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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September 18, 1920 
How S W P cuts Painting Cost 
The way to buy paint economically is to forget gal¬ 
lon price and figure costs by area covered and years 
of service. The first cost of good paint is its final cost, 
but cheap paint must be re-bought so often that the 
purchase price is only the beginning of its expense. 
SWP—Sherwin-Williams Paint 
covers a third more area than 
cheap paint, lasts twice as long 
without re-painting and cuts costs 
for material and labor in half. It 
gives property better protection 
and better appearance from the 
day it is applied until the end of 
its long term of service. So forget 
gallon price and think in terms of 
years when you buy house paint. 
S W P has been the leading pre¬ 
pared house paint for half a century. 
S-W Commonwealth Barn Paint 
is a bright, handsome red or gray which 
dries with a fine appearance. Works 
easily with free flow, giving unusual 
cover even on rough lumber. Am¬ 
monia-proof, durable, economical. 
S-W Wagon and Implement Paint 
is a thoroughly tested practical imple¬ 
ment paint of rich, permanent colors* 
Brushes on easily and dries with bright 
gloss. Tough, water-proof, keeps farm 
tools efficiently protected. 
S-W EBONOL ROOF PAINT 
A coal-tar paint with unusual covering 
capacity. Heavy bodied, very elastic, 
won’t crack or run. Sticks tight on 
all roofing materials, seals leaks, water¬ 
proofs, is fire retardant. 
Crops and Farm News 
Potatoes, 30c per pk.; oats, $1.25 to 
$1.50 per bu.; hay, baled, $36 to $40 per 
ton; straw. $15; eggs, 55c; broilers, 40c; 
butter, 00c; milk, 10c qt.; veal, hogs— 
dressed, 22c; beef, ISc; apples, no mar¬ 
ket ; wheat, $2.65 per bu.; buckwheat, 
$1.25. We have been paying $4.10 per 
quarter barrel for flour, and 26c per lb. 
for sugar. By having our wheat floured 
we get the same as $3.50 per bu. in flour; 
the feed pays freight and grinding. Farm¬ 
ers are usually satisfied and apparently 
prosperous. Small farmers get work on 
State road or other places during spare 
time, and have a better time than the 
bigger farmers, and perhaps more money. 
Help is very hard to get; all, even 16- 
year-old boys, want $5, with board or 
without. Crops are more than average 
here, and prices about in proportion to 
H. C. L. We are not buying much but 
necessaries, hoping prices will be lower 
soon. Potatoes are blighting, some fields 
being dead with crop half-grown; other 
fields green, with good crop on mostly 
about one-half or two-thirds grown. 
Warren Co., Pa. a. m. 
I am living here for less than half of 
what it cost me in Manhattan, and living 
better, too. If a man had a place here 
where he could keep chickens and raise 
fruit and vegetable, he could get along 
with $75 a year in cash. There is no 
poverty hero, and but little money cir¬ 
culating. This is a small village; no gas, 
electric light, policemen, courts, and if it 
were not for the automobiles and two 
telephones, it would be as it was 100 
years ago. Eggs are 38c per dozeu; 
chickens, 36c per lb. I bought strawber¬ 
ries for 8c per qt. Blackberries free for 
the picking; also huckleberries and ap¬ 
ples. Cucumbers are $1 per hamper 
(nearly a bushel). Irish potatoes are 
$11 per barrel, and scarce at that. A 
few years ago the farmers here could get 
nothing for potatoes, and let them rot on 
the ground. This year seed potatoes were 
high, and farmers would not risk plant¬ 
ing. Now all wish they had, as Irish po¬ 
tatoes are bringing big prices. Sweet po¬ 
tatoes do well here, and every farmer has 
a patch, big and little; also watermelons, 
tomatoes, etc. 
I get lonesome every few days, but 
this will wear off. I realize I ani better 
off than in the city. Look out for the 
day of reckoning. Mr. Grab-It-All will 
find himself some day against a hungry 
and angry people; then it may'be too late 
to reach the lifeline ! j. j. d. 
Wicomico Co. Md. 
Milk and cauliflower are the two farm 
products mainly depended upon for an 
income in my locality. Milk, of course, 
brings league prices. Butter brings 62c 
to the farmer. Cauliflower is good this 
season, but prices are lower. The hav 
crop was very large. Hay from the field 
has been bringing from $25 to $30 per 
ton. Potatoes have been looking fine, but 
now show the effects of the blight, and 
are beginning to rot; price, $1.50 per bu. 
Oat crop good, but somewhat damaged 
by storms; oats, $1.10 per bu. Buck¬ 
wheat crop does not promise to be very 
large. Fruit crop good. All in all it has 
been a fairly good season for farmers. 
The greatest drawback to farming is the 
help problem. It is almost impossible to 
get a young man to help with farm work. 
The farming is mostly being done by mid¬ 
dle-aged men. The census shows that the 
population in the various towns in this 
county is growing less, due to the young 
folks going outside to find and get easy 
work and big pay. F. W. w. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
We have had a very wet barley and 
oat harvest. Until then it was very dry, 
but after the grain was cut it rained 
more or less for two weeks. The barley 
is colored, and the oats grew in the shock, 
but they have been secured, and those 
that have thrashed them find that the 
grain is keeping good. Wheat is yielding 
well. Some report from 30 to 37 bushels 
per acre. No market for early apples or 
cabbage. Bartlett pears, 2!4e per lb.; 
plums, lc per lb. Plowing put back on 
account of wet weather. Wheat, $2.50 
per bu.; butter, 60c lb.; eggs, 50c doz. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. e. t. b. 
Hay, $20; milk, $2.25 to $2.40 cwt.; 
cheese, 27c; eggs, 55c; beef. live. 10c 
down to 7 to Sc; dressed. 13%<y pork, 
live, 15c down to 10 to lie; bulls, 4 to 
5c; broilers, live, 37c; fowl, 20 to 31c; 
early potatoes, 00c to $1. Crops are fair, 
except hay, which is short this yehr. Oats 
and potatoes are good, but the way it 
looks at present time will be very cheap, 
and general outlook not very promising. 
G. E. K. 
“A LAWYER in our town.” said Smith, 
“gave a present of $100 to a client the 
other day.” “IIow was that?” asked 
his friend. “Well,” explained Smith, “it 
was like this: His client got hurt in a 
railway accident, and he employed the 
lawyer to sue the railway company. He 
got $750 damages, but the lawyer’s bill 
came to $850, and he kindly agreed to say 
nothing about the balance.”—New York 
Globe. 
ER WIN-WlLLIA MS 
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write us for booklets, etc., on your 
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PRODUCTS 
PAINTS and VARNISHES 
Insecticides, Disinfectants 
Wood Preservatives 
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