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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 22, 1020 
DURABILITY OF THE 
DE LAVAL 
This illustration is reproduced 
from a photograph of Mr. Jacob 
Rimelspach, in Ohio, and his 
DeLaval Separator, 
which has been in use 
for over 25 years. 
The machine was 
brought in on a local 
De Laval Service Day 
to be looked over by the 
service man. 
There was nothing the 
matter with the separator, 
and after it. was cleaned up 
and oiled Mr. Rimelspach 
took it home with the com¬ 
ment that it ought to be 
good for another 25 years. 
The De Laval Separator gives the 
greatest value for the money, because it 
gives better and longer service. Mr. 
Rimelspach’s experience is equaled by the 
records of a large number of De Laval 
machines. 
Considering its greater durability alone, 
the De Laval is the most economical 
separator to buy; and with its cleaner 
skimming, easier running, greater capacity 
and unequaled sendee, the price of a 
cheaper” machine is high in comparison. 
If you don’t know the De Laval 
agent in your community, write 
to the nearest De Laval office 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
165 Broadway 
NEW YORK 
29 East Madison Street 
CHICAGO 
61 Beale Street 
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Northern Ohio Notes 
The New Sweet Clover. —The Ohio 
Experiment Station at Wooster has 
words of commendation for the new. an¬ 
nual white Sweet, clover, and as a soil 
renovator it perhaps has no equal. Its 
amazing growth from the start makes it 
a great cover crop to plow under, and 
perhaps as such possesses more value than 
its merits as a forage crop. 
The Maple Sugar Crop. —If the maple 
sugar and syrup makers of the Reserve 
had an abiding trust that they were to 
give the sugar barons a rude jolt this 
Spring they have had that trust shat¬ 
tered, for certain it is that the sugar 
season was short, and not overly sweet, 
and cannot amount to more at best than 
40 per cent of an average annual produc¬ 
tion. There was not even one big run, 
nor were there any conditions of weather, 
frosts and rains to provoke runs. No 
end of camps were not opened at all, 
owing to the dearth of labor, sickness of 
farm dwellers, and new farm occupants 
from the city who did not know a maple 
tree from a basswood. The price has 
been, and still is. high, around $3.50 at the 
farm. but. little is being sold, the makers 
holding it for home use. being at quoted 
prices much cheaper than New Orleans 
sugar—made in Cuba, where it gets an 
additional eight-cent a pound load—for 
the consumer. 
Auto Truck Transportation. — The 
city trucks are raking Northeastern Ohio 
over for potatoes for a steadily increasing 
city market, the trucks today paying $3.25 
a bushel ati the farm. In fact, everything 
else that can be eaten is wanted ; for in¬ 
stance, calves at $21 per 100 lbs., and 
yet what the farmer has to buy in return 
is “likened thereunto'’ especially where 
a pair of denim overalls and a blouse to 
match is priced at $5. All strength to the 
arm of W. W. Reynolds; woolen goods 
hereabouts have got above our reach, and 
any remainder goes to pay rapidly increas¬ 
ing taxes. In this connection I think 
there will be a contraction in farm oper¬ 
ations this year, owing to the shortage of 
labor and the greatly enhanced prices de¬ 
manded by the few who will now and 
then do an eight-hour day’s work. Men 
on public works, like road-building, at 
the sand mills and the like, get $5 per 
day, and farm hands think they are en¬ 
titled to the same rates. As the rush for 
the city keeps on in its haste to get the 
great wages, the actually defenseless coun¬ 
try dweller cannot but think of the future 
and wonder what would happen if a great 
financial disaster should develop and the 
great manufacturing concerns and in¬ 
flated industries should shut down be¬ 
cause of unwanted products, what of these 
lately departed? They would come float¬ 
ing back by the thousands, and actually 
demand of the farmer the right of asylum, 
claiming to be his long lost, starving 
brother (?). 
The Federal Farm Bureau is taking 
fast hold in the State, especially Northern 
Ohio. Throughout the State there are 
already over 15.000 members, and the 
ranks are fast filling. Wood County so 
far has the largest membership, 2,758 
members—over 1,000 more than any other 
county. A general office has been estab¬ 
lished at Columbus. Things are begin¬ 
ning to take on shape, and the plan of 
the campaign is being marked out. Even 
if a plan of concerted action could be 
agreed upon, iti alone would be worth 
the effort many times over. 
The great campaign for paved roads 
in Ohio, owing to the scarcity of labor 
and high price of material, is seriously 
hindered in carrying out of the hoped-for 
plans. No end of the road sections put 
up for bidders failed to elicit a bid. The 
amount of Federal aid amounts to over 
$8,000,000. to which the State must add 
as much more making a great fund, to¬ 
gether with the millions of auto taxes. 
A project is in hand to link up the differ¬ 
ent unfinished sections of improved road 
between Cleveland and Columbus and 
push it through this year and add another 
to the great across-the-State highways, 
wholly distinct from the present “burden 
of soul” to build a barge canal from 
Cleveland to the Ohio River, creating a 
canal zone 50 miles wide. Panama style. 
Of course, the costs would be trivial, and 
freights to the seaboard would be lowered 
to near the vanishing point. Of course, 
the benefit) to the farmer would come in 
when his assessment for canal construc¬ 
tion in this 50-mile zone came due. 
Better Breeds Movement. — While 
Ohio is pretty well covered with local 
breeders’ associations promoting about 
every distinctive breed, about all of them 
allied to the State association, yet two 
local organizations stand out very promi¬ 
nently, the Holstein Association of 
Oeauga County, with headquarters in 
Burton, ind the Belmont County Jersey 
Association, with headquarters anywhere 
near Barnesville. The Geauga Society 
has several hundred members, every one 
of whom is producing full bloods, and in 
some instances very high grades. But I 
think the cohorts of Lynn Bailey have 
only the full-blood Jerseys. It is impos¬ 
sible to say what the beneficial influences 
of those two organizations have been upon 
the dairy industry of this country in their 
promotion of better dairy cattle. The 
Holstein men have sold cows to go half 
round the world—to Japan. Africa. South 
America and elsewhere—and the Jersey 
society has been ns industrious. Today 
a good dairy cow in either of these asso¬ 
ciations sells in the same notch as the 
best of horses, with this difference: Three 
of these cows are wanted to one horse, 
and no let-up to the demand. When sold 
these cows go mostly to the South and 
Far West, and many cross the line into 
other counties. 
Where there is smoke these must 
bo fire, and anyone with his ear any¬ 
where near the ground has heard tiie 
tones of discontent of the farmers. To 
ascertain the facts in the ease, the de¬ 
partment at Columbus senti out question¬ 
naires to every crop correspondent in the 
State to look up in an impartial way just 
what the influential farmers were think¬ 
ing and wished to say about the situation. 
The reports came from every county—88 
of them. They showed that the constant¬ 
ly accelerating drift of labor to the cities 
will cut down the crop area, of Ohio more 
than 20 per cent. The increased cost 
of labor is fully a third (and third class 
at that), farms being allowed to run wild 
because of disappearing labor and ten¬ 
ants ; the advancing price of everything 
the farmer has to buy, and a falling price 
for what be has to sell; increasing taxes 
without corresponding benefits; the ap¬ 
parent fight of the Government to bring 
down the high cost of living at the farm¬ 
ers’ expense, and doing nothing to bring 
down the prices of what the farmer lias 
to buy; farmers sick of working 15 hours 
a day for about their board (to feed six), 
and eight-hour labor at $1 per hour; 
price-fixing for the farmer and sky-soar¬ 
ing trade for the manipulators of finished 
products, so that the selling price of a 
prime beef hide will not purchase a pair 
of boys’ shoes. In fact, it’s the farmer 
against the world, and with the short end 
of the lever to meet the situation. 
There ts a Dollar-and-cent Side to 
this question that, is hitting the farmer 
quite as is vanishing labor. The farm 
producers of meat products are hard hit. 
Beef cattle and hogs meet with a sharp 
declining market that has broken up many 
of the packers. A farmer must pay as 
much for a ton of “suspicious” milifeed 
for his cows as he gets for a ton of wheat, 
and so on through the list. If he happens 
to come out at the end of the year with a 
profit, he is penalized with an income 
tax, and. unlike the manufacturers, can¬ 
not. deduct his debts or claim a 10 per 
cent profit on his business. Legislation 
beneficial to the farmers comes, if at all, 
of the feeders, only to increase the profits 
in fractional amounts, and by cargo lots to 
the other class. The great attractions of 
the cities and the extreme wages drain 
the farm of its best young blood. Will 
they ever return to the farm? Possibly 
not; but this is in evidence: Many city 
men without experience are taking up 
farms in one way and another, and in¬ 
stead of increasing products are actually 
wasting what had been produced before 
their arrival, with no prospect of better¬ 
ment. Farm abandonment would be the 
better. And, the more to be regretted, 
not a prospective presidential candidate 
thus far mentioned shows any desirable 
elements of becoming a leader in solving 
this problem of the agricultural unrest. 
F rom whence a Moses? j. o. 
On April 20 Southern Ohio was visited 
by an unusually heavy rainfall, and the 
resulting flood did great damage to fences 
and bridges, while roads and' fields are 
badly washed. Nearly every fence along 
water courses was washed out or pushed 
over with drift. Iron and concrete 
bridges were washed out or moved off 
the foundations. Damage to fields by 
washing and gullying the soil is enor¬ 
mous. and many bottom fields are badly 
sanded. It is the worst flood since March 
25, 1013, but it only lasted one day, so 
the large creeks and rivers did not do the, 
damage they did at that time. High 
waters of other years were .Tulv 7, 1907; 
June 20. 1902. and July 20. 1897, Owing 
to wet weather and backward Spring 
farmers are two weeks behind with their 
work. Wheat and grass are growing now, 
but there is much poor wheat. Owing 
mostly to unfavorable weather the acre¬ 
age of oats and corn will be much re¬ 
duced in this county. Owing to strikes 
and boycotts things seem worse than they 
really are. Livestock prices are unstable, 
while retail prices tend always upward. 
Highland Co., Ohio. w. e. n. 
To my personal knowledge there are 
three farms within three miles of m.v home 
that are reducing cows—about 60 alto¬ 
gether going out of business, and about 
30.000 quarts of milk a day going into 
Providence, R. I., will soon be stopped. 
This is caused by shortage of help and the 
time to get to the milk train in the morn¬ 
ing, which is run on daylight-saving plan. 
On the farms around me the milk goes to 
Boston. The farmers get on an average 
about 9c a quart in Boston. G. n.T. 
Rhode Island. 
Here in Southern Livingston County 
the Spring has been cold, and now. May 
1. wo are having frost, and things are not 
growing. Some oats have been sown, 
grass is coming on slowly. Help is very 
scarce and high in price. Lots of vacant 
farms. Butter, 65c; eggs. 45c; milk Sc 
at the farm (retailing in town at 14c) : 
potatoes, $3.75 to $4. Farmers are doing 
what they can alone. Cows from $75 to 
$125; horses. $50 to $150. M. R. w. 
New York. 
