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The Breeder’s Gazette 
Holiday Number 
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The temperature is drop¬ 
ping and raw fur prices are 
rising. Get your traps ready 
for the big season—the year 
of high prices. 
RAW FURS 
Thousands of shippers are 
S. & B. shippers first, last 
and always, because past 
experience has convinced 
them of the never-failing 
S. & B. policy of high prices, 
liberal assortments and im¬ 
mediate returns. 
Write for price list 
STRUCK & BOSSAK, Inc. 
151 West 28th Street New York City 
Buyers Also of Ginseng and Golden Seal 
TRAPPERS’ GUIDE 
Best Published. Sent for names of 5 trappers. Cut 
out ady. and save it till you have Furs to Ship. 
STERN BROS. FUR CO., New Brunswick, N. J. 
INTERESTING GARDEN BOOKS 
A Woman’s Hardy Garden —By Mrs. 
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Old Time Gardens—By A. M. Earle 2.50 
Flowers and Ferns in Their Haunts— 
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Plant Physiology— By Duggan . . 1.60 
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now and will pay you well for your pelts. 
RAW FURS 
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better outlet, that he gave a better grade, that 
he paid more, or remitted more promply, than 
any other reliable dealer, BUT 
JIM ELLIS 
DOES claim that his outlet, that his grading, 
that his prices, and promptness in remitting, are 
the equal of any honorable FUR MERCHANT 
regardless of location. 
Established 1899 
JAMES P. ELUS 
RAW FURS 
34 & 36 Mill St. Middletown, N.Y. 
Reliable Quotations Sent Free 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Benjamin Tobak and 
Maurice S. Nessim, who wore arrested 
in a printing shop at 411 East Fourth 
St., New York, Nov. 1, on the ground 
that they were using their knowledge 
of type and presses to issue anarchistic 
literature, were held in $10,000 bail each 
in Tombs Court, Nov. 2, against the vig¬ 
orous protest of their attorney, Irvin E. 
Klein, of Y'onkers. Tobak is charged 
with “criminal anarchy” and Nessim, 
who is an organizer of the "Communist 
party of the Second Assembly District,” 
was charged with having anarchistic lit¬ 
erature in his possession. 
Werner Horn, the German officer who 
attempted to blow up the international 
bridge between Calais, Me., and St. 
Stephen, N. B., three years ago, was 
sentenced at Fredericton, N. B., Oct. 31 
to 10 years imprisonment. 
Fourteen persons were killed at Clarks- 
boro, N. J., Nov. 1, when a Pennsyl¬ 
vania train struck an automobile carrying 
persons from a masquerade in Philadel¬ 
phia. 
More than 200 families have been 
driven from their homes and property 
damage estimated at more than $1,000,- 
000 was caused by a flood of Green River 
in Green County, Ivy, Nov. 2. Farm 
buildings and many thousands acres of 
crops have been destroyed. 
Fake sales of army surplus supplies 
have been held in New Y’ork City, in¬ 
spired by the success attending the sale 
of bona fide army goods at the official 
United States army retail store at 22 
West 19th St. Captain Jaffrey Peterson, 
in command of the store, announced Nov. 
2 that he has launched a spirited cam¬ 
paign against the fraudulent dealers, 
many of whom are making more than 100 
per cent profit. Captain Peterson has 
found 30 of these stores and in each in¬ 
stance has compelled the proprietor to re¬ 
move his sign advertising army goods. 
He also has forced other dealers to alter 
newspaper advertisements which offered 
army goods. .The only place where army 
surplus supplies are being sold is at the 
store established and conducted by the 
United States Quartermaster’s Depart¬ 
ment, at 22 West 19th St. 
Early election returns showed the de¬ 
feat of local Democratic organizations in 
New York aud Boston. In Massachu¬ 
setts, Governor Coolidge, the Republican 
candidate, achieved an unprecedented 
victory over Mr. Long, his Democratic 
opponent. Party lines, however, were en¬ 
tirely ignored because of the paramount 
issue of law and order espoused by Mr. 
Coolidge as against the bid made by Mr. 
Long for the support of all the discon¬ 
tented elements. In New York City the 
Republicans unseated 10 Democratic As¬ 
semblymen and several Tammany aider- 
men. Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt was 
elected to the Assembly. Of four States 
electing governors. Massachusetts and 
Kentucky went Republican, New Jersey 
and Maryland. Democratic. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Horse 
Publicity Association of America, Inc., 
met at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New 
York, Oct. 30-31. 
Farmers of the Fraser Valley, British 
Columbia, have organized a co-operative 
body to purchase feed, distribute products 
and purchase farm machinery. An asso¬ 
ciation including milk producers, poul- 
trymen and hog raisers will also be formed. 
They plan to eliminate competition in 
farm centers and thus be able to supply 
the market at lowest cost. At present 
Vancouver City and district is practically 
entirely supplied with milk from a co¬ 
operative farmer organization of the 
Fraser Valley. 
The price of raw furs, which has in¬ 
creased from 100 to 300 per cent in the 
last five years, continues to go higher, 
with the result that women’s fur coats 
and fur prices for the season of 1920-21 
will he advanced considerably over the 
present remarkably high quotations. This 
was the consensus at the annual conven¬ 
tion of the New Y”ork State Raw Fur 
Dealers at Syracuse recently. The fur 
dealers hold that the muskrat, producer 
of what is commonly known as Hudson 
seal fur, is in danger of extermination, 
and they plan to ask the State Legisla¬ 
ture to provide a shorter season for trap¬ 
ping. Sigmund Prensdorf of Syracuse 
was re-elected president, with I. S. Do- 
golebe of Palmyra as vice-president, W. 
D. Wilder of Pulaski, treasurer, and Jo¬ 
seph Buff of Syracuse, secretary. 
The short workday aud the “ever in¬ 
creasing wages demanded by industrial 
labor” were declared to be “allies of the 
profiteer in keeping up the high cost of 
living” in a resolution adopted Oct. 30 
by the Farmers’ National Congress at its 
concluding session at Hagerstown, Md. 
The congress also wont on record as op¬ 
posed to “all strikes.” The resolution ex¬ 
pressing opposition to organized labor’s 
methods was adopted over the protests of 
a small minority, who withdrew from the 
congress after the vote on the resolution. 
Speakers for this minority declared that 
all organized labor was engaged in a 
struggle for its just rights and should 
have the full sympathy and support of the 
farmers of America. “We know that the 
44-hour week cannot feed the world and 
we proclaim that it cannot clothe it,” the 
resolution further declared. Those who 
advocate the short day in industry, the 
resolution added, should not expect the 
farmer to work “six hours before dinner 
and six hours after, with before-breakfast 
November 15, 191!) 
and after-supper chores thrown in.” 
While pledging a helping hand to “honest 
organized labor,” the resolution con¬ 
demned the “treason of false leaders who 
for pay and price would scuttle the ship 
of state and rear the red flag of Bol¬ 
shevism over the ranks of an outraged 
and fallen republic.” In declaring opposi¬ 
tion to “all strikes,” the congress went 
on record as favoring a Federal board of 
arbitration that would give both capital 
and labor a “square deal.” 
WASHINGTON.—The Committee on 
Public Information, headed by George 
Creel, cost the government about $6,600,- 
000 on the face of its chaotic records, 
according to official reports now before 
Congress, which say the committee’s af¬ 
fairs cannot be wound up for six months 
because of the confusion. Chairman Creel 
and other officials of the committee are 
charged with gross negligence in handling 
the government’s funds in a report by 
E. K. Ellsworth, of the Council of Na¬ 
tional Defense, appointed to liquidate the 
committee’s affairs. Mr. Ellsworth said 
he found a balance of about $1,500,000 
left out of the $5,650,000 from President 
Wilson’s special war fund, and $1,250,000 
provided by Congress included in the 
committee’s assets. Unpaid bills, aggre¬ 
gating several hundred thousand dollars, 
were still in the committee’s files, he said. 
There also were checks and money orders 
payable to the committee aggregating 
$76,000, dated last Spring, upon which 
collection had not been attempted, and 
Ellsworth said he also found “several 
thousands worth of cheeks . . . thrown 
in file cases,” without any effort to realize 
on them. Other negotiable papers were 
found “in desk trays . . . and on the 
floor” in the office of E. H. Hobbs, for¬ 
mer disbursing officer and business man¬ 
ager of the committee. Additional funds 
were discovered in New Y T ork and \Yash- 
ington banks and in Russian banks cap¬ 
tured by the Bolsheviki, the report said. 
One item of $10,000 in the hands of a 
New York auctioneer was listed, “several 
thousand dollars with an army officer in 
Rumania.” Other funds were -left with 
consuls in Russia and France. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
Market Generally Firm Under Rapid¬ 
ly Lessening Supplies From 
Producing Sections. 
Movement of potatoes has decreased 
about one-third since the height of the 
season a month ago. Further shrinkage 
to about one-half present volume may be 
expected when movement settles down 
to Winter basis the last of December. 
The normal trend of prices is upward un¬ 
der these conditions and with the ap¬ 
proach of the usual active buying for the 
holiday season, but there are various dis¬ 
turbing items including strikes, car 
shortage and scarcity of sugar. The 
fact remains that the most important 
lines; potatoes, apples, cabbage and 
onions, are light to moderate crops and 
likely to be needed before the season is 
over, even if the demand is checked some¬ 
what by comparatively high prices and 
by other conditions. 
POTATOES IN STRONG POSITION. 
The potato crop is being marketed 
fast and some sections appear already re¬ 
lieved of the greater part of their sur¬ 
plus. There is more or less tendency to 
hold for higher prices in the West, and 
prices are now as high as in the East in 
some sections like Colorado and Idaho, 
where buyers usually have gone for low 
priced supplies. Some Western stock 
was caught by the October freeze but not 
enough to affect the general situation. 
Rot caused some serious losses in parts 
of the East but the worst seems to be 
over. Prices range from $2.25 to $2.75 
for 100 lbs. in Western producing sec¬ 
tions and from $2.25 to $2.35 in Maine 
and Western New York. City prices for 
large lots range $2.25 to $3.35 in the 
West and Northwest and $2.25 to $2.60 
in the East. 
STRONG APPLE! MARKETS 
Apples also are higher in the West 
than in the East. Top grade Baldwins 
range $<S to $9 in the Middle West com¬ 
pared with $7 to $8 in the East. Con¬ 
siderable off-color stock sells lower A 
good deal of New England stock, large 
in size but poor in color and fiuish, does 
not exceed $5 in local markets. The 
greater part of the choicest stock has 
gone into cold storage, but storage men 
have operated rather lightly this year. 
Prices looked high and cold storage room 
available for apples was very limited in 
many cities. Shipments from producing 
sections seem well past their height. 
New York State has shipped much less 
than one-half last season’s volume to 
same date, but some other less important 
sections have exceeded expectations and 
total supplies have been a little greater 
than last year so far as barreled apples 
are concerned. Western boxed apples 
are coming 50 per cent in excess of last 
season. The North Western stock is fine 
in size, style and appearance, although 
some of it lacks the usual high color. 
Growers are getting $2 to $3 for best 
grades of standard Western varieties. 
Cider stock has reached unusual prices 
everywhere, ranging 35 to SOe per bushel. 
The comparatively high price of all Hues 
of apples for the past two seasons is 
helping to start quite a boom in sales of 
orchard property. Fruit trees for plant¬ 
ing are scarce and high, partly because of 
the demand and partly because war con¬ 
ditions in Europe have interfered with 
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