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The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Northern grown, hardy, acclimated, 
adapted to the Northern and Eastern 'f 
States. We sold 
Over 100,000 Bushels 
last year and this season have more to 
offer and of better quality. Average germ¬ 
ination of all lots tested to date, 95-98% 
and is sold subject to ourfamoasten-day-money* 
back-if-you-want-it guarantee. 
Dibbles Seed Corn is from hand se¬ 
lected ears, carefully shelled, reoleaned 
and graded. Our List proven Best by 
Test for Crop and the 8Uo. 
Dibble’s Big Red Dent Dibble's Mammoth Yellow Flint 
Improved Learning Dibble's Mammoth White Dent 
Gold Nugget Flint Dibble’s Early Yellow Dent 
Luce's Favorite White Cap Yellow Dent 
Dibble's Drought Proof 
8eed com is cheap this year. Bo not pay two 
prices for it. Buy direct from us and save 
money. We invite orders from Granges and 
Farmers’ Clubs. Sold over 10,000 bushels to one 
Farmers’ Association last year. 
Catalog, Special Price List and Samples FREE 
Address: —Edward F. Dibble Seedgrower 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y., Box B 
Headquarters for Farm Seeds h 
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ALFALFA 
AMERICAN NORTHERN GROWN 
For fifteen years our advice concerning the seeding 
and care of Alfalfa meadows, and our seed for sowing 
them, have been standard — the best that was to be 
had. The catalog tells how, and prices the seed, 
not Turkestan, “Dwarf Alfalfa," which we refuse to 
handle, but the best of American grewn seed, in¬ 
cluding usually Montana, Idaho, and the great 
"Dakota 30,” which rivals the Grimm itself. 
PDIMM Al FAI FA Next to Hansen's Siberian, 
tin I mm HLrHLlH (he greatest variety grown 
in America. We have the genuine; also limited 
amounts of the Siberian. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
No matter how critical you are we can please you. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
Are grown for the most critical trade. Write for fret 
catalog. Lists many new and rare specialties. 
Wing Seed Co., Box S23 Mechanicsburg, O. 
The House of Quality and Moderate Prices. 
Sow the Best Seeds 
Your Money Will Buy 
Don't experiment with novel- 
tiesor untried sorts. America 
must feed the world, ande very 
acre must yield to the limit. 
Our 1919 Seed Book 
lists only standard, tested 
Storrs ^Harrison Seeds 
Seed Potato Men! Attention! O O XT XX j 
fRei d’s Yellow Dent. 
•J _ VeryProlific. 
Any one wanting Giant Seed Potatoes should gat in 
touch with me. There are approximately twelve (12) 
carloads in this section. Will load for a commission 
of five (5) cents per bushel. Gome and see the stock 
for yourself. DANIEL McKEIGHAN, Sr., Rupert, Vermont 
errn PADM 500 Bushels Extra Selected 
OLLU V/UI\1 y Tested Yellow Flint Seed Corn 
*4 per bushel. Bags free. Order early. 
FRFJ) DFCKEK, . Glenco Mills, N. Y. 
SEED CORN 
Flint corn. 
ARTHUR 
75 to 100 bn. an 
L. PURDY, 
HALL'S GOLD NUGGET. 
Largest yielding 
1 ere. Matures 100 days. 
Port Chester, K. Y. 
lover 
Cheap Clover seed should never be a con¬ 
sideration at any price in these days of enlight¬ 
enment. Quality lias a value. It costs more to 
produce Clover of the highest quality. Not¬ 
withstanding, men rush like mad to save a 
nickel, a dollar perhaps on their seed stock, 
only to lose at harvest time, ten, sometimes 
a thousand times as much as their imaginary 
saving on the seed. 
It is folly to invest in Clover seed except 
absolutely the best regardless of price. The 
returns in quality and increased yields from 
pure high grade Salzer Clover will compensate 
many times over for the investment. 
Cats—Sow Salzer Seed Oats and you are sure to tret 
the largest possible yields. Salzer Strains have repu¬ 
tations for extreme hardiness and dependability. We 
have an oat for practically every condition of soil. 
Wheat—Farmers cannot afford to buy any hut the 
very best seed wheat obtainable. Salzer Seed Wheat 
has a value distinctly its own—seed that combines un¬ 
usual plumpness, attractiveness and purity. 
Corn— Salzer Corn is favorably known the country 
over for its remarkably robust seed life. Noted for big 
yields and early maturity. All strictly high altitude 
seed. Wide range of varieties. 
Billion $ Gras®—A wonderful producer. Grows 
two and three big, luxuriant crops per season. 
Matures in from six to ten weeks anywhere. Pre¬ 
-eminently the grass to sow for short hay crops. 
Send Postcard for Our Large 164-page 
Catalog {40 Pages in Actual Colors ). 
Everything in Garden and Field Seeds. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 
America’s Headquarters lor Seeds 
Sox 144, La Crosse, Wis. 
grainB, vegetable and flower 
seeds, fruits and plants. 65 
years of honorable business 
justify us in saying “no better 
seeds are sold, few are as 
good.” America’s Largest 
Departmental Nursery; 1200 
Acres; 48 Greenhouses. Send 
today for this fret catalogue. 
The STORKS! HARRISON Co., Pm'.'oBo 
Up-State Farm Notes 
End of Food Control.— Fifty-five 
county food administrators sent in their 
resignations to- Charles E. Treman, Fed¬ 
eral food administrator, with the close of 
January, a virtual eud of food control in 
New York. In up-State districts there 
were 753 penalties for violations of food 
regulations during the war, and .$50,000 
was contributed by offenders to war char¬ 
ities. These food administrators deserve 
much credit, many of them supporting 
the work by personal contributions and 
giving often as much as one-half their 
entire.time to the work. 
Y orld’s Record IIeifer. —Abbott and 
Clark, Holstein breeders, of Cortland, last 
week made the phenomenal record of 
689.2 pounds of milk in seven days from 
Katie Paul Burke, a heifer four years 
and one month old. The milk had a 
butterfat test of five per cent, making 
her production of butter 44.61 pounds in 
seven days. This is the world’s record 
for a Holstein of that age by an excess 
of nearly 100 lbs. of milk, and almost a 
pound of butter more than any previous 
seven-day record. If this hei'fer’s milk 
for the week had been sold at the price 
on the. market of $4.01 for three per cent 
netted $33.15, or if 
was worth $26.77. 
the weekly pro¬ 
average herd is 
how important 
The ordi- 
while 
about 
$4.50 per Bu. Sacked. 
SUNNYSIDE FARM, Westwood, N. J. 
SWEET CLOVER SEED 
Prices and circular of information sent on request. 
E. WARTON, Box 29. FALMOUTH, Pendleton Co.. Ky. 
Cood Rama Choice stock, Yellow Eyes. Red Kidnevs 
oeeu Deans $7 per Bu. CALVIN UARSH, No. Bennington.VI. 
corns alsi ki 
At special price. Goes three times as far as 
red. Ask for samples and seed book. 
O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO, 480 Sixth St., Marysville, O. 
milk, it would have 
made into butter it 
When we consider that 
duction per cow of the 
about $10 it will be seen 
it is to breed better milkers, 
nary calf might bring $20 as veal, 
Katie Paul Burke’s will bring 
$4,000. 
Concrete Contract Finished. —The 
contract made by an Ithaca company to 
build four concrete barges for the Ship¬ 
ping Board has been filled, two of them 
having been launched and the other two 
to be launched in 10 days. It has been 
proposed in Congress that the control of 
the great barge canal be returned to the 
people of our State, who expected it 
would be used when it was tendered to 
the Government. It has cost the State 
an enormous sum and the people will not 
be satisfied, short of full use of this great 
waterway in carrying the bulky shipping 
of the East, and they do not want to see 
it idle another year. 
Who Will Do the Milking? —A hill 
just offered in the lower Legislature by 
a Brooklyn Assemblyman amends the 
labor law by requiring every employer of 
help in a dairy, creamery, milk condens- 
ery, milk shipping station or milk bottling 
plant to allow employees at least 24 hours 
of rest out of every week. This might do 
on large plants or farms where enough 
help is hired to allow the different ones 
to alternate their rest periods, but how 
about the small plants, or small dairies, 
where there is no one to alternate with, 
and these make up the bigger part of the 
total dairy production of the State? Will 
there ever be an end to absurd legis¬ 
lation by city men who know nothing of 
the conditions they are meddling with? 
Farmerettes Bring Understanding. 
—Dr. Wilcox, chief of the Federal Bureau 
of Farm Management, in an address to 
the Women’s Land Army of New York 
said that the employment of city women 
on farms was bringing about a better un¬ 
derstanding between city residents and 
the rural population. Officials say the 
Land Army does not interfere with any 
other body supplying farm help. The 
girls are trained for certain work and 
sent out in groups to save crops as 
needed. It_ was also said at this conven¬ 
tion that 50 per cent of the discharged 
soldiers applying for employment for¬ 
merly worked on farms, but now desire 
city jobs. They could all be used in 
agricultural work, it is stated. 
Wool Growers’ Plans. —Several hun¬ 
dred wool growers, keeping 6,700 sheep 
in Cayuga County, expect to increase the 
membership of their organization 100 per 
cent in a campaign for more sheep, better 
wool and better prices. Their annual 
meeting will be held this week and both 
sessions will be addressed by practical 
sheep experts and by Dr. Porter of the 
Department of Farms and Markets. 
Seneca County sheepmen are becoming 
interested in better methods. A series of 
barn lectures will he given in the county 
to men interested in sheep, with the sheep 
now owned at hand to illustrate good or 
had points as wool growers or mutton 
producers. 
New Responsibilities for Educa¬ 
tors.- -The parents of the State are much 
interested in the report of .the National 
Education Association, which has been 
acting as an investigation commission for 
the United States Department of Educa¬ 
tion .since 1912 in the matter of secondary 
education problems. This commission 
would focus secondary education, which 
includes high schools, upon the great 
social objectives, such as health, citizen¬ 
ship, vocation, worthy use of leisure and 
ethical character. They say that too long 
schools have aimed at intellectual disci¬ 
pline, and taught formal types of knowl¬ 
edge. which hear little relation to the 
problems of service and worthy living. 
They apply instruction more directly and 
specifically toward life in democratic so¬ 
ciety. The report advises a six-year ele¬ 
mentary school, which shall be divided 
into a junior and a senior period. The 
commission criticises higher instructions 
that handicap secondary entrance into 
them and would open colleges to every 
February 15, 1919 
student for whatever form of higher edu¬ 
cation lie can undertake profitably. Gov¬ 
ernor Smith pledges our regents his full 
support in improving educational condi¬ 
tions generally, and especially in Ameri¬ 
canization work. He will stand for no 
curtailment of State expenses for educa¬ 
tional work. 
Rural Physicians Needed.— Many 
rural communities have since the war 
been without physicians. The State De¬ 
partment of Health has been receiving so 
many calls for help in such cases that 
it has advertised in medical journals and 
newspapers, and has to date received re¬ 
plies from 96 physician* from 20 different 
States, and names have been sent to 24 
communities. 
Delay of License Plates. —The fail¬ 
ure of the Secretary of State to honor 
applications for licenses has been attri¬ 
buted to lack of steel for plates, also to 
delay in placing the contracts for plates. 
The time that 1918 automobile licenses 
may be used has been officially extended 
to February 15, and later if necessary. 
It is a matter of especial interest to 
automobile owners, as the lack of snow 
has made it an unprecedented Winter for 
motor vehicle use. 
Apple Evaporators Close After a 
Big Season. —Apple evaporators have 
closed down after a successful season in 
spite of high price of labor. A better 
product than usual was made. The price 
for 1919 apples will be 14c per pound in 
bags. The Government has been the big¬ 
gest purchaser, taking 30,000 pounds of 
one Sodus firm. Now that the European 
market may be cultivated again the State 
Evaporators’ Association voted at its re¬ 
cent annual meeting to send a represen¬ 
tative abroad to stimulate the demand 
there. If a fair crop of apples is secured 
next year the evaporators expect the big¬ 
gest boom in years. 
Boys of 78th Wanted. —The Council 
of Women’s Clubs of Central New York 
and Mayor Stone of Syracuse will peti¬ 
tion Secretary Baker to at once return 
the hoys of the 78th Division, who were 
sent from Syracuse, Auburn, Oswego and 
other Central New York points, on the 
ground that this State sent more troops 
than any other, that these bovs went 
overseas early, suffered more casualties, 
and that other divisions from New Eng¬ 
land, the South and West have been given 
precedence in returning. The boys are 
wanted in the colleges, and if prompt re¬ 
turn is made can make a half year’s work 
yet. Otherwise they will lose a whole 
year out of their courses. 
Later Milk Developments. —Seiler 
Brothers, of Newark, who buy the milk 
of dairymen of Graeie, near Cortland, had 
not paid the farmers since the middle of 
December. They had been worried by 
delayed payments before, though the com¬ 
pany had always, in the end made good. 
Some time ago. instead of giving bonds 
as security the firm had given the farmers 
of this League, branch a mortgage on the 
plant at Graeie. Instead of foreclosing 
the farmers-sent a representative along 
with a Cortland banker last week to see 
about payment. The result was that the 
firm placed $2,500 in the Cortland bank 
to honor the dairymen’s bills. After 
signing the contracts to take the farmers’ 
milk at the League price the dairymen 
need to he on the watch to see that" they 
do not lose their milk even then. Dairy¬ 
men of Cortland County are preparing 
for any emergency. Farmers of McGraw. 
Solon and vicinity are equipping a cheese 
factory at McGraw, and will incorporate 
at once, their annual meeting to be held 
Feb. 13, their fiscal year to begin Feb. 1. 
Dairymen near Cortland are incorporated, 
with articles limiting individual and the 
total indebtedness that may be incurred 
by directors. The old Sears cheese fac¬ 
tory is being rapidly put into shape for 
use. Dr. Coe of the Dairymen’s League 
has proposed to Onondaga County dairy¬ 
men that those who are situated so they 
could conveniently ship their milk to 
New York City do so, and thus relieve 
the surplus of milk which now ham¬ 
pers that city. Such shippers will 
lose 10 cents per 100 pounds, as the Syra¬ 
cuse price is that much higher. Pro¬ 
ducers of Elbridge, Camillus and other 
points on the Auburn branch are in trou¬ 
ble under the new plans, as there is no 
pasteurizing plant on this road. The 
surplus' is such, and promises to be 
greater with Spring, that some producers 
are holding back one-seventh of their 
weekly supply. The dairymen here ex¬ 
pect soon to establish farm-owned .plants, 
but are undecided as to the form their 
organizations should assume. Dr. Coe 
has been making a similar survey of milk 
supplies near Buffalo. The news of a 
new milk commission to take a milk sur¬ 
vey of the State is received with dissatis¬ 
faction by the farmers, as this has been 
done so often and so ineffectually that 
further work of the sort seems worse 
than useless. The Department of Farms 
and Markets has this one in control. It 
is composed of W. E. Dana, W. F. Pratt. 
Datus Clark and Jonathan C. Day, and 
they expected to hold their first hearing at 
Glens Falls, last Friday, other places to 
be announced later. The farmers see sev¬ 
eral things that may result from the rate 
war now on between the milk dealers in 
New York City, where instead of asking 
the approved 14c per quart, milk is being 
sold to regain lost trade at 10 and 11 
cents. Dairymen want to know more 
about Mr. Dooling’s proposed hills to be 
introduced iu the Legislatures of New 
York and New Jersey, creating a milk 
commission to fix prices to dealers and 
farmers, and to be supported by fees 
raugiug from $100 to $300. m. g. f. 
