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'Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NoTember 9, 1918 
REPUBUG 
Internal Gear Drive 
Save 
Time 
and 
Labor 
on the 
Farm 
The Internal Gear Drive de¬ 
livers 92% of the motor power 
to the wheels. We know of no 
Other drive that delivers as much. 
Farmers who own Republic Trucks 
don’t have to depend on extra teams 
to help them out when the rush of 
getting fall crops to market is on. 
Republic Trucks are a profitable 
investment on any farm. They are 
built with the extra strength and 
durability that insure their working 
for you day in and day out in any 
kind of weather. 
The Internal Gear Drive has noth¬ 
ing to do but to drive the truck. It ap¬ 
plies the power near the rim of the 
wheel and gets a big increase in pull¬ 
ing ability. The load is carried on a 
separate I-beam axle of solid forged 
steel, much lighter than any other form 
of construction and at the same time 
stronger. 
This saving in unsprung weight 
means longer life to tires and import¬ 
ant savings in gasoline and all other 
upkeep expense. 45% greater road 
clearance make these trucks travel any 
country road easily without fear of 
Stalling even in mud and snow. 
Republic trucks have been proved 
efficient in every kind of hauling. Last 
year Republic produced and sold more 
than twice eis many motor trucks as 
other maker. 
More than 1300 Republic 
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Seven Models—% ion to 5 ton. 
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Two ExceDent Vegetable Books 
By R. L.. Watts 
Vegetable Gardening.$1.75 
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Clearly written, practical, convenient for 
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BELCHER & TAYLOR 
AGRICULTURAL TOOL CO. 
Box 75, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
■ Corncobbing the Kaiser 
I am a retired chemical engineer, the 
recent purchaser of an old Mississippi 
homestead where lessons in chemistry are 
still being learned in Mother Earth’s 
laboratory. A fine old brick house on the 
place has an open fireplace in every room. 
The surface soil is an impoverished 
sandy loam with a red clay subsoil. Last 
Spring an experiment was made in in¬ 
tensive culture'of Irish potatoes. Trenches 
were dug 15 inches, deep and wide, and 
were filled with old stable manure. Two 
wagonloads of corncobs were purchased 
for .?2 from a large hogyard, w^ere burned 
during the Winter for fuel in the open 
grates of the house, and 32.40. pounds of 
a.shes ? saved. The Mississippi State 
Chemical Laboratory found 34.46 per cent 
potash in thi.s corncob. ash, so the $2 
worth of corncobs, after yielding many 
cheerful grate fires, also yielded 11.16 
pounds of potash worth doubtless 30 cents 
a pound. A little of this ash, with some 
acid phosphate, was stirred into the stable 
manure in the trenches. On Feb. 25, 
1918, 52 hills were, planted in Early 
Rose, 25 in Bliss Triumph, and 59 in 
Irish Cobbler varieties. The hills were 
15 inches apart and rows three feet apart, 
giving about 11,616 hills per acre. 
Late in May the following yields were 
obtained : . .. ... 
Max.Tield Av.Yield Yield per 
per Hill per Hill Acre Rate 
lbs. . 
lbs. 
bu. 
Irish Cobbler. 
3.30 
2.10 
434 
Bliss Triumph. 
3.30 
1.70 
352 
Early Rose... 
3.10 
1.64 
340 
Some tests made by me on local corn 
show about .2287 per cent, or .1281 lbs. 
of cob a.sh per 56-lb. bushel of shelled 
corn. This may seem trivial, but little 
by-products have made the Chicago pack¬ 
ers rich. Corncobs make a cheerful fire 
and a fine bed of coals in an open fire¬ 
place, and, in these days of scarcity of 
fuel and potash, can be utilized to 100 
per cent efficiency in the farmer’s house 
and garden. 
Incidentally, in the hope of raising 
some “pedigree potatoes,” tubers were 
saved from the best hills described, and, 
after being sprouted under a mulch of 
wet grass were planted on Aug. 10, and 
at this date, Oct. 22, are sure to give a 
crop of seed potatoes for next Spring. 
Irish potatoes now command 75c a peck 
here. m. m. g. 
Columbus, Miss. 
R. N.-Y.—We would like to know if the 
potato scab was seen on these potatoes. 
In most of our Northern soils the use of 
ashes will increase the scab. 
Countrywide Produce Conditions 
GOOD DEMAND AT FAIRLY STEADY PRICE 
RANGES. 
Apples and potatoes are still about two- 
thirds of the produce movement, apples 
leading lately. New York State has been 
a very liberal shipper of barreled Winter 
fruit, moving nearly one-third the total 
apple shipment. • Washington has fol¬ 
lowed with heavy shipments of boxed ap¬ 
ples, amounting to nearly one-fifth of the 
total apple movement. Considerably be¬ 
low the two leading States are Michigan, 
Virginia, Illinois, California and Colo- 
r.ylo. Apples are moving faster than they 
did last year from both the barrel and the 
box sections. The Middle West ships few 
apples, but is buying rather than selling. 
Prices have held very firm at .$4.25 to 
$4.50 per bbl., foV top grades, occasionally 
reaching $4.75 in the shipping sections of 
the East, and ranging $4.50 to $5.50 in 
leading city markets. These quotations 
include mostly Baldwins, Greenings and 
Yorks. Fancy table kinds sell somewhat 
higher, while Ben Davis sell about 75c 
below other standard kinds. Northwest¬ 
ern boxed apples sell at about $2 per box 
in shipping sections and around $3 in 
leading city markets. A great deal of 
Western fruit is being sold by the 100 
lbs., at not much above the range in the 
East, or $1.85 to $2.25 in Colorado and 
Washington, compared with $1.50 to $1.80 
at Rochester, N. Y. 
I‘otatoes are moving along at nearly 
steady prices, ranging $1.25 to $1.60 per 
100 lbs., sacked, in the Far West; $1.60 
to .$1.90, sacked, in the Lake region, and 
around $2 in bulk in the East. These are 
prices at shipping .stations. City markets 
range 50 to 60c above the general levels 
in the shipping sections from which the 
supplies are sent. 
DULLNESS IN ONION MARKET, 
Onions are the most discouraging fea¬ 
ture of the leading lines of produce. 
Growers appear anxious to sell all at 
once, Avhile buyers, remembering last 
year’s losing experience, are reluctant to 
take on supplies liberally for storage. Tbe 
crop is turning out large and fair to good 
quality everywhere, aud the result of 
the.se general conditions is a level of 
prices far below that, of last year. Prices 
range around $1.50 per 100 lbs. in pro¬ 
ducing sections, and not much above that 
level in leading city markets. Si]pi)lies 
are reported sold for storage in Western 
New York around $1 per 100 lbs. Stock 
of low grade appears to be nearly un¬ 
salable in some sections. Government 
agencies are beginning quite a campaign 
to advertiser the desirability of using on¬ 
ions more freely. The market is acting 
better than it did last month, tending to 
improve in some sections and holding 
about steady elsewhere. 
SUPPLY OF CABBAGE EXCESSIVE. 
Cabbage is also reported hard to sell 
in many sections; some of it may not be 
shipped at all owing to low prices and 
labor scarcity. Growers in Western New 
York have been getting about $8 per ton 
for common varieties. Kraut factories 
have been interrupted by illness of work¬ 
men during the epidemic. City whole¬ 
sale prices in the Ea.st range $15 to $25 
per ton,, compared with $30 to $35 early 
in November. 
Michigan celery started the season at 
mostly $1 to $1.50 per case in city mar¬ 
kets, and New Golden Heart around $3. 
The large varieties of cranberries are be¬ 
ginning distribution in various markets 
and prices exceeded $10 per bbl. in some 
cities, but general range of cranberries 
was $7 to $9.50. Concord grapes have 
been selling about double the range pre¬ 
vailing in early November last year. 
BEANS IN WEAK POSITION. 
The field bean situation appears a little 
doubtful, with a large crop and no pros¬ 
pect of much buying from Government 
sources at least for the present. It ap¬ 
pears that more beans were bought last 
year than could be used or sold promptly, 
and this surplus has stood in the way of 
new buying. Prices are still somewhat 
unsettled in the East; in the West the 
range is considerably below that of last 
year in the early part of the season. 
o. B. F. 
Sizing up the Produce Markets 
HOW THE PRICES AND CONDITIONS MAY 
GUIDE THE PRODUCER AND SHIPPER. 
A careful student of prices and market 
conditions can learn to feel the probable 
trend of events almost without effort. He 
notes, for instance, heavy shipments aud 
the gradual sagging away of prices in a 
crop not quickly perishable, like potatoes 
or onions, and, if it is a year of heavy 
production, he suspects a general decline. 
On the other hand, he notes scanty sup¬ 
plies from one shipping section after an¬ 
other, as the shipping sea.sons proceed, 
and notes perhaps that the demand ap¬ 
pears to be unusually active; conditions 
that occurred with the strawberry crop 
the past season, partly because of the 
scarcity of fruit of all kinds. In such 
cases, he naturally looks for a good mar¬ 
ket for the product of sections shipping 
later in the season. 
Experienced handlers of produce often 
acquire, in perceiving the trend of the 
market, a facility which is quite surpris¬ 
ing to the average reader of market in¬ 
formation, Often the Summer season will 
set the pace for the Pall and Winter by 
the tone of the demand, its degree of ac¬ 
tivity or sluggishness, and the manner in 
which prices slowlj' or promptly respond 
in the face of variations in supply, 
BEST STOCK IS THE MARKET GUIDE. 
Varieties and grades must be taken into 
account in judging market conditions. 
Usually the prices of choice grades of 
leading classes aud varieties constitute 
the best indications of the market. Thus, 
No. 1 Baldwin apples control most large 
Eastern apple markets during the main 
apple season, and the Ben Davis holds 
a similar position in Middle Western and 
Southwestern markets, even though other 
kinds may at times sell higher or ap¬ 
parently hold values better. The leading 
kinds and grades, moving actively every 
day in large amounts, are sure to feel 
changes in market conditions. The same 
is true of the standard round white varie¬ 
ties of potatoes, No. 1 grade. The price 
of leading varieties of all products vary 
with the season and with the section 
which may be shipping most of the supply 
at ‘the time. They vary relatively in 
price from season to season, owing to 
variations in quality often caused by fa¬ 
vorable or unfavorable weather conditidns. 
Yet they continue to indicate the market 
conditions best because of their continuous 
active buying and selling movement. Mar¬ 
ket information must be con.«!idered also 
in connection with general conditions of 
wages, employment and business activity 
that prevail at the time. g. b. f. 
Coming Farmer Meetings 
Southern Land Congress, Savannah, 
Ga., Nov. 11-22. 
Second Patriotic Sheep Meeting, exhi¬ 
bition and sale. New York State Agricul¬ 
tural Society, Albany Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, State Department of Farms and 
Markets and State Food Commission, Al¬ 
bany, N. Y., Nov. 12-14. 
National Grange, annual meeting, Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y., Nov. 23, 
American Royal Live.stock 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.«ition and Ohio State Apple Show, To¬ 
ledo, O., Dee. 6-14. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, an¬ 
nual meeting, Toledo, O., Dec, 6. 
Wisconsin Cheese Makers’ Association, 
Auditorium, Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. ^10, 
1919. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and New York State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association, joint meeting, Rochester, 
N. Y., Jan. 12, 1919. 
