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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 1919 
The Watch of 
Successful Men 
Successful men in any line—Farm¬ 
ing, Business, the Sciences, the Arts 
— quite naturally show a kindred 
preference for the Hamilton Watch 
because they appreciate accuracy. 
The Hamilton first came out in 
response to railroad men’s demand 
for a watch of a higher degree of 
accuracy than the watch-making pro¬ 
fession of America had so far produced. 
on]|Jatdi 
The Watch of Railroad Accuracy” 
Successful men invariably respect achieve¬ 
ment for its own sake — and the Hamilton 
standard of accuracy and precision meets 
them on the common ground of character 
and quality. 
You, Mr. Farmer, you know how you 
feel about it. You know whether or not 
you can feel satisfied with anything less 
than the Hamilton standard of accuracy in 
the watch you carry. 
Go to your jeweler’s and inspect his 
Hamiltons. You can make a selection from 
a total of 22 models, ranging in price from 
$36 to $185. Hamilton movements alone, 
$19 ($20.50 in Canada) and up. 
Send today for" The Timekeeper'' which jSl 
tells the story of the Hamilton and 
shows the various models with prices, 
HAMILTON WATCH 
COMPANY 
LANCASTER Dept. 69 PENNSYLVANIA 
Address Wrong in 
AUTOPOWER AD 
I N a recent advertisement 
appearing in 
The Rural New-Yorker 
over the signature of the 
Knight Metal Products Co., 
of Detroit, manufacturers of the 
McGILL AUTOPOWER, 
a crankshaft attachment for 
Ford cars and the operation of 
farm belt machines, the address 
of the 
McGill Autopower Distributing Co. 
of Morristown, N. Y., state distri¬ 
butors for this device, was in er¬ 
ror, the name of another city be¬ 
ing given.instead of Morristown. 
These Len-Mort Work end Outdoor Shoes 
are such wonderful value that we will 
gladly send them to you at 
once, no money down. You 
will find them so well-made 
and so stylish and such a 
big money saving bar¬ 
gain that you will surely 
keep them. No need to pay 
higher prices when you 
can buy direct from us. 
Why pay $6 and $7 for 
shoes not near so good? J' 
SAVE YOUR MONEY 
$3-98 
For this stunning, bright, 
sort., genuine leather shoe. 
Buy your shoes direct from 
our factory and save many 
dollars. This is only one of 
the many liig values we are 
showing in our catalog K. 
We are selling shoes for all 
the family direct from out- 
factory to you at prices 
that will surprise you. 
Try a pair of these. You 
will surely be glad you did. 
TFe guarantee that the 
Shoes Must Please or we 
refund Money. 
We pay 
delivery charges 
QUICKSTEP 
SHOE CO. 
BOSTON 
No. 22536 
QUICKSTEPPERS 
ALWAYS SAVE MONEY 
Send for Big Catalog R 
Great 
Shoe 
Offer 
Western Reserve News 
Auto Buying. —One can almost im¬ 
agine that the “Hope Farm Notes” of 
Nov. 8 depicting the changes in farm life 
and work that is sure to come were writ¬ 
ten from this point in Ohio, inspired by 
the sight of scores of auto trucks whirl¬ 
ing cityward, loaded to capacity with 
every sort and kind of farm produce, and 
this is so different from even a year ago, 
when surplus farm produce was hauled 
to the nearest railroad station and sold 
to the local buyer at the price he was 
inclined to pay. This rapid increase in 
auto buying and transportation is in part 
due to the rapid forming of “city resi¬ 
dence buyers’ clubs,” who make known 
their wants in farm produce to the club, 
and an auto is dispatched to the country, 
and the produce purchased and delivered 
to the subscribers at first cost, and other 
wants added for the next trip. The 
wants of a club soon beget actual com¬ 
merce. To the near east of the writer’s 
home is an immense potato, onion and 
truck garden industry, which is now be¬ 
ing drawn upon, and each day the wants 
extend to other things, like poultry, eggs, 
fruits and almost anything one can eat. 
This is all to the advantage of the farmer, 
who finds a spot-cash market at his door, 
and is benefited at least to the amount of 
railroad freight and buyer’s commissions, 
as these buyers pay morning market quo¬ 
tations, and for eggs and the like very 
much more. The extent of this club buy¬ 
ing is indicated by one of these club 
buyers who purchased 600 bushels of 
potatoes from one man near me, and gave 
an auto truckman the job of drawing and 
delivery to the individual subscribers. 
One is beginning to see bulletin boards 
in front of farms telling of potatoes, 
fruits, eggs and the like “for sale here.” 
This has actually made a “curb market” 
man of the farmer without his leaving his 
farm, and if he is in dairying the great 
anto truck comes to his door every morn¬ 
ing, and in an hour the milk is going 
through the pasteurizers in the city. In 
turn the city seller is sending his trucks 
out with things the farmer does not pro¬ 
duce, including the great distributing 
grocery wagon, and while the farmer is 
not piling up wealth it is giving him an 
independence that enables him to own 
better dairies, better farm machinery and 
actually ride in his own auto. He and 
his wife wear city style clothes, and he 
works eight hours a day when he wills, 
and when it comes to a show-down votes 
dry, and tells the food dependents that 
strikes, shorter working hours and de¬ 
creased production are the germs that 
provoke more acutely the II. C. of L. 
Tiie Farmer’s Cow. —Some one has 
started the inquiry, “What has become of 
the farmer’s cow?” lamenting the fact 
that the dairymen have gone back upon 
the lordly Shorthorn as a dairy animal, 
and have “accepted a shanky, bony, non¬ 
descript animal of all colors and sizes, 
shoals an d m * xc d with the taint of many native 
Well, if this man will come out 
built to meet cnrts ” 
the demand of| 
an outd: r city to the Western Reserve of Northern Ohio 
workers 8 h o e as 
well as for the modem he can be shown dairies by the hundred, 
farmer. Built on etylrnh 
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and cows by the thousand, that are none 
of these, and a dairy of red and brindle 
spotted cows are a day’s ride in an auto 
The dairyman has discovered long 
tanning . _ 
proof against the acids in milk," manure, soil, gasoline, etc. 
They outwear three ordinary pairs of shoes. Very flexible, 
sort and easy on the feet. Made by a special process which 
leaves all the life in the leather and gives it a wonderful ,,,, n 
wear-resisting quality. Double leather Boles and heels. Dirt a ‘ J,u c ' 
and water-proof tongue. Heavy chrome leather tops. Just offO that the Holstein* ore his dnirv now 
slip them on and see if they are not the most comfortable. " HOlSteinS are Ills dairy COW 
easiest, most wonderful shoes you every wore. Pay only for market milk, and one rarely sees anv 
$^17 Shoes on an-ival. If. after careful examina- .. „ . , , , , ... , 
. — tionyoudon'tfind themaii you expect, send them other sort than black and white, and 
back and we will return your money. Order by No. A1802“t , , . , 
SEND your name and “ddresa. and be sure to state vv * llle grades predominate, the purebreds 
•nd value. Kee/tZ£“niy If^ads/aao^fn “wiry way 6 are man -V- Tile COWS are large and take 
LEONARD-MQfiJON&CO.. Dept. 2261 Chicago on flesh as readily as any other stock that 
gives large milk yields, and I no longer hear 
of beef buyers who discriminate, meat 
against meat, with any other breed. The 
world has come to know about these herds, 
and buyers by the score are buying every 
one of these cows they can secure, singly 
or by whole dairies, at prices at $100 to 
often $850, now and then $500. These 
cows are going to Europe, the South, the 
Far West, and of two large herds one 
went to Japan and the other to South 
Africa. Here and there are herds of Jer¬ 
seys, Guernseys and in a few instances 
fine herds of Shorthorns are found on the 
Western Reserve, while farther South in 
the State Jerseys are the rule. It looks 
as if most of the farmers have found the 
farmer’s cow. and prices and demand 
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seem to imply that she is liable to re¬ 
main so. 
Silo Corn. —The old question is again 
up in Northern Ohio: “Which is the 
best sort of corn for the eilo?” The 
present season has given the men who 
like such varieties as Blue Ridge and Old 
Virginia the majority. Last season was 
one that put all corn to the test, a very 
wet May and late planting, two short 
but severe drought spells, and then much 
cool and “coldish” wet weather, happily 
a delayed frost. There has been a much 
pronounced opinion that our Northern 
varieties were best, as they matured 
earlier and put more grain into the silo, 
and this opinion carried to some extent. 
In some way the season was against 
home varieties, and despite unfavorable 
conditions the Southern varieties forged 
ahead and made a great crop, with grain 
quite mature enough for the silo, and 
showed that it can be depended upon as 
many years in succession for silage as 
the smaller growing home varieties. Pos¬ 
sibly both may be discarded for sun¬ 
flower silage, some reports showing two 
tons of it to on _ of corn and as valuable 
for feeding as corn. In these “dry” times 
it may be found that the farm help cannot 
get intoxicated on this sunflower juice 
exuded (?) from the silo, and so relieve 
the state of mind many are exercised over 
about this silo intoxicant (?). 
TnE Milk Situation. —The arrest 
last Summer of six of the most prominent 
dairymen adjacent to Cleveland and in¬ 
carcerating them in a filthy jail before 
allowed to get bonds, and subsequently 
their unanimous release by the jury, ac¬ 
quitting them of “fracturing” the Valen-' 
tine law by “collective bargaining,” has 
had a most quieting effect upon a coterie 
of city lawyers and ill-informed city food 
agitators, and a great quiet has followed. 
What is more, it came out at the trial 
that the excess prices of retail milk were 
chargeabP to the city distributors, and 
the farmer was getting, at the best, some¬ 
what less than half of the dollar. Al¬ 
though prices have gone up, no one is 
shouting “collective bargaining” about 
the dairyman, and now that the long- 
drawn-out trial of the Illinois dairymen 
has resulted the same as the Cleveland 
trial, it has put a working big stick into 
the dairymen’s hands to bargain for the 
sale of their milk “collectively.” In 
Cleveland there is a large milk company 
that was attempting to stand in square 
with the dairy farmers, aud so far as 
possible do away with the house-to-house 
delivery of milk, and sell it from milk 
depots or uptown groceries, and to that 
end the dairymen themselves own a re¬ 
spectable share of the stock and have a 
majority of the directorate. They make 
no agreed-upon prices with other dealers, 
but decide with themselves what they can 
pay month by month, taking their place 
with the other dairymen as to 50-50. 
Today they are sending their milk trucks 
into the dairy districts and are handling 
up to their full capacity, and new addi¬ 
tions to the plant will enable them to 
double their business. The grocerymon 
over the city are rapidly falling into the 
line of counter sales, and candy factories, 
restaurants, clubs and hotels, as well as 
100 or so groceries, are all willing and 
many waiting customers. The dairymen 
are satisfied, as they get their pay each 
15 days, and up to date, with no month’s 
and six weeks’ waiting for the milk check. 
I think Cleveland has had the last of 
milk wars, embargoes, jailing farmers and 
attempts to put competing milk firms out 
of business. It is the cost to produce 
milk only that is now troubling the dairy¬ 
men. j. g. 
Roofing Paint on Apple Trees 
Is there anything in the common black 
roofing paint that would injure apple 
trees if the cuts were painted with it 
when trimmed ; also, does it make any dif¬ 
ference when trimming is done? N. ii. s. 
We would not use black roofing paint 
on the stubs where limbs are cut off. If 
you use any paint at all. take pure lead 
and oil. Experience shows that when the 
cutting is properly done the wound will 
heal about as well without any painting. 
We prefer to prune in late Winter or 
early Spring—before the trees start. 
