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MR. BUSINESS FARMER 
Grasp This Money 
Making Opportunity 
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Coal is going to be higher and hard to 
'w' oI)iain in many cases at any price. 
Jr This means a big market for ivood. 
^ Kvery Imsiness farmer should now 
j_ ... dean up all the salable firewood he 
^ f^ttdy for the big demand 
^ // that is coming and the way to do this 
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Lily and 
Primrose 
XyEVER buy 
cream 
separator in a hurry. 
Your reason for buying is 
not so much to get a cream 
separator, as to get all the 
cream from your milk, all 
ike time. It takes time to 
pick that kind of a machine 
out of the many on the market. 
Send to reputable firms for catalogues, and study 
them carefully. See which machine requires the 
fewest and simplest adjustments; which has the best 
oiling system; which is most sanitary and_^ most 
easily cleaned; which is so well made that it will 
undoubtedly do good work for a long time. Go into 
details, and pick the best two or three of the lot. 
Then ask for skimming demonstrations to deter¬ 
mine how little cream is left in the skim milk. This 
is important, because the wrong machine can waste 
more cream than it is worth, while the right one 
will put money in your pocket every time you 
use it. 
When you are through you will find that you 
have bought a Lily or a Primrose Cream Separator 
because the Lily and Primrose will prove to be first 
on all these counts. We will send catalogues on 
request, leaving the final decision to your judg- 
Crops and Farm News 
The potato crop is about average here, 
with the price about $1.50 for go^ ones. 
Oats a big crop. Corn good where the 
stand is normal. Many pieces badly 
eaten by worms last Spring. More small 
pieces of wheat in this section than for 
years before, several being prepared for 
seeding to Winter wheat. Most of the 
milk sold to Hire’s condensery. Butter, 
50 to 55c per lb.; eggs, 55 to 58c per 
doz.: poultry from 25 to 35c per lb. Hay, 
$14 to $15 per ton. V. E. W. 
Chautauqua Co., N. T. 
The farmers of Morris County have put 
forth a great effort to raise an abundance 
of food during this season and have really 
produced more than last year. This coun¬ 
ty has always been more active in old- 
fashioned farming and dairying, but many 
have started into the raising of truck and 
are using more machinery and applying 
new methods. Some farmers retail their 
produce in the towns, but those who raise 
large amounts take it by auto truck to 
Newark, which is an excellent market, 
being surrounded by many towns and 
small cities. There is a good demand for 
everything, and the prices seem to be 
good, but have not increased in ratio to 
what farmers must pay for fertilizer, 
seeds and help. Corn, $1.50 to $3 per 
cwt.; tomatoes, 50c to $1 per crate; pep¬ 
pers, $2 50 per bbl.; eggplants, $2.50 to 
$,3.50; Summer squash, $1 per bbl.; cu¬ 
cumbers, $4 to $5 per bbl.; potatoes, $4 
to $5 per bbl.; cabbage, $2 per bbl.; 
muskmelons, ,$2 per hamper. The great¬ 
est drawback to production is the scarcity 
of efficient help. Our old Polish men, 
who were able-bodied and usually good, 
have gone to work in the rolling mills 
and ammunition factories, and to France. 
We have used many high school boys, and 
they have done the best they could, but 
must now go back to school. The Wom¬ 
an’s Land Army has aided materially this 
Summer to solve the labor problem, most 
of the girls being earnest in their effort 
to help, and they deserve much credit. 
At the present time these girls are also 
going back to school, and there seem to be 
no new recruits. We cannot just see how 
all the crops are to be gathered this Fall, 
but will trust to luck and hope for the 
best, which seems to be the thinx for 
farmers to do, and really will help if they 
only keep on digging and working, which 
they also have a habit of doing. Last 
Fall we used to get all the school children 
together we could for Saturdays, and 
even then lost a good deal of stuff on 
account of the hard and continued cold 
weather coming so early. We shall try 
to do better this season. J. W. n. 
Morris Co., N. J. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
D'OIMESTIC.—Col. IT. .T. Ilirsch and 
Lieut. Samuel Grass of the Quarterma.ster 
Corps; Morris and Leo Ilosenwasser, of¬ 
ficials of Rosenwasser Bros., Inc., and 
twelve Government inspectors and em¬ 
ployees of the Rosenwasser plant at Long 
Island City, N. Y., were indicted Oct. 3 
by a Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyn on 
charges of conspiracy to defraud the Gov¬ 
ernment. A true bill also was returned 
agaiinst the Rosenwasser corporation. 
Twenty munition plant workers were 
killed at Bedford, O., Oct. 3, when a 
Pennsylvania passenger train plowed 
through about' 50 men during a fog. 
Twenty-eight others were injured, three 
probably fatally. 
Many tons of TNT used in loading 
shells of the largest calibre for the United 
States Government, exploded Oct. 4 at 
the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, 
at Morgan’s Station, N. .L, near South 
Amboy, rocking the Jersey coast and caus¬ 
ing a loss of life estimated at 64. The 
property loss is put at $25,000,000, and 
many people are injured. The plant is 
said to be the largest shell-loading insti¬ 
tution in the world. Follo\ving the first 
explosion, building after building of the 
group that covered many acres caught 
fire and detonation after detonation fol¬ 
lowed with the effect of many heavy bat¬ 
teries in full action on a battlefront. All 
the surrounding country, including New 
York city, felt the sei-ies of explosions, 
which continued for 18 hours after the 
first shock. South Amboy and Perth Am¬ 
boy suffered heavy damage. The fire and 
the series of blasts destroyed 324 of the 
700 buildings of the plant, which covered 
an area of about twelve square miles. 
The Atlantic Division of the American 
Red Cross began Oct. 7 a survey of the 
explosion-shattered towns of Morgan and 
South Amboy. Following this, when it 
has been determined which of the battered 
buildings are worth saving, the organiza¬ 
tion will embark on reconstruction work 
similar to that which it is now conduct¬ 
ing in the reconquered districts of France 
and Belgium. Many of the homes lost by 
residents of the two towns were not cov¬ 
ered by insurance against destruction by 
explosion. 
The Government’s order, extending the 
restrictions ag"'ust enemy aliens to 
women, and fc .bidding the latter to_ ap¬ 
proach or he found in certain restricted 
zones, ehiefiy along the waterfront, went 
into effect Oct. 7. The order prohibits 
enemy alien women from going within 
half a mile of any Federal or State camp, 
fort, arsenal, aircraft station, Goveru- 
Oetober 19, 1918 
tneht OT naval vessel, navy yard, factory 
or workshop for the manufacture of mu¬ 
nitions or any other product for the use 
of the army or navy. 
Three companies that import Sumatra 
leaf tobacco and fourteen individuals con¬ 
nected with them were indicted by a Fed¬ 
eral Grand Jury at New York Oct. 7 on 
charges of conspiring to violate the anti¬ 
trust and tariff laws. The defendants are 
accused of having acquired a monopoly of 
all the 1916 and 1917 crops shipped to 
the United States. Sumatra leaf tobacco 
is used to wi’ap nearly one-half of the 
cigars made in the United States each 
year. 
One man was killed, two women and a 
man were probably fatally injured and 
eleven other persons were badly hurt in 
New York city Oct. 8, when a north¬ 
bound Second Avenue express train 
crashed into a stalled Third Avenue local 
express on the elevated structure in Third 
Avenue at 187th Street, The Bronx. 
A former member of the Prussian Gre¬ 
nadiers and an American girl who ha.s 
sung in cabarets were held by Federal 
Commissioner Stanton in Hoboken Oct. 8 
on^ a charge of having given intoxicating 
drink to officers of the army and navy. 
It was suggested in the testimony that the 
sinking of an American transport may 
have been accomplished through informa¬ 
tion supplied the Pru-ssian by a naval 
petty officer in his cups. 
IVASIIINGTON.—Government inspec- 
tor.s of aeroplane work will back their 
judgment with their lives hereafter. Ma¬ 
jor General William L. Kenly, Director 
of Military Aeronautics, having issued 
orders requiring them to make the first 
trip in each machine they pass. The or¬ 
ders were issued with a view to decreas¬ 
ing the fatalities caused by flaws and 
poor workmanship. The commanding of¬ 
ficer of the flying school at Fort Sill, Ok¬ 
lahoma, recently directed that mecha¬ 
nicians in charge of the aeroplanes make 
a flight at least once a week, and the same 
rule applies there in the I’epair depart¬ 
ment. the chief of the mechanicians re¬ 
sponsible for the repairs on any machine 
being the first to fly in it Avheu the job 
is done. 
To meet the big demand for small coins 
a bill increasing the minor coin fund of 
the T’nited States Mint from $200,000 to 
$•100,000 was passed Oct. 4 by the House 
and sent to the Senate. 
Charges that evidence in the possession 
of the Federal Di.strict Attorney General 
of Texas would .show that the brewers 
have attempted to subsidize and control 
newspapers and magazines and to dom¬ 
inate labor organizations were made Oct. 
8 in a supplementary memorandum sent 
to the Brishane-Brewers committee by 
Senator Wesley L. .Tones of Washington. 
It was further charged that the brewers 
have contributed large sums of money in 
political campaigns and have exacted 
jiromises of support in return for this 
financial aid, and have used the boycott 
against business interests which have op¬ 
posed the liquor traffic. In the State of 
Texas, it was charged, the brewers have 
expended large sums of money in pay¬ 
ment of voters’ poll taxes in violation of 
law, and have similarly spent additional 
sums to control State and Federal elec¬ 
tions. 
Huge increases iu the artillery pro¬ 
gramme have been decided on by the 
Ordnance Department, which asked the 
House Appropriations Committee Oct. 8 
to add $1.100!()00,000 to its estimates of 
$2,667.(KIO.OOO to carry out its part of 
the enlarged armv programme, making a 
total of $3,767,000,000. The War De- 
l)artment has decided to provide more big 
guns for each of the eighty divisions that 
America expects to have in France next 
year. 
FAR^I AND GARDEN—The Now 
.Tersey State Horticultural Society will 
hold its forty-fourth annual convention at 
Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 2-4. 
The Western New York Horticultural 
Society and New York State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association will hold a joint meeting 
at Rochester, N. .1., Jan. 12, 1919. 
The National Farmers’ Exposition and 
Ohio Apple Show will he held jointly at 
Terminal Auditorium. Toledo, O., Dec. 
6-14. A number of State societies will 
meet at Toledo during the Exposition, 
Coming Farmer Meetings 
International Soil Products Exposition, 
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 16-26. 
The National Dairy Show at Columbus, 
Ohio, Oct. 10-19; will have a great va¬ 
riety of educatioual exhibits, interesting 
to both producers and consumers of dairy 
products. 
National and Northern Nut Growers’ 
Associations, joint meeting, Albany, Ga., 
Oct. 30-Nov. 1. 
Mid-West Horticultural Exposition, 
Des Moines. Iowa, Nov. 5-8. 
National Grange, annual meeting, Syi’a- 
cuse, N. Y., Nov. 13. 
American Royal Livestock Show, Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo., Nov. 16-23. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Atlantic City, N. J., 
Dec. 2-4. 
Fifth Annual National Farmers’ Ex- 
po.sitiou and Ohio State Apple Show, To¬ 
ledo. O., Dec. 6-14. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, an¬ 
nual meeting. Toledo, O.. Dee. 6. 
Western New Y^ork Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and New York State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association, joint meeting, Rochester, 
N. Y., Jan. 12, 1919. 
