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Fort Atkinson 
DREW 
Wisconsin 
Elmira 
New York 
Dollars 
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Box 120 
NORWICH 
WILL BE HELD AT THE 
New York State College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca, N.Y. 
December 2, 3 and 4, 1924 
Write to Poultry Department, Ithaca, N. Y. 
for Premium List 
THIRD ANNUAL 
New York State Production 
Poultry Show and Exchange 
OPEN JUDGING 
All judging will be done as a demonstration in the 
presence of exhibitors 
A Chance to Learn A Chance to Win 
Entries close November 20th 
YOU CAN’T CUT OUT 
A BOG SPAVIN, PUFF OR THOROUGH^ 
PIN, BUT 
ABSORBINE 
** TRADE MARK REG.U.S.PAT. OFF. 
will clean them off permanently, and 
you work the horse same time. Does 
Hot blister or remove the hair. $2.50 
per bottle, delivered. Will tell you 
more if you write. Book 4 R free. 
W, F. YQUMG, Inc., S79 Lyman St., Springfield, Mass. 
Among the Farmers 
American Agriculturist, November 29, 1924 
Fruit and Crop Notes from Western New York 
W ESTERN New 
York experienced 
its first hard freeze on November 16 and 
17, the mercury falling as low as fourteen 
degrees. The ground was frozen solid to 
a depth of two or three inches, and with 
it a considerable amount of unharvested 
cabbage and not a few drop apples, which 
even the long fine fall had not permitted 
gathering. Farmers have felt so poor this 
fall that they did not hire the usual 
amount of extra help. Had winter set in 
any earlier the loss of crops would have 
been very heavy. A bad feature of the 
freeze up is that it came without any rain 
or even snow. Many cisterns are dry. 
Wells are low and the ground so dry that 
in many fields surface lumps of earth did 
not even freeze but crumble yet under the 
foot. 
By M. C. BURRITT 
ing things snug for win¬ 
ter. We have been tak¬ 
ing off the screens, putting on storm doors, 
replacing broken window lights, putting 
away machinery and equipment, etc. 
There is something about this kind of 
work that gives a man a comfortable 
feeling of satisfaction. A woodshed full of 
dry wood for the kitchen stove and fire¬ 
place, plenty of coal, potatoes, apples, 
squash and the like in the cellar, the stock 
comfortably housed in a tight barn, the 
summer’s tools put away in the shed for 
the winter—all these things and the 
prospect of a little more leisure, or at 
least not such an awful rush, seem right 
and good. Riley has put it well: 
Cabbage Market Gone to Smash 
The cabbage market is practically gone 
to smash. Every available storage is 
crammed to the doors. The cash price 
has dropped from five dollars to three and 
a half per ton. Many buyers have stopped 
buying altogether at any price. There is 
much discussion of the effect of the freeze 
oh cabbage. Most experienced growers 
and shippers seem to agree that if frozen 
cabbage is not handled until it thaws out, 
naturally that it may be marketed. But 
its keeping quality is injured and espe¬ 
cially in a year like this it would probably 
not be advisable to pay storage on such 
cabbage. A certain per cent, get black 
hearts and rot, but it is almost impossible 
to pick these out now. A minority opin¬ 
ion holds that there is no injury from 
freezing. One grower of eighteen years’ 
experience, for example, is now cutting, 
hauling and storing frozen cabbage and 
says that he has never suffered any loss 
by so doing. But both reason and major¬ 
ity competent opinion are against him. 
If the freeze reduces the tonnage stored 
and marketed it may prove a blessing in 
disguise; 
“Then your apples'is all gathered, and the ones 
a feller keeps 
Is poured around the cellar floor in red and 
yeller heaps; 
And your cider-makin’s over, and your wimmen 
folks is through 
With their mince and apple-butter and they’re 
souse and sausage, too! 
I don’t know how to tell it—but if such a thing 
could be 
As the angels wantin’ boardin’, and they’d call 
around on me— / 
I’d want to ’commodate ’em—all the whole— 
indurin’ flock— 
When the Frost is on the pumpkin and the fod¬ 
der’s in the shock! 
Central Pennsylvania Notes 
J. N. Glover 
T he 
Apple Market Strong 
The weather is fine again to-day, 
November 18th, though cold. We are 
all looking for more warm and open 
weather before the final freeze up. Drop 
apples will be all right if not handled until 
they thaw out and thousands of bushels 
will be picked up during the first warm 
days. 
The apple market continues strong, as 
it should. December 1st cold storage 
holdings report is bound to show very 
low holdings compared with last year and 
average years. 
Many storages 
now have not 
more than one- 
third of their space 
filled. Confidence 
in the future apple 
market is shown 
by the fact that 
both growers and 
dealers are holding 
on to their A grade 
stuff, even though 
$5.50 to $6 may be 
had to-day for 
good stock as it 
lays in storage. 
Bean threashing 
is in progress. 
Some corn is 
husked. A further 
report on yields 
and quality will be 
made later. 
These last two 
days have given a 
little respite from 
the rush of field 
work to get the 
crops under cover, 
while the cold 
weather has sup¬ 
plied the incentive, 
to do the usual fail 
fixing up and mak- 
Clarence Schnure Farm of 100 
acres in Lewis township. Union 
County, was sold at private sale for $10,- 
000 to a Mr. Showalter. Edwin Hauck 
bought the Swengle farm of 110 acres in 
East Buffalo township for $3,500. Both 
of these farms have good brick houses on 
them and the buildings on the latter farm 
cost much more than the price paid for 
the farm. Dr. Eyer Walter paid the 
Mertz heirs $2,500 for their 100-acre farm 
in the same township. George K. Schell 
bought the Smith farm of 108 acres for 
$8,500 in East Buffalo township also. 
All these farms were sold at private sale, 
as very few farms have been sold at public 
sale this year. 
Some wheat was seeded on corn-stalks 
on the first of this month. Wheat needs 
rain to help along the late seeding on dry 
soils. Pastures are about eaten off for this 
season. Corn husking is well under way 
with more soft corn in the yellow varieties 
than of the whip-cap dent, though some 
corn is fairly well matured where it was 
planted early. 
Winter apples have been sold out at 
from $1 to $2 per bushel. Potatoes are 
selling at 50 cents a bushel now and the 
market furnishes no good outlet, even at 
that price. An 
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effort is being 
made to start a 
potato growers’ as¬ 
sociation in Union 
County to help 
buy seed potatoes 
and to sell the big 
crops now grown 
in this section. 
Snyder County. 
—We have been 
having real spring¬ 
like weather with 
the temperature 
reaching as high 
as 88. It is very 
dry and we have 
had little or no 
rain for a number 
of weeks. Farmers 
are bush husking 
corn and digging 
potatoes. Lots of 
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are generally good, 
apples are scarce. 
They have been 
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80 cents a bushel. 
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