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•Jhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE MAPES 
MANURES 
For Fall Crops 
Normal Conditions 
AMPLE POTASH 
Basis as Always—Bone and Guano 
Prompt Shipments 
Write us or see our nearest Agent 
for circular and prices 
THE MAPES FORMULA & PERUVIAN GUANO CO. 
143 Liberty Street, New York City 
ILO FILLING 
Engines £S£3K 
Save $15 
to $500 
GASOLINE 
2 To 30 
i Horse 
Portable 
Ready 
To 
Use 
Reduced Prices 
Buy direct—Cash or Terms. Snve big: 
money on this nll-stccl outfit. Get Quick Shipment. 
WITTE Engines take less fuel —easy to use — bijr 
surplus power. Best for cnsilnjre cutters, blowers, 
threshers. 10 years ahead of old-style makes. Every 
part of engine guaranteed ns long ns you own it—no 
r ‘strings”—no time limit. Write for New Book Today. 
WITTE ENGINE WORKS 
iAountCifca 
CIDER 
PRESSES 
' draw the 
Business 
Thousands arc 
. making Big Money with 
b. M-G Cider Presses. Quick. 
\ clean profits with little 
labor and expenso. Demand 
for cider is far greater than 
ever. Now is the time to in* 
stall tho reliable 
Mount Gilead Hydraulic 
Cider Press 
1801 Oakland Ave., 
1801 Empire Bldg., 
Kansas City, Mo. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Standard for 42ycnrs.Larg*' 
cat juico yield. Easy 
to operate. Fully guar¬ 
anteed. Sizes from 10 to 
400 bbls. daily. Complete outfits 
ready to aliip.Biir Free Cider Mill 
Catalog gives full dotoiln with 
lowest factory prices. Write 
today. 
HYDRAULIC PRESS MFG. CO. _ 
137 Lincoln Ave., Mount Gilead, 
Also Juice K vapor atom. Pasteurizers, 
Vincuar (Jeucratura, Kto. 
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That’s exactly what you do if you 
grade by hand. For then the wages you pay three out 
of every four men is money given away that you could 
save with a Boggs Grader. 
One man can grade and sort as many potatoes with a Boggs 
as four men can grade by hand in the same time. 
And they’ll be graded more accurately, too. That means you 
can get highest market prices. 
Boggs Potato Grader 
gives U. S. grades Nos. I and 2 and eliminates culls and dirt in one ope¬ 
ration. No danger of injuring or bruising potatoes as they are graded by 
carrying them up over an endless belt. . 
It’s a compact, portable machine that can be operatad by hand, motor 
or gasoline engine. Lasts a lifetime. Thousands in use. 
Made in sizes to grade 25 to 250 barrels an hour. Price* $55 and up. 
Write for booklet. 
Boggs Manufacturing Corporation. 11 Main St., Atlanta, N. Y. 
DEALERS—Here is a splendid chance to build a profitable business. Exclusive terri¬ 
tory still open. Write (or particulars. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Firo destroyed a section 
of the Appalachian Corporation’s ware¬ 
house and 30.000 bales of sisal at New 
Orleans July 30. Every piece of fire¬ 
fighting apparatus in the city was called 
out. The loss will reach $1,200,000. 
«T. Frank Manly, former Governor of 
Indiana and candidate for President on 
the Prohibition ticket in 1910, was killed 
in an automobile accident near Dennison, 
()., August 1. Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Baker 
of Kilgore. O., who were riding with 
Governor Ilanly. were also killed. Dr. 
and Mrs. Baker had met Governor Manly 
in Dennison, and were driving him to 
their home in Kilgore when the automo¬ 
bile was struck by a westbound train at 
Philadelphia Crossing. The car was 
dragged along the track for several hun¬ 
dred yards before the engineer became 
aware that anything unusual had hap¬ 
pened. 
July 30 fire if) factory buildings on 
Fourth Street. Philadelphia, caused the 
death of four persons, injuries to many 
others, and heavy financial loss. 
An international convention of negroes, 
with delegates from Africa. Central and 
South America, the West Indies and all 
States of th<‘ union, opened in Liberty 
Hall. West 138th Street. New York. Aug. 
1. A bill of rights for the negro race and 
plans for guaranteeing protection to the 
negroes of Africa was formulated. A 
mass meeting was held in Madison Square 
Garden August 2. 
Three years of wandering in the moun¬ 
tains of Southern Oregon in efforts to 
escape a charge of evading the selective 
draft were ended July 29 when Alfred 
Fattig, a farmer, was placed in jail at 
Portland. Ore. Fattig and his brother 
Charles tied to the mountains in 1917 be¬ 
cause of conscientious scruples against 
war. 
S. Davies Warfield, president of the 
National Association of Owners of Rail¬ 
road Securities, announced July 29 in 
Baltimore the incorporation under the 
laws of Maryland of the National Rail¬ 
way Service Corporation, a $30,000,000 
company, which will lend $14,000,000 to 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company 
for the purchase of equipment, $11,000,000 
to the Rock Island and Minneapolis and 
St. Louis Railway companies and $150,- 
000 to the Rangor & Aroostook. The 
association will have about $5,000,000 
additional to be lent to other railroads. 
Of the $30,000,000 about $12.000.0(H) will 
be put ui* by the Government at six per 
cent and about $18,000,000 will be pro¬ 
vided by three life insurance companies, 
said to be the New York Life, Metropoli¬ 
tan Life and Prudential, at a net cost to 
the railroads of seven per cent. 
William Rross Lloyd, Chicago’s mil¬ 
lionaire radical, and 19 other members 
of the Communist Labor Party of Amer¬ 
ica. charged with sedition, were found 
guilty by a jury in Judge Hebei’s court 
at Chicago. August 2. The verdict, which 
also fixes the sentences.‘varied ns to the 
defendants. Lloyd’s being the most severe 
—a fine of $3,000 and* from one to five 
years in prison. Others received sen¬ 
tences of from one to five years in prison, 
lighter fines being imposed in some in¬ 
stances. Several were sentenced each to 
a year in jail. 
Howard E. Figg, special assistant to 
the Attorney-General in the enforcement 
of tho Lever law against profiteering, 
charged at Washington, August 2. that 
manufacturers and jobbers of wearing 
apparel were attempting through care¬ 
fully prepared propaganda “to stampede 
retailers and the public into a renewed 
fictitious demand” for clothing and there¬ 
by force prices higher. Mr. Figg called 
attention to instances where mills have 
been closed for the reason, he charged, 
of justifying market conditions on the 
plea of underproduction. 
New railroad freight rates and passen¬ 
ger fares authorized by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission will become ef¬ 
fective at the same time. August 2(1. five 
days before the expiration of the Govern¬ 
ment rental guarantee. Increased reve¬ 
nues, officially estimated at $100,000,000 
annually, will accrue to the Treasury as 
a result of the advance in trasportation 
rates allowed to the railroads. The added 
income for the Government will be de¬ 
rived from increased transportation taxes 
—which arc paid h.v the public—ns well 
as through operation of the income and 
excise provisions of the revenue laws. 
Transportation taxes for the fiscal year 
ending June 30 aggregated approximately 
$231,000,0(H). This sum was made up 
from the three per cent tax on freight 
charges amounting to $125,000,000, the 
eight per cent tax on passenger tickets 
supplying $100,000,000. and the eight per 
cent tax on Pullman charges producing 
$0,500,000. 
Thirty-eight moonshine stills were 
seized h.v prohibition agents in West Vir¬ 
ginia during July, according to the report 
of Commissioner W. 8. Ilallanan. This 
is said to he the largest number of stills 
confiscated in tho State within a similar 
period of time. The seizures wore made 
in 18 counties. Nearly 500 quarts of 
whisky, mostly moonshine, were confis¬ 
cated, in addition to more than 2.<HH) 
gallons of liquor known locally as “pick- 
handle” and “old hen,” and 2,700 gallons 
of mash. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Inter¬ 
national Belgian Horse Show will be held 
with the Dairy Cattle Congress at Water¬ 
loo, Iowa, Sept. 27-(>ct. 3. 
John Runnel], a sheep herder, was shot 
August 14, 1020 
and more than 1.000 sheep were killed 
July 30 in a clash between men said to 
represent Colorado cattle interests and 
Utah sheepmen, just nernos the State line 
in Northwestern Colorado. 
farmers of the Philippine Islands a true 
appreciation of the possibilities of aeri 
cultural machinery, the Philippine I)c- 
partment of Agriculture and Natural Re¬ 
sources plans to utilize moving pictures 
to demonstrate the most approved methods 
of cultivation, preparation of seed, use of 
farm machinery, harvesting and storing 
crops and methods of packing and hand¬ 
ling where these processes are involved 
The department has achieved some success 
in advertising machine stripping rather 
than salt water retting in the preparation 
of maguey fiber for the market, it bavin- 
been demonstrated that by this machine 
the fiber can be prepared in a few hours 
the product selling at $S a picul •• 
pounds), whereas the method of salt 
water retting requires one month of time 
much attention, and sells at only 85 ner 
picul. 
Pennsylvania Farm Notes 
Wc have had very backward harvest 
weather so far. Wheat crop is now bein'- 
cut. and is much poorer than last year 
It is tlun in many fields, and is'also 
greatly damaged by the fly. I Lay crop is 
not ns heavy as last year, but has ini 
proved during the last three weeks 
loung clover seems to have a fairly good 
•start. Many people have not started to 
harvest yet, and il is going to make them 
late. Oats look well, and will he a much 
better crop than last year. Potato crop 
looks fairly good, but some very poor 
stands, and the acreage is not as large 
as last year. Pasture is good. Mercer 
County farmers pooled their wool, hut 
there seems to be no market for it. Cows 
are high and bring from $75 to $185 for 
grades. Reef cattle low, and many peo¬ 
ple who kept steers the past year have 
kept them at a loss. Rutter is'worth 40 
to 50c; eggs. 43c; potatoes, old, $4 per 
bn., and a few new ones selling out of 
stores at $1.25 per peck. Poultry is not 
as large a crop as last year, as tliosp who 
have to buy their feed are seared out by 
the high feed prices. Feed is high. 
Shelled corn, $2.25 per bu.; oats. $1.25 
hu.; wheat, around $3; buckwheat. $4 
Per cwt.; bran. $3.50 per cwt.; wheat 
middlings. $3.75 per cwt.; bay. $34 per 
toil, and everything else accordingly. 
Farm help is scarce, and in many places 
is simply not to he had. and wages are 
beyond many farmers’ roach. The frail 
crop seems to he pretty good in spite of 
late frosts. There are plenty of cherries, 
peaches and small fruits, and the apple 
crop is fairly good in orchards that were 
not oaten up with codling moth or some 
other pest. Many orchards in this sec¬ 
tion were simply stripped and had to 
grow a second crop of foliage. If farmers 
do not spray regularly they will lose 
some of their orchards. In fact, there are 
already some trees that have been killed. 
Quite a few farms are changing hands 
at from $50 to $100 per acre; most of 
them at around $75 to $80 and $90 per 
aero. There was a bad hailstorm in the 
northern part of the county recently that 
ruined many crops and did much' other 
damage. p. m. 
Mercer Co., Pa. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, Sum¬ 
mer meeting. Willoughby. O.. August 12. 
Apple Shippers’ Association, Chicago, 
Ill.. August 11-14. 
Vegetable Growers* Association of 
America, twelfth annual meeting, Colum¬ 
bus. ().. August 25-28. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus. August 30- 
31-September 1-4. 
Ilornell Fair. Ilornell, N. Y., August. 
31-September 3. 
IToosae Valley Agricultural Fair. North 
Adams, Mass., September 3-0. 
Michigan State Fair. Detroit, Septem¬ 
ber 3-12. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, Sep¬ 
tember 13-1S. 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, 
Mass.. Sept. 19-25. 
Agricultural Society of Queens-Nassnu 
Counties, annual fair, Mineola, N. )•> 
September 21-25. 
Sussex County Fair Association, an¬ 
nual fair, Brauehville, N. ,1.. September 
21-24. 
Interstate Fair, Trenton, N. ,L, Sep¬ 
tember 27-Oct. 1. 
International Belgian Horse Show and 
Dairy Cattle Congress. Waterloo, Iowa. 
September 27-October 3. 
Vermont State Fair. White River 
Junction. September 28-Octol>er 1. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Ub» 
October 7-1G. 
New England Fruit Show. Hartford, 
Conn., November 5-9. 
National Grange, Boston, Mass., Nov¬ 
ember 8-13. 
Norlh Carolina Farmers’ Convention 
A convention of North Carolina fann¬ 
ers Will be held at the State Agricultural 
College, Raleigh. August 24-20. An in¬ 
teresting program has been prepared, am 
a large attendance is looked for. Among 
the features is an address by Mr. H. *»• 
Colling wood, editor of The R. N.-Y. 
