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KURAL NEW-YORKER 
Which do you like 
better—horses or 
The old way is always extravagant. The 
whole point about a Koehler Truck is that 
it saves money. How much? It figures out 
about like this: A Koehler will do the work 
of four horses for about the upkeep of one. 
It keeps horses on the land and men work- 
inginsteadof lounging all day on the driver’s 
seat. One farmer says, “My horse team 
used to leave at 9 P.M. for market and re¬ 
turn at noon next day. My power truck 
leaves at 4 A. M. and is back by 9 A. M. 
same day. It lets you choose the most 
profitable shipping point. One truck can 
deliver for three farms if necessary, thus 
earning an actual profit and doing the 
owner’s hauling for nothing. 
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Could a dump cart and a bueev chassis be com¬ 
bined into a serviceable rig'? You get the point. 
There isn’t a single pleasure car unit in a Koehler. 
Every ounce of metal in it, down to the last locked 
bolt, was designed and wrought for the racking, 
grinding jolts and strains of rough and ready truck¬ 
ing. A race horse is willing but doesn’t last long 
on a plow. Same way, a pleasure car power plant 
lacks the metalfortrucking. The Koehler overhead 
valve engine is a glutton for punishment. It has 
the kind of power that just leans against the collar 
and yanks the car through, up or over. On a level 
road it will speed a ton and a quarter of produce 
into town faster than road laws allow. 
Finally, the Koehler is several hundred dollars 
lower in pricethananyothertruckof equal capacity 
on the market. That means less depreciation. 
We offer a big opportunity to established dealers. 
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Boston Produce Markets 
BTJTTBR VALI;F..S UNSETTLED AND LOWER. 
’I'he nsuill Spring (listnrbanco of the 
blitter Rituution is niuler way ; later than 
usual, but marked with a sharp dt'cline 
and slow recovery. “More butter coin¬ 
ing,” is the common explanation, hut the 
market was due for a setback, at least, 
heciitise tlie high prices at retail were 
leading to use of less butter, or the pur¬ 
chase of oleo by many people who never 
before had ns<>d butter substitutes. Said 
a South Market street receiver: “P.ntter 
turned the corner and went down rapiilly. 
TT.sually in such abrupt movements the 
slump goek too far and ,a seesaw move¬ 
ment follows which is had for the whole¬ 
salers because it is likely to catch them 
going and coming. A dull market often 
comes before the decline, and the dealer 
being unable to close out beforehand ha.s 
to sell later at below cost. Then comes 
a bulge upward and he has to jiay a good 
price to supply his trade. The retailer 
often escapes punishment in the slumps 
because he can keep up the price to con¬ 
sumers for a little while, and because he 
commonly buys only in small lots on ,a 
rising market. Isut the wholesaler has 
his regular shippers whose stock he must 
lake, while his own customers are per¬ 
haps holding off. The regular Spring in¬ 
crease in the make of butter seems a main 
cause of the drop in price, hut the in¬ 
creased prices were also affecting con¬ 
sumption. This year we do not look for 
much grass fed butter before May 10. 
As a matter of fact the receipts, while 
showing a tendency to increa.se, are not 
so large as at the corresponding time 
last year, and last year was also a back¬ 
ward pasture season. Much of the usual 
supply of milk is being diverted to other 
uses and to other dairy products, cheese 
and condensed milk being relatively 
higher than butter. The market hangs 
around 40 cents for the time, and trade 
is reported dull. D.airy butter is quoted 
from SH to 42c. Cold storage sto<-k is 
practically all out. Cheese is practically 
ruled by the export demand. New cream 
ranges from 25 to 2Ge, and skims from 
17 to 20 cents. 
EOGS FAIRLY STEADY. 
TTnlike the butter market, the egg 
trade has so far bi'on able to absorb the 
Spring incren.se without a corresponding 
slump in values. The rea.son is in part 
the active demand for April eggs to go 
into storage, and with cool weather a 
fair proportion of the May receipts will 
be taken for the same purpose. Storage 
stocks in Boston at the end of April 
wore nearly equal to last year’s figures 
in amount held at the corresponding time. 
Western eggs packed for storage sell at 
Sic. Nearby hennery eggs are .28 to .SOc, 
and dealers say they can sell them about 
as fast as they come in. 
POULTRY I.V MODERATE DEMAND. 
The market for live poultry has tended 
to oa.se off a little the past week or two, 
and even the choice, heavy stock cannot 
be quoted above 2.5c, while light, poor 
and mixed lots sell at 21c. Arrivals of 
live poultry ai’o nearly all fowls. North¬ 
ern dre.ssed fowls are 28 to 20c. Old 
roosters, 24c. Kimball & Co. quote: 
dressed young ducks, 2.5c; old ducks, 
18c: live young ducks. 18c; and they re¬ 
mark: “young ducks are just begin¬ 
ning to come freely. They open at 2.5c, 
as compared with the usual price of about 
lOc at opening of the sea.son. Last year 
they started at 10c and went up to 2.5c.” 
Said S. L. Bnrr: “Two-pound broilers 
liring .2.5 to 40c per Ih.. and might do hot¬ 
ter were it not for the pressure to sell 
cold storage broilers. They froze too 
mnnj^ of tliem last season and would he 
glad to close them out at 25c or lower.” 
NATIVE VEGETABLE LIST INCREASING. 
With the arrival of parsnips, rhnharh, 
dandelions, beet greens, etc., the vegeta¬ 
ble list grows longer week by week. 
Southern stuff is coming somewhat more 
freely, hut the effect of the big freeze is 
still evident. The general trend of prices 
is slowly downward, although hothouse 
lettuce holds well at around .$1.50. But 
radishes are down to .$2; cucumbers to 
.$5; dandelions to ,$1.2.5. Hothouse 
rhubarb is 7 to Sc per lb.; mint, 00c doz.; 
beets, .$1.75 doz. hunches; beet greens, 
.$1 per box. Parsnips hold at .$1 to .$2.50. 
Ilothouse tomatoes are down to 25c per 
lb. Boston gardeners are grumbling over 
the tendency to encourage inexperienced 
people to raise market garden crops. The 
gardeners themselves are so discouraged 
over the help question that it is doubtful 
if they will venture to increase their 
acreage much. Some of them express a 
doubt whether prices of perishable pro¬ 
duce will continue high. There is some 
talk of cutting out the “fine stuff” that 
requires so much weeding and thinning, 
and i-aising more of the coarse, wide row 
crops which can he cultivated partly by 
horse power. Maybe there is a hint here 
for those gardeners who know where they 
can get a force of weeders to take care of 
the close-grown crops. 
POTATO MARKIN’ RATHER STRONG. 
While nothing like a boom exists in 
the potato market, prices are holding 
well, and act at times as if inclined to go 
up. H. M. Ely quotes at .$.2.20 in bulk, 
or ,$3.50 in bags at the yards, and says: 
“The market is well supplied, and buyers 
seem inclined to hold off. It is said there 
May ."), 1017. 
arc not many left in gi’owcrs’ hands, hut 
nobody can be sure. I remember how 
once I bought a load of potatoes from a 
farmer d.ay after day, and each was de¬ 
clared to be positively his last load.” At 
the office of the Farmers’ Union of 
]\Iaine, the range is .$.2 to .$2.25. Accord-' 
ing to Manager Abbott: “Receipts are 
not heavy, and the Aroostook stock seems 
to he nearly all shipi>ed out. The mar¬ 
ket in Uanada seems to be higher than 
ours. The bankers are offering our far¬ 
mers loans to increa,se tlie potato acre¬ 
age. hilt the farmers must take all the 
risks of crop and market, while the han¬ 
ker exacts good security.” 
THE ROX PRORLEM. 
Nobody has kind words for the market 
box, which is a nuisance from start to 
lini.sh. Its cost has increased 20 to 25 
per cent., the material is often thin and 
l)()or and the nailing and joining badly 
done. A ho.x full of apples or vegetables 
often pulls apart while being lifted, and 
the contents hump along the sidewalk 
and into the street. The condition, value 
and return of the boxes is a subject of 
dispute all along. Practice varies among 
dealers. Some allow the shipper 8c or 
some such price for the box, and compel 
the buyer to leave another box in its 
place, or pay for tlie box. Others include 
l)Ox Avhen .selling the produce. Said York 
& Wliitney: “We posted a notice April 
2.5 that a charge of eight cents would in 
future he added to the iirice of purchases 
of produce, and boxes will not he re¬ 
deemed. The buyers will have to .sell 
them wherever they can. There are deal¬ 
ers in empty boxes. The eight cents goes 
to the shippers, who stand a loss even 
then as the majority of them ship new 
boxes costing 10 to 1.5 cents.” 
BEANS STILL CLIMBING. 
Small white and pea beams are up 
again at .$0 to .$0.50, on account of ex¬ 
port and Uovernment buying. Red Kid¬ 
neys are .$8.25. The market has been so 
active and unsettled that dealers hardly 
know what to quote from day to day. A 
good deal of bean planting is reported 
even in town of Eastern New England 
where not many field l>eans have been 
raised of late years. 
APPLES IN FAIR DEMAND. 
Strictly choice apples are in demand 
and bringing good prices. The general 
range remains from $2 to .$5.50, for all 
grades. “If growers could agree to keep 
hack the poorer half of the crop every 
year,” declared a commis.sion man, “and 
feed them to the stock, or make cider. I 
would be willing to guarantee a good, 
round price for the other half.” Russets 
are mostly poor, but some that would 
hardly grade as No. 1 are si'lling at $3 
to .$4, while choice lots arc .$4.50 to .$5. 
HAY AND FEED, 
Number one clover seems to be about 
the cheapest stock feed in the present 
unusual market. It sells at $15 per ton, 
with corn meal at four times as much 
and bran three times as much. No. 1 
house hay sells easily, but there is not 
much demand for stock hay, and the 
lirice list is unchanged, although some 
dealers are reported cutting under. The 
grain feed market is a study for buyers. 
Corn meal is above .$00 per ton, while 
middlings, hr.nn, cottonseed and linseed 
are around $45. Of course, cottonseed is 
a much richer feed than corn meal, hut 
most feeders think they must use some 
corn meal. Barley of feeding grade at 
$1.50 per hu. is attracting some notice 
from stock and poultry feeders. G. b. f. 
A Trial of Cossack Alfalfa 
I nolice from an article, “Tran.splant- 
ing Alfalfa Rots,” p.nge 244, Prof. Graher, 
secretary of our Alfalfa order, has been 
enlighteiiing you as to the merits of cer¬ 
tain varieties of Alfalfa. Previous to tlie 
past few months Alfalfa experts of our 
university maintained that there was no 
particular merit in any particular variety 
or strain of Alfalfa, and that the matter 
of soil and seed bed preparation was of 
vastly more importance. 
Having been actively engaged with 
Prof. Hanson in testing out this projiosi- 
tion in several States, by putting in the 
Uos.sack and other varieties brought here 
by Prof. Hausen, in districts where the 
common, and the Grimm, akso, had re¬ 
peatedly failed, and feeling sure that we 
had conclusively demonstrated that varie¬ 
ty was of first importance in the Northern 
States, outside of a very limited area 
where soil conditions are naturally ideal 
for Alfalfa, we called the attention of the 
Alfalfa experts to this fact, and requested 
an investigation, to the end that they 
might lend their aid in getting a general 
disti'ilmtioii of the Cossack seed and 
jilants throughout this State, in small 
quantities, which would result in putting 
it within the reach of all farmers who de¬ 
sired .\lfalfa to have- it within a short 
time. We called attention to the fact that 
from 522 plants on my brother’s farm in 
Stanley County, S. I)., there were now 
over 2,000 acres, on land where common 
Alfalfa will not grow, and that it is pro¬ 
ducing crops worth about $500 per acre 
per year on land worth aliout $50 per 
acre. We ivere turned down good and 
hard, and were informed that the matter 
of variety was of no importance, and that 
there was no demand for a hardy variety 
of Alfalfa in this State. 
Prof. Hansen has truly said: “You 
cannot stop the Cossack any more than 
you can confine a bull in a poultry fence. 
The bull will go tlirougli the fence and 
take some of the posts with him.” 
The expei’ts stlil maintain that they do 
not consider the Cossack any better than 
the Grimm, and that they do not admit 
any greater degree of hardiness in the 
hraiiched-root .system than in the tap root 
type. Mr. Graber rather resents experi¬ 
ments. investigations and demonstrations 
being made by individuals not under con¬ 
trol of the State colleges. They have put 
the clamps onto the county agents in this 
State in regard to Alfalfa, giving them 
distinctly to understand that all Alfalfa 
information will come from headquarters. 
We found, by experiments, years ago, 
that it is hard to work again.st Nature. 
The tap-TOot Alfalfa can as readily be 
successfully changed into a branching- 
rooted jilant by cutting out the main cen¬ 
tral root as can a pine tree be made to 
branch out like an elm by cutting off the 
central trunk. In either case the heart 
dies and the side branching is a poor at¬ 
tempt to replace the structure which Na¬ 
ture started out to erect. 
I know that you will he interested in 
learning that transplanrlng of Cossack is 
rajiidly finding new fields where, on ac¬ 
count of conditions being unfavorable for 
the getting of a stand of Alfalfa or clover 
from seed, transplanting will reclaim the 
land and prove very profitable. We are 
producing good crops of seed here fi-om 
traiLsplanted plants on sandy land that 
is so worn out from cropping that it is 
impossible to get a stand of clover on it 
from seed, and it is paying a good profit 
in addition to improving the land. This 
is without the addition of lime or fertil¬ 
izer. As you have found out, the trans¬ 
planted plants are much more able to es¬ 
tablish themselves under adverse condi¬ 
tions than plants from seed, cari’ying, as 
they do, the bacteria with them, and they 
are able quiekly to get their root system 
down into the virgin soil below the fur¬ 
row bottom, and get lime, potash and 
phosphorus that has been out of the roach 
of the common crops. 
One of the best farmers in Illinois, a 
man who raises 000 acres of Alfalfa an¬ 
nually, after trying out the transplanting 
of Cossack on land that is so sandy on 
top that it is impossible to get a catch of 
clover or Alfalfa from seed, is planning 
now on transplanting 1,400 acres of Cos¬ 
sack plants under my supervision. This 
i.^ one of the most successful and prac¬ 
tical farmers in that great State, and he 
has been a close student of Alfalfa grow¬ 
ing, from the standpoint^ of the farmer 
and feeder, for 20 years, so you can see 
that transplanting, under certain condi¬ 
tions, may soon become an important 
item. 
Tlie stoi y of the Cossack is a wonder¬ 
ful one. From the spoonful of seed that 
Prof. Hansen brought to this country 50 
years ago Cossack is now scattered all 
over the world, and the seed crop in West¬ 
ern South Dakota in 1950, on land where 
common Alfalfa fails, was about 00,000 
pounds. It got its foothold during a 
period of the worst crop failures ever 
known in that country. It had to make 
its way against the infiuence of the State 
college, and it “took some of the posts 
with it” there. It has spread over Wis¬ 
consin, in spite of the opjiosition of the 
State college, and I will venture to say 
that The R.'N.-Y. has done a great deal 
more toward getting it into the hands of 
the fanners of your State, and those ad¬ 
joining than the various State colleges 
have done. Once in. It stick.s, and like 
the camel in the story, it crowds in where 
the common Alfalfa has left off, and 
makes itself at home. Also it makes bet¬ 
ter homes wherever it is grown, giving a 
permanency to farming and dairying that 
is a great need everywhere, and especially 
where common Alfalfa has not hecui a 
success. HUGH jeffrie.s. 
Wi,scoiisin. 
Remarks.—The R. N.-Y. does not 
venture any personal controversy regard¬ 
ing varieties where the (piestion of selling 
seed comes up. We think tlie Cossack 
Alfalfa a superior variety and wo advise 
our people to try it, hut not to pay ex¬ 
travagant jiriees for heavy seeding. We 
have been told repeatedly that for some 
rea.son the scientific “experts” are trying 
to discredit Prof. Hansen’s introductions. 
Such a policy is too narrow for public 
men to follow. We have dug up hundreds 
of our transplanted jilants and carried 
them about to public meetings. As a re¬ 
sult of this several farm bureaus wall 
send for plants in the Spring and have 
them tried under various conditions. As 
for the station and colleges, wherever we 
show our plants and talk transplanting 
the college men nsnally look at us with 
that pitying expression which is reserved 
for lunatics or “cranks.” They cannot 
seem to grasp the proposition. Having 
gone throiigli the mill with several other 
“wild” jiropositions and lived to see them 
become iiojuilar, we keep right on talking 
about Cossack roots for transplanting. 
He who would he a jiioncer in this busi¬ 
ness will he as loiie.some as a single Alfal¬ 
fa plant stuck into an old pasture. It 
will be too busy striking down its roots 
and getting a grip on the soil to spend 
time finding fault. We fully believe that 
transplanting Alfalfa roots has a great 
future, but it is a revolutionary practice, 
and most farmers will come to it slowly 
if at all. 
“There is remarka'ble enthusiasm over 
prohibition.” “Yc.s,” replied Mr. Chug- 
gins, “it looks to me as if the old water 
wagon had been speeded up for a regu¬ 
lar joy ride.”—Washington Star. 
