IShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
655 
Conditions in British Columbia 
I would like to have your opinion on 
this district as suited to dairying^. At 
present beef is the whole thing, but at 
last institute meeting settlei’s were con¬ 
sidering starting a creamery. I’ersonally 
I figure I can make more in other ways 
than the dairy business here, while others 
are very enthusiastic over it. While 
there is ample range at present, and wild 
peavine. vetch, rye, grass, etc., firewood 
constitutes the feed. Cows are usually 
not turned out till about .Tune 15, then 
grazing is really over August 1,5, as most 
hay is being cut then. In the cultivated 
crops, clover of any kind grows not over 
is inches high, no second crop, and m'ver 
any aftermath. xVny ci’op cut by the 
mower is done for, for the season. Corn 
won't do anything here. Alfalfa gives 
about same results as clover, although in 
many cases is not so tall in August as end 
of .Tune. Oats, barley, peas, turnips ajid 
all vegetables grow excellently. _ Beef 
grazes till November, and comes in fat. 
Cayuses look well after digging their feed 
out of three feet of snow all Winter, To¬ 
day, April 4, three feet of snow lies on 
the ground and more falling. Tempera¬ 
ture here crawls down to 50 and 00 below 
several times during the Winter. There 
has been no data to date of cost of keep¬ 
ing a dairy cow on a producing ration 
here. JOHN M. s.wiTir. 
British Columbia. 
R. N.-Y.—No one would be qualified to 
advise in this unless he knew the country 
or lived there. From your statement it 
appears that dairying does not look prom¬ 
ising. 
Bran and shorts are selling for $45 
per ton. Hogs .$16 per cwt.; buyers are 
paying that. Pigs $14, We raise lots 
of Winter wheat, but it is going to be 
almost a failure from the looks now. 
Rye we do not raise much, and it does 
not look as well as it should. Apples 
look fair; no peaches. Hay is scarce, and 
sells for ,$20. Separated milk 47c; milk 
by the quart 10c; butter 30e; eggs 30c. 
Mills are paying $2.50 for wheat de¬ 
livered ; corn local to feeders $1.50 per 
bu, A good acreage of potatoes will be 
planted, regardless of expensive seed, 
and a large crop of corn and oats. 
Carroll Co., Ind, W. E. B. 
Cows from $40 to $100; wheat bran 
.$2.15; middlings $2.45. Winter wheat 
badly frozen out. Very little rye raised 
here. Spring late; the last five days 
very nice Spring weather. Farmers do¬ 
ing all they can to push the Spring 
work, but little help can be hired. 
Farmers can only put in what crops they 
can take care of themselves. w. s. F. 
Venango Co., Pa. 
Bran $2.35; middlings $2.60; cotton¬ 
seed $2.50; oil meal tankage $3.50. Hay 
baled, best. $12; milk $2 per hundred; 
butterfat 47c per lb.; eggs 30c. Stores 
ask 50c for creamery buttff’. Not many 
potatoes raised here for market. Seed 
potatoes ,$2.75 to $4; selling pi'ice at 
stores $3. The principal crop raised 
here are wheat. Irye, oats, corn and 
beans. Wheat and rye have made very 
little growth. Ground froze too hard to 
plow three mornings last week. Oat 
seeding is .iust beginning. We have a co¬ 
operative stock shipping company, which 
is doing well and have organized a far¬ 
mers’ elevator company to buy grain, 
etc., but have not commenced doing bus¬ 
iness yet. w, s. H. 
Calhoun Co., Mich. 
Feeds of all kinds are high and pros¬ 
pects of going still higher in this county. 
Bran, .$2.45 per cwt.; corn, ,$1.62; oats, 
.32 lbs., 88c; mixed feed, .$2.55: cotton¬ 
seed. $2.50; gluten, .$2.50; middlings. 
$2.45. This is a good potato .section; 
farmers have sold their potatoes, and 
what they have left are seed. Quite a few 
farmers have sold themselves short. Buy¬ 
ers are paying $2.75 per bu.; farmers are 
planning to plant more potatoes this year. 
Hay crop good; No. 1 hay can be bought 
for $12 at barn. Oat crop fair, was 
housed in good condition. Apples light. 
No. 1 apples .$4 per barrel, not many 
stored. Poultry raisers have had a suc¬ 
cessful season. Eggs have been high all 
Winter; went as high as 65c per doz.; are 
quoted at .35e; farmers are getting .30e. 
Live fowls, 22c per lb.; dressed, 25c. 
This is a good dairy section, new milch 
cows are in good demand, and bring from 
.$75 to $125. Milk is sold to creameries, 
and shipped to large cities. The average 
price per cwt. this Winter, .82.25. Live 
hogs are in good demand, and buyer's are 
paying as high as 12 to 14e ’^er lb, live 
weight. Calves are in good demand by 
buyers, and best calves bring from 11 to 
1.3e per lb., live weight. Farmers sell 
butter to stores; the stores pay the far¬ 
mers as per market conditions. We still 
have a lot of snow and hauling is bad. 
Spring is late; some farmers have been 
able to get little manure out. w. H. B. 
Somerset Co., Me. 
A large part of the produce here is 
sold direct to consumer. We are right 
in the Connellsville coke region, and 
have great markets for anything pro¬ 
duced. We do not get near city prices 
for beef cattle, but I think that is be¬ 
cause there are not enough and the right 
kind produced. A few of us have been 
selling 18% cream to ice cream compan¬ 
ies at 75c per gal. in Summer and 8.5c 
in Winter. Milk wholesales to the ice 
cream companies and local retailers at 
16c to 18c in Summer and 20 to 24c in 
Winter. I sold some dry cows fattened 
on silage at 6c, six of them averaged 
$74.<80 each for beef. Hay to tonsum- 
er $18. I sold a bunch of dre.ssed hogs 
in Nov. at 1,5c and a bunch March 1 .at 
17c; sold eggs all Winter at 50c, now 
.30c. Butter 45c; sold my cabbage last 
Fall at 4c wholesale; potatoes sold in 
the Fall at SOc to $1, now .$3 to $4. Lo¬ 
cal stores are buying potatoes at $3 and 
selling at $4 per bu. Our fruit crop was 
almost a failure last season, but wo 
bought apples iu the mountain at 50c 
to $1 per bu. I still have my last year’s 
wheat, and local mills would only pay 
$1 last Fall and bought lots of it at 
that. I was offered $2.15 yesterday, 
corn $1.50 bu. Of course those are un¬ 
usual times and prices. The prices I 
quote on cream and milk are about the 
same as for several years back, and pay 
pretty well when feed is normal. I 
grow lots of Alfalfa and silage, sell 
cream and feed skim-milk to pigs, and 
feed the crops largely back to the land. 
But I cannot see very much profit iu 
feeding beef cattle at 6 to 8c which is 
all the local butcher will pay, although 
beef sell at 18 to 25c at the shop. 
Fayette Co., Pa. e. e. a. 
Your 
Herd 
represents real 
money. Protect 
it from loss 
through infectious disease, make its living 
quarters clean, bright and sanitary and 
save yourself time, labor and money. Use 
a finely powdered, snow-white mineral pigment 
combined with a non - poisonous germicide 20 
times stronger than pure carbolic-acid. Ready as 
soon as mixed with cold water to apply with 
brush or sprayerNo disagreeable odor to taint 
milk. Will not blister, flake or peel. 
A Disinfectant That Dries White 
—not dark or colorless—for use in stable, dairy, 
poultnr house, cellar, etc. Used and endorsed by 
experiment stations, agricultural colleges and 
thousands of poultry, dairy and breeding farms. 
10 lbs. (to Gals.), $1.00 and poatoge 
20 Iba, (20 Gals.$2.C0 di’livorcd 
60 Iba. (60Gal8.)e 00 delivered 
Trlsl packsfiro that TOvera 250 BQuaro feet and booklet, 
for 26c postpaid. Your d« alor baa It* If not* aend bia 
name and your order direct. 
Carbola Chemical Co., Inc. 
7 East 42nd Street Dept. R, New York 
Only $2 Down 
One Year to Pay!p 
Buys the New Butter- 
fly Jr. No. 2. Lightruonin^ 
I easy cleaning, close skim¬ 
ming, durable. Guaranteed 
lifetime. Skims 95quarts 
t ier hour. Made also in f?To ^ 
arser aisca up toMo.8 ahown he-o. 
30 Days* Free Trial e-b ««own^c^_^^; 
it saves in cream. Postal brinua Free cat* 
I alofir, folder and “dlrect-from-factory*’ offer* 
I Buy from the manufacturer and aave money* 
ALBAUGH-DOVER CO. 
! 2171 marshall Blvd. CHICAGO 
lOO.OOOV 
ow in useiy 
Then at end of twelve months 120 horses 
fed from a 
National Oat Crusher 
average 97 lbs. per horse gain. 
EXCEL MANUFACTURING CO.. Pollertville, N. J 
MISCELLANEOUS 
FOR SALE 
HighlyBredAyrshireBuII 
(Yearling): Registered. May be seen at “ Fair- 
view Farm,” Furchase Street, Purchase,N.Y. 
n j r -y PUPS WANTED. Deal in wild animals and pots. 
ncQ rOX Oarland Zool. Company, Oldtuwn, Maine 
TI TMIQ A CHOICE LOT. 8TK01NG 
1 UlNlO CKOSS BREEDERS 
The leading breed for hot house lambs. Write for 
literature and prices to J. N. McPherson, Scottsville, N.Y. 
AUliCC /SnATC KhU from high clasH 
wlilOO VIUHIO Xoggenburgaud Saaneu 
'Sreuts. Some good Bucks, No bred or milking 
.Oes to sell. SHARPLES, Centre Square, Pa. 
S’ 
di 
DOGS 
rnHi’o Piinc and GUINEA PIGS. 
LOllierups nelson BROS., grove City, Pa. 
NIREDALETERRIERPUPPIE S— Big, strong, absolutely feaij 
H less. Ooraiig strain. Parents registered. Superb watch 
dogs and hunters, $15 at 8 weeks. IngleiideFami, Lancaster, N T 
FOR SALE. Unrelated 
Pedigreed Airedale Pups 
fann raised. Prices reasonabie. FRANK MFAD, Ameeia, N. 1. 
" pairs: best blood lines; 
able, 
1 _ii- 
HORSES 
••• 1 
Florham Guernsey Herd 
MADISON, NE'SV JERSEY {J. L. Hope, Owner.) 
THIRD ANNUAL SALE 
Thursday, May 17th, 1917 
(the day following the Annual Meeting of the American Guernsey Cattle Club) 
100 Imported and Home-bred Animals 
of such quality as to compare favorably with all previous offerings 
The pick of the» progeny of all the Florham Herd 8ires will be Included and 
among them will be 7 daughters of Ne Plus Ultra, whose get were especially prom¬ 
inent at last year’s National Dairy Show. Thirty of the fotnalos are of May Rose 
breeding. 
The Imported Contingent is headed by Honoria s Sequel II 2816 P. S. 
winner of the King’s Cup 19ir>, First Progeny Prize. Guernsey Farmers’ Show, 
1910, and the Peer Challenge Trophy for Bull and Progeny, Sept., 1910. Eight or 
ten of his daughters will ho offered and all the imported heifers of suitable age 
have been iired to the Florham herd Sires. 
The bulls will also include the grandly bred WAUDEM ULTRA KING 27922 (by 
a son of Ne Plus Ultra 1.5205 out of a daughter of Imp. May Rose King 8530) and 
about ten imported and home-bred calves and yearlings,—good individuals, all. 
For Catalogue Address 
LEANDER F. HERRICK. A uctioneer 
'WORCESTER, MASS. 
or J. L. HOPE, Owner, Florham Farms, Madison, N. J. 
r 30 -DAY SALE'S 
MILKING SHORTHORN CATTLE 
PERCHERON AND BELGIAN 
STALLIONS AND MARES 
All richly bred and registered. Good 
big Stallions, S250 to S800 
O. N. WILSON, KITTANNINC, PA. 
Special 60-day Sale 
Stnllions from $300 to $1200. None 
liiglier. Sons of the $40,000 Coruot 
(0(iG6S) Incliuled. No better lot of 
ItoiKes to be Been on any one Farm 
iu America. A chance of alifetlme. 
They must be sold. 
A.W. GREEN 
Middlefiold, O. R. R. Station, 
luu,t Orwell, O., on I'enua. R. R. 
For Sale-PUREBRED PERCHERON STALLION 
from year-old coal black, a prizewinner at State 
fair, weight, one ton. Sound and right. Also six 
grade colts. HAWTHORNE FARMS CO., Rock Stream. N Y. 
Percherons For Sale 
two yearling mares. E. W. THOMPSON, Factoryville, Pa. 
ForSal0--BlackPercheronStallionR’'o®g*/xo?7^^^^^ 
$350. C. AMSDEN, Weudell Depot, Mass. 
SHETLAND PONIES 
200 He:vd to select from. Twenty-six 
yearsexiwrience. WritoDei>t. L.forcala- 
logue. THE SUAOtSIDE FARMS, North Benton. 0. 
Sh etI a n d Ron i es 
herd iu biggest ShetUud Prodaciug Coiitiiy iu U. S. |50 to $iuO 
I SWINE 
“HAMPSHIRES” 
WEANLING PIGS, free circular, also 
GUERNSEY BULLS % full 6 months old. 
LOCUST UWN FARM, Bird-ln-Hand, Box R, Pa. 
SWINE 
•Breed Berkshires* 
For large litters of husky, hustling pigs; for rapid 
gains on inexpensive feeds; and for easy fattening. 
They bring top prices on all tho big markets be¬ 
cause of uniformity, high quality meat and least 
shrinkage. Send today for free booklet “Berkshire. 
Hogs.” it points tho way to more hog money.. 
American Berkshire Association 
524 Monroe Street Springfield, HI. 
“SmccessorQuaiityBerksliires^ 
Now booking orders for 1917 Spring pigs sired by 
Successor’s Duke lOtb 191530 and Successor's Rival 
216904. both winners 
These pigs arc from well bred, big, prolific 
sows. Prices and breeding on application. 
BROOKUNDS FARMS, 
of SIZE 
and QUALITY 
BERKSHIRES 
The boar. Majestic Mammoth 229500, weight 
407 lbs. at 7 months of age, was bred and 
grown by us. When you want the best and 
want them big, write to 
C T T /-'« a O’-PCO WHITGUERN FARM 
. H. CAK 1 LK, WEST CHESTER, Pa. 
Large Berkshires at High wood: 
Letter from J If. Pitman, trnlon Springs, Alaba¬ 
ma. •■Tbe sow Higliwood Starlight IbUtb, farrowed 
ton pigs. She promises to bo a fine sow.” Sloro 
Jlighwood Berkshires have been sold iu the p:ist 
twelve years than from any three herds combined. 
H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Box 15, Dundee, N. Y. 
Thoroughbred Collie Pups 
Cow-dog strain. $5 and up. T. L. CHENEY, Guilford, N.Y. 
FOR PURE BRED TAMWORfH SWINE 
write or visit VVKSTVIl'IVV STOCK FAKM.K. 
F. D. No. 1, Wiuston-Salem. North Carolina 
ChangeinPrice 
of weanling pigs :i£ter May 15th. Now $10 each. 
Not akin; pedigreed; rigid inspeetion for type, 
•size, healt)i. KINOERHOOK DUROC-JERSEY SWINE BREED¬ 
ERS' ASSliCIATION, Roy McVauali, Sec., Kinderhook, N. Y. 
^1 , of the highest 
Chester Whites 
30 Chester White pigs; of the Inst of March and 1st of 
April farrow—Sired by Schoolboy a son of the great 
Schoolmaster and out of prize ■winning sows. Price, SlO 
to $12 each at 8 weeks old. Uendy to ship the last of May. 
JOHN B. JOHNSON, It. 4, BOMC, N. Y. 
ForSale-Reg. O. LC, BOAR 
ready for service. First-class animal. Price, ro.a- 
sonable. Address, IRVING P. FAVOR, Jr., Kyserike, N. Y, 
I- O- 
XGrS 
in pairs, not akin. Eligible to registry. Price, SIX DOL- 
at six weeks old. ARTHUR FREEMAN. Pulaski,H. Y, 
Registered 0.1. C. Whites 
Why pay the breeder to raise your breeding stock, 
when you can do it better and clieaper .yourself 1 
Engage your spring pigs NOW. 
WAYSIDE FARM - Chatliam, N. J. 
Address A. L. PAGE, (Owner), G2 Cortlandt St., N. Y. City 
ForSale-Reg. Poland China Boars 
Bone, out of seven Imndred pound sows. These 
boars carry generations of t)iousand pound prize 
winning ancestors. Edward Itowell, Hanover, Va. 
Ufantnd TiunDiirm Cheap. State price and particulars. 
llanTSU IWOrlgS WcetueketFunus, MUXabor, N, j. 
Anedjo Farm Berkshires 
Afew good youngboars, ready for service. 
Type, quality and breeding the best. For 
generations they have been prize-winners. 
Write H. M.Terwilliger, Mgr. Anedjo Farm,Webster, Mass. 
SPECIAL BERKSHIRE SALE 
3 and 4 months old Keg. Berkshires $12.60 and $15.00 
each, shipped on approval. 
PRIDE HOME FARM HOWARD, PENNA. 
“Farmleigh” Reg. Berkshires 
Gilts for sale, f:irrowing May-June. Also unrelated 
boar and spriu.';pigs. Write JohnLortontee, Carmel, N.Y. 
Springbank Berkshires 
Bre.l Sows ami Gilts for March and April farrow. 
Open Gilts. .Tune farrowed. 0 Service Boars. 
J. E. WAT,SON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Ct. 
BERKSHIRES 
Breeding and quality unexcelled. Prices right. 
Write ns yonr wants. H. GRIMSHAW, North East. Pa. 
B 
ERKSHIRES. Limited supply breeding stock. 6 weeks 
old; both sexes J $9 each. CLOVERDULE FARM. Charlolle, N.Y. 
riiirno ^’od. Poland C., $26 pair 
uuroc SLUKNO WEEKS - Do GrafT, Ohio 
millAA Pedigreed stock, 3 mos. 
|l|||f|llB HIold,^U apiece. Havelim- 
■ ■^^itednumberonly.soplease 
order from this '* ad.” to 
avoid disappointment. EDWIN A. SOUDER, Telford, Pa. 
SWINE “Moheganites,” o^pTr 
" bredChesterWhites,high 
quality O. I. 0. S. Young boars only. 
MOIIEGAN FARM, Box Y, PeekskiU, N. Y. 
AIREDALE TERRIERS 
Most useful doe alive. (1) Best watch dog* alert, brave, sensible, 
stock dog, killslx>b cat, c<^oto, mongrols. \3) Great orchard dog. (4) Wonder* 
ful hunting dog, used by Roosevelt and Ralnoy. (5) A poultry insurance policy* 
Bwom enemy ot skunk, weasel, coon, rats. (6) The child's companion, playful. 
(2) Peerless 
(4) Wonder* 
hnb guardian. (7) A money maSer, good bitch 
pfes ^11^ readily, raisio thcm^lvea, hardy, _ Wo 
no mean ways, free from rabies, 
earns upward of $200 a year, puppic ,, . ___ _ 
have the best thoroughbred stock. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for booklet. 
AT STUD, Havelock Goldsmith, magnificent, imported son of Champion Crompton 
Oorang, fee $15. Puppies, grown stock, bred 
VIHERT KENNEL 
itches for sale. 
Box la, WESTON, N. 
