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■Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 10, 1917 
our pastures, using lead pipes; over forty 
years ago, giving excellent service today. 
Lead and iron at present are almost pro¬ 
hibitive, and some time agi. I noticed in 
an old It. N.-Y. of 1907, an article ui*g- 
ing the use of wood pipe, one man 
claiming it would last 15 times as 
long as iron. If that is true it 
would certainly pay to use. But 
would it not leak at joints and other¬ 
wise be Tin satisfactory ? A neighbor 
next farm has a similar problem, using 
about 500 feet. J. c. g. 
Tomkins Co., X. Y. 
Wlien we went to our present farm 
about 18 years ago we had this problem 
of piping water from a spring. Neigh¬ 
bors told of a system of wooden pipes 
put down about 40 years before. In dig¬ 
ging below the .spring we came upon 
this wooden pipe and took up several 
feet of it. The joints were made out 
of chestnut poles bored with a long 
handled augur. They were fastened to¬ 
gether by sharpening one end of each 
joint like a stake and drove it into the 
next joint. These pipes were in good 
condition after 40 years of use. Some 
of our readers have no doubt used the 
modern w’ooden pipes, and we would like 
their experience as to cost, durability 
and general .service comiiared with the 
metal or concrete pipes. We do not 
know of any better way of settling this 
question than by going right after this 
experience. 
A Big Graft 
I am enclosing a picture of myself 
below, taken by the side of plum graft 
put in about May 10, 1917. This picture 
A Big Plum Graft 
was taken four mouths later, or about 
.September 10, 1917. This graft now 
stands as .shown, 7 ft. S% in. The graft 
was placed 12 inches from the ground, 
making a new growth as given by above 
figures G ft. 3% in. The stub of this graft 
at the time grafted was about IVs in. in 
circumference and is now 3 inches. This 
stub was cut smoothly oft’ at an angle of 
about 75 degrees, and the graft cut in 
the same manner, and the same size as 
stub, so that the bark fits exactly. This 
was tied on .securely and covered with 
wax. O. B. DUURETT. 
West Virginia. 
R. X.-Y.—All of which .shows that IMr. 
Durrett is very much of a grafter. 
Boston Produce Markets 
AVEAK TONE CONTINUES ; WITH BACK OP 
VIGOROUS BUYING POWER IN MOST LINES 
Supplies of farm produce are not un¬ 
usually large, and the stocks ought to 
move quickly, but dealers say they do not. 
High prices are the explanation. “Some 
folks have to cut down buying excei)t 
necessities.” “It’s Government interfer¬ 
ence,” a prominent wholesaler asserted, 
“People are uneasy about it and don’t 
buy much at one time, not knowing what 
will happen next. There are sure to be 
a number of come-backs when natural 
market laws are interfered Avith.” “In 
my particular line,” explained another 
dealer, “buying for Winter use is back 
of the present dullness; people bought 
ahead because they were afraid prices 
would go higher, and goods Avill keep 
better now. This heavy buying a while 
ago has hurt the present demand.” The 
local politicians who are clamoring that 
the stocks in cold storage be taken out 
at once and sold, are viewed with small 
respect by the dealers: “Cold storage is 
the greatest possible help in a time like 
this,” one asserted, “if the stuff Avere all 
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taken out now, there wmuld be a crash 
and maybe prices would remain low till 
after election. Then a whole lot of people 
would starve. Perhaps conditions may 
be improved by regulation in some ways 
if the ignorant meddlers can be kept off.” 
POTATOES A AVEAK FEATURE 
Supplies are increasing right along and 
values have been sagging away. “Demand 
is poor,” Avas the comment at the office 
of the Farmers’ Union of Maine, “There 
is the usual hesitation that follows a rise. 
Hesitation reduces the demand and prices 
slide oft’ until enough new buying is drawn 
in to start the market up again. There 
is no sign yet of liberal buying, and prices 
may need to go still lower, although we do 
not look for extreme declines. In central 
Maine where the Union is strongest, the 
crop was light and growers are inclined 
to hold the potatoes, but it looks as it 
northern New York and some other sec¬ 
tions were beginning to ship freely.” H. 
McLatchey, who is just back from the 
potato sections of New Brunswick, Nova 
Scotia and Prince Edwards Island, notes 
also a tendency to hold the crop. “The 
Canadian Government is restricting po¬ 
tato exports, anyhow,” he continued, “and 
high freights are another check. Rates 
from I’ictou, for example are up from old 
(Continued on page 1292.) 
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