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l^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 8, 1917 
Somewhere in America 
Laying submarine cable, hun¬ 
dreds of miles of it, to scores of 
isolated lighthouses is one of the 
telephone tasks made necessary 
by the war. The Bell System has 
also built lines connecting some 
two hundred coast guard stations. 
It has built complete telephone 
systems for fifteen National Army 
cantonments and fifteen National 
Guard camps, each a city in size, 
and also at many naval, officer’s 
reserve, mobilization and embar¬ 
kation campsand at army and navy 
stations. 
It has provided an enormous 
increase in long distance facilities 
throughout the country, that satis¬ 
factory service may be maintained 
between cantonments, training 
camps, guard outposts, military 
supply stations, war industries, the 
National Capital and other centers 
of Government activity. 
The Government facilities at the 
National Capital have already 
been increased three-fold and 
there has been a tremendous in¬ 
crease in local and toll facilities. 
Fifteen thousand miles of tele¬ 
phone wire have been taken from 
other use for the exclusive service 
of the Government and some 
20,000 miles of telegraph-facilities 
also provided. 
Meanwhile the Bell System has 
given generously of its man power, 
until over seven thousand men 
are in service or recruited for mili¬ 
tary duty. 
Members of the Bell System 
whether they have already gone 
to France or whether they have 
stayed at their posts to help mob¬ 
ilize the country for victory, are 
equally in the service of the 
Nation. 
AMERICAN Telephone and Telegraph Companv 
And Associated Companies 
One Policy One System Universal Service 
R AW FURS 
Direct 
to 
NEWYORK 
The Intcrnationai 
Fur Market 
Trappers’ 
Free 
on 
Because shipments to New 
York eliminate all unneces¬ 
sary transportation and 
handling charges involved 
in reshipment from the in¬ 
terior. Your pelts will reach 
New York eventually. WHY NOT FIRST? Here in New 
York you will find : The largest Raw Fur Market; the greatest number of 
Raw Fur Dealers; the largest number of Fur manufacturers; 90 per 
PpngiAot cent, of America’s Fur Dressers and Dyers; the biggest outlet for man, 
ncijlUCol ufactured Furs and the most wonderful retail Fur establishments on earth 
Guide 
RAW FUR MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION, 46 West 24th Street, 
New York 
Shlp^Us Yoiir Raw Furs By Express 
We guarantee to hold all shipments entirely separate, and in case our valua¬ 
tions are not satisfactory we will return your goods at once, and pay all 
express charges both ways. 
H. A. PERKINS & CO. 
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. VT. 
Referencci; Dun or Bradstreet Commercial Agencies—Any Baak 
REECO SAWING OUTFIT 
complete, ready for use. Saw frame may be removed from truck 
when not in use so that engine may be used for other work. 
REECO PUMPING OUTFITS Hot°Air^br Electric 
RIDER-ERICSSON ENGINE CO., 24 Murray St., New York 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
NOVEMBER 27, 1917. 
Eggs. —White eggs lower. Fancy white 
hennery eggs, 75 to 83c; fancy hennery 
browns, 58 to 62c; nearby gathered 
whites and mixed, 58 to 72c; white pul¬ 
lets’, 55 to 60c. Candle your eggs before 
shipping, and do not ship cracked eggs. 
Use new cases with No. 1 flats and fillers, 
placing excelsior on top and bottom. 
Butter. —Market firm and high; best 
Western creamery, 47% to 48c; prime to 
fancy, 47c; fancy Eastern dairy, 45 to 
46e; Eastern dairy in mixed packages, 
42 to 45c. 
EMPTY COOPS. 
N. B.—All empty coops are turned over 
to the express companies promptly after 
arrival. W’e obtain a receipt for them. 
We are exerting every effort to induce 
the express companies to return them to 
the shipper promptly. Shippers Who do 
not receive the coops promptly should 
write us for a copy of the express receipt, 
and have their local agent trace the ship¬ 
ment, or as a last resort, file claim with 
their local express agent for their loss. 
Live Poultry. —Market steady. Fowls, 
22 to 24c; chickens, 22 to 25c; old roost¬ 
ers, 17c; ducks, 24 to 26c; turkeys, 35 to 
37c; geese, 24c; live rabbits, 25c. 
Ltvt; Calves and Hogs. — Market 
steady. Prime, 15% to 16c; fair to good, 
14% to 15V>c; common, 12 to 14c; live 
hogs, $17.50 to .$17.75. 
Dressed Veals and Dressed Pork.— 
Choice veals, 21 to 21%c; prime, 19% to 
20%c; common, 16 to 17c; buttermilks, 
13 to 15e; dressed pigs, 10 to 15 lbs., 27 
to .30c; 16 to 20 lbs., 26c; dressed pork, 
21 to 25c- 
' Hog-Dressed Calves. — Calves from 
four to six weeks old and weighing from 
80 to 110 lbs., are the most desirable for 
shipping to this market; a few buyers can 
use heavier weights if the quality is very 
choice. They should he dressed in the 
following manner: W’hen all is ready for 
the killing, take the calf gently (it must 
not he worried or chased, and should not 
be fed for a space of at least six hours 
previous), tie a rope to hind legs and 
hang it up clear of the ground or floor, 
then cut the head off just behind the ears; 
when thoroughly bled out, put in the gam¬ 
brel stiek and cut off the legs at the knee- 
joint—where the knuckles and head skin 
are left on sellers have to allow enough 
weight to fully cover these,_ and it is best 
to remove them before shipment. Then 
open the belly from pretty well up be¬ 
tween the legs to the breast hone ; remove 
all the intestines, including the lights, 
liver, heart, and especially the rectum and 
windpipe, so that there may be a free cir¬ 
culation of air through the calf. Be care¬ 
ful not to disturb the covering to the 
kidneys. Now balance evenly on the gam¬ 
brel and place a stick of suitable length 
in the opening to hold it in proper shape; 
then hang in a cool, dry place until the 
flesh is “set” and the animal heat is all 
out. The stick which was placed across 
the opening should now be removed. In 
warm weather the opening should be filled 
with a large piece of ice and sewed up. 
The calf should then be laid down so that 
the cold air wull reach all parts of the 
carcass. Never sew up a calf except to 
keep in the ice. Mark for shipment by 
sewing a “shipping tag” to the bag skin 
between the hind legs. Very small, young 
calves are liable to seizure by our meat 
inspectors as unfit for food. Fed calves, 
buttermilk calves, grass calves and year¬ 
lings sell much lower in price than veal 
calves. 
Pears. —The ordinary run of KiefiPers 
are selling from ,$1.50 to ,$2..50 bbl.; if 
fancy, $3.50; demand is limited on ac¬ 
count of sugar shortage; Lawrence, $2.50 
to $4. 
QtnNCES. —Fancy large, $4.50 to $5; 
ordinary, $2.50 to .$4. Little demand be¬ 
cause of sugar shortage. 
Apples. —Low grade selling slowly, 
good demand for fancy fruit at $5 to $6.50; 
McIntosh, $4 to $7; Jonathan, $4 to 
$6.50 ; Wealthy. $3.50 to $5 ; Snow, $4 to 
$5..50; Spy, $3.50 to $7; Baldwins, $3.50 
to $5; Greening, $4 to $6; Ben Davis, $3 
to $3.50. 
Maple Products and Honey. —Sugar, 
light, 17 to 18c _lb.; syrup, $1.50 to $1.65 
gal.; clover white extracted, 16 to 18c; 
buckwheat, 13 to 14c; clover comb, 21 
> 23c. 
Nuts. —Northern chestnuts, $10 to $11 
u.; Southern, $9 to $10. In light sup- 
ly, good demand. 
Potatoes continue in liberal supply, 
'rade moderate, market quiet, prices un¬ 
hanged ; considex-able poor stock here, 
[.rrivals from Virgina selling from $2.75 
a $3.25; Eastern shore as high as $3.50; 
late 180 lbs., bulk, $3.50 to $3.75; 168- 
a. bags, $3.50 to $3.75; 150-lb. bags, 
2.50 to $3.40; Maine, 180 lbs., bulk. 
3.75 to ,$4; 168-lb. bags, $3.75 to $4; 
jong Island, 180 lbs., bulk, $4 to $4.50; 
08-lb. bags, $4 to $4..50. 
Onions. —IMarket weak. State whites, 
00 lbs., $2..50 to $3; yellows, $2 to $2.75; 
eds, $2 to $2.50. 
Beans. —Market steady. Marrow, 15 
o 16%c; pea, 15 to 15%c; red kidney, 
.3 to 16c. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Nov. 26 Franz Rintelen, 
the most distinguished German agent in 
captivity in any of the allied nations, re¬ 
ceived a sentence of one year and eight 
months in Atlanta Federal prison for hav¬ 
ing defrauded this Government in August, 
1915, when he obtained a passport by 
representing himself to be an American 
citizen. 
Secretary McAdoo Nov. 26 barred from 
business for the duration of the war and 
ordered liquidated all insurance com¬ 
panies organized under the laws of Ger¬ 
many and its allies, excepting life insur¬ 
ance companies, which will be permitted to 
continue existing contracts. The license 
under which the American managers of 
the foreign firms are permitted to liqui¬ 
date the affairs of the companies places 
supervision of all financial transactions 
involved under A. Mitchell Palmer, alien 
property custodian. 
Thirty-eight sticks of dynamite were 
found near the wall of the Oneida reser¬ 
voir dam near Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 26, 
by Alfred Butler, a hunter. The charge 
was sufficient to have blown up the Whole 
dam. Oneida’s water supply comes from 
the reservoir, and the police say blowing 
up of the dam was part of a plan to fire 
the city after the water supply had been 
cut off. 
November 24 a bomb that exploded in 
a Milwaukee, Wis., police station killed 
11 persons. The bomb had been found 
in a mission church, and from there taken 
to the police station, where it exploded. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Califor¬ 
nia Federation of Farmers’ Co-operative 
Marketing Associations, held its first reg¬ 
ular meeting in San Francisco early in 
November. The new organization, which 
claims to represent an annual product of 
some $50,000,000, comprises the Califor¬ 
nia Prune and Apricot Growers, Inc., the 
California Associated Olive Growers, Inc., 
the California Peach Growers, the Cali¬ 
fornia Associated Raisin Company, the 
Central California Berry Growers, Inc., 
the Sebastopol Apple Growers’ Union, the 
Poultry Producers of Central California, 
the Poultry Producers of Southern Cali¬ 
fornia, Inc., the Almond Association, the 
Rice Growers’ Association, and the State 
Dairy Association. Th ^ only big organi¬ 
zations that are not included are the Cali¬ 
fornia Fruit Growers’ Exchange, which 
handles the orange and lemon crops, and 
the Walnut Association. 
A resolution from the County Farm 
Bureau at Merced, Colo., has been sent 
to the State Council of Defence asking 
that 'an effort be made to have operators 
of farm tractors exempt from draft and 
to have soldiers in the National Army 
possessing skill as operators returned to 
the farms for service. The resolution 
points out that at least 80 per cent of the 
grain farming on level land is done by 
tractors, that the operators are skilled 
men, hard to replace and that the Gov¬ 
ernment’s appeal for increased grain acre¬ 
age makes this request worthy of imme¬ 
diate action. 
Poisoning of hogs while in shipment 
from points in Texas is being investigated 
by the Texas State Pure Food Commis¬ 
sioner’s department. Stomachs of a num¬ 
ber of hogs poisoned while being shipped 
were examined recently. It is said that a 
large number of hogs in these shipments 
were dead when they reached their des¬ 
tination from the effects of a corrosive 
poison. 
Reservists of a squad at the naval coal¬ 
ing station at Portsmouth, N, H., Nov. 
23, harvested the entire corn crop on a 
large farm there. They volunteered in 
response to an appeal issued in behalf of 
farmers w'hose crops were in danger of 
spoiling. 
The sixtieth annual meeting of the Mis¬ 
souri State Horticultural Society will be 
held at Kansas City, M'o., Dec. 11 to 13. 
The headquarters of the society and its 
meetings will he at the Coates House, 
where space has been reserved for the 
storage of apples for the show, which will 
be a feature of the meeting. 
The annual convention of the Wiscon¬ 
sin State Horticultural Society will be 
held at Madison Dec. 11 to 13. 
With the idea of further conserving the 
nation’s food supply by protecting it from 
insect ravages. President Wilson, in a 
proclamation dated Nov. 15, has placed 
the arsenic industry of the United States 
under direction of the Food Administra¬ 
tion, The President’s action comes in 
answer to a threatened shortage in the 
supply of arsenical insecticides, which are 
the farmer’s chief protection for his crops 
against the onslaught of “biting insects.” 
At a recent auction horses sold as fol¬ 
lows: One pair l,.35()-lb. mares, .$285; 
one colt coming three, $125; last Spring 
calves, $25 to $37; cows average $75; 
pigs, $5.25 each; shotes, weight 75 to 100 
lbs., $12.50 each; hens, 51c apiece. Oats, 
70c; rye, $1.74; buckwheat, $3.10 at mill. 
Butter, 60e; milk, $3.5'* per 100 for No¬ 
vember. Labor hard to get at any price. 
Steuben Co,, N. Y. o. i. M. 
Butter (retail), 49e lb.; eggs (retail), 
60o doz,; milk (retail), lOc qt. Cows to 
freshen soon, $100; potatoes, $1.20 bu.; 
apples, selected, $2 bu. Pigs, 20c lb. 
wholesale. A. 6. L. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
