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-Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17, 1917, 
Outwitting the Frost King 
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When the snow lies 
deep on meadow and pas¬ 
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Cushman Liqht Weight Engines 
The all-purpose farm engines, for farm- 
m ers who want an engine to do many jobs in 
m many places instead of one job in one place. 
m Built light, built right. Weigh only about one* 
m fifth as much per horsepower as ordinary 
M farm engines, but so well built, balanced and 
governed that they run even more steadily and 
quietly. No loud explosions, no fast-and-slow 
speeds, like old-fashioned heavyweights, but 
steady and quiet like automobile engines. 
Before Buying Any Engine Ask 
These Questions 
1. How much does it weigh? If it weighs more than 
60 lbs. per horsepower, why? The old-time reason for 
heavy weight was to keep it steady, but if an engine is 
well balanced, it doesn’t need pig iron to hold it down. 
2* Is it Throttle Governed? A throttle governor 
insures steady, quiet and economical power. 
3. Does it have a good carburetor? The Cushman 
has the Schebler. Many manufacturers of farm engines 
wont pay the price for a good carburetor, as they 
think the farmer doesn’t know the importance of it. 
Bslow is shown 4 H. P. Cushman on tight truck, with wator 
cooling tank and gaa tank in front. Englna woighs only 190 lbs. 
Easy to pull around from iob to job, uaod on Binder In har* 
vast to ssvo a taam, and in wot harvost to save tho crop. 
Abova is shown 8 H. P. 2-Cylind#r Cushman mounted on 4->hoi# 
com shellor. Enfino woighs only 320 lbs. 2 cylinders give it 
very steady power. May alao be mounted on hay press or com 
picker, besides being used for ell other farm work. 
Floyd Wilmoth, Crawford, Kans., writes: "I have 
used your 8 H. P. with my 4-hole Sandwich Shellerand 
shelled 88,000 bushels—over 2.000bushels a day. It takes 
care of wet and tough corn same as dry. 
"In your advertising you say the Cushman is built to 
run without trouble, and it will come nearer doing 
this than any other engine on the market. It runs cool 
all the time. The upkeep has been practically nothing 
and the fuel consumption very email. 
"Lots of people talk about it being so small, but why 
buy an engine that weighs 3,000 to 4,000 lbs. to do 
the same work a 820 lb. engine will do?" 
Cushman engines are not cheap, but they are 
cheap in the long run. If you want an all¬ 
purpose engine, that will run for years 
without trouble, write for our Light 
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Milk and Live Stock Notes 
I sold nine rows .at ail average of .?80 
each. I also butcirered two two-year-olds; 
one of them was a bull that dres.sed in¬ 
cluding hide. 010 lbs. Ileef. .$10 jier 100 
lbs. ; hides. 22c; straw. .$11 ton delivered; 
hay. .$17 ton. loose; butter retail, 4~i and 
TiOc; potatoes, ,$1.00 to .$1.7") bu. Some 
farmers are hauling pulp wood 10 or 12 
miles up hill to station and are getting 
.$0.7.1 per cord. I think this is another 
."5-cent-dolIar comity and town. E. M. 
Delaware Co.. N. Y. 
CowB, .$40 to .$00; butter, 35c; milk, 
4c qt.; dealers sell for Oc; cream, 70c per 
gal. for 2.5 per cent.; veal calves, l.Sc 
dressed; potiitoes. ,$1.5.5 hu.; apples, 60c 
bu.; hay, .$1.3 ; straw, $S ; oats. 00c bu.; 
no corn raised for sale here; very little 
garden stuff. C. II. 
Jackson Co., Iowa. 
In car lots wheat bran brings .$.32; 
middlings. .$.34; coi-nmeal, $2..30; cotton¬ 
seed meal. .$2.40; buckwheat, .$2.25; 
ground rve. .$2.25; oats. bn.. 00c; rve, bu., 
$1.25 ground Alfalfa. $1.00 100 lbs. 
Ulster Co., N. Y e. m. 
Tills is a dairying section almost ex¬ 
clusively. Trices paid fanners as for 
cows due to freshen in Spring, .$45 to 
$S0; hay. loose, delivered. Tinuithy and 
clover. $10 per ton; eggs, 40c doz. Pota¬ 
toes, $1.(>0 per bu. Alaple syrup, $1.25 
gal.; buckwheat, .$2.50 per hundred; 
wheat. $.3 per cwt.; oats, $2 per cwt.; 
Good butter. 4,5c; millet, German, $1.75 
jier bu.; .Tapanese. .$5 per hundred. Beans, 
hand-picked. $(5 bu.; yearlings, from .$20 
to .$30; calves, $15 to .$20; lambs, $12 per 
hundred. Breeding ewes not to be had at 
any price; a few at auction last Fall at 
$12 to $15 per head. Good fat hens, 12c. 
pound. II. H. Y. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. 
Cattle, good grade stock, $100 to $150; 
registered stock, $200 to $400; beef cat¬ 
tle, Oc on foot Cliickens. fancy, large. 2.5c 
lb.; good Timothy hay, .$12 per ton. Milk, 
$2.20 per cwt.; butter. 40c lb.; eggs, fresh, 
.5.3c; storage. 42c; cheese, 27c per lb.; 
flour, $9.05 to $12 per hbl.; potatoes, .$2 
per bu.; apples, sound stock, ,$2 to .$3 per 
hbl.; Orange County onions. $0 per 100 
lb. sack, and very scarce; lettuce retiiil 
12c per head; celery, lOc per bunch; 
cauliflower. 20c and 2.5c each; wax beans, 
15c per qt.; carrots, 3%c per lb.; turnips, 
4c per lb.; cabbage, 5c per lb. T. t. p. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Apples. 7.5o per bu.; onions, $2.50 per 
bu.; cabbage. 2VL'C per lb.; turnips, $1 
per bu.; celery. SOc per doz.; beets. 75c 
per bu.; parsnips. $1 per bu.; carrots, 
$1.25 per bu.; beans. $7..50 per bu.; veal, 
lOc per lb.; lamb. 18c per lb.; beef. 10c 
to 11c, good State; i>ork. light 14^c, 
heavy, 12f4c; eggs. 4Sc; butter. 40c; 
potatoes. $1.75 per bu.; oats, 64c per bu.; 
corn, $2.10 per cwt.; wheat. $8.20 per 
cwt.; buckwheat. $2.80 per cwt.; poultry, 
ISc per lb., live weight; hay, $12 per ton. 
Of course, farmers who sell their produce 
from house to house get the u.sual ad¬ 
vance in price for delivering the goods. 
Broome Co., N. Y. t. o. w. 
Farmers in this locality. Xorthern Isa¬ 
bella Co. and Southern Clare Co., do not 
do a very extensive dairy business. All 
keep a few cows, sell the cream and raise 
the calves. All stock brings a good price. 
Prices of all kinds of feed never were so 
high. excei)t hay. wliich is .$10 per ton 
baled. Middlings. .$2 per cwt.. retail; 
bran, $1.80; corumeal. .$2.40; oil meal, 
$55 per ton wholesale. Prices paid to 
farmers: Wheat. $1.80; rye. .$1..34; 
oats, 52c; beans hand-picked, $0.15; 
clover seed, $9; cream, .3Sc; eggs. .34c; 
fowls, 14c; potatoes, $1.75; butter. 2.5c; 
hogs, dressed. .$1."> per cwt.; beef. .$8 to 
.$11 per cwt.; mutton, $10; veal. .$11 per 
I cwt. w. J. M. 
Clare Co., Mich. 
Feed is scarce in this locality as hay 
was a light crop. Corn was poor. Silos 
were not half full. Hay loose brings $15 
per ton ; baled, from $12 to .$" .3; cows are 
from $75 to $100; cheese. 22c; butter, 
40c; pork, 1.3c; middlings. $.3.3 per ton; 
bran, $.30; corumeal. $41 ; oil meal. .$48; 
oats, 50c; barley, $1.15; rye. $1.20; 
wheat. $1.25 to $1..35 per bu. Although 
we are not 200 miles from Chicago w’heat 
brings from $1 75 to .$1.95 per bu. there. 
Potatoes were a failure; most farmers 
have to buy them; they are quoted at 55c 
per peck or $2 per bushel. M, R. 
Ontagannie Co., Wis. 
This county (Oregon Co., Mo.) is lo¬ 
cated in the southern psirt of the State in 
the midst of the Ozarks. Almost any¬ 
thing that can be grown anywhere in the 
Ignited States can be grown here, espe¬ 
cially fruit. This is truly the "home of 
the big red apple’’ as well as the Elberta 
peach, there being several hundred car¬ 
loads of the latter shipped out of this 
county every year. The principal crops 
: raised besides fruit are: Corn, wheat, 
‘ cotton, potatoes, and the various kinds of 
hay. Everything is the highest this year 
thi'it it has' ever been. Mules are up to 
$225; horses about the same and scarce 
at that; cattle, $0 per cwt.; hogs, $7 per 
cwt.; hay $12 per ton; corn. $1 per 
bushel; wheat. $1.75 per bushel; pota¬ 
toes. $2 per bushel; eggs, 32c per dozen ; 
butter, 25c per lb.; oak and pine lumbei-, 
$1 to $1.25 per 100 feet. F. c. ii. 
Oregon Co., Mo. 
The following prices are asked at the 
leading feed mill: Wheat bran. $.’12; 
middlings. $41; corumeal. .$37; cottonseed 
meal. $45. This mill Avas kept busy last 
week receiving slielled corn for which it 
paid 90 to 91c. It pays for white oats, 
.51c; mixed, SOc; wheat, .$1.70; rye, 
$1.10; barley. $1. Loose mixed hay sells 
for $14 ; Alfalfa. $18 to .$20. Last week 
at a sale baled Alfalfa sold for $2.3. One 
of Borden’s largest condensing plants is 
located here. They contract by the 
month. For .lanuary they pay .$2.08 
for .3.0 butterfat and 3c additional for 
every tenth per cent, extra. Dairy butter, 
.38e; lard, 18c; eggs, 38c; potatoes. .$1.50. 
Spring chickens. 15c; hens, 13c; turkeys, 
17c; ducks, 11c; good milch cows around 
$100; horses slow sale, except heavy 
stock. The farmers are not organized 
and only recently they have started a milk 
testing club in Dixon township. There 
are a few farmer owned elevators in the 
county and I understand they are very 
successful and good investments. We 
have about six inches of snow and very 
cold as low as 18 below zero. j. a. b. 
lA’e Co., Ill. 
Dairying is carried on extensively in 
this county. II olsteins and ,7ei*seys pre¬ 
dominate in most herds. Good milch 
cows sell at $75 to $125 and are in good 
demand. Snow fell early this Fall and 
interferec- somewhat with the plowing. 
Potato crop not as good as ip previous 
j’ears. Price has been up and down for 
the past month. At the present time of 
writing at most shipping points $1.60 
per bushel is the average price. Most 
farmers sold early in the season and a 
very small percentage of potatoes are 
on hand. Farmers are busy hauling 
wood, Avhich is in good demand, coal 
being so high this year that the towns 
are forced to burn wood. Apple crop 
on the light side; good prices have pre¬ 
vailed all sea.son. All No. 1 apples 
bring from $2.50 to $3 per barrel. Oats 
were about the same as last year—a 
fair yield. Price has jumped up some in 
the piist two weeks. At present the 
price for 32 lbs. 72 cents. ITay crop 
extra good yield; loose $16. pressed $18; 
straw, loose $7, pressed $10; eggs, 42c; 
butter, dairy, 38c; fowls. 20c lb.; 
chickens, 22c; unwashed avooI, 35c lb.; 
squash, 5c lb.; cabbage. 5c lb.; onions, 
$5.50 bag; carrots, $1 bu.; bran, $1.80; 
Penobscot Co., Me. w. ii. b. 
Bran is selling here at .$2 per cwt.; 
mixed feed. .$2.25; high-grade tankage (60 
per cent', protein), .$3.25 per cwt. Above 
grades not much less in ton lots. Corn 
on ear, $1 per bu. j. j. p. 
Gallatin Co., Pa. 
Wheat. $1.70; coi’n, $1; potatoes, 
$1.90; blitter, 40c; milk, retail, 7c qt.; ' 
eggs. 55c; celery, 5 and 8c stalk; apples, 
$1.25 and $1.50 per bu.; chickens, 20c lb., 
live; marrowfat beau's. 10c lb. ii. s. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
Butter, 36 to 38c; eggs, 38; chickens, 
14; onions. $1.05 bn.; potatoes, $1.20; 
ham, 18c lb.; shoulder, 15c; bacon, 16c; 
lard. 15c; jobbers are paying at the rail¬ 
road ; wheat, $1.75 ; corn, 75 to 80c; oats, 
45c. I paid for my pork 13c a hind 
quarter; beef, 13c. .t. a. l. 
Dauphin Co., Pa. 
Wheat, $1.80 bu.; corn, $1; Timothy 
hay, $20 per ton; straw, $12 ; potatoes. $2 , 
' per bu.; butter. .50c per lb.; eggs, 05c; 
pork, young, $14 per cwt. Old hens, live, 
20c per lb.; j’oung chickens, dressed, 25c.. 
We have the advantage of Wilmington, 
Del., retail market, which we attend per- 
soiiiilly. We get all our dollar and no 
middleman gets the larger part of it. as 
they do in so many cases. P. c. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
This is the oil country and farming is 
only a secondary interest, although this 
is naturally a fine farming country, espe¬ 
cially suited to sheep, cattle, hay. grain, 
potatoes and all staple crops. Not much 
trucking is done. here, if any. At the 
auction sales last Fall horses sold very 
low. one old one bringing .$5. I lay sells 
now for $7 to $10 a ton; oats from 6()c 
per bu. up; potatoes from $1.25 up; 
pears and plums brought $1 per bu; lambs 
from 8c to 12c per lb.; wool from .3.5c 
to 40c; veal calvhs from 8c to 9%c; 
fresh cows about $50 each. Dressed hogs 
last fall sold as high as 12c p-T lb. in 
the early market. At the store eggs bring 
.3.5o and butter .36c.' All feeds are high 
at the .store. Bran, .$2.10 per 100 lbs.; 
corumeal. .$2.25, and hard to get at that. 
Coal, 7c per bu. on any farmer’s coal 
bank, for best. We don’t sell hay, nor 
keep sheep. m. k. m. 
Venango Co., Pa. 
Prices of farm products are: Pork, 
dressed, 13i/^c; cattle, on the hoof, 8 to 
9%c; chickens. 16 and 18c; turkej s .30 
to 3.5c; geese, .$2 each ; cows, $50 to $125 ; 
potatoes, $1.40; wheat, $1.75; corn, out 
of the warehouse to consumers. $1.25 to 
$1..35. This is no fruit country. The few 
apples brought to town bring 'about $1 to 
$1.50 per bu. u. ir. 
Schuylkill Co., Pa. 
