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Iowa Falls, Iowa. 
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of the hired man?—or of. several hired men? 
Then how much worse if, on account of the 
existing shortage of hired help, you found yourself 
permanently short-handed. To prevent such a 
possibility, if for no other reason, you need 
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more hours per day in the field—and to have 
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Live Stock Notes 
A High-priced Holstein 
The picture slinws the foiir-moiiths- 
old Holstein bull calf .sold at the recent 
breedcr.s’ sale at Buffalo. X. Y.. for 
.$;j,700. lie is by Bag Apple Korndyke 
8th. out of Biverview Pontiac IIo))(>ful. 
with recoid of 39.14 pounds of butter in 
direct the work on this and the Stevens 
fai’in adjoining, making otM) acres of the 
finest dairy fiirm in the section. < die 
hundred fine grade Ilolsteins will he 
milked and 50 high-grade Guernseys. 
This season 2.50 acres will 1)C put under 
cultivation, two tnictors and seven teams 
Ix’ing hiisily engaged in tin* woi’k. with a 
motor truck to supplement activities. 
Holstein Bull King Rag Apple Hopeful 
sci’cii days. This hull was hi'ed :ii I’iiii’ 
Grove' r'anii. and houglit hy .1. G. Shan¬ 
ahan. of Buffalo. X. V. 
Dairy Notes 
Till' recent agricultural census tiikeii 
hy tile schools iiud farm hui'e'aus brings 
iiome more cleiirly than ever the point 
that dairymen are not getting enough for 
milk. The census shows a decided de¬ 
crease in the number of heifer calves be¬ 
ing i-iiised throughout the State. In the 
writer’s home county, a typical milk 
county, there are hut 4,480 being riiised 
now as compared to the 5.035 being 
raised one year ago, despite the prophe¬ 
cies of the dealers that th(‘ raise in price 
at the time of the milk strike hist Octo- 
hei- would lead to widespreiid increiise in 
hei'ds iind consequent overproduction. 
The rank iind file of dairymen were 
truly disappointed when the April iirices 
were lowered from quixotic motives of 
siiaring the consumer, and letting the 
lu'ofit-consiiming dealers continue to ab¬ 
sorb unjust proportions of the bu.'.iness. 
The farmers were ready and willing to 
stand by the effort to secuie the I.eagu<>’.s 
denmuds. iis stated in the first schedule 
submitted, iuid which wei'C surely mod- 
enite enough. Fei'd lias takt'u gigantic 
bounds since even then—iind we are 
hound for six months to unjust rati's. 
The census shows the real status of the 
daii’y business in oiir 8t:ite, and jiroves 
the point that diiirymen cannot continue 
to do business iit the present rates, mnch 
less increiise their scoiie. The Stiite-wide 
inereased acreage of human food crops 
for war use that is also'disclosed hy the 
census ciinnot hut have its effei-t on milk 
production, as there promises to lie much 
more ju-olit in crop growing than in milk, 
and tin* curtailing of pasturage iind 
roughiige will hi'iir directly on diiirying. 
This increase in crop acres varies, hut in 
most counties is in the thousands of 
acres. The census shows the hired help 
of the farms to be only 84 per cent, of 
the number employed last yeiir at this 
time, and hel]) was short then. This will 
Ik, another factor against milk produc¬ 
tion, iis labor is a necessity. Much of 
the emergt'uc.v hell) of the seiison will be 
school boys and city men. who are inex¬ 
perienced in dairy work, particularly 
milking. 
Butter has dropped two or thi-('e cents 
a pound. Cheese is holding its own iit 
unprei'odented prices. Most of the daii'y 
hoards have opened for the seasiui. The 
first Siiles of the year as recorded !it 
Goiiverneur. Ciuiton, Uticji iind M’iiter- 
town. were 2(114 to a pound, as 
compared wi^ l(>c a year ago. 'The seii- 
,son is backward, and factories have 
opened hitei- than usual this year. Cheeses 
iire somewhat smaller, thongli large Ched- 
diii'S ai'e coming on the market more 
freely. There is ii good demand foi' cheese 
for export. Dairymen everywhere who 
si'll to factories are getting nuich mori' 
for milk than thixse who sell to Xew 
York di'iilers. March prices given by 
Central Xew York factories are: High- 
liiiid, Kilhiwog. $2.30 per 1(K) Ihs.; Tay¬ 
lor Center. ,$2.(503; Taylor Valley, 
i ,$2,200: '\Yillet (’o-operative, $2.48; 
I I.incklaen, $’2,529; Pharsalia, $2..36. 
With skim milk at nominal cost, or whey 
free to piitrons. The well-known Peck 
diiiry farm, about the only dairy in Cort- 
liind County that produces milk from 
tuberculin-tested cows, has been increased 
in size .ind capacity. The manager and 
part owner. M. J. Peck, will continue to 
'Till' (laii'.v will he coiituuii'd undei' the 
old mime. M. c. i'. 
Di-ydi'ii, X. Y. 
Sju iiig is very hackwiii’d ; there is not 
iii'iir the Jimouut of milk made here as 
usually; griiin so high farmers will not 
feed it. A lot of the cows are poor in 
flesh and ii poor cow will not give the 
milk like a cow in line rig. 0. H. u. 
Xew Kingston. X. Y. 
The milk supply in immediate neigh- 
boi'hocKl will be fully up to last yeiir. 
(^uite !i few have from one to four cows 
more than last yeiir. C’ows, in fact all 
kinds of stock. ai'C very poor; not near 
as much grain feed used as last y<'ar. 
Farmers Ciiniiot buy it, and have no 
money left at the iirescnt milk prices. 
4Ve ship milk to the coiideiisery at 
Ithaca at iicague prices, and .some piitroii- 
ize the chei'.se factory at Carolim*. I 
have no ideii how pasture will he; grtiss 
has hardly started to grow yet. We iiri' 
feeding full feed from the barn; a few 
go<Kl warm days and we would he itll 
right. A. A. 
Uicliford. X. Y. 
Our .staple crops in this section of 
Chester Co. are: 'Wheat, corn,-oats, hay 
and potatoe.s, in addition to milk and 
eggs. 'Wheat. .$2.40: corn, $1..5(): oats. 
70c; hay Xo. 1, .$1(5.50 net; potatoes. $.’!; 
milk. .$2.20 per cwt. for 4 per cent. test, 
for April, iit receiving station. Eggs. .3()c 
per doz. I .sold veal calves about 10 days 
ago. at 1.3c. They are off now. w. s. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
Bran, $50; middlings, $51; hominy 
meiil, ,$59; tiinkage GO per cent., .$80; 
corn, hii., $1.75. Choice Timothy liny, 
$20; no clover or Alfalfa to be had. 
Winter wlieat is looking the worst I ever 
saw. “Rye is looking fairly well, but 
pulled some. Wheat is badly pulled hy 
freezi'S. Milk is wholesaling loaded on 
inti'rnrhan at 21c. Shotes are hard to 
find. Country mostly cleared of hogs. 
Buechel, Ky. j. F. s. 
An Old-time Letter from Rural New York 
(Continued from page 710) 
500 this drove. These Iioags are put into 
a still and fatted and then killed and 
barreled up and sold. ... I wish 
you would come out and see me. It will 
cost you but a little. YMu can come all 
the way by wjiter. It will cost you 2 ct.s. 
Iier mile on the canal, and be found and 
you can make your cjilculation what it 
will cost you to go to Xew York and from 
there to Albany. The hole expence eanot 
cost you over .$10 from Connecticut here. 
. . . If you should couclued to come 
please write me so I can calculate my 
business to be at home. 
Yours with Respect, 
I may add that the postage paid on this 
letter was 25 cents, and on the face of it 
the writer has written prominently “With 
8pecd.” One may question, however, if 
he was enabled thus to much accelerate 
its delivery which must have required 
about a week. In those days it took 
.something like four days to get a h'ttei 
through from Boston to New York by the 
“Swift Mail.” b. f. case. 
Connecticut. 
