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An Automatic Container for Fly Poison 
espociiillj' dislike the udor of honeysuckle 
and liop blossoms. 
According to a French scientist flies 
have intense hatred for the color blue, 
liooins decorated in blue will help to keep 
out the flies. 
Mix together one tablespoonful of 
cream, one of ground black pepper and 
one of brown sugar. This mixture is 
l)oisonous to flies. Put in a saucer, darken 
the I'oom except one w’iudow and in that 
set the saucer. 
To clear the house of flies, burn pyreth- 
rum powder. This stupefies the flies, but 
they must be swept up and burned. 
Lye, chloride of lime, or copperas (sul¬ 
phate ()f iron) dissolved in water, crude 
carbolic acid, or any kind of disinfectant 
uniy be used in vaults. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Slight C'hef;se Advance. —Forty-nine 
factories registered 4,802 boxes of cheese 
on the (’anton Dairy Foard this week at 
2214c. One year ago 5.1TG boxes were 
registered at 281,4c. At Watertown the 
price gained from 21% to 2214c over the 
previous week, with fi.OOO boxes offered. 
At Gouverin'ur .80 factories registered 
3,404 boxes at 21%c, a gain of 14c. 
SiiOKTAGE OE Bakkels. —Commissioner 
of Agriculture Charles S. Wilson has 
directed the Department to investigate 
the supply of apple barrels. He says it 
may be necessary to provide some sub¬ 
stitute for the biirrel, as boxes or crates. 
He urges producers to secure containers 
at oncT^ The almost prohibitive price of 
00 to 75 cents per barrel is asked in some 
places. 
►School Matters. —The resumption of 
the election of rural school officers in the 
old way was celebrated throughout most 
sections of New York by a very general 
the dairymen of this groat milk-produc¬ 
ing section were much aroused over late 
milk developments, and passed an original 
and drastic resolution, hoping to start a 
ball rolling that shall hit other cities and 
do something toward creating a public 
sentiment that shall see better things in 
the line of retail milk prices, and an in¬ 
creased consumption of this valuable food, 
rrominent dairymen present enteretl 
heartily into a discussion of the question 
“Why has not the retail price of milk 
been reduced in jiroportion to the reduc¬ 
tion made in the price to farmers?’’ It 
was shown that in (’ortland, which fairly 
represents very wide-spread conditions, 
milk consumers are still paying 12c a 
quart for inilk, the same they paid in 
.Tannary. Now the farmers are getting 
about 3.7e per (piart, or .$1.74 per 100 
lbs. for .8 per cent milk, just one-half the 
.Tannary price to farmers of .$3.40 per 
100 lbs. The dealers or peddlers are 
selling at the nite of $5.05 per 100 lbs., 
.and paying $1.74 plus a .slight bonus for 
increased butterfat content; over a 200 
per cent profit, with very little expense 
entailed in the business of peddling, as 
compared to the dairymen’s “multitudinous 
expenses.” A resolution was passed pro¬ 
testing this prohibitive retail price 
when the State and federal authorities 
are spending vast sums to increase the 
mse of milk as the only thing that can 
.save the dairy industry. The Grange was 
instructed to carry out .a bidef advertising 
campaign in the local daily paper to ac¬ 
quaint the people with the exact .situation, 
and eo]iies of the resolution were to be 
sent to the mayor of' Cortland, to the 
mayor^ and the Housewives’ League of 
New York cit.v. as representing the chief 
market for (’ortland milk; also to the 
county food administrator and to the lead¬ 
ing housewives’ clubs of nearby cities. It 
is hoped that such action may help the 
people to see how they are victimized and 
that they must take the matter into their 
own hands. City milk distributing ])lants 
are to be urged as a more economical 
method of serving the cities’ interests, to 
be owned and operated by the cities if 
they will; if not farmers themselves must 
take up this work if their market for 
milk is not to be utterly destroyed. The 
mayor of Cortland has in the past shown 
most interest in a city milk i)lant. Corn¬ 
ing has just built a central milk distribut¬ 
ing station with a company having 
$25.()0() stock. This city hopes to save its 
consumers $75,000 yearly in milk bills 
and at the same time pay I./eague prices 
for milk. m. g. f. 
Hay, .$18 to $22; potatoes. 40c per bu.; 
oats, n5c; no corn sold. Pork, $17 per 
cwt. live, $22 dressed. Fowls, 25c per lb. 
Pigs, six weeks old. $7 to $S each. Beef 
cattle, 10 to 11c per lb. Wheat in gen¬ 
eral looking very poor; .sheltered pieces 
fair. Oats and barley growing nicely; a 
large acreage of oats being sown. Potato 
planting will be reduced quite extensively. 
Many still in farmers’ hands. New seed- 
ings good; old meadows poor. Alfalf.a 
good, but spotted, due to winter-killing. 
Will someone give experience in reseeding 
winter-killed spots in Alfalf.a meadow? 
In .sowing Soy beans with corn, mix but a 
small portion of seed at :i time, as corn 
and beans seem to sei)arate when sown 
together, and a resulting uneven .stand, 
all corn or all be.ans, the result. Farm 
help very scarce, due to our proximity to 
Rochester munition plants and other fac¬ 
tories. Farmers, as usual, planning more 
work planting and sowing than can pos¬ 
sibly be well cared for : the inevitable re¬ 
sult, weedy crops and hiss by being un¬ 
able to harvest them. Advice given in R. 
N.-Y"., 1856: “Plant an acres less and 
better care to the rest” as sound now as 
then. L. F. A. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
The main production here is butter, 
selling at 4Sc; hay. $1.5 per ton ; potatoes, 
$1 per bu.; wool, 68c per lb. ; eggs, ,85<! 
The outlook for hay .and grain is good. 
Cows from $50 to $100. Ilii-ed help is 
scarce, wages high. Veal c.alves selling 
for 1.8c live weight: hogs. 15c live weight. 
Washington (’o., N. Y. w, c. 
The Wretched House Fly 
This insect is one of the best friends 
the Kaiser ever had. He carries disease' 
from the sick to the well, and is a regu¬ 
lar professor of filth. He is small, but he 
is bigger than this picture when it comes 
to results. 
Kill or capture' him. There should be 
a good fly-trap near every entrance, and 
all garbage should be kept away from the 
doors or sides of the house. If he does 
get inside, try the following suggestions, 
given by the Merchants’ Association of 
Now York: 
Formaldehyde and sodium salicylate 
are the two best fly poisons. Both are 
superior to arsenic. They have their ad¬ 
vantages for household use. They are not 
poison to children; the.v are convenient 
to handle, their dilutions are 
simple and they attract the 
flies. 
A formaldehyde solution 
of approximately the correct 
strength may be made by 
adding three 
teaspoonfuls of 
the concentrat- 
e d formalde¬ 
hyde solution, 
c o m m ercially 
known as for¬ 
malin, to a pint 
of water. Sim¬ 
ilarly, the lU’oper concen¬ 
tration of sodium salicy¬ 
late may be obtained by 
dissolving three teaspoon¬ 
fuls of the pure chemical 
(a powder) to a pint of 
water. 
A container as shown below has been 
found convenient for automaticall.v keep¬ 
ing the solution always available for flies 
to drink. An ordinary, thin-walled drink¬ 
ing glass is filled or partially filled with 
the solution. A saucer, or sniiill plate, in 
which is placed a piece of WHITE blot¬ 
ting paper cut the sizi' of the dish, it put 
bottom up over the glass. . The whole is 
then quickly inverted, a match placed un¬ 
der the edge of the gla.ss, and the con¬ 
tainer is ready for use. As the solution 
dries out of the saucei- the liipiid .seal at 
the edge of the glass is broken and more 
liquid flows into the lower re<;eptacle. 
Thus the jiaper is alwiiys kept moist. 
Any odor jileasiug to mtui is offensive 
to the fly and vice versa, and will drive 
them away. 
Take five cents’ worth of oil of laven¬ 
der, mix it with the same quantity of 
water, put it in a common glass atomizer 
and S]tray it around the rooms where flies 
are. In the dining room spray it lavishly, 
even on the table linen. The odor is ve,y 
disagreeable to flies but refreshing to mo.s't 
people. 
Geranium, mignonette, heliotrope and 
White clover are offensive to flies. They 
attendance at the meeting on Tuesday 
night, .Tune 4. In many instances women 
trustees and collectors were elected, with 
the idea that they have more time to de¬ 
vote to school matters and will give the 
districts better service. An alarming 
scarcity of teachers is reported. One 
typical ca.se was that of the town of 
Wrgil, Cortland County. Here at the 
last meeting of the board of directors 
but seven teachers were available for the 
17 districts of the town. Before the 
school meeting was held the.se had re¬ 
signed. It is expected that temporary 
licenses will be given to high school stu¬ 
dents in some cases, while in others I’e- 
tired teachers have been persuaded again 
to take up the work. A. very general use 
of the leading teachers’ agencies will also 
be made in tlie'hunt for teachers. 
Drastic Fi*el (5rdek. —Farmers who 
as usual attempted to lay in their sup¬ 
plies of soft coal for thrashing and other 
necessary farm operations, particularly 
the making of maple sugar 
products, were this Aveek told 
liy dealers that they had re¬ 
cently been idsited by fuel 
commissioners who left per¬ 
mission to see if coal was 
desired, but 
who said that 
after Ajiril 1 
next year no 
soft coal must 
be used. This 
will force many 
a maple sugar 
plant to lie idle 
another .voar. It Avould 
seem that where an im¬ 
portant food supply is at 
.stake, as in this case, the 
State having made over 
17.600.600 lbs. of sugar 
the past season, a special 
pi'rmit at least .should take cari' that such 
industries are not crijiided. 
DitASTic Action of (’ortland Grange. 
—At the Spring session of Cortland 
County Pomona Grange at Preble June 5 
The Wretched TTou!<e Fhi 
70/2 
80% by proper feed- 
Hoard*s Dairyman. 
attributed to three causes: 
balanced ration strong in 
m 
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Milk 
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MARK 
TRADE 
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It has been stated by good authorities that 
the average milk yield of cows in the United 
States could be increased 
—Wi. E. Horton, 
‘'■“'i A herd of “20 scrub cows,” below 
the average yield of cows in the state, 
when taken to Kansas Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, increased their milk and butter 
yield to double that of the average in 
the state, through better care and proper 
feeding. A like result, obtained with 
“scrub cows” in Minnesota Experiment 
Station, is 
feeding 
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