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tShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Ff‘l)ruary 17, 1017. 
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USED MOTOR TRUCKS 
FOR SALE 
Many makes, of many sizes, at many j)rices 
IL’K'knrd responsibility giiaraiitc'es 
every buyer liis money’s "worth 
Triu'k Doparlinont 
PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY of NEW YORK 
2Sf)-241 Fiftj’-sixth Street, New York City 
Telephone: Circle 3300 
The Safest Used Truck Market in the World 
Ri^er 
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ordinary when picking time comes. With the 
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831 Pearl Street Jackson, Mich. 
for Itself! 
THE safety 
LADDER is the 
best p.iying prop¬ 
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to own. F'<r pruning 
or spraying it g<^ just 
where you wanlit. Faster 
picking and gets the fruit 
on small branches that is 
usually shaken off. This 
item alone will soon pay 
for the ladder—after that it’s 
all clear profit. 
THE SAFETY 
LADDER 
a light steel truck. Moved 
by picket easily. Never 
breaks limbs or twigs 
because it never rests 
against the tree: 
hence, does much to 
avoid tree disease. 
Sold on 10 days’ 
free trial. Write 
for booklet. 
The 
SAFETY 
LADDER 
CO. 
613 
Reibold Building, 
Dayton,Ohio 
can’t tip over or fall 
down. Is what the 
name implies— a. safe 
ladder. Built in 13, 
20, 25 and 30 foot 
lengths. Mounted on 
OATS.BARLEY, WHEAT. POTATOES 
.\ll new vaiicties. Largosi yieUlers known, 
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Dibble’s Russet 
_ _ — _ _ _ aiuiTotl's Woiider 
ixtra fine quality, S*7.>>0 per bnl. New bbis. free. 
lATS. I’lir ScottisliCliiel'.veeleaned.perbu.,#! .25 
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SEED 
POTATOES 
Sweet Clover 
iiiiniiniiinMiiiiiiiintUHiMiiiMiii 
IN PLAIN FARMING: **Crops 
iotlowinff a two year rotation 
with sweet clover will uoin in 
yield from 25 to 50 per cent,** 
—H. McKcene, Scc*y, Illinois Farmers Institutes. 
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Potatoes of the best marketable va¬ 
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CRAWFORD SQUARE. PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
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SWEET CLpVEJt 
White Blossomsjthe prreatest monoy-m^msr crop of todaj^ 
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Peach T rees, 2c.-1 y r. s ma 11 portion! 
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Box 7, Dansville, N. Y. 
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TREES 
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paper. 
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Box 8 Yalesville, Conn. 
at ONE-HALF 
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New England Notes 
.SI’BDTTIXG CAPK COD FLA'f.S. 
(’ape Cod pooiilo ai'o watching with in¬ 
terest the work of several hig farm trac¬ 
tors and i)]ows which liave attacked the 
wild lands near Itiirn.stable. One tract of 
t'.OO iicres is being energetically siilKliied 
liy .Mf'ssrs. F. A. Hill and .1. I )aniel; 
‘T'ill and Diin’’ the neighbors call them. 
First. th(’ engim’s i)ull ont the natural 
growth of rather small and scattering 
pines and the sernh oaks, leaving only u 
bushy growth which can be turned under 
by tlic (lc<‘ii going plows. The land is 
level. fr<-e from stones and of faii’ly good 
(piality. although rather light. The most 
successful croi> so far has been potatoes, 
'i'wo yeai's ago tliey raisisl .‘klO bushels to 
the acre. Last yt'iir the season was too 
wet for potatoes in this section, and the 
croji was light. “Not worth digging if 
the pri<e had been $1.” said Mr. Daniel, 
“but at a bushel they were not such a 
h:ul crop after all.” The system is to raise 
oats, rye or some such croi) on the raw 
land. 'I'lien potatoes on fertilizer, fol¬ 
lowed by a gi'cen crop to he plowed under, 
and then jiotatoes again. Tlie reclamation 
is considered a snece.ss and now tlnne are 
two moi'e tractors in the neighborhood 
df)ing till’ same kind of work when 
weather permits. Some of the new land 
will he tried with Alfalfa and some will 
he used for it combination of the poultry 
husim'ss with asparagus, early vegetable.s 
ami such orohiird fruits as iieaches, plums 
and cherries. 
FOODS AM) MAKKKTS I.KOISl.A'nOX. 
One of the leading agricultural hills 
before the Massachusetts Legislature 
this year is a renewal of l.-ist year’s at¬ 
tempt to establish a State department ol 
foods and marketing. The pi''’visions of 
the former measure are suhstiintially re- 
lioated, and the deiiartment would bo 
modeled on the plan of the F. S. Hnrean 
of ^Markets iiml would have a Director of 
Organization and Markets. Tlie bill car¬ 
ries a .small apiiropriation, which would 
he enough to meet cost of collecting mar¬ 
ket news and information about some of 
the leading crops. 
Another important measure may follow 
the report just issued by the (Jovernment 
and State departments of agriculture, 
showing the location and condition of 
.‘!00,000 acres of wet lowlands which 
might be reclaimed to be worth $100 i>er 
acre in some instances, according to the 
report. Ill one pl.ace an aci'e of drained 
land had yielded five tons of hay. _ The 
State has already done a little drainage 
work incidental to fighting the mos<niito 
post, and some land nearest the large 
cities, especi.illy in the Neponset Valley 
has been drained in a limited way. In 
the valleys of half a dozen of the slug¬ 
gish, winding rivers there are thousands 
of acres in almost one lot. Some <'on- 
tnin deep and extensive peat bogs which 
it is thought may be worked to advan¬ 
tage. Along the Taunton River and its 
tributaries alone were 25,000 to .’lO.OtK) 
acres of wet land. 
Rhode Island also is considering a 
State hiirean of foods and imirkets. as 
recommended Jan. 20 by the rommission 
on Cost of Living. Such a bureau 
would start as a medium “by whioh the 
Xmblic might be informed of the amount 
of foodstuffs available and roasoimhle 
])rices for fixed grades,” according to the 
report. 
In New Hampshire, the farmers have 
become aroused over the damage done to 
orchards by protected game. There is 
more than the usual amount of complaint 
of injury to tree buds by partridges, 
while the deer seem to have been fully 
as destructive as usual. The agitators 
are not closely organized, but nuinbers 
of small farmers seem t() be urging a 
law granting owners permission to shoot 
game found damaging their property. 
There is also considerable interest shown 
for and against the proposition to es¬ 
tablish an apple grading l.aw as in sev¬ 
eral neighboring States. It is claimed 
that the absence of such a law hurts the 
market for the fruit, while opponents as¬ 
sert that the law would work h:irdship 
to the small growers. 
In Vermont, it is proposed to make 
the grading law compulsory. It is now 
oi)tioual ami tends to <-onfusion of marks 
and grades in the hig markets. The 
commission men and receivers will have 
cause for rejoicing when the vai'iou.s^ jiro- 
dneing States shall agree on .some fairly 
uniform grading jiolicy so that fruit may 
he handled according to brand without 
too much talk and inspection. G. B. F. 
Boston Produce Markets 
VKGKTAIU.E FKICES AIO.STLY IN SFXT.FKS’ 
FAVOK. 
The hard facts of scarcity and crop 
shortage are too strong to be affected 
much by the vegetable boycotts announced 
here and there. Whenever prices are re¬ 
vised it is mostly upward, and with the 
standard Winter vegetables there is small 
l)rospect of relief until the new crops be¬ 
gin to arrive in (juantity from some of the 
heavy producing sections. At around 
$2.25 per bu. in bulk, potatoes have 
shown a tendency to hesitate. The war 
prospect has j)ut a m‘w kink in the mar¬ 
ket and nobody seems sure yet which way 
it will pull. Otherwise the steady re¬ 
duction of supply tends to confidence, 
f'iibhages a1, $7 per bbl. and onions at .$.S 
jier KKLIhs. are still the other two star 
performers. Most of the cabbages .seem 
to come_ from traders and jobbers, but it 
is pleasing to sec* that some of the onions 
come from farm storehouses in the valley. 
This is the year when such buildings show 
why they were jmt up. Other lines are 
firm at $2.25 iwr box ftir beets, $1.75 for 
carrots and jmrsnips, .$2 for white tnrnip'.-. 
S(|uasfi is $J)0 per ton. Hothouse lettuce 
Ji'dds at 50c to $1 per box; tomatoes at 
.■I5c. 11). The (tom-oril growers are open¬ 
ing the rhuh.arb season, the j)rice starting 
high at lOc.. hut now around 12c. 
AIU’I.F, MOVKMKXT SI.OWI.Y IMPROVING, 
The gain in the ai)ple market is so 
gradu.al that some dciilei-s still stiy condi¬ 
tions are alamt the siime. Hut the scare- 
it\ of choice grade, whicli has been con- 
.Kpicnons :ill along, is now still gre.ater, 
and the top ranges of .$.”,..50 to $5 are 
easier to get. No. 1 are to $,‘1.50 and 
No. 2 $‘2 to $2.75. A good many market 
box api)les ai'c f-oming .and they sell an.)- 
where frou) .50c. to .$1.75. I'''air H.ald 
wins well sorted shotild bring $1. 
DAIRY ilARKlCTS HESITATK. 
Th<“ uncertainty of the export tradi* 
under the |)resetit outlook seems to have 
checked the rising tendency in butter tind 
cheese. War iireparations at home would 
hardly hel]) these itrodui ts much, the trade 
believes, ami the tendeucy is to wait ami 
see. There has been seldom a time when 
the trade had .so little to say about the 
market future. Tliey are just waiting. 
aT)d prices show no definite trend. Con¬ 
siderable cheese is still going across. No¬ 
body thinks the home market left to itself 
wmld sustain these i)rices. best gradi's 
selling arcuml 21c., and domestic hiiying 
is light. 
FCG SriM'I.Y .STII.r, .SHORT FOR SKA.SON. 
Values have' ranged fpiite high in the 
egg market since the lirst of the year, re- 
peati-d severe weather having postponed 
somewhat the usual drop, and brought up 
|)rices with a snap whenever they sagged 
olf much from the .50-cent line. It is a 
matter of the weather now, until Spring 
production becomes setth'd. Storage eggs 
!U'e the usual regulator of the market at 
tliis time, hut they have been sold so 
closely this year that they are now' of 
little imporlance, ami the market is there- 
foi'i' esiiecially sensitive to conditions af- 
fi'ctiug siiipdy and delivery of fresh 
stock. 
Flint PRICKS FOR T.IVK STOCK. 
Hogs have funiishi'd the sensational 
feature of Ui-ightou live stock markets. 
Sales at l.'lc. ai)pear to he higher than 
.'iiiything in I'eceiit history of the yards, 
liven rather iioor stuff sells at 12c. It 
seems to he-a reder-tion of Western mar¬ 
kets. and pork is a war commodity. Calves 
are holding at 12 to HI. lambs 10 to 12 
and sheep 7 to !lc. Iteef cows of ijuality 
I’liiig .'<c.. ami one very fancy brought 
lOc. (lood to fancy steers. 1) to 11c. (Com¬ 
mon dry cows sidl :iroiind tic. Some fancy 
milch cows have been sedd at well over 
$12.5, and demand is good for the lim'- 
looking. heav.v-milkers. hut the farimu-s 
up Norlli are weeding out a lot of the 10 
)|t. a day kind that is lit only for beef 
after being milked awhile, and these go 
at pretty near the beef ))rice. c. r. f. 
New milch cows. .$7.5 for grad<>s up. 
ami for puiadu-ed stock in the neigldior- 
licod f)f .$100; butter. 10 ami 1.5c (dair\ I : 
cow bides, 2()c jicr pound; eggs, .50c; po¬ 
tatoes. $1.75 to whatever one has courage 
to ask; apiiles, .$2 to $.’{ bbl.; cabbage, 
turnips and onions \-ery sc.arce, and do 
not; know prices. ji. e. g. 
Wiisliington Co., N. Y. 
For good fresh eggs w»‘ are getting 
from :!5 to 40c per doz. Hood country 
buttei'. .'!() to .■*.5c; api)les, (50 to 70(' pm' 
bu.; |»olaloes. $2 to ,$2.40; but most 
farmeis buying around here. I know sev¬ 
eral that did not get five Inishels at dig¬ 
ging time. Common dairy cows from $.50 
to $75. Ilor.ses, as to (piality, from .$.50 
to .$2(K) ea(h. Cabbage a failuiv, not 
many had enough for home use. 
Mitiiin Co.. l‘a. i). .T, K. 
Cows .average from .$(50 to $75; occa¬ 
sionally IIk'V go oV(>r the .$1(K) inai'k. 
Hnfter (on the Lanc.aster ('ity market), 
.‘5.5 to 40c: wheat. $L.S5; com, 0.5c; t^gw, 
4.5c; i)<)or demand for hay, No. 1 Tim¬ 
othy bringing al)out $14 per ton; clover. 
$12; potatoes. $1.75 to .$2 per bu.; chick¬ 
ens, dressed, .'lOc p(a' 11). A. l'. n. 
Laucauster Co., I’a. 
Rob calves, $5; v<ail calves, 11c per Ih.: 
milk, $1.2.5; lO-lh. butter in pail, .$.‘5..5<): 
creamery butter, 42c a lb.; ordinar.y egg^'. 
42c; retail, 4.5c; hens and roosters, ISc 
liv(’ weight; potatoc’.s, retail, .$2 bu.: 
middlings, .$2 pta- cwt.; gluten, .$2 jaa' 
cwt. ; cottonseed imail, .$2.25 per cwt.. or 
.$4.5 i)er ton; oil imail. .$2..50 per 100 lbs.: 
corn, $1.20; bran, $1.(50 per cwt.; hay, 
$10 a ton; oats, 70(‘ per bu,; wheat. 
.$1.7.5. B, K. M. 
iMoiitgomery Co., N. Y. 
