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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 22, 1917 
PER.FECYION 
MILKER- 
The Labor 
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/^NE man with a Per® 
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do the work of three 
men at milking time. In 
case of emergency 
your wife or your little 
boy or girl can do it. 
The Perfection milks as the calf 
does—suction, downward squeeze, 
release. The Perfection is simple. 
It does not easily get out of order. 
No harness to "bother with. The 
Perfection teat cup fits all sizes of 
teats. The pail is made of “Wear- 
Ever” aluminum, easy to clean 
and non-rusting. 
L. C. Richards of Grand Forks, No. 
Dak., says: 
"The Perfection Milker is doinz fine. We milk 
40 cows in an hour easily and the men like the work. 
With the present acarcity of help, I am afraid to 
think of what might happen if we did not have the 
Perfection.” 
C. E. Van Meter of Loveland, Col., says: 
"The Perfection Milkinz Machine is zivinz entire 
satisfaction. We are saving one man’s work with 
it on 20 cows, which will pay for the machine in 10 
months.” 
Let the Perfection Milker relieve 
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tion. 
Perfection Manufacturing Company 
211S E. Hennepin Ave. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
COLLECTORS OF 
RAW FURS 
should write to >ne for price list 
and shipping: tags. 
Twroity-one years in llaw Fur 
business at the same place. 
Am member of Raw F'ar Merchant* 
Aaeociation, City of New York 
Let me hear from you. 
CHARLES A. KAUNE 
284 Bridge St., Montgomery, N.Y. 
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Milk and Farm News 
My farm is located in Warren County, 
Pa., joining Chautauqua County, N. Y., 
on the South. The commonest grade cows 
bring from ?50 to $100 each. Not many 
calves raised, as the milk is being shipped 
away, some for 400 miles to the Eastern 
market (Philadelphia). Fruit very scarce 
and poor this season. Potatoes were a 
very good crop and bring today about 
$1.35 per bushel. Butter, about 50c per 
lb. Eggs, 50c per doz. ii. a. e. 
Warren Co., Pa. 
Owing to the continuous rain this Fall, 
it was difficult for the farmers to harvest 
their crops. Potatoes were almost a fail¬ 
ure with the majority of the farmers. Ap¬ 
ples, a fair crop, although some orchards 
did not bear any this season. Ernest Rol¬ 
lins harvested 285 barrels of fine apples 
this season. His orchard has been used 
as a demonstration orchard by the Uni¬ 
versity of Maine. Grains of all kinds were 
unusually light this year; oats have yield¬ 
ed 25 bushels to the acre. A number of 
farmers sowed wheat this year for the 
first time in years. Owing to the lateness 
of crops maturing not as much plowing 
has been done this Fall as usual. Corn 
is $4.40 per bu.; middlings, $2.75; oats, 
$1.50. Eggs, 50c; butter, 50e. J. m. s. 
Penobscot Co., Me. 
Corn, $4.50 cwt.; oats, 75c bu.; bran, 
.$2 cwt.; middlings, ,$2.40 cwt.; oil meal, 
.$3 cwt. J. c. 
Warren Co., Pa. 
Potatoes, wholesale, $1; retail, $1.30; 
apples, wholesale, $1; retail, $1.40; cab¬ 
bage, $40 ton; wheat, $2.12 bu.; buck¬ 
wheat, $3.15 cwt.; corn, $1.25 ( 80 lbs., 
ears) ; oats, ()5c bu. H. L. P. 
Northumberland Co., Pa. 
Beef, live, 7 to 10c; hogs, dressed, 22c 
per lb. Hay from $20 to $25 per ton. 
Corn fodder, Sc per bundle. Middling.s, 
brown, $3.70 per bag; corn, old, $2; new, 
on ear, $1.25 to $1.50 per two bins. Oats, 
05e per bu. Cabbage, $1 per 100 lbs.; 
turnips, 00 to 80c per bu.; potatoes, $1.4() 
per bu.; onions, $1.80 per bu. Apples, $1 
to $1.30 per bu. Chickens, 20c per lb., 
live; ducks, 22c per lb., live. Butter, 
country, 4Sc; creamery, 52c per lb. Eggs, 
50c per doz. Milk, 10c per qt.; cream, 
24c^ per qt. j. i. k. 
Northumberland Co., Pa. 
^Butter, 50cchickens, 21c, live; egg.s, 
45c, Cows, $75. Bran costs us $50 ton ; 
middlings, $00; hay, $20. Hogs, 20c, 
live. Corn was a good crop, bringing 
$1.80 >hu. Hay poor, no crop; not much 
oats planted ; wheat was fair. Tomatoes 
made bumper crop, and those not having 
contracts with canning factory are all to 
the good, as some sold as high as $1.25 
per bkt. w. g. f. 
Cecil Co., Md. 
Grains sold to dealers: MTieat, $2 to 
$2.10 per hu.; corn, new, $1.10 to $1.50; 
oat.s, 65 to 70c; potatoes, $1 to $1.20. 
Feed bought from dealer or mill as fol¬ 
lows: Bran, per 100 lbs., .$2.20; mid¬ 
dlings, $2.75; cottonseed, $3.50; gluten 
meal, $4. Eggs, 44c; butter, 42 to 45c; 
apples, $1 to $1.20 per bu.; turnips. $1; 
cabbage, 4 to 8c per head; onions, $1.50 
per*bu.; chickens, 20c. young; 18c, old; 
turkeys, 25c; pork, 20 to 22c, dressed; 
beef, 14 to 16c, dressed; cow’s, $70 and 
up, $100 or more for best. Farmers who 
market their produce in the coal mining 
towns from 12 to 15 miles distant receive 
proportionately higher prices. r. ii. 
Schuylkill Co., Pa. 
Couut;:y butter. 50c per lb.; eggs, 50c; 
chickens, live, 15 to 20c per lb.; veal 
calves, live, 14c per lb. Milch cows, $50 
to $100 each. Hay at •barn, loose, $15 per 
ton ; oats, 80e per ‘bu.; wheat, $2 per bu. 
Flour, $2.90 to $3 per sack; buckwheat 
flour, $1.25 per 25-lb. sack; potatoes, 
$1.50 per bu. K. L. c. 
Clarion Co., Pa. 
BuHalo Markets 
Quantities of potatoes are coming in 
from the West. Some of them were frozen 
in this abnormally cold season and sold 
at almost any price. Good grades bring 
$1.20 to $1.50 per bu., farmers getting $1 
or a trifle more. Jersey sweets are $2.75 
per hamper. Apples are also called quiet. 
They are plenty, but pr'ces are still $4 to 
$7 per bbl. 'VS’'estern onions are $3.25 per 
100-lb. bag, and home-gi’own $1.75 to 
$2.25 per bu. Home-growm grapes are 
gone, but Califoruias are plenty, retailing 
at 8 to 10c per lb. Beans promise to con¬ 
tinue their dizzy levels at $16 to $17 per 
100 lbs. Western New York farmers have 
lost so much money on them that they are 
about to drop the crop. All qjiotable 
Southern fruits are quiet at $2.25^^o $4 
per hunch for bananas, $4.25 to $4.75 per 
box for Valencia oranges, $7 to $7.75 for 
California lemons and 80 to 90c for 100 
limes. Grapefruit is coming in, retailing 
at 3 to 5c each. The crop looke fine. No 
pineapples are offering. 
The local cabbage crop failed to head, 
on account of slow growth, and prices are 
up to $5 to $10 per 100 heads, but turnips 
are plenty at $1.75 per bbl. for yellow and 
50 to 75c per bu. for purple-top. Parsnips 
are now marketable at $1 to $1.25 per bu. 
aud vegetable oysters are 80 to 90c per 
dozen bunches. Both have seen cold 
weather enough to be well flavored. String 
\ beaus are $5 to $7 per hamper; beets, 90c 
to $1.25 per bu.; cauliflower, $1 to $1.75 
per bu.; celery, 20 to 65c per bunch ; let¬ 
tuce, 59 to 80c per two-doz. box; radishes, 
22 to 25c, and shallots, 35 to 45c per doz. 
bunches. Squash is excellent at $2 to 
$2.50 per 100 lbs. Cucumbers and to¬ 
matoes are fairly out of market. Tomatoes 
were a loss from freezing so early. 
Rabbits are regularly in market at 65 
to 75c for cottontails and 90 to $1.25 for 
jacks per pair. The high price of poultry 
helps them, it being 28 to 36c per lb. for 
dressed turkeys, 22 to 27c for fowls, 24 to- 
28c for chickens, 27 to 29c for ducks and 
24 to 26c for geese. Dressed poultry is 
about 3c per lb. higher than live. 
Butter is firm at 48c for best creamery, 
42 to 45c for dairy, 41 to 45c for crocks 
and 38 to 39c for poor butter, with oleo¬ 
margarine 27c. Cheese is not so high, be¬ 
ing 27c for best domestic, 23 to 25c for 
common, 28 to 30c for limburger. Eggs 
are easy, but fancy hennery are quoted 
at 65 to 67e, with State candled 52 to 54c 
and Western storage 35 to 45c. Hens are 
beginning to lay now, but the weather is 
pretty cold for the time of the year. 
Honey is running scarce at 18 to 22c per 
lb. for No. 2 to fancy. Nuts are firm at 
16 to 22c per lb. for chestnuts, $1.50 per 
bu. for walnuts, 75c to $1 for butternuts 
and $3.25 to $4 for hickories. J. w. c. 
Country Wide Markets 
GENERAL TRUCK MARKET MORE STEADY 
With the exception of potatoes, most 
fruits and vegetables have been working 
into a steadier position. The rush season 
is over in transportation, and produce is 
in fewer hands; people who are likely not 
to push it on the market regardless of 
.supply and demand. There is talk of 
much stuff of all kinds being held for 
higher prices, a risky game, in view of 
the larger crops this year. 
PLENTY OF POTATOES 
Tlie potato crop of say 450,(100,000 
bushels is certainly a poser, despite the 
considerable reduction from frost dam¬ 
age, and even allowing considerable for 
over-estimate. The supply seems pretty 
liberal, and there is no export trade of 
sufficient volume to accord any great relief. 
Exports are only about one-half the nor¬ 
mal volume, aud what is exported goes 
chiefly to Cuba and South America. The 
comparatively light Eastern crop is not 
burdening the market, but Western offer¬ 
ings have •been tremendous, and at West¬ 
ern shipping points prices hover around 
60 to 65e, compared with $1.10 at Maine 
shipping stations, suggesting that if such 
conditions last long prices will decline 
further in the East. 
APPLES DOING BETTER 
Increased supply of sugar is helping 
the apple market in many place, and 
prices are stronger. Even Boston, which 
has been suspiciously weak, shows some 
gain, w’hile Nortlnve.stern'cities, like Min¬ 
neapolis and Detroit, have been quoting 
as high as $7 for fancy Baldwins, etc. 
Carload lots of A grade Greenings 
brought $5.50 for shipment from points 
in the interior .of New Y^ork State. In 
fact, choicest barreled apples are selling 
wholesale about as high as fancy North¬ 
western boxed fruit, but there is plenty 
of ordinary stuff East and West that sells 
low enough. 
ONIONS IN SAGGING POSITION 
The onion crop and market seems to 
be viewed with confidence by those who 
have stock in storage, and the presence 
of enormous holdings is reported in New 
York State and elsewhere, but the whole¬ 
sale market is not yet active in a way to 
encourage such views. In fact, the stor¬ 
age stock is held at considerably higher 
range than the average prevailing whole¬ 
sale market prices, and would show con¬ 
siderable loss to owners unless conditions 
improve. (General values range from 
$2.25 to $2.75 per lOO-lb. sack, in aver¬ 
age of city market, while storage people 
are reported holding at $3. One draw¬ 
back is that a good deal of this year’s 
stock is undersized. 
FRUIT SELUNG FAIRLY 
Apples, as stated above, are doing tol¬ 
erably well. Cranberries still lack sugar 
supply, but, with only half a crop, they 
are doing pretty well at $8 to $10 in 
New England markets for large kinds, 
and $10 to $14 at points more distant 
from large shipping sections. Bulk of 
supply is now from ^lassachusetts and 
New Jersey. Pears are selling quite well 
because there were not many good ones 
in Eastern producing sections this year. 
The main pear shipping season is about 
done, except from California. Grapes 
also are coming now chiefly from Cali¬ 
fornia, the Eastern crop being mostly al¬ 
ready in hands of distributers; sales are 
slow and dragging, 
BEANS STEADY 
• Large shipments of California and other 
Western beans have appeared in all mar¬ 
kets, but general wholesale prices bold 
at a range of $14 to $15 per 100 lbs. for 
the leading white kinds and Western 
Limas. A great deal of damage from 
wet appears in the rather light crop out¬ 
put of the Michigan and New York bean 
sections. Western stock is cutting a larger 
figure in the supply right along, g. b. f. 
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