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400 West 23rd St. 
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Crops and Farm Notes 
Dairy cows are selling at auction for 
from .^.tO to $75; strippers about $40; 
yearlings coming in next Spring, .$.‘15; 
calves. $1.5 to $20. ileef cattle, .$40 to 
$00: store ewes and lambs, $10; young 
horses. $200. ilutter, homemade, 4.5c lb.; 
potatoes. $1.25 per bu.; cabbage, 7c per 
head ; turnips, 7.5c bu.; eggs, 00c ; apples. 
Winter, per bbl., .$2; hay, $10 per ton; 
fresh pork, $20 jier ewt.; cider apples, 
.39c per cwt.; .buckwheat, .$2.50 per bu. 
Delaware Co.. Pa. w. E. K. 
We had an unusually cold December, 
temperature 14 to 30 below' zero; not 
snow' enough for good sleighing. Every¬ 
thing is high. Milk. .$2 to .$2..50 per cwt.; 
butter. 45 to 50e; eggs, 55 to 00c. Pota¬ 
toes. $1.40 jier cwt.; hay, $14 to $10 per 
ton : oats. 90e per bu.; buckwheat flour, 
7c per lb.; dressed pork, 21c per lb. Cow'S, 
.$75 to .$90; heifers coming fresh, .$00 up. 
New' York. E. A. S. 
Clinton Co., N. Y. 
I see quite a few places in the R. N.-Y. 
quoting prices of different kind.s of grain 
and stock. These prices are from the 
southern jiart of Westmoreland Co., Pa.: 
Corn, shelled, retail, $2..50 per bu.; w'heat, 
as to grade. .$2 to .$2.15; oats, Western, 
86c; bran, .$2; middlings, brown, $2.75; 
red dog at mill, ,$3.20; flour, blended, 
$11.80.to $12.40 iier bbl. Hay, farmers’ 
price. $‘20 to .$.‘55; Alfalfa, $35 to .$38; 
corn fodder. 0 to 12c per .she.af. Cows 
vary in price, owing to feed being high ; 
some sell for as low' as $.35, but on .an 
average they run along ,$65. Horses, $50 
to $1.50. Hogs on foot, 15 to 18c; dressed. 
21 to 22c. Chickens, alive, 25 to 28c lb.; 
eggs. 00 to 75c. s. p. s. 
Westmoreland Co., Pa. 
Country butter, 48e; creamery butter, 
50c; milk. 8c qt. Cow^s, $50 _to $75; 
grades, and purebred. $75 to $150; beef, 
dressiai, 14 to 17c per lb. Pork, live, $10 
per cwt. ; dressed. .$18 to .$20 per cwt. 
Horses. $150 to .$250. Hay, $24; straw, 
$11. Potatoes. .$1.25 per bu.; wheat, 
,$2.10; oats, 70c; rye. .$1.50; corn, .$1..50; 
apple.s, $1. Eggs. .50c; chickens, young, 
20c; old, ISc; lard, 28c. OTirnips. 90c 
per ))u.; cabbage, 2c per lb.; onions. .$2 
per bu. calves, live, 10 to 11c. 
11'ay crop short this year; grain sold 
mostly to dealers. .T. s. 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. 
Hay, good, per ton. .$25 to .$.30. .Po¬ 
tatoes. retail. ,$1.50 to $1.7.5; apples, re¬ 
tail, $1.40 to $1.00; cabbage, retail, 2c 
per lb.; beets. $1.40 per bu.; carrots, 
$1.25; eggs. 5.5c; butter, .55c; w'heat, 
,$2.25 per bu.; buckwheat, ,$2; oats. $1. 
Cows. $75 to $100. Dressed pork, 25 to 
27c per lb.; veal calves, 14c per lb. 
Cambria Co., Pa. j; F. T. 
Ground has been covered w'ith snow for 
several w'eeks; roads badly drifted. There 
are thousands of bushels of corn yet in 
the fields. The Winter wheat was look¬ 
ing very bad before the snow. Wheat is 
selling for .$2; corn. ,$1.40; oats, 00c; 
eggs. .5(!c; milk. .$3.0.3 per 100. 4 per cent 
fat. I)res.sed pork. 21c, and very scarce; 
beef. 15e. Farm labor scarce; many farm¬ 
ers are selling part of their stock and 
some are retiring, as they cannot get lielp. 
.Tuniatu Co., Pa. N. 1). ir. 
OTiis is a coal in'odncing section and 
most of us are engaged in or interested in 
it in .some way. From four to six veins 
underlie almost every farm. Price locally 
at mine is about .$2 per ton now'. Hay, 
$18 to $20 ; potatoes. $1..50 to $2; apples, 
.$1.80. Dressed pork, about 25c; egg.s, 
00c: live chickens. 25c per lb.; corn, 
$1.80; wheat, $2.30; oats, SO to 90c; 
bran. $2 per cwt; red middling-s, .$3; 
white middlings, ,$.3.25. All produce sold 
in mining towns; lots of everything ship¬ 
ped in. c. P. Y. 
Cambria Co., I’a. 
Potatoes. .$1..50 bu.; hay, $15 to $20. 
'rurniiis, 75c per bu.; apple.s, $1.50 to .$2 
per bu. Butter. 45c per lb.; egg.s, 00c 
doz.; majile syrup. $1.50 per gallon; 22c‘ 
per lb. for October cheese; not much No¬ 
vember cheese sold yet. Milk at Bor¬ 
den’s, at Ellicottville, from $3.50 to $4 
per cwt. for Novembei', according to test 
and points. Good veals, $15; good cow's, 
$7.5; cowhides, 15c per lb. Beef, 14c, 
B'ont quarter; IGc, hind quarter. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. M. J. M. 
This is a dairy section, but potatoes are 
raised to a limited extent. November milk 
w'as sold at $2.75 per cw't. at factories 
near us; we are too far from Boouville 
(9 miles) and Rome (14 miles) to de¬ 
liver to shipping stations. We have a 
small dairy, make butter and sell to 
patrons in Rome, making the trip once 
in tw'o weeks ; have bad 50c per lb. since 
September 1. We have reduced our dairy 
and if present high prices for feed con¬ 
tinue will cast about for some other 
soiu'ce of income. We have sold a few 
potatoes for $1.25 per bu. Cows have 
sold for $65 at auction, and auctions 
have been much in vogue the past Fall. 
Some hay is sold, and w'here the cow's 
have been .sold off will be put upon the 
market; the asking price is $12 at the 
barn. Some pork is sold and brings about 
21c. Our last sale of eggs was in Oc¬ 
tober. when we received .5()c. since w'hich 
time our hens have been on a strike. Our 
young men have nearly all gone to the 
cities where they can get $.3 to $-5 per 
day. and now' the draft comes in and 
takes a few' more, so that a serious prob¬ 
lem is confronting us, for we cannot en¬ 
tice young men back from the city, and 
the old men cannot handle the increased 
burden imposed. Farmers cannot com- 
Iiete with manufacturer.s in pay for labor. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. N. c. V. 
Potatoes, $1..50 per cwt.; hay, $15 to 
$17 per ton; straw'. .$8 to .$10 per ton. 
Oats, 80c per bu.; wheat. .$2 per bu. A eal 
calves, live, 1.5e lb.; hogs, dressed, 20c lb.; 
carrots, 50e bu.; cabbage, $20 per tonj 
onions, .$2 to $3 per cwt.; apples, $1.2o 
to .$2 per bu. L. J. T. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Baron Fritz von Pils, 
Dr. Theodore Dumba’s aid, was seized by 
Department of .Tusti.e operatives at New 
York Jan. 4 and sent to Ellis Island for 
internment for the duration of the war. 
Von Pils is the first Austrian of promi¬ 
nence to be interned here since war with 
Austria w'as declared. He w'as connected 
W'ith the Colonization Bureau of the Prus¬ 
sian Gov'ernment and w'as active in Ger¬ 
many’s scheme to Germanize Poland. 
According to .Tohn C. Knox, Assistant 
TTiited States District Attorney, von Pils 
was very active here in circularizing en¬ 
emy aliens employed in various plants, 
Government and otherwise, throughout 
the United States. 
Agents of the German Government at¬ 
tempted to establish a w'ireloss telegraph 
station on the w'ost coast of Mexico in 
1914, according to testimony .Tan. 4 at t.ie 
trial in San Francisco of .‘11 persons 
charged with a proposed revolution 
against British rule in India. Gustave 
Koeppel, a shijiping broker of San Diego, 
Cal., on the stand in the Ignited States 
District Court, .said lie had arranged sev¬ 
eral details in the w'ireless matter for 
Baron E. von Schack. former Vice-Consul 
General for Germany in San Francisco. 
The plan failed. Koeppel, said, w'hen sev¬ 
eral persons engaged in the enterprise had 
iieen arrested liy Mexican authorities, and 
the expedition returned to the United 
State.s. 
Joseph Weil, F. K. Buckminster and 
three others, said to have represented 
themselves as purchasing agents of the 
French and British Governments, w'ere in¬ 
dicted at Chicago Jan. 4 on charges of 
having mulcted two Indiana business men 
of .$115,000 through the operation of an 
alleged confidence game. The total opera¬ 
tions of tlie band are said to have netted 
them xipw'ard of $1,000,000. The indict¬ 
ments charge Weil and Buckminster, John 
Smith, .Tames W. Head and Michael Reel 
with conspiring to c< mmit confidence 
games in w'hich Albert A. Charles, jiresi- 
dent of the Kokomo Steel and Wire 
Works of Kokomo, Tnd., lost .$100,000, 
jind Charles 11. Worden, president of the 
First National Bank of Fort Wayne, Ind., 
W'as sw'indled out of .$1.5.000. 
.Tamiary 4 fire near the w'aterfront at 
Hoboken, N. .1.. destroyed warehouses and 
factories, causing a loss estimated at 
$100.0(K). The firemen w'ore Jiampercd by 
w'ater shortage and zero temperature. 
.Tanuary 6 a bomb w'as discovered at the 
end of the Starucca viaduct of the Erie 
Railroad, near Binghamton. N. Y. This 
is one of tlie largest viaducts in the w'orld, 
and only chance prevented its destruction. 
The w'omen of Lisle, N. Y., carried the 
township for prohibition in the .Tan. 0 
election. Soon after the polls closed O. A. 
Rurtis. leader of the “w'et” forces, an¬ 
nounced that the eleetlon w'ould be con- 
te.sted on the ground that the women bad 
no right to vote, as they had not been duly 
registered. In the three villages that 
make up the tow'iiship of Lisle 24,5 of the 
,500 votes oast w'ere marked by womeu, 
the first to vote in New Y^ork State since 
the pa.ssage of the suffrage amendment to 
the Constitution. 
At Michigan City. Ind., Fred C. Miller, 
born of German parents and w'ithont final 
naturalization papers, assumed office as 
Mayor .Tan. 7. Broce.edings w'ere institu¬ 
ted in the Federal District Court in Indi¬ 
ana recently to prevent IMiller from as¬ 
suming office, but Federal Judge xVnder- 
son, altbouh criticizing the citizens of the 
city for electing a man to office who W'as 
not a citizen, decided that under the law 
he W'as pow'erless to interfere. 
Fifteen minutes after the subject was 
presented in Governor Bilbo’s message to 
the Mississippi State Legislature both 
houses Jan. 8 ratified the proposed jiro- 
hibition amendment to the Federal Con¬ 
stitution. Only eight dissenting votes 
were cast. The ^Mississippi Assembly is 
the first to act upon the proposed amend¬ 
ment. 
A plot to ship chlorate of potash to 
Mexico by concealing it in the fireproof 
linings of safes was bared at New' York 
Jan. 8 by the Federal Grand .Tury which 
indicted '.Tules and Paul Rueff. wealthy 
jewellers of .395 Broadway, and four busi¬ 
ness associates for conspiracy to violate 
the Presidential embargo. It is charged 
that the asbestos lining was removed from 
safes and large quantities of potash con¬ 
cealed in secret receptacles in the walls, 
after w'hich the safes w'ere sent to a cus¬ 
tomer at Vera Cruz. The four men 
charged w'ith having aided the scheme are 
Frank i\L .Tarabe, purchasing agent for 
the Rueffs; Pedro Chambon. Enrique Rio 
and Enrique Gonzales. Mexicans. The 
specific shipment of 11.000 pounds of chlo¬ 
rate of potash in this clandestine manner 
via the Ward liner Esperaiiza on Sep¬ 
tember 27 last is alleged in the indict¬ 
ment. 
AMERICAN PEACE AIMS. — .Tami¬ 
ary 8 President Wilson delivered a brief 
address before Congress outlining the 
T’nited States program for. w'orld peace. 
The follow'ing articles w'erc outlined: 
1—Open covenants of peace without pri¬ 
vate international under.standing.s. 2 — 
Absolute freedom of the seas in peace or 
W'ar except as they may be closed by in¬ 
ternational action. 3—Removal of all 
economic barriere and establishment of 
equality of trade conditions among nations 
consenting to peace and associating them¬ 
selves for its maintenance. 4—Guarantees 
for the reduction of national armaments 
to the low'est point consistent w'ith do¬ 
mestic safety. 5—Impartial adjustment 
of all colonial claims based upon the prin¬ 
ciple that the peoples concerned have 
equal weight with the interest of the Gov¬ 
ernment. 0—Evacuation of all Russian 
territory and opportunity for Russia’s po¬ 
litical development. 7—Evacuation of 
Belgium without any attempt to limit her 
sovereignty. 8—All French territory to 
be freed and restored, and reparation for 
the taking of Alsace-Lorraine. 9—Re¬ 
adjustment of Italy’s frontier along clear¬ 
ly recognized lines of nationality. 10— 
Freest opportunity for autonomous de¬ 
velopment of the peoples of Austria-Hun¬ 
gary. 11—Evacuation of Roumania, Ser¬ 
bia and Montenegro, with access to the 
sea for Serbia, and international guaran¬ 
tees of economic and political independ¬ 
ence and territorial integrity of the Bal¬ 
kan- States. 12—Secure sovereignty for 
Turkey’s portion of the Ottoman Empire, 
but W'ith other nation.alities under O’urk- 
ish rule assured security of life and oppor¬ 
tunity for autonomous development, with 
the Dardanelles permanently opened to 
all nations. 1,3—Establishment of an in¬ 
dependent Polish State, including terri¬ 
tories inhabited by indi.sputably Polish 
population, with free aeee.ss to the .sea 
and political and economic independence 
and territorial integrity guaranteed by 
international covenant. 14—General as¬ 
sociation of nations under specific cove¬ 
nants for mutual guarantees of political 
independence and territorial integrity to 
large and .small States alike. 
FARM AND GARDEN. — Supervisor 
Thomas Devlin of Stanfordville. Dutchess 
County. N. Y., announced recently that 
the Ignited States Bureau of Agriculture 
is about to declare war on jack rabbits, 
which have been ravaging orchards in 
Dutcbc.ss County. The department has 
notified him that .Tamos Silver, a special 
dejiuty, has boon assigned to visit the 
county and investigate the pest, ’riie rab¬ 
bits are doing particular damage to fruit 
trees by burrowing tunnels in the ground, 
eating the bark and gnaw'ing the root.s. 
They have also destroyed large quantities 
of vegetables. Some time ago Supervisor 
Devlin himself lost 200 trees on account 
of the mischievous rabbits. 
War problems as related to the farm 
and home will be the center of discu.ssiou 
at the sixth anmml farmers’ w'eek to be 
held at the Ghio State T’niversity. Co¬ 
lumbus. from .Tan. 28 to Feb. 1. Between 
00 and 75 lectures and demon.strations 
will be given during the W'eek. Agricul¬ 
tural educational motion pictures w'ill bo 
shown each day during the noon hour. 
A rural play w'ill be given under the 
auspices of the University Grange. Dur¬ 
ing tlie week a large number of Ohio 
State agricultural meetings w'ill be held. 
A feature of tlie livestock sessions this year 
W'ill lie the first annual ham and bacon 
show', to W'liich all farmers of Gliio arc 
invited to send their best hams and bacon. 
Aw'ards of $12, .$8 and $5 will be given as 
first, second and third prizes respectively 
for hams and bacon. Tn addition to tbcsi' 
prizes, two pigs will bo offered to the w'in- 
ners of first place of hams and bacon re¬ 
spectively. No person w'ill be allowed to 
show' more than one ham or side of bacon, 
and a w'rittcn description of the metliorl 
of treatment and curing must accompany 
the exhibit. No charge for entry is re¬ 
quired. All meat must be consigned, pre¬ 
paid. to the Department of Animal IIus- 
bandry, Ohio State University. 
I’lie Food Administration has arranged 
to control during 1918 the supply of bind¬ 
er twine. Reasonable prices—though not 
so low' as former ones—are expected. 
The first w'ool auction in this country 
W'as held at the Chamber of Uomnicrcc. 
Boston, Ma.ss., Jan. .3, when 4.7.30 bales 
of Australian -wool, about 1.000,000 
pounds, W'ere sold for the British Govern¬ 
ment. Manufacturers from New' Y’ork, 
Philadelphia and many Massachusetts 
points W'ere the bidders. Prices w’ere 
fairly high, ranging from .$2 a pound for 
the best scoured w’ool, to 70 cents for 
grease w’ools. The first lot offered w’as 
resold about 50 times, each purchaser con¬ 
tributing it to the Red Cross, w'hich w'as 
thus benefited to the extent of $15,000. 
