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Isfte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 1, 191S 
A Size for Every 
Engine and Motor 
Piston rings prevent escape of gas and power. 
They must fit exactly or there is compression 
leakage, excessive carbon, and power loss. 
The scientific construction of 
McQUAY-NORRIS 
PISTON RINGS 
assures equal pressure all around the cylinder 
v/alls. They are made in all sizes to fit every 
model and type of engine, automobile, tractor, 
etc.—every size accurately gauged to fit th© 
particular model of motor. 
Your local dealer or garage has —or can get 
— our data book of piston ring sizes of prac¬ 
tically every engine and motor made. This 
will tell exactly what rings you need. Com¬ 
plete s:ze_ assortments are carried by more 
than SCO jobbing and supply houses all over 
the country from which you can be quickly 
supplied. Over 2,0C0 unusual sizes and over¬ 
sizes—all widths and diameters — are kept 
constantly^ on hand at the factory ready for 
prompt shipment anywhere. 
McQUAY'NORPIS 
RINGS 
A special ring tor engines that pump oil. Used 
in top groove only of pistons to control excess 
oil, with McQuay-Norris Rings in 
lower grooves to insure maximum compression 
and fuel economy. 
SEND FOR FREE BOOKLET 
“_To Have and to Hold Power” — a 
simple, clear explanation of piston 
rings, their construction and operation. 
Mfd. by McQuay-Norris Mfg. Co. 
2878 Locust St. St. Louis, Mo. 
Copyrijrht 1917, McQoay-Norris Mfjj. Co. 
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SAVE AH Your GRAIN 
Don’t wait for tlie custom thresher. I>o your 
tliresliing when tlie prain is right and pet the 
full return from your labor. 
The Ellis Champion Thresher and Cleaner 
equipped with self feeder and wind stacker 
makes the ideal small outfit. 
If you have only a very little threshing to do, 
or small power, we can sui)ply you with a 
machine without self feeder or wind stacker 
and at a price that will make your purchase 
a real investment. 
.lust (rive us the size of your engine and the amount of grain 
usually raised and we’ll submit a proposition on a machine 
that will be just the one for your work. 
ELLIS KEYSTONE AGRICULTURAL WORKS 
Pottsfown - Pennsylvania 
Skims 
Clean 
At Any 
Speed 
—the only 
separator 
that does 
SHARPLES 
SUCTION-FEED n 
Cream separator 
The Sharpies Separator Co., West Chester^ Pa. 
sc-4 
—the old reliable worm destroyer and con¬ 
ditioner. Proven best by years of test. Why 
take chances?—feed SAL VET and be sure. 
For Hogs, Sheep, Horses, Cattle. No 
trouble to feed; animals doctor themselves. 
Will Keep Your Livestock 
FREE FROM WORMS 
and save its cost several times over by en¬ 
abling your stock to get more benefit from 
their feed. They will thrive better and 
fatten faster. SAL-VET is the best known 
and most widely used stock conditioner on 
the market. Sold by reliable dealers and 
guaranteed. Your money back if it fails. 
The Feil Mfg. Co. 115’ Cleveland, C. 
The Modern 
Gas 
Tractor 
Its construction, 
utility, opera¬ 
tion and repair. 
By Victor W. Page. 
5'/4x 7'/2. Cl. 475 pp. 24 III. 
3 folding plates. 
Tlie 
latest 
iiiul most 
comiilete 
work pub¬ 
lished o n 
form tract¬ 
ors and tractor power plants, treating exhaustively 
on their design and construction, and giving complete 
Instructions on their care, oiieration and repair. It 
deseribes all ignition systems, all types of vaporizers 
and carburetors, latest forms of power plants and 
installations, clutches, speed changing and reicrslug 
pears, all frame parts and their functions, and every 
recent improvement in tractor and auxiliary appli¬ 
ances. All types and sizes of gasoline, kerosene and 
fil Iractors are fully described. Every phase of 
traction engineering practice is fully covered. 
The above book will be sent postpaid for Two 
New Yearly Subscriptions or Four Yearly Re¬ 
newal Subscriptions or One New Yearly Sub¬ 
scription and Two Renewal Subscriptions. 
The Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., N. Y. 
Cheese and Butter 
-- Makers- 
Chr. Hansen’s Preparations are used 
Ity chaiiipion cheese and butter makers 
everywhere, because pure, concentrated 
and simplest to use. Always dependable. 
Hansen’s Rennet Tablets for Cheese 
making; Cheese Color Tablets; 
Danish Butter Color and Junket 
Buttermilk Tablets. 
At most drug or grocery stores—or direct 
postpaid, by mail. Send for valuable free 
literature on Cheese Making. 
Chr. Hansen’s Laboratory, Inc. 
Box 17 Little Falls, N. Y. 
Hay Presses 
Steel Wire Bale Ties, Wire 
Ropes, Tags, Hay Hooks, 
Scales, Hay Press Extras, 
Ensilage Cutters, Milking 
Machines, Fairbanks Farm Scales 
Prompt Shipment of Orders at Satisfactory Prices 
Send along your orders and inquiries to 
TUDOR & JONES 
The Quick Service Town WEEDSPORT, N.Y. 
Crops and Farm Notes 
There is not much more than enough 
men left on the farms here to do the 
feeding and chores, let alone handle crops. 
Now the authorities are calling up all the 
men from 19 to 2.3. You can imagine 
where we get off at. Of course, they are 
offering inexperienced men and school 
boys from the towns and cities at from 
.$15 to ,$40 per month with board. A lot 
of farmers tried them last year, and I 
■ notice they are giving them a wide berth 
this year, while the city people are mak¬ 
ing an awful “holler” because farmers 
won’t have the help that is offered. 
I Meade Co., S. Dakota. .t. a. m. 
Cows are selling from .$90 to $125; but¬ 
ter, 45 to 50e; potatoes. 75c to .$1 per bu.; 
beef, dressed, IBc; pork, 22c; hay, from 
$12 to $18; straw, $10; poultry, 2.5c, live 
weight; four-weeks-old pigs, .$8 to $10. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. n. n. w. 
Wheat is selling for $2.20 a bushel, hut 
scarce; rye. $2; oats. $1. Buckwheat is 
.scarce, as there is not much raised; it is 
.$3 a bu. Corn is from $2.,50 to .$.3.,50 a 
] bushel. There is not much corn to husk 
I raised, as most goes in the silos. Eggs 
I are from 34 to ,30 cents a dozen ; calves 
from 13 to 14 cents a lb. Cows are high, 
I from $100 to $175; bologna cow.S', $45 to 
$70. Bigs sell from $5 to $7 apiece when 
from four to s’ix weeks old. The leading 
product is milk. The outlook for farmers 
' now is rather dull, as milk is only $2.40 
a hundred for May. and feed is from $00 
to ,$75. ,T. n. 
Sussex Co., N. Y. 
The weather has been very changeable 
all of the month ; .several thunder showers 
and a little hail. These showers have all 
been followed by cool weather; we have 
had several hard freezes, freezing ice over 
one-half inch thick. Wc have had no 
i warm Spring rains yet. The trees in the 
woods are slow in leafing out. Some cher¬ 
ries are in blossom, and a very few plums 
out. Many are spraying fruit trees; a 
few fruit trees have been set out. Some 
nur.series have gone out of the business on 
account of low price of stock and high- 
priced labor. Two tile plants have closed 
on_ account of high priced labor. Tile is 
being shipped in from out of the State. 
Some farmers are using ditching ma¬ 
chines to do the work. They seem to give 
quite good satisfaction. Wheat is a sorry 
looking crop. Farmers were foolish 
enough last Fall to listen to the sugges¬ 
tion to raise all the wheat they could, and 
most of it was late sown ; consequently 
no top w’as grown and the cold MTnter 
used it up. Many pieces will he siown to 
Spring crops. Potatoes are selling for GOc 
per bu. Beans are as bad ; many will go 
out of the business. Butter, 40c; eggs, 
' 32c; wheat, $2.10; barley, $2.25; seed 
corn scarce and high. E. T. n. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—A sei’ies of explosions of 
TNT at the Oakdale (Pa.) plant of the 
Aetna Chemical Co.. May IS. killed 
employees, many others being injured and 
missing. 
Despite opposition advanced by four 
New .Tersey municipalities. May 18 the 
State Board of Public Utilities granted the 
New .Jersey and Penn.sylvania Traction 
Co. the right to increase faj-es in four 
zones between Trenton' and Princeton, 
i The new rates will mean .an increase of 
from five to six cents on each fai'e. and 
the company will withdraw commutation 
tickets that have been selling at 12 for 
$1. The traction company pleaded in¬ 
creased operating costs. 
A forest fire in the town of Sterling, 
Conn., destroved 600 acres of pine timber 
May 19. 
Through an opinion which some con¬ 
strued as indicating a new attitude toward 
big business and on wdiich the .Justices 
divided four to three, the Supreme Court 
May 20 refused to order the dissolution of 
the T'uitcd Shoe Machinery Co. of Mas¬ 
sachusetts and its subsidiaries, forming 
the so-called “Shoe Machinery Trust.” 
While admitting the magnitude of the 
combination, the court declared its gro\\i:h 
. resulted from efficient management and 
not oppression, and held that the break¬ 
ing Tip of such a concern under a dissolu¬ 
tion order would be practically impossible. 
This suit, instituted by the Government 
in 1911, is the first under the Sherman 
anti-trust act to be decided by the Su¬ 
preme Court in a number of years, and 
for the first time in recent history a coin- 
plete victory has been won by an organi¬ 
zation attacked by the Government. 
May 20 the trial of Mi's. Bose I’astor 
Stokes of New York, charged with viola¬ 
tion of the espionage act. began in Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo. She is accused of various 
disloyal utterances in public speeches. 
The wreck of a northbound St. Louis 
and Southwestern troop train near Gar¬ 
land, Ark., May 21, resulted in the death 
of one trainman and the injury of 17 
other persons, 12 of them soldiers. The 
accident was due to the removal of a 
fishplate bolt, which allowed the rails 
to spread. 
Inside history of the ruin wrought by 
the I. W. W. in the hop fields and fruit 
orchards of (jalifornia by the practice of 
sabotage several years ago in an effort to 
obtain the release from prison of Richard 
Ford and Herman Snhr. members of the 
organization convicted on charges of mui’- 
der and sentenced to life imprisonment, 
was revealed May 21 at the trial of 112 
I. W. W. leaders at Chicago. The Gov¬ 
ernment attorneys read a number of let¬ 
ters written by Charles L. Lambert of 
Sacramento. Cal., who was .secretary of 
the hop pickers’ defence committee in 
1914, and later elected a member of the 
general executive board of the I. W. W. 
He was one of the leaders who directed the 
unsuccessful fight conducted by the or¬ 
ganization in California in the hope that 
the Governor might be influenced to par¬ 
don Ford and Snhr from prison. Ac¬ 
cording to Lambert, the I. W. W. cam¬ 
paign of sabotage resulted in the destruO" 
tion of property valued at .$10,000,000 an¬ 
nually for several years. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The National 
Dairy Show of 1918 will be held at Co¬ 
lumbus, O., October 10 to 19. The show 
this year will be conducted under war 
conditions, which will have the co-opera¬ 
tion of departments of the Government in 
an effort to visualize to dairymen in all 
branches of the industry what is expected 
of them to help win the war. 
The highest quality of maize grown in 
Argentina for many years is being burned 
as fuel in the ind.ustries of the country. 
The .scarcity of shipping prevents the sale 
of the maize at profitable prices. The crop 
this year was a bumper one, owing to the 
government’s exhortations to the people to 
till their land. The crop is now selling 
at $15..30 gold per ton for use as fuel. 
The President, by a pT’oclamation signed 
May 14. 1918, requires all individuals, 
partnerships, associations and corpora¬ 
tion!?, except those specifically exempted 
by the food control act. engaged in the 
importation, manufacture, storage and 
distribution of tools, utensils, implements, 
machinery, and certain other farm equip¬ 
ment. to secure Federal licenses not later 
than .Tune 20. 1918. 
_ The New England Farmers’ War Coun¬ 
cil, which consists of three farmers ap¬ 
pointed from each of the six States by 
the State Food Administrators, organized 
at Boston May 21. E. S. Brigham of 
Vermont is president and G. C. Sevey of 
Springfield secretary. The council' en¬ 
dorsed President Wilson’s definition of a 
just price, pledged its support to the Ad¬ 
ministration in the war. endorsed the ac¬ 
tion of the National Advisory Committee 
on the price of wheat, favored fixing prices 
of by-products used for stock feeding, rec¬ 
ommended plans for the regional distribu¬ 
tion of foodstuffs, and Tirged the War 
Department to adopt grades of New Eng¬ 
land hay in view of the alleged discrimina¬ 
tion against that product. 
Recommendation that Congress pa.s.s 
legislation to enable the Government to 
utilize .all interned alien enemies for the 
cultivation of the soil was among the res¬ 
olutions adopted by the National Associa¬ 
tion of Manufacturers during the second 
session of their three-day convention at 
New Y^ork May 21. 
WASHINGTON.—A general order is¬ 
sued overseas May 18 establishes for the 
American expeditionary forces a military 
postal express service similar to the 
French system. It is hoped the result 
win be a material improvement in the 
delivery of mail to the .\merican trooiTs. 
The Senate bill iirohibiting the manu¬ 
facture and sale of intoxicants in the 
Territory of Hawaii during the war was 
pas.sed May 18 by the Hou.se, 237 to 30, 
and now goes to the President. 
Plans for the Department of .lustice 
investigation into airplane production 
Avere made May 18 by Charles E. Hughes. 
AA’ho is to have charge, in confei’ences 
Avith Attorney General Gregory, Secretary 
Raker, Senator Ghamberlain, chairman of 
the Senate Military Committee; Brigadier 
General Charles YIcK. Saltzman, Assis¬ 
tant Chief of the Signal Corps; Major 1). 
C. Beatty, of tlie Signal Corps, and Wil¬ 
liam L. Frierson, Assistant Attorney Gen¬ 
eral. 
Plans to u.se larger aeroiilanes in tlie 
New Y’ork, I’hiladelphia and Wa.shington 
aerial mail service are under considera¬ 
tion by postal authorities. 
The question of taking the soldier vote 
in France has been re-oiiened by the War 
Department with the hojie tliat'some Avay 
may be evolved to take it which will not 
interfere with military efficiency. Secre¬ 
tary Baker indicated that any State which 
deAUsed a practical and Avorkable Avay of 
collecting its soldier ballots Avould be per¬ 
mitted to do so. 
With the organization of the new War 
Labor Administration under the direction 
of Felix Frankfurter, the Federal Govern¬ 
ment Avill launch uiioii the task of con¬ 
trolling and distributing the industrial 
labor supply of the country for the Avar. 
The move is one of the most important 
that has been taken since declaration of 
Avar. It aims to achieve, tlirough another 
channel, the same re.sult that Avould come 
from a military registration of industrial 
employees. The formation of the new 
department is aimed primarily to put an 
end to the shiftings and migrations of 
workmen, and to halt the practice of one 
industry drawing away the labor supply 
of another, unless it has been previously 
determined that the first industry has a 
higher claim from the standpoint of the 
war upon the supply than the industry 
from AA’hich the Avorkers are sought. 
