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©6c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Sabo Sure Catch Trap 
for fox. coon, skunk, possum, srround 
hoar, rabbit, etc., place in animnl’a 
burrow. SOLD DIRKCT at factory 
price. Write for Booklet. Aironta 
wanted. Habo Trap Mfff. 
3110 W. 25th Strtel CUVELANO, OHIO 
Two Excellent Vegetable Books 
By R. L. Watts 
Vegetable Gardening.$1.75 
Vegetable Forcing.2.00 
For sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St., New York 
THE SELF-OILING WINDMILL 
has become so popular in its first three years that 
thousands have been called for to replace, on their 
old towers, other makes of mills, and to_ replace, at 
small cost, the gearing of the earlier ^ 
Aermotors, making them self-oil-, 
ing. Its enclosed motors 
keeps in the oil and! 
keeps out dust andl 
rain.The Splash Oilingl 
System constantly^ , 
floods every bearing with oil pre-^ 
venting wear and enabling the* 
mill to pump in the lightest breezed 
The oil supply is renewed once a year. 
Double Gears are used, each canyiiig half the load 
We make Gasoline Engines, Pumps, Tanks, 
Water Supply Goods and Steel Frame Saws. 
Write AERMOTOR CO.. 2500 Twelfth SL. Chicaso 
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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 
walls. They are made in all sizes to fit every 
model and type of engine, automobile, tractor, 
etc.—every size accurately gauged to fit the 
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 size^ assortments are carried by more 
than 300 jobbing and supply houses all over 
the country from which you can be quickly 
supplied. Over 2,000 unusual sizes and over- 
sizes— all widths and diameters — are kept 
constantly on hand at the factory ready for 
prompt shipment anywhere. 
McQUAY-NOPRIS 
RINGS 
A special ring for 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. 
Copyrisrht 1917, McQuay>Korrjs Mffir. Co, 
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Country-wide Produce Situation 
Movomont of potatoes is now under 
way from all .sections, and the volume 
seems to be near the high point which 
last sea.son reached nearly (>,000 cars dur¬ 
ing the third week of (October. The ship¬ 
ping .season seems to be somewhat earlier 
this season throughout the country. 
HEAVY SUPPLIES OF POTATOES. 
The estimated crop is 30 to 15 per 
cent le.ss than last year, but so far fully 
as many potatoes are being shipped. 
Apart from the earliness of the season 
there is no disposition so far to hold for 
liigh prices as .so many people tried to do 
last year, and there is no car shortage. 
I'he more rapid and steady the movement 
to market the better the prospect for 
handling the crop without repeating last 
year’s slump in prices. The markets are 
holding up well under the heavy supplies. 
Prices are higher than last year at this 
time, when Minnesota potatoes were 
whole.saling on a basis of .$3 per 100 lbs., 
eompared with about .$2.50 this year, and 
Maine potatoes were then selling at .$2,75 
per bbl., bulk, in shipping sections, while 
they are selling at $.‘{.25 now. Last year 
lirices began to decline early in November, 
right after the shipping movement had 
reached its height. Demand seems to be 
good, and the army is taking more and 
more each month. 
SAGGING MARKET FOR ONIONS. 
(^)inons have been dragging. Acreage 
was lighter this year, but the good gen¬ 
eral yield per acre makes the supply 
abundant. Every effort will need to be 
made to increase the demand if the crop 
is to be taken at fair places. Values are 
now wt'll below $2 per 300 lb.s., in most 
producing sections, 
CAURAGE SHIPPERS HESITATING, 
Prices of cabbage have kept on declin¬ 
ing both east and west, ranging from $3.5 
))<‘r ton at shi{)])ing stations in Western 
New York to $20 per ton in Colorado, 
and few Northern city markets quote over 
$2.5 per ton for large lots. Supply seems 
liberal everywhere, hut carlot shipments 
are lighter, which suggests that growers 
are not very willing to sell at tliese prices, 
at a level only a little higher than prevails 
at the kraut factories. 
FRUIT MARKE'rS ACTIVE AND STEADY. 
Aiiides are higher than last year all 
through the country. Top grades of the 
early kinds range .$4 to .$5 of) per bbl., in 
producing sections, and $5 to $7 in the 
city markets. Advance sales of Winter 
kinds in producing sections range from 
$2.25 for Pen Davis in Virginia to ,$G 
for Greenings, etc., in Michigan. Prices 
are higher in the Middle West than in the 
East. Fancy Northwestern boxed apples 
have been selling around .$2 at shipping 
stations and nearer .$2 in city markets. ^ 
The peach-shipping season is narrowing 
doAvn to New York State chiefly. The 
crop was ne.arly a failure in New England 
and the Middle West. T.ast year the 
heaviest shipping season was early in Oc¬ 
tober. hut this year, owing to the scarcity 
of Northern peaches, the supply has been 
rather light ever since the big (feorgi.a 
crop stopped coming. Prices lately have 
held around $2 i)er hu. at shij)i)ing points 
and have ranged .$2 to .$4 in the large 
wholesale markets. The muskmelon sea¬ 
son is about over, only Colorado still 
shipping any large amount. Most ar¬ 
rivals are of uncertain (piality and prices 
have ranged anywhere from ,$3.50 to .$4 
per large crate. (4rapes have been moving 
2,00 cars lau- day, luit prices are holding 
well. Concords from New York and 
5Iichigan ranged 20 ^to 40c per 4-qt. 
basket in wholesale city markets. 
G. R. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOIMERTIC.—Six (Government inspec¬ 
tors, one a Taentenant in the Army (Quar¬ 
termaster’s Department, and four factory 
foremen, were arrested Sept. 30 on war¬ 
rants charging them with complicity in a 
conspiracy to defraud the Government at 
the Long Island (’ity i>lant of Kosenwasser 
Bros., Inc., manufacturers of shoes, leather 
jackets for aviators and canvas leggings. 
Agents of the Department of .Tustice who 
made the an-ests held warrants for T.eo 
Kosenwasser, president of ^ Kosenwasser 
Itros., and Morris Itosenwasser, his 
brother. Kosenwasser Bros, have (Jovern- 
ment contracts amounting to $0,000,000. 
’Phe firm has been doing government work 
since the Spanish-Ameriean war. It has 
been in difficulties before. An investiga¬ 
tion into charges that it was substituting 
paper for leather in anny shoes and de¬ 
ceiving inspection by moans of forged 
stamps, was begun in 3037 and extended 
into this year. No prosecutions followed 
these charges and the company has been 
receiving now contracts. It is said that 
the frauds consisted largely of skimped 
and defective materials. 
The .statement that browing interests 
had' contributed .$.275,000 to finance a 
newspaper to work their propaganda has 
caused an inquiry into the purchase of 
the Washington Times l)y AHhnr liris- 
hane, long os 80 ciat(*d with William R. 
llearst. It was shown that the amount 
named was coiitrihuted by brewers for the 
purchase of the Times. Among docu¬ 
ments given out by Alien Propert.v Cu.sto- 
dian Palmer was a letter written by a 
New York lawyer named Konta to Dr. 
Bernhard Deimherg in March. 3f)15, sug¬ 
gesting that the brewers “with their al¬ 
Octobor 5, ini« 
most illimitable capital” might be inter¬ 
ested in the publication of a paper which 
Would not he “hostile to the i)er.sonai lib¬ 
erty of the citizen who drinks in modera¬ 
tion what he pleases.” Mr. Konta ojK'ned 
his letter with the flat statement that it 
concerned the advisability of i)urchasing 
“a daily paper in this country in the inter¬ 
ests of Germany and the German (Jovern- 
ment.” Other letters written by Konta to 
Dr. Heinrich Albert, head of the (German 
spy system in this country, are in the 
hands of the Department of Justice. 
All restrictions applying to male enemy 
aliens will affect women enemy aliens be¬ 
ginning at midnight October 5. When 
the enemy alien regulations affecting men 
were extended to women the latter were 
.specifically exempted from the dutv of 
complying with the section that forbade 
enemy aliens to be within prohibited areas 
without a permit. This exemption has 
been ordered cancelled. Prohibited areas 
are those within a half-mile radius of 
forts, camj)s. arsenals, navy yards, fac¬ 
tories manufacturing munitions and .sim¬ 
ilar places. The registration affects •30,00(1 
women. Scores of big office buildings 
are within prohibited areas. 
WASHINGTON.—Alfred H. Smith, 
regional director of railways, I’cported to 
Direetor-(General ^fcAdoo in Washington 
Sept. 30 estimated annual savings in his 
de))artment of $3S,22,5,()0-1 through the co¬ 
ordination of facilities since the railrodas 
were taken over by the Government. 
Malting of grain for the purpo.se of 
brewing beer or near-beer is prohibited 
by an order issued Sept. 21 by the Fooil 
Administration. Malting for the purpose 
of manufacturing yeast, vinegar, cereal 
breakfast foods, malt extract and other 
such products, will be permitted, the Food 
Administration .states, hut no grain shall 
be malted for those purposes until actual 
sales have been made. Maltsters are now 
permitted to purcha.se grain to cover 
malt of this character. 
Without the provi.sion increasing the 
government guaranteed price of wheat 
from $2.20 a bushel which once caused 
its veto by President Wilson, the agricul¬ 
tural appropriation bill, canning $27,- 
SOO.OOO was jmssed Sept. 21 by the 
House. The hill provides for expenses 
during the jiresent fi.scal year of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, which, siiwe 
.Inly 3. has been paying its debts under a 
resolution continuing the last year appro¬ 
priations. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Ruling on 
the claim of a farmer who had three sis¬ 
ters, .John Callahan, at Topeka, Kan., 
Government draft inspector, held that 
men on farms well provided with feminine 
workers are not to he exempted on agri¬ 
cultural grounds. Callahan decided the 
women were capable of running the farm, 
and the man was placed in Class 1. 
At the tenth convention of the Inter¬ 
national Association of Game and Fish 
Commissioncr.s in New York, re.solutions 
were adopted asking the President to urge 
Mexico and Central and South American 
states to join in a treaty to protect mi¬ 
gratory birds; asking Gongross for $!)()0.- 
()flO to enforce the migratory bird act; 
urging the National Government that suit¬ 
able tracts of land in every State in the 
Union be acqinred by purchase, whei-c 
necessary, to he set aside and devoted to 
I'cturncd injured soldiers and sailors for 
operation by them as game farms. All 
the commissioners were urged to plant 
black walnuts this Fall and for 30 years, 
to aid the Federal Government. 
A joint meeting of the National and 
Northern Nut Growei-s’ As.sociations will 
he held at Albany, Ga., Getober 20-23- 
Nov. 3. There will he a large exhibit of 
A’arietics and machines for cleaning, grad¬ 
ing and cracking nuts, many well-known 
speaki'rs will addre.ss the meeting, and 
the members will have an opportunity to 
visit a number of commercial pecan 
grov'os. 
Following the practice of past years, a 
two-day field meeting and poultry confer¬ 
ence will be held at the Vineland Intenia- 
tional Fgg-laying and Rrecding Contest, 
at Vineland. N. .1.. on October 31 and 12. 
T'lvcry iioultry raiser in the country is 
cordially invited to attend. The inspec¬ 
tion of the contest and the educational 
lirogram provided will he especially valu¬ 
able and interesting. AVar-time problems 
will occupy much of the discus.sioii. Vine- 
land is located in Cumberland County, 
Now Jersey, and is easily reached by the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. It is akso reached 
by the Central Railroad of New .lersey 
via AVinslow Junction. A'inolaiid is with¬ 
in easy automobile distance from most 
parts of New .Jersey and Eastern Penn¬ 
sylvania and Delaware, and it is expected, 
its in the past, that many will come by 
auto. 
Energetic protests against the fixing of 
prices by the Government on standard 
grades of cotton wore voiced at AVashing- 
fon, September 24, by representatives of 
the agricultural interests of the Southern 
States. The delegation which conferred 
with members of (’ongress and officials of 
the AA'^ar Industries Board expressed a 
willingness to meet any war measure of 
the (Government, hut insisted that fixed 
prices on cotton are not in the nature of 
war measures or made necessary by any 
existing war emergency. 
Ex-State Senator George AV. F. Gaunt, 
a member of the Now Jersey State High¬ 
ways Commis.sion and the State Board of 
Agriculture, and formerly IMaster of the 
New Jersey State (Grange, died Septem¬ 
ber 24 at his home in Alullica Mills as 
the result of injuries he received as a vol¬ 
unteer fireman in December, 1910. 
