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7she RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 13, 1917 
Now—More Than Ever—^You Need 
Fast Work—Highest Efficiency 
Horses are scarce—labor scarcer. 
Yet America expects you to produce a bigger yield than ever. 
Only faster work and higher efficiency will do it. 
You need the Cleveland Tractor. Up-to-date farmers in all sections of 
the country are finding it just the fast-working, economical implement they 
must have. 
The Cleveland plows—and plows beautifully—at 3% to 4 miles an hour. 
Thinly of it. Such speed used to be considered out of the question. 
It actually means doing the work of three good 3-horse teams and 3 men 
in the same time— and at a greater saving in actual money. 
Eight to ten acres a day! And every foot plowed better than you can 
do it with horses and men I 
Hauling only two plows the Cleveland is not only easier to handle than the 
heavier three-plow machines, but works much quicker and coversjnore ground. 
This same speed so useful in plowing can also be applied to harrowing, 
harvesting, hauling the manure spreader or any of the many hauling jobs you 
have. The Cleveland gives you 12 horsepower at the drawbar—plenty 
for all your work. 
Because it travels on its own trades the Cleveland can go anywhere— 
up or down hill, across ditches, through loose sand, gravel or thick mud. 
The Cleveland is the first general purpose tractor. It is the invention of 
Rollln H. White, the famous motor truck engineer. Every part is selected 
for strength and long wear. Gears are identical with those found in the 
finest trucks. All are protected by dustproof cases. 
The Cleveland gives you 20 horsepower at the pulley belt—ample power 
for cutting ensilage, sawing, pumping, running the binder head, or any 
stationary engine farm work. 
It is small (only 52 inches high) and light (weight 2750 pounds). So 
you can get unusual economy. 
And here’s another very important advantage. The Cleveland steers by 
the power of its engine. Just a light touch on the wheel and it goes in the 
desired direction. It will turn in less than a 12-foot circle. 
We are flooded with orders for the Cleveland Tractor and cannot 
promise immediate _deliveries. We advise ordering now for delivery 
in the spring. _ ^ 
Write now for complete information and the name of the nearest Xractor Cof 
Cleveland dealer. Address Dept. L , or use the coupon. Dept, l , 
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CLEVELAND 
TRACTOR 
COMPANY / Name. 
Cleveland, Ohio ^ - 
^ County 
Cleveland, Ohio 
Please send me full 
^ infonnatioa about the 
” Cleveland Tractor. 
.State. 
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Crops emd Farm Notes 
Most of the farmers sell their stuff to 
the city people or the store in Huntingdon. 
Potatoes, $1 bu.; onions, .$1.50: tomatoes, 
$1..50; apples, $1 to $1.50; pears, $2; 
country butter, 4.5c lb.; creamery butter, 
50c lb.; milk, 10c qt.; eggs, 40c doz. 
These prices the people pay the farmers; 
the stores about 10 per cent. less. 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. H. D. V. 
Farmers through this section are mar¬ 
keting at the present timj sw'eet corn at 
.$2 per 100 (wholesale), and potatoes at 
.$1.75 per bu., retail. Farmers are haul¬ 
ing out wheat very steadily at $2 to $2.10. 
Bucks Co., Pa. J. h. c. 
Beef, 15c per lb. dressed; live, $100 
each ; fresh cows, about $75 to $100 each. 
Shippers are paying 17c for hogs; home 
butchers only about 20c, dressed. Butter, 
to merchants, 40c.; to customers, 45c. 
Average price for cheese sold at factory 
for August, 2.3c; average price for milk 
sent to factory, about $2 for August. 
Milk plant paid $2.45 for September milk 
and is to pay .$2.85 for October milk on 
3 per cent, basis. Eggs, 40c at store. 45c 
to customers. Potatoes, $1.25 to $1.50; 
onions, $2; turnips, 50c to 60c; carrots, 
75c; sweet corn, 20c to 25c per doz. No 
fruit here this year except berries, which 
sold from 1.5c to as high as 20c per qt. 
Hay was good; also wheat.; all other 
crops here poor as a rule, so much rain 
and cold on clay soil. There will be very 
little sound corn. Corn and buckwheat 
both badly damaged by frost. I think not 
over 50 or 60 per cent, of buckwheat will 
be harvested. c. w. G. 
Crawford Co., Pa. 
Butter from 28 to 42 and 50c per lb.; 
eggs, 42c. Bound steak, 28 to 80c; retail 
veal, 40c for steak; bacon, 45c; sugar, 
granulated, 25 lbs., .$2.45; rice, 10 to ],5c 
lb. Potatoes, $2 per bu.; tomatoes, $1.,50 
to .$2 per bu.; pears, $2..50; plums, $2; 
sweet corn, 15 to 25c per dozen ; black¬ 
berries, 15c qt.; no apples or peaches here 
this year. J. T. M. 
Mercer Co., Pa. 
Potatoes, bu., $1..50; apples from $1 
to $2 bu.; Bartlett pears, $2 bu.; plums, 
bu., .$2 to .$2.50. Eggs, 50c ; butter, 50c 
lb.. s. H. G. 
Oakland Co., Md. 
The hard freeze here September 10-11 
did much damage to all ungathered crops. 
Potatoes, about half crop, many rotting. 
Beans and corn badly damaged; oats 
about an average. Buckwheat not yield¬ 
ing well. Potatoes, $1; oats, 70c; butter, 
40e; eggs, 4Sc. Garden truck very plenti¬ 
ful and cheap. Chickens, 18 to 24c; very 
few have been kept on account of high 
prices of feed. Not many cattle and 
horses being sold. Much corn has gone 
into silos that was intended to ripen. 
Apples and pears scarce. Apples selling 
for .50c at farm. c. M. k. 
Wayne Co., Pa. 
Potatoes, $1 per bu.; hay, Timothy, 
$15 per ton; milk, 10c per qt., retail; 
butter, dairy, 45c.; eggs, 50c doz. Pork, 
light, 20c per lb.; large hogs, 17c.; milch 
cows, .$50 to .$125. Very few horses 
raised; good young sound ones bring from 
$200 to $.300. Very little garden truck 
raised around here for market. F. s. 
Wayne Co., Pa. 
Products here are taken to Borne and 
Utica mostly. Potatoes, $1 to $1.25, as to 
quality ; wheat, $2.15 per bu. (recleaned). 
Slilk, Dairymen’s League prices. Butter, 
45 to 55c per lb.; eggs, 50 to 55c per 
doz.; cheese, about 24 to 26c per lb. 
Dairy cattle (grades), $60 to $150; reg¬ 
istered Ilolsteins, $150 to ,$300. Cucum¬ 
bers, small, 50c per 100; tomatoes, $1.25 
per bu.; sweet corn, 15c per dozen eai-s. 
Hay, $10 per ton in barn for good hay; 
no sale for anything else. f. a. \v. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
Eggs, 4.5c; butter, 50c; cheese 24Vig; 
rows freshening this Fall, $S0 to $100. 
Pork, 22c, dressed. Plums, ,$1.25 per bu. 
Fowls, 19c.; chickens, 20c.; potatoes, $1 
lier bu. Heifer calves, 3 to 4 months, 
.$2,5. Hay in this section is phuitiful aiul 
there is no market for it. Apples scarce. 
Buckwheat crop light. Milk delivered to 
cheese factory averages from $2.12 to 
$2.25 per cwt., and whey back to pro¬ 
ducer. R. II. W. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
September 15, at Rochester public mar¬ 
ket (wholesale), potatoes, $1.25 per bu. 
August 30, rye sold at mill at $1.80; 
wheat, $2.10. September 25, potatoes at 
public market, $1.15; tomatoes, basket, 
65e; Crawford peaches, 50c; prunes, 
$1.25; Twenty Ounce apples, bn., $1.25. 
Cabbage, 100 heads, .$3. c. R. w. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
Ear corn, $9 per barrel for 850 lbs., 
old corn crop 1916. Cattle feeders $8 
lier cwt. Beef cattle fat, $10 and $11 per 
cwt. Potatoes, $1 to $1.25; apples. Fall, 
.$1 per bu., windfalls, from 15 to 80c; 
Winter apples have no price at present. 
Tomatoes $1.50 per bu.; green tomatoes, 
$1. F. A. c. 
Carroll Co., Md. 
The following are prices we obtain at 
the Nanticoke market. This is a min¬ 
ing town, and a very good market; the 
consumer is reached through a curb 
market, and peddling on street. We 
are out of the trucking section, and will 
give prices on such products as we have 
to market. Potatoes, .$1.25 to $1.50 bu.; 
apples, $1 to .$1.60, according to grade; 
chickens, young, 27 to ,30c lb.; chickens, 
old, 20 to 25c lb.; butter. 45 to .50o. 
Sweet corn, started at 20c doz., and 
ended at 12c for the late crop. I’eaches, 
85c to $1.25 per 16c qt basket. Pears, 
60c to .$1 per 16 qt. basket; eggs, 50c 
doz. II. B. L. 
Luzerne Co., Pa. 
This has been a very hard year here 
for farmers and every one. We had a 
cold wet Spring, making everything very 
late; then weather was too hot and 
dry, and to finish up a killing frost 
came Sept. 10, killing field beans, 
pickles, tomatoes and corn. There will 
not be one bushel of matured corn 
anywhere near here. I hope things are 
better in New York. ii. a. o. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. 
Cows, $75 to $1.50; butter, 45e to 50c; 
cheese, 28c to 30c; Milk League price 
around $.3 per 30() lbs. for B milk. 
Fruit high and scarce. Peaches selling 
for $2 per bu.; pears, $1. $1 ..50 per bu.; 
plums, $2 per bu.; few apples, c. F. L. 
Chemung Co., N. Y. 
We read of places as near as ^Maryland 
having had a wet Summer, and of garden 
truck suffering in consequence, from ex¬ 
cessive moisture, while we, here in Cen¬ 
tral New .Tersey. have suffered from 
drought, and are stilt greatly in need of 
rain. In this section we began with a 
cold and belated Spring, and although we 
had a great deal of cloudy w’eather, .still 
very little rain fell, and this Summer has 
been an unusually dry one, the rainfall 
having been far below the average. 
Droughty conditions still prevail at this 
writing, which gives a gloomy outlook 
for cabbage for Fall and Winter, which 
has received only one rain since plants 
were set out in July; consequently there 
is little prospect for heads forming now. 
All varieties of fruits and vegetables 
have suffered, and it has been a trying 
season for young nursery stock set out 
last Spring. How many times this Sum¬ 
mer have we noticed thunder showers all 
around us, yet we received none of them, 
and our parched crops became bad and 
worse. Our apple trees bore a large 
crop, but owing to lack of moisture the 
apples droppc'd fast, long before they 
should have done. Strawberry beds also 
are a sorry spectacle; many of them are 
completely destroyed. Our only consola¬ 
tion is that the large farms to the west¬ 
ward and south received plenty of rain 
and that they have something more than 
we to show for their season’s toil. c. R. 
Ocean Co., N. J. 
Cattle, live, 7 to 8e.; pork, dressed, 
20c.; liird. 32c. Spring chickens, 20 to 
2.3c. per lb., live; old hens, 18c. alive. 
Butter, 50c.; eggs, 50c. Milk, 3 per cent., 
$2.5,5 per 100 lbs.; 3%c. per 1-10 point 
above 3 per cent. B milk ; September A 
milk, 10c. more. Milch cows, fresh, .$85. 
Potatoes, $1 per bu.; 35c. per peck. Hay, 
choice, $15 per ton. Plums 75c per peck, 
10c. per <it.; pears, choice, $1.50 per bu.; 
apples, $1 per hii. w. j. s. 
Wayne Co., I’a. 
Cattle, live weight, 9c. per lb.; hogs, 
18c.; butter, 50c.; milk, 7c. per qt. Fgg.s, 
50c per doz. Hay, $20 per ton ; wheat, 
.$2.50 per bu.; corn, $2.65; oat.s, $1 ; po¬ 
tatoes, $1. Apples, $1 ; cabbage, 2i^>c. 
per lb.; onions, $2 per bu.; tomatoes, 
$1..50. The potato crop was greatly dam¬ 
aged by the hard freeze September 10, 
as ice formed as thick as window glass ; 
also corn and buckwheat, and garden 
crops are greatly damaged. The loss will 
be heavy. Fruit is very scarce, g. g. d. 
Cleai-field Co., Pa. 
Wheat here ,$2.10, with a further de¬ 
crease (I hear) of three pounds on ac¬ 
count of moisture content. I’m not selling 
yi't. c. R. M. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
Wheat brings $2.10 to $2.20 per bu. 
here. I’otatoes are held at $1; crop heavy 
and sound. Peaches plentiful, averaging 
around SOc for 16 qts. Apples poor in 
quality, not more than 20% of a crop. 
Frost caused great damage to corn and 
garden crops. 'We have a plague of 
grasshoppers. They help out on the fer¬ 
tilizer expense, eating vegetation and 
weeds, making fertilizer and will add an¬ 
imal matter to the soil as they perish ! 
Schuylkill Co., Pa. w. ii. s. 
In our immediate neighborhood very 
little fruit or garden truck is rai.sed for 
market. We rai.se grain, cattle and hogs. 
Potatoes retail $1.50 per bu., wholesale 
$1.25 per bu.; rutabagas, wholesale, $1 
per bu.; butter, retail, 4.5 to 50c per lb.; 
wholesale, 43 per lb. Beef (steers and 
cows), 7%c per lb.; calves, 13c per lb.; 
hogs, 17c per lb.; chickens, 18 to 20 
per lb.; eggs, 47c. K, o. N. 
Erie Co., Pa. 
Milk, $2.45 per cwt. Eggs, 42c. Cows 
sell $115 to $60. Potatoes $1; blighted 
badly and lots of them rotting. Frost 
Sept. 11 in all low places. Beans $8; 
apples not half a crop. Hay $10. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. E. W. 
