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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Heat and Pressure do not 
break Havoline Oil 
You know machinery. You know 
that even the highest-grade bearings 
will soon burn out unless they get 
proper lubrication in necessary 
quantity. 
There are two kinds of lubricating 
oils: the oil that stays put, and the 
kind that does not stay put. Many 
a farmer has had to buy new bear¬ 
ings for his tractor because the oil 
he used didn’t stay put. 
HAVOUNE OIL 
RIO.U.S.PAT. OFF. 
“It makes a difference** 
COPYRIGHT 
Havoline Oil is famous for staying put. The 
intense heat of the combustion chambers does not 
break it. The terrific pressure of the bearings 
does not break it. Havoline does not permit steel 
to rub against steel, and thus cause the need of 
expensive repairs, replacements, or idle days. 
One of the grades of Havoline Tractor Oil ex¬ 
actly fills the needs of your tractor, whatever its 
make, type, or length of service, just as one of the 
grades of Havoline Oil exactly meets your motor 
car requirements. 
No tractor man will encourage you to use an 
inferior grade of oil. You do so at your own risk. 
No agent or manufacturer will hold himself re¬ 
sponsible for a tractor that gets improper lubrica¬ 
tion. It is safer to stick to Havoline. 
Havoline greases are compounded of 
. Havoline Oil and pure, sweet tallow. 
Clean to handle and correct in body. 
INDIAN REFINING COMPANY New York 
incorporated 
Producers and Refiners of Petroleum 4 
Send today for the free “No Smoking” sign to tack on your bam. 
It may save your bam from burning down. 
May 3, 
Crops and Farm News 
Potatoes, No. 1, $1.10 per bu.; No. 2, 
55 to 00c. Wheat, $2.20 at the mill. Put¬ 
ter. 45c at stores; eggs, 38 to 40c. Peas 
contracted at Curtice Bros.’ canning fac¬ 
tory, $2.75 per cwt. for late; $2,85 for 
early. Pork, dressed, $23 cwt. Not much 
butter made here. A lot of farmers ship 
their milk to Akron, and some send cream 
to the Fairmont Creamery, Buffalo. They 
are paying at present 07c for butterfat, 
which means nearly 50c for butter, and 
they do the work. We like this, as it 
gives us the skim milk for poultry. Win¬ 
ter wheat looks fine. There will be some 
Spring wheat sown, and a good deal of 
oats and barley. Very few beans will be 
planted; have been a failure in most cases 
for several seasons; no market at present 
for them. Help scarce, and when can¬ 
ning factory opens what little day help 
there is will leave. Daylight-saving law is 
hated by nearly every farmer. f. B. m. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
Our sap season was about an average 
one. Cows are looking pretty well, but 
hay is $25 per ton in barn. It will be fed 
up close. Grain is so high that farmers 
cannot get ahead much at the price of 
milk. Help more plenty than last year. 
Greene Co., N. Y. b. o. p. 
The first three weeks of April w T ere not 
suitable for outdoor farm work, there hav¬ 
ing been many rainy days. Some plowing 
has been done. The maple sugar season 
was short, warm weather prevailing at the 
end of March. Not as much syrup and 
sugar were made as in former years. 
Syrup has been sold by the makers at 
from .$1.75 up to $3 per gal. In the stores 
maple sugar brings 25e per lb. The stores 
are paying 42c for egvs and 60c for butter 
in trade. The price of feed is high. Cows 
are being turned out to grass. Grade Hol¬ 
stein cows are in good demand and at 
auction sales have been reported at prices 
as high as .$198. In this dairy county the 
Holstein cow is the leader. The first 
breath of the warm Spring weather brings 
the woodchucks out of their Winter dens 
in countless numbers. This is the greatest 
of New York’s woodchuck counties. In 
driving into Belfast on one of the recent 
warm days the writer counted 12 of these 
little animals. The drive covered a dis¬ 
tance of 3% miles. It was noticeable that 
none of these animals wasted any time in 
sitting up and looking around the country. 
Possibly they are still weak from the long 
Winter’s fast. They were busy browsing 
in the grass and scuttled into their dens 
at the horse’s approach. The merchants 
of Andover have signed a pledge that they 
will not offer for sale oleomargarine or 
any other substitute for butter. It seems 
strange, but the merchants report that 
their principal customers for the oleos 
were farmers, and in this county a farmer 
is a dairyman. It is odd that a dairyman 
would use a substitute for butter on- his 
own table. How can such a man face his 
own herd? The weekly paper at Andover 
says that the action of the merchants, 
which was taken in the interest of the 
dairymen, is not going to stop the sale of 
oleo in the town : that if the merchants 
will not handle what the paper describes 
as “soap grease” there are persons who 
will. The paper has strongly supported 
the merchants in their course. The Sheep 
Breeders’ Association of Yates County 
has contracted with the John E. MeMurtry 
Company of New York City for the wool 
clip of tbe -_county for this year, at the 
price of Bt least 50c per lb. East year the 
county’s wool clip amounted to 125.000 
lbs., which brought war prices. .t. n. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Superseding indictments 
charging Dr. Edward A. Rumeley, former 
publisher of the New York Evening Mail, 
S. Walter Kaufman and Norvin R. Lind- 
heim. former attorneys for the German 
Embassy, with conspiring to defraud the 
United States by obstructing the seizure 
and capture of the controlling stock of the' 
newspaper, which was the property of the 
Imperial German Government, were hand¬ 
ed up to Judge John C. Knox at New 
York April 17 by the Federal Grand 
Jury. A separate indictment charging 
Kaufman and Liudheim with counseling 
Rumeley not to report the enemy-owned 
stock was returned at the same time. 
Julius Fischer, an agent of the Hain- 
burg-American Steamship Line, set fire to 
a stateroom of the transport Patricia 
while the vessel was steaming to Boston 
with nearly 3,000 American soldiers. The 
fire was extinguished by members of the 
crew and Fischer was placed in irons. 
The Patricia hails from Hamburg and is 
one of the first of the German merchant 
fleet to he turned over for use by the 
United States according to an agreement 
with Germany. Fischer is one of several 
Germans who were allowed to remain on 
board the liners to represent the vessel’s 
owners. 
A bill has been introduced into the 
Maine Legislature which has for its intent 
war upon the dogfish. For several years 
there have been efforts to lessen the plague 
of the dogfish, but the menace still re¬ 
mains. The suggestion has been advanced 
of making the dogfish into fertilizer. 
Women of the congregation of Trinity 
Episcopal Cathedral were permitted for 
the first time April 21 to vote for war¬ 
dens, vestrymen and deputies to the dio¬ 
cesan convention at the annual meeting 
in Newark, N. J. A committee was ap¬ 
pointed a year ago to investigate the char¬ 
ter issued in 1746 by King George II. 
The committee recommended that the 
women be permitted to cast, their ballots. 
Authorization has been received from 
the War Department to instal at Atlantic 
City, N. J., the first receiving station for a 
wireless telephone. The equipment will 
be erected on the Steel Pier. This conces¬ 
sion is said to be the first granted by the 
Government outside of its own service. 
It is to be used in connection with the 
Pan-American Aviation Congress. 
After deliberating less than five min¬ 
utes a jury in Justice Wagner’s part of 
the New York Supreme Court brought in 
a verdict April 22 awarding Mrs. Bertha 
Sedlefsky .$50,000 damages for injuries 
she sustained when struck by a truck 
owned by the Sayles-Zahn Company, 
wholesale butchers. Philip Sedlefsky. her 
husband, was awarded a separate judg¬ 
ment of $5,000 against the Sayles-Zahn 
Company as compensation for the loss of 
his wife’s services, due to the injuries she 
sustained. 
Four big developments marked the 1919 
session of the New York Legislature, 
which ended April 19. They were: The 
defeat hy the Republican majority of most 
of the recommendations of Gov. Alfred E. 
Smith, a Democrat. Ratification of the 
Federal prohibition amendment, hut the 
failure to enact drastic enforcement legis¬ 
lation recommended by the Anti-saloon 
league and allied temperance forces. 
Adoption of a graduated State income tax 
estimated to raise nearly $50,000,000 ad¬ 
ditional revenue. Investigation of charges 
by Senator George F. Thompson of Ni¬ 
agara that traction interests had offered 
him a campaign fund “up to half a million 
dollars” if he would withdraw his objec¬ 
tion to the Carson-Martin Trolley F“are 
bill. 
Direct steamship service between New 
Orleans and the west coast of South 
America through the Panama Canal was 
established May 1 by the New Orleans 
and South American Steamship Company. 
Announcement has been made that the 
Huebner-Toledo Breweries Company, one 
of the largest concerns of its kind in Ohio, 
will devote its .$3,000,000 plant at Toledo 
to the manufacture of temperance beer 
and will continue to operate 175 saloons 
as social centers. The same policy is to 
be followed regarding the Huehner saloon 
properties in various parts of the State. 
The company announces also the exten¬ 
sive manufacture of ice. which it expects 
to supply at lower prices. 
WASHINGTON.—Contracts for tin- 
air service, covering more than $500,000,- 
000. have been cancelled or suspended by 
the War Department since the signing of 
the armistice, according to a statement is¬ 
sued by the statistics branch of the gen¬ 
eral staff April 21. The cancellations for 
engines and spare parts amount to $275,- 
616.187. This does not mean, it is ex¬ 
plained that the Government is no longer 
to patronize the engine builders or aid 
them by giving experimental orders and 
the likp. A definite program whereby the 
Government will assist in the process of 
transforming some of the lessons learned 
by the military aeronautics to peace usagt 
is in the process of formation, and at¬ 
tempts to regulate the air service to a 
purely subordinate branch of the general 
staff are to ho abandoned, it is understood. 
Meanwhile officers of the air service are 
confident that as soon as Congress con¬ 
venes .the authorized personnel will la* 
raised and that the legislators will see to 
it that the service is not in danger of be¬ 
ing completely wrecked. 
Federal Court decrees dismissing injunc¬ 
tion proceedings brought by the United 
Railroads of_San Francisco to prevent the 
city from constructing and operating a 
municipally-owned street car system 
where the company already had tracks, 
were upheld April 21 by the Supreme 
Court. 
Three naval seaplanes, the NO-1, NC-3 
and NO-4, will attempt the flight.across 
the Atlantic Ocean. They will leave Rock- 
away Beach, but so far as is known no 
decision has been reached whether the 
route will he direct from Newfoundland to 
Ireland or via the Azores. Each plane is 
expected to carry a crew of five men, will 
be driven by four liberty motors of a 
total of 1,600 horsenower, aud will carry 
sufficient gasoline to make a stop on a 
direct flight to Ireland unnecessary unless 
storms or strong head winds are encoun¬ 
tered. 
FARM AND GARDEN—Virtually 40 
per cent of the more than 400, 000,000 
bushels of wheat raised in Australia in the 
seasons of 1915-16, 1916-17 and 1917-18 
is still in stock, a Government announce¬ 
ment says. On January 20, 1919, there 
were 142,300.000 bushels of wheat in 
shippers’ stocks. 11,800,000 in flour stocks 
and 4,500,000 in millers’ stocks. 
The strike of the agriculturists in Ar¬ 
gentina is reaching alarming proportions, 
according to recent reports. 
“Where are you going, John?” “To 
raise the wind.” “What for?” “To meet 
a draft.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer. 
