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Contagious Abortion 
Don’t sell the aborters. Clean out 
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Tho Abortion infection causes Barrenness, 
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The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th St.. New York 
This is largely a dairying country; that 
is the main money industry, although we 
engage in agriculture in a general way. 
For April we receive $2.67 for 3 per cent 
milk at the shipping station. All feeds 
are high. Veals sell at 15c per lb. to 
shippers at the station ; hay, $15 to $20 
per ton, according to quality, at the barn. 
Oats from 75 to 80e per bu.; potatoes, $1 
at the station; eggs, 38c; butter from 70 
to 75c per lb. Cows at auction from $60 
to $100. Horses are cheap and not much 
call for them. Pigs at four weeks old 
bring $6 apiece. More maple sugar and 
j syrup was made this season than usual; 
the syrup sold for $2 a gallon and the 
first sugar for 25c a lb. There was a 
large amount of Fall plowing done; very 
little Winter wheat raised around here, 
and it is too early yet to tell anything 
about what the hay crop will be. This 
has been the warmest Winter in 50 years, 
and there was no snow to protect the 
grass roots; no sleighing here this Win¬ 
ter. We had a very cold snap the last 
days of March; the thermometer nearly 
reached, zero, and a cold and backward 
Spring is predicted. The outlook for help 
is bad, helpers very scarce and wages 
high. Most farmers will have to do what 
they can themselves, and all are very 
much disgusted with the ‘‘daylight sav¬ 
ing-” F. K. w. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. 
Milk for April, $2.76 per cwt. for 3 per 
cent test, with a bonus of 4c per point 
above 3 per cent. Eggs, brown, 38e; 
white, 40c. Potatoes, 80 to 00c per bu. 
Apples, $1.25 to $1.50 per bu.. but almost 
none for sale. Beans around 6c per lb. 
for medium or pea beaus, a slight advance 
for kidney. Calf hides from $2 to $3, 
according to size. Pigs, four weeks old, 
$6 to $8. At some auctions lately grade 
cows sold for $160 to $140 per head. Hay 
around $15 per ton. To me the farm out¬ 
look does not look encouraging, but per¬ 
haps .1 am looking at the dark side. 
Dairying is the principal business of this 
locality, and hay. silage and oats are 
practically the principal crops. As re¬ 
gards, beaus, potatoes, cabbage, etc., the 
quantity offered for sale is mainly the sur¬ 
plus from the. farmers’ own needs, every¬ 
thing being milk. Hay seems to be plen¬ 
ty and cows are looking extremely well. 
Potatoes are a drug on the market, and 
beans are a whole lot more so. I look for 
a much lighter planting the coming sea¬ 
son. As regards cabbage, I know of none 
in storage, any not sold at harvest being 
fed to milch cows. Hired help is in good 
demand at from $35 to $40 per month and 
board. e. c. w. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Tomato growers and the packers have 
not yet been able to agree on the contract 
Price of tomatoes for the coming season. 
The canners are only offering 25c per bas¬ 
ket, or $15 per ton for tomatoes, while 
the growers.have formed a number of or¬ 
ganizations in different sections and decid¬ 
ed not to grow tomatoes for less than $25 
per ton, or 41c per basket. It is said that 
several of our largest canners will not be 
in operation this year, which is due to 
such a large part of last year’s pack still 
being on the market. The Winter and 
Spring has been very mild, but we had 
some freezing weather about April 1, 
which, it is feared, has greatly injured the 
peach buds. Many farms have been chang¬ 
ing hands at unheard-of prices. Feed is 
very scarce and high. Mixed hay is bring¬ 
ing $40 per ton. Cows sell for $50 to 
$150. Horses low. Milk has taken a de¬ 
cided drop in price. Labor, farm ma¬ 
chinery and fertilizer continue extremely 
high. During the legislative session just 
ended a new school code was passed which 
gives a school board power to consolidate 
our rural schools. A large majority of 
our rural districts were hotly opposed to 
this bill, but a majority of the members of 
our General Assembly were from Wil¬ 
mington and our smaller towns, and it 
was forced down the throats of the rural 
residents. As our school boards and su¬ 
perintendents have long been in favor of 
consolidated schools there is no doubt that 
we will have consolidated schools in the 
near future. c. H. 
Kent Co., Del. 
The forepart and middle of March was 
nice Spring weather, but the last few 
days of the month were record-breakers 
for high winds and blustery weather. The 
roads were impassable and had to be 
shoveled out: many of the rural carriers 
could not make their trips. This is the 
only time it has happened this season. 
This will delay Spring work, as very few 
have started the plow. Clue piece of 
Spring wheat has been sown. Xo change 
in the hired help situation; scarce and 
high priced. W e have a greater injustice 
put all over us as farmers this year, the 
daylight-saving law. This looks as though 
Congress cared more for the city than it 
does for the country. We stood it last 
year, but to leave it iu force after the 
war lias.ceased is preposterous and sense¬ 
less. When shall we have our rights as 
producers? The people in the city are 
standing in their own light; they are mis¬ 
informed in regard to the cost <>f farm 
produce. Where will they get their pro¬ 
duce if farmers should work only eight 
hours, and consequently produce less? 
This will be the final outcome if there is 
not a change made. Farmers have rights 
that they are to be entitled to. E. F. b. 
Ontario Co., X. Y. 
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