The RURAi NEW-YORKER 
1679 
on your hillsides and 
fertilizer from washii 
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Builds field terraces, 
ditches, 4 ft. deep. 
Make 
Field Terraces Now 
rolling land to stop the soil and 
away this winter. Use the 
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Cuts V-shaped 
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Crops and Farm News 
A HOR.'E CAN TRAVEL WHERE AN 
AUTOMOBILE CANNOT GO 
Often in the deep snows of winter an 
automooile cannot get through the 
drifts, but the horse can travel any¬ 
where if he can secure footing. 
There is just one thing will insure safe 
footing on any road anywhere any 
t.rne, no matter how icy or slippery, 
and that is the 
Neverslip 
Red Tip 
Horse 
Shoe 
Calk 
"Whatever IMj-jj gfl 
the o c e a- IBS-* Kfl 
sion; a hur- , 
ried trip to 
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a load of produce to be delivered— 
your horse is ready when you are ready. 
The wise horse owner will go to his 
horse sheer early and have the safe, 
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he can laugh at the weather. No sleet 
storm, no sudden freeze will hold him 
back. His sharp, strong RED TIP 
CALKS can be adjusted in 20 minutes, 
and he is ready for the road. 
Avoid substitutes. LOOK FOR THE 
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New Brunswick, N. J. 
THE 50-H. P. LIGHT-SIX 
Judge It by Its Performance 
T HIS Studebaker LIGHT-SIX proves its splendid 
design and quality on the road. Even when 
speeding at 50 miles an hour there is no discomfort 
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Conditions in Southeastern Pennsylvania 
Our county (Berks) is one of the 
southeastern counties of Pennsylvania 
and has a greatly diversified soil as well 
as surface. General farming is pursued, 
some specializing in potatoes, especially 
in the northeastern part, which has more 
of a gravel soil, adapted to potato grow¬ 
ing. than the heavier limestone soil of the 
valleys, which perhaps makes up the 
larger area of the county. 
Crops have been very good in the main 
and farmers are fairly prosperous, though 
greatly handicapped by lack of sufficient 
help. The corn crop, which is being har¬ 
vested at the present -time, is one of the 
best, if not the best, ever harvested. Prac¬ 
tically no new corn has been sold, and 
therefore no staple price received by farm¬ 
ers can be given at this time. Old corn 
ranged in price from $1.75 to $2.10 at the 
local markets, $1.85 being the prevailing 
price at the present time, with very little 
on hand, the millers having Western corn 
shipped in to supply their needs. 
■Wheat was not as good a crop as last 
year. A good part of it was caught in a 
prolonged rainy spell during harvest and 
damaged. The heads do not seem to be 
well filled and the grains are small, many 
farms not averaging over 15 to 18 bu. to 
the acre, while ordinarily 25 bu. is about 
what it yields. This is true even of the 
wheat that was not caught in the rainy 
spell during harvesting. The prevailing 
price paid by millers is $2.10 to $2.20 per 
bushel. 
Oats were less than an average crop 
this year. Price about 75 to SOc per bu. 
Very little rye grown in this section of 
the county; also very little buckwheat. 
Potatoes were a good crop, especially 
where farmers had sprayed for blight. 
Prices ranged from $2 to as low as $1.50 
per bu. Apples are not grown to a very 
large extent for commercial purposes. 
They range in price from $1.50 to $2 
per bu. 
The majority of farmers are producing 
considerable milk, which is taken to the 
local milk station where it is cooled and 
then shipped to ice cream factories and 
also to Philadelphia and Reading, some 
farmers shipping direct. In this locality 
they are paid according to the test the 
milk shows. 4 per cent milk being taken 
for the standard ; $3.58 per cwt. was paid 
for the last half of September for 4 per 
cent milk, with 4c per 1 per cent increase 
or decrease for each point above or below 
the 4 per cent. 
Dairy feeds are very high, ranging 
from $70 to $S0 per ton for gluten, mixed 
feed, bran, red dog, etc., which are used 
mostly. Dairy cows are very high, rang¬ 
ing in price from $100 to $200 and over. 
Holsteins seem to have the call among 
milk producers. Later in the season quite 
a few fat hogs are sold to local butchers, 
and also some to the city meat dealers in 
Reading. Some weeks ago $22 to $24 
per cwt. was the price for dressed hogs for 
the few that were sold here. 
Very little butter is made in this sec¬ 
tion, and dealers handle Western butter 
to supply the local trade, which they re¬ 
tail at Sic per lb. Eggs bring 68c at this 
writing; young chickens, 2Sc per lb., live 
weight; hens, 26c. Eggs and poultry are 
mostly sold to hucksters, who drive 
through the country from farm to farm 
and gather them up. There are, how¬ 
ever, some farmers who take them to 
Reading or Pottstown, the former about 
10 miles and the latter about seven miles. 
They are getting 72c for their eggs. 
Very little hay or straw is being soldi 
through these parts, farmers generally 
feeding and using all on the place, and in 
this way retaining the fertility of the soil 
much better than by selling it and buying 
commercial fertilizer, though nearly all 
farmers use commercial fertilizer in addi¬ 
tion. 
Very few farms were for sale during 
the last several years. Those that have 
been sold have increased in price from 50 
to 100 per cent from wliat they were sold 
for five or 10 years ago. 
Farm land with improvements brings 
from $125 to $200 per acre in this valley, 
which is generally considered one of the 
most fertile sections of the county. The 
general outlook for farmers in this sec¬ 
tion, barring labor shortage, is fairly 
good; perhaps better than for a number 
of years. A good part of the farm labor 
is being drawn to Reading and Pottstown, 
where iron and steel mills are paying big 
wages, often such laborers making $5 or 
$6 a day or night. The prevailing price 
paid for day work by farmers is $2 to 
$2 50 per day, with board. Male hired 
help, $40 to $50 per month; female, $4 to 
$4.50 per week. j. p. d. 
Corn is a bumper crop, making about 
SO bu. per acre; wheat, about 20 bu. to 
acre; potatoes, 100 bu. to acre. Hay was 
a light crop; tobacco very uneven. Wheat 
$2.20 at mill; corn, $1.25 new; old was 
$2 and over; oats, 84c; hay, $40 ton ; 
milk, $3.60 per cwt. for 3.5 per cent; but¬ 
ter, 65c; eggs, 65c mixed colors, white 
SOc; chickens, 26c lb.; hogs as low as $12 
cwt. Cows are high, from $75 to $150; 
calves, from 18 to 22c lb., live weight. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. n. s. m. 
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THE LIGHT-SIX THE BIG-SIX 
$1685 $2135 
4/1 prices f. o. b. Detroit 
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