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“Pedigreed” Feed? Why Not? 
Ce-re-a-lia Sweets is like a pure bred cow. Its 
past history is an open book and you read the fu¬ 
ture from it. 
Ce-re-a-lia has made good for 8 years like this: “I 
strayed away for a while but can’t get results I got 
with Ce-re-a-lia. Send me 10 tons.” And this: 
“Increased butter yield of five cows from 18 lbs. 
to 321/2 lbs.” Thousands get results like this. So 
will you. 
Feed One Cow Four Weeks at Our Risk. Write 
for details of trial offer. 
THE EARLY & DANIEL COMPANY 
305 Carew Building, Cincinnati, Ohio 
1 believe in lookin’ 
backward as well 
as forward when 
l buy dairy feed, 
same as when l 
buy “pedigreed ” 
cows. 
EARLY DAN 
HORSE SHOE CALKS 
DRIVE. SCREW, SHARP. DULL 
Tri]>Iet Coh en Owned by a Connecticut J> coder 
SO Calks to box 
%—!io—Mi.... $1.35 Box 
9io—%.$1.45 Box 
Parcel Post Prepaid, first and 
second zones. 
THE MOORE BROS., 15 Green St., ALBANY, N. 
Skunk, Mink, Muskrats 
and all other kinds of 
Raw Furs Wanted 
Write for price list nud ship- 
pins t;«s*. T w e n t y -1 h r e e 
years in business. 
CHARLES A. KAUNE 
Trade Mark 284 Brldflo St.. MONTGOMERY, N.Y. 
producer. The milk and butter market 
lias gone to pieces in this county, and 
today we can hardly give a cow away, 
selling for about one-third of what they 
did six mouths ago. Chickens have fallen 
off about one-half, now selling for 20e per 
lb. Wheat in the ground is looking very 
well; I believe a little more than aver¬ 
age. Some of our farmers are being 
forced to the wall already, and others will 
have to follow. It now looks as if there 
will lie vacant farms in our county. 
Cumberland Co., Pa. G. R. H. 
Country-wide Produce Situation 
PRICES OF FRUIT AND VEGATARI.ES IN¬ 
CLINED TO SAG. FOLLOWING HOLIDAY 
TRADE—8111 I’M ENTS DECREASE— 
STORAGE SITUATION A PUZZLE 
The early November gain in the price 
level did not go very far. The trend 
became slightly downward in some Hues 
the last half of the month. Accumulated 
supplies, rather than heavy shipments, 
were the cause of tin* price reaction. 
Hundreds of cars of potatoes, unions and 
cabbage and other lines id' produce were 
lined tip in the freight yards of the great 
cities. 
Buying continued active hut was not 
enough to take care of the surplus quickly 
and the prices weakened. That the 
trouble was at the ctiy end is shown by 
the decline in city markets, while prices 
in the country were still raising in con¬ 
tinuation of early November advance. In 
a few cities like Pittsburgh, which supply 
large highly-paid.surrounding populations, 
the shipments were cleared up at times 
and prices jumped temporarily remain¬ 
ing up for a few days and affording a fine 
[chance for near-by growers who watch 
the markets closely. 
POTATOES SLIGHTLY LOWER 
Eastern markets as a rule were more 
steady than western. Potatoes receded 
30c per 100 lbs. at Chicago, but were 
seldom more than 10 or loo in eastern 
cities. With the end of Thanksgiving 
trade, supplies were accumulating at 
most points although shipments show 
cial varieties has been selling at $10 to 
$20 a ton in the cities and $10 to $12 at 
eastern shipping towns, which are $0 
higher than western shipping points. 
Onions have been showing signs of doing 
better in city markets, but the average 
price of tin* best stock is hardly above 
$1.50 per 100 lbs. 
A PROltLE.M IN SWEET POTATOES 
One of the weakest features the past 
month or two, has been the market for 
sweet potatoes. The south raises about 
one barrel of sweet potatoes for every 
four barrels of white stock grown in 
tin* United States. Most of them are 
eaten at home, only seven or eight million 
bushels reach our Northern markets. The 
price usually goes to the lowest point 
about the middle of November. The 
range touched $2.25 per barrel this sea¬ 
son in some markets, compared with the 
low point of $3.50 the year before anil 
with $1.50 in November. 1017. The 
season’s price always opens at high levels, 
and for this reason some stock is always 
dug when hardly more than half grown, 
in order to catch the early high price 
market. The active season is short, al¬ 
though stock from storage is doled out all 
through the potato season. A general 
adoption of modern storage houses and a 
better understanding by consumers how 
to keep sweet potatoes will no doubt re¬ 
sult in larger competition with the white 
potato crop. Sweet potatoes will keep 
all Winter in a dry room where the tem¬ 
perature does not go much below or above 
45 degrees. Must other common vegeta¬ 
bles do best in a cool, moist cellar. Hence 
sweet potatoes are seldom stored under 
suitable conditions. There are heavy 
losses all along the line from field to table, 
and more than nine-tenths of the crop is 
used near where it is grown or wasted 
by freezing and decay. o. R. F. 
Tommy (to aviator) : “What is the 
most deadly poison known?'' Aviator: 
“Aviation poison.” Tommy: ‘TIow iiuicli 
does it take to kill a person?” Aviator: 
“One drop.”—Science and Invention. 
YOUR OVERHEAD IS EASILY CARRIED BY USING TOE 
WHITING-ADAMS 
BRUSHES 
Make Kalsomine stick to Ceiling and Walls. 
Positively no let &o. 
Their use insures a permanent alabaster like surface 
Send fur Illustrated Literature 
JOHN L. WHITING -J.J. ADAMS CO., Boston.U.S.A. 
Brush Manuiacturro for Over 110 Years and the Largest in the World. 
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Milk and Farm News 
Wheat. $1.80; oats. 60 to 05c; corn, 
$1 to $1.10; new corn, some sold at» SOc 
for 80 lbs. in the ear: apples, $1; pota¬ 
toes. $1. per bit. These are the main crops, 
except rye. Straw, loose, about $12 per 
ton. Farm conditions are about normal 
in regard to acreage sown to wheat 'and 
rye; corn husking is pretty well finished. 
We had a good crop. Some Fall plowing 
is done already. A number of farmers 
stop farming and few beginners; it looks 
as though more farms would be idle_next 
Spring. We are only receiving $2.75 per 
cwt. for milk, and must pay high prices 
for feed : but same is coming down almost 
daily. The average prices for millfeeds 
were as follows in middle of November: 
Bran. $2.70; middlings, from $3 to $4: 
hominy, $3.60; gluten. $3.50: oilmeal and 
cottonseed meal (36 per cent). $3.20. 
One dealer got in bran and red middlings 
(shorts), at $2.25; eggs SOc, locally; 
chickens, live. 22c: dressed hogs, 18e. 
Lebanon Co., Pa. J. B. 
Timothy hay. $32 to $35; clover hay. 
$28 to $35; rye straw. $10 to $18; wheat 
and oat straw. $14 to $10; wheat, per 
bn.. $2.25; oats. 75 to 80c: corn, oar, 
75c; potatoes. $2; apples. $1.50 to $1.75, 
eggs. doz.. 80 to 90c; turkeys. 11).. 55 to 
65c: chickens, 25 to 35c; pork, dressed, 
11).. 20c. Business outlook for the farm¬ 
ers is on the decline. E. i\ w. 
Lawrence Co., Pa. 
Leading crops for this section are 
wheat, corn. oats, and some hay. Wheat. 
$1.60 per hu.: corn. 00c; oats. 45c ; but¬ 
ter. 42e per 11).; eggs. S2c per doz.. but 
unfortunately tills is not the season for 
eggs. There is much less wheat sown in 
this county this Fall than usual, owing 
to the slump in prices. The high cost of 
labor, fertilizer, etc., will continue to 
become shorter yet. unlcs* there is a 
change improving the conditions for tho 
falling off at most points. The general 
city wholesale price of No. 1 potatoes 
is $2 to $2.50 per 100 lbs., and $1.80 to 
$2 f. o. b. in the country, east and west. 
Baldwin and York apples are still selling 
at $4 to $5 per barrel in tho cities a>td 
around $4 in the country. Bushel basket 
prices range around $1 in the cities. Bulk 
apples at shipping points sell about 25c 
above the lowest points of the season. 
Sales of apples in bulk in the city mar¬ 
kets in past years have been mostly of 
inferior stock, but this year the extreme 
cost of barrels has led to bulk selling on 
a large scale and including many varieties 
and grades. These sell at $1.50 to $2.50 
per barrel bulk. 
STORAGE LESS THAN SUPPOSED 
The puzzle at the moment is the storage 
situation, especially for onions and cab¬ 
bage. It seems plain enough with pota¬ 
toes. Shipments of the main crop have 
been little greater than last season but 
rather larger than usual. Last season, 
although a short crop year, was remark¬ 
able for the active early movement, 
caused by rising prices This year 
it is plain that the greater part of the 
crop has been stored mostly without 
frost damage. If the size of the crop 
has not been over-estimated, as some 
have suspected, there is a big marketing 
problem ahead. With cabbage, the pecu¬ 
liar feature is that a number of persons 
who ought to know, claim that the amount 
in commercial storage is less than usual, 
perhaps 10 per cent less, notwithstanding 
the enormous crop, though, of course, 
storage is not loss than last year, when 
tho crop was very light.. If this claim is 
true, the cabbage market should be able 
to take care of itself. The same kind of 
a statement is made for onions; only about 
the usual amount in storage. These 
claims may be true, as far as commercial 
storage is concerned. The usual buyers 
were afraid to take hold of their crop 
this year, hut it seems probable that a 
great deal of stock in farm storage has 
not been taken into account iu such 
statements. Cabbage of the best eoinmer- 
The 
DE LAVAL 
MILKER 
Master Control 
( The Master Control is not shown in the 
part of the Milker installation pictured 
here. It is built into thePulso-Pump, which 
is placed in any convenient pari of the barn) 
The Master Control part of 
the De Laval Pulso-Pump is a 
fixed, gear-driven slide valve, 
furnishing the impulse to every 
Udder Pulsator in the barn in 
a positive mechanical way, so 
that all milking units in the barn 
work in unison all the time. 
The pulsations are scientifically 
correct in duration and frequency, and the pulsation speed 
cannot be changed by the operator. Improper and un¬ 
necessary adjustments are therefore impossible. 
The De Laval Milker is a distinctly different type of 
machine, both as to design and operation, positive and 
uniform in action from day to day; and faster, more eco¬ 
nomical and more reliable than any other method of milking. 
Write to nearest De Laval office for Milker 
Catalogue, mentioning number of cows milked 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
165 Broadway 
NEW YORK 
29 East Madison Street 
CHICAGO 
61 Beale Street 
SAN FRANCISCO 
