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“Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
AN ALKALINE FERTILIZER 
16% Phosphoric Acid 1% Barium Sulphide 
Rarium-rhospHate is a mixture of an alkaline salt of 
barium anil phosphate of lime. 
Phosphorus and decaying organic matter are the two 
substances which constitute the key to profitable systems of 
permanent agriculture on most normal soils of America. 
Parium-Phosphate in addition to supplying Phosphoric 
Acid in a most desirable form 
SWEETENS THE SOIL 
AND DESTROYS LNJURIOUS INSECT AND BACTERIAL PESTS 
Market Gardeners and Onion Growers find that, for this 
reason alone, Barium-Phosphate is worth more than it costs 
them. 
Used in combination with manure or plowed under with 
green crops, Rarium-l’hosphate will produce profitable crops 
and build u^. ‘;;ie fertility of your land. 
It will pay you to w'rite for our book 
“PHOSPHORUS, THE MASTER KEY TO PERMANENT AGRICULTURE** 
which describes Barium-I’hosphate and its uses. 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Inc. 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
ADDRESS INQUIRIES, FERTILIZER DEPT., GRAFTON. MASS. 
OUR TEN COMMANDMENTS. 
1. Quote actu;U market prices. 
2. Hone-st and Lioeral Grading. 
3. lUghest obtainable value.s. 
4. Give Bbipper the benefit, if doubtful in assortment. 
Clieck mailed promptly upon receipt of shipment. 
All express charges paid. 
Ktirs lield separate for approval, if requested. 
oods returned, prepaid, if valuation is not satisfactory. 
Send for our latest price li.st “.501 
^[RrTopPrice^ 
SlnplIsYburRow 
64 years of continuous growth through 
honest dealing is your guarantee that 
we pay exactly the high prices that 
we quote. We grade your furs cor¬ 
rectly. Wlien you ship us a No. 1 
skin, you get paid for a No, 1 skin, 
not for a No. 2 or a No. 3. Get all 
we facts. Illustrated trapping 
Folder and Prife List FREE. Write 
for It now. 
JOSEPH ULLMANN. Inc. 
(Established 1854 ) 
Depl. D-46—18-20-22 West COIh Street 
New York, N. Y. 
R*f€rence Any Bank Anywhere, 
Send us 
Raw Furs 
Fur-bearing animals are found in al¬ 
most every locality. Add to your in¬ 
come by trapping Mink, Skunk, Fox, 
Ccon, Squirrel, Muskrat, etc. Ship 
to us consignments of any size. 
We pay Express or Mail charges. 
Get on our mailing list for Price 
Lists. IR'e are the Largest and 
Oldest Fur Uouse in the World 
^l^villonJre 
Teres 
436 West 28th Street New York City 
SKUNK 
We pay liighest cash price fo, 
all staple furs—Skunk, Mink. 
Muskrat, Raccoon, Red Fox- 
Fancy furs a specialty, includ, 
ing Silver and Cioss Fox. 
Fisher, Marten, etc. Est. 1870. 
Our continued prompt returns and liberal policy are 
now bringing us shipments from all North America, 
Alaska to Mexico. Send for free Price List. Address 
M. J. JEWETT a SONS, REDWOOD. N. Y. Dept. 29 
Sabo Sure Catch Trap 
for fox, coon, skunk, possum, ground 
hojf, rabbit, ctc^ place in animal's 
burrow. SOLD DIkECT at factory 
prices. Write for Booklet. Aeents 
wanted, gfibo Triip Mljf. 
3116 W. 25tb Street CLEVELAND, OHIO 
Are You Getting 
Full Price Y 
izm FURS 
W E pay liberally and give you an honest 
assortment. You want more money— 
Wa want more furs—So ship at once. Our 
guarantee protects you against risk. 
We Pay, Highest Prices 
We guarantee that our prices and prompt pay¬ 
ments will please you or will return your pelts. 
Send today for price list F, shipping 
tags, and further particulais. II 
will pay you. 
Vfrec 
Louis 
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 
for our price list we are 
both losers because you want 
our high prices and we need 
your Eaw Furs. 
L. Briefner & Sons 
(Est. 1861) 
148 West 25th St., NEW YORK CITY 
Uncle bam 
Wants Your Furs 
He needs them to keep the hoys warm 
"oyer there.” Our prices are sky high. 
Will pay 5 per cent, extra on single 
shipments amounting 
to $50 or over. Sliip us 
now. Write for price list. 
Free on request. 
HARRY LEVY 
133 W. 25th St. New York 
HIGHEST PRICES 
PaidforallkindsofRaWrUrS 
1 need large quantities of all 
kinds ol furs, and it will pay 
you to get my price list. 
I especially solicit furs from 
all northern .and central 
sections. Write for my price 
list and shipping tjaes today to 
O. L. SLENKER 
P.O.Box iM-2, East Liberty, O. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Nov. 26 the main en¬ 
gineering building at Pennsylvania State 
College was destroyed by fire with a loss 
estimated at .$500,060. The college was 
left temporarily without heat, light or 
water siipply. 
Nov. 25 a Socialist gathering in New 
York City was mobbed by soldiers and 
sailors, and many wearers of red emblems 
were beaten or roughly handled. The 
meeting was held in sympathy with 
Mooney, convicted in California in con¬ 
nection with bombs thrown at a prepared¬ 
ness parade in San Francisco. Nov. 26 
another Socialist meeting in New York 
was thi’eatened by 6,000 service men, 
and everything red was discarded by the 
audience to prevent serious trouble, the 
provost marshal’s guard being called on 
to aid the police. 
A suit that will serve to test the con¬ 
stitutionality of the taking of $800,- 
000,000 worth of German property in this 
country by A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien 
Property Custodian, and the right of the 
Government to sell the properties to 
Americans whose loyalty is unquestioned 
was brought Nov. 26 in the United States 
Court by Max W. Stoehr. Stoehr, a 
naturalized citizen of German birth, sues 
as the owner of 44 shares of the capital 
stock of Stoehr & Sons, Inc., a New York 
corporation, which owns 20..5n0 shares of 
the capital stock of the Botany Worsted 
Mills. Passaic, N. .T. 
A British official in New York stated, 
Nov. 26, that more than a million Ameri¬ 
can troops had been ferried across the 
Atlantic to French and English ports in 
British steamships since America entered 
the war, and that the Aquitania of the 
Cnnard fleet had carried 42,1.50. the Mau¬ 
retania 20,075, the Camerouia 28.18.3, the 
Caronia 21.000, the Adriatic 24,521, the 
Lapland 20,7.33, the Baltic 20,9.30 and the 
Cedric^ 22,649. British ships are being 
and will be utilized to bring back to this 
port about 40,000 Yankee so'ldiers, in¬ 
cluding more than 12.000 now on the way 
aboard the Cnnarder Mauretania, the 
White Star liners Lapland and Cretic 
and the new Atlantic Transport liner 
Minnekahda. 
Documents showing propaganda meth¬ 
ods of the German-American National Al¬ 
liance, sometimes co-operating with the 
United States Brewers’ Association and 
the National Association of Commerce 
and Labor, Nov. 26 were placed in the 
record of the Senate .Tndiciary Commit¬ 
tee’s investigation of brewers’ activities. 
One of the documents dealt with the al¬ 
liance’s efforts to combat anti-Germanism 
in Texas, referred to in a report of the 
propaganda and organization committee 
of the^ alliance at the convention in San 
Francisco in 101.5. The work of organiz¬ 
ing the alliance in I^Jlinois, Ohio and Iowa 
was described in the same report, 
FARM AND GARDEN.—By a recent 
order of the Food Administration, con- 
denseries may now receive their normal 
requirements of sugar and new conden- 
series may be opened. The need of con¬ 
densed niilk abroad for the nourishment 
of the liberated nations and the Allies is 
officially reported to be extremely pre.s.s- 
ing. shortage of feed and fodder through¬ 
out Europe has resulted in serious cur¬ 
tailment in dairy production abroad. Eu¬ 
rope is expected to require butter and 
condensed milk from America in large 
quantities over a period of years. 
The annual exhibition and Winter edu¬ 
cational and business meeting of the New 
.Jersey State Poultry Association will be 
held during “Agricultural Week” in the 
Armory, Trenton, N. J., Jan. 13-17. At 
this time all agricultural associations and 
farmers of the State are invited to Tren¬ 
ton as guests of the State Board of Agri¬ 
culture, and many attractive exhibits and 
intere.sting programs have been arranged. 
The New .Jersey State Poultry Associa¬ 
tion has been foremost in the progressive 
movement for an honor show. No admis¬ 
sion is charged and no regular cash premi- 
ums are offered. As last year, however, 
special premiums in cash, merchandise 
and cups will be offered, and probably the 
greatest attraction will be Liberty Bonds, 
War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps, 
which will be placed as far as possible in 
the way of special premiums. This will 
be the championship show of the State of 
New .Jersey and competition is in ited 
from all other States. American Poultry 
Association ribbons and medals will be 
awarded. Premium lists will be sent upon 
application to Carroll H. Hoagland, 
chairman of the Show Committee, 221 
Maple Avenue, Trenton, N. J. 
The forty-second annual convention of 
the New York State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion will be held Dec. 10-12 at the Joseph 
Slocum College of Agriculture, Syracuse 
University, Syracuse, N. The manu¬ 
facturers of dairy and farm machinery 
are exerting the same interest in this con¬ 
vention as in former years, and the space 
in the exhibition hall is now all taken. 
Educational exhibits of dairy products 
will be shown in the exhibition hall by 
Syracuse L^niversitv, Cornell University, 
the Onondaga Cou^tj Farm Bureau and 
the New York State Department of Agri¬ 
culture. 
Farmers have borro\<red $139,378,000 
from the 12 Federal Farm Loan banks 
since their organization in March, 1917. 
In reporting this, Nov. 21, the Farm 
Loan Board announced that capital stock 
December 7, 1918 
of the banks, originally subscribed mainly 
by the Government, has increased from 
.$9,000 000 to $15,075,000 through addi¬ 
tional subscriptions by farm loan associa¬ 
tions an.’ that bonds amounting to .$140,- 
122,000 have been issued. The farmers 
are making their payments promptly. 
The report shows only .$86,000 in loans 
was overdue and delinquency occurred al¬ 
most entirely in sections where there had 
been crop failures. Three banks, Wichita, 
Spokane and Houston, have an actual 
surplus and the Spokane and St. Paul 
banks will begin shortly to repay the Gov¬ 
ernment for the stock originally sub¬ 
scribed. 
The American Committee for Devas¬ 
tated France has received authorization 
for its work by cable from the French 
Government. The headquarters of the 
committee are at 16 East Thirty-ninth 
Street, New York City. In a statement 
concerning its activities the committee is 
quoted in part as follows: For food pro¬ 
duction the committee will distribute 
seeds, plants, fruit trees, fei'tilizers, live 
stock, agricultural implements, etc. Farm 
laborers will be supplied in part by the 
army of America. Some of this service 
will take the form of a gift to the farmer, 
some the form of a loan to him. A lim¬ 
ited number of model chicken farms will 
he supported and also agricultural ex¬ 
perimental and demonstrating stations. 
The New .Jersey Division of the Boys’ 
Working Reserve will run a contest in the 
high schools with prizes offered by Rut¬ 
gers College. The essays will be upon 
experiences of reserve boys on farms. 
Rutgers College has offered a $400 
scholarship in agriculture to the boy who 
submits the best essay and who can com¬ 
ply with entrance conditions. The Rut¬ 
gers Club of New Brunswick also offers 
amounting to $50 for similar essays. 
WASHINGTON.—The food stimula¬ 
tion bill, with the .Tones nation-wide bone 
dry rider, which makes the entire nation 
arid from .Tune 30, 1910, until demo¬ 
bilization has been accomplished, was 
signed by tbe President Nov. 21. The 
distillation of whiskey has been stopped 
for more than a year, and the brewing of 
beer is to stop for the period of the war. 
The .Tones rider goes beyond this, how¬ 
ever. It will be effective after the procla¬ 
mation of peace, if the army is not de¬ 
mobilized. It provides that the produc¬ 
tion and sale of all alcoholic stimulants 
shall be stopped “until the conclusion of 
the pre.sent war, and thereafter until the 
termination of demobilization, the date of 
W'hich shall he determined and proclaimed 
by the President of the TJniteil States.” 
Restrictions upon the installation of 
new telephones and extension of existing 
telephone lines, which were limited on 
August 15 to such new appliances as 
would be helpful in the prosecution of the 
war, were withdrawn! Nov. 21 by Post¬ 
master General Burleson. 
Allocation of steel by the War Indus¬ 
tries Board will be discontinued Decem¬ 
ber 1. After that date purchasers will 
deal directly with the industry. Steel 
manufacturers, how'ever, will make weekly 
reports of production and shipments until 
December ,31. 
As the first step in a general compaign 
to encourage passenger travel in the 
United States on Government-controlled 
railways, Director-General McAdoo, Nov. 
26, ordered a cut in Pullman sleeper and 
tourist ticket rates. An increase in pas¬ 
senger facilities in the number of pas¬ 
senger trains and their equipment in 
many sections is to follow. Many of the 
trains cut off to meet the exigencies of 
troop transportation are to be restored. 
The cut in passenger fares is effective De¬ 
cember 1. 
OBITUARY. — William Dempster 
Hoard, ex-Governor of Wisconsin and 
founder of Hoard'k Dairyman, died at 
Port Atkinson, Wis., Nov. 22. He was 
horn at Stockbridge, N. Y., Oct. 10, 
1836, where he received a common school 
education. Going west to the new lands 
of Wisconsin in 1857, he engaged in 
farming, and m.irried Miss Agnes Eliza¬ 
beth Bragg at Lake Mills, Wis., in 1860. 
He fought for his country in the Civil 
War, serving from 1861 to 1865 in the 
Fourth Wisconsin Infantry and Fii-st 
New' York Artillery. After the war he 
entered the nursery business at Colum¬ 
bus. Wis,, hut became publisher of the 
Jeffe. son County Union, Lake Mills, in 
1.870- L.iter he moved to Port Atkinson, 
vhere 'ac established Hoard's Dairyman. 
He was one of tlu' organizers of the .Tef- 
ferson Conntv Dir'i-ymen’s Association in 
1871, also the Wisconsin Dairymen’.s As¬ 
sociation and Northwestern Dairymen’s 
Association, of which he was long presi¬ 
dent. He served a.'' president of the Farm¬ 
ers’ National Congress and National 
Dairy Union, and was widely known as 
an interesting and instructive speaker at 
agricnltural gatherings. A Republican in 
politics, he was honored with various 
State offices, and in 1889 became Gov¬ 
ernor of Wisconsin. His death is re¬ 
gretted by a wide circle of friends, and 
leaves a vacancy in many lines of agri¬ 
cultural activity. 
“Does Mrs. Gadder read the war 
news?” “Oh. yes. But I’m afraid she 
reads it rather hastily.” “Why so?” 
“She says ‘Poilu’ must be a rather com¬ 
mon family name in France, there are so 
many^ ‘Poilus’ in the French army.”— 
Birmingham Age-Herald. 
