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•Jht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 3, 1920 
T HE spark from a Columbia Hot Shot is a fat, blue, hot ; 
spark—a flash of electric fire that explodes every atom ; 
of gas in the cylinder. : 
Connect a Columbia Hot Shot Dry Battery to your tractor ; 
: or stationary engine today. (Any Columbia dealer will tell ; 
• you the cellpower to use.) Watch how easily the engine ; 
: starts. You get a real explosion. Note how smoothly the - 
engine continues to run. It has more power. Ignition is . 
: positive. : 
: A Columbia Hot Shot Battery is a single, solid unit of 4 : 
to 15 cellpower. It has no joints, no connections to keep ; 
: tightened, and no metal parts that rust or that need to be : 
■ kept in running order. It is an inexpensive, dependable, . 
■ powerful, long lived battery. : 
Electrical, auto- supply, hardware, and general stores : 
everywhere — and garages — sell Columbia Hot Shot Dry ; 
: Batteries. Insist on having the genuine Columbia Hot Shot. : 
NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY 
Incorporated 
Cleveland, Ohio San Francisco, Calif. 
Canadian National Carbon Co., Limited, Toronto, Canada 
Columbia 
sSeBatteries 
Seed to be worth planting at all must 
not only grow, but must grow a profit¬ 
able crop. For years we have been supplying 
seed practically free from weed seeds aud dead 
exactly -- 
losses from weeds, you need tins information. 
Write Today. 
0. M. SCOTT & SONS CO., 70 Main St.. Marysville, Ohio 
Tomato and Cabbage Plants 
all varieties; open field crown. Prompt shipment. 
200 —$1; 500-SI.75, postpaid. By express, S2|.thons- 
nnd. Sweet potato plants, S2.50 thousand. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Special price large lots. 
JEFFERSON FARMS, Albany, Georgia 
Dfttninnc 50 bushels left. Green Mountains 
5>CC(1 I OlulOtS grown from certified treated seed. 
High vieldiug fields frost killed. Three fifty per bushel 
F. O. B. station. Walter Miller. Williamsiown, N. Y. 
icon s SWEET CLOVER 
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Ten dollars cheaper than Red and the beet 
substitute. Fit* right into the rotation. Ask 
m for our catalogue telling “How to Know 
■ Good Seed” and sweet clover chart explain- 
ing all about this wonderful plant. 
0. M. SCOT T & SONS CO., 470 Main St., Marysville, 0 
”«u- Lancaster County Surecrop Corn 
dried and stored. Tests show <15?, germination. Money back 
guarantee. Price reasonable. A. H. KISSER, Bainbridge. Pi. 
Strawberry Plants 
All leading standard and everbearing varieties. Delaware 
liew-land grown. Fresh dug direct from Nursery to you. 
Guaranteed first-class and true to name. Our big FREE 
<'ATALOG gives descriptions, illustrations and prices of 
varieties, also complete, culture directions, Write today. 
Buntings’ Nurseries, Box 1 , Selbyville, Del. 
CIIP1D MIDI EC give shade and sugar. For city or 
dllUAfl IlIArLtO country planting. Increase value 
of your property. 10 4-ft. trees, B8.SO ; 100—$88.t>0. 
Order at once. jiUIUN FI,ORAL GARDENS, Arden, Delanir* 
s 
COTT’S SUDAN GRASS 
Sudan grass furnishes a wonderfully large 
amount of hay at a small investment. We 
now have seed of extraordinary quality. Ask 
for prices and our Field Seed Book. 
G. M. Scotl & Sons Co., 670 Main Si., Marysville, Ohio 
DllinCD “Till | ||C Get our low price. Farmer 
DIRLPCn I IIII1C agents wanted. Samples free. 
THEO. BURT & SONS - Melrt>6©. Ohio 
HardWood Ashes Chester, Pa., in ear 
lot'orless. W. If. I, V. 1 T> Y. 8 wnrtbmore. Penn. 
These Men 
Protect Your Planting 
S OME four hundred of Amer¬ 
ica’s leading Nurserymen 
have linked themselves to¬ 
gether to protect you in your buy¬ 
ing of trees and plants. 
Whenever you buy nursery stock, 
look for the TRUSTWORTHY 
trade mark, shown above. 
It is used by members of the Amer¬ 
ican Association of Nurserymen,and 
gives you the Association's assurance 
of satisfaction back of your fur chase. 
Membership in the Association is 
strictly restricted to firms whose 
methods and standards come up to 
the Association measure. 
How the Association Vigilance 
Committee means your protection, 
what the Association is, and where 
you can get trustworthy trees and 
plants, is told in our Bookie t,“Look¬ 
ing Both Ways Before You Buy 
Nursery Stock.” Free on requesc. 
Americaiv 
Association 
Nui-sett 
rymen. 
General Office*: PRINCETON, N. J, 
I 
ssssal 
300,000 Strawberry Plants 
Large, well rooted plants, fresh dug. Our plants 
are the beet grown. We only grow Sample, III'. Bur- 
rill, Gibaon and Bubach. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
S. .A.. SMITH & SON, Geneva, N.Y. 
Northern Ohio Notes 
Modern Coal Mining. —In some of the 
coal-producing counties of Eastern Ohio 
the coal veins often run so close to the 
surface that surface mining has made its 
appearance to quite an extent, the sur¬ 
face soil being removed with steam shov¬ 
els, and then the shovel scoops out the 
coal into the cars direct, and that without 
fear of a miners’ strike. Of course, this 
upheaval is supposed to make the land 
worthless ever after, but it may be that 
these volcanic (?) lands may be turned to 
profitable use as fruit lands, first being 
leveled down to a somewhat even surface. 
Now it seems possible to use these dug- 
over lands for fruit farms, as it has been 
found that the mixing up has not actually 
destroyed any soil fertility, and the 
loosening up has made root growth more 
free, and promotes growth, so that what 
at the start prophesied such dire destruc¬ 
tion of soil may yet become an advantage 
and make these farms productive to aver¬ 
age conditions. 
Rural Unrest. —There is no use in 
trying to disguise the fact that Northern 
Ohio is participating in the “rural uu- 
rest” that seems so general everywhere. 
Auction sales are just common events 
now. Sales bills are displayed from every 
vantage point, and stores and shops are 
simply festooned with them, and about 
every bill announces the sale in entirety 
of all farm stock, implements and chat¬ 
ties without reserve, on account of re¬ 
moval elsewhere, sale of farm or engaging 
in other business. Every day there are 
few or many passing trucks or farm 
wagons loaded with, household goods 
headed cityward or city people moving 
out into the country, where farmers are 
getting fabulously rich; and other trucks 
move such people back to the city. Farms 
are being rapidly sold, and as rapidly re¬ 
offered for sale to new “suckers,” who 
frequently bite. Three farms in sight of 
the writer’s have changed owners three 
times in the past year—rich picking each 
time for the land agents. Theirs is a 
kind of farming that has no outgoes! But 
this selling of entire dairies and their 
dispersal is the serious thing to which 
should be added the private sales of a 
few cows here and there, this last because 
the dairymen are “contracting” their bus¬ 
iness because of lack of help and increas¬ 
ing expenses, so that a ton of milk will 
not buy a ton of feed. They are .going 
to do “just what they can,” for the help 
cannot be had. 
A Project Yet in Tart in the Air.— 
'Flic question of getting the producers of 
| Northern Ohio a little nearer the con- 
sinner aud cutting out not a few middle¬ 
men, aud the expensive and' ever-delaying 
railway haul and its expensive loading 
and yet greater terminal charges, Sevans 
now to be under discussion. This is to 
be done by instituting the services of a 
large number of auto trucks, and putting 
them into the produce collecting business, 
so assigning territory that a great por¬ 
tion of Northeastern Ohio will be cov¬ 
ered, and taking this produce at the door 
and delivering without breaking bulk, to 
retailers of the city. Nothern Ohio has 
quite 500 miles of paved roads radiating 
out of the city, each for 50 or more miles, 
reaching Akron, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, 
Canton and a score of smaller towns, 
and nearly everyone of these roads pass¬ 
ing through the best producing sections 
of the Reserve. This the milkmen have 
been doing for two years, and thousands 
of cans of milk go into the city every 
day, and last Fall a great start was made 
by the hucksters collecting all sorts of 
farm produce, paying for it the morning’s 
market quotations in the Plain Dealer. So 
lively was the trade that autos in some 
cases were driven into the potato fields, 
where the diggers loaded their crops di¬ 
rect in the autos. Today (March 16) 
scores of trucks are passing loaded to 
capacity with every sort of produce, no¬ 
tably potatoes at the pit at $2.75 per bu., 
together with loads of live stock of all 
sorts, from beeves to veals, and fowls, 
and. last trucks of hay all going cityward, 
and at prices that give the farmer an 
independence of the speculator never be¬ 
fore known. 
The Everlasting Milk Question.— 
This is always to the fore, and never 
settled, and may not be very soon; but 
in Northern Ohio it is not prominent 
just now, but is likely to be resurrected 
again if any more farmers are to be 
jailed for refusing to take such prices as 
were offered. The fleets of trucks carry¬ 
ing thousands of cans of milk to the city 
here economized the labor part of the 
business, and cheaper transportation has 
made milk cheaper on arrival, hut the 
consumer has not been benefited—rather 
the saving has been added to his quart 
of milk. The “increased cost of distribu¬ 
tion” is always held up to him, and 
charged up to the farmer. Much has 
been talked about better methods of dis¬ 
tribution, notably that of delivery to the 
consumer at the grocery milk depot, but 
I hear little lately about this plan of 
grocery distribution, which has not come 
up to expectation—and has been nearly, 
or quite, abandoned. However, it may 
have worked out in La Crosse, Wis. Sup¬ 
plying the grocers and other places with 
the small amounts of milk nearly ap¬ 
proaches house delivery in expense. The 
grocer was not sure of the demand being 
equal to his supply, and, together with 
the small profits and possible oversupply, 
did not appeal to him as a good business 
venture. To zone the city and appoint 
one dealer to supply that zone and cut 
out the hundreds of miles of unnecessary 
travel to deliver was not favored by the 
consumer who had preference and choice 
as to the dealer who served them. Terms 
made with the great wholesale milk deal¬ 
ers, who are distributers as well, and 
municipal control had few advocates. 
After seeing the governmental control of 
the railways and the sugar trust, I sup¬ 
pose the city milk business of Cleveland 
will continue to he managed as heretofore 
by two or three large concerns and as¬ 
sisted by 600 or so little dealers. The 
everlasting question of supply and con¬ 
trol and price to the consumer will con¬ 
tinue, and the plight of the farmer will 
continue to go on “unwept aud unsung.” 
J. G. 
Many Farmers to Cut Expenses 
Many farmers in this section are plan¬ 
ning to cut down expenses, even at the 
cost of lowering production. Having a 
small acreage myself, partly in fruit. I 
shall plant only what cau he handled 
alone, and if I cannot balance up with a 
reasonable living wage, will then work 
some for my neighbors at a reasonable 
fee per day. IVe farmers cannot afford 
to produce for others to live in luxury 
while we ourselves labor and plan and 
buy without receiving living wages. We 
can raise enough for our own consump¬ 
tion. and then go out to work for a little 
extra money, if nothing more than to buy 
a few clothes and other necessities of 
life which the farm will not grow or pro¬ 
duce. We will look after some others 
also, feed them and their children and 
sick ones, but the capitalists, laborites 
and Bolshevists must starve it out, if 
they would rather strike than to work 
more than six or eight! hours a day. 
Much eoru is still in the field unhusked, 
labor heiug too scarce last Fall to get the 
work done before freezing and snow. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. s.v. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New Jersey Beekeepers’ Association, 
demonstration field meeting, White Horse, 
N. J.. April 10. 
Foresters’ Week, Syracuse, N. Y. 
April 12-19. 
Annual meeting of the National Ayr¬ 
shire Breeders’ Association. Chicago. 111.. 
Wednesday, .Tune 9. The second annual 
national sale will be held in connection 
with same on Thursday, June 10. 
Eastern Soil Fertility School, State 
College, Pa.. June 28. 
Apple Shippers’ Association, Chicago, 
Ill.. August 11-14. 
Hornell Fair. Hornell, N. Y., August 
31-September 3. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
April 7 — ITolsteins. Minnesota Hoi 
stein Breeders’ annual sale, Savage, 
Minn. 
Eastern Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ sale, 
Albany, N. Y., April 20. 
April 20-21 — Holsteins. Wisconsin 
State Breeders’ sale at Milwaukee. F. 
II. Everson, manager, Lake Mills. 
April 22—Holsteins. Southern Hol¬ 
stein - Friesian Breeders’ Association, 
Quality sale, Richmond, Va. 
May 20—Ayrshire Cattle Breeders As¬ 
sociation of New England, consignment 
sale. Springfield. Mass. A. H. Sagen- 
dorph, Spencer. Mass., sales manager. 
June 10-—Aryshires. Second national 
Ayrshire sale. Chicago, Ill.. Arthur II. 
Sagendorph, Spencer, Mass., treasurer. 
