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Vht RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
December 0, 1910 
The TRAP that 
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MUSKRAT 
SKUNK 
MINK, ETC. 
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Our Money is more 
than a match for your 
Our competitors say we bid too high—but that’s the way we get 
the most shipments—when the demand is heaviest. We turn our 
money over several times while our competitors are doing it once. 
Thai's why we cau and do pay the highest prices. That's why 
we are .so generous with our grading. That's why we charge] 
no commissions. That's why we pay spot cash the day the 
goods arrive—and that's why our business is growing by' 
leaps and bounds. If you want this kind of a square CQCC 
f deal, send for our price list at once—today—it’s lltCC 
DAVID BLUSTEIN 
1 78 West 27th Street 
& BRO. 
New York City 
tmf r.ENTER OF THE WORLD'S FUR INDUSTRY 
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RAW FURS 
WANTED 1 
Mr. RAW FUR SHIPPER- 
We want your raw furs. Put your own assortment on them and 
mail us a copy. If we cannot net you more than you expect, we will 
return them to you, express paid. Our price list is yours for the asking. 
Milton Schreiber & Co.—Raw Furs 
138-140 NEW 
West: fW YORK 
29th Street lJ CITY 
Read what a trapper writes: 
Mr. Warenoff, Dear Sir:-1 am shipping you today 1 bag of furs; it is no use tor me to grade 
them as you have been giving me very good grades. j aco b Dillsburg.Pa. 
We 
do not 
claim to pay 
the highest price 
in the world—but we do 
elafth and absolutely guar¬ 
antee to give you every dol¬ 
lar your pelts are worth 
—often more than 
you yourself 
expect 
ni.n* 
r u i A 
Send us a'shipment today or write for our price list. It's free. We Know 
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Sol Warenoff & Co., Inc., B23 West 25th Street, New York City 
We 
have a 
good many 
letters on file, all 
same as above, and un¬ 
solicited. You too will soon 
realize that there is more 
than* a promise to our 
way of doing busi¬ 
ness. Try us 
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vinc¬ 
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H. A. PERKINS & CO. 
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT. 
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Northern Ohio Notes 
The Ohio Farm Woman's Car 
Misleading Ideas. —In a recent num¬ 
ber of a plethoric national weekly there 
was an article criticising many things, 
and among the things was a slant at the 
farmers who were getting so rich that 
they owned one or more auto cars and 
spent much time gallivanting about the 
country for hundreds of miles, when they 
should be at home saving hired men’s 
wages and contributing a mite toward re¬ 
ducing the H. C. of L. It is easy to 
criticize and find fault, and so it comes 
about that any hack writer with a flow of 
language and an ear quickly sensitive to 
rumblings of discontent can typewrite 
pages of slush about matters which he 
knows little about, and lacks brain power 
to digest if he knew more. Tearing to 
pieces and finding fault is much easier 
than to create or rebuild, so it comes 
about the pages of magazines and editor¬ 
ial columns of the dailies are carrying an 
overload of such writing. In the article 
referred to the writer gave as an evidence 
of the “profiteering” farmer that he was 
often seen hundreds of miles from home 
with his family kicking up the dust and 
trying to break the speed limits. 
A Business Economy. —This charge is 
true and the practice is gaining. In Ohio 
there is an auto car to every 12 inhabi¬ 
tants, and that means that there are at 
least one hundred thousand owned by 
farmers. In my own town of over one 
hundred farmers less than a dozen are 
without cars. These cars are not a lux¬ 
ury. but a paying investment, just as a 
driving horse is. In sections where there 
are improved roads and pavements driv¬ 
ing horses are being dispensed with a>nd 
a couple of cows substituted. Women do 
much of the light marketing and the er¬ 
rand running. Here is an instance : Half 
a dozen years ago when only a few had 
cars, a farmer bought a Ford, and his 
wife soon learned to run it. One morn¬ 
ing she hurried through the morning’s 
work, had the car brought to the house 
before the men went to work, and after 
the partly cooked dinner was stowed away 
in a box of hay in the cellar to finish 
cooking itself she got into the car at a 
little before 10 and drove 41 miles to her 
daughter’s home; getting there just as the 
family were sitting down to lunch. The 
route led through Cleveland, and iu mid¬ 
afternoon she took her daughter and child 
and they did some shopping at a great 
department store, where she con'd buy 
much better and cheaper than at home. 
The daughter went home on a suburban 
car, and the mother reached home in 
time to put a late supper on the table. 
Now look at this as a business proposi¬ 
tion. Iu spending $20 she saved more 
than seven per cent, besides having an 
opportunity of a wider choice and getting 
things not to be had in the village store. 
It was before the three cent railroad 
fare, but she saved 28 miles doubled, 
which amounted to $1.52, and the subur¬ 
ban fare of 10 cents. Again she would 
have had to be taken to the railroad sta¬ 
tion. a distance of 31.4 miles, and back the 
same night, which altogether would have 
consumed at least five hours’ time in 
hitchiug up and driving. Then it would 
have consumed an extra half hour of her 
own time at each end of the day ; the time 
spent iu getting the fireless cooker to 
work in the morniug and preparing sup¬ 
per at night. The railroad running time 
was a little faster, but this was dis¬ 
counted by slowness of the interurban 
trolley, which runs on a city line and was 
paced by city cars which often stopped at 
evex*y crossing. Now this woman had fol¬ 
io years been running a butter and egg 
route in a local city, nine miles from 
home. 
Except in the Fall apple and potato 
season, when she used a one-horse wagon, 
she was able to load all she carried on 
a piano-box buggy. The “flivver” had 
about double the carrying capacity of the 
buggy, and after getting it she was able 
to carry offerings submitted by her neigh¬ 
bors, and these sometimes netted her as 
much as $1.50 per trip. Before on the 
two days each week when she went to 
the city, she had to skimp the after- 
breakfast work and her husband had to get 
dinner while she got home a little inter, 
tired out, and with considerable “catch¬ 
ing up” to do. After the car was bought 
she could wash the breakfast dishes, 
sweep the kitchen and then get to her 
customers as early as before, and gen¬ 
erally get home in time to serve the din¬ 
ner which the fireless cooker had been 
preparing in the basement. Soon after 
the purchase of the car it was decided 
that the driving horse was not needed, 
and so it was sold, and three heifer calves 
were bought and put to consuming the 
feed that the horse had been swallowing. 
I know many automobile owners who 
run into town at odd hours with surplus 
from garden and fruit lot and save from 
wasting enough to go some way towards 
the upkeep of the machine. 
Should this article meet the eye of some 
space writer who thinks the farmer’s 
ear is purely a pleasure carriage and a 
sign of wealth, let me tell him that he 
has another guess coming. A farmer may. 
be getting rich, but he is headed that 
way because he is keeping up with the 
times, and finds that time is money, and 
that the driving horse wastes lots of time 
when the roads are good, and that the 
team horses generally can be spared at 
times when weather makes the flivver 
stay in the garage. l. b. pierce. 
Summit Co., Ohio 
The King Road Drag 
We recently printed a note by Mr. L. 
Ruppin of Pennsylvania telling of his 
use of the King road drag in preparing 
and for wheat seeding. There have been 
a number of calls for further informa¬ 
tion about this drag, and Mr. Ruppin 
furnishes the following: 
The old form of King road drag was 
merely two sides of a split log. fastened 
so that the sharp sides of the split surface 
faced forward, the straight surface ex¬ 
tending vertically; the two parts were 
spaced about two feet apart, and con¬ 
nected by struts to hold them parallel; 
the outfit was dragged by a chain, fas¬ 
tened to the front half-log, and the angle 
at which the contrivance was dragged 
over the surface was controlled by the 
manner iu which the team was hitched to 
the chain, the chain itself being fastened 
permanently at both ends to two staples 
in the front log, which altered the angle 
at which team was hitched. 
We found the ovigiual form too weak 
for our road work here, so we devised 
certain improvements, which arc shown 
iu the sketch, the most important of 
which was that we shod the front log 
with a strip two inches wide, one-half 
inch thick, of wrought iron, said strip 
being placed at the lower edge with the 
two-inch width extending vertically along 
the front log. For such work as you con¬ 
template, I would suggest that this iron 
strip be placed on botli logs. The iron 
strip combiues a shearing action with the 
normal dragging action of the drag, which 
may make it better suited for your pur¬ 
pose. If you have a tractor, and load the 
drag heavily with stone, it may answer 
your purpose admirably, at the same time 
I am compelled to point out that I myself 
have used it only on plowed ground, or 
on land that has been in hoed crops, 
where the ridges may not be nearly as 
solid as the cradle knolls you describe. 
Of course, if you intend to use it after 
plowing these fields, you can be assured 
that it will do better work for you than 
any other implement that I know of. At 
any rate, the drag will pare off the upper 
surfaces of the knolls without plowing, 
and several workings will level your fields 
greatly. The iron strip should extend a 
trifling distance below the lower edge of 
the front log. say one-sixteenth to one- 
eighth inch. The cost of the entire con¬ 
trivance should be low, not over $10 ’at 
a good blacksmith’s. L. RUPPIN. 
Pennsylvania. 
