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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Picking Out Good Cows 
The following is taken from the Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural College Press Bul¬ 
letin : 
Now and then a Tnan comes along who 
tells you that he can look a cow over and 
tell whether or not she is a profitable pro¬ 
ducer of milk and butter fat. lie may 
very easily be able to pick out the very 
l)est cows and the very woi’st cows, but 
few men can take four cows Avith which 
they are unfamiliar and come at all near 
placing tliein correctly. 
In order to give the “dairy experts” of 
Alansfield and vicinity an opportunity to 
flemonstrate their ability to pick out the 
good and bad cows, the Department of 
Dairy Husbandry of the Connecticut Ag¬ 
ricultural College exhibited a class of 
four cows at the Mansfield Pair this Fall 
and asked each visitor to make an esti¬ 
mate of the production if the four cows 
and to place them, one, two, three and 
four, according to their production. The 
results of this test are A'ery interesting. 
The following table gives an idea of the 
wide variations in opinion held by the 
various visitors who looked them over: 
—Tljuiked by guess— 
Actual (Xumber of t imes) 
Cl lAV 
Rank 
3 St 
2d 3<1 4tb 
A. 
.. 3 
9 
5 2 1 
B .... 
.. 1 
5 8 2 
C . 
o 
4 
5 4 3 
D . 
,.. 4 
2 
2 3 10 
It is 
interesting to 
note in a tabula- 
tion of the guesses that every cow was 
placed last and every cow was placed 
first by people who considered them. In 
other words, the variation of opinicm was 
practically as wide as it possibly could 
be. There was plenty of actual difference 
in the cows, as shown by their records. 
Cow A had made lA.d.lO pounds of milk 
in a year, cow B 2(),8.‘>2 pounds, cow C 
3,''t.l.52 and cow D has made a record of 
only 9.705 pounds. It is quite possible 
that expert dairymen would not make as 
wide mistakes as were made by some of 
the people at the fair. These people, how- 
over. were certainly as familiar with cows 
ns the average person of the State. The 
opinions presented repre.sent the opinions 
which may be held by men who are not 
in the habit of checking up conformation 
by the use of the scales, and milk sheet 
and fat test. It i.s very evident that not 
only is it desirable to teat cows in order 
to know Avhat they are doing individually, 
but it is desirable from an education.al 
standpoint, because it educates the dairy¬ 
man to a point where he can mo'-e readily 
detect the “slacker cow” in the other 
man’s herd. This is something which is 
important if a man is to buy cows. 
Milch cows from .$100 to $1.50; milk at 
local plajit, .$2.10 per 100 lbs. Potatoes, 
$1.50 per bu.; apnles, $2 to .$4 per bbl.; 
pears, Seckel, .$2..50 per bbl. Buckwheat 
Hour, ,$6 per 100 lbs. This is a dairy 
section; not much grain or garden truck 
raised for sale. .T. w. H. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Fresh cows, good ones, $100 to $125, 
and occasionally $1.50. Heifers coming 
in and to freshen, $50 to .$75. Veals, 1.5e; 
fowls, 18c: dressed pork, 22c. Potatoes, 
$1.25; cabbage, 5c head. Butter, best 
prints, 51c: milk. League price. Day 
helrers, 2.5c per hour, if to be had at all. 
Susquehanna Co., Pa. i'. a. s. 
IVeather wet, with some hard freezes. 
Potatoes not all dug yet; rotting some. 
Price at present about $1.25 per bu.; 
will probably go higher. Early frosts 
killed buckwheat, so that crop is nearly 
as bad a failure as last year; some not 
woi'th tbrashing. Price, $2 per bu. Cood 
supply of hay, but much grass was not 
cut until September. Corn for silage in 
poor condition, and short supply general¬ 
ly, though variable according to locality; 
nearly all frosted more or less. Cream¬ 
ery butter quoted up to 78c per lb. M. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
Cattle are high and .scarce: milkiiig 
cows from $75 up. Veals, 14 to 15c. 
Butter. 50 to 60c. Potatoes are a poor 
crop, about one-half or less, bringing from 
$1.40 to $1.50 in market. Apples are fair, 
bringing around $2 per bbl. here. Work 
is backward, help is very .scarce, almost 
imnossible to get any at any price. 
Bensselaer Co., N. Y c. w. c. 
« 
Wheat is retailing at $2.-20 per bu ; old 
oats, 90c: .scratch grains, $4 per cwt,; 
bran, $2; hominy, $2.25; beef scrap, 
$2.50. Hogs, 18c per lb.; chickens, IGc 
and 17c. Butter, 40c to 45c; eggs. 42e. 
Growers are selling potatoes as low as $1 
per bu. Onions, of which a good many 
are grown in this locality, are selling 
anywhere from $1 to $1.50 per bu ; car¬ 
rots, 75c; tomatoes, $1 per bu. Fruit is 
very scarce this year; comparatively no 
peaches; apples poor and there are some 
doubts and speculations as to whether 
local cider mills will open at all this 
year. Most of the corn for silage is cut, 
and farmers in this district are very busy 
thrashing and silo .filling The oats crop 
so far has only averaged ;i Httb' over 25 
bu.shels to the acre, but I think some of 
the best yields in the locality are still to 
be thra.shed. Most potatoes are dug and 
in storage, and these are not so good or 
plentiful as at first expected; blight did 
considerable harm to them. Our own 
corn is still uncut, being unharmed by 
the frosts; we attribute this to the fact 
that we are at Summ't, the highest point 
between Pittsburg and Erie, Pa. 
Crawford Co., Pa. .T. R. F. 
Potatoes, $1.25 to $1.50 per bu., and 
many farmers are holding for $2; large 
acreage, yield light, on account of blight. 
Cabbage, $25 to $45 per ton, crop good. 
Onions. .$1..50 to .$2 per bu. Tomatoes 
high, $1.75 to $2 bu.; compl.ain that they 
did not ripen. Beans, poor crop; I am 
paying 10c per qt. since October 1st; be¬ 
fore that paid 7c. Butter. .50e to 55c; 
eggs, 50c to ,55c. Good cows are bringing 
$85 to $100. No fruits to speak of in 
this vicinity. Apple crop , very light. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. M. r. v. n. 
Cattle. 9c; cows selling at about $100; 
milk. 10c; butter, 40c to .50c; apple^ 
.$1.1(1; peaches sold from .$1 to .$1.7.5. 
Potatoes. $1. Hogs, 22c dressed, 10c 
alive. Wheat, per bu., $2; rye, $1.2.5; 
oats. 00c; corn, $1.70; butter, per lb., 
4(;e; eggs. 40c. Potatoes, per bu., $1; 
onions. $1.20. Lard, per lb., 24c: ham, 
28c; .shoulder. 20c; b.-icon. 2.5c; chickens, 
1.7c; ducks. 15c: tnrkey.s, 22e. I., s. n. 
Perry Co., Pa. 
Wheat was $2.50 per bu. before the 
government set the price; now, $2.20. 
(.’orn, wholesale, .$l.(iO per bu.; retail, .$2; 
oats, wholesale. 74c: retail, S5c; bran, 
wholesale, ,$48.50 per ton ; retail, $52; 
middlings, retail. $50. Cottonsf'ed meal 
delivered here in carlots, $18 per ton. 
Warren Co., I’a. R. B. 1’. 
Potatoe.s, $1.25 per bu.; peaches, $2.15; 
apples. $2. Butter. .50c lb.: milk, 10c qt. 
Turnip.s. $1 per bu. Eggs, .50c doz. Cows, 
$75 to $100, horses. $150 to $200; chick¬ 
ens. .20c lb.; pork, 4.5c lb.; beef, 2.5e. 
Clearfield Co., l*a. J, .T. 
Cream is shipped to BulTalo from this 
vicinity and now brings 51c per lb. but¬ 
ter fat. liocal market for potatoes, .$1 
per bu.; wheat, $1.05; oats. 0.5c. Not 
much fruit nor garden cro|)s raised for 
marker. Cows .sell from .$70 to .$100. 
P.utchers pay 10c to 12c for dressed cat¬ 
tle. Lamb sold for 10c. live weight. Po¬ 
tatoes rotting badly and small. G. p. G. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. 
Wlieat, $2.20: oats. 7,5c; potatoes, 
$1.00; apples. $1; buckwheat. $1. But¬ 
ter, 45c to oOc: eggs. 50c; beef. 14c per 
11).; pork, 25e lb. G. ii. 
Clearfield Co., Pa. 
Apples, No. 1. $2 to $2.50 per bbl.; 
No. 2. $2.25 to .$2.50. Peaches, $1 to 
$1.2.5 for strictly No. 1 10-qt. basket. 
Eggs. 42c. Live poultry, 18c to 24c. ac- 
14c; hogs, live, 14c; dressed. 20c. Po¬ 
tatoes, .$1; onions, $1.,50 per bu.; to¬ 
matoes, .$1 per bu.. Corn, cracked. $4..50; 
wlmat, .$2.15; rye, $2; oilmeal, .$3 per 
c" t.; wheat flour, .$12 per bbl. Sugar*, 
10c: gasoline. 27c ; kerosene, 10c. Every¬ 
thing seems to be on the upward tendency. 
Wyoming Co., Pa. F. n. F. 
Fresh cows, $75 to $110; chicken'?, 
live, 25c lb.; eggs, 52e doz. Old corn, 
$2.50 per bu.; oats, 9,5e; potatoe.s, $3.75 
bu.; green beans. $1.70; tomatoe.s, ; 
sweet corn, .25c doz.; cabbage, Oc lb. Ap- 
ple.s, $2 to $2.00 per bu.; quinces, $3 per 
bu.; pears, .$2. Milk, 14c qt.: better 
(country). 52c. Coal, run of mine, $‘.15 
per ton, delivered. w. F. w. 
Westmoreland Co., Pa. 
We live on a sm.all place of 13 acres, 
and sell all our produce in the Pittsburg 
district, direct to the consumer. We re¬ 
ceive for butter 50c lb; eggs, 60c doz.; 
Spring chickens, $1 for chickens weiebing 
two lbs. or a little more. For old chick¬ 
ens, ,25c per lb. These chickens are 
dressed. Milk sells for from 12c to 13c 
per qt. There are practically no cattle 
sold here for beef. We have raspberries, 
blackberries and strawberries and cur¬ 
rants; the.se we sold at 15c per qt. Lima 
beans from 30c to 85o a quart; tomatoes 
from $2.25 to .$2.,50 per bu. w. s. w. 
Allegheny Co., Pa. 
The selling price of potatoes all through 
this section is $1.10 per bu. That is what 
the farmers get. "W. it. V. 
Washington Co., N. Y. 
Butter, best farm dairy, 4Sc to ,50c; 
creamery, 4.5c to 4Sc; good tub, choice, 
45c to 48c; eggs, 59c to OOc, strictly 
fresh ; low grade.s, 3Sc to 40c. Live chick¬ 
ens, 27c to .50c; dres.sed poultry, .25c to 
.27c. Live stock, native.s, .88..50 to $10..50 
per cwt.; bulls, $6 to $10; cows, beef, 
$0.50 to $9.50; hogs, $19 to .$21 per cwt. 
Sheep, per cwt., .$7 to $10. I^otatoes, 
Xovember 3, lbl7 
per bu., $1.40 to $1.05. Apples, choice, 
$3..50 to .$4.50 per bbl.; medium, $2.75 to 
.$3.25. Beets, per bbl., $1.50 to $2; car¬ 
rots, bbl., .$1..5() to $1.75; cabbage, bbl., 
$1 to $1.50. Milch cows, $05 to $85 per 
head. b. v. s. 
Wayne Co., Pa. 
Cattle, from 8c to 10c per lb., live 
Aveight: dressed pork, 20c; live. 10c. 
Chickens. li\-e, 20c per lb. Butter, 4,5c; 
eggs. 45c; milk, 12c per qt. Potatoes, 
$1.25 per bu.; tomatoes. $1; cabbage, 
10c per head. Apples, $1 to $1.25 per 
bu. Wheat, $2 per bu.; rye, .$1.50; buck¬ 
wheat, $2 per cwt. M. p. R. 
Armstrong Co.. Pa. 
The potato crop in this section will not 
be much over one-half salable stock of 
what it gave promise earlier in the sea¬ 
son, due to blight and rot. They are set 
heavy, but will average right around one- 
third seconds, with rot running from 5 to 
40 per cent. The dealers are paying .$1 
per bushel at the car for firsts and 5dc 
for seconds. The hay crop here Avas above 
the average, but owing to so much rain 
there is a lot of colored and overripe 
stuff. Dealers are offering from $8 to 
$1.2 Jind the baling. Not many coavs 
changing hand.s, as most of the milk goes 
to tie cheese factory, and as the factory 
closes Nov. 1 there will not be much deal¬ 
ing until Spring. Butter, 40c per lb. to 
the farmer at the stores; eggs, 42c On¬ 
ions, $1.25 per bu.; Hubbard squash. 2c 
per lb.; cabbage in a small way brings 
5c per head. Live hogs, 17c; liA’e calA’e.s, 
15c; liA'e lambs, 1.5c per lb. These are 
the pi-ices dealers pay to ship. This is 
not an apple section ; there will hardly be 
enough for_ home use. I grew four acres 
of peas this year for a canning factory, 
but as the draw to river Avas 12 miles it 
cut ’nto the profits. The price was ,$,50 
per ton for shelled peas, again.st $40 last 
year. Mills are paying 7f)c per bu. for 
oats and arous'd $2 for wheat. They arc 
charging us .$2.50 per CAvt. for bran. $2.75 
for middlings, $4.7.5 for cornmeal and 
$4.05 for whole corn. It is hlmo.st impos¬ 
sible to sell a hor.se at any price. I can¬ 
not .see the cause, as there are only tAAo 
tractors in this .section R. g. M. 
Steuben Co., IX. Y. 
Everything around here sky-high. 
Cow.s, ,$75 to $125; butter, .5,2e; milk jit 
local creamery, 52 per lb. butterfat test; 
eggs, 52c; fowls, 20c; chickens. 22c. live 
weight; hogs, 25e per lb., dressed. Calves, 
14c per lb.; potatoes, ,$1..50 per bu. Hay. 
No. 1, $18; Avheat, .$2.20; corn, .$2..25; 
oats, 75c. II. iw s. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
Jolie Topsie De Kol, H. F. 149723 
Age 6-11-12 (City of Cleveland. OAvner) 
Semi-Official Year Test 
29221.6 lbs., Milk 3.52^ 1032.37 lbs. Fat 
Royalton De Kol Violet. H. F 86460 
Age 10 Years (H. A. McQuillan, Owner) 
Semi-Official Year Test 
29959.6 lbs. Milk 3.464> 1036.45 lbs Fat 
Year tests that Count 
These wonderful semi-official records 
are only a few of a large number of genuine 
high production tests made under normal 
conditions with UNICORN DAIRY RATION used 
as the entire or largest part of the grain ration. They 
are in no sense forced or freak records as shown by 
the normal fat percent and the perfect health of these 
cows and all herds fed on Unicorn Dairy Ration. 
Every breeder knows Ajax Flakes 
(madeexclusivelyby usforyears.) Conditions 
forced us to withdraw it from the market except as 
one of the ingredients of Unicorn. You will find 
Unicorn equally efficient as your ration or ration base. 
If you have good cows that you want 
to make even better 
Unicorn Dairy Ration 
offers you the chance, without exta cost, 
in fact most likely at a considerable saving. 
With an average cow we guarantee 
a reduction in the feed cost of you milk. 
Give them a chance - if fed right with Unicorn Dairy 
Ration they will surprise you. 
Unicom can be obtained by any 
dairyman or breeder east of the Missouri 
river no matter where located. Every bag 
is equally uniform and good no matter where you 
get it. 
Write for information and FREE copy of 
Cow Testers’ Manual. 
Chapin & Co., “r Chicago 
Abbie of RiA^erside, 
Champion Guernsey of Michigan 
Fred Gleason. OAvner 
14201 lbs. Milk 6.72^ 813 lbs. Fat 
Folly land Nancy A. R. No. 5266 
Best 2 year old in New York 
Follyland Farm Guernseys 
12270 lbs. Milk 6.819b 712.6 lbs. Fat 
