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Production is the 
Thing That Counts 
A LETTER to Nichols & 
Shepard Company, of 
Battle Creek, Michigan, will 
bring to you the experience of 
seventy years of success in the 
making of threshing machinery 
exclusively—success that is of 
value to you. 
Grain threshing is a game where 
no manufacturer can fool with 
side lines, and at the same time 
build a machine that is always 
on top. Nichols and Shepard 
Company has confined its efforts 
and resources to threshing ma¬ 
chinery alone, longer than any 
other manufacturer in the world. 
The result is that the Red River 
Special, with its “Man Behind 
the Gun,” the Beating Shakers 
and the Big Cylinder, stands at 
the very top of the list as a grain 
thresher. 
It Saves the Farmers’ 
Thresh Bill 
Write MS for information about the 
“Junior” if you "want a machine for 
your own use. Write for circulars. 
Nichols & Shepard Co. 
In ContinuousfBusIness Since 1848 
Builders exclusively of Red River Spe¬ 
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Steam and' T>il-Ga3 fraction Engines 
Battle Creek Michigan 
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Crops and Farm News 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
— » ■ 
Baldwins, not only with ino, hut with¬ 
out exception, are very liskt thronghont 
this whole section. I have a very good 
bloom on most everything. I am some¬ 
what pessimistic, however, as T have had 
as good a bloom before now and mighty 
l':ttle fruit. But, while pessimistic, we 
are still hopeful. Of course, this time of 
year a!l things look so promising, or at 
least show such possibilities most people 
arc very hopeful, and it is well this is so, 
for there are some discouraging things 
crop up during the year. The renewal of 
so much life each Spring, however, and a 
full realization of a just and all-wise 
Creator puts new life into ns all to a cer¬ 
tain extent, even though we are many 
times unconscious of just what it is that 
makes ns feel so much better at times, 
thougli the d.ay he as dark and conditions 
not better th.an before. ^Yith us help is as 
.scarce and work as plenty as ever before 
in my memory. It makes me laugh many 
times when getting about with a light 
night or morning or trying to hurry some 
job through before the lights gets too dim. 
at the talk of dayliglit saving. Tin- 
farmer in most cases has always made full 
use of what light tliere was, and pieced 
it out. Wliat we need here just now is' 
more daylight. W. IT, 
Kinderhook, N. Y. 
Butter, 40 to 45c; milk, 7 to 8c; po¬ 
tatoes. 7,5c to $1 hn.; beans, marrowfat, 
18c 11).: pigs, six wei-ks old, ijiO to ,$7 each ; 
eggs, 40 to 450; hay, .jilO to .$21 ton; 
cows. ,$7.5 to ,$100, fresh ; <-alves, dres.sed, 
18 to 22c Ih; oats, ,$1..25 bu. Principal 
crops arc apples, i)otatnes. buckwheat, 
corn, rye, oats. Not so much farming 
done around liere as nsi-d to he, as water¬ 
works took quite a lot of land a mile or .so 
below; mostly take a few hoarflers and 
get Ininher out. Corn most all touched by 
frost last Fall. Nearly everyone has had 
to huv .seed. E. ir. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Our main production here is milk, some 
going to Bnlfalo and some to the condens- 
ery. Milk in BiifTalo is worth 2.‘>3<^c ])er 
gal. for May at the condensery ; .$2.4.5 per 
100 for ilay. The League sets the price 
every month. Hay is selling at ,$20. Po¬ 
tatoes plenty at 85c bn.; oats, ,$1.25 hu.; 
veal calves. 12c Ih. Cows are selling from 
.$00 to ,$100. Fggs. .35c. Hired help 
very scarce and wages high. About the 
same acreage of oats and corn as last 
year. More Spring wheat than last year. 
Oats and Spring wheat are looking well. 
Farmers jire busy plowing for corn and 
potatoes. Hogs at 17c alive and 22c 
dressed. 5Iill feed. .$(>0 to .$70 ton. 3'he 
outlook for the farmer is just fair; no 
fanner is going to get rich until the mid¬ 
dleman is cut out. If the farmer could 
sell his iirodnce direct to tlie consumer he 
would get more sind the consumer would 
pay less. F. c. 
Cliantaiuiua Co., N. Y. 
Fanners are receiving for milk, which 
is one of the main money crops at Hire’s 
Conden.sery, ,$2..30 per 100 Ihs. for .3 |)er 
cent milk and 4 cents for each tenth per 
cent over 3 per cent. T.ocal dealers are 
pa.ving 0 and per (it. I'otato('.s are 
selling for 70 to SOc i)er bn.; hay, $10 to 
$30 ton. Wool was 70 cents ]»er lb,, hut 
think it has dropjanl to 08c since so much 
talk about tin- Covei-nment controlling 
price. Fanners jiro doing fairly well, hut 
none g(‘ttii>g rich. 
Tompkins Uo., N. Y, 
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'-"•^1 W. W. STAHLET, 50 Churoli Streel, Hew Tark 
Potat<)(‘.s are bringing 50c per hn. and 
wt' can hardly sell thoin for th:it; hoans, 
18c 11). Eggs arc selling for 2.5c doz. 
Butter is soiling for 40c. Onion .sots, to 
.•stores, s(4]iftg for 30c (jt. hut farmers 
-cannot get that; oats are .$1.40 hn.; seed 
corn, $1 75 bn.; ’Pimothy .s(‘ed, .$5.50 hu.; 
dairy feed, from $00 to $1)0 ton. G. ir. i). 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
This is primarily a farming community. 
3'he stajsle i)rodncts are wheat, corn. hay. 
:ind fruit. Cattle-feeding is carried on ex¬ 
tensively during the AVinter. silage being 
:in important fsictor in the production of 
beef cattle. The profit to the farmer 
this year, as well as last, has hi-en vej-y 
satisfaetory, most of the sah-s of fat c.-ittle 
being made at 14c. It follows that the 
land is productive, and last y(>:ir then- was 
a fine yield of wheat, o:its. and corn. 3'his 
y(>ar the prospect for wln-at is ev('n better 
on an increased acreage. Most of oiir 
farmers are testing their seed corn, and 
the ground is now hi-iiig prei»ared and 
planti'd. AATieat, ,$2 01; hn.; corn. 81.75; 
oats. SOc; ry(‘. $1.50; api)Ies, $2 to $3 hhl. 
Even' (listrict in this neighborlnjod 
rearmed its ai)portionm('nt in tin- Third 
I.iberty I.oitn. and Fairfield, which is a 
comiminity of rc'-tired farinerflN*iuhscrihed 
more than twice its allotment. .Mlams 
county has a population of 35.000 iahah- 
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her agricultural jn-odnets, increa.sed her 
hank deposits during the lust year more 
than $2,000,000. c. A. L. 
Adams Co., Pa. 
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