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‘Tne RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
June 4, 1921 
Milks 4 
Cows 
Crops and Farm Notes 
at Once 
the Milking Machine 
Sensation of 1921 
Costs Half; 
Does Double Work 
(Twice the work of our 1920 model) 
The new PAGE 4-cow 
Milker—operated by hand— 
no gas engine—no electricity 
—one man milks 4 cows at 
once. Little work—quickly 
done—easiest of all machines 
to handle—easiest, by far, to 
clean; the most wonderful 
advance in milking machine 
manufacture. 
We also have a 2 cow milker, only 
$ 123 !! 
30 Days Free Trial! 
In every locality in which we have no dealer, or agent or sales- 
manager, we will send one machine on 30 days’ free trial and at our rock-bottom 
price, direct from the factory; to the first responsible farmer who asks for it. No 
deposit; no C. O. D. 30 days full free trial, you alone todecide. ACT QUICK! 
After trial, if satisfactory keep the machine on our IRON 
CLAD Guarantee. 
This is our hand-operated 4-cow milker; we also have 
a 2-cow milker ($123) on which we offer a free trial (ex¬ 
changeable for 4-cow milkers), and gasoline engine and 
electric power milkers. 
We are having one of the earliest 
Springs ever known in Maine. The grass 
and fruit blossoms are three weeks ahead 
of common. All farm products have 
fallen in price more in proportion than 
products the farmer must buy. Milk is 
very plentiful at 5c or less at creameries; 
butter, 30 to 35c per lb.; eggs, 30c per 
doz.; hogs, 8c, live weight, where they 
were 21c. Cowhides, 3c; calf skins. 7c. 
I sold a hide for $1.06 and paid $1.25 
for having my shoes tapped. I bought a 
small piece of sheepskin to put under 
harness where it chafed, and the harness 
man said he had to pay $5.50 for it 
fanned with the wool on, a .skin that 
would not bring over 30c green. The 
boy wanted a sweater for school, and 
aid $8 for it. It weighed 1 lb. (i oz. 
Wool is quoted 15 to 20c per lb. Where 
does the farmer’s 35 cents come in? If 
he farmer does anything he has got to 
do it himself. He cannot compete with 
the mills and factories in w r ages or hours. 
Kennebec Co., Me. o. i; s. 
Cur main crop is fruit, which was dam¬ 
aged by the hard freezes after the buds 
..arted. Cherries are nearly a failure, 
peaches and pears are very light. Quinces 
ire in blossom now. The early apples, 
as Duchess and Twenty Ounce) will be 
the lightest crop on record. The Bald¬ 
wins and other late apples may have 25 
percent of a crop if they do not drop 
later. The prices of all farm products 
ire very low. Potatoes 25c per bu.; but- 
terfat, 30e; eggs, 24c. Farmers are not 
trying to plant as much as common. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. j. n. P. 
Costs Nothing to Install-^-™ e 0 n f g “m t o i S" 
nothing! Just the machine for small herds. If you want power, get our electric 
or engine power outfits at $225 and up. 
You milk right into your 
own ordinary milk can; no extra 
pails; no pipes; no pulsators; no 
tanks. Amazingly easy to clean. 
Guaranteed to do the work. 
Guaranteed to save time. 
Guaranteed —the last word 
in sanitary milking (one 
creamery wrote us that the 
most sanitary milk came from 
farmers using the PAGE Milker). 
And— 
Guaranteed: 
Action alterable to suit every 
cow separately. Instantly adapted to 
any cow according to her disposition 
and how easily or how hard she milks. 
Book on Milking 
Sent Free! 
Phis book is full of im- 
ortant information for the 
lan who is thinking of get- 
ing any kind of a milking 
lachine —Get Posted! 
Burton Page Co., Dept, ams 
661 West Lake Street, Chicago, Ill. 
Please send me your free book on milking. Also 
description of your new model PAGE 4 cow Milker, 
and your engine and electric power models. Also 
details of your 30-day free trial offer on the 2 cow, 
L. _ .J n4 . .. J m/wlnl 
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hand operated model. 
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If you have a milking machine nowgivename of make 
Wife and T were in California from 
November to March ; saw the State from 
San Francisco nearly to the Mexican 
line. I would rather have our Eastern 
fruit problems than those that go with 
raising citrus fruits. As bad ns the 
spraying problem is, it is a far quicker 
job than fumigating, which has to he re¬ 
sorted to on trees that are always in 
foliage. I found several things that per¬ 
haps I ought to have known, but didn’t, 
ouch as that prunes are allowed to drop 
and are picked from the ground. Lemons 
are picked by size, and preferably green. 
The same holds good with Bartlett pears, 
and I was told that the first picking were 
all right in the East, but would shrivel 
and be no good in California. In the 
high altitudes one can see a hundred or 
more miles clearer than five miles here 
in the East. I had also supposed Denver 
to be the beginning of the Rockies, while 
it is 75 miles this side, but so clearly can 
the mountains be seen that many people 
take surprisingly long walks to get no¬ 
where near them. The absence of clouds 
cause the Rockies to stand up so clear 
and distinct that one cannot comprehend 
the distance that can be seen. F. T. J. 
Rhode Island. 
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quick reply and a **square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Cows, $40 to $50 per head; horses not 
much sale. Veal calves, 8 to 12c per lb. ; 
young pigs, $4 to $6 pet pair. Chickens, 
32 to 34c per lb.; eggs, per doz., 32 to 
36c; beans, per bu., $3 to $3.50; pota¬ 
toes, per bu., 40 to 60c; oats. 50 to 60c 
per bu ; bay, $18 to $22 per ton ; wheat, 
not much sale. Apples, scarce, $1.25 to 
$2 per bu.; onions, plenty, 40 to 50c per 
bu., no sale; pieplant, 35 to 40c per 
bunch; honey, 25 to 30c per lb.; horse¬ 
radish, $1 to $1.25 per bu.; carrots, 30 
to 40c per bu. Farm help more plentiful 
than last season, but not many hired yet. 
Wheat looking well, but not quite as large 
amount sown as usual last Fall. New 
seeding wintered well, and is looking well. 
Fruit bloom, apples about one-third; 
pears, plums, cherries about one-half. 
The first, bloom < f strawberries was most¬ 
ly killed by the last hard frost, but later 
bloom looks quite well. Some cider is 
made yet from the large surplus of apples 
that were stored in barns and other out¬ 
buildings. Rut little cheese is made here, 
and sales are slow. Some have their oats 
all sown and mostly up, and' other sec¬ 
tions have not finished plowing. The 
fairnei’s think produce will be cheap and 
larger amount planted. 'Clover and grass 
seed about half as high as last season. 
Erie Co., N. Y. b. s. 
DOMESTIC.—Standardization of high¬ 
way traffic regulations to meet the needs 
of the largest cities and the smallest vil¬ 
lages, and a general enforcement of such 
regulations was urged by William Phelps 
Eno, of Washington, at a conference on 
highway traffic regulation. May 23, in 
Mason laboratory, Yale University. In 
the If) months the United States was in 
the war, Mr. Eno said. 48.000 men were 
killed in battle or died of wounds. In 
the same period, he continued, there were 
01,000 killed on the highways of the 
United States, 25.000 of these being chil¬ 
dren of school age. 
The old United States ship of the line 
Granite State, which for the last 15 years 
has been used as a receiving and drill ship 
by the New York Naval Militia, was 
swept by fire May 24 at her berth at 
Ninety-seventh Street and the Hudson 
Rivei*. The fii’e was brought under con¬ 
trol after three hours of vigorous fighting, 
and although the vessel remained afloat 
she had been so damaged that it may not 
be worth while to repair her. The dam¬ 
age amounts to $200,000. 
Nearly 500 truck drivers, members of 
Local 202 of the Teamsters’ Union, which 
does the carting of butter, eggs and cheese 
in New York City, went on strike May 23 
when their request for an advance in 
wages was denied by the New York Mer¬ 
cantile Exchange. The men demanded an 
increase from $35 to $38 a week, but this 
demand was answered by a cut of $3 a 
week. 
Four armed bandits entered the Union 
National Rank, New Castle, Pa., May 
24, and while a fifth disarmed a police¬ 
man and kept pedestrians moving on the 
sidewalk outside they held up the bank 
officials and employees and dumped $20,- 
000 in currency from the vaults into a 
satchel. Firing their revolvers into the 
air, the bandits jumped into an automo¬ 
bile and escaped, with State constabulary, 
city police and deputy sheriffs in pursuit. 
In the Lockwood legislative investiga- 
tion into building trade conditions in New 
York it was shown May 24 that the as¬ 
sociated builders issued in 1020 a circular 
notice to members fixing a rate of $24 a 
day to be charged owners for the services 
of a tile setter and helper for an eight- 
hour day. ’Die setter received $8 and the 
helper $0, giving a profit of $10 a day on 
every setter and helper employed. In 
1010 the rate of pay was $7.50 for a set¬ 
ter and $5 50 for a helper, or $13 for the 
pair, which was charged for at the rate 
of $15. Former Assemblyman George R. 
Rrennon of Ri’ooklyn, who is assisting 
Mr. Untermeyer. read from lists issued by 
tb‘* organization the story of the steady 
advance of certain builders’ hardware. 
Stovepipe showed an advance in the unit 
price of $4.85 in 1014 to $11.50 in 1020; 
copper tacks. 17 cents to 36 in the same 
period; sash weights, $18 to $61.50; 
hinges, $2.15 to $6; lead, per hundred¬ 
weight. $3.35 to $0.50, and wire nails, 
$1.55 to $4.50. These were manufac¬ 
turers’ net prices to jobbers. 
The middle of August, which usually 
sees the end of the haying season, has 
again been set for the annual Farmers’ 
and Home-makers’ Week at New Hamp¬ 
shire College, Durham. The dates this 
year will be August 16 to 10, inclusive. 
WASHINGTON. — Consideration of 
the McNary-Smith bill appropriating 
$250,000,000 for’reclaiming arid lands in 
the West attracted Governors of five 
Western States and personal representa¬ 
tives of Governors of six others to Wash¬ 
ington, where they have conferred with 
Secretary Fall. The Governors were 
Davis uf Idaho, Royle of Nevada, Camp¬ 
bell of Arizona, Hart of Washington, and 
Mabey of Utah. The other States repre¬ 
sented were Wyoming. Colorado, Califor¬ 
nia, New Mexico, Idaho and Oregon. 
Representatives of the League of South¬ 
western States are also interested in a 
bill to create a commission to prepare an 
agreement between the seven States in¬ 
terested and the United States for the 
utilization and distribution of the waters 
of the Colorado River and its tributaries, 
and to adjudicate the water rights of the 
various States, now a matter of dispute. 
The matter has been taken up during the 
conferences at the Interior Department, 
as well as the question of the construc¬ 
tion of more irrigation dame across the 
Colorado River, particularly the upper 
part, which the Westerners claimed would 
bring thousands of acres under cultiva¬ 
tion. 
The House May 23 acted to prevent a 
breakdown of the prohibition enforcement 
organization between now and July as 
the result of the suspension for 40 days 
of about 700 dry agents because of lack of 
appropriations. After a brief debate full 
of attacks on prohibition. Commissioner 
Kramer and the Treasury Department, 
the House, at the request of Representa¬ 
tive Volstead (Minn.), inserted in the de¬ 
ficiency appropriation bill the sum of 
$200,000 for prohibition enforcement 
work. This if approved by the Senate, 
will enable the replacement of the prohi¬ 
bition force up to its “war strength” of 
1.200 men. The amendment was approved 
by a vote of 77 to 38. The additional 
amount is for use only between now and 
July 1, when another appropriation will 
become available. 
Howard Elliott, chairman of the board 
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, de¬ 
scribed May 24 to a Senate committee 
some of the extraordinary wage increases 
which he said had resulted from the 
national wage agreements. “In a New 
England terminal,” he said, “Italian 
laborers employed to inspect locomotive 
fronts receiving 22 cents an hour were re¬ 
classified as boiler makers, entitled to a 
wage of 85 cents an hour. On a 10-hour 
day basis they were entitled to a wage of 
$S9 a week.” An agent at a small sta¬ 
tion was paid $15.80 a week prior to 
January 1, 1018, and now receives $36. 
A rule requiring day shifts to start work 
between 7 a. m. and 8 a. m., he added, 
worked out to give a car inspector $15 
a day, instead of $3.75, 'because he had 
to report at. 6:45 a. m., to look at the 
wheels of one train which started out be¬ 
fore the regular work hour. 
