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■Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 24, 1917 
The biggest time and labor- 
sSvers for farm and garden 
Since Planet Jrs save half your time and labor, 
produce bigger, better crops and make cultiva¬ 
tion more profitable than ever, why not get them 
/liK They soon pay for themselves; then the 
returns are pure “velvet” for all the 
No. 8 
years to come. 
Planet Jr 
Farm and Garden 
Implements 
are ingeniously designed, 
scientifically constructed and outlast three or four ordinary 
imjilements. 45 years of actual farming and manufact¬ 
uring experience is back of them. Fully guaranteed 
No. 8 Planet Jr Horse Hoe and Cultivator does a greater variety of work, 
and does it more thoroughly than any other cultivator ever made. It has | 
stronger better construction. Its depth regulator and extra-long frame 
make it steady-running. Adaptable to deep or shallow cultivation and to 
different widths. 15 other styles of one-horse cultivators—various prices. 
If you have need merely for a hand-cultivator the No. 17 
is the tool for you. 
No. 17 Planet Jr is the highest type of single-wheel hoe made. 
Its light durable ingenious construction enables a man, woman, or 
boy to do the cultivation in a garden in the easiest, quickest and 
best way. We make 32 other styles of wheel hoes and seed-drills 
—various prices. 
New 72-page Catalog, free! No. 17 
Illustrates tools doing actual farm and garden 
work and describes over 70 different Planet Jrs, 
including Seeders, Wheel-Hoes, Horse-Hoes. 
Harrows. Orchard-, Beet- and Pivot-Wheel 
Hiding Cultivators, Write for it today! 
S L ALLEN & CO 
Box 1107V Philadelphia 
Sows Any Fertilizer 
A LL commercial fertilizers and nitrate.phos- 
/A phate, guano, lime ashes, etc. Has the 
only force feed that will sow any fertilizer 
made in large or small quantities. No^prings 
or gears in box. Gauge quickly and easily set. 
Stevens Fertilizer Sower 
Let u 3 Bend you the book Bhowing how evenly and 
accurately this BOwer distributes in any amount from 
one hundred to several thousand pounds per acre. The 
b^k should be in your hands. It describes briefly 
many valuable farm tools. Write for it. 
Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool C6. 
Box 75 Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
Saw-Wood Now 
This saw outfit com- 
plete with 6 to 8 ^ | Wf 
He P. Engine Only ■ " 
Or Engine 0 
only 6 to 8^ 
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PULLFORD— 
Easily Attached to or Removed 
from the Car in 30 Minutes 
M akes a practical tractor out of a Ford—or most 
anyothercar. Get low cost power. Noholes 
to drill. Attached with clamps to car frame. 
Does work of 3 or 4 horses. Pulls plows, harrows, 
drills,mowers,the binder, hay loader, road grader,etc., 
also your farm wagons anywhere that 3 or 4 horses 
can. Steelwheels with roller bearings. Two pairs steel 
pinions, allowing two speeds, one for plowing and one 
for hauling wagons. Multiplies usefulness of your car. 
Only J135.00, f. o. b. Quincy, Ill. Write for circular. 
PULLFORD COMPANY, Box 48C 
Talephone No. 84 Walton Heiglit*, QUINCY, ILLINOIS 
Boston Produce Markets 
I’OTATO MARKET SHOWS TONE OF HESI¬ 
TATION. 
While potatoes may be a trifle un¬ 
popular with some .'eople on account of 
the price, they are still the most talked- 
abont feature in the market. Just now 
the undertone seems distinctly weaker. 
Holders, many of them, still talk .$.3 a 
bushel, but others have become less con¬ 
fident and have been letting go for what 
they can get. Not only have quotations 
sagged off from week to week lately, but 
it has become possible to get actual po¬ 
tatoes in large and numerous lots at 
close to the lowest prices quoted. In 
other words the market is in buyers* 
favor. According to G. M. I^lly: “The 
market is lower, but we cannot tell what 
will be the effect of the railroad labor 
.situation. Receipts are heavy. Sales 
to retail stores are one-third le.ss than 
ordinary. Holders are offering more 
freely. The market ought to have a 
comeback soon according to the usual 
course.” Said .7. Herbert ^lead: “We 
quote today, $2.40 to $2.50 in bulk at 
the yards. New Rrunswicks .sell at 
$2.25 to .$2..3.5. If the Canadians put an 
embargo on potatoes it would help New 
York and Boston to clean up, but po¬ 
tatoes are high in Canada, up to $10 per 
1)1)1. for .seed, and I don’t think they will 
ship us much stock anyway.” 
Onions seem to hang around the low¬ 
er levels reached lately, $8 to .$0 per 
bag. Liberal shipments of large Cuban 
ami Spanish onions are .sharing the mar¬ 
ket. New cabbages are in larger receii)t. 
and it is hai’d to get more than $7 per 
bbl. for native stock. Fancy squash is 
scarce and brings $100 a ton. Beets, 
carrots, parsnips, parsley, dandelions all 
sell around $2.25 to $2..35 per box. Ilot- 
house men are still doing well with let¬ 
tuce at $1.50. Choice cukes at $10 box; 
tomatoes 40 to 50c lb.; choice mush¬ 
rooms 50c; rhubarb 7 to 8c. 
APPLES FAIRLY ACTIVE. 
'Some dealers complain of dullness, 
others assert the demand is good. Stocks 
do not seem to be piling up in the stores 
asd the cold storage Reserve is being 
taken fast, so that the market as a whole 
may be considered fairly active. “The 
range in apples is $3 to $0 per barrel, 
showing no change lately,” said Lord & 
Spencer. “Demand is good.” Concern¬ 
ing a shipment of Baldwins in 40-lb. 
strawboard boxes, each apple wrapped 
in white paper, Adams & Dodge re¬ 
marked: “We do not like them. They 
are hard to handle and .sell slowly at 
$1.50 a box. They are fancy and we 
could get as much for them by the bar¬ 
rel with less trouble. Few growers have 
apples enough to grade box fruit so that 
it will be as uniform as Western boxes.” 
More Russets are coming now. They 
sell around $3 a bbl., about the same as 
Starks and good Ben Davis. Fancy, 
bright, large Spy bring the top of the 
apple market, but many are irregular in 
size, color and pack. 
BUTTER .STEADY. 
The situation favors the selhu*, al¬ 
though price changes have been slight. A 
scarcity of good storage butter is very 
evident, and most of the current make 
is well below extra. Accordingly the 
holders^ of desirable lots are confident in 
their views and the buyers have to come 
across. The inferior grades however sell 
slowly and have to share the market 
with whatever remains of storage but¬ 
ter. Said I. H. Ballou: “Goods are 
moving rather slowly into consumption. 
Supply will increase soon if we 'happen 
to get an early season. The last season 
began exceptionally late and was a 
month late all through.” Extra cream¬ 
ery is 40c, firsts 37 to 38c, dairy firsts 
36 to 38c. Cheese sells in a narrow 
market at 27c. 
EGGS ACTIVE A.XD LOWER. 
Along with the usual rapid Spring de¬ 
cline in egg prices has come a brisk de¬ 
mand from a public that has been long¬ 
ingly waiting for the chance. Ship¬ 
ments are heavy and supply is enough 
and considered Cikely to ho ample from 
now on. Nearby henneries are about 
the only line which seems a little in ex¬ 
cess receipt. Inquiries for eggs packed 
for storage suggest that the market 
should be near bottom, and the more 
common opinion is that no very low 
levels will be reached. Said a leading 
South Market Street receiver: “The 
market is weakening nnd not likely to 
get back unless stormy weather should 
continue so long that the supply would 
be short and high. Cool weather means 
a long season of cool weather eggs which 
would prolong the season for storage. 
We do not look for low prices, but ex¬ 
pect a market ruling at least three or 
four cents above last year’s prevailing 
levels.” 
POULTRY DULL AND STEADY. 
The poultry trade is slow lately, de¬ 
mand and supply being light. About the 
only change is slightly larger offerings 
of dressed fowls, forcing some dealers to 
make extra efforts to clear up receipts. 
According to S. L. Burr & Co.: “The 
movement is slow on dressed fowls and 
also on live. Some live stock which could 
not be sold on account of the Jewish 
boycott was killed and dressed. Live 
fowls are 21 to 22c, chickens 20 to 21c, 
(Continued on page 477) 
Ancient Farming 
Herodotus, in the year 450 
B. C., said that good cultiva¬ 
tion yielded two-hundredfold 
in the Valley of the Euphrates. 
Even in that land of Eklen, 
poor cultivation yielded but 
fiftyfold. 
In 1898, the average Wheat 3 neld 
per acre in New York State was 
21.2 bushels; in 1907, 17.3 bushels 
per acre; in 1912, but 16 bushels. 
European yields are more than 
double. 
Isn’t it time for our farmers to 
get down to business methods? 
Home Mixed Fertilixers will help. 
Write for Books 
WILUAM S. MYERS, Director 
25 Madisoq Avenue, New York 
THE NEWTOWN (BUCKS COUNTY), 
PH.. PRODUCING CO. S ENTIRE REAL 
AND PERSONAL PROPERTY. Cost 
_ over $150,000. Can be bonpht 
for less than liiilt its cost, or exchanged for Phila¬ 
delphia nneiicumbeied real estate. Apply to 
8. Friedman, Real Estate, Kiinkel Bldg., narrisburg, Pa. 
NEW YORK STATE FARMS 
Tell us what kind of farm yon want and 
how much cash you can pay down, and we 
will prepare purposely for you a list of jnst 
snch places in many parts of the State. 
THE FARM BROKERS’ ASSOCIATION. Inc., ONEIDA, NEW YORK 
Other ofilces throughoat the State, 
ICmellPorm CALIFORNIA will make yon more 
AOUIdlirdlin money with less work. You will live 
longer and better. Delightt'ulclimate. Rich soil. Low 
rices. Easy terms. Sni'e pi-oiits. Hospitable neigh- 
ors. Good roads, schools and churches. Wrile for 
our San Joaquin Valley lllusti'sted folders, fi-ee. C. L. 
Seagraves, Industrial Commissioner A.T.ft S. F.Ry.,1863 Exch., Chicoge 
Profit MakingFarmLocations 
INTHESOUTH 
with lands at low cost, giving best opportunities 
fur live stock, dairying, general or special fai m- 
ing. Healthful and most lu-oductive climate; 
scliool facilities. Facts prove Southei'ii lands 
are most profitable in country. Printeil matter 
on request. M. V. RICHAKD.S, Commissioner, 
Room 87, Southern Railway System, Washinuton, U. C. 
Canada Offers 
160 Acres Land 
Free to Farm Hands 
Bonus of Western Canada 
Landto Men Who Assist 
in Maintaining Needed 
Grain Production. 
The Demand for Farm Labor in Canada is Great. 
As an inducement to secure the necessary help at 
once. Canada will give one hundred and sixty 
acres of land free as a homestead and allow 
the time of the farm laborer, who has filed on the 
land to apply as residence duties, the same as if 
he actually had lived on it. Another special con- 
cession is the reduction of one year in the time 
to complete duties. Two years instead of three 
as heretofore but only to men working on the 
farms for at least six months in 1917. This appeal 
for farm help is in no way connected with enlist¬ 
ment for military service but solely to increase 
agricultural output. A wonderful opportunity to 
secure a farm and draw good wages at the same 
time. Information as to low railway rates may 
be had on application to 
O. G. RUTLEDGE 
Canadian GovornmenI Agent 
301 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, N.Y. 
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GARDEN TOOLS 
Answer the farmer’s big questions: 
How can I have a good garden with 
least expense? How can the wife 
have plenty of fre;vegetables for 
the home table with least labor? 
rryn \T A Combined Bill 
IKUJy Ahrhf andDrillSeeder 
solves the garden labor problem. 
Takes the place of many tools— 
stored in smEll space. Sows, cov¬ 
ers, cultivates, weeds, ridges, 
etc. .better than old-time tools. 
A woman, boy or girl can 
push it and do a day^s hand¬ 
work in 60 
minutes. 38 
combina¬ 
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to $16.00. 
Write for 
booklet. 
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[Tarlila Corma Beautiful Perkiomen Valley near Phila. 
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