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©•Ac RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 10, 1017 
USED MOTOR TRUCKS 
FOR SALE 
T HK world is returning to the elemental things. Food, 
drink and shelter are luxuries to many of its people today. 
Those who can must produce for the needy ones. If you are 
equipped for the greatest efficiency of production and distribu¬ 
tion we have no message for you. If not — we can serve you 
in one very important field, and shall be glad to. 
Used Truck Department 
PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY of NEW YORK 
West Fiftj'-sixth Street, New’ York City 
Teleplione: Circle 3.186 
The Safest Used Truck Market in the World 
Strawberries 
Large, Luscious Ones 
The kind you can grow 
from Allen’s Plants will 
mean delicious Berries 
on your table and money 
in your pocket. Straw¬ 
berries will succeed in 
the garden, in the young 
orchard, in the field—wher¬ 
ever other crops will grow. Our 
1917 Book of Berries tells how. 
Write today for your copy—FREE. 
THE W. F. ALLEN CO. 
72 Maritet SL* Salisbury. Md. 
Strawberry Plants 
Ten of the best varieties selected out of a hundred. 
Ten varieties that are good enough for any one. 
Early, Medium and Late. Send for our 1917 price 
list of strawberry and other i)lants. Romance Seed 
& Plant Farm, CALEB BOGGS & CO., Ctieswold, Delaware 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Millions of Healthy, true-to-name plants at whole- 
ale prices, including the over-bearing kinds. We 
guarantee to please you or refund your money. De- 
i^^rlptive catalog Free. E. W. JOHNSON 8 IRQ., Salisbury, Md. 
Plants $1.40 
ProirreBBive, Americus or Superb. 
Say which. 25 Everbearintr Red R 
lAA Everbearing 
lUU Strawberries 
Pott 
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Wejntroduced prosrreBsIve. 
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PrcN ail about the New Everbearera and other important varieties. 
C. N.FLANSBURGH &SON, Jackson, Mich. 
CTDAWRCDRY PLANTS —Best Everbearing. Also 
O I nilflDCnn l standard June fruiting varieties. 
IfCRCTARI CQ ALL KINDS- Get my price on plants 
V cue I MDLEO sent by parcel post, prepaid, and 
special price on large ordei-s. 0. E. E'lELU, Sewell, N. J. 
''Strawberry Plants That Grow” 
"PROGRESSIV E.” Best Fall-Bearer; also Std. Juno 
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Full Assurtment other Fruit Plaiils, 
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C.E. WHITTEN'S NURSERIES, Box 11,Bridgman, Mich. 
5,000,000 STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
at $1.90 to $2 per 1.000 
Frank Knowles of Ohio says " your Plants are as 
good as 1 have paid $8 per 1,000 for,” Catalog free. 
Write today. C. S. PERDUE, Box 21, Showell, Md. 
Clraufkarrine from June to November from‘'ldeal”, 
OtraWDerrieS ••Peerless,” "Superb.” "Onward”, 
and “ Forward.” Plants for sale by the originator. 
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CTDIU/DCDDICC Superba, Everbearing, Kansas 
o I KAiiuCIitilCu Black Caps, C n t h i) e r t and St. 
Regis Raspberriet, Blackberries. Prices reasonable. 
Dr. A. H. BUTTERFIELD, Wilton, Conn. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS SALE 
60 varieties to select from. Including the Fall-besrinit Asparairus 
roots. Raspberry and Dewbewy oIantB, etc. Send tor Free 
Catalog. Dept. 2. J. KEIFFORD HALL, Rhodesdale, Md. 
CAMPBELL’S EARLY STRAWBERRY 
The Best First Early Variety, A new one and a 
money maker. Circular Free. 
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RASPBERRY PLANTS 
an d other hardy small fruits from the Green Moun 
tain State. Send for catalog. 
GEO. D. AIKEN Box M, Putney, Vt. 
Strawberry Plants plants. Moderate prices. 
Catalogue free II. II. HENNING, R. 6, Clyde, N.'\ . 
OTDlUfDCDDV Dl AllTC Everbearing and June vaiie- 
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THE N. J. KEMP CO., Batavia, N. Y. 
New Peach-Wilma 
A Seedling of Elberta, with Elberta foliage, Elbei- 
ta fruit and Elberta productiveness. Extends 
the Elberta season ten days. 
W. B. Cole, Nurseryman, Painesville, O. 
LeadingVarieties of Small Fruits, Plants 
or money back. Benj. Barrett, Blue Anchor, N. J. 
from the Fall crop is larger than fruit 
from the Spring crop. A new bed of Pro¬ 
gressive should be set each year. 
Summing Up. —To those who have had 
no experience with everbearers I wish to 
say Superb and Pi-ogressive are wonderful 
varieties. They can be recommended 
without hesitation to those having home 
gardens, but commercial growers should 
not plant heavily until they have tided 
them in a small way first. Like every 
other crop they have their peculiarities. 
They must be studied, and there must 
needs be many failures before they finally 
become established. Such has been the 
history of every new crop. Failures oli a 
large scale deal any new thing a tremen¬ 
dous blow, and tend to discouragement. 
A failure on a small scale is not_ so dis¬ 
heartening, and the lesson taught is ranch 
more likely to be applied the following 
season in growing successfull.v the crop 
with which we are experimenting. I feel 
confident the next few years will see ever- 
bearing strawberries being grown with 
profit on a commercial scale, on many 
farms for fruit only. To hasten the com¬ 
ing of this time let me urge all who are 
interested to make a study of these ber¬ 
ries in a small way finst, and then in¬ 
crease the acreage only as experience and 
profits Avill warrant. TBt'CB:ER, JK. 
Consolidated Schools 
[The discussion of the proposed new 
school law for New York State has at¬ 
tracted attention everywhere. We try to 
give both sides a fair heaidng, as this is 
not a question to be settled by any one¬ 
sided argument. In addition to the let¬ 
ters from New York readers we have 
heard from readers in other States where 
the schools have been consolidated. This 
week we give one such letter so that 
the other side may be given from expe¬ 
rience.] 
Vermont Satisfied With Consolidation 
It appears that the good people of New 
York are agitating the question of a town 
system of schools, and incidentally the 
consolidation of rural schools. I’erhajis 
the experience of Vermont may be useful. 
The conditions in the two States are prac- 
ticall.v identical. We Vermonters have 
forgotten our old grudge against New 
York, and are as i-eady now to do you a 
good turn as our ancestors were ready to 
apply the “Beach Seal” to all interlopers 
in their day. 
About 20 years ago we adopted the 
town system. Each town was made a 
school district and all its affairs were 
managed by a board of three trustees— 
one to be elected each year, to hold office 
three years. The schools were to be sup¬ 
ported by a town tax. thus doing away 
with the glaring inequality of taxation 
under the old system. The trustees were 
given power to establish a town central 
school aud provide for the transportation 
of pupils as they saw fit; to make the cen¬ 
tral school a graded school xvith all de¬ 
partments from primary to high, and to 
maintain such other schools as might be 
advisable. 
The law did not compel towns to estab¬ 
lish a central school, but left it entirely 
optional with each town to do as it 
thought best. By electing a board of trus¬ 
tees known to favor consolidation we 
could have it, or vice versa. The town in 
which I live was one of the first to vote 
for consolidatiou. Certainly we had to 
fight for it, and we only won by a clight 
majority. The women,pretty generally 
favored it, and for the first time came out 
and exercised thtir right to vote on school 
questions. By their help we won. Ah, 
yes, there was a hot time in the old town 
that day ! We heard all the argumeuts— 
all that your correspondent on page 230 
adduces and many more. 
What is the result? Simply another 
demonstration that hindsight is better 
than foresight. After 15 years of trial 
everyone is satisfied. You could not get a 
single vote in town to go back to the old 
system. All the lions in the way that 
looked so fierce have vanished. We have 
a school that in efficiency equals our high¬ 
est expectations. We have a new school 
building built under the direction of the 
State Board of Health, with steam heat, 
modern ventilation, proper lighting and 
careful sanitation. Pupils from five or 
six outlying districts are brought^ in in 
covered vehicles, and the “kids” enjoy the 
ride. None is brought more than about 
four miles. Beyond that distance separ¬ 
ate schools are maintained. 
This plan has been gradually and gen¬ 
erally adopted all over the State by towns 
with a population sufficient to make it 
practicable. Wherever you can find from 
75 to 100 pupils within a radius of four 
miles theiMj you will usually find a con¬ 
solidated school, not forced by any out¬ 
side euactment, but the voluntary result 
of the observation and good sen.se of the 
people. If you were to ride through the 
State you would find in almost exery 
hamlet* a nice new graded school build¬ 
ing, and meet sleigh loads or wagon loads 
of laughing children going to school or 
going home. 
Thus is Vermont endeavoring to dis¬ 
charge its duty to the coming generation. 
Upon the.se New England hills our fath¬ 
ers lit a beacon that has been shining 
through the years—shining beyond the 
mountains anci beyond the plains, and is 
even now lighting up the dark coasts of 
the Orient. It is for u.s, lyith pious re¬ 
gard for the past and with ambitious 
hope for the future—it is for us, we fully 
understand, to keep that beacon trimmed 
and burning for the oncoming centurie.-\ 
Not in a spirit of vain boasting or in¬ 
tent of meddlesome intrusion is this writ¬ 
ten. but only “with hands of exceeding 
good will.” E. G. HUNT. 
Vermont. 
Crops and Farm News 
The vegetable market as well as all 
other markets is strong, white potatoes 
bring $1 per bu.; sweet potatoes. ,$1 per 
hamper ; cabbage, I2c per head ; turnips, 
GOc per basket; ‘white beans. .$() per bu.; 
wheat. .$1.75 per bu.; corn. ,$1.05 per bii.; 
bran, $2 per cwt.; middlings, .$2.25 per 
ewt. Hay, $15 per ton; butter, 40c: 
eggs, 40c. Dressed hogs. $13 per cwt.; 
veal calves, 12c per lb. At a public sale 
cows sold from $70 to $128; horses from 
$75 to .$105; yearling heifers. .$22: three- 
year-old heifei’s, $5.5. A 01-acre farm 
here was sold to a Nexv Jersey farmer for 
$0..500. AVe are having some severe cold 
weather; most farm work, with the excep¬ 
tion of doing chores and chopping wood, i.s 
at a standstill. c. ii. 
Kent Co., Del. 
We had some mighty severe AAJuter 
weather Feb. 5, from 5 to 10 degrees be¬ 
low zero hei’e on the hills, and a very 
high wind, and we have not been able to 
find a live peach bud yet. I commenced 
to look on some Heath Cling, which were, 
all dead, then Salway was found the 
same, aud Oldmixon aud a seedling. I 
called a neighbor with plenty of trees and 
asked how his were, and after looking, he 
reported finding not one alive, not even 
on Greensboro, Champion, Carman and 
those of that class. Even Crosby are re¬ 
ported dead. It is fair to presume that 
all .Southern Ohio and neai’hy sections 
have fared alike. Northern Ohio along 
the lake may have escaped again. Be- 
gions remote fi’om the lakes are likely 
hard hit. I fear cherries are injured <>r 
wiped out. too, and it is a safe guess that 
the sweet ones are out of the game. AVell, 
apples are my choice. u. T. cox. 
I.awrence Co., Ohio. 
Feb. 20. Wholesale quotations at 
Lynchbuig, A’a., were: Old fowls, 1.5 
and 16c; Spring chickens, large, 14 and 
15c; small. 18 and 20c. Butter, fresh 
iu prints, .32 to 3.5c; Virginia hams 2() 
to 25c; sides 16 to 17c; shoulders 16 to 
17c; eggs .32 to ,35c; turkeys 20 to 2,5<-; 
dressed 30 to .35c. Hogs 12 to 1.3c. 
The cold snap in this section has tloiie 
great damage to peach buds. One large 
young orchard is said to be a total fail¬ 
ure. and another nearly as bad. r. w. w. 
Lynchburg, A^a. 
Good dairy cattle $75 to $125; bet^f 
cattle 7 to lOi/^c live; calves 12c live; 
pigs 1.3 to 1.5c live; chickens 22 to 24c 
live. Alilk 20c per gal. retail 36c iier 
gal. Butter 44 to 48c; retail 50 to .54c. 
Potatoes $2.50 to $3. AA’heat $1.60 per 
bu.; corn $1.10; oats 60c; hay $18 to.$24 
per ton; .straw $12 to $16 per ton; ap¬ 
ples 75c to $1 per bu.; cabbage 1(1 to 
15c per head. Horses $1.50 to $250 with 
prices still advancing daily. v. s. ir. 
Northampton Co., Pa. 
Milch cows $75 to $125; hay $0 t-i 
$12; bob calves $2..50 to $.3; veals 12c. 
Beans $7 bu.; potatoes $2.50 bu.; oats 
60c; eggs 4.5c; butter 42c; milk $2.30 
per cwt. ^ c. s. c. 
8t. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
Flour, per bbl., $12; buckwheat, per 
cwt. $2.80 to $3. Apples, per bu., 50c; 
potatoes $2 to .$3. Cows, dairy, per 
head, $50 to $100; pork, dressed, per 
cwt., $16; chickens, live, per lb., 16 to 
18c; veals, live, 10 to 11c lb. Beans, bu.. 
$6..50 to $7. c. s. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
Fresh eggs 40c, paid by grbeers. But¬ 
ter, dairy, 35c. Potatoes .$2.50 per bu. 
The farm products raised _ here do not 
leave the place. It is practically all cou- 
sumed locally. There are no beans or 
garden produce available at preseut. 
Lewis Co., N. Y. J. m. g. 
A’'ery severe AAniiter weather; 20 below 
zero for several mornings past, and it is 
feared the fruit buds are badly frozen. 
Shortage of coal has caused much suffer¬ 
ing, aud added higher values to our de¬ 
pleted wood supply. Tiinberlands here 
are quite a thiug of the past, and saw 
timber is growing scarce. Our laud is 
rated at well toward the .$200-inark per 
acre, and is thought too valuable to be 
left standing in timber land. A large 
acreage of corn will be plantcc aud corn 
is now $1.05 per bushel, and advancing. 
3'he crop was unusually short and seed 
corn is scarce and high iniced. Eggs are 
bringing 38c and butter .37c. v/hile pota¬ 
toes are very scarce, retailing at $2.65. 
New potatoes are in the market here now, 
from the Southern States, and it is pre¬ 
dicted they may bring some relief in high- 
priced tubers. Everyone will endeavor to 
plant an early patch of potatoes just as 
early as possible, which will give some 
roli('f. Early vegetable planting will be 
valuable this season to supplement on the 
table. A large crop of ice has been har¬ 
vested. and not for years has ice frozen so 
thick upon the rivers and ponds here ami 
remained such steady cold weather. There 
is hut little being done here upon the 
farms, save to feed and fire the stoves for 
comfort. 6. w. B. 
Hancock Co., O, 
