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Uhe R o A L N E W- Y O R K E R 
October 2T. 1017 
Roads Good 365 Days 
a year mean 
more to the 
farmer now 
than ever 
F 
4 
ARMERS living 
concrete paved 
Barierton-Greenwich Road, mite west 
ot Lodi, Ohio, in Medina County'. Built 
by Elyria Construction Co.. Elyria, Ohio. 
on 
roads have no fear 
that bumper crops will 
fail to bring them prosperity. 
They can market eveiy day 
of the year in all kinds of weather. Concrete roads are 
365-day-a-year-roads. The difference between mud roads 
and concrete roads is the difference between crops rotting 
on the farm and crops on the way to the world’s markets 
when prices and demand are best 
Railroads have more than they can do now. 
Concrete roads and motor trucks make the farmer 
largely independent of the railroad. Now, more than ever 
before, will the farmer value good roads if he has them, 
and regret their absence if without them. 
Be sure you know what a concrete road is. 
Concrete is made of portland cement, sand and pebbles 
or crushed stone, and water. It is hard and durable, rigid 
and unyielding. Concrete is the material used in build¬ 
ing concrete dams, factories, bridges, and 
big engineering works like the Panama Canal 
requiring great solidity and strength. 
CONCRETE ROADS 
Their Adrantafe* 
No Mud—No Dost 
No Rut*—No Holes 
No Slippinc 
No Skidding 
Easy Hauling 
Smooth Riding 
Long Life—Safety 
Alwayi ReadyforUte 
Low Maintenance 
Moderate Co*t 
Concrete roads are not costly to build. They 
are cheap to maintain. Write for a free copy 
of Bulletin 136. You, Mr. Taxpayer-Farmer, 
can have the kind of roads you demand. You will 
demand concrete roads when when you read this. 
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION 
ATLANTA 
CHICAGO 
INDIANAPOLIS 
Offices at 
DALLAS KANSAS CITY PITTSBURGH 
DENVER MILWAUKEE SALT LAKE CITY 
MINNEAPOLIS NEW YORK 
SEATTLE 
WASHINGTON. D. C 
SAN FRANCISCO 
Jil 
Potatoes, .iv*..25 per bbl.; asking .^4 
to .$.0 per bbl. for picked apiile.s. and 
■scarce. Eggs, 48c to 50c doz.; butter, 
[47c to 550o. Veal, 14c per lb., liveweiglit; 
lambs, lo to 14c per lb., live weight ; 
Pork, $20 per cwt. dressed. Cows, grades, 
$80 to .$150. Chickens. 2jc per lb., live 
woight; fowls. 20c. c. E. a. 
Kcnsselaer Co., N. Y. 
Rea'il"^; IP fjTi 
Brawthy 
Parkers 
Message 
liliiiLi'i 
I for this interesting free story,told by “Mr. 
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Help your country—cook your 
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Box 500 Tecumaeh, Mich. 
nil 
'fi 
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Also Dairy and Laundry Stoves. Water and Steam 
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Stock Yard HOG FOOD $40 ton 
25 to 30 per cent, protein—10 per cent. fat. In 100 Ib. 
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Meat and bone. 40 to 46 per cent, protein—12 per 
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CONSOLIDATED DRESSED BEEF CO. 
Olfenhauser Department 
STOCK YARDS PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
HOGS ADVANCE 
250 PER CENT 
Buyers at Chicago are paying as high 
as 20)* per pound for live hogs, the highest 
price in history. Compared with two years 
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Feed your pigs 
Reichard’s Digester Tankage 
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Write tor samples of tankage, prices and interesting booklet, FREE. 
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When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a ’‘square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
I TliKse- are market prioe.s at wlnile.snle 
■at Scranton,_I’a. I’otatoes. $1.25 to $1.40; 
I apples, .$1.25 to .$.3 per bbl.; onions, $1 
I to $1.50 per bii.: prunes, pears and 
grapes 75c to $1 per 14-qt. basket. 
j(’abbage 75c to $1 per bbl. Truck has 
I brought a good price all Summer; fann- 
(ei-s have doubled their crops this year, 
wheat crops will be cut in two ne.vt sen- 
i son on account of help shortage, taking 
the boys to camp. Frost caught us; 
huckwheat 50 per cent.; potatoes no bet- 
j ter than last year, some cut by frost, 
I .some rot; oats good ; ha.v good ; corn cut 
I by^frost. C’attle are high, have bemi from 
$75 on to $125. We are on milk strike at 
present, and .‘-■ee no end. I shall sell 
my h(>’.'d as soon as possible, and others 
say the same. ’'’he dealers’ last offer 
wa.s six cents for 3.7 iie;’ cent milk. 
e ask C%. and 6%. We are League 
membiTs, and 15 miles from Scranton. 
li,v cannot we get J^eague price? Feed 
is high, with low protein. Gluten. .$,3.05; 
corn, ,$4.40; ootttonseed, 20 per cent 
Firotein, ,$2.00; bran, $2.25; middlings, 
,$2.40. The millers say buckwheat will 
be $2 per 100. Veals are sold from one 
day to three weeks old from $5 to .$15 
each ; four weeks pigs, $G to .$8 a pair; 
poultry is all sold, too high feed. No sale 
for horses; farmers are getting trucks. 
I have two bo.vs at home, one may be 
called, one has been called, but did not 
pass. We have worked harder than in 
10 years; will cut our farming in two 
next .sea.son, because I don’t want to kill 
myself and family. e. G. s. 
Wyoming Co., I’a. 
Potatoes. ,$1.25 bu.; cabbage. 2c a lb.; 
Hubbard squash, 4c; onions, $1.00 bu.; 
apples, $1.00; beans, 20c per lb. Green 
corn, 18c per doz.; eggs, 55c a doz. 
Fh-essed pork, 22 Vic a pound. Little pigs, 
$5.50 each. Fresh cows. $00 to $100; 
strippers. ,$00. Oats, 78c per bn. Carrots, 
2c per lb. Corn, $4.21 per cwt. Some 
purebred Ayrshires sold at auction for 
$150 down to $100 ejioh. Hoi-ses from 
$100 to $2.50, according to age and 
weight. There is a milk war on; milk 
statiou shut down till settled. Cheese 
2.5Vic wholesale: Spring chicken.s 24c 
Iier lb.; old bens, 22c per lb. s. K. r., 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
Corn, $2.45 bn.; wheat. .$2; oats. 85c.: 
bran, $2.50 per 100 lbs.; middlings, 
$2.75; cotton.seed, $2.75; oilmeal, ,$.3.10; 
butter. 6c above Elgin ; milk, 1,5c above 
Elgin for butter fat. Good dairy cows 
not on the market. Tri-connty cow test¬ 
ing association of Ilarrisville, Ohio, 
just completing its second month. Pota¬ 
toes turning out well and are being sold 
for about $2 per bu. w. s. T. 
.Jefferson Co., Ohio. 
Our community is following general 
I farming; that is, raising grain and dairy- 
ling. Some farmers are delivering tlieir 
'milk at a railroad shipping station, some 
j deliver at creameries and some, but a 
small part, make their own butter. At 
the milk statiou they pay .$2.50 per 100 
lbs at 3.5 per cent test. At the cream¬ 
eries they pay 55c. per pound for but¬ 
ter fat. Wheat. $2.10; corn. $2.15; 
oat.s. 80 to 00c.: middlings, ,$2.,55 per 
<-wt.: bran, ,$1.05; jiotatoes sell from 
-$1.25 to $1.40 per bu. Sweet corn, 28c 
per doz. ; cahb.ige from 5 to Oc a head ; 
apples. .$L.50 per bu.; peaches, $1.40 a 
ba.sket; eggs, 45c per doz. ; lard, .32c 
per lb. Cows are high, from $100 to 
.$150 a h<‘ad. Hulks 0 to OVeC per lb. 
Corn looks well, but some is not a half 
crop. ir. E. E. K. 
I.ehigh County. Pa. 
Cows, new milkers, .$7-5 to $100; skim- 
milk calves, lOe per lb.; butter. 42c to 
45c: milk, Oc per qt. Potatoes, .$1 to 
$1.50 pi'r bu. Pork, heavy, Kic per lb.; 
light, 20c. Grain is out of sight and 
help has to have from $2 to $3 per day, 
so there isn’t any use trying to raise 
anything, only what can be taken care 
of by home labor. I. II. 
Greene Co., N. Y. . ' 
We have had two very had hailstorms 
this season that hurt crops here. Some 
buckwheat spoiled, corn hurt badly; pota¬ 
toes short crop, $1 per bu. Hay good; 
oats fair: few apples. Stock high. $05 
to $75 prime. Veal, hog-dressed. $10 to 
pigs four weeks old $5; 
$22 per cwt.; eggs .50c. 
allv farmers sell milk at 
few make butter at high- 
R. Y. s. 
$17 ra'i’ cwt 
dressed pork, 
doz. Nearly 
r.eague prices . 
est New York prices 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
Wheat, per bu.. .$2; 
old, $1.00: oats, 5.5o. 
$1: butter per lb. 42c. 
lard, lb., 24c. 
pies, per bu.. 
hogs pi'i* lb. 
rye. $1.50: corn, 
I’otatoes, 00c to 
Eggs, doz., 40o.; 
chickens, lb.. ISc. Ap- 
00c.; not plentiful. Fat 
22c., 
dressed, hard to get. 
Cows $40 to $100 as to quality. No sale 
for horses. A very good crop of corn 
and potatoes in Snyder Co.; this year. 
Snyder Co., Pa. e. e. m. 
Weather has been quite dry for the 
past month; have had several frosts 
already which did much damage to vege¬ 
tation. There will be plenty of soft 
corn. Live stock doing well and soni > 
sc'lling at good figures. Most fnrmer> 
keeping more sheep, due to high prices 
of same. Buckwheat was half a crop; 
beaus a fair yield and also potatoes’ 
Weather has been too dry for growing 
grain. W’heat $1.95; oats, 50c; ry. 
$1. Butter, 35c; eggs, 38c. c. g! 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. 
Oats, $1.90: cracked corn, $4.25; 
bran, $2; middlings, .$2.10; hominv, 
.$.3.15 per bag, I’otatoes, $2 per bii. 
Fresh eggs 70e per doz. Sept. 10 we 
had a killing frost that damaged a great 
deal of corn and buckwheat thus cai' .- 
ing a shortage in poultry feed. New milch 
cows are very high and searce. Farmers 
are receiving 8c per qt. for milk d— 
livered. w. c. 
New Haven Co.. Conn. 
Milk cows, $00 to .$90; beef Ciitti’-. 
$11 to $14 per 100; hogs, .$14 to $10 per 
100. Eggs, 45 to .50e: butter, 40c 0* 
4.5e per lb.; milk, 2.5c per gal.; fowls, 
22c per Ib. Apples, .$,3 to $4.25 per bas¬ 
ket; peaches. .$1.00 to .$1.25 per bu.; 
Wheat, .$2.10 per bu.; corn, .$1.90 per bu.; 
potatoes, ,$1.25 to $1.40 per bushei. 
Laboring men demand $2.25 to $4 for 
ten hours’ work, I,ots of corn uncut; 
quite a lot of farms neglected and will 
only get parts of their wheat crop put out 
on account of scarcity of labor. Ail 
farm crops will go higher or labor inn.st 
come lower. j. o. D. 
Franklin Co., Pa. 
^>w milch cows range from $100 to 
$175: milk wholesales at 7c and 8c, ac¬ 
cording to grade. Apples scarce and high, 
bringing $4 to $7 per bbl.; peaches, .50.- 
to $1 per basket; grapes tilt by frost Sept. 
11 in some places ; sell for 15c a basket. 
Bartlett pears hit by blight, bringing 
SOc a basket; potatoes a f.-iilure in .son:'- 
Iilaces. wholesale for $1..50 per bu., re¬ 
tail for 4.5e i»er pk. Carrots and beet.-! 
three bunches for lOc.; lettuce 10c a 
head. Corn good where frost did not hir. 
Buckwheat fair crop. u. i.. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Farm sales in the Middle WT'se are at¬ 
tended largely nowadays, and bring some 
of the highest prices on record. At om* 
of the sales in Southern Wi.sconsin a 
corn binder, the first price of which i.s 
now $150, brought $140. Corn that wa.-. 
badly frosted brought $15 an acre, oat.s 
70 cents, and hay $15 a ton. Sixty-one 
head of common Khmle Island Red chick¬ 
ens sold for $1.25 each. Farmers in thi.> 
same region have been getting some rec¬ 
ord-breaking prices for their barley, 
which has been yielding from 40 to 45 
bu.shels per acre. The price has be'-n 
ranging around .$2.70. j. l. g. 
Ravenswood, Ill. 
This is mainly a dairy section. Milk 
is sold to Bordens and MutuM-McDer- 
mott at League prices. Butter is sell¬ 
ing at retail at 51 to 52 cents; eggs, 
4Rc. Some potatoes have been sold at 
$1 per bu. Buckwheat nearly all ruined 
by the frost. I have been offered .50.* 
per 100 lbs. for cider apples, no offer 
on hand-picked fruit. Corn beef is 12c; 
dressed pork 25c. At a recent auction 
cattle ranged from $45 to $90, an aver¬ 
age of $08 for 25 head. Hay $10.25 in 
the mow. No sale for horses. H. A. G. 
W’’ayne Co., Pa, 
I rcceiv'cd .$2.10 a bushel for my wheat 
this year, which was satisfactory to me, 
I sold this direct from the thrashing ma- 
ciiine to my feed dealer, I think th- 
fixed price is all right. t. w. B. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
M e take our milk to JVmwa Hairy 
Farm and get $.3.25 per 1(X) with 4c 
per cwt. for all milk aliove 3.8%; at 
P. E. Sharpless & Co. at Concordvilb*. 
$2.80 to .$.‘j.20 flat. Shippers to Phila¬ 
delphia get $3.22 and pay freight. Cows 
bring from $80 to $1.50. Potatoes a 
very light crop, at $1.25 per bu., and none 
being sold. MTieat brought ,$2 to $2.10; 
corn up to $2.10._ Hay ,$22 for good 
Timothy, This is a dairying section. 
Peaches brought from 75e to $1 per 
% basket. C. Henderson Supplee, wh.i 
is to Philadelphia what Borden is to 
New York, says that there will be no 
need for an increase in the price of 
milk because the farmers have stored up 
such a large amount of feed that they 
will have to buy very little , grain this 
Winter. It has been costing u.s $82 
eyerv two weeks for grain to feed .30 
head of cows; feed consists of 200 bu. 
wet grains and 1,000 lbs. each of wheat 
bran and 20% cottonseed. I know of 
people who are not filling their silos 
this year, and also people who are just 
putting enough in their silos to fatten 
their dairy so they can sell the cows. 
I really think Mr. Supplee is getting 
ready to raise the price of milk in Phila¬ 
delphia and is trying to fix things up 
so that the blame will slide off on the 
farmer (as usual). g. ii. c. 
I'elaware Co., Pa. 
