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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November 1, 1919 
WM. LOUDEN 
whose Labor 
Saving: Barn 
Equipment is 
used movers 
million barns. 
“After using you 
Feed and Litter Car 
tiers for 3 years I find 
it always ready to do 
its duty, and does its 
work more satisfac¬ 
torily than a hired 
man — never out of 
order—always on the 
job." 
JOHN CLEGG&SON 
Breeders of 
Jersey Cattle, 
Ruthland, Illinois. 
"We installed one of 
your litter carrier out¬ 
fits last fall and find it 
exactly as represented. 
It is one of the great¬ 
est time and labor 
savers on the farm. 
It must be used to be 
appreciated." 
C.M. HARNESS. 
Galveston, Ind. 
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does his work cheerfully and quickly every day, never gets tired, never asks for pay 
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you—not just for one year but for many years to come. 
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Northern Ohio Notes 
Reduced Dairies. —Despite the fact 
that the court has ruled that the dairy¬ 
men have the right of "collective bargain¬ 
ing,” and the seven dairymen released 
from jail for an "alleged assault” upon 
the Valentine law. and the third of the 
milk wars in and about Cleveland again 
showed the dairymen to be the victors, 
still the selling of dairies outright goes 
on, and the posts at the four corners are 
plastered with auction sales of dairies 
from 15 to 20 cows. Cows that will 
easily bring from $75 to $250 each will 
go into dealers’ hands, and he shipped 
far away, many of them to Europe. This 
outs the milk supply short, putting up 
city delivery now to 10c per quart and 9e 
to the producers, but the latter assert 
that it is being made at a loss, hence the 
sales. These are no scrub cow dairies 
that are being auctioned They are as a 
rule high grades, and registered. A small 
dairy, mostly high grades, near me, 
brought from $100 to $250 each. Rea¬ 
sons given are: "It costs me more than 
I can get out of it”; help cannot be had; 
feeds are still mounting up in price,, if 
not in quality; the continuous agitation 
in the prices, and demands of the city 
health officers, and methods of the buyers, 
and the continuous complaint of the con¬ 
sumer about paying 15c for milk, 
Some Improvements. —True, some 
changes for the better are coming the 
dairymen’s way, one of which is the ad¬ 
vent of the city collecting milk truck 
that takes the milk at the farmer’s door, 
and which releases him from getting .up 
at 4 a. m. to milk, and reach the morning 
milk train, often four miles away, and 
it somewhat 'lessens cost of transporta¬ 
tion. Now the great canvassed milk 
trucks, each with about 125 cans, collect 
the milk and relieve the farmer from this 
two hours or so morning trip to the 
train. Besides this, the truck driver 
often acts as an express agent to deliver, 
or collect, commodities, and most of them 
are hucksters, buying the small produce 
of the farms at going city prices. The 
advent of the milk truck has brought iu 
its train the auto truck buyer of every 
kind and sort of farm surplus at cash 
on the spot, prices, and has put a market 
for the farm at every farmer’s front.gate. 
It is only fair to say that there is an 
increasing volume of night obtained sup¬ 
plies. in which the farmer is not con¬ 
sulted, and actually in some cases counts 
in small stock, pigs, etc., and even larger 
unsolicited supplies, all of which calls 
for a mounted rural police force. 
Goon Roads. —The long lines of paved 
roads that now reach out in all directions 
from Cleveland, and the accompanying 
crossroads, have not only brought town 
and city very close together, but lent a 
great impetus to farm selling and much 
advance in prices, and is fast changing 
the individual occupancy of the country 
districts, nationality as well. A surpris¬ 
ing number of people in this once solid 
New England territory now spell their 
names with an ending "ski” or "ich,” 
largely people who want to farm for a 
living, and at the end of a year—often 
loss—sell out to someone else, and hike 
back to the city. 
Scarcity of Help. —The increasing 
scarcity of farm help on the Western 
Reserve is causing an increasing change 
in “getting the work done,” and an ad¬ 
vance is being made from changing work 
to what is actually community work; 
adding much more machinery, and having 
this machinery work on more than one 
farm. About here are many such, notably 
to do the thrashing, silo filling, and even 
grain harvesting. Near here is a “club” 
of six farmers who combine their machin¬ 
ery. buy an engine or a tractor, a* small 
thrasher and a silo filler, invoice the out¬ 
fit. have a scale of labor prices, credit 
what each man does, pay the man for 
his overtime; each man hoards himself, 
and when a job is done settle up: allow 
for the use of machinery and pay propor¬ 
tion after deducting the labor items. 
These clubs are fast growing in numbers, 
and with great satisfaction, and in large 
way seem to be answering the question 
where one can get help. A good tractor 
that can plow and fit the land, pull a 
reaper or corn hinder, buzz the wood, and 
take two big loaded wagons tandem to 
market and the lime and the like back 
home, is something to be reckoned with, 
even in 1919, and this in some way must 
he the continuing answer about help for 
the farm. 
Crop Notes. —The writer lives on the 
very edge of the great potato and onion 
area, and there are some things hard to 
understand this season about the behavior 
of the crops. This district is also noted 
for its fruit, but this year there are 
practically no apples of any kind, pos¬ 
sibly a single tree here and there, hut 
inferior fruit. The early potatoes were 
simply not there, but potatoes planted in 
July are very fine, and promise better 
than $1.50 prices. The onions have had 
ups and downs, and will at last make 
better than a half crop, usually pretty 
fair size and quality, and the price is 
reckoned ns good. The big trucks begin 
to go by to the city markets piled high 
with the fish-net bags of onions, and the 
Wheeler muck, with about 150 acres, is 
now a pretty busy community, making 
the bulbs ready for shipment. This, not 
long ago swamp, sold for something like 
$20 per acre, is now selling at from $250 
to better than this, and 500 more acres 
to clear. j. g. 
A New Silo from an Old One 
The following is a picture of the old 
silo owned by Albert H, Ilopkins of Cay¬ 
uga Co., N. Y.. as it looked under process 
of repair. It had become quite dilapi- 
dated. and was unfit to hold silage for an¬ 
other year. lie bought a new covering 
from a firm whose specialty is making 
new silos from old ones. The picture 
shows how they took out the decayed 
Making Over the Old Silo 
staves and replaced them with new ones. 
With the aid of a carpenter and two 
neighbors he finished the whole job iu 
four and one-half days. 
The covering is half-inch cypress over 
one thickness of a waterproof building 
paper. Where the ends of the cypress 
come together there is a piece of gal¬ 
vanized tin to keep out moisture and pre¬ 
vent decay. This rejuvenated silo is now 
practically better than ever before, on ac¬ 
count of the two extra layers to help ex¬ 
clude the cold, and will give many addi¬ 
tional years of profitable service. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. mrs. F. j. sawyer. 
Aunt Jane Wins 
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tall tramp, whom he bound with the rope 
'halter still in his hands. 
Once seated in her favorite chair. Aunt 
Jane begged Mary to draw a bucket of 
fresh water and give her a glass. “Then 
pour the rest over Pa’s head; that’ll wake 
him if anything can.” she directed with 
fresh energy. 
Mary Joyce had telephoned for the cou- 
stable. and the two men, much subdued iu 
aspect, were escorted to jail. After sup¬ 
per, and when the chores had been done, 
full details of the whole proceedings had 
to be related to an admiring family. Ilow 
the tramps learned of the money was a 
mystery which was cleared when they ad¬ 
mitted sleeping the previous night iu the 
hayloft of the Sampson barn. 
“Ilow'd you know where I put the 
money?” asked Uncle Liphlet of his wife. 
“Broke my neck on the shovel you left 
where you dug,” was the response. 
“Then I let the hull thing out ’n’ snored 
like an idiot through the hull perform¬ 
ance,” ejaculated the humbled Uncle 
Liphlet. “But for you. Jane, and Adoni- 
ram, we might have lost it all. How iu 
thunder did Adoniraui get iu there?” 
“I put him there,” said Aunt Jaue 
coolly, “case any undesirables came 
snoopin’ round.” 
“Jane,” said Uncle Liphlet firmly, 
“you’re a smart woman. I’ve allers said 
so, and now I’m sure. Tell ye what I’ll 
do for ye. I’ll cut them pear trees down 
tomorrow.” 
“No, you won’t.” hastily interposed 
thrifty Aunt Jane. “You’ll pick every 
last pear on ’em this Fall: then cut ’em 
dowu quick as you and David can swing 
your axes.” 
