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FARM NEWS. 
The Plant Breeders’ Association of 
New York State has started a seed direc¬ 
tory which lists the names of all those 
who produce good seed and from which 
list names are furnished to those who 
may desire to purchase. • The directory 
gives the kind of seed, its methods of 
breeding and conditions under which it 
is grown, and various other points with 
respect to the percentage of germination. 
The meeting of the Association was held 
at Ithaca February 10-12. 
Hundreds of trees were being cue down 
to provide corn acreage in Doniphan 
County, Kansas, seven years ago. There 
was not a power sprayer for its great 
orchards at that time. Now there are 
probably 100 power machines in the 
county as the result of the campaign of 
education conducted by the State Agri¬ 
cultural College, as $5,000 has already 
been expended in horticultural campaign¬ 
ing in this county. Five years ago the 
Department of Agriculture cooperated 
with the State Experiment Station, and 
remarkable results have been secured 
from this educational activity in North¬ 
eastern Kansas. 
Wild buckwheat, the North Dakota 
Experiment Station finds, does not live 
long in the soil. In a year and a half 
all seeds t' t were found in the soil were 
dead. 
Very nice sleighing here; farmers are 
improving it. getting up wood and draw¬ 
ing manure. Stock is wintering well; 
veals are selling for nine cents live; eggs, 
33 to 36; butter, 34 to 37. The writer 
has some Summer pigs that were being 
fattened on middlings and ear corn with 
skim-milk; the pigs began to get stiff 
and the corn was cut out entirely and 
one-third milk and two-thirds wheat 
bran fed with two-thirds of a teaspoonful 
of saltpeter three times a day, fed to two 
pigs, and in less than two weeks the pigs 
were all right. Here is another arrange¬ 
ment tried out: Many farm papers say 
if you have a cross between a Jersey 
and Holstein you would better knock it 
in the head. Here is an example: We 
have a heifer 28 months old, whose dam 
was a Jersey and sire a Holstein. She 
is giving a fair mess of seven per cent, 
milk and is not being fed for test or 
anything of the kind. She does not have 
>ver four pounds of grain a day, and 
a part of her ration is oat straw. Will 
some one who has fed rye hay to milch 
cows give us his opinion? c. J. D. 
Evans Mills. N. Y. 
January 29. Nebraska for the last 
six weeks has been in the grip of steady 
cold Winter weather, some of the time 
very cold, as cold as 20 degrees below 
zero. Several inches of snow cover the 
ground, protecting the wheat. There has 
been great loss among horses that were 
running in cornstalk fields. The disease 
is known as cornstalk disease, for which 
there has been found no cure, although 
our Experiment Station has spent a large 
amount of time and money in investiga¬ 
tion, only to be obliged to admit that 
the cause and cure have not been dis¬ 
covered. For years it seemed to confine 
its ravages to cattle, but of late horses 
seem to be more subject to it than do 
cattle. It is a virulent poison, the nature 
of which is unknown. There is a good 
deal of wheat being marketed at about 
$1.25 per bushel. Corn is not going to 
market in quantities, the home demand 
being equal to the supply. Feeding corn 
to hogs looks like a losing proposition, 
with corn at 65 to 70 cents and fat hogs 
less than six cents. The horse market 
is fairly active; many animals of the 
right class bringing fair prices, sup¬ 
posedly for foreign armies. Young horses 
weighing 1,100 to 1,300 pounds are sell¬ 
ing up to $160. Cows bring $60 to $85; 
week-old calves, $10. Potatoes, 75; but¬ 
ter, 25; eggs, 27. But few farmers keep 
cows of dairy type, mostly grade Short¬ 
horns. Few even of the dairymen have 
dairy cows, probably they are unwilling 
to pay $150 to $200 a head. H. M. R. 
Fairbury, Neb. 
Winter wheat varieties for the East¬ 
ern United States are the subject of farm¬ 
ers’ Bulletin 616, issued by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. This bulletin con¬ 
tains valuable information for every 
farmer, regarding white and red wheat, 
the varieties for various States, demand 
for varieties, improvement and groups of 
adapted varieties of this grain. The 
bulletin is free for asking. 
Feb. 1. Flay, Timothy, $16; clover or | 
mixed $14 ; rye and straw, together, $15; 
straw $9; rye $1; wheat $1.25; corn 
75; potatoes 55; milk (at station) five 
cents a quart; butter (private custom¬ 
ers) 35. Cattle range at all prices, as 
we have in this community some very 
poor grades, from $55 for any size cow 
for beef, but a good milch cow ranges 
from $75 to $125. Fairly nice apples 
sold for 50 cents per hamper. B. P. M. 
Prospect Plain, N. J. 
Feb. 2. The prices on farm products 
in New Jersey seem to be very high. 
Winter potatoes seems the only thing 
that is slow just at present, prices rang¬ 
ing from $1.75 to $2. Corn at sales from 
95 to $1.24 per bushel. Hay $18 to $24. 
Cattle depend on quality and quantity of 
milk when fresh; ordinary cows from $75 
to $130, and some bring as high as $200. 
Horses sell well also, singles from $125 
to $200 and teams from $450 to $550. 
Eggs have been very scarce this Winter 
and have sold in the country for 60 cents 
IV O IN 
A. L* 
per dozen. The Winter here has been 
broken so far and farmers have advanced 
with their Spring work, lots of plowing 
done and some new buildings going up. 
Scobeyville, N. J. j. h. v. 
Feb. 2. Cold weather, some of it zero, 
has prevailed here for the last month. 
Plenty of snow covered the ground, best 
sleighing for years. The snow went off 
with a big rain last day of January; 
looks now as though all low lands will be 
flooded. Wheat is in fine condition, ow¬ 
ing to the length of time it was covered 
with snow. All business seems to be at 
a standstill. Farm help will be plenti¬ 
ful this season, as so many of the un¬ 
employed are leaving the towns and cities 
and seeking locations in the country. 
Less feeding of cattle than usual. Milch 
cows lower than for a long time. Tobac¬ 
co is a drug on the market and not much 
is being sold. The following prices are 
bmng paid by our merchants. Hogs $6.50 
of which there is a large amount being 
sold; fowls 10; ducks 9: geese 9; tur¬ 
keys 13; eggs 24: butter IS to 25. Corn 
60: wheat reached the $1.50 mark yes¬ 
terday, but is of very little benefit to the 
farmers as the bulk of the wheat was 
sold at 70 cents. Flour $4.40 per cwt.; 
Timothy hay $12 to $15. No clover at 
any price as the drought last season cut 
crop almost to nothing. R. S. K. 
Boonville. Ind. 
Feb. 1. No sale for apples here ex¬ 
cept in local market at 40c bushel: po¬ 
tatoes 45 to 50. Milk at creamery 4c 2 
quart; dairy butter 34: cattle high; or¬ 
dinary cows, fresh. $75 to $95; dry cows 
$45 to $75. No foot-and-mouth disease 
in this section. c. A. N. 
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Effective February 1 
Reduction No. 3 
On Goodyear Tires 
Making Total Reductions 45■ Per Cent in Two Years 
To Give Always the Most for the Money 
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As rubber came down our prices came 
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In two years our reductions—including the 
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Last year we increased our output 26.6 
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