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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  7.  1023 
15,000  Miles! 
Oakland's  special  steel  alloy  (non- 
burning)  valves  function  perfectly 
for  at  least  15,000  miles  without 
grinding!  Average  valves  need 
grinding  every  5,000  miles! 
15,000  Miles! 
For  15  months.  Oakland's  engine 
has  carried  a  written  1  5,000  mile 
guarantee  against  excess  oil  in  the 
combustion  chamber  — proof  of 
superior  construction! 
40,000  Miles! 
Oakland's  costly,  patented, 
bronze-backed,  crankshaft  bear¬ 
ings,  accurately  fitted,  require  no 
attention  short  of  40,000  miles. 
Connecting  rod  bearings  give 
similar  service. 
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The  Inside  Reason 
for  Oakland  Success 
— Known  Mileage 
These  Definite  Advantages  Account 
for  the  Increasing  Number  of 
Oaklands  You  Meet  Every  Day 
THE  SUCCESS  of  a  motor  car  depends  upon  the 
success  of  its  engine!  If  ever  a  manufacturer  set  about 
deliberately  to  build  the  finest  light-six  engine  that  could 
be  built — Oakland  did! 
Materials  were  chosen  with  scrupulous  care!  Special  steel 
alloys  were  employed;  costly  bronze -backed,  patented 
bearings  were  chosen;  cylinders  were  honed  to  the 
smoothness  of  glass;  special  design,  two-piece  piston 
rings  were  employed — and  the  workmanship  was 
checked  and  re-checked  to  the  smallest  dimensions. 
Because  of  this,  Oakland  is  able  to  offer  you  a  car  with 
known  mileage ,  free  from  trouble  or  expense.  Oakland 
knows,  for  instance,  that  in  addition  to  the  remarkable 
mileages  given  above,  an  Oakland  will  average  from  20 
to  25  miles  per  gallon  of  gas  and  15,000  to  25,000 
miles  per  set  of  tires. 
Before  you  buy  a  car  this  spring,  compare  the  Oakland 
with  any  other  car.  You  will  understand  why  so  many 
careful  buyers  have  convinced  themselves  that  the 
Oakland  Six  offers  more  for  the  dollar.  And  remember 
—  only  a  few  dollars  down,  with  small  monthly  pay¬ 
ments — buys  one  of  these  splendid  cars! 
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Poultry  from  the  West 
We  live  alongside  the  Erie  Railroad, 
and  nearly  every  day  from  10  to  20  cars 
of  poultry  go  by ;  have  seen  a  solid  train 
of  35  ears.  Each  ear  holds,  we  are  told, 
from  5,000  to  6,000  birds.  This  means 
an  immense  number  of  fowls.  We  wonder 
where  they  are  grown, -that  such  numbers 
can  be  gathered  together  every  day  for 
shipment.  '  f.  n.  g. 
Olean,  N.  Y. 
The  same  thing  will  be  observed  on 
every  railroad  running  direct  from  the 
West.  In  some  of  the  railroad  yards 
here  there  will  at  times  be  acres  of  these 
poultry  ears  filled  with  chickens,  ducks  or 
geese.  They  come  mostly  from  the  Mis¬ 
sissippi  Valley  or  Central  West.  States 
like  Iowa,  Illinois,  Missouri  and  Wiscon¬ 
sin  are  well  filled  with  farm  poultry.  The 
i  birds  are  generally  of  the  large  or  Ameri¬ 
can  breeds,  probably  the  Reds  and  Rocks 
predominating.  In  many  cars  or  freights 
there  will  be  seen  a  good  sprinkling  of 
the  characteristic  neck  of  the  Light 
Brahma,  Years  ago  this  breed  was  the 
our  Eastern  farms.  In  some  cases,  we 
believe,  a  big  flock  of  Reds  or  Rocks 
could  be  made  to  pay  better  than  dairy¬ 
ing.  It  would  be  necessary  to  keep  a 
good  strain  of  birds  as  breeders.  By 
hatching  a  large  flock  in  the  Spring, 
brooding  them  for  a  reasonable  time,  and 
then  letting  them  run  at  large  over  the 
farm,  meat  can  be  produced  cheaply. 
They  could  he  sold  iu  the  Fall  so  as  to 
avoid  the  expense  of  keeping  anything 
over  Winter  except  the  best  breeding 
stock.  By  raising  crops  of  clover  and 
rape  for  green  feed,  and  such  crops  as 
barley  and  buckwheat,  letting  the  hens 
in  to  eat  the  grain  without  harvesting  or 
thrashing,  one  farm  family  can  take  care 
of  a  large  flock  of  birds,  and  they  could 
be  shipped  and  sold  to  good  advantage. 
This  has  been  done  in  a  small  way  al¬ 
ready  in  parts  of  New  England,  and  with 
some  success.  Our  Eastern  people  have 
felt  that  the  Leghorn  hens  as  a  producer 
of  fresh  eggs  was  the  most  valuable  bird 
“ Now  I  Have  That  Just  About  Right!” 
popular  one  all  through  the  West.  These 
chickens  come  largely  from  the  grain¬ 
growing  sections.  They  run  at  large 
through  the  year,  and  pick  up  a  great 
supply  of  their  feed  from  the  grain  fields. 
As  a  rule,  very  little  care  is  spent  on 
these  birds.  They  are  mostly  hatched 
under  hens,  and  run  about  as  wild  as 
quails.  Many  of  these  flocks  receive  very 
little  feed,  but  pick  up  what  they  can 
glean  around  the  farm.  The  eggs  are 
gathered  at  intervals,  and  bought  up  by 
traders  who  run  through  the  country  with 
trucks  or  teams.  These  eggs  are  bought 
at  a  low  figure,  and  taken  to  central 
points  and  crated,  the  best  being  put  into 
cold  storage.  It  is  this  cheap  class  of 
eggs  which  interferes  so  seriously  with 
egg  prices  during  the  Fall  or  early  Win¬ 
ter.  The  chickens  are  also  picked  up 
from  farm  to  farm  by  peddlers,  who  drive 
about  the  country.  They  are  sent  to  some 
central  point,  such  as  Kansas  City  or 
Chicago,  sorted,  packed  in  cars,  and 
shipped  all  over  the  country.  Many  of 
them  are  not  fat,  but  just  in  fair  con¬ 
dition.  In  some  cases  these  farm-raised 
birds  are  fattened  for  a  short  time  before 
being  shipped.  It  is  an  immense  busi¬ 
ness,  millions  of  pounds  of  live  poultry 
being  shipped  every  week.  Along  the 
Atlantic  coast  poultrymen  have  developed 
the  egg  business  largely,  and  have  to  a 
considerable  extent  neglected  the  business 
of  producing  meat  poultry.  They  figure 
that  eggs  pay  better  than  meat.  There 
seems  to  be  an  opportunity  now  for  the 
production  of  farm  poultry  on  many  of 
for  the  section.  It  is  quite  likely  that 
we  shall  find  that  the  American  breeds, 
properly  handled,  will  be  even  more 
profitable  in  some  localities.  The  State 
of  New  Jersey  is  soon  to  start  a  new 
poultry  contest  for  the  purpose  of  finding 
the  best  breeds  for  meat  production  and 
the  best  method  of  handling  birds  to  make 
that  industry  profitable. 
Supervising  School  Children’s  Play 
I  was  interested  in  the  reference  to 
putting  up  swings  on  school  grounds. 
Swings  have  been  erected  on  our  school 
grounds,  but  several  children  have  been 
hurt.  One  child,  a  five-year-old,  stepped 
in  the  path  of  the  swing  and  was  hit  on 
the  back  of  the  head.  It  was  several 
weeks  before  she  recovered,  as  an  artery 
was  cut.  It  seems  to  me  a  swing  is  a 
very  dangerous  aid  to  children’s  play 
where  there  are  about  130  children  for 
two  swings,  as  they  are  sure  to  stand 
by,  waiting  for  a  chance;  also  run  back 
and  forth  under  as  others  are  swinging, 
unless  there  are  rules  for  them,  and 
someone  to  supervise  the  swinging. 
What  do  you  think? 
What  do  you  think  is  proper  super¬ 
vision  for  a  consolidated  school  of  about 
130  pupils,  with  only  10  or  12  going 
home  to  dinner?  That  leaves  better  than 
100  children  at  the  schoolhouse  at  lunch 
time,  without  a  playroom.  It  seems  to 
me  at  least  two  teachers  should  stay. 
You  take  about  35  little  fellows  from  five 
to  nine  years  old  and  they  need  someone 
older  around  at  lunch  time. 
New  York.  mbs.  S.  g.  s. 
R.  N.-Y. — We  think  there  should  be  at 
least  two  responsible  teachers  left  in 
charge  at  such  times.  Such  a  crowd  of 
children  certainly  needs  supervision. 
