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■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 23, 1918 
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Daylight all time in home. Will waih, churn, fan, toast, supply electric flat iron, 
save hundreds of steps, provide water all over house. 
Operating cost low, A comfort and a joy. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., BELLOWS FALLS, VT. 
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For 18 Years America's 
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and the most successful dairy¬ 
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mean sweeter, fresher silage, 
healthier live stock, easier feed¬ 
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BUY DIRECT 
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Bennett Silos are made In the World's 
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lumber is firm and sound knotted. Stavea_ of 
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Lumber Co., 
(iO Mala SL, 
N. TONAWmiDA, 
N. Y. 
GREEN MOUNTAIN 
SILOS 
put the mark of *'firood bnsmesfl*' 
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have three distinct walls. Require; 
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Department 329 
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e ir preserve silage perfectly. Exclusive fea* 
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strongK^uiitlsimplestt^utu^n^aSes^pwatea 
■on the market. Adjustable automatic take-up hoop;- 
conttuuous open-door front—air-tight door sod 
manent ladder are some of the unusual features. Th» 
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Milk and Farm News 
Good Timothy hay, .$18 to .$20 per ton. 
Cows at two auctions averaged $70 at 
one and $98 at another, some going as 
high as $126. Milk here goes to Jhe con- 
densery and we receive the Dairymen’s 
League price. Calves are picked up and 
.shipped at three to five days old for $5. 
Eggs, .o5c. Potatoes from $1.10 to $1.25 
per bu.; beans, .$6.75 to $10 per bu. 
Farmers are a little unsettled in regard 
to maple syrup, but some are going to 
offer at $1.50 per gallon, while others ex¬ 
pect $2. The farmers here are paying 
$82 per ton for cornmeal, $50 for bran, 
$60 for oilmeal, gluten and cotton-seed 
meal. We pay .$3 per sack for flour on 
the 50-50 basis; the other 50 we take 
what we can get as the dealer does not 
have a very good supply, but no kick on 
our part. C. W. C. 
St. Law’rence Co., N. Y. 
This is not much of a fruit seetiou, ex¬ 
cepting grapes and peaches, which are 
grown extensively along both sides of 
Seneca Lake, but not to exceed one mile 
back. The principal farm crops here are 
hay, beans and potatoes. Dairying is also 
looking up; most of the milk goes to the 
Seneca Milk Products Co. to be evap¬ 
orated and goes abroad. Cows, high; 
fresh and nearby springers bring $80 to 
$100; dry cows, .$50 to $70; veals 14 to 
i.5e; hogs, 15c; lambs, 15c. No, 1 hay, 
$20 per ton; potatoes, 90c; beans, $12 
to $12..50 per cwt. R. K. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
Potatoes, $1.50 bu,; onions, $2; apples, 
$1.50, very scarce. Cabbage, 8 to 10c per 
head; buckwheat, ,$3..50 cwt.; oats, $1 
hu. New milch cows are selling for $75 
to $100. Hay, about $14 in barn. We 
get League prices for milk. Butter, about 
50c lb. These are prices at private sale. 
Susquehauna Co., Pa. E. S. W. 
Weather fine; have lieeu plowing con¬ 
tinuously since Feb. 12. Oats mostly 
sown. Potato planting under way now. 
Wlieat sown in November came up in 
February and looks fine; acreage larger 
than for many years. Farmers short on 
feed and labor; owing to the many op¬ 
portunities for skilled and unskilled labor 
to command big wages here, farm help is 
very scarce. Ilay, $38 to $40 per ton; 
seed oats, $1.25; corn, $10 per bbl.; eggs 
dropped from 60 to 25 cents per dozen; 
butter, 45e; shipstuff, $52.50; bran, same; 
cotton-seed meal, $62, w. a. n. 
•Tames City Co., Va. 
The farmers receive at the local mar¬ 
ket for butter, 48c; eggs, 46c: potatoes. 
$1; tipples, $1; chickens, 20c; pigs, 
dressed, 20e; veaTs. live, 12c; veals, 
dressed, 18c; cow's, $60 to $80; hay, $15 
in barn, A. K. ii. 
Alleghany Co., N, Y. 
Wheat h.is been well protected most of 
the Winter, but is uncovered at present; 
it will need good treatment from now on 
to make a good crop, as it has a very 
small growth. ?ytock is not as high as 
was predicted last Ftill, when a good 
many bought feeders. Feed of all kinds 
is very high. Seed corn is very scarce 
and high, as also clover seed. Ftirmers 
are having hard work to get farm labor; 
the outlook for the farmer is not very en¬ 
couraging. Butter, .35c ; eggs, 5()e; fowls, 
live, 25e lb,; beef, cwt., $12; hogs, $13.50 
cwt.; veal, 1.5c lb.; lambs, 14e lb. Hay, 
$25 per ton. Wheat. .$2.05; oats. $1.75; 
barley, .$2; corn. $2.25; bran, $15 per 
ton ; potatoes, $1 bu. ' E. x. n. 
Ontario Co., N, Y, 
There have been no auctions in this 
immediate vicinity this Spring; very little 
stock seems to be changing hands. A firm 
in Syracuse paid 61c per lb. for butter 
fat in sweet cream and 56c for butter fat 
in sour cream for February. The local 
creamery paid 58c for butter fat. Dairy 
butter brings 45 to 50c per lb. Most of 
the Alfalfa hay w’as bought up by the 
dealers last Fall around $15 and .$20 for 
first and second cutting. Now they are 
liaying $25 and $30. Oats are $1.05 per 
hu.; practically all soft corn, last year. 
Most farmers will have to buy their seed. 
Corn at the mill, $3.85 per 100 lbs. I 
’jihoned the mill this morning for bran. 
They had only 200 or 300 lbs. on hand at 
$1.90 per 100, with their bags, or $1.70 
if buyer furnished bag. Very little Avheat 
coming in. Potatoes sold on the Syracuse 
market yesterday for 90e per bu. by the 
load. Barley is bringing as much as 
W'heat. B- k. H. 
Duoiulaga Co., N. Y. 
Feed and Milk 
In regard to one pound of feed produc¬ 
ing four pounds of milk, we have had 
mostly Winter cows for a number of 
years. When they are all fresh nearly 
the same time, Oetobei*. it does not take 
over one to four or four and one-half 
pounds. The longer we milk them the 
more grain it takes to produce 100 pounds 
of milk. By April it takes one to three 
pouuds. This Winter in January we 
milked 15 cows, grade Holsteins: seven 
wore four and five years old. One of 
them had been milked 15 months; the 
others were fresh from August to No¬ 
vember; one three-year-old fresh January 
2. and seven heifers (with first calf). 
One was fresh May 1: the others October 
aud November. We delivered to the milk 
station 14,958 pounds of milk, and we 
used enough to make it over 15,000 
pounds. We fed that month two tons of 
feed. That makes about one to 3% 
pounds. Now it is taking one to 3% 
pounds. We feed about 40 pounds silage 
made of corn, with some ears glazed, and 
all the hay they will eat; most all clover, 
and cured nicely; water where they can 
drink when they want it. F. A. irARVEY. 
Berkshire, N. Y. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
GENERAL DECLINE IN %'EGETABI.ES. 
The slump in vegetables became quite 
general after the first of the month and 
now includes pretty nearly everything, 
except beans and fruit. Average price 
paid to potato growers in New York, 
Maine, Michigan, Minnesota and the 
Northwest is now about $1 per cwt., and 
just about one-half the price at the end 
of October. Whether the Avorst is over 
nobody can tell, but the steadiness of 
those markets which w’ere the first to drop 
to present levels, gives hope that other 
markets may soon steady themselves. 
City markets have dropped almost as 
fast as country markets and are some¬ 
what demoralized, ranging $1.25 to $2.25 
per 100 pounds. 
THE DROP IN CABBAGE. 
Another very weak feature is cabbage. 
The middle of February growers in West¬ 
ern New York were getting $45 per ton 
in bulk, but lately some have sold as low 
as $15. City wholesale prices have been 
nearly cut in two, dropping from $60 and 
$80 to .$40 and $^, or lower. The South 
has been shipping fully twice as many 
cabbages as last season, thus dulling the 
edge of the Northern markets, and much 
Northern cabbage was a poor keeper, be¬ 
cause frozen severely before storage. 
ONIONS IN SERIOUS POSITION. 
Perhaps the sickest of sill the ailing 
markets is that for onions. With several 
thousand carloads Northern stock still to 
be marketed and the big 3'exas crop ready 
to start coming by the first of the coming 
mouth, it seems a question whether all 
the Northern onions can be used at any 
price. City wholesale ’markets quote 
onions anywhere from $1 to $2 per bag 
of 100 lbs. Last Fall the storage owners 
were holding at $3 or more, and their 
losses will almost certainly be large. 
SOUTHERN TRUCK ABUNDANT. 
Lettuce, celery and most other crops 
are dragging badly, but most of the sup¬ 
ply now is from the South, where the 
acreage Avas largo. The frost injury to 
so much of the Southern crop hurt its 
appearance and guA’c a little better 
chance for the Northern hothouse lettuce, 
which has been Avholesaliiig at 25 to 65 
cents a dozen heads iu A'arious Northern 
and Western cities. 
APPLES DOING FAIRLY AVELL. 
3'he story of the apple market is more 
cheerful than the preceding tales of aa’oo. 
Prices have sagged off a little, but mainly 
because a good deal of the stock is becom¬ 
ing too soft. Barrel apples ought to go 
ui) on account of the light supply, hut 
bo.x jijiples are plentiful enough to fill the 
gap after a fashion. The general range 
for choice Baldwin and Greening is .$5 
to .$6: a little more for Spys and less for 
Riis.'Jets. 
( The most cheerful item to fruitgroAvers 
lately is the assurance from the Food 
Administration that there Avill he miieli 
larger supplies of sugar by April 1, and 
that plenty of sugar is expected to take 
care of the coming crops of cherries, cur¬ 
rants, peaches, apples, etc. Every or- 
chardist draws a sigh of Telief. n. b. F. 
Bull Poaver. —These Avar times call 
for useful action on the part of all and 
Ave find more advice about Avorkiug the 
lazy bull. Iu the press letter from the 
Arizona College, L. L. Laythe says: 
“In the coimtry there is a tendency 
to let hulls run at large or either keep 
them penned up whei’e they get no ex¬ 
ercise. A bull is a A’ery strong animal 
and should be made to do a lot of work, 
especially at the time Avhen avc want to 
conserve all onr power. By using a tread 
mill a bull can be made to run a Avash- 
in<; machine, a separator, or a wood saw. 
pump water for the house aud stock, and 
numerous other things, thereby keeping 
the bull in good condition and out of 
mischief. 
“Mr. Burlow, the State Dairy Agent 
of AVyoming, has compiled a table Avhicli 
slioAVS the power a hull Avill deA'elop on 
an eight-foot tread mill with one end 
two feet higher than the other, and Avalk- 
ing at the rate of two miles per hour. 
AA'eifiht of Animal H, I’. 
800 pounds.1-07 
1000 pounds.1.3.3 
1200 pounds ..1-60 
1600 ]ionnds. 2.13 
2000 iiounds.2.66 
“You Avill see by the above that an 
animal will generate more poAver than if 
used on a sweep, aud Avithout over-Avork- 
ing him. Thi.s can be regulated by ad¬ 
justing the incline.” 
