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WARD TRACTOR CO.,2040 N St., Lincoln, Neb. 
Crops and Farm Notes 
Calves, live, 14o; dres.sed pork, 22e; 
live pork, 17c; little pigs, 17c; fresh cows, 
from .$100 to ,$150. Corn meal, $4.20 per 
ewt.: ground oats, $2.50; red dog, $.3.45; 
gluten. $2.05; balanced ration, $2.9,5. We 
bought cottonseed meal last .July for 
.$.30.40 on the car. Feed dealers here 
generally make .50c to $1 difference on a 
ton of feed. C. E. M. 
Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
Cattle on foot, 11 to ll%c; dressed, 14 
to 1.5c lb. Hogs. 18 to 20c dressed; at 
meat market, beef 18 to 30c ; pork, 24 to 
30c. No tree fruit of any kind here this 
year. Wheat a good crop; the mill pays 
$2 bn. No corn to speak of; too cold and 
wet to mature. Oats fair crop, hut dam¬ 
aged in getting cut. Potatoes fair crop, 
some at $1.50 bu. Butter, 45 to 50c; 
eggs, 55 to OOc. k. c. g. 
Armstrong Co., Pa. 
These are wholesale prices here : Beef, 
dressed, 15c; pork. 20c; veal, 15 to^l8c; 
chickens, 20 to 22c; potatoes, $1.50 to 
$1.75 bu.; cabbage, 4c lb.; onions, $1.50 
bu.; buckwheat, $.3 per cwt. i. M. M. 
Butler Co,, Pa. 
Some crops were absolute failures here, 
such as apples and corn. I’otatoes on low 
ground were nearly a failure. Hay not 
over two-thirds of last year's crop. Wheat, 
average yield; oats, about one-half crop, 
and about usual acreage. What corn was 
raised was nearly all soft and was mostly 
put in silos. Very little fit for cribbing. 
Present selling prices: Corn, ,$4 cwt.; 
wheat, $4 cwt,; oats, 70c bu.; potatoes, 
$1..50; onions, $1.50; buckwheat, $3.50 
cwt.; dressed pigs, 20c lb.; butter, 4.5c; 
eggs, 45c; hay, baled, on car, .$20 ton, and 
advancing. E. A. G. 
Crawford Co., Pa. 
Potatoes, $1..50 bu.; wheat, $2.25 ; corn, 
,$2..30; fancy wheat middlings, $2.70 cwt.; 
gluten, ,$2.70; oil meal, $2.80: oats. 70c 
bu.; corn flour, $6 cwt. Potatoes fairly 
good; wheat crop about medium; corn 
very good on high places, but on low 
places it was poor. Oats fairly good. 
Cattle sold at auction brought from .$80 
to $1,30. Hogs, dressed, 23c lb.; butter, 
51e wholesale at creamery, where we re¬ 
ceive 5.3c for butter-fat; eggs, 51e; apples, 
.$2 bu., for fancy grade; cabbage, from 6 
to 8c head ; turnips, $1 bu. C. D. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
Potatoes, $1.25 to $1.40; carrots, 50 
to 60c; beets, 70 to 75c; turnips, SOc to 
$1 bu. Cabbage, .$3 and $4 per cwt.; 
quoted some at $23 per ton ; many lots 
have changed hands much highier, as high 
as $40 per ton. Apples, $1..50 per bu. for 
good. IPubbard squash, l^^ to 2%c per 
lb. Wheat, .$2.0,5 to ,$2.10 per bu. Veal, 
21c; pork, dressed, $19 to $21 per <wt.; 
beef, dressed, $12 to $17 per cwt. Cows 
at auction in this vicinity, new milkers, 
$100 to $125, as to quality. Dry cows, 
coming fresh by Spring and early Winter, 
from $.35 to $75 per head, as to quality 
and size. Steers to feed, 7 to 8c per lb.; 
heifers, 5 to 6c per lb. Straw, $10 to 
$12 per ton ; hay, $17 to $20 per ton. 
Butter, 45 to 50c lb.; cheese, 28 to SOc. 
Eggs, fresh, 60 to 65c per doz. Pears, $1 
per bu. Onions, $1.50 to $1.75 per bu. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 6. B. 0. 
Milk, 7c iper qt.; butter fat, 62c. 
Chickens, 20e per lb.; pork, 23c; eggs, 
58c per doz. Potatoes, $1.65 bu.; cab¬ 
bage, 2c per lb. Rye, $1.82 ; wheat, $2.15; 
corn on the ear, $32 to $35 per ton 
Bucks Co., Pa. R. G. 
These prices are from Chagrin Falls, O. 
Bran, $1.80; flour middlings, $3.20; 
brown middlings, $2.20 ; gluten, $2.60; oil 
meal, $2.90; chop, about $3; oats, about 
65c bu.; wheat, $2. Hominy is very 
scarce, and I don’t know the price; also 
cottonseed meal. Potatoes at Cleveland, 
quick sale at $2 bu.; milk, $£80 can or 
$2.80 ewt.; veal, dressed, $20 to $24 cwt.; 
beef, dressed. $14 to $18 cwt.; pork, live, 
$14..50 to $17.50 cwt.; butter, homemade, 
in 2-lb. crocks, 45 to 52c. F. G. B. 
Geauga Co., O. 
Dairy cattle, $100 and up; poorer 
grade, $75 and up; pork, 24 to 20c, 
dressed. Butter, SOc lb. Apples, $1.50 
bu.; good demand, drops $1 to $1.10 bu. 
Cabbage, $16 per 100 heads. Potatoes, 
$1.85 bu.; onions, $2 bu. b. g. d. 
Luzerne Co., Pa. 
The farmers along the Florida east 
coast are preparing to plant the largest 
acreage to Spring potatoes ever put in 
in this section. In the Hastings district 
the increase will be several thousand acres 
over the 12,000 planted last year. All 
points below (south) this district show 
a marked increase in acreage, and several 
new planting areas have been developed 
since last season. Fall work has pro¬ 
gressed rapidly under most favorable 
weather conditions. Planting will not be 
as early as last year and will not become 
general before .January 10 or 15. Grow¬ 
ers are anticipating good prices, and will 
have to obtain such in order to break even 
with the increased cost of production. 
St. Johns Co., Fla. T. G. T. 
Cottonseed meal, $2.60; oil meal, $2.75 
per 100 lbs., sacks included. Good cows, 
$75 to $100. Hard frost October 8. Corn 
is green and soft, has not cured any since 
cut. The majority of it had just com¬ 
menced to dent when cut. Oat yield below 
average. Wheat, small acreage; yield 
from two to 30 bu. per acre. More 
sown for 1918 harvest. A canning com¬ 
pany of Cleveland bought tomatoes for 
$12 per ton delivered to Madison; they 
bad to be good and smooth. That would 
be .006 mills per lb.; two lbs. enough to 
fill a 1-lb. can, which retails at 15c per 
can, making a profit of 1.3c and 8 mills, 
being 11% times as much as the farmer 
gets. Where does the high cost of living 
come in, or even the 35-cent dollar? 
Geauga Co., O. s, B. w. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
^ DOMESTIC.—Elmer Dwiggins. the 
New York insurance man accused of 
.swindling dollar-a-week Liberty Loan sub¬ 
scribers, was arre.sted in Montgomery^ 
Ala. He said that he fled from thi.s city 
because he put money paid him by bond 
buyers into the stock market and lost 
about $100,000 when the market declined. 
One hundred and fifteen women track 
workers now are wielding picks, shovels 
and crowbars, maintaining the roadbed 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad between 
New Y"ork and Pittsburg, 
Four bandits at New Castle, Pa., Nov. 
15, held up an automobile containing A. 
D. Farrell, superintendent of the W. G. 
•Johnson Limestone Company, and two 
employees, and after shooting to death 
one of the employees, Tony Sack, and 
wounding Farrell, escaped with $17,000 
in payroll envelopes. Later a posse found 
one of the holdup men dead in a clump 
of bushes near the scone of the crime and 
shot another of the bandits who had con¬ 
cealed himself in a tree about a mile from 
the robbery. In the possession of the 
two bandits was ,$9,700 of the money 
taken from the Farrell automobile. 
Denial of rail transportation to more 
than 500 commodities classed as non-es¬ 
sential was recommended to the govern¬ 
ment Nov. 15 by the Railroad War 
Board. At the same time the board put 
out a statement declaring the country’s 
railroads at the present rate of increase 
in trafiic will be unable to meet the de¬ 
mands that will be made on them this 
Winter. 
Two employees were burned to death 
and five men are missing as a result of 
the explosion and fire Nov. 15 which de¬ 
stroyed the Standard Oil Company’s re¬ 
fining plant at Norfolk, Okla. The loss 
is estimated at $500,000. 
Nov. 17 a forest fire in the Ramapo 
Mountains, Northern New .Tersey, caused 
the death of 12 men near Allendale, who 
were trapped by backfire while fighting 
the flames. 
New and stringent regulations supple¬ 
menting those announced on April 6 last 
for the restriction of enemy alien activi¬ 
ties in the L^'nited States were proclaimed 
Nov, 19 by 1‘resident Wilson. Under the 
new regulations all enemy aliens are re¬ 
quired to register under plans to be an¬ 
nounced by the Attorney General, they 
are forbidden to approach steamship 
piers, to be found on rivers or the se’a 
except in public ferryboats, to ascend into 
the air in aircraft of any sort, to ap¬ 
proach railway or other terminals or to 
change their abodefor place of occupation, 
W'ithout .complying with all of the regu¬ 
lations the Attorney General promulgates. 
Enemy aliens are forbidden to enter the 
District of Columbia and the Panama 
Canal Zone. The regulations were made 
necessary by the succession of fires and 
explosions on ships and at munitions 
plants, which evidently were the result of 
enemy plots. It is known that many 
more plots than resulted in fires and ex¬ 
plosions were detected in time to prevent 
any catastrophes. November 19 U. S. 
soldiers raided the river front district of 
Hoboken, N. J., and seized 200 Germans 
who were at once interned on Ellis Island. 
The Court of Errors and Appeals at 
Trenton, N. J., Nov. 19 reversed the Su¬ 
preme Court, which set aside the convic¬ 
tion of I’eter J. Rodgers of Paterson for 
driving an automobile while intoxicated. 
The higher court upheld the power of the 
Legislature to provide for the punish¬ 
ment of such an offense by summary pro¬ 
cedure. The Errors Court sustains the 
act of 1913 which makes mandatory the 
imposition by any committing magistrate 
of a jail term instead of a fine upon con- 
victim of driving an automobile while in¬ 
toxicated, in all cases. 
The steamer Mariposa, which grounded 
on the rocks in the narrow passage of 
Sumner Strait, Southeastern Alaska, 
slipped from its perch and sank Nov, 18. 
The 265 passengers were picked up by 
steamers and landed at Wrangell. 
Loss of the American whaler Alice 
Knowles, ,302 tons gross, was reported on 
the arrival at a Brazilian port Nov. 19 
of the American schooner Fred W. Thur- 
low. Charles Gilbert, master of the Thur- 
low, rescued two Portuguese sailors Sept. 
7. They reported they had been in the 
water for three days, holding to part of 
the lifeboat. The Alice Knowles was 
wrecked in a hurricane on the night of 
Sept. 3. 
The Federal Grand Jury filed indict¬ 
ments Nov. 19, charging seven editors. 
December 1, 1917 
writers and cartoonists connected with 
The Masses, a Socialist magazine, with 
criminal violation of the espionage act. 
Another indictment charging The Masses 
Publishing Company and C. Merrill Rog¬ 
ers. Jr., business manager, with misuse 
of the mails, also was filed. The Masses 
was recently denied admission to the 
mails by the Federal authorities. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Rock¬ 
land County Poultry Association, now 
one of_ the largest county associations in 
New Y'ork State, will hold its first annual 
show at Nyack, N. Y., .Tanuary 9-12. 
The War Bureau of the National Com¬ 
mittee on Prisons and Prison Labor Nov. 
16 presented to government officials plans 
for the collection and disposition to good 
advantage of junk and other waste accu¬ 
mulated on farms. The committee rec¬ 
ommends that the farmer be called upon 
to collect waste materials and deliver 
them to county penal institutions, where 
they would be sorted out and sent to in¬ 
dustries as needed. 
A proposal that every soldier in the 
American Army abroad have opportunity 
on his return to become the owner of a 
small farm was made Nov. 18 bv Senator 
Harding of Ohio, who will seek to put his 
idea into effect through legislation when 
Congress resumes. Mr. Harding believes 
the farms should be made available to the 
soldiers at a price regulated by the gov¬ 
ernment and on the basis of moderate in¬ 
stalments. 
Great Britain is now receiving vast 
amounts of beef from China. Quantities 
of fine cattle are raised in the Province of 
Shantung. 
Loans of $7,847,000 were made to farm¬ 
ers in October under the Federal farm- 
loan system, raising the total paid out 
since the system’s inauguration 15 
months ago to $21,000,000. The Federal 
Farm Loan Board's I’eport Nov, 17 
showed that the demand for loans, which 
are made at 5 per cent on first mortgage 
security, was four times the amount ac¬ 
tually paid, and applications now in the 
hands of the 12 Federal land banks 
amount to $193,000,000. About 3,000 
loan associations have been organized by 
farmers as the preliminary step towards 
obtaining money from the government, 
and about half of these have been char¬ 
tered. In addition, 2,000 other associa¬ 
tions are in process of formation. 
At the fourth annual meeting of the 
Potato Association of America, at Wash¬ 
ington, Lou D. Sweet of Denver, Col., 
and a member of the Pood Administra¬ 
tion, was re-elected presilent, W. T. Ma- 
coun of Ottawa, Can., was elected vice- 
president, and Dr. William Stuart of 
the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture was re-elected secretary and treas¬ 
urer. The executive committee selected 
consists of President Sweet, Henry G. 
Bell of Chicago, Daniel Dean of Nichols, 
N. Y’^., Dr. William Stuart of this city, 
and H. E. Hornton of Chicago. 
A joint committee, representing potato 
growers, shippers and distributers, at a 
recent conference in Washington, D. C.. 
went on record as recommending that the 
Bureau of Standards be urged to take 
the necessary steps toward the establish¬ 
ment of_ 100 pounds as the unit price 
upon which quotations governing the sale 
of this crop shall be based throughout the 
United States, from the standpoint that 
such a unit will facilitate handling and 
will be fairer to producer and consumer 
alike. 
_ Public hearings on proposed quaran¬ 
tines against shipments of sweet potatoes 
and yams to the continental United 
States from Porto Rico and Hawaii and 
all foreign countries were recently held 
by the Federal Horticultural Board, 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. The quarantines are 
contemplated because of information that 
two injurious insects, the sweet potato 
borer and the sweet potato scarabee, not 
widely _ prevalent in the United States, 
occur in Porto Rico and Hawaii. The 
total importations of sweet potatoes and 
yams during 1912 to 1916, inclusive, was 
40,278 bushels. Of these importations 
62.8 per cent came from Cuba. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Michigan State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Grand Rapids, Mich, 
Dec. 4-6. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual convention and fruit exhibit, Har¬ 
risburg, Va., Dec. 4-6. 
National Farmers’ Exposition, Toledo, 
O., Dec. 5-15. 
Derry Poultry Association, annual 
show, Derry, N. H., Dec. 11-14. 
New York State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting, the Armory, Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y., Dee. 11-14. 
Palace Poultry Show, New Y’’ork City, 
Dec. 11-1.5. 
New Jersey State Horticultural Socie¬ 
ty, annual meeting, Newark, N. J., Dec. 
10 - 11 . 
University Horticultural Society, Ohio 
State University, seventh annual show, 
Columbus, O., Dec. 13-15. 
Springfield, Mass., Poultry Club, Inc., 
annual show. Municipal Auditorium, 
Springfield, Mass.. Dec. 18-21. 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
milk, cream, butter and cheese show, La¬ 
conia, N. H.. Dec. 19-21. 
Madison Square Garden Poultry Show, 
New York City, Dec. 28-Jau. 2. 
Rockland County Poultry Association, 
first annual show, Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 
9-12, 1917, 
