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Oic RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 25, 1918 
THE TEST 
OF VALUE 
At an auction sale the buyer makes the price. 
• Auction prices are apt to be lower than the real value warrants, 
rather than higher. 
In any case, auction prices represent the estimate of value placed on 
the article by the buyer and not the seller. 
During the past few months, the cow owner’s appreciation of the 
unusual values offered in De Laval Cream Separators has been 
demonstrated in a most remarkable way. 
From one state after another have come reports of the sale of 
De Laval machines at farm auctions—machines which had been in 
steady use for several years—at prices, in most cases, only two or three 
dollars less than the sale price when new; sometimes at practically the 
same price at which the machine was sold when new; and, in several 
instances, at even more than the original list price. 
In February, at a Missouri auction sale, a De Laval in use two years 
was sold for $1.25 above the original purchase price. In Kentucky a 
farmer paid for a De Laval $2.00 more than the original price, at an 
auction sale- Last January, in West Virginia, a second-hand De Laval 
sold at auction for $2.50 less than the original catalog price. On 
January 15th, in Ohio, a De Laval machine in use a year was told at 
auction for exactly the same price it brought when new, and at another 
point in Ohio a De Laval in use several months brought several dollars 
more at auction than the original list price. In the province of Ontario, 
early in April, a De Laval in use since 1916 brought at auction a price 
$5.00 higher than the owner paid for it when new. 
In contrast with these prices paid for De LavaU at farm auctions, it 
is Interesting to note that when other makes of cream separators are 
offered they are usually listed simply as a “cream separator,” and not by 
name. Often there is no bid for such machines and their usual auction 
prices run from $l0 to $15. We have never heard of one that sold at 
auction for half its original cost. 
Perhaps you may not have had an opportunity to leam of the 
cleaner skimming, easier turning, the great durability and the splendid 
service given by the De Laval machines, but here is the strongest and 
best sort of evidence that those who do know cream separators appreciate 
that the man who buys a De Laval gets good and generous value for 
the purchase price. And further, that even after a De Laval has been 
several years in use, it is practically as good as new. 
If you are without a cream separator or in need of a new or 
better one, why not see the local De Laval agent immediately? 
If 3 ^you don’t know him, address the nearest De Laval office as 
below, for any desired particulars. 
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Milk and Farm News 
Horses and mules selling better than 
they have for some time in the past. 
Milk cows in good demand and high. 
Hogs scarce and prices high. Hens 20c 
pound; butter, 30c pound ; eggs, 28c doz.; 
wheat, $2.20 bu.; corn, $1.50 bu.; Irish 
potatoes, 75c bu.; beans, $6 bu. Farmers 
getting behind with their Spring work on 
account of so much rain. W. n. 
Grainger Co., Tenn. 
Cattle and horses are not bringing as 
high prices at auctions as last Spring. 
Cows selling at $50 to $85 for grade Jer¬ 
seys. Good work horses bring from $125 
to".$200 each. Sheep sold for $22 to $28 
each for choice grades. March butter 
sold for 42 to 44c; eggs, 34 to 36c per 
doz.; potatoes and onions, $1 bu.; seed 
corn, crop of 1916, $5 per bu.; seed oats, 
$1.20 per bu.; rye middlings, $3.20 per 
300 lbs.; wheat middlings, $3.30; wheat 
bran, $2.85. P. w. E. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
Wheat, $2; oats, home market, $1; hay, 
No. 1, ton, $18; potatoes, bu., 60c. Corn 
and beans were failures, too cold and wet. 
A good many beans were not harvested; 
dry beans sold for $8 bu., picked. Winter 
wheat very ])oor. A good many fields 
were plowed up and sown to oats and 
Spring wheat. Grass bids fair to be a 
big crop. The outlook for farmers ^ is 
very good. Help is scarce and _ high 
priced. When harvest comes it will he 
about impossible to get help. A good 
many keep cows and are doing bettor than 
those that do not. If we have a favorable 
season ground works better usually 
and Spring crops udll be good. 
IJviugston Co., N. Y. J. Y. L. 
at $90 to $120 per acre. More sheep are 
being kept; worth 15 cents per potmd, and 
wool worth 70 cents. Many more would 
be kept if it were not for dogs. I often 
see four or five running around together. 
Farmers getting along well with work; 
will soon be through seeding and at corn 
and beans. m. f. c. 
Seneca County, N. Y, 
Our leading products are hay, grain and 
dairying. Hay brings $18 to $20 per ton, 
loose; oats, $1 bu.; corn, 90c to $1 bu., 
70 lbs.; buckwheat, $3.50 100 lbs. Not 
much barley, rye or potatoes raised. Dairy 
COW.S, grades, $75 to $100. Milk, Dairy- 
inen’s^ League prices, as all dairymen 
are iu League. Some wheat raised 
at present looks good. East of us 
some potatoes were loading, delivered, on 
rail, at 70c, week ending May 4. Farm 
conditions look bad; not many oats iu 
May 6; with cold weather and frost every¬ 
thing backward. \v. u. L. 
Washington Co., N. Y. 
Corn, $1.70 bu.; Hay, $30 ton; wheat, 
$2 bu.; potatoes. No. 1, 50c per % bu.; 
No. 2, 35e per % bu.; sweet potatoes. No. 
1, $1.25 per % bu.; No. 2, 85c per % bu; 
milk, 7%c qt. Prospects are for good 
crops, with the exception of pears, which 
will not be very plentiful around here. 
Everyone is a little late because of bad 
weather, but all crops look fine. Labor is 
scarce and high, but the farmers are plant¬ 
ing more crops than last year with hopes 
of being able to get them harvested. Al¬ 
though we take quite a few farm papers 
the only one that I have time to read is 
Tiir Rural New-Yorker. j. k. 
Otsego Co,, N. Y. 
Dairying is our chief business, with 
some potatoes and a few beans on the 
side, while the eastern part of Wyoming 
County is taken up more with grain and 
beans. After a milk strike the first of 
April, which lasted ten days, we suc¬ 
ceeded in obtaining League prices for our 
milk, which is for this zone, April $2.31, 
May $2.22, June $1.55 for 3 per cent 
milk. Cornmeal, $3.90; oats, $3.30; 
gluten, .$2.80; wheat middlings, $3.15; rye 
middlings, $2.85; bran not to be had. 
I’otatoes brought from $1 to $1.25 per 
100 lbs. this Winter and Spring; 
beaus, $7 and $8, as quality was very 
poor; some pieces a total failure. 
Wyoming Co., N. Y. O. D. S. 
Farmers are very short of help this 
Spring. However, they are well along 
with their Spring work. Most of the po¬ 
tatoes and oats are planted and some 
corn. 
"Wheat will not be one-half crop. There 
will not be as many potatoes planted as 
last year. Potatoes are selling for 60c 
per bushel. A great many were fed to 
cattle this Spi-iug. Corn did not keep 
well last Winter, and a great many had 
to send away for their seed. Following 
are prices for some commodities: Corn, 
$2 bu.; oats, $1; hay, $30 ton; straw, 
$20; milch cows are very high. Milk for 
May, $2.25 for 3 per cent test; calves, 
15 to 151/4. Few sheep are raised in this 
section; more hogs than usual. Dairying 
is the principal occupation with the 
farmers. n, A. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
Farmers are busy with their Spring 
work. Very little if any seed has been 
sown. The recent rains have commenced 
to make pastures look -green, but stock 
will not be turned to pasture before May 
25. Many farmers are buying bay at 
$20 a ton. All feeds remain high in price. 
Cornmeal, $3.50 per hundred; oats, 95c 
1 ) 11 .; seed wheat, $2.85 bu.; potatoes, 75c 
bu.; eggs, 38c; butter, 48c lb. H. T. J. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. 
Wheat brings $2.05; very little in 
farmers’ bauds; one-half of the coming 
crop plowed up; replaced by barley and 
Spring wheat. What has been left is 
only 70 per cent of a crop. More oats 
then usual will be sown this Spring; they 
bring 90c at elevators and $1 for seed. 
Old meadows look well, good new seeding 
extra. No hay in growers’ hand; mostly 
sold last Fall for $12 to $15 per ton; 
those who held till Spring got $20 to $25. 
More barley will he raised, though, here 
than usual; $1.50 per bu. Good crop of 
corn, but poor quality; had to send to 
Hudson Valley thi-ough the farm bureau 
for seed. Nearly as many beans will be 
planted this Season as last; most of last 
year’s crop in farmers’ hands; buyers 
afraid to buy; too soft to ship. Early in 
the Spring they offered $11 per 100 for 
hard beans. Not buying at present. Not 
so many potatoes as usual will be planted; 
lots in farmers’ hands; no call for them. 
Prices about 65 or 70 cents if you can 
find a buyer. Cows are high, good young 
cows Selling from $80 to $100; a few 
heifers are being raised. 
Veals bring 12i/4c per pound. A good 
many farmers through here are getting 
boh calves of the dairy farmers around 
Ithaca and vealing them. They think it 
l)ays better than making butter, which 
brings 37c at present. Hogs are high, 15c 
per lb.; little pigs six weeks old bring 
$5 to $6, and very few of them. Hens 
and roosters bring 20e; white eggs, 33c, 
and brown 31c. Not as many hens vsdn- 
tered as usual, and not so many chickens 
will be raised this Summer. Peed is too 
high. Many farms are changing hands 
The northern part of Allegany County 
is mostly a dairy section; a great many 
potatoes grown in some places. No mar¬ 
ket for cheese yet; one small lot sold some 
time ago at 21c per lb. Eggs bring 32 to 
31c per doz., cash. Hay retails at $14 to 
$15 per ton, though buyers were loading 
hay a few days ago at $13 per ton, deliv¬ 
ered at the car, and claimed that the mar¬ 
ket wa.s slow. Potatoes sell at $1 per 100 
lbs. 1 cal calves in the past week brought 
11 to 12c. It has been cold and dry ; very 
little rain and a little snow during the 
latter part of April; warm now. The 
meadows have wintered well under their 
deep covering of snow. No stock in pas¬ 
ture yet; will turn them out in about 10 
days if it stays warm. Cattle have not 
wintered very well. Small grain mostly 
nearly all in. d. L, J. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. 
Wheat is at present about 85 per cent 
of normal; oats almut all sown, and corn 
was a good crop here. In adjoining val¬ 
leys it was frosted before it ripened, and 
so it varies through the county. The busi¬ 
ness outlook for the farmer is good if he 
takes the advantage. a. S. B. 
Dauphin Co., Pa. 
Potatoes, 180 lbs., .$2.50; rye, 60 Ihs., 
,$2.25; oats, bu., $1.12; hay, ton, $18; 
pork, dressed, $25 ; butter, lb., 45c. Wash¬ 
ington County is a dairy county; the 
milk business was a leading one the past 
Winter. Milk grains are $67 per ton; 
help, $50 per month and board; not very 
plenty at that. The outlook is not very 
encouraging, but as patriotic citizens we 
will have to do the best we can, irre¬ 
spective of all the fool advice we get of 
desk farmers. * F 
Wayhington Co., N. Y. 
and at present we receive about 5c per qt. 
for milk, which brings it about $2.30 per 
100 Ihs. for 3 per cent butter fat. Po¬ 
tatoes are selling at present for $1 per 
bu. The people here mostly have to buy 
the seed, oat and buckwheat, at the feed 
mill. All feeds are very high. The price 
varies in every little town. In Hurleyville 
prices are very high; stock feed, .$3.40; 
corn, .$3.75; wheat feed, $2.75. In a town 
eight nules^ away they sell the same stock 
feed for $2.75 and corn for $3.25. Hay 
brings $15 per ton in barn; haled hay at 
store^ ^30, Cows are high, a good cow 
bringing_ from $125 to $150. Everybody 
is planning to raise more crops this sea¬ 
son. Oat planting is pretty well done 
around here. Poultry brings about 35c 
per lb. now; eggs, 32c doz. Four-weeks 
old pigs bring $7 each. Veal is 10c per 
lb., live weight. Pork brings 22c, dressed ; 
batter, 50e. These prices are what we 
get if we sell to the people ; if we sell to a 
store we get the same price, hut have to 
take it in trade. r. r k 
Sullivan Co,, N. Y. 
Hay briugs $20 in the barn ; $23't.) $25 
haled and delivered to station. Corn, $60 
in the ear and delivered to mills. Seed 
corn briugs $4.25 bu., shelled; oats, $1.10 
bu.; onions, 50 to 75c bu. This valley is 
a good farm section, raising all kinds of 
farm products. Labor is hard to get. 
Milk, $2.46 per 100 for May; $1.80 for 
June. Farmers busy somng oaty and 
planting potatoes. %. n. g. 
Ulster Co„ N. Y. 
Dairy butter, 45c; eggs, 34 to 36c; 
dairy cows sell from $85 to $110; young 
pigs, four weeks old, $6 to $7; dressed 
pork, 22c per lb.; potatoes, 80c per bu; 
not much call for apples here; veal calves, 
13c, alive; hay, $15 per ton. Hired help, 
$1.50 per day, and more in some places. 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. c. C. 
