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JShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Soptoinlior 7. 
funs and Sliotsliells 
Q)r Shooting Right 
G etting tke tulge ©n your year's work means a 
lot— a. lot more if you love dog and gun. By getting 
yourself in trim witk the right amount and kind of re¬ 
creation, you will tackle next year's work with more vim. 
TKcre is mueh additional satisfaction in store for you if you Buy a 
Reminf^ton UMC Pump Gun or Autoloading Shotgun for your days off this 
Fall. When your well earned chance comes to hag some game, you will then 
have in your hands a gun made to shoot right. Guns of the same design helped 
win the Grand Prize, highest of possible honors, “For Modern Firearms and 
Ammunition," awarded to Remington UMC at the San Francisco Exposition. 
The wonderful Wetproof process invented for and exclusively 
used in the manufacture of Remington UMC Smokeless “Arrow 
and “Nitro Club" Steel Lined Shotshells, has been pronounced the 
greatest advance in shotshell manufacture in a decade. These shells 
as now made are the first completely wetproof shells. Another 
Remington UMC contribution to shooting right. 
In hlack powder, buy the old reliable Remington UMC “ New 
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Notes from Ohio 
“Top IMilk.”—O nt here in longitude 
81.80 degrees and latitude 41 degrees, we 
have a .slightly different definition of 
i“top milk’’ from that given by II. F. .T., 
page 950. Here top milk is the thin scum 
that rises from the bottled milk sold hy 
our dealers after they have modified it 
down to legal (?) 8 per cent fat milk at 
18 cents per quart. The words are fre¬ 
quently used hy onr domestic science e.v- 
perts in their published dietary formulas, 
and this is especially recommended for 
the morning coffee, breakfast foods and 
the like for its purity. Its specific grav¬ 
ity is about the same as our lake water, 
with its dash of chloi-ine added. Its use 
with its accompanying milk is recom¬ 
mended as being free from solids. You 
get your ice cream at another counter! 
Tiik Fditor’.s Al’To Report. —Wh.at 
tlie editor has to say about the number 
of autos at the New Jersey horticultural 
meeting, and the few horses seen, is veri¬ 
fied every day at the writer’s home, w'hich 
is by the ro.adside of the military highway 
from Cleveland to Youngstown, and while 
pot as yet complete, travel is permitted. 
It is the great direct auto route from 
('leveland to the Mahoning Valley, wdiich 
in reality is one contimions inaunfactur- 
ing plant from Niles, Ohio, to Piltshurgh. 
SO miles away. Today it was an unend¬ 
ing line of autos east and west, of all de¬ 
scriptions from extreme value to abso¬ 
lute shahbiness. During the entire day 
only five carriages and eight horses 
passed the house, and this, too, in a 
densi'ly poiuilatial laiial townshi|». Tlie 
auto is annihilating distances in the 
country. The horse is too slow. The 
local community has actually disapjieared. 
^Yith p.aved roads, autos, telephones, cen¬ 
tralized .schools, trolleys, auto freight 
routes, rural delivery and Liberty Bonds 
tlie country has actually become a great 
rural village. 
Wooix Hirers Sy.mpo.sit'.m. —I was in- 
fei-i'sted in the ivoodchuck article by 
Bi'orge A. Cosgi’ove, for I. too. have my 
troubles with the ’chuck, hut I am finding 
the law-protected rabbit is as great a sin¬ 
ner ; as all of my beets and one patch 
of beaus testify. The ’ohnek is a difficult 
varmint to master, as he has his den in 
the rocky hanks of ttio little river hard 
by and they dig ont pretty hard for an 
old man at the shovel. They .seem im¬ 
mune to poison when ipiite accidentally 
they do partake of it. They need to he 
shot very dead, and if wounded have at 
their hand “first aid.’’ Traps are about 
ont of the question. My boy neighbor, 
wild game export, says they roll onto the 
traj) spring enough to “let ’em out.’’ By 
filing the jaws of the trap down to an 
edge, if the, siiriug is very strong, one 
can get now and then a foot, whleh is a 
slight advantage to the garden qwner. 
\Vo havi' found that keeping the beans 
quite thickly dusted with air-slaked lime 
they regard it as a catarrh remedy,” and 
leave the beans alone. When the squashes 
later on begin to attract their attention 
and teeth, we slip cheap brown paper 
bags over tlu'in and crumple the ends 
about the .stems and have never had a 
.squash molested afti'r. If the rabbits in¬ 
sist in botheiiiig. the humane .society, 
and the game wardmi, commend killing all 
hrokeii-lcfif/cil rabbits as an act of mercy. 
The Arxo a Real Movie. —It is re¬ 
markable how the auto has opened up the 
world to the country dweller and is 
making the people of the entire country 
into one guild. The auto has upon the 
West(‘in Reserve of Ohio, at least, be¬ 
come a recognized necessity. It is more 
than a luxury! It is now part of the 
business equipment of the farm, and in 
thi.s township are 70 autos. Trucks and 
farm tractors are here in countable num¬ 
bers. The auto has become a touring 
car and as I write two farmers here, after 
haying, with their families are tonring 
New Kugland. Now Toledo and Detroit 
are lunch stations for our antoists, and 
!two more of our town autos are filling 
their tanks for a Pacific Coast trip. A 
strange sight is that of onr church horse- 
sheds, about forsaken, and parked autos 
on the church lawm are now the thing. 
It is citifying the rural dweller. The 
auto puts him into the city in an hour, 
and our rural dweller is now no longer 
a stranger to city gatherings, lectures, 
concerts and the like, and is indistinguish- 
ahle in style and turn-out from his <ity 
cousin ; and even docs business with him 
at the same bank. Not long since the 
writer and his wife after dinner wont to 
Cleveland, 28 miles away, to attend a 
groat afternoon concert in the park, by 
Sousa and his Marine Band, .and wer(> 
home by 5 o’clock P, i\r.. an impossible 
thing to have done with a horse on as 
hot a day. j. o. 
Milk and Butter Notes 
I retail my butter in Oneonta at 50c 
per lb., and my eggs at 47c. Milk is 
bringing .$2.()2 for August at the .station. 
Some of my neighbors sell their butter 
on New York market at 4Ge and -17c to 
retailers. I’rice paid producers for dressed 
pork, 22c; beef, l(»c and ISc: fowls. 2Sc. 
Potatoes, new, ,$1.50 per bn.; early a|i- 
ples, ijtl per bu. Dairying is leading in¬ 
dustry. Oats, buckwheat and potatoes are 
looking best I have .seen in a number t)f 
years, excejitiiig some patches of potatoes 
are blighted. Corn is looking good and 
hay is average croi). h. c. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
The leading products here are potatoes, 
oats and corn. Dairying and the poultry 
business are also carried on, but only 
about half as much as formerly on ac¬ 
count of price of feed. Oats, 94c per !)n.; 
corn, ,$8.r)() per hundred; eggs. 44c; po¬ 
tatoes, ,$1.40 per bu. Potatoes, 1(K) hn. 
lier acre; oats. 80 bu. per acre; corn. 4(t 
bu. per acre; hay. one ton per acre, 
per ton. w. F.G. 
Broome C’o.. N. Y. 
I’he farmers in this immediate seetion 
raise milk piineiiially and get Dairymen's 
League iirices for whole.sale. They retail 
it for 10c per quart. Apples sold last 
Winter for .$4 to .jiG per bhl. Cows 
(milclO bring .$125 to .$200 at auction. 
Corn is backward; .bout the usual 
amount planted. Grain is excellent, being 
well filled with good-.sized grains. Not s<> 
many potatoes jilanted. hut they look very 
good. Eggs are bringing 50c at the stores. 
Broilers are worth about 70c per Ih.; 
very few sold at that price. Peach buds 
were winter-killed so tliat we shall have 
no jieaches to sell. Raspberries brin;,' 
about 12c per small basket. Strawberries 
brought as high as 20c per quart. Pi"s 
six weeks old .sold for from $7 to .$10 
apiece. The hay crop is very short. 
Orange ( ’o., N. Y'. c. F. s. 
This is chiefly a dairy section. Some 
potatoes are rais<‘d for market, also eggs 
and pork as a side line. Our milk goes 
to a Limburg factory and we sell by tlm 
cheese market; will receive arouud $2 
per cwt. for the milk at the present price 
on the TTtica market. 2.'l%c per lb. Tlu 
potato acreage is about one-third le.«s 
than a year ago. Growers are not ver.\ 
enthusiastic about them ; lost money las! 
year. Eggs are .8Se to 40e at the local 
store. Very few chickens being raised: 
feed is too high. We have to >iay $;>..5(l 
for cracked corn and the other feeds cost: 
in the same way, when we can get them. 
Young pigs. $G each at four weeks of 
age, and a good call for them; can get 
at present aboiit 28c per lb. for pork ar. 
Rome, N. Y. Groj) is one-third less than 
one year ago. Wages for haying j'un from 
$1..5() to ,$4 for a man jier day. n. E. T. 
Dneida Go.,, N. Y. 
This is a dairy eounly, with some po¬ 
tatoes, oats and a few apples. Crops ai-c 
looking fair, except corn ; the outlook is 
not good, ns there is a great shortage of 
help. Milk is bringing $2.49 for 8 i)er 
cent. Ilay, $15 to $18 ; old potatoes aj o 
about gone, the last .selling GO to 70e jier 
bn. D.airy cows, $100 to $125; butter. 
42 to 45c. The greate.st complaint is tlm 
help question; farmers say they eaunut 
take care of the oroi)s. j. r. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
This section of Sussex County, N. ,T.. 
is a dairy district; also a large producer 
of apples and peaches. The farmers de¬ 
pend mostly oil mill feed. The milk is 
shipped to Neiv York City. The farmer 
gets League prices. The apple crop i--- 
probably 85 or 40 per cent. Tomatoes 
at present from 75c to $1 per ^-bu. ba.s- 
ket; potatoes. 05 to 75c per peck. Cab¬ 
bage about 8c per Ih. Hand-picked ap¬ 
ples, 75c per yj-hu. basket. Eggs retail 
at 50c; butter, best creamery, 50c: pork 
chops, 42c ))cr lb.; steak. 4.5c. T.ivc 
fowls. 85 to 40e per lb. Scratch feed, $4 
per 100 lbs.; oats. $.> pi'r 100 lbs.: mixed 
dairy feeds from $50 to .$G0 i>er ton. The 
peach croj) is a failure. Jlost peach or¬ 
chards were cut down this Spring, and 
what .are still standing have no fruit. 
The Winter was too severe; most trees 
froze. Most pear trees are frozen, and 
some api)le trees. About 85 or 40 per 
cent of the farmers have silos and use 
corn for silage. The corn is very back¬ 
ward. A few fanners raise corn to husk, 
but if we have early frost it will not 
ripen. The crop looks like a 75-per cent 
crop. The oats were a bumper crop, and 
about double the acreage compared to last 
year. Some wheat is also grown here, 
which was fair to good, and a .small 
amount of rye yhich was -a very good 
crop. Most farmers raise a few potatoes, 
which I do not believe are more than 40 
per cent j few in hill and small; quite a 
lot of blight and too dry for early crops. 
Very few vegetables grown for local mar¬ 
ket. N. E. N. 
Sussex (’u., N. .T. 
