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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 1, 1910 
Be not too late —Siiakspere 
TooJOate! 
Sad words those —“Too Late ”—for they always emphasize 
what might have been and should have been but was not—especially 
in life-insurance. 
In March, 1915, a man living in Florida wrote to the Postal 
Life Insurance Company for insurance-information, which was 
promptly forwarded. 
As he did not reply, other letters with printed matter were 
sent suggesting that he protect his family by taking out a policy 
even though a small one. He put it off. 
Finally, in October, 1918, the Company wrote him and inclosed 
an interesting booklet entitled : “How Much Insurance Ought 
I To Carry?” Then, after more than three years, an answer 
came—not from him but from his wife, who wrote : 
“Your letters and your interest in my husband’s 
insurance appreciated. He died one week a S° f rom 
pneumonia without insurance and leaving two children.’’ 
Like most husbands he doubtless intended to take out a policy, but like 
many careless ones, he put it off until too late. 
It was too late to.protect his family after he was dead, or even after he 
was sick. There was a time he could have done it quickly and at little cost, 
but he waited until too late. 
As the cost increases with each year’s advance in age,the time for every 
one to insure is now, and in a company which stands for safety, service and 
saving — the 
Postal Life. 
o- 
To find out 
how easy it is 
and how little it 
costs, just drop a 
line to the Com¬ 
pany, mention¬ 
ing The Rural 
N e vj-Y o r k er, 
giving (a) your 
exact age (b)your 
occupation. In¬ 
surance particu- 
1 a r s will be 
promptly sent by 
mail. Address, 
Postal Life 
Insurance Company 
WM. R. MALONE, Prcsiden, 
511 Fifth Avenue 
Comer 43rd Street 
New York 
Strong Postal Points 
First: Old-line, legal-reserve 
insurance —not fraternal or 
assessment. 
Second : Standard policy re¬ 
serves. Resources, 53,000.000. 
Insurance in force, 540,000,000. 
Third: dividends guar¬ 
anteed in your Policy and the 
usual contingent dividends paid 
as earned. 
Fourth: Standard policy pro¬ 
visions. approved by the New 
York State Insurance Depart¬ 
ment. 
Fifth: Operates under strict 
New York State requirements 
and subject to the United 
States postal authorities. 
Sixth: High medical stand¬ 
ards in the selection of risks. 
Seventh: Policyholders’ 
Health Bureau provides one 
free medical examination each 
year, if desired. 
C-O 
bu. of 70 lbs.: 
fat, 68c lb.; 
clover, baled. 
Up here in the Adirondacks we do not 
raise much to sell, just what potatoes 
and vegetables we use. Potatoes are .$2 
per bu.; oats, $1.10. They come from 
outside. There is but little grain raised 
here, as it is too much in the mountains. 
Hamilton Co., N. Y. B. F. n. 
Creamery butter, 92c, store price, 
freight deducted. Milk at cheese factory 
5Qe less than League price. Eggs, 5oe; 
were 60 and 70c. Corn, carted in 17 
miles from railroad, $1.88 per bu.; union 
grain milk feed. $2.70 retail; oats, 9Se. 
Farmers want $20 per ton for any surplus 
hay they have. Dressed pork, 18c. 
Greene Co., N. Y. R. P. s. 
This is a grain farming country prin¬ 
cipally, although some dairying is done. 
The milk either goes to St. Louis or the 
farmers skim on the farm and sell the 
butterfat. Grade Holsteins coming fresh 
sell for from $125 to $175; common farm 
work horses from $60 to $150, according 
to age and quality, but slow sale and 
little or no demand. Hogs, fat. around 
$17.50 per cwt.; veals, 15c per lb.; hens, 
24c lb.; eggs, 5Sc doz. Corn, $1.60 per 
; oats, 80c per liu.; butter¬ 
milk, $4 per cwt. Good 
$20 per ton ; Timothy, $22 
to $25 per ton. There was a large acre¬ 
age of wheat sown, probably double the 
acreage of 1914, and it is in excellent 
condition at present. No trace of fly or 
winter-killing to date. Corn was a good 
crop on the low ground, but the hill corn 
was a failure owing to drought and hot 
winds. Some farmers are buying trac¬ 
tors. but most of them rely on the good 
old Missouri mule, and mules bring good 
prices, from $450 to $600 per span. All 
farm machinery high and sells in the 
farm sale rings readily at far more than 
the owners paid for it several years ago. 
Labor is scarce and hard to find. Wages 
round $40 per month and board for single 
men. Good many hogs being fed and 
more Fall pigs farrowed last Fall than 
for several years. Very little beef being 
fed. Weather mild and very little cold 
weather to date. H. n. n. 
Lincoln Co., Mo. 
We reside in the famous dairy county 
of Delaware, not many crops raised for 
market. The League is very strong here. 
They have just built the largest plant in 
the State at Arkville, eight miles from 
here. They have several trucks and take 
in milk for 20 miles around, over S00 
cans some days. The local dealer charges 
12c per qt. Hogs, dressed, 22c; beef. 17 
to 18c. Poultry, live. 30c. llay. $16. 
Eggs, 70c; maple syrup. $2 gal. Wages, 
$2 to $3 and board. Stove wood, $3.50 
per cord; coal. $11. C. A. II. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
This district is not very much of a 
farming center. Most of us farm to feed 
ourselves, potatoes, cabbage, beans and 
green fodder. We have one truck farmer 
who sells his produce in Newark, N. ,T. 
He with two others raised large crops of 
potatoes, for which they received $2 per 
bn. They sold early in the Fall. 
Morris Co., N. J. J. b. b. 
Do you raise Corn ? 
Our book “Corn: The 
Foundation of Prof¬ 
itable Fam¬ 
ing” will 
help you. 
Send for 
a copy. 
Will You Help 
Feed the Home Folks? 
Potatoes: A Money 
Crop ” is a worth¬ 
while farm book 
for all potato 
growers. Ask 
for your 
c-py- 
Total is not far from double the 
at corresponding time last year. 
In the six New England States, New York, New Jer¬ 
sey and Pennsylvania there are almost thirty million 
people to be fed. Over thirty per cent of the total popula¬ 
tion of the United States occupies less than 8 % of its area. In 
addition to all of the wheat produced on these Eastern farms we im¬ 
ported over sixteen million bushels, besides thousands of tons of meat 
and other supplies. 
Last winter’s terrible weather paralyzed traffic and put us all on food 
and fuel rations. We realized then that the time had come when we must 
feed ourselves. The war taught England the same wholesome lesson; 
she increased her grain production four-fold and outwitted the German 
submarines. 
E. Frank Coe’s Fertilizers 
will help you do your share to feed the home folks. 
Mr. Hoover needs over twenty million tons to feed starving Europe. 
The tremendous demand for foodstuffs of every kind will insure fair prices, 
to the farmers. The higher freight rates now effective protect the eastern 
producer from Western competition. Unusual opportunities await the in¬ 
tensive farmer. Planting time will soon be here and the man who 
delays ordering his fertilizer is making a serious mistake. 
Write today for the name of our nearest local agent and 
ask for our new crop books. They will be sent free if 
you mention this paper. 
Address Crop Book Department 
The Coe-Mortimer Company 
markets ranges from $20 to $40 per ton 
in hulk. 
BRISK APPLE MARKETS 
The apple markets hold firm and taut 
as a bowstring. Every week shows gains 
somewhere, and changes are all upward 
except for overripe stock. Export demand 
takes a good deal of fruit at full prices. 
Fancy cold storage Baldwins,. A 2%, 
touched $7 at shipping points, and still 
higher in various city markets. Western 
box apples have gained a few cents every 
week lately. g. b. f. 
Truck 
crops offer 
quick p roti 1 1 
to the successful 
grower. Our new 
book "Better Vegetable 
Urowing”will help you 
sk for your copy 
Subsidiary of the American Agricultural 
Chemical Co. 
51 Chambers Street, N. Y. City 
The 
demand 
for fer- 
tilizer is increas¬ 
ing. Good farmers 
are protecting their 
profits by ordering early. 
Is your full order in? 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
PRICES HOLD FAIRLY WELL UNDER VERY 
LIBERAL SUPPLIES 
The contrasting feature compared with 
a year ago is the continued heavy mid¬ 
winter movement of nearly all important 
1 . rrs . a • it* <• - 
ines. 
volume 
Open weather and sufficient car supply in 
most sections, assists a tendency which is 
further encouraged by short keeping qual¬ 
ity of much of tiffs season’s produce. The 
markets have absorbed the liberal offer¬ 
ings very well, some lines, including on¬ 
ions and apples, showing tendency to gain 
in price. Potatoes and cabbage have 
moved up and down again, but the only 
really weak feature is field beaus. 
now MANY POTATOES? 
Recent statements on potato shipments 
and supply are subjects of discussion. 
Official reports show very heavy stocks on 
hand January 1. but probably not over 
one-fourth of this stock will be loaded on 
cars. How much will go out from re¬ 
mote producing sections depends largely 
on the price. Prices in producing sections 
for good stock, sacked and loaded on cars, 
range from $1.40 to $1.90 per 100 lbs. in 
the West, and around $2 in the East, 
while city markets range from $1.90 to 
$2.75. Demand is slow to moderate, with 
'ess accumulation than might he looked 
for with shipments of 500 cars per day. 
New York City handles over 50 carloads 
an average day, besides nearby supplies. 
ONIONS DOING MTTCTT BETTER 
The situation is still improving for 
onions. Fancy stock has touched $2 per 
100 lbs. in producing sections and $2.50 
in city markets, although the average 
would be 25 to 75c below these figures. 
File stock in commercial storage seems to 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page , 
be much lighter than last year. There is 
a great deal of stock of variable keeping 
quality still in possession of growers. 
CABBAGE IN LIBERAL SUPPLY 
Shipments of old cabbage continue lib¬ 
eral, and there is more and more fresh 
stock coming from the South and South¬ 
west. The price of old, hard stock in city 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Final Meeting of State Food Com¬ 
mission. —At the final meeting of the 
State Food Commission at Albany Janu¬ 
ary 16 the affairs of the Commission were 
so arranged that a few employes will soon 
be able to bring the work to a close. Up 
to November 1, of a total appropriation 
of $1,264,781, only $540,250 had been 
spent. 
Cayuga a Leader in Barley. —Cayuga 
County ranks first in the State for its bar¬ 
ley, and the town of Fleming is the chief 
center of the barley district. Ten farm¬ 
ers of this place have pledged themselves 
to co-operate in some barley variety tests 
for next year. They will furnish the seed 
to be planted in plots on a central farm, 
and the seed showing the best results 
will be the standard adopted by the town¬ 
ship. The Federal Department of Farm 
Crops will distribute a carload of special 
Alfalfa seed in New York State this year. 
The better seed committees in those coun¬ 
ties that have them, and the farm bu¬ 
reaus in other counties, will turn over 
farmers’ orders to the Government, au¬ 
thorities. 
Care of Winter-hurt Trees. —The 
State College of Agriculture is advising 
against much Winter pruning on fruit 
trees, apple or pear, that show effects of 
injury from the hard Winter last year, 
and the heavy crop of 1917. Only dead 
wood should be removed, as it is a poor 
time to judge the weak growth of the past 
season. With next season’s new sapwood 
more discerning choice of branches to be 
retained can be made. Peaches that made 
but a few inches of growth would better 
be removed. Injury to peach buds in 
nurseries has been great, and the supply 
of trees for Spring planting will be small, 
so early orders will stand the best chance. 
Peach trees in other sections that com¬ 
pete with New York State have also been 
badly injured, so it would seem a good 
time to make new plantings next Spring. 
Tobacco Growers’ Interests.— Onon¬ 
daga County leads the State in tobacco, 
over 900 acres being harvested last Fall. 
Of this, 200 acres were sold to buyers in 
July at 30c a pound, 35c for very special 
quality. The contracts called for the to¬ 
bacco to be in good merchantable condi¬ 
tion. Early frosts in September cut nea- 
ly half the crop. With the signing of the 
armistice the price dropped to 20c, or last 
year’s price, which at that time was con¬ 
sidered high. Some of the dealers tried „ 
to refuse the crop on contract prices, but 
were persuaded to carry out the bargain. 
Others make some retrenchment by hold¬ 
ing the quality up to a high standard, ac¬ 
cording to contract. The growers have a 
lot of frosted tobacco on hand, for which 
there is now no market. 
Cannery Compares Going Slow.— 
Some of the Central New York cannery 
companies are reluctant to make contracts 
for crops next year as yet, as the Gov¬ 
ernment has not yet paid them for canned 
goods delivered to them. Seine orders 
were canceled, it is said. This leaves the 
companies rather short of funds. It is 
thought that commercial canning crop 
acreages will be considerably smaller this 
year. 
May Tax Incomes. —To make up the 
$12,000,000 deficit due to loss of exeis' 1 
revenue, legislative leaders recommend a 
State income tax. as the most practical 
solution. There were very reasonable ob¬ 
jections to meeting the shortage by tax¬ 
ing personal property or real property fur¬ 
ther, or exacting franchise taxes. The 
old excise board is to go, and will be re¬ 
placed by a prohibition commissioner, if 
legislation being prepared to meet the new 
situation is passed. The new commission¬ 
er’s task would be to enforce prohibition 
and to supervise and control the manufac¬ 
ture. distribution and sale of alcohol for 
medicinal, mechanical and pharmaceutical 
purposes, and of wine for sacramental 
uses, lie would be authorized to appoint 
20 inspectors, who shall have certain pow¬ 
ers of sheriffs and district attorneys, to 
assist them in enforcing the law. The 
proposed bill will compel every person 
arrested for intoxication to tell the name 
of the person from whom he purchased 
liquor, failure to do so constituting con¬ 
tempt of court, punishable by a fine of 
$75 to $100. No sale for medicinal pur¬ 
poses can be made except upon a phy¬ 
sician’s prescription. Advertising of intoxi¬ 
cants would be prohibited, and the sale of 
patent medicines, toilet articles, extracts, 
etc., containing certain proportions of al¬ 
cohol, would be controlled. M. G. F. 
Judge: “The police say that you and 
your wife had some words.” Prisoner: 
“I had some, but didn’t get a chance to 
use them.”—Credit Lost. 
