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TShe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 2G, 1917. 
Uni-Lectric 
Light<?/7</Powei; ^ 
^rEveril 
Farm 
Home^ 
^ The 
r Uni-Lectric brings 
to the farm home elec¬ 
tric current for both light 
and power. At a very nominal 
cost you can have cAl the lights you 
^ need— you can operate the various electrical 
conveniences ancf you can have 24 hours con- 
tinuous service every day in the year if you wish. 
,The Uni-Lectric operates on exactly the same prin¬ 
ciple as city lighting plants, delivering its current 
direct from the generator. Extremely simple in con- 
struction and takes up very little space, being only 24 
inches wide, 25 inches long, and 42 inches high. 
No Belts—No Batteries 
Our patented, high speed, rotary sleeve valve engine drives the 
generator with such smoothness that there is no flicker of the j 
lights or unsteadiness of the current. Thus all necessity for stor¬ 
age batteries is done away with and the renewal of batteries and 
battery up-keep cost is permanently eliminated. The engine and 
generator being direct connected, no belts, gears, chains or sprockets are needed. 
11 n Unit Uni-Lectric generates stand- 
liXU WUil ard 110-volt current the same as 
city lighting plants. Uses standard lamp fix¬ 
tures and electrical devices obtainable in any 
electrical supply store. The Uni-Lectric can be 
placed three or four hundred vards from the 
house or bam as it will deliver current double 
the distance possible with low voltage. 
Big Capacity the Un?-Lertric 
fesufficient for50 lights atone time. 
You can operate electric irons, electric 
heaters, vacuum sweepers, electric 
fans, chums, separators, washing ma¬ 
chines and electric motors up to 1 H.P. 
for power purposes about the farm. 
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Easily Installed—Easy to Operate 
Being built in one unit the Uni-Lectric can be placed in any convenient location and after 
the wiring is completed you simply attach the wires to those leading from the generator. 
The Uni-Lectric requires only the care and attention that you would give any machine 
from which you expect many years of service. The accurate and carefully adjusted 
governor gives positive and automatic reflation. Wiring may be so arranged that 
engine can be stopped by switch located in bed-room or other convenient location. 
Because storage batteries are unnecessary with the Uni-Lectric. we are able to 
guarantee the entire outfit. It has proven its efficiency and economy by over 
two yeaia of actual service in the hands of user.?. 
WATERMAN MOTOR COMPANY 
103 Mt. Elliott Ave.. DETROIT, MICH. 
Write today for a free copy 
of our big, instructiv* cat¬ 
alog on electricity for 
the farm. 
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Boston Produce Markets 
(Continned from page 720) 
ing ii little improvement. The best cold 
storage Baldwins sell as high as .'fU; 
others. .?4 to .$5. Fresh packed receijits 
are light in voliuuc and sell about .$1 be¬ 
low cold storage stock, making the gen¬ 
eral range of such fruit .$0 to .$4. One 
lot of Baldwins from ISIaine somewhat 
shrunken sold as low as $2. Maine lien 
Davis arrive in good condition, and if 
large bring to .$4 per barrel. South¬ 
ern fruit is mostly low, including oranges 
and lemons. Straw'beriy shipments have 
worked as far north as Tenncs.«ee and the 
range is 12 to 17c per ipiart. 
Native vegetables are in light supply. 
Rhubarb is .^1..‘15 per box; sjiinach, 
$1.00; lettuce holds fairly well at $1.25; 
dandelions. .$1; beet greens are strong at 
$1.50; radishes, $2.50; choice cucum¬ 
bers. $4.50 per box; kale, .$1.25; hot¬ 
house beets, $1.75 per dozen, hothouse 
tomatoes, 25c jier lb.; old carrots, .$2.75 
per box. I'he potato market is strong 
with an advancing tendency I'caching at 
times $0.50 per bag. and receipts are 
very moderate. Sweet potatoes now sell 
at about the same price as the white kind. 
H.\Y AM) FEEDS. 
The improvement recently noted in the 
hay market continues .so far as the best 
grade is concerned, hut there is not much 
call for the lower grades since the pas¬ 
turage season opened, llosmer, Robin¬ 
son & Co. say : “The market is better for 
good stuff and price up about $2 from 
the low point quoting at .$2.'{ for No. 1. 
No. 2 and stock hay is not wanted. The 
improvement is owing to shipments of 
No. 1 hay to points west and south. It 
is planting time and farmers are not 
shipping so much hay. Help is scarce. 
Cars are more plentiful than they were, 
but there are still fi’eight embargoes in 
certain sections. We expect quite a flow 
of hay in .Tune after the planting is done, 
but a great deal of hay will need to be 
carried over, and there is a large surplus 
remaining in Maine and Vermont. .Tune 
will decide the outlook for the next crop. 
If the yield should be short there will be 
a chance for soiling the surplus hay of 
the old crop at fair prices.” 
“The feed market looks somewhat bet¬ 
ter from the buyers’ point of view,” said 
Catlin & Co. “The wheat feeds are off 
about $6 per ton. Bran, $.S9; middlings, 
$48.50; cottonseed meal is a little lower 
at $44 to $45..50, according to grade; lin¬ 
seed, old process, sells at $48. Opinions 
of dealers vary widely regarding the fu¬ 
ture course of the market. It is our 
opinion that there will be quite extensive 
buying if the market goes $2 lower on the 
wheat feeds.” G. B. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
It Takes Punch J 
In the Power To J 
Do Farm Work 4 
T oy tractors have fooled ^ 
a great many people, ^ 
makers and buyers alike, ^ 
Theory won’t plow a stony * 
field or steadily drive a 
threshing machine. Nothing ^ 
butstrength.weightandpow- ^ 
er '.vill do this kind of work. ^ 
The Nichols & Shepard Co. ^ 
build work engines and build ^ 
them so that you get paying p 
results when they are at work. ^ 
Red River- ^ 
Specie! Line ^ 
Two sizes of Oil-Gas Tract- ^ 
ors, 25-50 and 35-70 H. P., * 
full power on kerosene. 0 
Your neighbor is running an engine of ^ 
our make that will exactly fit any need M 
you may have. He bought it because he ^ 
wanted the best and he bas written to ^ 
us to say that be got it. His letter is M 
published in a little farm paper that ^ 
our nearest branch house will be glad ^ 
to %end to you free with a complete V 
catalog. Write for them and secure . 
reliable home information before you ^ 
buy a power outfit of any kind. " 
Nichols & Shepard Co. W 
In Continuous Business Since 1848 ^ 
Builders Exclusively of Red River Special 
Threshers, Wind Stackers, Feeders, Steam ^ 
Traction Engines and Oil-Gas Tractors ^ 
Battle Creek Michigan ■ 
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The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
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Farm, Garden and Orchard Tools 
Answer the farmer’s big questions. 
How can I can get r y cropseprayed 
when help is scarce? How pro¬ 
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blight? 
IRON AGE )rayer 
meets the need for a fast-working, high-pressuro field 
sprayer. Covers 4 or 6 rows—56 or 100 g tank. Write to- 
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0. W. Ingersoll, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N .Y. 
Fleece W^ools 
Got our prices before selling. Write us, stat¬ 
ing the quantity you have, with tlie grade, 
and we will quote you price delivered on cars 
your sliipping point, 
II. A. PERKINS A CO.. Wool Merchants, 
6 Railroad Row. M'hite River Jiiuottoii, Vt- 
LIGHTNING RODSi 
Ckf* per ft. 99% pure copper' 
^ Direct to you, no middleman 
If goods wheu received are not satisfactory | 
return to us, we will pay freight both ways. 
Full instructions with each order. Write us. 
International Lightning Rod Co. 
Dept. R, SOUTH BEND, IND. 
DOMESTIC.—Fire of mysterious 
origin IMay 11, burned two boats, the 
Porter and the Conger, and for a time 
threatened to destroy two more, together 
with the big coal docks of the Ivehigh 
Valley Railroad at Fairhaven. N. Y., on 
Lake Ontario, \vhence much coal is 
shipped to (’anada. The fire will tie up 
coal shipments for Canada for at least 
a week. 
The Federal grand jury at Pittsburgh, 
Pa., IMay 11. returned indictments 
against tlie .Tosepli Fleming I't Son l)rug 
Company and its offi<‘('rs and against 
Dr. Ellsworth .1. ’I’rader and Dr. 
Jin Fuey Moy, a Chinese physician, on a 
charge of conspiring to violate the Har¬ 
rison anti-narcotic hnv. The authorities 
say that Pittsburgh is the centre^ of a 
monopoly controlling the distribution of 
prohibited drugs. 
I’aul Daeche, German reservist, who 
was out on bail pending his appeal from 
a sentence of two years for aiding Lieu¬ 
tenant Ernest Fay, of the German army, 
and others in i)lacing time bombs on the 
rudder posts of ships carrying supplies to 
the Allies, was arrested May 11 by Secret 
Service agents and interned at Ellis 
Island, N. Y'. Fay, after his sentence, 
escaped from Atlanta. His brother-in- 
law, ‘Walter Scholz, is in Atlanta serving 
three years. Three other alleged co-eou- 
spirators of Fay still await trial. They 
are Max Breitling, a nephew of F. N. 
Breitling; Dr. Herbert Kienzle and Kn- 
gelbci-t liroiihorst. 
A fire ch'stroyed the International Har¬ 
vester Company’s ofllce and warehouse 
at Sioux Falls, S. I)., May 11. The loss 
is more than a million dollars. A million 
pounds of binder twine ignited, spreading 
the flames to all parts of the four-story 
structure in the manufacturing distinct. 
The warehous was heavily stocked with 
farm implements. 
Fire in the Cluff ammunition works at 
Toronto, Canada, exploded 59,000 five- 
pound shells and caused damage to the 
plant estimated at $300,000 May 11. 
Siiontaueoiis combustion is believed to 
have caused the Cre. 
The trial of the men connected with 
the National Labor I’eaee Council at New 
York, May 14, introduced testimony re¬ 
lating to William Jennings Bryan, whose 
removal from the Cabinet seriously af¬ 
fected the plans of the men under trial. 
Dr. J. (irant Lyman, convicted in Los 
Angeles in 1913 on a charge of using the 
mails to defraud in the sale of Panama 
lands, lost his appeal in the United States 
Circuit Court of Appeals at San Fran¬ 
cisco May 14. The court affirmed sen¬ 
tence of 15 months in the Federal peni¬ 
tentiary at Atlanta. Lyman was in¬ 
dicted in New York in 191*» for mail 
frauds which were said to have uetted 
him hundreds of thousands of dollars. 
Vigorous action for the overtlirow of 
the German secret service in America 
was begun iMay 14 at San Francisco by 
te Federal authorities on information 
they said had been furnished by Rudolph 
Flamindinghe, alleged head of the spy 
system on the Pacific coast. Flamind- 
ingdie. under arrest in l.os Angeles, is 
said to have given the Government agents 
information which, it is believed, will 
result in the immediate arrest of virtually 
evei-y^ <Terman secret .service ojierative in 
the T nited States. According to Federal 
officers, the Fnited States has been di¬ 
vided into 10 districts, with a chief ami 
subordinates operating in each division. 
Afraid to communicate by mail or tele¬ 
graph, members of the alleged spy ring 
have adopted an elaborate system of 
codes, wich are earried hv messengers 
from one distinct to another.' 
Fire in the manufacturing district of 
Rellows Falls. Yt.. May 15. caused a loss 
of $200,000. 
^Fire of unknown origin started May 
lo ill the five-story brick receiving build¬ 
ing at the New York Navy Yard, de¬ 
stroyed that structure and caused a loss 
which jirobably will run into hundreds 
of thousands of dollars. On either side 
of the ordnance dock leading to the build¬ 
ing are moored interned German steam¬ 
ships May 15. Those, however, were not 
damaged. On May 13 a lire damaged a 
destroyer moored in the yard. 
WASHINGTON.—For the first rime 
in its history the Government began May 
10 the publication of an official gazette, 
•or “Official Rnlletin.” It is proposed to 
jiresent in its columns all proclamations 
and executive orders issued by the Presi¬ 
dent ; rules and regulations ))romulgated 
by the Federal departments; offii-ial bul¬ 
letins and statements; statutes bearing 
on the war and their construction and 
all other subjects related to the prosecu¬ 
tion of the war, to which publicity prop¬ 
erly may be given. The bulletin will be 
distributed without cost to public offi¬ 
cials, newspapers and agencies of a public 
or semi-public character equipped to dis¬ 
seminate the official information it will 
contain. It will be conspicuomsly posted 
in all post offices and the committee urges 
all libraries and other public or semi- 
Iiublic institutions to make it available to 
the public whenever possible. 
The American steamship DeKalb, for¬ 
merly the German auxiliary cruiser and 
commerce raider, I’rinz Eitel Friedrich, 
was placed in full commission in the 
.Vinerican navy on May 12. The DeKalb 
will be the first of the German ships, 
I'ither naval or merchant, to be employed 
npiinst the German Government. The 
Navy Department would not disclose the 
duty to which the vessel has been as¬ 
signed. 
Great Britain has .agreed to turn over 
to the T‘'nited States every ton of ship¬ 
ping now building in the United States 
for British interests, it was .announced 
May 14 at the offices of the Shipiiing 
Board. _ This will add 1,024,000 tons of 
steel ships to the American overseas war 
fleet within 18 months. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture ordered the IVhite 
Pine blister rust quarantine to become 
efTective May 1, 1917, instead of .Tune 1. 
a.s previously annonneed. The order pro¬ 
hibits the movement of IVliite i»ines and 
black currant jilants from the New Eng¬ 
land States to points outside of New 
England. 
A campaign to increase the meat sup¬ 
ply of the nation by 100,000.(X)0 ))ouiids 
in four months by raising chickens was 
begun_ May 11 b.v the American Poultry 
As.sociation. A pamphlet declaring that 
an egg should he transformed into a 
three-pound chicken in four months is 
being distributed widely by the associa¬ 
tion. 
^ In the Ridgewood section of Greater 
New_ Y'ork merchants who heretofore gave 
trading stainjis with their purchases have 
stopped the jiractice. Now they give a 
potato or an onion instead. One small 
potato or an onion is given for a 10- 
cent purchase. The sizes of these lux¬ 
uries vary with the purchase. The house¬ 
wife who makes a $4 purchase gets enough 
potatoes for her Sunday dinner. Motion 
picture houses have also adopted the plan 
of giving a -small potato or onion with 
every ticket. 
Five hundred boys were placed on 
farms in the vicinity of New York City 
during the week ending May 14 by the 
Ne\y Y'ork farm cadet bureau of the 
Military Training Commission, accord¬ 
ing to information received at the Albany 
office of the commi.ssioii. Six camps of 
hoys who are to work on farms were estab¬ 
lished during the week and these camps 
are now being set up at the rate of one a 
day. The boys going out from New York 
will receive full credit for their school 
work to ihe end of the present year and. 
if they are of military training age—1*!. 
17 or IS—they will receive credit for 
meeting in full their military training re¬ 
quirements until January 1, 1918. 
Increased prices of potash, which are to 
hold until 1920, are fixed in a bill amend¬ 
ing the potash law, which was passed 
May 14 by the German Reichstag. Dur¬ 
ing the debate it was said that America, 
the only profitable customer, had dropped 
out. and that it was necessary to accumu¬ 
late large stocks of potash, to be ex¬ 
changed for other commodities immedi¬ 
ately after the war. 
