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Milk and Farm News 
The main thing sold here is milk. Po¬ 
tatoes, .$1.75 per bn. Veals, 14 to 16c per 
lb. Butter, tub, 05e; print, 75 to 80c. 
Fowls, 25c. Hay, $25. Cows, milch, $150 
to $200. Apples, $2.50 to $3 per bu.; 
scarce at that. Eggs, 75c. Wool, 55c. 
Cowhides, lSe. Most farmers have fodder 
enough for their stock. Feeds are very 
high. Day help is scarce and wages from 
$3 to $3.50 per day. Very cold Winter 
weather, with plenty of snow. D. u. b. 
Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
Butter, 75 to 80c per lb.; 3 per cent 
milk, $3.85 per 100 lbs.; 25 per cent 
cream, 50c per qt.; eggs, 85c; wheat, 
$2.30 per bu.; corn, $3.50 per 100 lbs.; 
oats, 00c per bu.; potatoes, $1.50 per bu.; 
buckwheat, $1.25 per bu. ; hay, No. 1, 
per ton, baled, $25; light beef, 15c per 
1-b.; pork, 20c per lb. s. a. s. 
Warren Co., Pa. 
Hay, per ton, $26; retail, $37. Po¬ 
tatoes, $1.50; retail, $3 bu. Buckwheat, 
per bu., $1.40. Oats, dealer's price, $1.10 
per bu. Eggs are scarce; fresh, to farm¬ 
ers, 75c; retail, 85c. Carrots, 5c per lb.; 
onions, 7e per lb.; retail S^c. Cabbage, 
to farmer, 7%c lb.; retail, S%. Butter, 
dairy, farmer’s price, 70c; retail, 85c. 
Dairying is carried on here quite exten¬ 
sively. Most farmers belong to the 
League and ask League prices. Farming 
is not eo much in the lead here, as most 
everyone right around here is going too 
deep looking for oil. We have a very 
good potato soil and not so good for corn ; 
elevation is so high. I am living within 
three miles of the Kinzua Bridge, the 
highest bridge in the world, 301 ft. The 
outlook for farming is not the best here. 
McKean Co., Pa. R. L. g. 
The following are retail prices here at 
present: Flour, 24-lb. sack, $2 ; potatoes, 
peck. 90c; butter, 70c; eggs (fresh) per 
doz. 80c; storage, 65c; navy beans, Viy^c 
per lb.; chicken feed, $4 per cwt.; bran, 
$2.40. Not much farming done around 
here, mostly oil and gas territory. No 
Weights and Measures Law in this State, 
so we are at the mercy of the retailers. 
Washington Co., Okla. n. J. B. 
Wheat, very little grown, price $2.20 
per bu. Corn, old. $1.75 ; new, $1.50. Rye, 
$1.60. Hogs, dressed, 17 to 18c per lb. 
Potatoes. $1.50 per bu. Hay, $30 per ton. 
Almost the leading industry is dairying, 
selling the whole milk to the milk sta¬ 
tions, at the present time for $3.90 per 
cwt. Very little butter made, what is 
sold sells for 70c. Eggs, 75c. The tend¬ 
ency in this locality is to hammer prices 
of farmers’ commodities down and boost 
prices for all they buy. This causes a 
gloomy feeling among farmers. Hired 
help is outrageously high ; all eeem to be 
picking while the picking is good. 
Wyoming Co., Pa. J. o. F. 
Wheat, $2.10 per bu.; corn. $1.75; 
oats, $1; potatoes, $3.50 per 100 lbs. at 
r; bran, $4S per ton; middlings, $60 
per ton ; eggs, 4c below New York mar¬ 
ket highest quotation on Pennsylvania 
and nearby. Little snow; plenty of cold 
and lots of ice, harvested. Potato-grow¬ 
ers hauling potatoes and planning what 
varieties and phosphates they want to 
use. It looks as if most growers will mix 
their own phosphates. I. E. A. 
Schuykill Co., Pa. 
What Montana Farmers Are Doing 
From where I sit I can see an extent of 
2,000 acres, with good houses containing 
electric light, baths and other household 
luxuries, as good as or better than in any 
towns; water systems in every house, and 
a house on every five or 10 acres. A club¬ 
house faces me that has had one or two 
meetings o week for the last 10 years. A 
mutual fire insurance society meets to¬ 
morrow. Our local Farm Loan Bank will 
have to raise its capital stock to $500,000 
at its meeting today. The Orchard Homes 
Country Life Club elected officers last 
week; 125 members in good standing; had 
a talk on taxation from our County Com¬ 
missioner last week, and signed petitions 
in a body for necessary alterations in the 
laws. Sent 500 cars of McIntosh apples 
to New York last Summer. Nearly every 
one of the 400 landowners is a member of 
the Non-Partisan League, and hand-in¬ 
glove with every labor union in the State. 
Now, we don’t look at government owner¬ 
ship as your backward clients do, neither 
would we brag about nearly defeating 
Chas. II. Betts, but in your place would 
have made friends with labor in those 
towns that voted against Chas. II. Betts, 
as common producers of the necessaries of 
life, and would have cleaned up Chas. II. 
Betts the first time so that he never 
would have been heard of again. As long 
as your people go it alone you will be in a 
selfish class movement; the very move¬ 
ment you affect to despise when you see 
it in a labor movement. Our Western 
farmers’ movement is not a class move¬ 
ment; far from it. We study the public 
and divide them into two classes—those 
who work (as ordered by Cod through 
Adam) and those who do not work. These 
latter we aim to persuade to do something 
after a while, even if we have to make ’em 
do it. Neither are we against capital or 
capitalists. We aim to find perfectly safe 
investments that capitalists can invest 
their savings in, instead of risky oik's 
abroad. u. C. B. c. 
Montana. 
YX/’HEN asked what feature in the Perfection 
v v Milker he considered most valuable, Mr. 
Charles M. Yarter, who is a well known dairyman 
in his State, said recently: “With the use of the 
Perfection we milk and strip fifty-four cows in eighty 
minutes, and yet I consider the greatest profit de¬ 
rived from using the Perfection is not so much in the 
time it saves as in the increased milk flow. We 
surely get much more milk with the machine than we could if 
we depended on hired help to do all the milking by hand, 
and we are getting a much better quality of milk too.” 
The Most Profitable Machine on the Farm 
"I have gotten more benefit for each dollar put into my 
Perfection than from any other machine on my farm. We use 
the machine twice daily. Summer and Winter, while we only 
use any of our other machines a few weeks during the year. 
The milker helps to make all our other machinery 
more valuable by giving us longer days to use it. 
"I believe the Perfection Milking Machine is the simplest, 
easiest to keep clean, less liable to get out of order and draws 
the milk more naturally and with more comfort to the cows 
than any other milking machine or hand milker I know of.” 
Send For Names, Addresses and Catalog 
Mr. Yarter is only one of thousands of satisfied Perfection 
owners. What the Perfection has done on his farm, it will do 
on yours. Write us and we’ll gladly send you names and 
addresses of owners to whom you can write yourself. We’ll 
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the great book which answers every question about milking 
machines. Write today. 
Perfection Manufacturing Company 
2115 E. Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, Minn. 
Why Milk by Hand 
More Milk and Easier Milking! 
—Care of the Udder Insures It . 
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both inside and out. The slightest hurt or congestion will interefere with the delicate milk- 
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A little care pays big returns; keep Bag Balm on hand and insure against milk losses and 
disagreeable milking. Especially valuable in treating Caked Bag, Cow Pox, Chaps, Bunches, 
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Sold by druggists, feed dealers and general stores, in liberal 60c packages. Be sure to 
obtain a package at the first opportunity. It’s a little wonder-worker in any udder trouble. 
A rejjiGdy at the calving period, when, so many abnormal udder conditions 
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