?b*  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
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Buy  the 
’‘Milwaukee”  strictly  as 
money-making  equipment.  You’ll  be 
doubly  satisfied,  when  you  find  out  the 
many  ways  the  “Milwaukee”  saves  work 
on  the  farm.  Fresh,  running  water,  no 
storage  tank  to  freeze  or  foul.  Sizes  as  low 
as  $125.  Write  for  64-page  catalog:. 
*  Milwaukee  Air  Power  Pump  Co. 
&J1  15  Keefe  Ave. 
^  Milwaukee 
WJs* 
“A.C.A.” 
Will  Cure 
Your  Cattle 
of 
Lice, 
Mange, 
Itching, 
in  15  Days 
or  you  don’t 
pay  me  a 
cent ! 
I  MEAN  just  what  I 
say.  “A  C  A.”  must 
cure  in  15  days— and 
1  don't  care  how  bad  a 
case  you  give  me— if  it 
doesn't  cure  in  15  days 
you  get  your  money 
back  without  question. 
Try  a  can  on  my  say  so. 
A  can  of  “A.C.A.”  (concentrated)  produces  5  gallons 
of  solution.  Price.  gl'.OO.  including  delivery  charges. 
Apply  it  with  brush,  sponge  or  spray. 
GUARANTEED  NON-POISONOUS.  ' 
Send  No  Money  Kr 
ery.  If  it  doesn't  cure  Lice,  Mange  or  Itch  in  15  day6 
Pll  return  every  cent  you  paid.  Your  word  is  good 
enough  for  me.  Write  today  and  be  convinced. 
L.  BARON 
Baco  Laboratories 
Dept.  7D  1 884  Pitkin  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  V. 
The  GLOBE  Silo 
Represents  fifty  years  ®f  progress 
in  silo  construction. 
The  Globe  is  durable,  made  of 
best  Canadian  spruce,  or  Douglas 
fir;  heavy  matching,  double 
splines,  and  our  new  flexible  door 
makes  it  air-tight — no  spoilage  at 
edges  or  doors.  Globe  extension 
top  takes  care  of  the  settling — 
you  can  All  it  clear  to  the  top 
with  packed  silage,  increasing  the 
actual  tonnage  capacity. 
Prices  from  $3.00  per  ton  ca¬ 
pacity  up;  several  sizes. 
Send  for  catalog.  «r  write  for 
agency  proposition. 
GLOBE  SILO  COMPANY 
Unadilla,  N.  Y. 
INDIGESTION 
If  you  still  have  it,  it's  your  own  fault. 
PTHICim  Indigestion  Powder  relieves 
“■  ■  I  W  W  w  quickly  and  removes  cause. 
Write  us  for  Gold  Seal  Vial  with  handy  measuring 
cap.  6  doses  for  28  cents,  C.  O.  D. 
ETHICU8  Laboratories  1819  Broadway,  Naw  York  City 
Limestone  Pulverizers 
Sold  through  your  local 
fordson  dealer;  sweep¬ 
ing  reductions  in  price. 
Write  for  free  catalogue. 
O  B  WISE  PULVERIZER  CO’ 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Countrywide  Produce  Situation 
MARKETS  HOLDING  WELL  ;  APPLE  PRICES 
COMPARED  ;  WIDE  SPREAD  OF  POTATO 
PRTCES  ;  EASY  MONEY  HELPED 
OVER-PRODUCTION. 
The  market  position  of  most  fruits  and 
vegetables  is  good,  except  potatoes.  Cab¬ 
bage  and  onions  have  not  been  keeping 
very  well.  They  show  considerable  shrink¬ 
age  and  the  supply  is  not  so  great  as  es¬ 
timated  early  in  the  season.  Southern 
Winter  cabbage  and  imported  Spanish 
onions  are  not  competing  very  hard  with 
Northern  native  stock,  and  the  price  has 
shown  a  slow  upward  movement  for  about 
two  months  past.  The  price  in  large  city 
markets  for  choice  yellow  stock  is  around 
$3  per  100  lbs.  and  for  fair  quality  $2.50. 
Cabbage  is  well  above  $22  per  ton  at 
Eastern  shipping  points. 
APPLES  EAST  AND  WEST 
Standard  grade  Baldwin  apples  sell  in 
the  large  cities  at  $4  to  $5  per  bbl.  Same 
crop  cold  storage  sell  up  to  $5.50  and  No. 
2’s  down  to  $3.  Choice  basket  and  box 
stock  range  around  $1.50.  Greenings  and 
Southern  Yorks  range  slightly  below 
Baldwins,  while  Spys  and  Kings  sell  25c 
to  75c  per  bbl.  higher. 
Western  apples  are  not  bringing  fancy 
prices  to  growers.  Top  grades  of  choice 
varieties  sell  as  high  as  $2.50  per  West¬ 
ern  box  in  leading  cities,  and  lower  grades 
from  $1.50  up,  hut  prices  at  Western  ship¬ 
ping  points  range  80c  to  $1.50,  according 
to  grade  and  variety.  Comparing  these 
prices  with  quotations  of  $3.75  to  $4.25 
per  bbl.  at  shipping  points  in  Western 
New  York,  and  reckoning  3  boxes  to  the 
barrel,  it  appears  that  the  Eastern  grow¬ 
ers  are  holding  their  own  in  the  first  sea¬ 
son  in  which  large  crops  of  both  West¬ 
ern  and  Eastern  apples  have  come  into 
competition. 
High  freight  charges  and  packing  and 
refrigeration  or  heating  cut  into  net  re¬ 
turns  of  Western  orehardists.  Probably 
the  majority  of  Northwestern  orehardists 
would  be  glad  to  accept  $1  per  bn.  for  all 
grades  net  at  the  farm.  Many  Eastern 
growers  near  large  markets  have  been  able 
to  sell  No.  l’s,  oiy  perhaps  l’s  and  2’s  to¬ 
gether  at  around  $1.25  per  bn.  box  or 
basket  net  at  the  farm  with  few  deduc¬ 
tions  for  marketing  expense  of  any  kind. 
Such  conditions  contrast  with  apple  sec¬ 
tions  in  the  Rocky  Mountain  region  where 
whole  orchards  went  to  waste  for  lack 
of  demand,  or  sometimes  for  want  of  cars 
for  loading.  Box  apples  have  been  doing 
better  than  barrels  in  the  British  markets. 
As  a  rule  this  season  it  has  paid  better 
to  sell  barreled  apples  in  domestic  mar¬ 
kets,  rather  than  to  assume  the  risks  and 
expense  of  export. 
POTATO  PRICES  DIFFER 
The  potato  market  showed  little  change 
all  through  January.  The  spread  has  con¬ 
tinued  to  widen  between  Eastern  and 
Western  country  prices.  Thus  potatoes 
brings  %c  in  Idaho,  a  little  more  than 
%c  in  Wisconsin  and  adjoining  states, 
close  to  lc  in  Northern  Maine,  and  a  lit¬ 
tle  more  than  lc  in  Western  New  York. 
There  is  considerable  difference  in  city 
prices  too.  Western  and  Southern  city 
markets  quote  SOc  to  $1.25  per  100  lbs., 
while  Eastern  markets  average  about 
$1.50.  There  may  be  something  worth 
thinking  about  in  such  prices  at  25c  per 
100  lbs.  on  the  regular  run  of  Idaho 
stock  at  shipping  point  compared  with 
the  quotation  of  $2  for  Tdaho  rurals, 
“Bakers,”  at  Cincinnati.  Even  at  ship¬ 
ping  points  this  Baking  stock  brings  dou¬ 
ble  the  ordinary  price,  a  difference  which 
means  a  little  profit  instead  of  loss,  even 
though  considerable  stock  had  been 
thrown  out  to  get  the  grade  desired. 
TOO  MANY  POTATO  LOANS 
The  weak  side  of  the  recent  lending  of 
Government  money  to  farmers  is  that  it 
sometimes  tended  to  over-production  and 
low  prices.  Thus  the  potato  farmers  of 
Wisconsin,  who  had  low  prices  two  sea¬ 
sons  ago  and  a  short  crop  last  season, 
probably  would  have  planted  rather 
lightly  this  past  season,  but  for  loans  ex¬ 
tended  by  the  Government.  They  often 
used  the  money  to  raise  another  big  crop 
of  potatoes,  which  is  worth  less  than  cost 
and  there  they  are;  worse  off  than  if  they 
had  worried  along  without  borrowing. 
Sometimes  it  is  a  kindness  to  refuse  a 
man  a  loan.  Too  easy  money  supplied  to 
a  large  group  of  people  may  lead  to  over¬ 
doing  the  business  and  taking  big  risks.* 
The  same  cause  threatens  over-produc¬ 
tion  in  livestock.  It  has  paid  to  feed  the 
meat  animals  the  past  year  or  two.  Corn 
and  hay  have  been  cheap  in  the  West. 
Working  people  have  been  back  again  on 
their  jobs  and  able  to  buy  meat,  but 
thousands  of  farmers  are  talking  of  feed¬ 
ing  more  stock,  borrowing  the  money  if 
needed.  If  they  do,  the  meat  supply  will 
increase  and  prices  may  come  down. 
G.  B.  F. 
^  Robberies  of  jewelers  throughout  the 
United  States  decreased  in  1322.  accord¬ 
ing  to  figures  compiled  by  the  Jewelers’ 
Security  Alliance.  Total  losses  suffered 
by  the  trade  amounted  to  about  $1,500,- 
000,  as  compared  with  $2,000,000  in  1921. 
There  were  <  777  attacks  committed  in 
1922.  as  against  973  in  the  year  preced¬ 
ing.  Chicago  has  the  ivorst  record.  New 
York  is  next,  and  Kansas  City.  St.  Louis, 
Minneapolis.  St.  Paul  and  Detroit  are 
next  in  order.  San  Francisco  and  Denver 
show  improvement,  and  Boston  and 
Cleveland  are  almost  free  from  jewel 
thieves. 
rhere  are  now  more  than 
1 0,000  De  Laval  Milkers  in  use 
in  the  United  States  and  Canada, 
and  it  is  doubtful  if  any  group 
of  users  of  any  kind  of  equip¬ 
ment  is  more  satisfied. 
This  is  a  remarkable  record  in 
view  of  the  fact  that  these  milkers 
were  introduced  and  sold  during 
the  ivorst  financial  depression  the 
country  has  ever  known — when  no 
equipment  of  any  kind  was  pur¬ 
chased  except  that  which  was 
absolutely  necessary,  and  which 
would  make  and  save  money. 
The  De  Laval  Milker  has 
proved  in  a  striking  way  that  it 
is  a  necessity  on  every  farm  where 
ten  or  more  cows  are  milked,  and 
that  it  will  save  and  make  enough 
money  to  pay  for  itself  in  a  short 
time. 
Many  cows  milked  the  De  Laval 
way  have  made  splendid  records, 
most  notable  of  which  is  Orndyke 
Pietertje  Korndyke,  owned  by 
Mr.  R.  R.  Stevens  of  Bowman- 
ville,  Ontario,  who  has  just  re¬ 
cently  made  a  world’s  record  in 
the  305-day  class.  Owners,  almost 
without  exception,  state  they  get 
more  milk  with  a  De  Laval,  with 
the  same  cows  and  feed,  than 
with  any  other  method  of  milk¬ 
ing,  either  hand  or  machine. 
More  than  this,  some  of  the  best 
certified  milk  today  is  being  pro¬ 
duced  with  a  De  Laval,  proving 
that  it  is  capable  of  producing  the 
highest  grade  of  milk. 
The  De  Laval  Milker  has  proved 
beyond  question  of  doubt  that  it 
can  produce  more  and  cleaner 
milk,  at  great  saving  in  time  and 
labor.  It  increases  production  and 
cuts  the  cost  of  production.  It  is 
bound  to  make  more  profit  and 
put  more  satisfaction  in  the  dairy 
business.  Sold  on  easy  terms. 
Write  for  complete  information. 
The  De  Laval  Separator  Co. 
NEW  YORK 
165  Broadway 
CHICAGO 
29  E.  Madison  St. 
SAN  FRANCISCO 
61  Beale  St. 
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know  that  those  notes  have  been  printed  for  20  years  and  more. 
Some  25  of  the  best  of  these  old-time  sketches  have  been  published 
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HOPE  FARM  NOTES 
Every  reader  of  the  Rural  New-Yorker  should  own  a  copy.  Among 
other  remarkable  tributes  is  the  following: 
Mr.  M  and  I  have  just  finished  Hope  Farm  Notes, 
and  I  wish  you  would  express  to  Mr.  Collingwood  the 
pleasure  that  it  gave  us.  We  both  liked  it  very  much, 
and  rarely  do  we  both  like  the  same  book! 
Ohio.  M.  H.  M. 
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