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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 10, 1917 
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Everybody naturally wants 
to hear the best music 
If you had your choice of attending 
two concerts—the greatest artists in all 
the world appearing at one, some little- 
known artists at the other—which would 
you choose? You would quickly decide 
to hear the renowned artists who are 
famous for their superb interpretations. 
And this is exactly the reason why the 
Victrola is the mstrument foryourhome. 
The greatest artists of all the world 
make records for the Victrola exclu¬ 
sively: Caruso, Alda, Braslau, Calve, 
Culp, de Gogorza, De Luca, Elman, 
Farrar, Gadski, Galli-Curci, Garrison, 
Gluck, Hempel, Homer, Journet, Kline, 
Kreisler, Marsh, Martinelli, McCor¬ 
mack, Melba, Paderewski, Powell, 
Ruffo, Schumann-Heink, Scotti, Sem- 
brich, Tetrazzini, Whitehill, Williams, 
Witherspoon, Zimbalist. 
There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety 
of styles from $10 to $400, and there are Victor 
dealers everywhere who will gladly demonstrate 
them and play your favorite music for you. Ask 
to hear the Saenger Voice Culture Records. 
Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. 
New Victor Records demonstrated at 
fdl dealers on the 1st of each month 
Victor Supremacy 
**Victrola” is the Registered 
ilrade-mark of the Victor Talking 
Machine Company designating 
the products of this Company only. 
AVarning: The use of the word 
Victrola upon or in the promotion 
or sale of any other Talking Ma¬ 
chine or Phonograph products is 
misleading and illegal. 
To insure Victor quality, always 
look for the famous trademark, 
“His Master’s Voice." It is on 
all genuine products of the Victor 
Talking Machine Company 
Victrola XVII, $250 
Victrola XVII, electric, $300 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
^198 
and 
Up 
LECTRIG 
FARM LIGHTING PLANTS 
In the TJnited you get exactly the same, depend¬ 
able eleotrio-service as you would from a big city 
central station, because the same principle is 
used) o&Iy reduced iu size to meet your uee^. 
Use Your Own Engine 
That’s your power. It’s Belted (not direct-con- 
nected) to generator. Belt absorbs shocks and 
vibrations. Means a long life to generator, the 
heart of the plant. Means less fuss—lesstroub'e. 
Nothing automatic to get out of adiustmi rt. 
Requires no attention, lip-keei} cost a trf 1 j. 
Engine generates electric current while do i 2 
other farm work. Comes complete. All bIz( ^ - 
30 and 110 volt ^sterns. Write for compi . 3 
description and naf&e of United dealer near vou 
who will gladly demonstrate this or any United 
Product 
Crops and Farm Notes 
Ropf, live w'eight. $9 per ewt.; pork, 
$10 to $17 per cwt.; veal, $14; lamb, $14. 
Pork, dressed, $22 per cwt, L. h. 
Seueca Co., N. Y. 
now, but most of the potatoes were sold 
^ P- M. B. 
Montour Co., Pa. 
At a public sale of a small herd, Jersey 
and Guernsey cows, prices ranged from 
.$00 to $120. I am selling cream to a 
local shipper at 25c per qt. for 20 per 
cent cream. I am also selling potatoes to 
another local shipper at $1.50 per bu. 
(00 lb.s.). Regarding cream, I make but 
tliree deliveries a week, and have no loss 
of cans or other vexations. • c. C. 
Chester Co., Pa. , 
Cows are bringing good prices, com¬ 
mon to fair about $75, while good cows 
bring from $100 to $125. Lambs, live- 
weight, 121^c.; butter, 45c; eggs, 50c 
per doz.; potatoes, $1.50; onions, $1.7.5. 
Owing to damage by worms there is 
no cabbage to be had in any quantity 
in this section. Fruit scarce in this 
vicinity,^ excejit peaches, which have 
ranged in juices from 75e to $1 per bas¬ 
ket. My son just past 21 and the oldest, 
and only one out of school except the 
youngest of seven children, has passed 
the selective draft, and don’t know how 
soon he will be called, so am working 
until near exhaustion to get as much 
done as possible before he is sent for. 
I’lster Co., N. Y. g. s. 
New milch cows, .$1(K) to $125; lambs, 
per lb.. 18c; old ewes, 8c. Wool, per lb, 
70c. AYheat, per bu., .$2 to $2.25; wheat, 
per hu., ready to sow. ,$2.75. Veal calves, 
lb. 16c; pigs, $5; milk, S% test, ,$2.45 
per cwt.; cream, at our local creamery, 
60c per lb. butter fat; butter, per lb., 
45 V 2 C. Eggs, per doz., 44e, at local stores. 
Erie Co., N. Y. s. A. M. 
I am situated in the Lake Keuka grajie 
region, but have no grapes my-self. I de¬ 
pend on my sheep to pay my bills. Al¬ 
though there are few jiotatoes raised here 
through the valley, off on the hills a great 
many of them_ are grown, and the Con- 
hocton Valley is noted for its potatoes. I 
sold my early ones, those that did not rot, 
for $1 jier hu. They are 81.20 or $1.25 
here now, and I hear that dealers are 
caning in Rath. Avoca and up through 
the river valley for just a few cents more 
than a dollar. They have been retailing 
from the stores for 30c a peck, but are 
liigher now. Potatoes are rotting very 
badly through this section. The frost 
Oct. 10 made the grapes, and consequent¬ 
ly the owners, look very sick. Hundreds 
of tons of them will not be picked at all, 
and the dealers have just chopped their 
ju-ices right in two. m. m. m 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
Our town. Johnsonburg, is a iiaper 
manufacturing town of about 6,000, and 
IS located out of the farm district. Not 
many farmers reach us to market their 
jn’oduce and prices are very high. liny, 
$22 per ton, not much at that; oats. 85c; 
corn; .$2.60 i)er bu.; flour. $3.65 jier sack 
of 49 lbs.; potatoes, $1.60 per bu. But¬ 
ter, 52c; eggs, fresh, 56c; milk, 10c per 
qt.; ajqiles, $1.80 per bu; cabbage. $2 
per 100 lbs. There are not many cattle 
kept here. Cows are selling at about $1X1 
to $1(X). The butcher pays 22c for pork, 
not plenty at that. Pigs, six and eight 
weeks old, $10 per pair. Peaches sold at 
$2 per bu.; jiears, ,$1.75. w, g 
Elk Co., Pa. 
Rutter, ofk-; eggs. 5.5c; milk, 10c. 
Clnckens, young, .30c live: old, 25c. live. 
Hogs. 20c. -dressed ; milch cows, fresh, 
$75 to $80. Cabbage, 3c lb.; carrots, 3e 
lb.; rutabaga.s. 2c lb.; turnips, 2c lb.; 
beets, 3c lb.; potatoes, $1.40 bu.; apples, 
5c 11). j. n. N. 
McKean Co., Pa. 
FARM AND GARDEN. —The Vir¬ 
ginia State Horticultural Society will 
hold its twenty-second annual convention 
^d fruit exhibit at Harrisonburg, Va., 
December 4-6; W. P. Massey, secretary, 
Winchester, Va. 
The Indiana Horticultural Society an¬ 
nounces that two of the foremost horti¬ 
cultural authorities will appear on its 
lecture program November 21-27, when 
the society holds its annual growers’ con¬ 
ference at Washington, Ind., where the 
Indiana apple show also will be in prog¬ 
ress. These speakers are Prof. John P. 
Stewart of Pennsylvania State College 
Agricultural Experiment Station, and 
Prof.^W. H. Alderman of the University 
of West Virginia. In order to instruct 
the exhibitors in packing fruit for the 
show and also for market. Purdue Univer¬ 
sity will conduct a two-day packing .school 
Dust previous to the opening of the great 
apple festival. The school will be held 
in the exhibit hall November 19 and 20. 
_ The Granite State Dairymen’s Asso- 
ciation will hold iu Laconia, December 
19, 20 and 21, at the time of the thirty- 
third annual meeting, the largest dairy 
show ever held in New Hampshire. Ev¬ 
ery dairy farmer, hether a member of 
the_ association or not, isi invited to ex¬ 
hibit his jiroducts. place them in compe¬ 
tition with his neighbors’ and partieijiate 
in_ the birge number of premiums and 
prizes offered. Six silver cups are com¬ 
peted fort Over $200 is offered in cash 
prizes, besides other premiums. For en¬ 
try blanks, premium list and detailed 
information in regard to making exhibits, 
write to W. P. Davis, secretarv, Dur¬ 
ham. N. H. 
The fourth annual meeting of the Po¬ 
tato Association of America will be held 
in the New National Museum, Washing¬ 
ton. D. .. November 9 and 10. Lou D 
Sweet, president, Denver. Colo.; J. G 
Milward. vice-president. Madison, Wis.; 
W. Stuart, secretary-treasurer. U S 
pepartment of Agriculture, Washing¬ 
ton. D. C. 
At the tenth 'annual meeting of the 
\egetahle Growers’ Association of Am¬ 
erica. Springfield, Mass., October 10-12. 
uie following officers were elected : II' 
Phipdelphia, Pa., president; 
' • ”• V Rajiids, Mich., vice- 
pi’e.sident; S. W. Severance. Louisville 
Ky., secretary; Eugene Davis, Grand’ 
Rapids. Mich., treasurer. 
The fight between producers and dis- 
tiibut6rs of milk on one side and con- 
.sumers on the other, on the matter of 
price.s, continued at Chicago October 29 
with .slight gains for the consumers. One 
large company announced that beginning 
Nov'emifier 1 the price to the consumer 
would be reduced one cent to 12 cents a 
quart, which is, however, two cents higher 
than a j’ear ago. Meanwhile 42 rejire- 
sentatlves of milk coinjianies have been 
called before the Grand Jury as the re¬ 
sult of an inquiry into alleged price¬ 
fixing. 
Straightening and retinning of dairy 
cans, because of a threatened shortage of 
cans and an actual shortage of tin plate 
in this country, is being advocated by the 
United States Food Administration, work¬ 
ing in conjnnefon with national dairy 
interests The scarcity of tin plate may 
make necessary governmental restrictions 
upon its use. Investigation has shown 
that cans can be renewed at from one- 
fourth to one-third the cost of new ones. 
UNITED ENGINE COMPANY 
DEPT. E-76 
LANSINQ, MICHIGAN 
We run a truck auto to market once 
aiul twice a week, to Barnesboro, Cam¬ 
bria Co.. Pa. Following are present 
prices: Dressed steer, 13c; dressed pork, 
18c. Butter, country, 50c to 55c.; eggs, 
country, 50c; poultry, young, 2.5c, live. 
Potatoes, $1.25 bu.; pears. $2 bu.; onions, 
$2 bu.; tomatoes, $2 bu.; cabbage, $1.25 
jier cwt.: ajiplcs, $1 and $1.25 bu. s. T. 
Clearfield Co., Pa. 
^ly market is Scranton, and I get the 
following prices; Cabbage, $5 per hun¬ 
dred heads; potatoes, $1.60 per bu.; car¬ 
rots, .$1; beets, $1. Eggs, hennery white, 
65c; by the crate at 30c doz. Butter, 50e 
lb.; apjdes, $1 per bu.. I just bought 
four fresh cows for $413; this was at a 
stock sale, and they were grade Holsteins. 
Lackawanna Co., Pa. b. p. f. 
Hay is selling here, loose iu barn, for 
$10. Grain not thrashed yet; I thra.shed 
and sold peas at $4 per bu.. We re¬ 
ceived $1.81% for 4 jjer cent milk and 
are charged 48c lb. for butter. We get 
back - . .skini-inilk. It is impossible to 
get farm help here; looks as if we would 
be to abandon our farms until 
after the war. A large quantity of hay, 
b'^aii. and peas not yet harvested on ac- 
coi. rt Oi no help. e, 11 . c. 
Ch.;tou Co., N. Y. 
Wheat at the local elevator. .$2.10; old 
corn, $2; new corn out of field, $1.25; 
oats, 55c per bu. Hay, baled, $20 per 
ton. Ordinary cows, $100; veal calves, 
13%c per lb.; pork, dressed, 23e. Milk, 
$3.10 per cwt.; butter, 42c; eggs, 42c. 
Apples, ,81.25 ner hu.; potatoes. $1.25 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Northwest Live Stock Exposition, 
Lewi.ston, Idaho, November 8. 
Potato Association of America, fourth 
annual meeting, New National Museum. 
Washhigton. D. C., November 9-10. 
National Farm and Live Stock Show, 
New Orleans, La.. November 17. 
Seventh Ohio State Apple Show, Music 
Hall, Cincinnati, O.. November 17-23. 
Pacific International JJve Stock Ex¬ 
position. North Portland, Ore., Novem¬ 
ber 19-24. 
Short course in agriculture, Rutgers 
College, New Brunswick, N. J., open 
November 20. 
Indiana Horticultural Society, annual 
growers’ conference and apple show, 
Washington. Ind.. November 21-27. 
Michigan State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Grand Rapids, Midi., 
December 4-6. 
Virginia State Horticultural Socioty. 
annual convention and fruit exhibit, Har¬ 
risburg, Va., December 4-6. 
Derry Poultry Association, annual 
show. Derry, N. H.. December 11-14. 
Palace Poultry Show, New York City. 
December 11-15. 
_ New .Tersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Newark, N. J., 
December 10-1. 
University Horticultural Society, Ohio 
State University, seventh annual show. 
Columbus, O., December 1.3-15. 
Madison Sjiuare Garden Poultry Show, 
New York City, December 28, January 2. 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
milk, cream, butter and cheese show, La¬ 
conia, N. II., December 19-21. 
