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1h* RURAL NEW.YORKER 
August 21, 1020 
Northern Ohio Notes 
The Milk Situation. — Cleveland, 
Akron,'Pittsburgh and Youngstown con¬ 
sume practically all of the milk of North¬ 
ern Ohio, and prices are the main conten¬ 
tion from time to time. The great buy¬ 
ers here until recently set the price, but 
lately the farmers have had about half 
of the say, and with much corresponding 
satisfaction, and the Milk Pi’oduccrs’ 
Associations have become a factor to be 
reckoned with. So lately the milk situa¬ 
tion in Northern Ohio has not had many 
thrills the present season, but. with the 
August milk announcement by the dealers 
of possible prices, the “Farmers’ Co-oper¬ 
ative” proposed that their price (collec¬ 
tive bargaining or not) would be $3.60 a 
10-gallon can. The dealers halted on a 
four-cent- raise, and the farmers halted 
also .with a cent a quart between, though 
the dealers had advanced their city prices 
to 16c a quart. It looked for two days 
like another embargo, but the mayor of 
the city injected himself into the game, 
and said split the difference, make it 
SS^c, which was done, and all seemed 
satisfied, save the dealers, who could not 
keep up with the raise in wages (every 
week) of their employes. In a day or so 
the railways got their innings on the 
farmers by raising the freights seven cents 
a can, and trucks as well, which made 
tbe rise in milk look pretty small to the 
producers. No one is hearing anything 
more about the surplus of milk, nor any 
decrease in the cost of feeds or labor. 
Labor prices have increased beyond all 
bounds, and its efficiency decreased in like 
proportion. 
The Sugar Beet Crop. —The beet- 
sugar farmers in the northwestern part 
of the State are anticipating a great price 
for it'heir sugar beets this Fall, and if 
there is no great fall in sugar the price 
per ton for beets will be unprecedented. 
The 1920 contract price was set at $9 
per ton, and for each cent that market 
sugar goes above the eight-cent mark, it 
adds a dollar a ton to the price to be paid 
for the beets. With sugar at 20 cents 
it would make beets $20 a ton, and now 
with sugar at 30 cents, the price for beets 
will be around $30 a ton. The crop this 
year is 40 per cent in acreage over last 
year, when in the northwestern counties 
39,000 acres were planted, and 61,000 this 
season : but as the beet sugar made in 
all the United States is only 22 per cent 
of the sugar consumed, this increase in 
acreage will not meet the increased de¬ 
mand for sugar. If prices are decreased 
it will be from outside causes, or the phil¬ 
anthropic promptings of the sugar barons. 
A peculiar feature about this year's seed¬ 
ing was that the seed came from Russia, 
through a Holland agency, and cost the 
sugar companies who supply the seed 
something like 35 cents per lb., although 
it was supplied to the farmers at 25 cents. 
Automobile Thieves. — Mention was 
made recently of the desirability of hav¬ 
ing an efficient rural State police as a 
check on the fast increasing night auto¬ 
mobile thievery going on in the territory 
adjacent to the cities, especially the raid¬ 
ing of henroosts, but the auto thieving 
is far from being confined to this item. 
The thieves are becoming adroit to the 
extent that they dope the roosts with 
chloroform, and so get away wiitli their 
plunder without detection, often getting 
100 birds at a farm. The last raid in 
this vicinity the thieves were caught with 
their plunder, chloroform and coops, and 
are now contemplating the hard luck that 
they cannot get bail, and five years awaits 
each in the pen. With the hens go calves, 
sheep, hogs, yearlings, garden truck and 
the like, and as they travel without lights, 
even if defected thev usually make a safe 
get-away, and auto leave no incriminating 
marks to indicate a trail. As these 
thieves get little plunder in the farm 
localities in the way of ready cash, for 
this they confine their operations to the 
city banks, and pay days at the great 
manufacturing plants, where several hauls 
from $3,000 to $25,000 have been made, 
and leave no trace behind. 
Farm Organizations. — The air in 
Ohio seems charged with efforts to or¬ 
ganize farm bureaus of every description, 
township and county bureaus, and in ad¬ 
dition combination and county independ¬ 
ent bureaus, in addition to Dr. Miller’s 
State-wide co-operative effort that em¬ 
braces about all farm commercializing. 
Now we have mutual fertilizing societies, 
taking in seven townships, lime deposit 
depots, with 100 or so members, and the 
three counties in the northwest corner 
of the State have planned a co-operative 
organization, that, in addition to all else, 
looks after the farmers’ sugar-beet inter¬ 
ests. As there are some 1,000 acres of 
beets growing in that corner of Ohio, the 
proposed project of combination is of 
much magnitude, even without other farm 
operations. The idea of all this is to 
meet, commercialism in mass, rather than 
individual effort, and meet, it with united 
credit, instead of single encounter. With 
this comes co-operative possession of ma¬ 
chinery for a locality, which one farmer 
could not secure by reason of great cost, 
like the farmers of three townships in 
Medina County buying a large power 
ditcher, which is to be run continuously, 
tbe officials proportioning its work to the 
best advantage of all. Of the 88 counties 
of the State, 80 of them have Farm 
Agents, and here and there some counties 
are working in unison on many of the 
industries that are common to each, and 
with manifest betterment. Just now a 
“hen train” is being run through most 
of the counties of the State by the State 
University experts; meetings are held and 
the hen industry given a boost. Notable 
work is done in culling out the boarder 
liens, as evidenced by signs and markings 
not dissimilar to judging dairy cows. All 
kinds of boys’ and girls’ clubs are in ac¬ 
tive existence with lambs, pigs, calves 
and colts as mascots. The combined total 
of organizations is to have an important 
bearing upon the future prosperity of ag¬ 
ricultural Ohio. J. G. 
Aphis on Snowball 
What disease is it that curls up the 
leaves on the snowball bush and makes 
them look rusty? Is there a cure, and 
what is it? D. A. 
Morrisville, N Y. 
The common snowball is extremely sub¬ 
ject. to aphis attack, which causes the 
leaves to curl up and become rusty ; fre¬ 
quently there is loss of foliage, and the 
whole bush looks sickly. Any of the 
tobacco preparations used for aphis con¬ 
trol are suggested ; the applications should 
he directed forcibly against the under side 
of the leaves. The infestation is usually 
unnoticed until the leaves are badly 
curled, and it is then hard to remedy it, 
as most of the insects are not reached. 
Many landscape gardeners do not care 
to plant the common snowball (the sterile 
form of the Viburnum Opulus) because 
of this weakness, and we consider the 
Japanese snowball very much more de¬ 
sirable. This variety. Viburnum tomen- 
tosum, has firm, dark green leaves, with 
a plicate or pleated surface, which ap¬ 
pears immune- to insect attack. The 
flowers are showy and foliage is hand¬ 
some throughout the season, turning a 
rich purplish red in the Fall. 
Cut Down the Sugar Bill 
by eating a cereal that contains its 
own sugar self-developed from 
grain in making— 
Grape-Nuts 
As a breakfast or luncheon cereal with cream 
or milk; or sprinkled over fresh fruit or berries, 
Grape-Nuts adds to the meal’s pleasure—and 
is economical. 
Buy from your grocer. 
GREEN 
MOUNTAIN 
SltOS i 
Those Good 
GREEN MOUNTAIN SILOS 
CAN STILL BE HAD FOR 
THIS SEASON’S CORN CROP 
By much overtime work we have caught up with a big 
season’s business and can now handle your silo order 
promptly. We ship the same week order is received; 
often the same day. And the silo will please you, too. 
The Creamery Package Mfg. Co., 338 West St., Rutland, Vt. 
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