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WOLVERINE 
The 10 O 0 Mile Shoe 
CORDOVAN HORSE-HIDE 
Elmira, N. Y. 
March 16, 1924 
Wolverine Shoe & Tanning Corp., 
Rockford, Michigan 
Dear, Sir: 
I have had one pair of your shoes 
while living in Geneva, N. Y., and 
wish to say they were the best pair 
of shoes I ever had. I wore them a 
year on a farm and have worn them 
two years in shop and the uppers are 
still good. Would like to get hold of 
another pair of same kind of leather. 
Yours truly, 
E. C. ROBY, 
103 S. William St., 
Elmira, N. Y. 
“LEATHER 
STOCKING*! 
Three Years Wfear 
and the Uppers Still Good 
It’s Horsehide Tanned a Secret Way 
A work shoe that wears 1,000 
miles. Men said it was impossible 
to make one. Now they write us 
every day. Letters like the one 
above tell us that Wolverines are 
actually wearing more than the 
thousand miles we 
claim for them. Some 
nowtell us to call them 
10,000 mile shoes! 
Wolverines are 
different from any 
other work shoes we 
know of. 
It’s a different 
leather to begin with. 
Genuine Cordovan 
horsehide. The 
world’s toughest 
leather. For centuries 
it has been used to 
cover the saddles of 
the hard-riding Cos¬ 
sacks. It’s the only 
material strong enough to cover 
baseballs—and stand the terrific 
pounding. 
But never before could it be 
used in work shoes. For it always 
“tanned up” too stiff. Now we 
have a new process. Developed 
in our own tanneries. It makes 
this tough leather as soft as a 
buckskin glove. 
And it always stays soft. Get 
these shoes soaking wet. They dry 
out soft as velvet. Here’s a com¬ 
fort feature you’ll find in no other 
work shoe. So try Wolverines. 
Feel the thick pliable horse¬ 
hide. Soft as buckskin. Tough as 
rawhide. You’ll realize at once 
why you can expect so much 
longer wear from these shoes. 
We are work shoe specialists. We 
make horsehide 
shoes only. And we 
tan every hide our¬ 
selves. We produce a 
model work shoe for 
every need. F or farm, 
lumber camp, mine 
or factory—and for 
every season too. 
Send today for our 
complete catalog. 
Find the shoe f or your 
particularneeds. It’s 
important to get the 
right shoe. 
If your dealer 
hasn’t Wolverines, 
please write us. We 
will send our catalog and the name 
of the nearest Wolverine dealer. 
Wolverine Shoe & Tanning Corp, 
Formerly Michigan Shoemakers 
Rockford, Michigan 
I Wolverine Shoe & Tanning Corp. 
Dept. 101 , Rockford, Michigan 
Please send me name of nearest Wol- 
| verine dealer and catalog. 
| Name. . 
Address . 
P. 0. and State....... . 
My dealer is... .. ... 
Wolverine 
Comfort Shoe 
This Wolverine is so pli¬ 
able and soft you can 
double it up like a moc¬ 
casin. It wears like iron 
but you’ll hardly know 
you have a shoe on, it is 
so soft and easy. 
For tender feet, or 
where you do not encoun¬ 
ter wet weather .wear this 
Comfort Shoe. A blessing 
to the feet. 
Western New York Fruit 
and Crop Notes 
AST week most growers finished pick- 
^ ing Bartlett pears. The erop is 
comparatively small, but yielded rather 
better than estimated. In spite of fairly 
good prices a good many pears are going 
into cold storage. Dealers have paid 
growers generally 3 to 3^ cents a pound 
for A grade to 2>£-inch and up. 
Probably $2.50 per bushel F. O. B. for 
2^-inch Bartletts A grade, with a few 
cars at $4.75 has been the ruling price to 
dealers for straight cars. 
Growers are now picking Alexander 
apples. A few Wealthies are beginning to 
come in, but the main crop will not be 
ready until next week. A dollar or a 
dollar and a quarter a bushel for the best 
grades seems to be top price being paid 
growers. The crop of these varieties is 
large. 
Elberta peaches will begin to move this 
week, having sized and colored remarkably 
fast this past week. They are about two 
weeks, late. The crop is fair to good but 
there is not an overload on the trees as in 
1922. Quality will be good, except pos¬ 
sibly for color. Dealers started out to buy 
the crop at $1.10 to 1.15 per bushel A 
grade, then raised the price to $1.25 and 
now are even offering as high as $1.50 per 
bushel. A number of cars have been sold 
as high as $1.75 to $1.85 F. O. B. shipping 
point. 
Harvesting the main apple crop in 
western New York will not get under 
way much before October 1st, which 
means that it will be mid-November be¬ 
fore the crop is picked and packed. 
Thousands of acres of wheat were sown 
in Western New York during the week of 
September 15th-20th, which was excellent 
weather—a whole week without rain has 
come to be quite unusual this season. 
The present week will see the greater 
part of the acreage sown, except what 
follows beans, which will be pretty late 
this year. Bean harvest is hardly begun 
generally, yet, though a few fields have 
been cut. It will start this week. No corn 
has been cut for grain as yet, though silos 
are being filled. Most corn will require a 
week or ten days yet for reasonable 
maturity. Let us hope frost permits it. 
Potatoes and cabbage promise good crops, 
but prices, especially on cabbage are not 
encouraging.—M. C. B. 
* * * 
Farmers and Railroad Men Meet 
AN unusually well attended and repre- 
sentative conference of farmers and 
railroad transportation men was held at 
the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, 
under the auspices of the State Farm 
Bureau Federation on September 18th. 
Sixty or seventy farmers were present 
and met representatives, some thirty in 
number, of practically all the railroads 
in New York State. 
Secretary Woodward of the Rochester 
Chamber in welcoming the conference 
well pointed out that it typed the new 
spirit of approach to problems, that these 
two groups should meet to discuss then- 
needs and facilities. The old way was to 
curse and fight without even getting 
personally acquainted. No outstanding 
problems were brought up, but almost 
universal commendation on the present 
service of the railroads was heard. Presi¬ 
dent Lee of the Farm Bureau Federation 
who presided called it a “love feast.” 
Although Fred Slater, President of the 
Monroe County Farm Bureau who pre¬ 
sented the farmer’s point of view, un¬ 
doubtedly expressed the general senti¬ 
ment of farmers when he said that farmers 
were more interested in adequate and 
satisfactory service than in lower freight 
rates, there were those present who, had 
they been called upon, would have at¬ 
tacked not only the rates, but the rate¬ 
making structure. 
Donald Conn of the American Railway 
Association gave the principal talk of the 
day, which was mainly a presentation of 
the problem of the increasingly expensive 
idle car and a plea for heavier loading and 
more prompt loading and unloading of 
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