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TAe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Girls On the Farm. —It is estimated 
that in New York 30 young women are 
signing up at the Land Army headquar¬ 
ters daily, and that 400 have reported so 
far. The army expects to put out 30 
camps this Summer on the farms of the 
State. Farmers who tried out farmerettes 
last year are anxious for similar help 
this year and are refusing young and in¬ 
experienced boys. They have had farm 
cadets, and claim that they do not give 
the service the farmerettes do. There is 
a great demand for women in other occu¬ 
pations, and a shortage of women to do 
institutional work in the State. 
Medical Men of State. —Over 1,000 
leading medical men of the State meet in 
Syracuse for a conference May 5-8. giving 
one entire day to the problem of fitting! 
crippled soldiers for new occupations. 
New Forestry Project. —The State 
College of Forestry at Syracuse will soon 
establish a station for the study of wild 
life as a memorial to the late Col. Roose¬ 
velt. It will be called the Roosevelt Wild 
Life Forestry Experiment Station, and 
.will provide for research and educational 
work along the lines of a general investi¬ 
gation of forest wild life and will not en¬ 
croach on the work of the existing for¬ 
estry college or Conservation Commission. 
The bill authorizing the memorial has 
passed the Assembly and there is little 
doubt of its becoming a law. 
Milk Notes. —The field men who, -e 
securing capital for the Syracuse milk 
plant have secured all that will be needed 
excepting about 50 memberships in the 
organization. Over 200 producers have 
given notes of $300 each, giving a gen¬ 
erous fund to begin operations with at 
once. The reports of the canvassers will 
all be in this week, it is expected, and 
the site will then be decided upon. At 
the “John Doe” milk inquiry a New York 
dealer testified this week that milk distri¬ 
bution would be revolutionized by a tank 
car system that had been perfected and 
which if adopted would ultimately reduce 
milk to eight cents a quart. These cars 
had been tried out, he said, in San Fran¬ 
cisco and Salt Lake City. Recently an¬ 
other dealer saw great possibilities in 
using the underground mail chutes of the 
city for milk deliveries. Farmers in the 
vicinity of Homer, Cortland County, were 
pioneers in producing clean milk with a 
low bacteria count, and their record has 
never been equalled by any other section. 
Few Buying Coal. —Coal dealers re¬ 
port sales far below normal for this 
month and think people are expecting 
lower prices. They say this cannot be, 
and advise prompt orders, as stocks are 
now sufficient for prompt delivery. 
Bills Killed. —The health insurance 
bill, from which so much had been ex¬ 
pected, has been killed in the Assembly. 
Also the hydro-electric bill. The muni¬ 
cipal ownership bill is expected to meet 
a similar fate. 
Franklin County Potatoes. —Potato 
growers of Franklin County are preparing 
for the biggest crop that section has ever 
known. Last season the county’s potato 
growers’ association shipped 21 cars of 
certified seed potatoes to points in South 
Carolina, receiving an extra price. This 
method of growing seed potatoes under 
State inspection has added so much to the 
income of the growers of the county that 
still further efforts along this line will 
be made this season. The acreage is in 
excess of 6,000, and the value of last 
season’s crop in the county at current 
rates was $1,050,000. The average yield 
for the county was 100 bushels per acre, 
and the Green Mountain is the favorite 
variety. 
Shoe Reform. —The Y. W. C. A. of 
the State is urging shoe reform for women, 
and this week met 24 of the leading 
manufacturers’ representatives and placed 
the present situation before them. One 
firm promised a shoe on the order desired, 
to be placed on the market in a fortnight. 
The association says that women want 
attractive shoes, but that if they wear 
the only attractive or smart shoe avail¬ 
able for the last few seasons they must 
have backaches, headaches, broken arches, 
tired limbs and worse evils. The associa¬ 
tion is urging a national shoe week, when 
its 400,000 members shall get together 
and put over the idea of a proper shoe in 
the interest of the health and beauty of 
American women. M. o. F. 
Goats for Milk 
On page 623 I see some discussion going 
on about goats. Let me say a few things 
in favor of the goat, the true “poor man’s 
cow.” In the old counti'y where I was 
born and never had any other milk than 
goats’ milk up to 16 years of age, people 
could not do without goats for the reason 
that they have not enough land to support 
a cow. In the village I was born and 
brought up there was a factory employing 
about 700 to N00 people. There were 
about 300 houses in the village, some in¬ 
habited by two or three families. Every 
family kept from one to three goats, and 
fattened one pig besides every year. They 
did this on an average of one acre of land 
each, which they rented from the Govern¬ 
ment for $1 a year. They managed to 
grow enough potatoes on that land for a 
year’s supply, and hay for the goats for 
the Winter, as they are kept in stalls at 
least, six months of the year, it is a 
mountainous country and plenty of snow 
every year. In the Spring and Summer 
goats are driven out to pasture, which is 
cut-over land, usually a boy collecting 
them after luncheon and driving them out 
and bringing them back at night. For 
this service he is rewarded at the end of 
the season with a quarter or half dollar 
per family. He stays with the goats and 
sees that they do not injure cultivated 
crops, as there are no fences in that 
country. It. is a kind of community herd¬ 
ing and grazing business. 
As to the value of goats’ milk, I think 
it useless to say anything more. It is the 
best medicine in the world, especially for 
anemic children that need building up, 
and I prefer it any time to cow’s milk. Of 
course, you must get used to it. Of course, 
if you want milk you cannot feed hard¬ 
back, sweet fern, goldenrod and other 
weeds, as Mr. Ormsbee says, but you 
must feed some grain and good mountain 
hay. Mother used to make a warm slop 
of Hour middlings with all the potato 
parings and vegetable waste from a fam¬ 
ily of seven thrown in, and the goats used 
to lick their beards after each meal. 
OTTO HAMMERSCHMIDT. 
How Turkeys Move Eggs 
One of your readers asks how the tur¬ 
key moved its eggs. It gathers them un¬ 
der its wings. I had a hen years ago that 
was a poor sitter, but she would always 
have plenty of eggs under herself, ,s » 
one Sunday I made up my mind to watch 
her; took her off the nest and moved the 
eggs; went up in the loft and saw her 
driving one of the hens off the nest. Then 
she got on the eggs, gathered some under 
her wings, jumped off, went to her own 
nest, lowered them down and went back 
to get some more until she had them all 
in^her own nest. I put her in the pot. 
STEPFIEN FEATHERSTONE. 
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Cleveland Tractor 
More work, more days in the year 
H. G. Saddoris of Fort Dodge, Iowa, re¬ 
ports that the use of his Cleveland Tractor 
made it possible for him to harvest his grain last 
Summer in half the time required when he used 
horses, and with less help. In fact, his 14- 
year-old boy operated the tractor, pulling one 
binder, and accomplished as much in the same 
time as could have been done by two horse- 
pulled binders, each pulled by a four-horse team. 
This man, like thousands of other farmers, 
requires a tractor that will do a variety of farm 
work. A tractor—that is economical in 
operation 
—that is built rugged enough to stand up 
under the strain of hard, gruelling work 
—that is capable of doing the whole job 
from plowing to harvesting. 
The Cleveland is built to supply practically 
all the power needed on the average farm. It 
is designed and built by practical men who 
know what a farm tractor must stand. 
It is economical in its use of kerosene and 
oil—and is small enough to be used profitably 
on both light and heavy jobs. 
And when it comes to the preparati m of 
the seed bed— plowing, harrowing , seeding and 
planting, the Cleveland Tractor’s track-laying 
construction enables it to go over soft, plowed 
ground that causes the ordinary machine to 
“wallow” and “labor”. And, it does the 
work more efficiently than can be done with 
mules or horses. The power of the Cleve¬ 
land is used to pull the implement not to “ dig 
out ” the tractor itself. Its broad traction sur¬ 
face and light weight per square inch enables 
the Cleveland to “ step lightly,” and so it does 
not pack down the soil behind it 
The Cleveland also will reap, bind, thresh, 
haul, drag dead weights, cut ensilage, fill silos, 
saw wood and do the scores of other jobs 
about the farm that require tractive and sta¬ 
tionary power. 
There’s a great, expanding market for the 
Cleveland. Every day more and more farmers 
are discovering its real worth. Write for catalog. 
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19009 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 
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