,1092 
CAc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Countryside Produce Situation 
After several weeks of steadily declin¬ 
ing: trend through August and early Sep¬ 
tember the markets of the counti-y are 
strengthening somewhat. The moderate 
volume of carlot shipment helps the situa¬ 
tion, and few large markets are ov(‘r- 
supplied. The volume of fruits and vege¬ 
tables is about 10 i)er cent less, comitared 
with that of Sejitember last year, but the 
demand seems fully as active as last year, 
although the war gardens appear to be 
<loing their sbaie. 
TURKK IXTKUKSTIXG CROPS. 
Potatoes, onions and .■i])i)les s(a‘m to be 
the most interesting features. I’hey ai'e 
sizable cro]»s this year. ^I'hey started jit 
fairly high prices, but have declined con- 
sideraltly the past lew weeks.’ 'J'hus the 
tiverage price p.aid for iirmy suiiplfes by 
coinjietitive bidding for August was .f.'l.Ol 
I»er 100 lbs. for jiotatoes and })!;>.17 for 
onions, wliile the Se)>tember supjdy was 
botight at an average of .^2.70 for po¬ 
tatoes and .$2.-IK for onions, the Septem¬ 
ber average for <i.lions being lower than 
for ))ot!itoes. and lioth declining consid¬ 
erably for the August level. The Si'j)- 
tember croji rejiorts show a further loss 
of 0,0(K),000 bushels of jiotatot'S since 
•Inly and of oS.OtKt.OOO bushels comiitirecl 
with liist vear’s big <'roi). Hecmit <Ianiagi‘ 
was chiefly from dry weather. Humors 
of government limitation of pri<’<‘s are 
douiitless without foundation. 'I’he k'ood 
Administration hits no authority to es¬ 
tablish jirices for iiotatoes aiul is not 
considered liki'ly to make ]»urchases. 
PLENTY or ONIONS AND GOOD ONES, 
Onion quotations have been sagging off 
mei’ely becau.se tlu're is plenty of stock 
ofTering and tbe public was pretty well 
fed up this year with the Southern crop. 
'I'his is a year of large yields of good 
onions in most sections, and the croii will 
need to be kept steadily moving to 
market. 
pjtiCES si.inrr for eastern cahraoe. 
('abliage jirices have bemi cut in two 
since the Fall season ojiened. P>est East¬ 
ern stock startl'd at .$40 per ton. but 
dropiied quickly to around .$20 in the 
"Western New Yoi’k jiroducing si'etion. 
T’riees avi'raged about $10 higher iier ton 
in the <’ity windesale market,s. ('abhage 
from Iowa, Illinois and the Lake Hegion 
also ranged lower this month, but lalues 
have held better in the Middle "West and 
Coloriido than in tin* East. 
AVT.NTEU APPTES SHOTTED BRING GOOD 
PRICES. 
.\pples started sit all kinds of prices, 
but are si'ttling down to about the same 
genei’al basis in the large biii’i-el-aiiiib' sec¬ 
tions of N('w Yoi’k, Yirginia and Mich¬ 
igan, the general ’j’ange being $4 to $;"».,10 
for jidvaiict' siib's of tin' Winter kinds. 
More inquii’ies :ire coining fi-om middle- 
western dealers, and the ])ros]a'ct is for 
rather high jn-ices foi' tbe large ei’op from 
New York State' and for the faii’ly good 
crojis in some other barri'l-aiiiib' States. 
4'he hc'an season ojx'iis in California 
with sales at warehouses ranging $10.25 
to $10..10 jx'i' cwt., i-asli to growi'rs. for 
small Avhite stock, and .$11.7.1 to $12 for 
Limas, t'olorado and lOasti'rn new stock 
are not yi't generally ijuoted. Old Nc'W 
York pea beans are (juoted $11 per cwt. 
in Poston, ('alifornia jiink beans sell at 
8'*4c ]ier lb. in New Orh'ans. ("'olorado 
growers are iiri'pai ing to organize to mai’- 
ket their big crop. c. B. E. 
Government Crop Report 
The September forecast puts the corn 
outlook at 2.072,(t00.000 bushels, or a re¬ 
duction of 217.000.(MK> from the August 
forecast. The total wheat cro]> will be 
son.(too, 000 bushels, oi' 2.10.000.000 moi’c 
than last year. Oats. 1.477.(K)0.000; 
rye, 70.700,000 ; bai'ley, 2,20.000.000 ; hay, 
tons, .SO.200.000. The estimate on jio- 
tatoes is 2.8.1,000,000 bushels. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOlMESTir.—Four jiersons—one ,a 
woman and one a sailor—were killed, 
thij-ty others were injured and thousands 
of dolbrrs woi'th of damage was done to 
the Federal Puilding and surrounding 
sky.scraper.s in Chicago Sept. 4. when a 
bomb ('xploded in the Adam® Street en¬ 
trance of the structure. The idea gained 
ground that it was the work of the In¬ 
dustrial Workers of the World in retalia¬ 
tion for the s«'ntences recently im])osed on 
05 members of the organization by F('d- 
eral .fudge Kenesaw M. Landis. One of 
the jtolicc I'aids following resulted in the 
discovery of a heretofore unknown .-in- 
archist organization, a superradical body 
within the I. W. W. calh'd the “Woi-kers 
Social.” The ineinbershij) is conii)os<'d of 
discii)les of sabotage, as was disclosed by 
a qu.'tntit.v of C!ii)tur('d litei'atui’e. An¬ 
other raid divulged a new system of con¬ 
ducting I. W. "NV. affairs. At the genei'al 
headquarters the organization kejjt only 
records from Avhich the government could 
get no information. Elsewhere, ili fiats 
or homes, seci'et rf'cords of meetings, or¬ 
ders, etc., were kejit. 
■ A constitutional amendment initiated 
by the Michigan IIotelkeei)ers Association 
to permit the mainifactnre and s:ile of 
light wine and beer in Micbigan was held 
to be illegal by the State .8ui)reme Court 
Sept. 5. The court ruled that the amend¬ 
ment was improperly drawn. The Michi¬ 
gan .\nti-Saloon League fought the 
amendment. 
Sixteen members of the I. W. W.. held 
in Fresno and Sacramento, Cal., jails on 
Federal warrants, will be charged with 
responsibilit.v for the wheat-field tires in 
Smith Dakota, lumber-mill tires in Wash¬ 
ington and Ori'gon. and scori's of othi'r 
fires in California, it was iinnounced Sept 
f) by Sidney .1. Sbannon. deputy Fnited 
States marshal in Fresno. Nearly .$1(k).- 
flOO.tMlO worth of property has been de- 
stro.ved in the last two years by these 
men. Shannon said, and added that he 
had evidence to show that their iiro- 
gramim' this year called for the destruc¬ 
tion of about $2O.(K)O.Ot)0 worth of 
jiroperty. 
More than .200.000 gallons of gasoline 
were sav('d in New York city alone by 
the univei’sal observance of the second 
‘‘gasless Sunday,” according to unofficial 
•'stimatt's. It is estimated that aiiproxi- 
mately ten million gallons were conserved 
throughout the country in the la.st two 
week eud.s. 
Second Lieut. Charles Thomas of Pay 
Cit.v. Mich., and Howard Hull of P.ridge- 
port. ('onn.. were killed in fi collision in 
the air at Selfridge Field, ]Mt. Clemens, 
Mich.. Sei)t. 0. 
S<'i)t. !) trial of Eugene T. Debs on 
chai'ge of violating the espionagt* act 
was Ix'gun in Cleveland. D. A number 
of Dt'bs’s friends in the courtroom were 
arrest('d for apidiiuding siieech made b.v 
his counsel, among the offenders biUTig 
Rose Pastor Stokes. 
Coi)ies and translations of editorials 
and .irticb'S api)earing since Americii’s 
declaration of war in the New .lersey 
Freie Zritutif/, a Newai'k morning news- 
j)i!per. all scoring Engliind and deploring 
America’s participation in the war. were 
read to a jury im])iinelled Sei)t. 0 at New- 
jirk, N. .1.. be5)re Federal .fudge Thomas 
t}. Haight to hear the case of five de¬ 
fendants indicted iift<'r the office of the 
newsiiaper had bi'cn raided a year ago 
by Charles F. Lynch, Fnited States At¬ 
torney. 'fhe men on trial for alleged vio¬ 
lation of the ('si)ionage act are : Penedict 
and I'ldwin S. Prii'th. juiblishers; William 
von Katzh'r, editor; Hans von Ilundels- 
hau.sen. associate editor, and Henry 
Waechter, city editor. About fifty ar¬ 
ticles alleged by the government to form 
the ba.sis of a conspiracy on the part of 
the defendants to defeat the operation of 
the selective draft law were introduced 
in evidence. 
Sixteen men are believed to have been 
hurled to death fi’om a shaft cage by the 
breaking of a cable at a coal mine at 
Nanaimo, P. C.. Sept. 10. 
'riiree men were killed and 22 persons 
injured when an extra freight train r.an 
into the rear of a pa.ssenger train on the 
Poston and .Maine Railroad at Dum- 
mersto, Vt., Sept. 10. 
FARM AND CARDEN.—A life insur¬ 
ance policy for .$25,000 has been taken 
out on a peiligreed $75,000 Holstein bull, 
Mighty Monarch, owned by Paul T. 
Prady of Putnam County, New York, ac¬ 
cording to newspaper statement.s. Pe- 
.sides. the animal is covered by lu'avy lire 
insurance. 
At hearings on the revenue bill Sept. 0 
before the Senate Finance Committee, 
Ceorge P. Hampton, managing director of 
the ]‘'‘armers’ National IL'adquarters, told 
the committee the farmers are being per¬ 
secuted becau.se tlu'y ask that ,a large 
portion of the cost of the war be jiaid by 
current taxation. He defended William 
Pouck. master of the Washington State 
Crange, recently indicted on the charge 
of conspiracy to obstruct the sale of T.ib- 
ert.v bonds, declaring he believed those 
responsible for the prosecution wei*e war 
profiteers. 
'riie War Department has announced 
that while 220.000 gallons of dill pickles 
were required for shipment overseas, it 
had rei'eived bids for less than 1(K),f)00. 
'rhere is a shortage in the sizes specified, 
and. to meet this, large pickles will be 
bought. ])ending deliverj’ of the new crop. 
WASIIINOTDN—AVithout .a dissent¬ 
ing vote, the House Sept. 0 pas.sed, after 
a few minutes’ consideration, the Senate 
resolution empowering the President to 
establish luohibition zones around muni¬ 
tion factorie.s, mines, shipyards and other 
war-ju-oduction plants. 'Fhe resolution 
was reiiorted by the Rules f’ommittee, 
with'the information that Acting Secre- 
Septcmlier 21, IDES 
f;;ry of AVar (''rowell regarde<l its passage 
as urgently imimrtant. .V brief hearing 
had been held earlier in the day, at which 
Representative Miller of Minnesota told 
of conditions near Duluth, the first large 
city in .America to go “dry.” .Across the 
river from a steel iilant is the Wisconsin 
town of Oliver, which he said was or¬ 
ganized sfdely for “hooze purposes,” and 
had (h'lnoralized conditions on the street 
car line running between Duluth and the 
munitions works. 
.An order, which had the full approval 
of President AA'ikson, went out Sept. 2 
from the Food Administration closing all 
breweries in the country on December 1. 
This is the very action which the original 
Randall rider, pas.sed by the House, 
sought to force upon the President in iiro- 
viding that no appropriations for the 
stimulatmn of agriculture should be avail¬ 
able until the President had stopped the 
use of foodstuffs for this purpose umler 
the authority conferred upon him by the 
Lever law. AA’arning that the produc¬ 
tion of beer substitutes and other soft 
drinks and spring waters is also to be ma¬ 
terially curtailed was given with the an¬ 
nouncement that the brewing was to be 
stopped and the breweries shut down for 
the period of the war. 
Coming Farmers' Meetings 
Southwestern .Tersey Cattle Show, 
Kansas City. Mo.. Sept. 16-21. 
National .Association of Gardeners, an¬ 
nual convention, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 
24-26. 
Iowa Dairy Cattle Congi'ess, Waterloo, 
Iowa. Sept. 20-Oct. 6. 
Trenton Fair, Trenton, N. .L, Sept. .20- 
Oct. 1-4. 
Tractor demonstration. State Experi¬ 
ment Station, New Rrunswick, N. J., 
Oct. tS. 
International Milk Dealer.s, convention. 
Columbus. Ohio, Oct. 14-1.5. 
National Ice Cream Manufacturers* 
convention. Columbu.s, Ohio, Oct. 17-18. 
The National Dairy Show at Columbus. 
O., Oct. 10-10, will have a great variety 
of educational exhibits, interesting to both 
producers and con.sumers of dairy prod¬ 
ucts. 
TEN 
(or MANY) 
CASE 
Better*^ 
mcn€s 
I Weighs only 3400 
* pounds. little more 
than a team of horses. 
Low and compact with 
short wheelbase. Turns 
In 22 ft. circle. Stays 
on all fours. 
O Rated 10 H. P. on 
** drawbar, but devel¬ 
ops nearly 14 H. P. 
Rated 18 H. P. on the 
belt but delivers about 
24 H. P. This Insures 
abundant reserve power. 
O Four cylinder Case 
** valve-in-head motor. 
Removable head. Motor 
is set crosswise on 
frame, affording use of 
all straight spur gears. 
This conserves power. 
A Belt pulley mounted 
^ on the engine crank 
shaft. No gears used to 
drive It. Pulley is part 
of the tractor, not an 
extra-cost accessory. 
C AlI»traction gears are 
cut steel, enclosed 
and running in oil. No 
bevel gears, chain, worm 
or friction drive parts. 
p., Case-Sylphon Ther- 
mostat controls cool¬ 
ing system and Insures 
complete combustion of 
kerosene in the motor. 
Prevents raw fuel from 
passing by pistons and 
diluting oil in the crank 
case. 
7 Case air washer de- 
• livers clean air to 
carburetor. No grit nor 
dust gets into cylinders 
to minimize their effi¬ 
ciency and shorten their 
life. 
Q All interior motor 
parts lubricated by a 
combination pump and 
splash system. Speed 
governor, fan drive and 
magneto are dust proof 
and well oiled. 
Q Complete accessibil- 
ity. No dismantling 
necessary. Removable 
covers permit you to get 
at parts quickly. 
1 fl Hyatt Roller Bear- 
ings in rear axle, 
bull pinion shaft and 
transmission case. 
Kingston ignition and 
carburet'T. Five-piece 
radiator with a cast 
frame. Core is copper. 
Fin and tube non-clog¬ 
ging type. 
ttammammm 
0. 
.... M. 
r-jinMwiL 
■U 
r 
This On^-Piece Main Frame 
Reduces Vibration—Prevents Disalignment 
Here we picture a new tractor 
achievement — the frame of a 
Case 10-18. It is the fore-runner 
of new-day ideas in designing. ^ 
Note that this casting consti-. 
tutes a dust-proof housing for the 
rear axle, bull pinion shaft, trans-' 
mission shafts and the bearings 
for these parts. It also provides 
a base for the motor, which sets 
cross-wise. / 
This type of frame construction 
brings rigidity unattainable in a 
fabricated frame. It insures con¬ 
stant alignment of bearings,' 
shafts and gears. Owners avoid 
gear troubles. Thus we prevent 
power losses. 
-^ And we multiply strength while 
reducing weight. 
► This one-piece frame is one of 
the greatest advancements in 
tractor history. It was inevitable. 
Others are bound to follow. But 
Case is in the lead. Case offers 
you now, today, what later on 
will be adopted generally. 
► This is only one of many bet¬ 
terments, some of which are item¬ 
ized at the left. Do you know of 
any tractor offering all these su¬ 
periorities? 
r A complete description of the 
Case 10-18, with illustrations and 
specifications, will be mailed upon 
request. Write for it today. Or 
visit a Case dealer. 
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, Inc. 
(Founded 1812) 
1311 Erie Street, Racine, Wis., U. S. A. 
( 781 ) 
KEROSENE, 
TRACTORS 
