220 
Ask any experienced 
contractor. 
He will tell you that ALPHA 
CEMENT home, yard, farm 
and business-place improve¬ 
ments settle the upkeep 
problem. 
Nothing to rust, rot, burn, 
or to require painting. 
Alpha Portland Cement Company 
EASTON, PA. CHICAGO, ILL. 
New York Boston Baltimore Philadelphia 
Pittsburgh Battle Creek, Mich. Ironton, Ohio 
_CATTLE_ 
HOLSTEINS & GUERNSEYS 
250 head of fresh cows and close springers to select 
from. If you are in the market for fancy young cows 
that are large in size and heavy producers it will pay 
you to see this stock. Tuberculin test. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Cortland, N. Y. 
Telephone 1476 
I /AT7T717T? Reg. Jersey bull 6 months old whose 
vJ.T r XkrV Dams produced 18,050 lb. milk, 938 lb. 
fat. 12,000 lb. milk, 600 lb. fat eachjper year. Buy now 
for next Spring and save half cost of bull. Price 875. 
S. B. Hunt c- Hunt, N. Y. 
_ SWINE BREEDERS 
200—Pigs For Sale—200 
Yorkshire and Chester Cross and Berkshire 
and Chester Cross. All good healthy pigs six 
to seven weeks old, $ 3.75 each; eight weeks old, 
$4.00 each. I will ship from one to fifty C.O.D. 
on your approval. No charge for crating. 
A. M. LUX, 206 Washington St., Woburn, Mass. 
100 Pigs, Chester White, iAiroc and Berkshire, 0 weeks old’ 
S3.75; 8 weeks; S4.50. High grade and purebred pigs, not 
r elated, So. 00 each. Oaks Dairy Farm, Wyalusing, Pa. 
Killed with PARAFIX. (Pure Paradichlorbenzene, 
IvVIil ■ recommended by U. S. Gov. & State Exp. Sta.) 
Full instructions, results guaranteed or money 
D/\T\ ¥"¥ O back. Booklet FREE. Treat 10 trees SI. 
I 1 ^ rV 50 trees $3. Postpaid or C. O. D. Dept K. 
^ *'*-<*'W Jhe Parafix Co., 7 East 42nd St., N Y. C. 
BABY I CHICKS 
BABY CHICKS C. O. D. 
SIC. Rhode Island Reds. .11 Cts. 
Barred Rocks. 10 Cts. 
S.'C. W. Leghorns. 9 Cts. 
Mixed or Off Color Chicks 8 Cts. 
These chicks are all hatched from free 
range stock. Safe delivery and satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. Descriptive booklet free. 
W. A. LAUVER, McALISTERVILLE, PA. 
W E are NOW booking orders for 12 weeks’ old 
White Leghorn Pullets. All Pullets farm 
raised, milk fed, hatched from extra heavy lay¬ 
ing strain. 500 yearling hens for sale. Chicks 
and Ducklings at reduced prices. 
IDYLDELL FARM Wolcott, New York 
PULLETS AND COCKERELS 
Purebred Barron Pullets and Cockerels at $1.00 each 
and up. Also breeding hens at moderate prices. Descrip¬ 
tive catalogue free. 
C. M. LONGENECKER, Box 40 Elizabethtown, Pa. 
Post Your Farm 
Keep Trespassers Off 
W E have had a new supply of trespass signs made up. This time they are 
of extra heavy linen on which the lettering is printed directly. There is 
no card facing to be water-soaked by the rain and blown away by the wind. We 
have had these new signs made up of extra heavy) material because severe storms 
will tear and otherwise make useless a lighter constructed material. We unre¬ 
servedly advise farmers to post their land and the notices we have prepared com¬ 
ply in all respects with the law. The price to subscribers is 95 cents a dozen, 
the same rate applying to larger quantities. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 461 4th Ave., New York City 
A ROYAL NON-FREEZE FOUNTAIN—Warm Drinking Water—More Eggs 
Use a Royal non-freeze drinking fountain this winter and keep the hens healthy 
and happy. Warm drinking water keeps the birds in good health and they have 
the pep to turn out eggs when the price is highest. No more frozen buckets to 
thaw and no hens without water, if you use a Royal non-freeze drinking fountain. 
Royal Thermic Fountains are made of the best quality of galvanized iron with 
double walls and packed with an efficient insulating material; 
keeps the water warm in winter and cool in summer; insula¬ 
tion is completely around the inside tank. Extra heavy han¬ 
dle, well fastened, for carrying. Special reinforced bottom 
%>’ off the ground. Extra wide and deep pockets. Inset 
pocket and cone top, keeps water in drinking pocket clean. 
Well crated ahd absolutely guaranteed. 
PRICY: Your dealer should have our full line of poultry Flip - 
2 Gal. - - $3.SO plies, including the Royal brooder non-freeze foun- 
3 Gal. • • 4.00 tain, waterers, chick feeders, troughs and leg bands. 
S Gal. - • 5.00 If he cannot supply you, write or send us your order. 
ROYAL MANUFACTURING CO., Dept. 904, TOLEDO, O. 
Leg Band Prices 
Celluloid spirale 
bands, 10 colors. 
.$ .45 
.75 
50. 
100 
250. 
500. 
1 , 000 . 
1.70 
2.95 
4.95 
State Breed and 
color. Order today. 
American Agriculturist, September 27, 1924 
Reviewing the Markets 
MILK PRICES 
T HE Dairymen’s League Cooperative Asso¬ 
ciation announces the following prices 
for the month of September for milk testing 
3% in the basic zone of 201 to 210 miles from 
New York City: Class 1, milk used chiefly for 
fluid purposes, $2.60 per 100 pounds: Class 
2A, used chiefly as fluid cream, $1.90. If 
skim-milk is used for any other purposes, 
additional payment over this base price is 
added, depending on use. Class 2B, used 
chiefly in the manufacture of plain condensed 
milk and ice-cream, $2.05; Class 2C, used 
chiefly in the manufacture of soft cheese, 
$2.05; Class 3, used chiefly in the manufacture 
of whole milk and sweetened whole condensed 
milk, powdered and evaporated whole milk, 
$1.45; Classes 4 A and 4B, based on butter and 
American cheese quotations on the New 
York market. 
have been practicing shipping quality stock 
are in a very strong position. 
LIVE POULTRY FAIRLY STEADY 
Fancy colored express foivls, have been 
meeting a steady market all week. Leghorns 
of average run grade have been dragging badly, 
however, and these have been working out 
at reduced prices. The market has been good 
right along. On fancy stuff the market has 
held up to 30c, while Leghorns have been down 
as low as 22c, in some cases poor stuff working 
out as low as 19 and 20c. Express chickens 
on the whole have been firmer, varying from 
24 to 26c, depending on size, color, etc. 
October 3 to 6 will be the market days 
for the Jewish holiday, the Day of 
Atonement, which falls on October 8. 
Live chickens, roosters and fat fowls, 
will be most in demand. 
Sheffield Producers 
The Sheffield Farms Company Producers 
announce the following prices for September for 
3% milk in the 201 to 210-mile freight zone: 
Class 1 , $2.60 per 100; Class 2, $1.70; Class 3, 
$1.55; Class 4> to be determined by market 
quotations of butter and cheese. 
Non-Pool Cooperative 
The Non-Pool Dairymen’s Cooperative an¬ 
nounced that the September price for Class 1 
milk is $2.40 per 100 pounds; Class 2, $1.85; 
Class 3A, $1.55; Class 3B, $1.45. 
Interstate Producers 
Interstate Milk Producers Association 
(Philadelphia) receiving station price for 
September for 3% milk in the basic zone of 201 
to 210 miles from Philadelphia is $2.19. In 
the 101 to 110-mile zone the price is $2.29. 
BUTTER MARKET WEAKER 
The butter market has had a decidedly weak 
tone all this week. This easier tone accom¬ 
panied by the reduction in price was due to 
the fact that receipts have been fairly heavy 
and there has not been enough consumptive 
trade to keep stocks moving. One of the 
troubles seems to be on the retail end. Re¬ 
tailers have not been cutting their prices to 
conform with the wholesale market and as 
a result consumptive demand has not improved 
in proportion. On Monday, the market took 
a decline that brought the line of values below 
any previous point this season, 92 score cream¬ 
ery going down as low as 37 l /{c, while creamery 
scoring higher than this only, will be 38^4- 
(['here is no speculative buying and the trade 
is only taking on current needs. This outlet is 
too narrow in point of view of the too liberal 
receipts. This weak feeling in the market 
and in face of falling prices, jobbers are not 
inclined to operate beyond current needs. 
The entire situation is unsettled and very 
irregular. Toward the end of the week, there 
was a little steadier tone on the finer grades of 
creamery, although prices had not improved 
up until Friday, the 19th. - At any rate, the 
downward tendency was checked enough to 
induce buyers to take hold a little more freely 
and chain stores came into the market for 
their usual supplies. In view of heavy receipts 
it is doubtful if we shall see much of an im¬ 
provement during the next week. 
CHEESE MARKET CONTINUES FIRM 
Cheese market has held up remarkably well 
of late especially on leading grades of fresh 
cheese. The “held” market has also been 
good. Trade is fair to middling and with 
limited stocks arriving, the firm condition 
^continues. Whole milk State flats, held, 
fancy, are quoted from 21to 22c, while 
average run goods vary from 20Tj to 21c. 
Fresh whole milk State flats, fancies, are from 
21 to 22c, while average runs vary from 20^2 
to 21c. This represents a full cent to 1)4 cent 
increase. 
POTATO MARKET STILL DULL 
The potato market hasn’t shown any im¬ 
provement since last week. It looks just now 
as though it may turn slightly weaker. Of 
course, this depends a whole lot on conditions 
in the field. If we get a couple of killing frosts 
we may see a sudden snap upward with the 
stronger market right along. On the whole 
the city market is very weak. Jersey stock 
is in the neighborhood of $1.75 in 150-pound 
sacks FOB shipping point for round stock with 
giants as low as $1.60. Long Island Green 
Mountains are bringing anywhere from $1.85 
to $3.00 in 150-pound sacks FOB Riverhead 
with the general tone rather weak. The 
market is not working right. It will pay 
shippers, if they can possibly do it, to hold their 
potatoes a while. It is going to be true this 
year more than ever that shippers have got to 
grade more closely to meet higher prices. Maine ‘ 
has been sending ears into the New York mar¬ 
ket on consignment, which may indicate that 
they have a pretty heavy crop up there and 
are anxious to start things moving early, 
GRAINS AND FEED 
According to New York State Department 
of Farms and Markets, the following prices 
prevailed September 13. 
The quotations given in this report show* the approximate 
prices at which feed can be purchased per ton, and grain 
per bushel, in straight carlots through billed from Western 
points, delivered on track at points in the freight zones as 
indicated. Mixed carlots cost approximately $2 per ton more. 
Retail feed and grain prices vary with different local dealers 
depending upon their individual cost of doing business, volume 
handled, etc._ In the case of feeds the retail price maysome- 
times be as high as $5 per ton above the wholesale prices given 
in this report. 
Albany 
Ogdens- 
burg 
Utica 
Rochester 
Syracuse 
Buf¬ 
falo 
No. 2 W. Oats.614^ 
•62}* 
.60% 
■60} 2 
.58% 
No. 3 W. Oats. 60% 
■61% 
.50% 
.59% 
.57% 
No. 2 Yel. Corn. . 1.43 
1.441-2 
1.42 
1.41 
1.37 
No. 3 Yel. Corn. . 1.42 
1.4313 
1.41 
1.40 
1.36 
Ground Oats_.44.00 
44.60 
43.60 
43.30 
41.90 
Spr. S. Bran.32.25 
32.85 
31.85 
31.55 
30.15 
HardW.Bran. . .33.00 
33.60 
32.60 
32.30 
30.90 
Standard Mids.. .33.00 
33.60 
32.60 
32.30 
30.90 
Soft W. Mids.... 39.00 
39.60 
38.60 
38.30 
36.90 
Flour Mids.37.75 
38.35 
37.35 
37.05 
35.65 
Red Dog Flour.. . 44.25 
44.85 
43.85 
43.55 
42.15 
D. Brew Grains. . 42.00 
42.60 
41.60 
41.30 
39.90 
W. Hominy.48.50 
•48.10 
47 10 
46.80 
45.40 
Yel. Hominy. . . .46.00 
46.60 
45.60 
45.30 
43.90 
Corn Meal.52.00 
52.60 
51.60 
51.30 
49.90 
Gluten Feed.49.25 
49.85 
48.85 
48.55 
47.15 
Gluten Meal.. 
— 
36% Cot, S. Meal 46.00 
46.70 
45.60 
45.90 
43.90 
41% Cot. S. Meal 50.00 
50.70 
49.60 
49.10 
47.90 
43% Cot, S. Meal 52.75 
53.45 
52.35 
51.85 
50,65 
31% OP Oil Meal -- 
— 
34% OP Oil Meal 50.50 
51.10 
50.10 
49.80 
48.40 
Beet Pulp.42.00 
42.60 
41.60 
41.30 
39.90 
Since Buffalo is an important milling center for wheat feet’s 
and linseed meal, quotations are given for this point on both 
a through-billed and a local basis. No. 2 White Oats, .5414; 
No. 3 White Oats, .5314; No. 2. Yellow corn, §1.33; No. 3 
Yellow corn, .; Ground oats §42; spring wheat bran 
§27.50; hard wheat bran §30.65; standard middlings §29; soft 
wheat middlings $35; flour middlings §35.50; red dog flour 
$40.50; dry brewers grains.; white hominy $45; yellow 
hominy *$44; corn meal $50; gluten feed $44.75; gluten meal 
$56.75; 31% old process oil meal-; 34% old process oil 
meal §46. 
For points taking New York rate add to Albany price % 
cents on oats; cent on corn; 10 cents on cottonseed meal; 
and 20 cents on other feeds. 
FANCY EGGS WAY UP 
Jersey and other nearby hennery whites 
that are extremely closely selected and of fine 
interior quality are bringing anywhere from 
66 to 69c and some extremely fancy pet marks, 
candled and in cartons, are bringing 70c and 
over. Nearby firsts, which are two grades 
below this top-notch stuff, are quoted from 
50 to 56c, which shows the strength of the egg 
market. Nearby gathered whites of extra 
fine quality are from 50 to 60c with under¬ 
grades and mediums ranging from 40 to 59c. 
Naturally with this high priced market buy¬ 
ers are becoming more critical and some re¬ 
ceivers report a slackened demand as a result 
of this increase in price. Extra fancy nearby 
eggs are very scarce and the market for them 
is strong. There is a differential of from 15 
to 20c of real fancy stuff over average goods 
and the man that takes advantage of this is 
going to reap a pretty good harvest during 
this season. It means anywhere from $4.50 
to $6 on a case of eggs. Those shippers who 
Established 1898 
EGGS WANTED 
-by- 
H. WITTNER 
318 Greenwich St., New York City 
1. PROMPT RETURNS 
2. HONEST PRICES 
3. EFFICIENT SERVICE 
Ref.: This Paper 
Bank of America 
(Atlantic Off.) 
Franklin Nat. Bank 
Your Bank 
SHIP YOUR EGGS 
WHITE AND BROWN 
To R. BRENNER & SONS 
Bonded Commission Merchants 
358 Greenwich St., New York City 
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