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D oes quicker work. Plows 
an acre an hour with 
three 14" bottoms set 
8" deep — faster than 4 men 
and 12 horses. 
Does better work. Every fur¬ 
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line, and of even depth. 
Does cheaper work. No wages 
to pay, no feed to buy. No rest¬ 
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the work done on time. 
The Huber Light Four is the 
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25 h.p. at the belt. Road speed 
2 to 4 miles an hovu". 4 Cylin- 
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pack the ground or stall. Burns 
gasoline, kerosene or distillate. 
For plowing, threshing, disc¬ 
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all year round investment. 
Our folder "Doing the Impossible” 
shows why it is an economy for any 
medium or large farm to have a Huber 
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in detail. Send fur it today. 
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424 Center St. Marion, Ohio 
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Crops and Farm News 
This part of the State h.as been a great 
hay-jiroducing section. The money crop 
1ms been hay. and the barns now are full 
of it. It sold early in the Fall at .$20 
t<>/|:‘!0 per ton. but it is off now. -This is 
also (luitc ii fruit county. Apples two- 
thirds of a crop, prices good, $2..50 as 
they come from the tree, and graded fruit 
from .$:> to .$5 jter bbl. Not many in cel¬ 
lars now, iilthoiigh one farmer a mile from 
here has 1,4(K) bids, in fruit cellar await¬ 
ing shipment later on. Cows from $70 to 
$125. and rather scarce. We are 10 miles 
from Albany, and two miles from Ravena 
on the W<‘st Shore railroad. One of our 
milkmen sells his milk at Ravena for 10c 
per qt. Milk from 10 to 12c per qt.; but¬ 
ter, .55 to 00c; fresh eggs. 75(; and very 
scarce. Potatoes, .$4 to $5 per bbl. of 
180 lbs. Rye at the mill, $1.00 per 00 
lbs.; wheat, ,$2.25 per 00 lbs. ('orn crop 
not very good, the early frost in late Sep¬ 
tember hit it before it was all hard, so 
tlier<‘ is a good deal of soft corn. Sound 
corn, ,$2.(»0 i)or 00 lbs. Not much buck¬ 
wheat raised, only about enough for home 
consumjjtion. Not much garden truck 
sold. Some beans have been raised for 
the i)ast two years, selling now for $10.50 
per bu. A. F. 
Albany Co.. N. Y. 
Milk has be«>n sold :it I.eagne prices at 
shipping station since Dec. 1. Prcviousl.v 
we had been running onr <diees«‘ factory; 
March i)ric(‘s, $2.15; April. .$2.20; May, 
.$2.00; ,lnnc. $2; .Inly, .$1.00; August, 
.$2.20; September, .$2..50. October we have 
not received yet; some of <>ur cheese lost 
in transit between here and New Y’ork. 
November. $2.28. Rutter selliiig at store, 
48 to 50c; eggs, 00c; i)ork. dressed, 22c. 
Potatoes a fair croi) but some froze in 
ground before dug ; .$2 six weeks ago ; now 
about $1.40. Apples, fair croj); good ones, 
$2. This is a dairy section ; not very 
garden truck raised. Cood milch 
,$100. Hay, about $14; buckwheat 
7 to 8c i)cr lb.; cabbag(‘. 2c i>er lb. 
at the local mills is higher than 
per 100 lbs. Cornmeal at Clean, 
mile's distant. .$4.50; Salamanca. 10 
west, $1 per 100; in liradford. 10 
miles south, $5 jier 100. All other feeds 
jibout .$00 or better iier ton. except bran, 
,$48. Most of the farmers here get feed 
through the l.eague and Craugt' Imyer. 
Rraii. .$40 ; otlu'r fe'cds from $ls to >$o.‘>. 
Cattaraugus (’o.. N. Y. n. F. M. 
Prices on the street to jerivate' custom¬ 
ers : Whole milk. 12 to 14c jicr qt.; .skim- 
milk. .5c; buttermilk. 5c; collage cheese. 
lOc lb. : eggs. (iO to 00c jeer doz.; buttci- 
(farmers), 52 to .5(ic lb.; creamery. 50 
to (iOc. Api)les. $1.25 bu.; potatoes. $1.2,5 
to $1.40 bu.; sweet potatoes. 20 to 2;>c % 
idu: turnips. $1..5() bu.; Swede turnips. 
.$1..50 bu.; carrots. $1.50 lui. ; jiarsmiis. 
$1.-50 bu.; onions, $2 bu.; beaus. 10 to 20c 
lb.; cabbage. 5 to 10c head. Live chickens, 
old.’ 22c; young. 25c; turkey. 28c; duck. 
$1.50 apii'ce; geese. $2..50 aiuecc. Hogs, 
dressed, 24c 1b. ; bei'f. good. 18 to 20c lb. 
and 10 to 18(‘ lb. (beef sold by the <iuar- 
tor). Following arc iiriccs charged to 
farmers and paid, jirovidi'd they have to 
sell ; Wheat flour. $0.50 to $8.50 per 
cwt.: buckwheat Hour. $7 to .$S p('r : 
cornmeal. $0.50 to $7.50; oatmeal. .$o.o0 
to .$(>: rice (best). $10.50 per cwt. Ibii'T 
feeds; Hrau. .$2.40 cwt.; reddog. $d..)0; 
wheat middlings. .$2.10 ; rod middlings.,$.5; 
union grains. .$2.20; sugar Iced. $W1(K 
Farmers receive when selling wheat. 
bu ; rye, $1.80 bu.; oats. 75c; corn. 
$1 on; 'buckwheat, per cwt.. .$2,10; po¬ 
tatoes. $1; hogs. 18,• live. 2le dn'ssed; 
steers, dri'ssed. $15 cwt.; calves, live. 14c 
host, 12c nuKlium ; fowls. 18c live; milk. 
0 to 7c per (it. ^ 1.. F. N. 
Northampton (’o.. Pa. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
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L authorities are for sale by The Rural New- 
[ Yorker. 333 West Thirtieth Street, NewYork 
domestic. — Thefts of olive drab 
cloth, intended for uniforms for soldiers ot 
the I'uitt'd States Army, were unearthed 
at N('w York D('C. 27. and. according to 
detectives, the sum iuvidved may ri'iich 
$500,000. Oe man is under arrest and in 
the Tombs. It is said that 1'*'^ 
responsible for a discrepancy of .$4;),000 
and that sevi-ral employees <,f the Quar¬ 
termaster’s Department. I'nited States 
Army, made it iiossible for him 
cloth at a time when many of I iicle 
Sam’s soldiers were without overcoats 
Detectives in tin* ca.se say spougi'rs 
over the country arc in the plot luul _ 
the thefts may far exceed $1,000,000 in- 
sti'ad of tin' more cousi'rvative estimate 
of .^500 000. 
.Tosejili Tau.saii. whose arr 
Rristol. Pa., may b'ad to an explanation 
of the numerous waterfront fires in New 
York, pleaded guilty Dec. 20 to a charge 
of arson before' 5Iagistrat(' (loismar in 
Fifth Avenue' ('ourt. Rrooklyn. siud was 
bold for grand ,iury action. Tausau admit¬ 
ted that on Dee. 2 lie had set tiro to 
Lighter 40(i. owiii'd by the' Pennsylvania 
Railroad, but di'iiie'd that he had any con- 
iioctiou with a lire tint startl'd in the 
nearby ^lorse shipyards a le'w minutes 
later. , . . 
A se'rions e'artliqiiake'ocenrre'd in (luate- 
mala, Central America, De'c. 27-28. Cnat- 
emala City suffered severely; thousands 
all 
that 
rest Dee*. 29 in 
were homeless, water mains we're destroy¬ 
ed. and sanitary conditions we*r(' serious. 
The local chapter of the American Red 
Cross was in charge of relief work. 
Fedlowing the discovery by Federal se¬ 
cret service agents e>f what they say is an 
I. IV. \V. plot to destroy grain elevators 
throngliont the country, heavy guards 
were thrown around all the threatened 
buildings at Chicago Doc. 28. The I. M . 
IV. are suspected by the (Joverument of 
being in the employ of (Jermany. 
Fire of unknown origin diet .$100,000 
damage to the million dollar garbage dis- 
liosal iilant at I.ake Island. Staten Island, 
Dec. 28. It took the combined fire forces 
of the northern shore of the island more 
than two hours to subdue the flames. 
Large qnantitie's of fat and oil in the 
j)lant iiroved fine fuel for the fliimes and 
made the task of the firemen doubly 
difficult. 
.loscidi 11. I’ngh and f'harles F. Cray, 
his partner in a scheme for floating (iraii- 
Innd Motors stocks, were sentenced at New 
York De'c. 28 by Federal .Indge A. N. 
Hand to serve one' ye'ai' and one day each 
in Atliinta Fe'de'ral prison. The prisoners, 
both young men. Avere* coiiA'ictcd e)f fraud¬ 
ulent use of the* mails. Howard R. May- 
licw. post office inspector, and Frank !M. 
Roosa. Assistant T’nitcd States Attorney, 
had told the court that the partners Imd 
;ittemi»te‘d to inte're'st investors in worth¬ 
less (Jranlnnd Motors stocks by submit¬ 
ting to them a prosja'ctus of an entirely 
different concern which they had aiipro- 
priiitcd. They had also circulated siq)- 
])os(*d i)ictnr('s of the Cr.'tnlnnd Motors 
factory, which in re'ality were merely 
))lat('s of a large cotton storage ware- 
I'.onse*. 
Thirty-four men comprising the crew 
of the Argentine transitort I’alma. 4.000 
ti'us. weree resened fi'om their ve'sscl on 
the North Carolina coast Dec. 2,0 by the 
life .‘•■..avers at Cnri-itnck station. 
Dec. 20 .a serious fire occurred at the 
Long Island R. R. freight house. Long 
l.sland (’ity. A ste'cl framed Iniilding 2(M) 
feet long. 100 feet wide and two storie's 
high, containing an enormous amount of 
fre'ight. including snjtplie's for Cam)is 
IMilis and Fidon. was totally consnincd, 
with a loss ('stiaiate'd at close* to .$200,000. 
Near the* building we're* 1.000 fre'ight cars, 
■some of wliich. it was s.aid. contained mn- 
pition pai'ts fi'om local factorie's, hut 
(inick work by tlie y.-ird cmidoye'cs save'd 
all hut two. wliich were* ele'slroye'd. I'hat 
the fii'c was set by an incendiary is con- 
sidere'd almost certain. 
A (Jerman-Anstrian terrorist plot was 
blamed Dec. .20 liy Dr. Camillo Vedini for 
the bomb explosion which shattere'd the* 
front (if his home* at 292!> Washington 
Ronlcvard. Chicago, and broke* windows 
in those of a dozen iiromine'iit Chicagoans 
in the same* block. Dr. Volini’s conne'c- 
tion with the Italian Consnliitc's inte'lli- 
ge'iicc d('j)iirlment is regareh'd as the mo¬ 
tive. A three' corncre'd inve'stigation has 
been starte'd l)y the* Italian (’onsnlatc. 
Fe'de'ral operatives and Chief of Police 
ScIiiK'ttler. The e'xplosion occni're'd a fe'w 
hours afte'i' ei Re'd Cross service* flag with 
cre)ss('s had he'cn hung ov(*r the A’olini 
door, 'riie* crosses iiidicate'd cve'r.vone* in 
the* fjunily was a He'd Cross me'inher. 
Fire, of nudetermine'd origin. D(*c. .‘>0. 
destroyed jui entire hnsine'ss block of 
Noi-thfork. AV. Va.. (*ntailiiig a loss of 
more than .$2(10.009. Frozen water nmins 
hindered the* worl< of firemen, eend it was 
12 Inairs before* the Ihuncs were? brought 
nnde'r control. 
Ne'arl.v two hleecks in the* heart of the 
hnsine'ss district of Norfedk. Va.. including 
the* Montice'llo Hotel, were* destroyed by 
fire* .liin. 1. < Oie man was killed iuid a 
score* more* in.inrcd in a se'ries of explo¬ 
sions and fire's which both the* police and 
naval authorities believe* we're* incendiary. 
The* loss was roughly cstinnit.'d at more 
than $2.009.(K)0. Three* distinct explo¬ 
sions in Jis many Iniildings, one after the* 
fire virtnally had been got under control, 
led to the ge'iicral belief that enemy agents 
were* at work. Alayor Mayo i»ractically 
placed the city under iimrtial law by turn¬ 
ing the* situation over to nav!il oflicers. 
.•ind some* 2.000 marine's and bluejackets 
from ne'arh.v imval stiitions assiste'd the* 
Itolicc and Home* (limrds in maintaining 
ord(*r and preventing looting. 
As a result of the* coal famine in and 
around N(*w A'ork ('it.v Dire'ctor-tie'ncrjil 
AA'illiam (1. Ale.Vdno ordcre'd .7:in. 1 that 
shii>in(*nts of coal he* given jircfere'iice ov(*r 
passenger traffic in the* use* of the Pe'iinsyl- 
vania tunnels and te'rminai facilities in 
New York, in a final effort to overcome 
congestion and rush re'lief to the* famine 
districts. 
The discovery eif ground glass in food 
at sovcriil National Army cantoiime'iits re¬ 
cently resnlte'd .Ian. 1 in a general warn¬ 
ing he'ing dispatched to all commanders 
from the Army Inte'lligence Rnrean. Pre- 
caeitionary warnings to prevent any of the 
tamp(*i'e*d jirovisions actually re'aching the 
me*n in the* scnic'C likewise* were* sent to 
all commands by tic* division of cooks and 
bakeries of the* War D(*i,:irtm(*nt. The 
sngge'.stion also w(*nt forwarel that store*- 
honses at all camps he care'fnll.v gnarde'd 
to i»revont any tamix'riiig with foodstnfls 
intended for consnmi)tion by the* men. and 
commande'i's we're* instrnct<‘d to watch 
closely the feed snieply for the thousands 
.Tanuary 12, 1918 
of animals in the remount depots at the 
camps. 
Tlie (Jetvernment has taken oi’er .$(;>0,- 
000 worth of uniforms and uniform mate¬ 
rial in (’hicago. it was announced .Tan. 1 
by C’aptain Karl .1. Zimmerman, who was 
ordered to commandeer all such materials 
here. Captain Zimmerman said that in 
practically every case the dealers were 
willing to take whatever price the Govern¬ 
ment offered. 
The* largest convoy of army trucks yet 
to be sent overlanel because of lack of 
other transportation facilities left RntYalo 
.Tan. 1 for New York. It was made up of 
50 machines manned b.v 02 men of the 
Twentieth Fngineers. The trucks will 
travel over State roads by way of Roches¬ 
ter and Albany. 
The Dutch Government has at last de¬ 
cided to nnloacl from the ,500,0()0 tons of 
ships now tied up in American harbors 
the huge consignments of concentrated 
cattle fodder and grains intended for con¬ 
sumption in Holland and distribute* them 
in the United States. Announcement was 
made .Tan. 1 that- 50.0()0 tons of the cattle 
fodder would he available at once and 
would be sold through the Food Adminis-. 
tration. The Dutch, however, have stnh-- 
bornly refused to come to an agreement 
whereby the vessels might he put into 
trade with Argentina and Australia, and 
an absolute eleadlock still exists. The 
Dutch Government Ims hee'ii assured that, 
should it unload the* ships and jmt the*in 
into service carrying Avheat from South 
America and Australia its lecoplc would 
re'ccive* some* supplies to tide* tlie*m over thei 
thre*:iten(*d fiimim* pe'i'iod. Rut these* of¬ 
fers have been refnse'd. 
AVASHTNGTON.—Dec. 27 the Presi¬ 
dent issued a jn-oelamation idae-ing all 
railroads in the Fnite'd States under Gov¬ 
ernment control. Win. G. McAdoo was 
a|)i)ointed Director-General of Itailroads. 
The effect of this momentous change may 
not be* aiipreciahlc to the public, hut it is 
promised that within a short time changes 
will be brought about likely to affect the 
whole* (‘(‘ouomic situation. For one thing, 
hereafter every railroad freight station and 
terminal will bear the* same* re'lation to 
the* country’s traffic as the individual post 
office doe's to the mail syste*m. It will he 
for the* shii)|)er to take* his freight to the 
nearest station and the Government will 
route it as it sees fit. just as it does the 
mail jiackage* d(*i»osited in the i>ost office. 
Four million eight hundred thousand 
Avorkmcn are* ne'ceh'd for munition work in 
the* Fnite'd States ne'xt year if iirodnction 
is to m(*e't tlie e'stimates. 'Tills iiiclndes 
men in ar.senals. nai'y yards and shiiiynrds 
ami in the* factories engaged directly on 
war work. The* estimate* is made* by tlie 
Public Service Reserve of the Department 
of Labor, which lias nndertake*n the* task 
of keejiing the (tove'riiine'iit and iirivate 
industries engaged on war work supplied 
witli the necessary number of skilled men 
and women workers. Tin* res(*rve hase'd 
its estimate on figures showing that the 
labor cost averai?(‘s 70 jier ci'iit on the 
skilh'd work reeiiiire'd on munitions, 
whether they are* shells, clothes, loeoino- 
tives or guns. Tlie average wa'ge has iii- 
eri'ased nnfil the reserve has adoi>ted the 
basis of $LT>00 a .v(*ar as tlie average 
earning. 
Woman nurse's are to he* employed on 
naval hospital shiiis in this war for t'’‘i 
first time* in Ai'><‘riean naval history. It 
he'came* known D(*c. 28 that the'.v will he 
assigned to two ships soon to he* re'adv 
for service, the ('omfort. foi’ineid.v tin* 
M’ard liner Havana, and the Ale'rcy. for- 
m(*rl,v the* Saratoga of the* s-une* line*. Roth 
liiie'i's have* lieeii reinodelle'd and fitted 
with aeeominodaf ions for -iOO iiatieiits 
each. There will he specieil quarters for 
the A\ omen nurses. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Fxposition Park, Rocheste'r, .Tan. 
9-11. 
Faste'i-ii Ontario Dairymen’s Goiiveii- 
tion. 1’e‘rtli, Ontario, (’an., .Tan. 10-11. 
Rockland (’oniity I’onltry Association, 
first annual show, Nyack. N. Y.. .Tan. 9-12. 
Ge'orgia State Ilorticnltnral Society, 
Genirgiu Rreeders’Assoeiation and Georgia 
Dairy and 1-ivestock Association, aiinnal 
me'etings. Atlu'iis, Ga.. .Tan. 14-10. 
New S'ork State Agrienltnral Soe'et”. 
animal meeting. Assembly Parlor of th* 
Capitol. Albany, N. Y'., Jan. 15-10. 
reiinsylvania State Farm I’rodnct-e 
Show, Emerson-Rrantiiigliam Rldg.. Har¬ 
risburg, I’a., .Tan. 21-24. 
Pennsylvania State Hoard of Agricul¬ 
ture. Pennsylvania Rree'ders’ and Dairy¬ 
men’s Association. State Horricnitnral 
Association of Pennsylvania. Pennsylva¬ 
nia State Ponlrry Association. Pennsyl¬ 
vania State Potato Growers’ Association, 
Pennsylvania State A’eterinary Medical 
Association, Pennsylvania Moro-Sh(*e*p- 
More* Wool Association of United State's, 
Harrisburg, I’a.. Jan. 22-24. 
New .T(*rs(‘y State Poultry Asseciation 
and Poultry Show, armory. Trenton. Jan. 
22-25. 
N(‘w Jersey Corn Show, Trenton. Jan. 
2.2-25. 
New Jersey State Agrienltnral ('oiiven- 
tion. State* Armory. Trenton. .Tan. 22,-25. 
Farmers’ lV(*(*k, ()liio State* T nive*rsity, 
Colnmlnis. ().. .Ian. 2S-Feh. 1. 
Convention week. Iowa State* Colh'ge, 
Arne'S. la.. Jan. 28-Feh. 2. 
New York State Potato Association, 
animal meeting. College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 12-12. 
