266, test 18 lbs. 1 oz. :: :: :: Lad's Brown Lassie 1727.50. :: :: :: :: 
35 cows in milk, 16 of them having qualified for the Register of Merit, and others now on test. 
35 heifers-in-calf and yearling heifers from Register of Merit dams and other great dairy cows. 
Also a few splendidly bred yearling hulls, ready for service. 
This fine herd is healthy and in excellent working condition, having been improved and 
successfully operated for some years by the late Mr. C. D. Hazen, Jr., and the sale offers an 
opportunity to breeders to select animals of exceptional merit at public valuation. 
For Catalogue, Address LEANDER F. HERRICK, AUCTIONEER, WORCESTER, ma ss. 
j DAIRY CATTIjE 
MERIDALE _ 
4 1 VO offer exceptional 
r g\ |Y| value in several 
young bulls of 
distinguished ancestry and excel¬ 
lent individuality, backed by large 
production. Two of them are 
ready for light service. Address 
ayer & McKinney 
300 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
150 HIGH GRADE 
HOLSTEIN COWS 
Large, flue individuals, nicely marked and 
heavy producers, due to freshen in August, 
September and October. 100 two-year-old 
heifers, sired by registered Holstein bulls 
and from grade cows with large milk records. 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON, Cartland, N. Y. 
HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES 
nicely marked and well-grown BULL CALVES FOR SALE, 
from three to four months old. All from A. It. O. 
dams with records of 19 lbs., jr. three, to 25 lbs.. 5 
years old. Sire, Pietertje Hengerweld Segis 6th, 
whose dam and grand-dam averaged 31.15 lbs. butter 
in 7 days. Average fat. 4.06. Price, *50.00 to *100.00 
ELMTREE FARM, Harry Yates. Prop.. Charlotte, N. Y' 
East RiverGradeHolsteins 
FOR SALE 
100 HKIFEKS—1 and 2 years old; sired by full- 
blooded bulls; dams are high-grade Holstein?. 
75 COWS—due to calve this Fall. Large, heavy 
milkers. 
30 FRESH COWS—Come and see them milked. 
lO REGISTERED BULLS—Also grade bulls.> 
DEPT. Y JOHN B. WEBSTER. 
Bel! Phone No. 14, F. S. Cortland, N, Y. 
POLLED HOLSTEINS 
The only herd in the world-all of A. R. O. breed¬ 
ing and registered in the H. F. H. B. of America 
A tew choice Bull Calves from A. K. O, dams for 
sale at 6 months of age. *125.00 and up. 
Geo. E. Stevenson & Sons, Waverly,Penna. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FIRM. Cbittenanoe. N.Y. 
THE TOMPKINS CO. BREEDERS' JOURNAL, with sale-list 
■ of pure-bred stock. 25cts. per year. Copy free. 
We have some very good offers in Holstein and Jer¬ 
sey cattle, German Coach Horses. Shetland Ponies, 
•Southdown ewes and Cheshire gilts. A two-year 
Berkshire boar, registered, $25 00. TOMPKINS CO. 
BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION, Box B, Trumansburg, N. Y. 
Eureka Stock Farm 
tered Jersey Bulls and Heifers 
2 mos. to 2 yrs. old. Chester White, Poland China 
and Berkshire Pigs, ail ages, Lincoln Sheep, and 
a variety of Poultry. Write for Circular. 
EDWARD WALTER, - West Chester, Penna. 
Breed Up—Not Dowr^r’c.rUoS. 1 '" 
buy. Superior dairy dams. No better sires. Ft. F- 
SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street.Pittsburg, Pa. 
Fosterfields Herd Registered Jerseys sale 
Cows, yearling and two-year-old heifers, some 
ot them due to calve soon. Also heifer calves. 
diaries G Faster, P 0, Box 173. Morristown,MorrisCo.N.J. 
LISl!' , , a iL G ,L e . r . n l e * s S *s 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS ASSOCIATION, Box 96, Peehshill. N. Y. 
REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL CALF“jOT 
SHROPSHIRE SHEEP—all ages. Prices low. 
J. I. HERETER, R. 0. 4. Oakland Farm, Gettysburg, Pa. 
Purebred Registered 
HOLSTEIN 
CATTLE 
The Wisconsin Farmer notes that fewer 
and fewer of the Wisconsin farmers are con¬ 
tent to milk and care for cows that are able 
to produce only about 150 pounds of butter. 
During two weeks last spring 145 Wisconsin 
dairymen purchased registered purebred Hol¬ 
stein sires in order to improve their herds. 
Everywhere the more progressive dairymen 
are alive to the necessity of using bred-for- 
production sires in order to bring up the 
butter-fat yield of their cows to a profitable 
figure. 
Send for FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets 
Holstein-Friesian Asso., F. L. Houghton, See’y 
Box 105 Urattloboro, V*. 
S I 3NT IE 
OHELDON FARM registered Durocs. Pigs of both sex 
° Bred Sows. Service Boars. Best of breeding 
C. K. BAUNE8. Oxford, N. Y. 
DURflC AUG P|ft^-$15 Pe>’Pair. 7 to 10 weeks. 
UUHUU HUU, riOO g. a. WEEKS, DeGraff, 0. 
Registered Duroc Pigs for Sale 
_ Sows, $10; boars, $8. 
OGDEN FARM, - Kinderhook, N. Y. 
Rpff H I ft PiffC~Extra choice yearling Boar at 
nC o' U. I. U. rigb $ 3 0 . C- g. Bower, Lu dlowville, N. Y 
UEADOWLANO FARMS REGISTERED CHESTER WHITES 
. of Sunny Jim strain Pigs of both sex. Sei - 
vice boar. W. E. Shank & Son, Auburn, N. Y. 
OLLINS’JERSEY RE 
She best 
piqtt 
bred 
get finest Jersey Red 
Pigs at cost of common stock by 
our New Sales Offer. 
New Illustrated Catalog FREE 
[Box 111 
J.CoLLINS 
375lbs. in 
9 months! 
Springbank Berkshire Herd 
BIG BERKSHIRKS I have bred more high- 
class hogs than any breeder in Connecticut. Wat¬ 
son s Masterpiece No. 123931 at head of herd. Noth- 
ing for saie but March and April pigs at present. 
J. E. WATSON, Prop., Marbledale, Ct. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD 
The U. S. Government has just purchased another 
Highwood Boar to head its herd at Panama. This 
is the third herd boar purchased of us by the Gov¬ 
ernment. which speaks for itself. We have the 
large, long-bodied and fancy-headed Berkshire, all 
sees for sale. Visitors always welcome. 
H. C. &H. B. Harpending, Dundee, N. Y. 
if you want the best hog 
Write us. Our farms are devoted exclusively to the 
production of Berkshire®. Bleeders in the following 
States have been supplied from our great herd: N Y • 
Penna,; Dist. Col.; Md.; Va.; N. C.; S. C.; Ga.; La. \ 
Ala.; Miss.; Fla.; Tenn.; Ky.; Texas, and Porto Rico. 
Berksliires for foundation and 
show purposes a specialty. 
THE BLUE RIDGE BERKSHIRE FARMS, Asheville, N. C. 
SHEEP 
IMPROVE YOUR FLOCK with a good ” SHROPSHIRE " or 
1 “ SOUTHDOWN ” ram from the NIAGARA STOCK FARM 
J. C. DUNCAN, Mgr., - Lewiston, N Y. 
BEGISTERKD SHROPSHIRE YEARLING 
n RAMS & EWES—Cheap. Fred Van Vleet. Lodi. N.Y 
CHROPSHIRE RAMS—Good individuals, well 
“ wooled. best of breeding. Prices reasonable. 
RAY H. ALEXANDER,Union Springs, N. Y 
Shrnn«hir<» Rams F0R SALE-Yearlings, two year 
onropsnire hams ol(ls and Kam i !m ,b. Also re¬ 
gistered.imported sires. E. E. Stevens & Son.Wilson, N.Y. 
PflR CHI C-HAMPSHIREDOWN RABI 
run OHLL LAMBS—from 115 to J36 lbs. i:. 
weight. Also a few ewe Lambs at Reasonable 
Prices. H. W. ALLISON, Mercer, Penn. 
Hampshire- Down Sheep~i^f]| te ^ 
SALE. Write for price*. ELLIS TIGER, Gladstone, N. J. 
Hogs and Ferrets 
nni 1 IP PIIP?— Natural drivers. Also English 
OULLIll rUlO Bloodhounds, Nelson’s, Grove City.Pa 
COR SALE-TRAINED ENGLISH RABBIT 
* DOGS—Also PUPS— All ages. Honest treat¬ 
ment assured. GARRETT'S KENNELS. West Chester, Pa. 
FpTTPtc for C alp— Either color or sex, any size,sin - 
1 Cl 1 Clo lul oaiG gles. mated pairs and dozen lots 
Catalogue free. C. H, KEEFER & CO., Greenwich, Ohio 
FERRETS for Salr£*riF^il!ra 
DAII1Y CATTLE 
1 
111 1 U TIPIf CTC— Express Prepaid. Samples Free. 
1*11 LIV IIwIVIhIO Travers Brothers, Gardner, .'HaK». 
New Milch Grade 
milker; a bargain. F. P. KNOWLES, Guilford, Connecticut 
BUY GUERNSEYS 
BECAUSE 
At the only impartial test where all breeds 
were represented the 
CHCRMCCV ranked highest, returning $1.67 
uulmiioli for every dollar invested in food. 
ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION 
of the highest grade of DAIRY PRODUCTS is one of 
the important characteristics of the GUERNSEY. 
Write for free literature. 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
BOX I-PKTKRBOKO, N. H. 
