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Vht  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
January  20.  1923 
NOT  ALL  DEALERS 
SELL  GOODYEAR 
TIRES 
The  privilege  of  selling  Goodyear  Tires  carries  with 
it  certain  definite  responsibilities  on  the  part- of 
the  dealer. 
He  pledges  himself,  for  example,  to  give  you  service 
that  will  help  you  get  from  Goodyear  Tires  all  the 
mileage  built  into  them  at  the  factory. 
He  prefers  to  sell  Goodyear  Tires  because  he  knows 
he  can  sell  them  to  more  people,  and  thus  be  com¬ 
pensated  for  lower  profits  on  each  sale. 
Not  all  dealers  see  the  wisdom  of  doing  business 
on  this  basis;  consequently  not  all  dealers  sell 
Goodyear  Tires. 
But  Goodyear  Dealers  implicitly  believe,  as  we  do, 
that  the  foundation  of  a  permanent  and  successful 
business  is  satisfied  customers. 
Dealing  with  them,  you  are  sure  of  a  quality  prod¬ 
uct  of  exceptional  and  demonstrated  value,  sup¬ 
ported  by  a  service  that  will  save  you  money. 
Goodyear  Means  Good  Wear 
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As  necessary 
as  stable  manure 
A  good  farmer  would  be  astonished  if  you  ques¬ 
tioned  his  wisdom  in  using  manure. 
Manure  is  all  right  as  far  as  it  goes,  but  it  fails  to 
give  the  phosphoric  acid  your  land  needs,  and  does 
not  usually  give  nitrogen  or  potash  in  the  propor¬ 
tions  required  by  crops  whose  needs  for  food  differ. 
Learn  the  truth  about  feeding  your  crops. 
Experiment  stations  have  proven  beyond  question 
the  common  sense  and  profit  in  the  use  of  commer¬ 
cial  fertilizers.  Properly  used,  they  will  profit  you 
by  increasing  your  yield  per  acre;  improving  the 
grade  of  your  grain,  hay  and  truck;  maturing  crops 
sooner;  saving  labor  cost,  and  building  up  your  soil. 
For  advice  or  help,  write  Farm  Service  Dept. 
F.  S.  Royster  Guano  Company,  Baltimore,  Md. 
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Countrywide  Produce  Situation 
Three  main  cash  products  did  much  to 
help  the  farmers  keep  their  heads  above 
water  in  1922.  They  were  Southern  cot¬ 
ton.  Western  live  stock,  and  Eastern  ap¬ 
ples.  Accordingly  all  through  the  pro¬ 
ducing  sections  there  is  talk  of  paying 
more  attention  to  these  lines. 
Cotton  may  be  easily  overdone  if  the 
weevil  gives  the  planter  half  a  chance. 
Live  stock  seems  to  be  tending  lower 
right  now,  and  the  market  will  stand  no 
great  increase  unless  Europe  buys  more 
meat. 
Apples  cannot  be  increased  rapidly,  and 
this  will  be  the  off  year  anyway.  Or- 
chardists  will  not  go  far  wrong  in  decid¬ 
ing  to  tend  their  trees  better.  The  great 
need  of  Eastern  apples  is  the  fine,  smooth, 
bright  finish  that  comes  from  good  care 
of  the  trees.  To  those  who  can  read  it, 
everything  done  or  left  undone  for  the 
tree  is  written  on  the  fruit.  The  poultry 
flock  was  another  source  of  needed  cash 
last  year. 
OTHER  MAINSTAYS 
Hay  and  corn  were  not  much  as 
sources  of  cash,  but  they  stood  back  of 
the  meat,  dairy  and  poultry  products,  as 
usual.  There  are  signs  that  more  corn 
will  be  raised  this  year.  Little  is  heard 
anywhere  about  planting  more  vegetables, 
and  for  that  reason  it  is  not  likely  the 
potato,  cabbage  and  onion  crops  will  be 
overproduced.  Strawberry  acreage  has 
been  gaining  fast  for  three  seasons  or 
more,  and  it  is  time  for  caution  for  those 
new  to  the  business  or  situated  far  from 
the  markets. 
CAUTIOUS  PLANS 
Such  points  as  these  should  be  thought 
over  in  the  days  of  planning  that  start 
with  the  turn  of  the  year  and  the  arrival 
of  highly  colored  seed  and  tree  catalogues. 
But  in  a  general  way  the  coast  is  fairly 
clear.  Business  is  good  and  seems  likely 
to  stay  good  this  year,  which  would  mean 
good'  markets  near  home,  what  ever  niay 
happen  to  that  puzzle  map  called  Europe. 
There  is  reason  to  hope  that  1923  will  be 
better  than  1922,  just  as  that  year  was 
some  improvement  over  1921. 
WATCH  THE  DOLLARS 
It  is  what  a  farmer  does  with  his 
money  in  a  good  year  that  shows  his 
standing.  Last  Spring  and  Summer  the 
farmers  in  a  certain  truck  raising  district 
contrived  to  hit  it  just  right.  They  had 
plenty  of  tomatoes  to  sell  when  the'  mar¬ 
kets  were  out  of  such  things,  and  more 
money  came  to  these  farmers  than  at  any 
time  since  the  war'' boom.  Did  they  bank 
it?  No.  Did  they  repair  buildings  or 
improve  the  farms.  Not  to  any  extent. 
A  man  who  went  through  the  section  last 
Fall  says  most  of  their  money  is  gone, 
with  nothing  useful  to  show  for  it.  The 
crops  were  raised  on  credit  anyhow,  and 
the  lender,  besides  his  8  to  12  per  cent  in¬ 
terest,  had  a  fee  for  selling  the  crop. 
What  was  left  went  to  a  swarm  of  agents 
which  overran  the  district,  like  flies  on  a 
honey  box.  They  sold  to  those  farmers 
autos  and  oil  stocks,  patent  medicines, 
“gold”  mines,  guns,  gimcraeks.  bootleg 
whisky  and  silk  shirts.  Said  the  trav¬ 
eler  :  “The  farmers,  both  white  and  col¬ 
ored,  work  fairly  hard  for  a  few  months. 
The  rest  of  the  time  the  main  ambition' 
seems  to  be  to  get  a  job  for  the  wife  that 
will  permit  the  lord  and  master  to  put  in 
more  time  watching  the  trains  move  in 
and  out  of  the  station.”  The  war  boom 
came  and  went,  leaving  such  sections  with 
the  same  old.  out-of-date  farm  equipment, 
and  tied  to  the  same  wasteful,  hampering 
credit  system.  Some  farmers,  perhaps 
one  in  five,  were  the  exceptions  to  the 
rule,  and  used  the  good  season  to  put 
themselves  firmly  on  their  feet  and  on  the 
road  to  prosperity.  In  every  section  there 
are  both  kinds  of  farmers,  just  as  there 
are  two  kinds  of  people  the  world  over ; 
the  human  butterflies  and  *tlie  human 
ants.  Farmers  of  the  butterfly  style  are 
soon  frozen  out  in  the  North,  but  there 
are  too  many,  even  there,  who  lose  their 
heads  when  a  little  good  luck  comes  along. 
FIRM  MARKET  TONE 
The  fruit  and  vegetable  market  seems 
to  have  reached  a  mid-winter  basis,  and 
the  general  tone  is  better  than  during  the 
Fall  and  early  Winter.  Onions  were 
touching  $3  50  per  100  lbs.  in  many  city 
markets  toward  the  middle  of  January. 
Cabbage  fully  held  its  recent  gains  at 
820  to  $30  per  ton.  and  expectation  of 
further  rise  are  entertained  at  shipping 
points,  to  judge  from  the  higher  prices 
asked  for  future  deliveries.  New  Florida 
cabbage  in  hampers  sells  equivalent  to 
$85  per  ton.  The  large  holdings  of  apples 
in  storage  tends  to  check  the  upward 
trend  of  barrel  Baldwins,  which  range  $4 
to  85  per  barrel  in  the  cities.  Top  grades 
of  Western  boxed  apples  no  more  than 
hold  their  own  at  $2  to  $2.25.  and  quota¬ 
tions  of  $1.40  to  $1.65  in  producing  sec¬ 
tions  look  rather  low.  Plainly  the  West¬ 
ern  crop  has  a  hard  time  nowadays  to 
maintain  its  old  premium  when  the  East¬ 
ern  crop  is  large  and  fairly  good.  Po¬ 
tatoes  continue  the  weak  feature,  and  the 
Western  markets  at  80c  to  $1.10  per  100 
lbs.  are  much  lower  than  the  Eastern  at 
$1.35  to  $1.40.  but  no  important  declines 
have  taken  place  anywhere  since  the  turn 
of  the  year.  Prices  already  are  as  low  as 
they  can  be  and  draw  shipments  from  the 
more  distant  producing  regions.  Idaho 
farmers  haul  their  crops  over  difficult 
roads  to  the  shipping  points  and  get  25c 
per  100  lbs.,  sacked,  or  15c  per  bushel, 
from  which  comes  the  cost  of  bags. 
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