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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 18, 1920 
Copyright**, latO. ty Ltader Iron Work*. 
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Waterfy Your Home 
With the Leader 
Putting in a water system to supply your home and your stock 
deserves careful consideration. A mistake is serious and 
expensive. A convenience that doesn’t work right, that has 
to be tinkered with, is an inconvenience. 
Don’t run any risk. Be safe, sure, certain. Install the 
fkadex. 
One of the Leader Home 
Water System*. There ie a 
Leader outfit to meet the re - 
quirentente of every homo 
and farm. 
Home Water Systems — Leaders in fame Qd 
Well as in name. 
We know all systems, but we sell the 
Leader because it has been proven best 
by years of test. It will last a life 
time. It is the onty home water sys¬ 
tem where the tanks and pumps are 
manufactured, and the whole system 
completed and tested as a unit in one 
factory. Since 1903 the Leader has 
given satisfaction. 
If you don’t know the local Leader dealer, 
write us. 
Chat. Millar & Son Company, Utica, Binghamton, 
Springfield, Mats. 
Pierce, Butler & Pierce Mfg. Corp., Syracuse 
LeValley, McLeod, Kinkaid Co., Elmira, Schenectady 
The Hunting Co., Rochester 
John Weekes & Son Co., Watertown 
C. S. Mertick & Company, New Haven, Conn. 
Established 
1903 
feuded 
Tanks, Pumps and 
Power Equipment 
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In wet* 
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you 
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to your job 
if you wear a 
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HEALERS EVERYWHERE 
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A.J.TOWER COMPANY 
ESTABLISHED /<33<S 
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The Celebrated G1LL l'eerless Straight 
Straw Thresher with Special Four-packer Binder 
Attachment. Threshes all kinds f grains. Special 
prices on new and rebuilt machines, also Papec 
ISnsilage Cutters. Must re>'uco our large stock. 
Write vs fnr catalog and prices 
A. L. Gibb AGIl’b WORKS, Trenton, N. J. 
FEEDS AND FEEDING 
By Henry and Morrison 
The price of this book has been ad¬ 
vanced to $3.85, at which price we 
can supply it in future. 
Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., N. Y. 
FREEDOM 
is the Starched collar model men 
will choose this season. Like all 
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COLLARS % 
made with the patented features 
thatsave your tie,timeand temper. 
Hall, Hartwell & Co., Mahers, Troy, N. Y. 
GET THIS CAP 
and the Agency in your 
town. Wear a KNOBBY 
BROADCLOTH CAP and 
make big money selling 
KNOBBY CAPS. Very ex¬ 
pensive cap at a low price. 
Every boy or man buys one. 
Write for literature. 
THE KNOBBY CAP CO. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
306 Columbia Bldg., Dept. B 
Northern Ohio Notes 
A Widespread Movement.— The farm¬ 
ers are rapidly organizing County Farm 
Bureaus and co-operatives and rolling up 
membership, then almost overnight or¬ 
ganizing them into a State federation, 
and electing for it a well-appointed offi¬ 
cial roster, with a paid-up capital of 
something like a half million dollars. 
They are proposing to have something to 
say about their crops and herds and the 
push and pull of the markets. This far 
overshadows, up to date, the Presidential 
canvass. Reduced down to the fine ethics 
of the matter, the farmers propose to col¬ 
lect, assign and convey to a chartered 
organization the authority to meet the 
great markets on an equal footing and 
meet that, market on the supply and de¬ 
mand dictation, instead of collective bar¬ 
gaining. eliminating some of this low 
price for the farmer, the high price com¬ 
ing to him direct. Looks like dreams 
coming true in answer to the farmers’ 
long-deferred hopes. 
Then Something ITas Happened.— 
Fifty counties in the State have County 
Bureaus fully organized, with paid-up 
$10 memberships; 3,000 members in some 
counties now, all federated, and more 
applying for entrance. The first surpris¬ 
ing act has been staged : the purchase of 
the great Union Terminal Elevator in 
Cleveland, with its good will and all of 
its terminal facilities, membership in the 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, with 
Storage capacity of 350.000 bushels of 
grain, a big flouring mill and almost 
fabulous dealings in feeds of every sort, 
and allied with the milling industry; the 
whole officered and managed by the farm¬ 
ers’ electorate, men of wide experience 
and reputation. This is a great surprise, 
and backed by the county federations, the 
State Grange and its far-reaching influ¬ 
ence. these farmers find themselves con¬ 
tributing to a great demanding market, 
instead of being shorn lambs by specula¬ 
tive buyers. Now, all over Northern 
Ohio, the farmers’ crops will seek the 
terminal elevator, and in return these 
members in the adjacent counties will 
buy direct from their own elevator their 
grains, feeds, seeds and flour, made this 
side of Minneapolis, with a 1.000-mile 
less freight bill. The State Bureau does 
not intend to force the country dealers 
out of business, but will propose to take 
them into partnership, and maintain the 
home trade, but subjected to the big mar¬ 
ket prices. 
The Great Central Bureau will have 
county bureaus and district selling and 
buying associations, and these, while 
operating under the direction of the State 
society or exchange, will broaden out and 
act as market directors. They will look 
into the selling of live stock, fruits and 
crops, and look at the possibility of uni¬ 
form prices more nearly over the State, 
and markets for things that so often go 
begging for a market when sky-high 
prices obtain for such in not faraway re¬ 
tail markets. All this seems a great, un¬ 
dertaking. but officered by such great 
P. Miller. C S Latshaw, Murray D. Lin- 
P. Miller. C. S. Latshaw, Murry D. Lin¬ 
coln. Harry C. Beal and Forrest C. Kit- 
ner, the noted market expert, and the 53 
already organized County Bureaus, it 
does seem as if there was a fighting 
chance at least for the farmer to. get a 
little more of the 35-cent dollar in the 
future. < 
Farmers’ Equity Union.— Central 
Ohio is pretty strong in the Farmers’ 
Equity Union, with its central 'at Shelby. 
O.. aiul this organization proposes and 
has now entered upon a plan similar to 
the above. With something like 75 small 
I elevators in Ohio, allied with, and sell¬ 
ing organizations that are showing a has¬ 
tiness combined of over a million dollars 
in the past 12 months, they have their 
financial feet pretty closely anchored in 
the soil, and as they liberate the farmer 
from the grasp of the profiteers, whom 
the farmer “meets going and coming.” 
| these men in equity are entitled to much 
praise. 
J ORGANIZING Ohio. —Ohio is being or¬ 
ganized as never before into every sort 
land description of co-operative unions and 
J clubs, to meet the needs of each industry, 
and so thoroughly as to cause a fast ris- 
ling respect from the classes over and 
“against” the farmers’ rightful interests. 
It does not yet appear what manner of 
men are heading the political parties this 
Fall or what they will or propose to do 
for the farmer and at what cost for 
“supervision,” so the farmers of Ohio are 
proposing to “go after what they want.” 
and all this organization is a result of 
“going after.” 
TnE Coming Farmers’ Institutes.— 
I understand these are to he much less in 
numbers and run on a much broader plan 
the coming season, and discuss crops less 
and farm co-operation, federation, educa¬ 
tion, social centers and yet closer atten¬ 
tion to the home and general country bet¬ 
terment more; and no one is more compe¬ 
tent to direct not only the institutes but 
these newer subjects and problems than 
Superintendent F. L. Allen. 
The Coldest August Oln Record.— 
Fires and overcoats not of infrequent 
record, with heavy and frequent copious 
rains, has given our belated Corn crop a 
great awakening, and promises now to he 
a record-breaker in this vicinity, but it 
lias been tough on the autos that go by, 
mud-splashed, in the rain and often sun¬ 
less skies. Most of our paved roads are 
closed in sections for repairs from last 
Spring's damage to freight auto trucks, 
which means, as a rule, actual rebuilding 
of the road, so the detours are often gall 
and wormwood to the autoists. The big 
milk trucks have lately disappeared, and 
milk about here has to go by train at 20 
per cent advanced rates, to’ the farmers’ 
sorrow, taking another clip from his 35- 
cent dollar, and that in addition to the 
toll taken by the auto night raiders from 
the cities, who are now stripping fields 
and gardens and fruits, T suppose, in re¬ 
taliation from the farmers’ un-Christian 
conduct by wringing actual (?) blood 
money out of the city people by his ex¬ 
tortion in prices for his cheaply produced 
farm crops. This night thieving by auto 
had its “peak” the other night' when 
thieves loaded up a $500 span of horses 
and departed, nor left a trace behind. 
J« 6 ( 
Pennsylvania Farm and Fruit Notes 
The Fruit Prospect. —The State De¬ 
partment of Agriculture now estimates 
the Pennsylvania apple crop for 1020 at 
13,180.000 bushels, or nearly double' that 
of last year. The peach crop ie estimated 
at over 1.500.000 bushels, as compared 
with 000.000 bushels in 1010, and the 
pear crop estimate is placed at 600.000 
bushels, or practically double last year’s 
crop. Whether compensating prices will 
he realized by the growers for this mass 
of fruit is a matter of some apprehension. 
No doubt the demand for good fruit will 
he greater than ever, notwithstanding the 
high price of sugar, but the cost of labor, 
baskets and. in fact, everything the 
grower needs is so great that even a 
moderate price for the fruit is hardly 
sufficient to cover cost of production and 
sale. If the consumer wants to aid fruit 
production in future years he can help 
now by buying liberally during this sea¬ 
son of plentiful supply, and by being will¬ 
ing to pay a reasonable price for his pur¬ 
chases. And. of course, if he can buy 
direct from the producer, so much the 
better. 
A Great Apple Country. —While 
there is scarcely a spot in the State where 
apples cannot be grown, there are com¬ 
paratively few counties in which com¬ 
mercial fruit growing is conducted on an 
extensive scale. Adams County, along 
the southern border, is the banner fruit 
county of the State. Forty-two years ago 
the first commercial orchard was planted 
in that county, and at this time there are 
about 200 farms on which the principal 
crop is fruit, and that mainly apples, 
though peaches are also extensively grown. 
The total acreage is placed at 9.000 acres 
of trees, about half of which are of bear¬ 
ing age. Franklin and Cumberland coun¬ 
ties in the south and Lawrence County in 
Western Pennsylvania are also promi¬ 
nent as fruit growing centers, but to 
Adams County must go the laurels as 
the fruit growing county in the State, 
the principal fruit growing county in the 
State. The growers have their own fruit 
growers’ association and show their pro¬ 
gressiveness in the extended us of trac¬ 
tors, trucks and grading machines. 
Ruinously Low Prices.— Prices of 
produce at. Dock Street Market, Phila¬ 
delphia. were quoted so low a couple of 
days ago as to spell ruin to the men who 
produced the stuff. Here are some of the 
“bargains” offered to housewives of the 
city, the produce being put in 20-quart 
baskets: Tomatoes, 10 to 40c; cabbage, 
5 to 15c; peppers, 20 to 35c; peaches. 
60c; beans. 30c to $1: potatoes. SOe to 
$1. and other vegetables and fruits in 
proportion or lower. This was for a bas¬ 
ket holding nearly two-thirds of a hun¬ 
dred. Of course till transportation and 
selling expenses were paid there was not 
even a 35-cent dollar left for the grower. 
But where is the grower going to appear 
in the deal? If farmers are supposed to 
he in the producing business for their 
health I imagine one such season will 
effect a “cure.” Without a doubt the 
present transportation troubles, and not 
lack of demand, are responsible for tlie 
shameful break in prices of perishable 
fruit and vegetables. If so. I would sug¬ 
gest that, we lay aside the “two blades of 
grass” theory for awhile and discuss the 
building of two railroads or two hard 
drive roads where one was built before. 
I would suggest a question for debate: 
“Resolved. That the problem of proper 
distribution of farm products is of greater 
and of more immediate importance both 
to producer and consumer than the prob¬ 
lems of production.” 
Census Reports. —A comparison of 
the 1920 census reports with those of 
1910 and 1900 reveals a gradual decline 
in the rural population, while cities, 
towns and villages of the State generally 
have increased in population. This is 
due. not so much to abandoned farms as 
to the gradual movement of farm laborers 
from country to city. Modern machinery 
and implements have taken the place of 
man power, while the laboring man has 
gone cityward to take advantage of the 
higher wages offered there. Years ago 
most every farm had one or more tenant 
houses, as they were called, hut these are 
gradually being torn away. Farmers 
sons, too, are leaving the farms in such 
numbers as materially to decrease the 
rural population. DAVID PLANK. 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. 
