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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 1919 
^It ’s the Same Old "Juice 
— the Electricity that whizzes the Big Trolley Car along or pours 
from the Fiery Little Columbia to drive the Youngsters’ Train 
E LECTRICITY for hustling the big trolley car comes from 
mammoth generators. . . . The youngsters’ train gets its 
snap and go from the Fiery Little Columbia. ... In both 
cases it is the same kind of electricity. 
Toys themselves appear to enjoy the frolic when spun around by 
Columbias. No connection with the house-lighting fixtures is 
needed—the whole outfit may be toted up to the garret, out on the 
lawn, wherever the good time is—and with absolute safety. 
What a marvelous thing this Columbia Diy Battery is—and what 
a lot of uses! Motionless, yet moving toys at a merry clip; cold, 
yet firing the fuel in autos, motorboats, trucks, tractors, and farm 
engines; silent, yet giving a vigorous tone to telephones, bells, and 
buzzers; lightless, yet illuminating lanterns, pocket lamps, and 
other portables. . . . Fahnestock Spring Clip Binding Posts 
may be had without extra charge. 
THE STORAGE BATTERY 
W HEN you place a Columbia Storage Battery in your car 
you equip with definite pouter guaranteed for a definite time. 
The farpous Columbia Pyramid Seal is the symbol of that 
guarantee. 
Columbia Storage Battery Service is all around. Stop in and see 
how easily and gladly they make certain that every user gets the 
performance to which his purchase entitles him. 
"Saws 25 Cords 
In 6i Hours” 
That’s what Ed. Davis, an Iowa wood 
Bawyer says he did with a WITTE 6 h. p. Saw- 
Rig. Another claims 40 loads of pole wood in 
8 hours and 20minutes with a 6 h. p. Hundreds 
of WITTE Saw-Rig owners have made similar 
records, and 
money. 
Do As Well 
ny hustler can make big money with 
e WITTE. When not sawing you can operate 
her machinery. It’s the one alRpurpose out- 
for farmers and men who make sawing a 
isi less. Prices are favorable right now. As 
i illustration, you can get a 2 h. p. WITTE 
a .ionary Engine on skids, complete catalog 
uinment, now, for $44.95, cash with order. All 
her r izes, 2 to 30 h. p., at low prices. Lifetimo 
nrantee. Big catalog of Engines and Saw 
itlits FREE. Write for it TO-DAY. 
WITTE ENGINE WORKS 
Kansas City, Mo. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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Puller. No matter Isow big or tough tiio 
stump, it walks right, out when the Hercu¬ 
les gets hold of it. With the stump come all 
tho long tap roots that spread out in all direc¬ 
tions. Tho land is loft read, for cultivation. 
Power Stump Pi 
Let us send you proof. 
Bands of farmers have 
made big money turn* 
l ing stump land into 
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l| When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
II quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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Milk and Livestock 
The League price for November inilk is 
$3.2(5 for 3 per cent, express and cartage 
to come out of that. Butter to the stores, 
75c; eggs. 60c; heavy hens, 20c per lb.; 
light hens, ISc; roosters, per lb.. 15c; 
ducks, 20c; geese, 22c; turkeys, 30c; No. 
1 round white potatoes, $1 ; No. 1 long, 
!)0e; No. 1 red, 80c. Pea beans, per cwt., 
$5; medium, $5; yellow eye. $5; mar¬ 
row, $8.50; white kidney, $8.50; red kid¬ 
ney, $10.50. Good dry buckwheat, per 
cwt., $2.75. Oats, per bu., SOe. Ilegs 
have dropped to 10c per lb., live weight. 
Cows run from $00 to $100. just common 
grande cows. Scratch feed, per cWt., 
$4.30; mash, $4.20; bran, $2.55; shorts, 
$3.10. The crops around here are pretty 
good; oats and potatoes were the poorest. 
Ilay was good; also corn, and the most 
husking corn we had in quite a few 
years. Buckwheat was the best crop we 
have had in some time. Winter wheat is 
looking fine this Fall. No apples right 
around here. B. 0. 
Bradford Co., Pa. 
This is a general farming section, with 
dairying as a side line. Potatoes are 
bringing $1.25 and $1.50 per bu. This is 
what the dealers are offering. New corn. 
$1.25 per 100 lbs.; oats, 70c.; rye, $1.25 
per bu. of 60 lbs. Eggs, 70 to 72c; but¬ 
ter, 60c. Milk for November is $3.70 
per 100 lbs. for 3 per cent. Wheat. $2.20 
for 60 lbs. No. 1 red, $2 for No. 1 white. 
A good many farmers are disposing of 
half of their herds, owing to scarcity of 
high-priced labor. There is only one-half 
the acreage of Winter grain sown this 
Fall, compared with other seasons. Win¬ 
ter grain is looking good; there is very 
little corn husked yet; quite some to cut. 
The potato crop was about half lost by 
the wet rot. There are no apples through 
this part of the country at all. Most or¬ 
chards are entirely barren of fruit owing 
to the late frost in May. There is not 
much spraying done through this section. 
Very little pork raised through here; 
pork is bringing 16c per lb . dressed ; 10c 
per lb. live weight; veal. 20e.. Fall pigs 
are bringing anywhere from $3 to $5 each. 
Warren Co., N. -T. f. it. s. 
The leading products are milk and eggs 
in this part of the county, although they 
raise potatoes and other produce to some 
extent. Milk for October, flat price per 
cwt., was $3.31. Eggs, 90c, less commis¬ 
sion in New York City. Potatoes, $1 per 
bu. Apples are scarce and selling from 
$1 to $1.50 per bu.. home market, grafted 
fruit; common fruit, or cider apples, $1 
per cwt. Dealers pay us 13 and 14c per 
lb. for hogs. live. Calves three days old 
sell for about 10c per lb. Veal calves, $1S 
per cwt.. four to six weeks old. Hay sells 
at auction for about $15 per ton. The 
outlook for. us lies in chance: if we have 
good luck we make good; if our stocks 
fail us, we lose. L. J. S. 
Otsego Co.. X. Y. 
<We have had exceptionally fine Fall 
weather for the past two months. Farm 
work is well taken care of. as the usual 
crops to be harvested have been very 
light. We are having plenty of rain, 
which will make it fine for Fall plowing, 
of which much will be done. The weather 
at times in October was very hot. fol¬ 
lowed by thunder showers. IVheat, where 
sown early and well put in, is making a 
very rank growth. The apple crop was 
very light, and commanded a record price. 
Cabbage as a crop was a failure, due to 
poor plants, weather and aphis. It start¬ 
ed in at $50, but the kraut factory has 
gone to $12 per ton. The Danish crop 
will be no better. Potatoes are dug. crop 
about 50 per cent., quality quite good, but 
price low. Farmers have very hard work 
to get sugar, and are compelled to buy 
other goods then in order to get it. This 
looks like profiteering to me. It seems 
that it would be more consistent if Con¬ 
gress would stop fighting over the peace 
treaty and do something for the farmer. 
I think we are setting a bad precedent, 
especially as a Christian nation. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. G. T. B. 
Milk is the principal product sold, with 
some eggs, hay, potatoes and hogs. Milk, 
83.33 per cwt. for 3 per cent fat; eggs, 
65c; potatoes, $1.05 per bu. A large 
crop of potatoes, but rotting quite badly. 
The great problem in this section is to get 
farm help' A great number of farms are 
changing hands, and there are plenty of 
auctions. " r . n. s. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
From the middle of June to the mid¬ 
dle of September we had unusually dry 
weather, but in spite of the dry weather 
the Corn crop is 'fairly good. Potatoes not 
much good; many farmers will have to 
buy potatoes for home use. After it be¬ 
gan to rain we looked for frost after each 
rain, but not till the second day of No¬ 
vember was it cold enough to kill such 
tender things as beans, tomatoes and 
pumpkins. The pumpkin vines continued 
to bloom and set new pumpkins. Sorghum 
that was cut about the first of October 
sent up tender sprouts that grew till No¬ 
vember 2. F. w. 
Central Indiana. 
Wheat, $2.15; rye. $1.30: buckwheat. 
$2; oats, SOc; potatoes, $1.50; corn, per 
cwt., $1.25; eggs, SOc; butter, 60c. Milk, 
per cwt., $3.38 for 3 per cent fat. J. w. 
Warren Co., N. J. 
Cabbage, 2c lb.; potatoes, $1.25; hay, 
$35; straw, rye, $15. Buckwheat, $1.40; 
oats, S5e. Butter, 60c; eggs. 60c. Veal 
calves, 16c lb. Milk. 12 to 14e qt., de¬ 
livered. Cambria County is right in the 
heart of the soft coal field, so we have the 
very best of markets. We are having 
very wet weather; quite a few potatoes in 
the ground yet. Many fields were struck 
with the late blight and potatoes rotted 
very badly. There were 1.000 bu. of po¬ 
tatoes shipped from this county to Ohio 
last week, something unusual. Last year 
there were a lot of Michigan potatoes 
shipped into this county. The people did 
not like them as well as our home-grown 
potatoes. Medium weight horses are 
somewhat of a drug on the market. Farm 
labor is very scarce; the mines can pay 
too high wages for labor. C. J. b. 
Cambria Co., Pa. 
Butter, wholesale, 60 t<>_ 65c; retail. 70 
to 72c; eggs, wholesale, 65 to 70c; retail, 
70 to 75c; poultry, live, 30 to 33c; pork, 
22c. Apples, bu., $2 to $2.50; retail, $2 
to $3; apples for cider, 70c per 100 lbs. 
Potatoes, bu., wholesale, $1.50 to $2 25; 
retail. $2 to $2.50. Wheat. $1.75 to $2.17. 
Bucks Co., Pa. s. w. s. 
Otsego County’s main crop is potatoes, 
which, with the dairy, are the farmers’ 
main dependence here. Oats, corn and 
buckwheat are found on nearly every 
farm, and the last two years almost 
every farmer has sown some wheat and 
rye. Hardly a man. however, has any 
more grain than what is consumed on 
the farm, and most all have to buy for 
dairy. Potatoes rotted badly this year. 
There was, I think, about the usual acre¬ 
age planted, but a great many pieces did 
not come up, owing to seed rotting. Buy¬ 
ers are only paying $1.10 per bu. for No. 
1 stock. Farmers here were glad to know 
that they were to receive more for their 
Novembevmilk. October prices were very 
disappointing. The cost of producing 
milk now is very high, and a great deal of 
time and labor has to be put upon the 
cows and stables, or the milk is rejected 
at the station. Help is hard to get, and 
wages far beyond what farmers can pay, 
as they do not get a fair price for what 
they have to sell. Stores will not buy 
dairy butter here, hut creamery is sent 
in town here from the cities and sells for 
74c. All farmers keep poultry, and some 
few have 300 and 400 hens. There were 
a number of quite large poultry farms 
here prior to the war, hut some of them 
had to give it up, when feed began to rise 
in price, as they could not make it pay. 
Strictly fresh white eggs bring 72e here 
now. A large per cent of the farmers are 
selling their farms in this county to peo¬ 
ple from the Western and Southern 
States. The newcomers are mostly for¬ 
eigners. Farmers are discouraged, and 
tho large prices paid for farms are the 
reasons for selling. A great many farm¬ 
ers here are putting in milking machines 
to help offset the labor shortage. Farm¬ 
ers have worked hard, denied themselves 
things and saved to give their earnings to 
the Government during our war. and now 
they feel as though the Government ought 
to do something for them. All other 
classes of workmen are recognized and 
given decent wages for their labor, while 
most farmers are working from 12 to 14 
hours and not making expenses, and that 
is why so many are seeking work else¬ 
where! If they only could receive fair 
prices for their crops here, so they could 
afford to buy labor-saving machines and 
remodel their buildings to save labor and 
make things more comfortable, I think 
they would be content to stay on the farm. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. J. a. k. 
Obstructed Teat 
One of my cows has a lump in the bot¬ 
tom of the teat, and one has to roll it 
some before any milk comes. It comes 
in a small thin stream, and it forms a 
crust in the bottom. J. L. D. 
New York. 
If by “bottom of teat” you mean the 
tip of the teat and not its base, such 
sores or scabs commonly Eire caused By 
wet-hand milking or by infection with 
filth from the floor or yard. Such troubles 
also may be spread from cow to cow by 
the milker’s hands, and for that reason it 
always is wise to isolate and milk last any 
cow that 1ms anything the matter with 
her udder or teats. Make that an in¬ 
variable rule and udder diseases will be 
far less common. Treat by soaking af¬ 
fected teats night and morning for three 
or four minutes in hot water containing 
all the boric acid it will dissolve, and 
then apply a little iodine ointment to 
the sores. If a milking tube must he used 
to draw off the milk, see that it is steril¬ 
ized before use by boiling for 15 or 26 
minutes. Also clear the “eyes” of the 
tube of collected casein or filth before 
boiling. Should the teat spray milk after 
the sore has healed, have a veterinarian 
use a teat bistoury to slit down through 
the obstruction in four different direc¬ 
tions ; then strip away a stream of milk 
often during the healing process. A. s. a. 
