THE RURAL NEW-YOKKhR 
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FARM NEWS. 
E NGLAND', as a hop market, appears 
good, and a British opinion declares: 
“Now is the time to capture the 
American market. It is safe to say that 
imports from Belgium, Germany and 
Austria will be non-existent.” 
Here is a good idea, a farmer in the 
Middle West suggests. When you do 
thrash buckwheat build a frame with 
sides like the sides of a low barn and 
with an A-shaped roof. Have the build¬ 
ing run north and south, and leave the 
south end open. Direct the blower or 
stacker on the roof of the straw shed, 
have as many men as necessary get up 
and fork the straw this way and that. 
This makes a very good temporary shed 
for young stock. A good firm roof and 
sides and well topped out makes the shed 
wind-proof and rain-proof. 
Hogging down corn is gaining ground 
everywhere. The system is the short 
cut from lield to feeding pen and no la¬ 
bor between. Less corn is wasted in dry 
than wet seasons, and but very small 
percentage in any season. Rye and rape 
between the rows increase the efficiency 
of the corn lot. 
Movies for the Wisconsin schools will 
not only visualize history, art, bird lore, 
and industrial activity, but it will also 
mean a light in the schoolhouse for the 
patrons. Over 400,000 slides have been 
subscribed for by the Wisconsin schools. 
The slides and films are gratuitous, 
receiver paying the express one way. 
He is allowed to keep them three days. 
Fifteen hundred farmers are cooperat¬ 
ing in Wisconsin in establishing and 
maintaining a packing plant. In view 
of the farmer plant being agitated, the 
commercial one preferred joining forces. 
The new organization was incorporated 
for $250,000 and nearly all stock has 
been placed. 
Out in California the university sug¬ 
gests farm advisers, not because they can 
give advice which has been preached re¬ 
peatedly by the agricultural press, but 
rhat farmers must see, and seeing is be¬ 
lieving. 
In Oregon the railroads are reported 
advising against planting apples, regard¬ 
less of the market which may be de¬ 
veloped, since it is said the railroads 
cannot handle half of them. 
Plow the long way, and make your 
fields longer is pretty sensible advice. 
Out in Colorado it is figured that 30 
seconds are required for turning. Sup¬ 
posing a field is 40x80 rods, and a 12- 
inch two-way plow is used. The number 
of furrows lengthwise will be GG0, while 
the number crosswise will be 1,320. 
There will be twice the number of turn¬ 
ings plowing crosswise than lengthw ise. 
In turning by plowing across the short 
way 11 hours will be consumed, while 
plowing the long way only five and one 
half hours. Figure that in dollars and 
cents, by plowing the long way, over 
half a day with man and team is saved. 
The Connecticut Agricultural College 
opened Sept. 22 with its largest enroll¬ 
ment. numbering 232 students. There 
are IS enrollments in the home econo¬ 
mics department. The college has ob¬ 
tained funds for a farm mechanics build¬ 
ing which will enable the department to 
give a thorough course in this line. 
According to the Connecticut Agricul¬ 
tural College, where succession of crops 
permits Fall plowing, it will be advanta¬ 
geous, as it will destroy many harmful 
insects. Cutworms, corn ear-worms, 
May beetles, click beetles (the adults of 
the wire worms) grasshoppers and army 
worms will be greatly reduced in num¬ 
bers by Fall plowing. This operation 
breaks open the cells in which these in¬ 
sects are transforming, and exposes them 
to frost and rains. Late Fall plowing is 
best, but early Fall plowing followed 
by thorough harrowing is helpful. The 
practice is recommended particularly this 
year in view of the number of white 
grubs, and the fact that the army worm 
had been very numerous during the past 
season. 
A new department has been organized 
at the Ohio State University to be known 
as the Department of Agricultural En¬ 
gineering. The work given is not al¬ 
together new, as it has been presented 
from another department for some years. 
The course will be extensive, and treat 
of agricultural architecture, farm power, 
drainage and machinery. 
The short courses in agriculture of¬ 
fered with the New Jersey Agricultural 
College at New Brunswick will open No¬ 
vember 16, lasting 12 weeks. Courses 
are dairying and general agriculture, 
poultry husbandry, fruit growing, and 
domestic science and art. Tuition is 
free to residents of the State, and for 
this course no entrance examination is 
required. 
There are many simple ways of apply¬ 
ing the litmus paper to test soil for 
acidity. The Ohio State University sug¬ 
gests scraping away the soil with a 
•shovel or hoe, then press a sheet of blue 
litmus paper firmly against the moist 
earth with shovel, knife or piece of glass. 
If the soil needs liming it will turn 
from blue to red in from 10 to 20 min¬ 
utes. Care should be given the paper 
when handling it. There is even acid 
in the skin which will change the paper 
from blue to red, and this will be no¬ 
ticed where the fingers touch the corners 
of the paper. Litmus paper may be se¬ 
cured from any drug store, or possibly 
the local physician has some of it. 
DISCUSSING THE MILK SITUATION. 
M ILK prices seem to be the important 
topic just now in all parts of the 
country. In Chicago a low price 
will prevail if reports are true of $1.78 
per hundred pounds. This price, which 
means 3.8 cents per quart, is worse than 
Boston milk prices, which we know are 
bad enough ; in fact so bad few, if any, 
of us can show any profit on cost of pro¬ 
duction, and unless conditions are much 
more favorable there in cost of feed, 
grain, etc., and board of health rules and 
regulations are more favorable to pro¬ 
ducers, I do not see how they can pro¬ 
duce milk at the price. The directors of 
the N. E. M. P. A. are united in asking 
an advance of four cents per can above 
last Winter’s price, and this is certainly 
none too much to ask, and will not be 
thought enough by many producers who 
do not understand the situation and 
average circumstances of the many con¬ 
sumers who should buy our product, but 
as many of these are out of work and 
other necessities of life are high on ac¬ 
count of conditions across the water, I 
believe it is well to be as reasonable 
as possible in our requests for an ad¬ 
vance, and at a more favorable time 
make our demands and stand by to ob¬ 
tain them. The II. I*. Hood Co. have 
opened their registers on the following 
prices and conditions, which are a slight 
advance above last Winter’s price, a 
fraction of a cent I believe per can, and 
will average 39^4 cents per can for the 
six months. The price is graded as fol¬ 
lows: October, 38; November, 38; De¬ 
cember, 41; January, 38; February, 36; 
March, 34. This price is subject to the 
producer’s living up to the four condi¬ 
tions imposed by the Hood Co., and re¬ 
fer to milk cooling, milk room, stable and 
ventilation and air space therein, all of 
which are reasonable and will no doubt 
be lived up to by nearly all producers 
selling to this company. The other com¬ 
panies are holding back and playing 
their usual waiting game, as they have 
nothing to lose and everything to gain 
by this policy. Other cities and towns 
in Massachusetts pay the producers more 
and sell to the consumer for less than 
Boston. The only reason I know for 
this is that the Boston milk companies 
have a great many salaried officials in 
their offices, and these have to be paid 
by the producers and consumers. Yet the 
milk companies would not admit it, but 
are always speaking of the heavy ex¬ 
pense they are under and not being able 
to do business and show a profit under 
any smaller margin. 
The tendency of the most successful 
milk producers of Massachusetts, in 
most cases is either to retail or whole¬ 
sale their milk direct to local or city cus¬ 
tomers, restaurants, hotels and small ped¬ 
dlers, at a good price compared with 
what the large Boston contractors pay. 
They work into Guernsey purebreds or 
grades as fancy or pocketbook will al¬ 
low, and the exhibit of those cattle at 
the Framingham cattle show the other 
day showed how popular and profitable 
this breed is with Massachusetts farmers. 
The exhibit of these cattle there, in 
fact it is a Guernsey show in the main 
and conducted as such, was the largest 
and best of any show in the eastern 
United States and certainly was worth 
going to see. The combined value of 
these cattle was supposed to be upwards 
of $75,000 and consisted of local herds, 
herds from other parts of this State, and 
also herds from outside the State as far 
distant as Pennsylvania. Most of the 
prizes, and there were many, went to 
Massachusetts’ exhibitors, yet F. G. 
Thompson of Pennsylvania took away 
two firsts, one third, one fourth and one 
trophy. To show that all had mighty 
good stock, no one exhibitor got any ex¬ 
clusive share of prizes, but nearly or 
all herds there got several; in fact they 
seemed to be well divided up, and no one 
could cry for getting left. But the main 
lesson learned from the Guernsey exhibit 
is this: The public who buy milk and pay 
a good fair price for same want milk 
as the rule of good quality and color and 
rich in cream or butterfat. Guernsey 
milk will meet these requirements and 
as these cows are large producers if fed 
well are a profitable herd to keep, and 
please all concerned, producer and buy¬ 
er. The leading Massachusetts produc¬ 
ers either know or are learning these 
facts, and intend to follow these lines to 
profit and success. a. e. p. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
H OME-GROWN white and blue grapes 
40 to 45 cents per 20-pound basket, 
wholesale, with prospect of a big 
yield if frost does not interfere. Pota¬ 
toes 65 cents a bushel and “easy” at that. 
Apples are colored high and so plenty, 
that there is really no price for them. 
Farmers are selling a few Greenings at 
$1 a barrel and paying 40 cents for the 
barrel, besides cost of picking and mar¬ 
keting. not to mention meeting the de¬ 
mands of the onerous State packing law. 
At this rate many of the best apples will 
not be picked. Fall apples are retail¬ 
ing as low as 50 cents a bushel. The 1 
canning factories and evaporators in 
some sections are offering only 12 cents a 
hundred for windfalls. Peaches are not 
high, spite of the failure of the local 
crop, retailing at 05 to 85 cents a third- 
bushel basket and of good quality. Prunes 
25 to 35 cents per basket. Pears are in 
small supply. Bartletts being quoted at 
not above $2 per bushel. Clapp and 
Duchess $4 per barrel. Watermelons 
were scarce awhile, but are again on 
sale at usual Summer prices, 40 to 50 
cents each by the hundred. Muskmelons 
are cheap, not over $1 per bushel; the 
quality is much better than average. 
The bean crop is light and prices are 
high, running from $3 for pea to $4.25 
for marrow. The supply of green beans 
is large, prices from 50 cents to $1 a 
bushel. Other vegetables are in large 
supply, cabbage, $2 to $2.50 per hun¬ 
dred ; celery, 30 to 35 cents per dozen; 
cucumbers, 50 to 75 cents per bushel; 
pickles, 15 to 20 cents per 100; egg 
plant, GO to 75 cents per bushel; peppers, 
90 to $1.10 per bushel; tomatoes, IS to 
22 cents per 18-pound basket; lettuce, 20 
to 30 cents per dozen; cauliflower, 50 
to 75 cents per basket. Onions are again 
cheap, being 75 cents per bushel for good 
home grown. There is not much change 
in butter, eggs and cheese; butter is not 
quoted above 33 cents a pound, the re¬ 
tail price being 33 to 36 cents for very 
best. Cheese is firm at 17 cents whole¬ 
sale and eggs 35 cents for fancy, whole¬ 
sale. There has been little recent change 
in the prices of poultry. Supply is light 
and market dull. j. w. c. 
Disease of Hogs. 
I HAVE a large drove of hogs, mostly 
Yorkshires, have about 75 young pigs 
from two months to three months old. 
I have lost several from disease. Some 
go blind, will eat a little if held at trough, 
but if left alone can only locate it by 
sound of other pigs feeding. Some of the 
last ones taken I gave a dose of tapeworm 
medicine as soon as I saw they were sick ; 
three of them are improving. These pigs 
have been fed on ground feed, oats and 
wheat mixed, wetted with clean creek 
water; had a clean dry pen and seemed 
healthy until suddenly stricken. Can you 
give me any information? e. 
Montana. 
The disease may be cholera and you 
should have a graduate veterinarian 
make an examination and immunize the 
balance of the herd with serum if cholera 
is found present. Meanwhile keep the 
pigs away from the creek and do not 
use creek water. Such water often car¬ 
ries cholera contagion. While indiges¬ 
tion no doubt is present one worm noted 
in the intestines would not be a likely 
cause. Thorn-headed worms (echinoryn- 
chus gigas) no doubt are present. They 
may bo killed by giving eight grains of 
santonin and five grains of calomel, for 
each hundred pounds of body weight of 
hog, after starving the animal for at 
least 12 hours. Give the medicine in a 
little slop. Divide the pigs into lots of 
five for treatment. Care must be taken 
not to exceed the doses prescribed. 
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WAGONS BUGGIES HARNESS 
Bought his Studebaker 
when Grant was president 
R IGHT after General Grant had been elected, 
Mr. Thomas North, of Andover, Ohio bought a 
Studebaker Farm Wagon. He has been using it ever 
since and this is what he writes to Studebaker: 
“I think I have the oldest Studebaker Farm Wagon in this part of 
Ohio. It was bought in the Spring of 1872 from Mr. Sed Wade, 
then your agent for Andover. 
“For several years it was used on heavy leads and has been in 
constant use on a farm of 140 acres ever since. 
“In the past month I have loaded with coal up to 30 hundred, 
hauling the same three miles over bad roads. 
“My Studebaker has never been to the shop for repairs, and it 
is good for years yet.” 
41 YEARS OF SERVICE 
—and faithful service too, for you will notice 
that Mr. North’s Studebaker Wagon has 
never been to the shop for repairs. 
It is the way Studebaker Wagons are 
built that makes them last. Air dried timber 
and tested iron go into Studebakers and 
skilled workmen see that they go in right. 
We build wagons today just as strong as we 
built them sixty years ago. And the wagon that 
lasts longest is the cheapest wagon in the end. 
Studebaker Buggies and Harness are also 
made to last. 
STUDEBAKER South Bend, Ind. 
NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY DENVER 
MINNEAPOLIS SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO PORTLANDORE 
Adv. 201 
