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•P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 20, 1919 
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ir. their* fertilizer, we announce that we have laid in 
an ample supply ol fish scrap to meet all demands. If you 
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ABOUT THE STOCK? 
T HE nights grow longer and bitter 
cold. Winter’s storms rage ever the 
farm. Then, as you sit by your glowing 
firt and read this paper, what feeling of 
satisfaction and contentment can equal 
that of knowing the farm animals also are 
warmly and comfortably housed? 
The cows, well-bedded down, placidly 
chewing their cuds; the horses, in dry. 
warm stalls, munching hay; the pigs, and 
the calves, and the chickens, all safe from 
the sleet and the snow and the biting 
winds,—that means, for YOU, peace of 
mind as well as the enjoyment of your 
own bodily comfort. And it means, too, 
good business,—because maximum re¬ 
turns in dollars and cents can be earned 
only by stock well housed. 
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Crops and Farm News 
Farmers and Food Production 
Ono^ of the leading counties of New 
York State in various kinds of work will 
make no effort in 1920 to increase produc¬ 
tion, according to a statement made by 
that county’s Farm Bureau agent. It has 
been very difficult to maintain the present 
production, and this and other problems 
confront many other counties in this 
State, and probably in other States. One 
instance cited by a local correspondent is 
an example of one perplexing situation. 
A farmer had recently read the quota¬ 
tions upon veal, which was 13c, a decided 
drop, lie figured that he could not afford 
to food good milk to the fine three-day-old 
calf which he intended to sell for veal in 
from four to .six weeks. lie had just 
paid 75c per lb. for 5 lbs. of butter, and 
was lucky to get it at that. lie knew 
blitter has no substitute for his growing 
boy and girl. He concluded he could not 
do business at such a total loss, hut must 
have the milk which the mother of the 
calf gave to make into butter for himself. 
That milk was not worth nearly so much 
in 13-cent veal six weeks old as it was in 
75c or 80c butter. He figured that he 
could not afford to keep the calf for a year 
and then butcher for meat. He could not 
give the calf away, for nobody could af¬ 
ford to feed it. So he ended the life of 
the calf. The writer thought no doubt 
some city housewife would read the same 
quotation, would then go to market and 
be told there is no veal to be had. and she 
will wonder why. We are wondering 
where the future cows and milk supply 
are to come from if existing conditions 
remain unchanged. 
Another case was cited where a farmer 
recently dressed three pigs. One he kept 
for home use, one he sold to the public 
market of a nearby city, and the other 
he sold to a housewife in the same city. 
Although he had knmvn many housewives 
of this city for years, having delivered 
farm produce directly to them, this was 
the first time he ever sold a whole pig at 
a private house. It was thought that this 
woman was making a step in the right di¬ 
rection towards lowering the high cost of 
living. 
Farm women always have meat at 
hand, as they preserve it by making into 
bacon, canning, frying to pack, smoking, 
etc., and the city woman could easily do 
likewise and to great advantage, if she 
will only make the trial. Every Home 
Bureau organization is ready to teach any 
rural or city woman the various methods 
of caring for fresh meats, or one can get 
bulletins from our State agricultural col¬ 
lege giving explicit details concerning 
meats and their care. A postal card will 
bring the bulletins in short order. 
Discussions with leading farmers show 
that next year will see less food produced 
and less help hired, as there is no profit in 
the work sufficient to pay the wages that 
are necessary to secure help. The output 
in the majority of cases will be limited to 
what the farmer and his family can pro¬ 
duce alone. Just the other day a farmer 
who has farmed it for years on a large 
scale with the help of several hired men, 
said that next year he and his only son 
would do the farm work alone, as he could 
not afford to pay the help, even if it could 
be obtained, and this is only one of a great 
many similar instances throughout the 
country. 
Prices of 1920 food crops give promise 
of remaining at a high figure. Farmers 
are beginning to demand better prices, 
and they disapprove of the middleman’s 
taking more of the retail price than the 
farmer is allowed. Cabbage that recently 
brought .007 to .0125 per lb. is selling in 
the retail stores at 3c to 4c per lb. Ac¬ 
cording to the recent report from the in¬ 
vestigation committee of the United 
States Senate, the retail dealer of meats 
is taking a greater percentage of profits 
than the combined profits of the farmers, 
packers, commission houses and cold stor¬ 
age men. They stated that the retail 
prices were from 200 to 300 per cent 
above wholesale prices in various places. 
Willet, N. Y E. M. L. b. 
Crop Notes 
The farmers are getting $30 per ton for 
baled hay, and $1.50 per bu. for potatoes. 
Cabbage, $2 per 100 lbs. The farm con¬ 
ditions in this section are good. Oat crop 
was light; all other farm crops were 
good. Corn was the best in this section 
for the last 10 years. N. II. 
Somerset Co.. Pa. 
T am farming in sight almost of old 
Fort Sumter, of war fame. Seeing some 
inquiry on feeding cottonseed meal to 
breeding cattle. I would say my attention 
was brought to the subject 20 years ago 
by an old cattle trader who made a for¬ 
tune out of sausage making. I used to 
buy stock from him, and many cows with 
calf used to be fed with the steers. The 
feed then was entirely hulls, sprinkled 
over with cottonseed meal. This stuff 
was then $25 per ton, and hulls about $4 
per ton. When the cows dropped calves 
they invariably gave very little milk and 
the calves were so weak they could not 
stand up. and their eyes had a very bright 
blue color. Of course a balanced ration 
would be all right. We found the first 
boll weevil about August 20, and it bas 
damaged my crop $75 per acre just on 
-t°P Unit. I am on St. James Island, S. 
C., and we raise, with the other adjacent 
islands, the finest cotton in the world, but 
I think the industry is ruined. We used 
arsenate of calcium poison, but no result. 
Charleston Co., S. C. n. b. g. 
Farm and Garden Notes 
The Association Opposed to National 
Prohibition notes in a recent statement 
that the national convention of Farm 
Women at Hagerstown, Md., adopted a 
resolution demanding legislation to pro¬ 
hibit the growing of tobacco anywhere 
with ill the United States. It points to 
the action of this association responsive 
to W. C. T. IT. influ ences as a symptom 
of the effort being made to secure a 
nineteenth amendment to the Constitu¬ 
tion, one that will forbid the sale and use! 
of tobacco in any form. 
The Winter course in floriculture at the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College will 
begin on December 30 and continue for 
10 weeks. It. is designed to cover the 
essentials of fioriculfural work, (‘specially 
with reference to the commercial florist, 
and is meant for those who have not the 
time to devote to a longer course. The 
subjects covered include greenhouse con¬ 
struction and management, soils, plant 
diseases, insect posts and the methods used 
in growing important commercial crops; 
also gardening and garden flowers. Spe¬ 
cial trips will be made to study floricul- 
tural establishments of the State. 
A Farmers’ Week, tractor school and 
boys’ and girls’ club week will be held at 
Delaware College, Newark, Del., Decem¬ 
ber 29 to January 3. The tractor school 
will be a five-day lecture and laboratory 
course in the care, operation, adjustment 
and repair of farm tractors. Two day 
courses will be given in horticulture and 
soils and crops. Wednesday will be de¬ 
voted to soil fertility problems; Thurs¬ 
day will be devoted to problems of mar¬ 
keting of farm products, and Friday will 
be live stock day. These courses are free 
to farmers of the Peninsula, and a pro¬ 
gram will be sent on request. Address 
Dean IT. Hayward. Newark, Del. 
Formal complaints issued December 4 
by the Federal Trade Commission charge 
the five big Chicago meat packers with 
violations of the Clayton anti-trust act 
through the alleged purchase and control 
of .”>1 corporations handling food and 
other supplies. Written answer to the 
complaints must be made within 40 days, 
and thereafter public hearing will be had 
before the commission. Concerns which 
the packers are accused of absorbing in¬ 
clude meat packers, fruit canners, dealers 
in eggs and poultry and dealers in and 
manufacturers of butter, cheese, oleomar¬ 
garine. condensed milk and like products, 
catsups and condiments and leather tan¬ 
ners. The complaints, which, it was an¬ 
nounced. grew out of the investigaton of 
the meat-packing industry ordered by Con¬ 
gress, also were issued against the United 
Dressed Beef Company, the Western 
.Meat Company of San Francisco and the 
Nevada Packing Company. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New England Ayrshire Club, adjourned 
annual meeting, Quincy House, Boston, 
Mass.. Dec. 23. 
Farmers’ Week, tractor school and 
boys’ and girls’ club week. Delaware Col¬ 
lege*. Newark, Del., Dec. 29-Jan. 3. 
American Pomological Society, St. 
Louis, Mo.. Dec. 30-31 and Jan. 1, 1920; 
secretary. E. R. Lake, 2033 Park Road 
N. W„ Washington, I). C. 
Winter course State School of Agricul¬ 
ture, Cobleskill, N. ,T., Jan. 5-Feb. 27, 
1920. 
Winter courses. Ohio State College, 
Columbus. Jan. 5-Feb. 27, 1920. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, thirty- 
fourth annual meeting, Chesterto\vn, Md., 
Jan. 0-8. 1920. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, an¬ 
nual show. St. Albans,- Jan. 0-9, 1920; 
B. T\ Greene, secretary. 
New York State Horticultural Society, 
Rochester. Jan. 14-10, 1920. 
Agricultural Week, Trenton, N. .T., 
Jan. 12-17, 1920. 
Massachusetts Union Fanners’ meet¬ 
ing. Horticultural Hall, Boston, Jan. 
19-23, 1920. 
Farm Products Show, Harrisburg, Pa., 
Jan. 20-23. 1920. 
New York State Agricultural Society, 
Albany, Jan. 21-22, 1920. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, fifty- 
third annual meeting, Jan. 27-28, 1920, 
Ohio State University, Columbus; secre¬ 
tary. R. B. Cruickshauk. Columbus. 
New York State Grange, annual meet¬ 
ing, Rochester, Feb. 9-12, 1920. 
“Jennie,” said a west side mother to 
her four-year-old daughter, “here’s three 
cents ; run down to the drug store on the 
corner and get me a stamped envelope.” 
A few minutes later Jennie entered the 
store and the proprietor asked: “Well, 
little girl, what can I do for you?” “If 
you please, sir,” she replied, “my mamma 
wants free cents’ worth of stamped ante¬ 
lopes.”—New York Globe. 
