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The Milker That^s Different 
Wes tern Electric 
OMEGA Milking Machine 
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Three exclusive features combine to make the Western 
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WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY 
INCORPORATED 
463 We»t Street. New York City. 
500 South Clinton Street, Cfaicaso, Ill. 
1 Itfa euid York Streets, Philadelphia. Pa. 
114 Third Street, Minneapolis, Minn. 
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as soon as received and assorted. 
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WERTHAN BAG COMPANY. 
66 Dock Street St. Louis, Mo* 
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How much do you get for the bag 
of feed you buy ? Are you sure 
the right amount comes back to 
the milk pail ? Or does most of it 
find its way to the manure pile? 
An ailing cow, one with her vital organs 
out of kilter, wastes more than she pro¬ 
duces. Make sure you get your money’s 
worth. Feed a pinch of 
. CARPENTER’S _ 
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with your regular feeds. Nature’s tonic 
of nature’s tonic herbs. Concentrated. 
Goes far. Colleges and big dairymen en¬ 
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We have a free trial offer. 
Send for it today. 
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Box 50 Syracuse, N. Y. 
WHICH FUEL DO YOU USE? 
The Two Fuel Heavi-Duti engine works on gMoline or kwosen^ Select the fuel you 
prefer to use—gasoline at 26c; kerosene at 12o. The two fuel Heavi^uti works be^ron 
gasoline than me best single fuel gasoline en^ne and it outlasts the single f uel ei^n^ 
You do not draw all oold air into the cylinder, but g raduate the air according to 
the weather. It is an ideal cold weather 
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We have a hlsrh tension oscillatinir mairneto 
that has no brushes, no revolving parts; it is sim¬ 
plicity itself, starta the engine without the aid of 
batteries, gives the same spark whether the engine 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Fire in the Brighton 
Beach section of Coney Island Nov. 29 
caused damage amounting to .$400,000. 
A theatrical feature of the fire w’as the 
aid given by four United States gun¬ 
boats stationed in the lower bay. They 
played powerful searchlights on the 
buildings. This made the burning sec¬ 
tion almost as bright as day and greatly 
helped the firemen called by five alarms. 
The fire was believed to be incendiary. 
An annual saving of 16,000,000 pounds 
of sugar and 12,000,000 pounds of short¬ 
ening is what the cracker marfnfacturers 
of the country estimate they will ac¬ 
complish under the new rules made for 
them by the Food Administration. The 
rules require that an average of not 
more than 17 pounds of shortening, of 
which not more than 10 pounds shall 
be animal fats, shall be u.sed in 196 
pounds of flour, meal or mixture for 
sponge goods, and not more than 26 
pounds, of which not more than half 
shall be animal fats, in sweet goods. 
No sugar is allowed for sponge goods 
and not more than 53 pounds for sweet 
goods. 
Desire of the Circola Studi Social!, 
an alleged pro-German Italian anarch¬ 
istic organization, to cripple America’s 
war plans led it to send out agitators 
to give fake warnings to American 
housewives that the Federal Pood Ad¬ 
ministration idanned to seize their 
canned fruits, jellies and other stored 
foodstuffs, H'. W. White, United States 
Immigration Commissioner, announced 
at Seattle, Wash., Nov. 29. Mr. White 
directed recejnt raids, in which more 
than seventy alleged members of the Soci¬ 
ety were arrested. The task of endeavor¬ 
ing to undermine the food administration’s 
work was but one of many undertaken 
by the members in their efforts to aid 
Germany, Federal officials say. Other 
steps included assassination of King Vic¬ 
tor Emmanuel of Italy, seizure of food¬ 
stuffs in the United States and spreading 
of dissension in the Italian army and 
throughout the United 'States. 
Four workmen were killed and two 
injured in an explosion in one of the 
buildings of the British Chemical Com¬ 
pany at Trenton, Ontario, Nov. 30. The 
building was destroyed in a fire which 
followed. 
To indictments charging them with 
smuggling rubber into Germany by way 
of Holland on Belgian relief ships six 
men entered pleas of guilty Dec. 3 
before United States Ili.strict Judge 
Veeder in the Federal Building, Brook¬ 
lyn. Four pleaded guilty to illegally 
bringing into this country jewellers’ 
saws from the Dutch kingdom. The au¬ 
thorities declared that the prisoners did 
a weekly business of $50,(XK) in their 
illicit traffic. 
Dec. 3 thirteen convicts escaped fro 15 
the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet. 
Seven of the men were captured at 
Morris, Ill., after they had stopped a 
Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria interui-ban 
car, robbed the passengers of everything 
they had, including most of their clothes, 
and had driven the car to Morris, Ill., 
where they abandoned it. 
Fire started late in the evening of 
Dec. 3 in the plant of the E. W. Morse 
Dry Dock and Repair Company, which 
covers five blocks of the waterfront from 
Fifty-fifth to Sixtieth street in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y., and although four alarms 
were turned in and all available ap¬ 
paratus was hurried to the scene, the 
flames raged for more than two hours 
beforer they were brought under control. 
Six buildings were destroyed—the car¬ 
penter shop, the pattern shop, the join¬ 
ing shop, the oil building, the restaurant, 
the machine shops and a wooden barracks 
in which soldiers were housed—with a 
loss estimated by officials of the com¬ 
pany at $500,000. The plant of the 
Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company 
is one of the largest and most complete 
shipbuilding and repair plants in the 
United iStates, and since this country 
entered the war has been the scene of 
important military activities. It has a 
value of some $3,000,000 and was organ¬ 
ized by Edward P. Morse and others, who 
were connected for many years with the 
present plant. The fii’e is considered 
of suspicious origin. 
Representative Nelson of AViscousin, 
indicted recently charged with conspiracy 
to defeat the draft law in connection 
with his son’s failure to register, W’as 
Dee. 3 granted an ic^Itinite leave of 
absence from the House. 
MTASITINGTON.—Congress convened 
Dee. 4. The President’s message, which 
gave a clear statement of the nation’s 
position in the war, called for a declara¬ 
tion of war against Austifia. When 
Congress adopts President Wilson’>s rec¬ 
ommendation that a state of war against 
Austria-Hungary be declared, unnatural¬ 
ized subjects of the dual monarchy auto¬ 
matically will become enemy aliens 
and be subject to summary arrest 
and internment. For several months 
government agents have been _ gath¬ 
ering information on the hostile ac¬ 
tivities of Austrians who were not sub¬ 
ject to the restrictions imposed on all 
unnaturalized Germans by the state of 
war with Germany, and those caught in 
illegal acts were arrested and tried under 
the uisual criminal statutes. Many others 
were free to travel and obtain informa¬ 
December 15, 1917 
tion valuable to America’s enemies, how¬ 
ever, while keeping their conduct tech¬ 
nically within the law. 
A blacklist of 1,600 firms in twenty 
Central and South American countries 
with whom merchants of the .'United 
States are forbidden specifically to do 
business except under special license 
was promulgated Dec. 4 by the War 
Trade Board. It is officially styled 
“enemy trading list” and constitutes "the 
first section of a record which eventu¬ 
ally will include the names of firms in 
most of the countries of the world, in¬ 
cluding the United States. Latin-Amer- 
ica is dealt with first because of the 
large number of German firms in the 
southern republics active in aiding Ger¬ 
many’s cause. Evidence put before the 
Wlar Trade Board has shown that many 
of these firms, including public utilities 
companies, have financed to a large de¬ 
gree German propaganda work in the 
United States. All those named in the 
list issued have been charged with secret¬ 
ly or openly assisting America’s enemies. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A meeting 
of wool merchants to act on the report 
of a committee recently appointed to for¬ 
mulate some plan of action relative to 
buying the new South American wool 
clip was held at Boston, Dec. 3. The 
committee was instructed by the Boston 
Wool Trade Association to try to de¬ 
vise a plan which would best render aid 
to the Government in solving the ques¬ 
tion of the wool supply. The commit¬ 
tee’s report expresses the opinion that 
the temporary lack of supply of South 
Attierican wools could be obviated if 
the Govei’nment should offer for sale to 
manufacturers, to be used for Govern¬ 
ment goods, some or all of the wool 
owned by the Government. It proposes 
that the Boston Association agree to 
offer to the Government at the market 
price now prevailing, one-half of each 
lot of new clip South American wools 
owned here, at any time during the next 
six months, provided that the Govern¬ 
ment pay not less than cost, including 
interest and carrying charges. 
Reduction of the 10 cents a pound tax 
on colored oleomargarine, both as a war 
measure to increase the production of 
food fats and as a means of actually 
irielding more aggregate revenue, was 
recommended in the annual report of the 
Internal Revenue Bureau issued Dec. 1 
over the name of W. H. Osborn, who 
has recently been succeeded as Commis¬ 
sioner by Daniel C. Roper. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Missouri State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 
11-1.3. 
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Madison, 'M’l.s., Dec, 
11-13. 
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., Dec. 11-14. 
Palace Poultry Show, New York Citv, 
Dec. 11-15. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Newark, N. J., 
Dec. 10-11, 
University Horticultural Society, Ohio 
State University, seventh annual show, 
Columbus, O., Dec. 13-15. 
State School of Agriculture, Delhi, N. 
Y., Farmers’ Week, Dec. 18-20. 
Springfield, Mass., Poultry Club, Inc., 
annual show. Municipal Auditorium, 
Springifield, Mass., Dec. 18-21, 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
milk, cream, butter and cheese show, La¬ 
conia, N. H., Dec. 19-21. 
Madi.son Square Garden Poultry Show, 
New York City, Dec. 28 to .Tan! 2. 
Eastern Ontario Dairymen’s Conven¬ 
tion, Perth, Ont., Canada, Jan. 10-11. 
Rockland County Poultry As.sociatiou, 
9 P’ ^1918^ 
Western Ontario Dairymen’s Conven¬ 
tion, Stratford, Ont, Canada, Jan. 17-18. 
For cows. $50 to $75; milk, 7c qt.; but- 
ter, 45 to 50c; eggs, 50c; beef, 15c; pota¬ 
toes, $1.20 bu.; cabbage, 5 to 10c head. 
Lambs, $8 each; pork, 21c lb.; buck¬ 
wheat, $L.50 bu.; chickens, live weight, 
20c lb. Hay, $15 ton ; loose hay delivered. 
Clinton Co., N. Y. F. B. 
This is quite a shipping point, espe¬ 
cially hay, straw and potatoes. Hay is 
$25 f. o. b.; straw, $11; potatoes, $1.50; 
dressed hogs, $22 cwt.; chickens, 22c lb.; 
butter, 50c; eggs, 50c. Fresh cows 
(grades), $60 to $80; Fall wheat, .$2.10; 
buckwheat, $3.25 cwt. d. a. 
Jefferson Co., Pa, 
We live 13 miles from our market, Oil 
City, Pa. As we do not go to market I 
will give you the prices at the farm. 
Wheat, $2; corn, none selling yet, but at 
Oil City we have to pay $4 for cornmeal. 
Oats, from 05c to 70c; eggs, 40c; butter, 
45c to 50c; potatoes, $1.50. Haj\ $10 to 
$12 at the barn, more if delivered. Milk 
at the creamery, made into butter for the 
stockholders and sold by wholesale. Chick¬ 
ens, 20e to 22c, live, more if dressed. 
Cows, $50 to $90; hogs, 20c, dressed; 
none sold live weight. More wheat plant¬ 
ed than usual and looking fine so far. The 
wettest season known in this vicinity for 
years. G. L. J. 
Venango Co., Pa. 
