5048 
July 5, 1010 
Tamarack Durability 
Attested by Sworn 
Statements 
The following are excerpts from 
sworn statements and letters from 
users of Tamarack, who have 
found its durability unquestioned: 
“Untreated Tamarack posts remained 
in the ground where placed twenty-three 
years ago, are now in good condition.” 
“Tamarack as railroad ties subject to 
atmosphere causes for the last nine con¬ 
secutive years are yet in good condition. ’ ’ 
“Tamarack fence posts on my farm 
stood for the last twenty years and the 
same were never treated.’’ 
“Tamarack posts set up on my place 
in 1863 were still standing in 1913—50 
years—to my positive knowledge.” 
“We had Tamarack posts on my 
father’s farm that have been set for thirty- 
five years and were perfectly sound at the 
end of that time. ” 
“I set a line of Tamarack poles in 
1885 and same poles are standing today; 
these poles have never been treated in 
any way. ” 
The above are statements from signed 
letters and sworn affidavits on file in our 
office—you can see them. 
You should get our book entitled 
“Collected Information On Durability of 
Tamarack.” These books are sent reliable 
dealers for free circulation. If your 
dealer hasn’t a copy for you, write us 
giving your dealer’s name. You should 
get this information—you should see 
Tamarack. It can be had peeled, bark 
on and creosote preserved. Address:— 
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FERTILIZERS AND CROPS by Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyke, Price. $2.50. The best general 
farm book. For sale by Rural New-Yorker 
Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
NEW LINES TAKE THE PLACE OF OLD, HUT 
P1UCES TEND TOWARD LOWER LEVELS 
Fruits and vegetables have been filling 
40.000 to 50,000 ears throughout June. 
The volume has been steady from week to 
week, new lines gradually taking place 
of the old stock and early grades. 
NOBODY WANTS OLD STOCK NOW 
Old potatoes are making a poor finish 
of the season, owing to liberal supplies 
and poor quality. The public refuses to 
buy freely, even though new stock is in 
light supply. New York, Chicago, Pitts¬ 
burg and Boston, also some other big 
markets, have been quite demoralized at 
times, with quotations as low as 50c for 
100 lbs., but good firm stock sold at $1 to 
.$2 in most cities. Shipments are twice 
as heavy as they were around the first of 
July a year ago. The combined carload 
volume of old and new stock is less than 
the new stock alone at that time. The 
principal States shipping late Northern 
potatoes have moved 25 per cent more 
than they shipped last season, although 
the crop of these States was about 8 per 
cent less than last season. These figures 
illustrate the very thorough clean-up 
which must have taken place in all pro¬ 
ducing sections. Most of the old stock 
coining now is of a grade and condition 
that would be considered hardly worth 
shipping in average years. The short 
yield of the new crop helped the sale of 
the old crop to the end. but closing con¬ 
ditions suggest that old stock can be sold 
extensively when new potatoes are avail¬ 
able in reasonable price. Early reports 
for Northern and Western potato States 
indicate another large acreage this season, 
perhaps equal to that of last season. 
CABBAGE AND ONIONS LIBERALLY PLANTED 
The cabbage situation has dwindled 
down to moderate receipts of rather poor 
Southern stuff which sells at a wide 
range of $1 to $2 50 per bbl. Not much 
cabbage is to be looked for until the 
Northern crop begins to arrive. Northern 
plantings of the Maine crop arc reported 
about the same as last year, which will 
mean a further liberal acreage in pros¬ 
pect. 
The onion acreage in Northern States 
shows some gains and some losses, with 
losses chiefly in the Middle West, but the 
total bids fair to average about equal to 
the heavy planting last, season. The ques¬ 
tion of storage in the producing sections 
is being considered in view of last year's 
experience. One proposition would in¬ 
clude public storehouses in which space 
will be rented to small producers, thus 
placing them on a more independent posi¬ 
tion at harvest time. Absence of such 
facilities caused much loss in some sec¬ 
tions last Fall, when buyers failed to ap¬ 
pear. Central California onions are blung¬ 
ing very high prices, ranging from $5 to 
$7 per cwt. 4ii markets, and n ixing grow¬ 
ers close to $3 per bag, cash at shipping 
points. 
A GREAT SEASON FOR MELONS 
Southern melons and cantaloupes are 
bringing very good prices, considering the 
liberal supply. Cantaloupes ripen well 
in 114 degrees of heat, prevailing in the 
Imperial Valley of Southern California, 
and the quality is good. Georgia water¬ 
melons are not yet moving in full swing, 
and Florides still furnish the hulk of the 
supply, selling at $400 to $900 per car¬ 
load in the Northern markets. The price 
varies greatly, according to markets, and 
chiefly according to size of melons, the 
large sizes bringing extreme prices in 
such markets as New York and Chicago. 
TOMATO OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN 
As the tomato season moves northward 
prices seem to hold up fairly well, pro¬ 
vided the stock is good enough to hold up 
also. Canners shy at contracts on ac¬ 
count of reported surplus of old canned 
stocks, and this fact lends a feature of un¬ 
certainty to the general price outlook. 
The peach situation still centers on the 
Georgia crop, which has averaged $3 to 
$4 per bn. in the Northern markets, and 
$2 to $3 at shipping points. The top 
prices are for Ililey, a midseason free¬ 
stone, which sells about as high as stand¬ 
ard late kinds. G. B. F. 
si 
Buffalo Markets 
Excessive heat since May 20 has 
put the season again fully up to normal, 
but. has overdone the change from the 
cold and wet. Spring, for rain is now be¬ 
ginning to be needed and the heat has 
been so great some days that horses died 
in harness and cattle died in the field. 
Spring grain was sown dangerously late, 
but is coming fast, and corn jumps out 
of the ground a week from planting. It 
is reported by farmers that the hay and 
wheat crops are assured, even if the dry 
spell turns out to he a long one. 
Vegetables grow fast and all vegetation 
is in its most rampant state in spite of 
the poor start. The decline in butter 
seems to be at an end, so that it is now 
reported steady. Other food crops are 
not much changed. Potatoes are weak 
and going out, but the price is still higher 
than in Winter. Quotations: Potatoes, 
$1 to $1.50 per bn. for home-grown; $8 
to $10 per bbl. for Virginia ; apples, $4.20 
per bu., home-grown, about gone; onions, 
$4.25 to $5 foi' Texas or Bermuda, per 
crate; beans, $71.50 to $6.50 per bu., pea 
uud in in ing the low figure and 
marrow and kidney the high. Early 
Summer fruits are here. Home-grown 
strawberries are still terribly high, retail¬ 
ing at 40c- per qt, and Southern $S to $10 
for 32-qt. case; peaches, $2.25 to $3.35 
per Georgia carrier, present supply large; 
California sweet cherries, $3.75 per box; 
cantaloupes, $6 to $6.50 per standard 
crate; watermelons, 50c to $1.15 each. 
Citrus fruits firm at $5.75 to $6.75 for 
oranges; $7 to $9 for lemons; $0 for 
grapefruit, per box ; $1 to $1.25 for limes, 
per 100; bananas, scarce, $3 to $7 per 
bunch; pineapples, firm, $5 to $6.35 per 
crate. Vegetables are in heavy receipt. 
Cabbage. $2.50 to $3.50 per 100 lbs.; 
asparagus, $1.50 to $2.50 per bunch; 
beans. 75c to $3; cucumbers, Florida, $2 
to $2.50, all per hamper; new beets. 50 
to 80c: carrots. 65 to 90c; parsley, 40 to 
65c; pieplant, 35 to 60c; radishes, ^25 to 
30c, all per doz. bunches; lettuce, 50c to 
$1 per home-grown box ; tomatoes, Flor¬ 
ida,. $3 to $5 per crate; green_onions. 20 
to 30c per bunch; spinach. 50 to 75c; 
purple-top turnips, $1 to $1.25, all per 
bu.; yellow turnips, $2.75 to $3 per bbl. 
Butter is slow, but steady at 52 to 56c 
for creamery; 45 to 51c for dairy; 40 to 
48c for crocks, and 38 to 39c for common; 
oleomargarine, 29 to 30c; cheese, steady, 
33c for longhorns and daisies; 32c for 
bricks and flats, and 45 to 50c for_Swiss; 
eggs are firm; good demand, at 47 to 51c 
for hennery; 44 to 47c for State _ and 
Western. Poultry, active, light offerings. 
42 to 47c for dressed turkey ; 34 to 39c 
for fowl or chicken ; 45 to 48c for broil¬ 
ers ; 25 to 26c for old roosters; 40. to 42c 
for ducks; 25 to 28c for geese; with live 
poultry about 2c less than dressed. Maple 
sugar is steady at IS to 24c per lb.. and 
syrup $1.75 to $2 per gal. Ilay is at 
record prices, $40 to $46 for baled. Timo¬ 
thy. with a new crop of great size be¬ 
ginning to be cut. J. W. C. 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER. 
Nearby prints. 61 to 63c; tub creamery, 
best. 55c; common to good, 47 to 52c; 
packing stock, 43 to 44c. 
EGGS. 
Nearby, best. 57 to 59c: gathered, best, 
46 to 50c; lower grades, 37 to 39c. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls. 36 to 37c; broilers, 45 to 48c; 
roosters. 21 to 22c; ducks, 27 to 28c; 
geese, 20c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Fowls. 35 to 36c; roosters. 22c: _Spring 
ducks. 34 to 35c; squabs, doz., $5.50 to 
$9.25. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, bbl., $2.50 to $4.75; onions, 
new. bu,. $3.50 to $4.2;>; cabbage, bbl., 
$1.75 to $2.25. 
IIAY AND STRAW. 
I lav. Timothy. No. 1. $40 to $41 ; No. 
2. $38 to $39 ; No. 3. $35 to $36; clover 
mixed. $38 to $39. Straw, rye. $12.50 to 
$13.50; oat and wheat. $11 to $12. 
FRUITS. 
Peaches, 6-bkt. crate, $1.75 to $3; 
cherries, lb.. 15 to 20c; blackberries, qt., 
15 to 25c; strawberries, qt., 18 to 40c. 
Ilay is selling for $30 now to dealers; 
potatoes, $1. Good beef cattle, 8’4c on 
foot, to shippers. Oats, very few. if any, 
for sale; dealers ask $1 out of feed store; 
cow feed. $3.40. Ilay is not an average 
crop; some fields look fairly good ; others 
nothing hut weeds. Corn looking good ; 
oats good; potatoes late, some not planted 
yet. Potato bugs bad. More barley sown 
than usual; lots of buckwheat ground to 
be plowed if it does not get too dry. We 
have had some fine rains lately: makes 
everything look better. Milk is the lead¬ 
ing product here. Our milk goes to the 
Monroe Cheese Co., Covington, Pa., for 
which we receive League price. One and 
a half miles west of here milk^ goes to 
Helvetia Milk Condensery Co., Wellsbovo, 
for which the patrons have to take about 
10c per 100 less on account of too many 
who shipped milk during the strike last 
Winter. The New York State League 
would not help any, so the Ivoague won! 
to pieces. M. L. z. 
Tioga Co., Pa. 
Tobacco about all planted; acreage 
nearly normal. Ilay making in full swing. 
On account of the frequent rains grass 
made rapid growth and there will be a 
normal crop of hay. Wheat looks fine. 
Some is badly lodged ; is now beginning to 
color. Cherries will probably not average 
more than half normal crop. _ ltose bugs 
very bad on them. Butter, 4;»c; eggs, 43 
to 45c; wheat, $2.75 to $2.90 per bu.; 
potatoes, old, $2 and scarce. Fat cattle, 
$12.50 to $13.50 per cwt.. live. Fresh 
milch cows, $75 to $175; horses, $150 to 
$250. 0. M. R. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Cold, wet, backward Spring: all crops 
were put in late, hut are looking good. 
May crop will be very good. Not much 
fruit. Principal crops are potatoes, oats, 
buckwheat and hay. Milk, $3 per cwt.; 
butter, 50c per lb.; eggs, 40c. Oats, 90c 
per bu.; potatoes. $1 per bu.; hay, $30 
tier ton. Veal calves, 17c per lb. Cows, 
$75 to $125 and $150. E. o. 
McKean Co., Pa. 
Potatoes an^Bbringing $1.20 per bu. 
now; butter, from 55 to 60c per lb.; eggs, 
12c per doz. Iijiied ; has been selling 
from $22 to $3' . 1>. here. The new 
crop of hay is i ..g good; also Winter 
wheat. The cuimated crops are late on 
account of wet weather, and the acreage 
is somewhat smaller. P. C. H. 
Warren Co., Pa. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — The steamer North¬ 
land, of the Eastern Steamship Company, 
hound from New York to Boston, with 
several hundred passengers and a large 
cargo of freight, ran aground on West 
Island, about 10 miles from the Buzzards 
Bay entrance to the Cape Cod Canal, 
June 21. All the 350 passengers were 
taken off safely and carried to New Bed¬ 
ford. The transfer was made by tugs 
and small boats. 
Between 60 and 70 persons were killed 
and more than 100 were badly injured 
by a tornado which struck Fergus Falls, 
Minn., June 21, and tore a large section 
of the city, including the business dis¬ 
trict, to pieces. 
A strike of chauffeurs, drivers and por¬ 
ters who handle incoming fruits and vege¬ 
tables tied "p the local “green market” 
in New Yor.. City June 23-25. Business 
in Washington, Wallabout and Ganse- 
voort markets there was virtually at a 
standstill because of the lack of goods to 
sell. The Pennsylvania. Erie and Old 
Dominion piers were completely tied up. 
On request of Lieut. John Ml Finnerty 
of th* provost guard, the War Camp Com¬ 
munity Service of New York issued June 
23 a warning to soldiers and sailors of 
the danger of accepting cigarettes from 
strangers. In an increasing number of 
cases. s> Lieut. Finnerty says, service 
men have been knocked down and robbed 
after having smoked drugged cigarettes 
pressed upon them with ulterior motives. 
A bombing airplane piloted by Lieut.- 
Col. II. B. Claggett struck and killed two 
children and injured another in landing 
at Franklin r ' : “ld. Boston. Mass.. June 
24. Capt. imam E. Chandler-, observer 
on the machine, was slightly hurt. The 
plane, one of seven which arrived from 
Albany. N. Y.. on the last leg of a f'ght 
froin Dallas, Tex., was wrecked. A large 
crowd had gathered on the field to watch 
the landing. Coming down against wind, 
Liout.-Col. Claggett saw that his course 
was carrying him into the crowd. To 
avoid this he deliberately headed into a 
clump of trees. lie did not see the three 
children, who were standing near the 
trees, until it was too late to change his 
course again. 
It was officially announced at Winni¬ 
peg. Manitoba. June 23 that all aliens 
hereafter caught participating in demon¬ 
strations against the guardians of the 
peace will he taken in custody and placed 
in an internment camp. More than 20 
aliens charged with rioting are in custody 
pending internment. 
Robert McCulloch, president of the 
United Railways Company of 8t. Louis, 
was charged June 23 with burglary in the 
second degree and larceny in connection 
with the theft June 15, 1918, of referen¬ 
dum petitions against the street ear com¬ 
pany’s franchise ordinance in an informa¬ 
tion issued hy Circuit Attorney Lawrence 
McDaniel. McCulloch, whose salary was 
$25,000 a year, shortly afterward an¬ 
nounced his resignation as operating man¬ 
ager of the street car company. Bruce 
Cameron, superintendent of transporta¬ 
tion of the company, who already is un¬ 
der indictment on a burglary and larceny 
charge in compaction with the theft of the 
petitions, aiso tendered his resignation. 
A safe in the offices of the Referendum 
League was blown on June 15, 1918, and 
the petitions stolen. A witness testified at 
the hearing that lie arranged the details 
of the robbery at the direction of Mc¬ 
Culloch and that he brought three safe 
blowers from Chicago to do the work. 
The Pennsylvania Senate June 23 
passed, 29 to 19, a hill permitting the 
manufacture and sale of beer containing 
2% per cent of alcohol. The hill already 
had passed the House. This action was 
taken in spite of a protest from Gov. 
Spronl that the legislation is “decidedly 
unnecessary.” Later he announced he 
will veto the hill. Senator Baldwin of 
the Governor’s home county, favoring the 
hill, road a section of the National pro¬ 
hibition amendment which provides that 
both the Federal and State Governments 
shall have power to enforce the amend¬ 
ment, 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Anti- 
horsethief Association, which is said to 
have an organization in each of the 105 
counties of Kansas, has been delegated to 
guard the wheat fields and granaries of 
that State against incendiary fires. De¬ 
termination to patrol the wheat belt with 
armed guards until after harvest was 
reached at a conference attended by rep¬ 
resentatives of insurance ecompanies. rail¬ 
way police, secret service . agents, L. T. 
Hussey, State fire warden in Kansas, and 
a representative of the United States At¬ 
torney for the District of Kansas. Ilus- 
scy told the insurance men reports com¬ 
ing to his office indicated there is grave 
danger of the Industrial Workers of the 
World repeating the work of 1917. when 
many grain storage houses were burned. 
At the conclusion of the conference if was 
announced that armed guards from the 
various county anti-thief organizations 
would be assigned to the fields. 
A cablegram was forwarded June 24 
to President Wilson hy the California 
State Viticultural Commission appealing 
to. him to proclaim demobilization imme¬ 
diately on signing the peace treaty, in 
order to remove war-time prohibition. 
This action was taken as the result of. a 
decision made at a meeting of the commis¬ 
sion last January. Loss of $12,000,000, 
the message states, hinges on the action 
taken. 
