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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Covering an acre in six minutes 
Fast, Easy, Complete 
Potato Spraying with an IRON AGE Engine 
Sprayer brings your crops safely through to digging 
time. The time required for going over j^our fields is so little, 
you can give them the frequent spraying they need. 
A high pressure of 200 lbs. produces a dense, fog-like spray that 
does the work completely and correctly, avoids drenching the plants 
and covers thoroughly and economically, leaving no lurking places for either 
bugs or disease. J'lie IRON AGE line of engine, traction and hand sprayers 
covers all spraying needs of field, orchard and garden. Write for booklet. 
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Potato Engine Digger uses the same 
engine as the IRON AGE Engine Sprayer. 
When digging time comes around it is easy 
to change the A'/z H.P. “New Way’’ 
engine over to your IRON AGE Potato 
Digger and set it to tossing your crop out 
onto the ground ready to basket. No matter 
how heavy the vines, grass or soil, this ma¬ 
chine will go right through. Two horses 
easily pull it, releasing one team for other 
work. There are also several models 
without engine, to suit your particular 
needs. Write for booklet today. 
Bateman M^Fg Co. 
Box 200 H Grenloch, N. J. 
Saves two horses 
C lU C C T of all the leading varieties delivered by 
w ft C. b I parcel post. 25 jilants, 20c ; aOplaut.s, 35c ; 
nniTlITn lOO plants, 60c; 500 or more, 30c per 100. 
r U' I A I U By express, charges collect, 1,000 plants, 
D>l JlliTC 41.76; 5,000 or more, 61.60 per 1,000. 
r LAR I H. AUSTIN, FELTON, DELAWARE 
CABBAGE PLANTS-Any Variety 
I'nrcel-Postpiiid: 300-Sl:.')00-S1. 50; 1,000-32.50. Big 
lets special prices. J. T. COUNCILL & SONS, Franklin, Va. 
IP nLknn. DIonT"® ^lilhon. Danish and Domestic, 
iiaDDage rianTS a s u m e ad, wmiomson, n. y. 
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SPRAYS QUICKLY— 
SPRAYS THOROUGHLY— 
^ You can cover up to seven 
rows at a time with a 
CROWN Traction Sprayer 
Tlie wheels are adjustable to wide or nar¬ 
row rows. The powerful Goulds two- 
cylinder pump produces a mist-like spray 
that envelopes all parts of the plants. Tlie 
sprayer is equipped with pressure gauge 
and relief valve. Write today lor catalog. 
Ainitar Ttutna Oranges, Farmers’Clubs, write for 
Cinoer I Wine p,.i,.es. Farmer* gen 
THEO. BURT A SONS, 
t s wanted. 
Melrose, Ohio 
CROWN MFC. CO. 
112 Wayne St, 
PHELPS, N.Y. 
EVERYWOMAN’S 
CANNING BOOK 
The A B C ot Safe Home Canning and Preserving 
MARY B. HUGHES 
This bttok has bsen examintd bt'/ore publication and is 
found to conform to ths principles of the United States 
'Food Administration in regard to the conservation of foods, 
E very housekeeper is planning for renewed 
efforts In canning this year, and there is a 
wider interest in modern practice tliau 
ever be fore. Methods have changed great ly 
■wiihin a comparatively short period, and many 
women feel the need of up-to-date recipes, brought 
together in convenient form. “Everywoman’s 
CannHitg Book" is calculated to meet this need; 
It is practical, modem and complete. 
^Fruits, vegetables and meats'are discussed from 
^the liousekeeper’s standpoint, and the condensed 
form and moderate price meet popular demands. 
The inexperienced caimer will find it a safe guide, 
and tlie experienced worker will find something 
new and helpful between its covers. Bound 
attractively in cloth, 91 pages, five pages of index. 
^Will ba sent postpaid for THREE YEARLY 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York City 
INOCULATE 
SOY BEANS, ALFALFA, CLOVERS 
and all legumes, and DOUBLE THE CROP 
Our Bacteria—Direct from Laboratory— fiVksu 
A cre Size 50c; 2 Acres 95c; 6 Acres $i00 
Postpaid on receipt of pi'ice. 
;!0-page book—all about legumes—FREE ! 
THE EGGERT CHEMICAL COMPANY, Dept. A, CANTON, OHIO 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Earliest, latest, largest, most prodm-tivo variotic.'.', 
including tlio Everbearing. Also K.tsi*llEIIHY. BI.ACk- 
III KHV. CriUUM, (iOOSEIIKKRY. GH.4I>E I'LAMS. HII IT 
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VEGETABLE PLANTS 
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.M I TO. ON lO.N. I.KT TK E, I'A KSLUy, SH KET POTATO, ASPAIIA. 
til's, IMIUllAltll, lIOltSEIlAUlSII. Mail or express prepaid 
Catalogue free. hARRY L. 50UIRES,Qood Ground, N.Y. 
Fruit Grower’s Supplies. 
Orates and Baskets,Tally 
System for Berry Bickers. 
All kinds 'rnui.splanted Berry phmts for setting 
now. Catalogue free. L. J. Fanner, Box 820, Pulaski, N.Y. 
Strawberry Plants For Sale 
50 varieties to select from, including the full-bear¬ 
ing. Send for free Ciitalog. 
J, KKIFFOKI) IIABB, R 2. llhodesdale, .Vld. 
ChoiceMarrowBeans 
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H ii n d picked. Wlo 
* and OUii germination. 
Tested at Tompkins Co. Fiirni Bureau, Itlmca.N.Y. 
JjlOperbu. B.igsfiee. I.l'THI.Il liOOEU, Lndlowvillc, X. Y. 
Acnapaolie ROOTS. HORSERADISH SETS. CABBAGE. 
MSpdrdgUb beets, ONION PLANTS. LETTUCE, TOMA. 
TOES EGG PLANTS. PEPPERS and CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. 
Send for Price J.ist. J. C. Schmidt, Itridtol, Pa. 
Fine Seed Red Kidney Beans .fbV.Ix\Enb’oLrJro%^ 
.SWFFTPflTATdPI A Cabbage. Pepper, 
oncci rUIAIUrLAUlO cauliflower and Brussels 
Sprout Plants, Asparagus roots, California Privet. 
Red Skin Potato, Karly and Late Vegetable Plants, 
Catalogue Free. MICHAEL K. BORGO, Vineland. N. J. 
L®lb 2 Bushels of Wax Beans 
COLLEY 1 
Uaise 1 
dirpftly above it. leaviiiR an ('iid six or 
seven inohos long sticking np above the 
post to act as an individual lightning rod. 
The ground rod should be bright and 
clean, preferably galvanized, and one- 
fonrtb inch in diameter. The connecting 
Tviros must bo clean, and all wires of the 
fence where the joints are to be should 
be fight to insure perfect contact. This 
alTords a short path to the ground for any 
charge which may he on the wires of the 
fence. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
At the third conseentivo weekly meet¬ 
ing of the (Touvernenr Dairy Board 
cheese took a rise of 14 cent a pound. 
The .'{'J factories represented .sold 2,,a.SS 
boxes at L’li-Gc a pound, compared with 
2..')I8 boxes on the .same date in TB17 at 
2(Jc. Five buyers were present. Forty- 
nine factories registered boxes at 
2114c on the (^anton board, compared 
with boxes a year ago at 2()C. At 
Watertown the same luace of a week ago 
prevailed. 2114c. At present neither 
milk, butter nor cheese is included in the 
soldiers’ bill-of-fare, and to farmers this 
seems a great mistake. As the result of 
a conferi'iice of a committee of well- 
known New York meii representing va¬ 
rious Colleges and agricultural industries 
of the State, who went to Washington to 
interview the Assistant Secretary of War 
on this matter, they were assured by 
Qnartermastor-deneral .Tohn Goothals 
that hereafter the commissary generals 
would be instructed to buy as much of 
these foods as their means might allow. 
This does not mean mmdi, but may load 
to greater pnrclnises. The government, it 
is announced, is in the market for a mil¬ 
lion pounds of butter for Navy use from 
New York and Vermont creameries at Ic 
a pound above the highest market price. 
Any creamery having trouble to market 
its butter ma.v Avell consult II. F. Meyer, 
21 .lay St.. New Y^ork city, on the matter. 
I.oiail merchants constantly urge farm¬ 
ers to buy their goods at home. The 
tables may well be turned, by asking local 
grocers and eating houses to buy their 
cheese direct of home manufacturers. The 
latter might distrihiito a few free samples 
at leading trade centers in the way of de¬ 
veloping a home market, more especially 
if a fine full-crt'am club or fancy cheese 
of any sort is made. 
Oleo makers must Inivo got a decided 
.setback in the large number of re.solutions 
passed liy almost every local branch of the 
Dairymen’s League, all pledging to use 
no more oleo, but to make freer use of not 
only butter, but of milk and cheese in the 
homes of members. It ought to be easy 
for some one or somq committee to see 
that local markets keep a constant supply 
of good butter on hand. 
Two .^.Y) scholarships will be given as 
prizes on Friday morning of this week to 
tin' two ini|)ils from (hiondaga Bounty 
high schools and grade schools, respect¬ 
ively, who stand highest in tin* annual 
contest with Madison Tounty puiiils. The 
one who stands highest in each county 
will also reiiresent the.se two counties at 
the annual spi'lling hee at the State Fair. 
The first Lirnierette unit of the State 
will Ix'gin to S('e jictive service on ’’J'hnrs- 
day morning. The unit consists of 100 
girls, mostly college girls, and is housed 
by the Vagahondia clubhouse, Baldwin.s- 
ville. The local committee of the unit 
had hard work to convimje the farmers 
of the section that those girls were fitted 
for the arduous woik to be done on the 
farms, but the labor shortage hiis become 
so acute that tlu'y are willing to try out 
the plan. Fach girl gets .$15 a month 
from the unit, which hoards and houses 
the girks, charging the farmers $2 for 
each girl's work. The latter oirry their 
lunches, and their laundry work is done 
at headquarters so as not to further bur¬ 
den the f.-inners’ wives. 
SkaueatcU's is to have a community 
ciinning kitchen to cooperate with tlie 
Skancatelcs gardening association. Each 
woman of the community is asked to name 
the day when she can be at the kitclien 
and for how many hours she can offer 
her services. A leader and secretary is 
aiipointed for each day. Folb'cting sta¬ 
tions will be established at various places 
in the village where donations of sur¬ 
plus garden produce may be left. Daily 
collections are made I'aeh day at K A. M. 
and 2 P. M. A credit .system is adopted 
wlu'i'eby parties donating produce and 
wanting credit will be issued a credit 
card, on which credit is given for the day’s 
lU'odnce at the market price of the 
produce. 
Live fowls have been a feature in the 
North Sidi' market at Syracuse for a few 
weeks iiast. (’rate lots have brought 5.5c 
a pound, and smaller lots up to 40c, and 
even 45c wlu'n the ofTeidngs were light. 
More than a ton a da.v of live fowls have 
lieen sold at times. Only once liave the 
offerings been too great for the demand. 
Live ducks bring ,‘’.5c. These prices are 
far in advance of the prices paid farmers 
by the average meat markets of Fentral 
and 'Western New York, where 24 and 
25 cents have been the ruling in-ices, witli 
20c for roosters. 'I'liis is a fair sample 
of one of tlie advantages of the open city 
market. (^ortland had for years been 
considered too small a city to sniiport a 
public market, yet one was opened tliere 
last August with snriirisingly good re¬ 
sults. In the few weeks it has been oijeu 
this Siii'ing the farmers’ offerings have 
been taken up at once by early-morning 
buyers at prices between retail and whole¬ 
sale prices prevailing in the stores. But¬ 
ter at this market this week brought 40 
•Tune 1, 101S 
cents a pound, and was (piickly taken, 
while at Syracuse the prices ran from 
54c to 42c later in the day. 
At a sale of imported .Terseys held at 
3It. Kisco, N. Y., Wm. Ross Proctor paid 
$10,000 for (Ixford’s Briar Flower—<a 
record price in this breed. The best pre¬ 
vious price paid for a .Tersey was $7,000. 
At the sale the 00 head offered sold for 
over $1,000 each, making another recoi'd 
for sales. The cows were part of an im¬ 
portation of 05 which had been reduced 
to 00 by the sinking of a ship at sea 
containing .55 animals. 
A lesson to all farmers who are obliged 
to drive cows across'railroad tracks was 
given in the destruction of 11 head out 
of a bunch of 12 which turned and ran 
down the triicks when being driven across 
on Prof. C. E. Ladd’s farm near McLean, 
N. Y. A Lehigh train was due and the 
animals ran ahead of it until they reached 
a small trestle, where they huddled to- 
gf'ther and all but two were in.stantly 
killed, and one other‘had to be shot. The 
animals were high-class cows, and no 
damages can be claimed from the railroad 
company under the cii’cumstances. 
Orleans County wool growers are much 
disapiiointed over the announcement that 
the Federal authorities will fix prices on 
wool and commandeer all in the store¬ 
houses. The association had had its wool 
graded by experts, and put up at auction 
nearly ■‘^.5.000 lbs. in different grades, the 
largest offering ever put np by a single 
New York county. Prices paid reached 
7144c for medium grade. OSi/jc for de¬ 
laine. 64c for fine and 60c for feeding 
lambs’ wool. Local buyers had offered 
68 to 70c for the wool ungraded, so the 
members are fp.ssatisfied. This month 
Ontario and Wayne Counties will hold 
auctions on sncce.ssive days. m. g. f. 
Countrywide Produce Markets 
OLD POTATOES CROWDED OUT. 
New jiotatoes are rapidly displacing 
the old crop. Over 1.000 cars per week 
are moving from Florida, Loui.siana, 
Texas and adjoining States. Total vol¬ 
ume of potatoes arriving is about the 
same, but with a larger proportion of new 
Btock. 
Last year at this time only half as 
much old stock was coming, but now po¬ 
tatoes were fairly abundant and bringing 
more than double their present price; that 
is, they sold at .$0 to .$11 per bbk, com¬ 
pared Avith about $4 now in Northern 
markets. Southern growers generally es¬ 
timate the cost of the early crop under 
present conditions to be .about the present 
market price. In that res])('ct they are 
in the same box with Northern producers 
who have seen their high-co.st crop going 
out at 50 cents to ,$1 per cwt. at country 
shipping points. Some even of the city 
markets quote potatoes in carlot at .$1 
per cwt. sacked, and the range is from 
around this figure in Chicago, Denver 
and 3Iinneapolis np to $1.50 or more for 
best stock in Eastern markets. 
-XEW OXIOXS ALSO FILL THE AfARKETS. 
Nearly everything that was said about 
potatoes ap))lies to onions, too. Did 
stock is dragging itself out of the mar¬ 
kets at low tigui-es, and mostly in poor 
condition. Heavy .supplies of new onions 
are taking the )dace of the old stock, but 
at prices much below those of last year. 
Old onions wholesale at $1 to $L5() per 
cwt. sacked for fairly good lots, and 
near Texas yellows sell at $1.25 to $1.7.5 
per crate, which is almost as goml as the 
price two years ago, but not eipial to 
last year’s high figures, ’fhe Texas onion 
crop is turning out smaller than antiei- 
pated. and the price may improve for 
that reason. 
XEW CABRAGE. 
The shipping area is expanding north¬ 
ward. and jirices have been moving (loAvn- 
ward. Barrel crates Wakefield and Drum¬ 
head fi'om the Southeast range at $1.25 
to $1..5() mostly. 
TOO MUCH SOUTHERX TRUCK, 
It is reported that quite an amount of 
early truck is going to waste for lack of 
buyers in the shipiiing sections. The 
Army camps arc taking what they can 
use. but for some of the stuff there' is no 
outh't in sight that will more than pay 
expenses. There appears to be a senti¬ 
ment among producers in favor of fur¬ 
ther government codporation in marketing 
to supplement government efforts to in¬ 
crease production. 
FRUIT SELLS WELL. 
Some of the early Southern crojis. like 
tomatoes. straAvberries and peaches have 
been .selling very well. The over.snpply 
tliis year is mainly in orujis that were 
short la.st year. Berries wholesale mostly 
10-20 cents per quart, and the center <if 
production is expanding North and West, 
hounded by Missouri and Maryland, and 
nuiving 100 to 200 carloads per day. 
Apple shipments have dwindled to about 
1(1 cars per day, or about half the volume 
of the Deorgia early peach movement. 
These peaches are rather small and iioor. 
'fhey bring about $2 per carrier of six 
baskets. o. b. f. 
AVe have had lots of rain, stoiijdng 
idanting of corn. Milk for May lu'ings 
.$2.80 CAvt.. 8.5 p<|r cent test; fanners look¬ 
ing for iieAV price again .Tune 1. Alilk 
Assoi'iation is .selling stock at a gooil 
speed. The farmers all say. “liny your 
share next.” Let us lioiie all boost the 
entcrin-ise. Butter. 40e lb.; oats, $1.1.5 
bn. : no market for ha.v. Seed corn .scarc<‘, 
but Avill have cnongli to do planting. C. .S. 
CraAvford Co., Pa. 
