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NEW YORK STATE NEWS. 
$10,000,000 More for Roads. —“Give 
us the money and we will built the 
roads,” says Mr. Carlisle, State Commis¬ 
sioner of Highways, in his report to the 
Legislature. He asks for an appropria¬ 
tion of $10,000,000 immediately from 
the authorized bond issue so that work 
may begin as soon as the weather per¬ 
mits in the Spring. lie recommends that 
the State establish convict-worked quar¬ 
ries to crush stone for road construction, 
and that there be a new tax for motor 
vehicles based on horse power and 
weight, and the transfer of the duty of 
collecting such taxes from the Secretary 
of State's office to the Highways De¬ 
partment. Mr. Carlisle says that con- 
tsaets were awarded last year for 1,167 
miles of road calling for an expenditure 
of $10,647,417. There remain 5.671 miles 
of highways yet to be improved. He de¬ 
clares that in order to do maintenance 
work properly the coming season he 
should have $4,000,000. ITe asks $1,000,- 
000 for the elimination of railroad cross¬ 
ings, $250,000 to be made available this 
year. He also wants the town boards 
to appoint the 934 town superintendents, 
such appointments to be made for four 
years instead of electing these officers 
as now for two years. 
Sheep Bref.df.rr Organize. —Farmers 
from all parts of Onondaga County at¬ 
tended the annual meeting of the Farm 
Bureau Association last week, and the 
conference of sheep breeders held in the 
court house. It was decided to organize 
a county association of sheep breeders, 
the object of which will be to improve 
the marketing of mutton and wool, to 
handle the dog situation more effectively 
and in general to bring about a better¬ 
ment of the sheep-raising industry. It 
is said that there are not more than a 
half dozen purebred flocks in the county, 
whereas sheep are kept on 75 or more- 
farms. The meeting of the Farm Bureau 
people took place in the afternoon of the 
same day. E. A. Powell was elected 
president, W. C. Hunt, vice-president; 
Morse Deplain, secretary, and Hamlet 
Worker, treasurer. 
Farm Bureau Work Summarized.— 
There were 26 farm bureaus in the State 
last year, according to the State Direc¬ 
tor, M. C. Burritt. The agents visited 
7,847 farms and 12,000 persons; S,100 
called at the bureaus for information; 
13,000 telephone calls were received; 
1,394 meetings were held, which were at¬ 
tended by 107,000 persons; 46 associa¬ 
tions were organized, also 31 boys’ and 
girls’ clubs with a membership of over 
21,000; 33,000 letters were answered; 
1,000 demonstrations were given on 
farms before 5,800 persons; 354 farms 
were planted to Alfalfa and 21,600 tons 
of lime were distributed. A new bureau 
was organized in Saratoga County last 
week, with 200 members. W. II. Harris 
of Saratoga Springs is president. 
Profitable Co-operation. — One of 
the most successful cooperative enter¬ 
prises of the State is the South Shore 
Growers’ and Shippers’ Association of 
Chautauqua County. Last year the as¬ 
sociation did a business of $233,811.23, 
which was an increase of about $50,000 
over the year previous. The business 
was handled at a cost of less than 3% 
per cent. There were 1,490 carloads of 
produce shipped last year, of which 1,228 
were tomatoes and 125 of grapes. 
Governor’s Tax Measure. — Gov. 
Whitman laid before the Legislature on 
Jan. 19, his plan for a scientific system 
of tax administration. He would create 
a non-partisan tax department of three 
members; transfer the assessment of 
corporation taxes from comptroller to the 
new department; enable the department 
to correct inequalities in equalization be¬ 
tween tax districts in a county, and give 
authority to the department to order a 
general reassessment upon proper evi¬ 
dence. j. w. n. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
T HERE is a good stock of practically 
everything in the city markets that 
is regularly sold here. New cab¬ 
bage appears for the first time, selling at 
15 cents a head; five cents for the old, 
new Bermuda potatoes are down to 15 
cents a quart and there are a few straw¬ 
berries at 40 cents a quart, all retail. 
Southern fruits are plentier and cheaper 
than ever, tangerine oranges, for in¬ 
stance, only 20 cents a dozen for the 
largest size. California grapes are up 
to 15 cents a pound, but are plenty for 
the time of the year. Celery retails for 
30 cents a dozen. Greening apples of 
line grade retail for 60 cents a bushel, 
with the highest wholesale price for red 
apples not above $3.25. Potatoes are not 
above 45 cents a bushel for fancy, whole¬ 
sale, although the retailer wants 60 
cents usually. Bermudas wholesale as 
high as $7 a barrel and sweets at $1.50 
per bushel hamper. Onions range from 
90 cents to $1.20 per bushel wholesale, 
with a few green bunches at three bunch¬ 
es for 10 cents. Beans are still $4.25 
wholesale for best marrow, with still 
some string beans for 10 to 20 cents a 
quart. Brussels sprouts have reappeared, 
but not of very high quality, at 15 to 
20 cents a quart. Cauliflower is about 
out of market. Turnips are plenty. 85 
cents per barrel, wholesale, for Swedes. 
Winter squash is not above two cents a 
pound retail; not as good as the earlier 
crop was. 
The game season is visible mainly from 
the rabbits on sale, the cotton-tails 
wholesaling at 25 cents a pair and the 
jacks at 50 to 60 cento. Other wild game 
is seldom plenty enough to be sold on the | 
market. Poultry is called easy to steady i 
at 25 cents per pound for dressed turkey, 
with fowl down to 17 cents and chicken 
not above IS cents, wholesale. Live poul¬ 
try is _ three cents lower than dressed. 
There is still some poultry of fair grade 
retailed for 16 cents, dressed, practically 
all sorts going at the same price. 
Butter slacks off in price, while cheese 
remain stationary and eggs go up slowly. 
Good butter is retailed at 32 to 35 cents, 
though the top price at wholesale is 37. 
Cheese remains at 17 to 17% cents 
wholesale and about 20 cents retail. The 
egg market is called easier, but prices 
are 40 to 42 cents, wholesale, though the 
retailers do most of their business at 32 
to 35 cents, which shows that there is a 
large sale in fresh eggs, so-called, which 
are mostly nothing more than good look¬ 
ing storage eggs. The general vegetable 
market is quiet, with supply good. The 
changing over to hothouse cucumbers, 
lettuce, peppers and tomatoes makes 
them high, Boston lettuce wholesaling at 
60 to 90 cents per two dozen boxes; to¬ 
matoes 15 to 25 cents a pound, cucum¬ 
bers $1.50 to $2 per dozen. The measure 
vegetables, beets, carrots, vegetable 
oyster, parsnips, retail for five to 10 
cents per two quart measure, j. w. c. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Molasses for Milch Cows. 
D OES it pay to feed molasses to milch 
cows? If so how much is it profitable 
to feed? a. B. 
We found it paid when we were feed¬ 
ing dry stalks without roots or silage. 
With either of these foods we doubt if 
molasses would pay. Its chief value is as 
a laxative or “conditioner” or in making 
the dry fodder more palatable. We feed 
roots. For old horses especially at the 
end of Winter the molasses is very use¬ 
ful. 
Hard Milker. 
W ILL you give me information for 
treating teat of a heifer? She 
calved three weeks ago. I was 
compelled to use milking tube on one 
teat. I have used milking tube nine 
times since. Occasionally the milk can 
be started by hand and laboriously ex¬ 
tracted, coming in a trickling, spatter¬ 
ing stream, and the milk comes in this 
same slow way if I withdraw the milk¬ 
ing tube after the milk flow is started. 
Usually I leave the milking tube in till 
the steady stream stops and then strip 
a little by hand. Outwardly there is 
apparently no difference between this 
teat and the others. Sometimes I think 
1 can feel a very small lump at the end 
of the teat. If possible I should like 
directions for doing the treatment my- 
self. There is no veterinarian near. 
Would a teat slitter be likely to help? 
To what extent would drying up the 
quarter be likely to diminish the milk 
flow? Is the same trouble likely to re¬ 
cur in future lactations? T. s. 
Connecticut. 
This is a permanent trouble as a 
warty or tumor growth partially oc¬ 
cludes the duct of the teat. The teat 
slitter (bistoury) should be used to slit 
through the obstruction in four different 
directions; then milk away a stream of 
milk at frequent intervals during the heal¬ 
ing process, in addition to milking night 
and morning. Great care must be taken 
to sterilize the bistoury and milking tube, 
else infection of the quarter will be sure 
to follow their use. If you cannot use a 
slitter use sterilized dilators or teat plugs 
to be bought from any dealer in veter¬ 
inary instruments; or they may be or¬ 
dered through the druggist. A. S. A. 
There is no good 
reason why you 
should wait till 
Spring before 
getting a 
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AS TO YOUR NEED OF A 
separator, if you have the 
milk of even a single cow to 
cream you are wasting quan¬ 
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every day you go without one. 
This waste is usually greatest 
in cohl weather and with cows 
old in lactation, and it counts 
most, of course, when butter 
lirices are high. 
THEN WITH A SEPARATOR 
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W IIAT is the matter with my horse? 
I bought him in September and he 
was all right until last month. I 
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drive him a distance of nine miles he 
seems to know. I get about one-half mile 
on road when he will deliberately back, 
turn around and put for home. I have 
everything, but no use. It is only 
weather got cold he has acted so; 
good condition, had his teeth and 
attended to, gets five quarts, at 
of oats, corn, bran and cut hay, 
a day, roughage for noon meal. 
tried 
since 
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meal 
twice 
Can you help me? 
New Jersey. 
T. II. s. 
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