WATER 
BOWL 
If you have 
one cow or one 
hundred—you 
must want to 
make them 
give as much 
milk as pos¬ 
sible. A Drew 
Detachable Water Bowl in the cow’s 
stall often increases the milk yield 
25 per cent or more, right away! It 
automatically gives the cow all the 
water she wants when she wants it. 
A FREEZE-UP CAN’T HARM 
THIS BOWL 
No miserable driving out in cold to 
icy tanks—no fires to keep. Every¬ 
thing is simple-durable-efficient. 
Built on scientific principles. Drew 
Bowls actually pay for themselves. 
Install them before icy weather 
causes a falling off in the milk flow. 
THE DREW LINE DEALER SAVES 
YOU MONEY. See him for all your 
barn and poultry equipment. Drew 
supplies are made and priced for 
practical men. 27 years of winning 
good-will save you a lot of money. 
Write for catalog A—free. 
$25 Down Buys 
Holstein Bull 
We have several exceptionally well- 
bred registered Holstein bull calves that 
we offer for sale on the installment plan. 
Here is your opportunity to break into 
the purebred game without an immedi¬ 
ate heavy outlay of cash. This should 
appeal to the average farmer who 
wants to boost the average production 
of his herd without having it cost him 
too much money right on the jump. 
A Double Descendant of 
“OLD DUTCH" 
One of these offerings traces back, both 
on his sire’s and his dam’s side, to Dutch- 
land Colantha Sir Inka, “Old Dutch,” 
the greatest proven transmitting son of 
Colantha Johanna Lad, the famous 
“milk” sire. The calf’s sire is a grandson 
and his dam is an own daughter, of 
Dutch-milk blood on both sides of the 
family. Dutch has 95 A.R.O. daughters, 
16 having 7-day records of 30 pounds of 
butter or better, two are in the 1000- 
pound class. The calf’s sire has 22 
A.R.O. daughters with records up to 
29.83 pounds butter in 7 days, and is the 
son of a 30-pound cow. This well-bred 
individual can be bought “on time.” 
Write for particulars 
FISHKILL FARMS 
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Owner 
Hopewell Junction New York 
American Agriculturist, December 13, 1924 
New York Farm News 
Crop and Fruit Notes by M. C. Burritt 
W INTER is on and still no rain to 
amount to anything. It is really 
remarkable how rain holds off this fall. 
It will cloud up with every indication of 
rain, the weather bureau even predicting 
it, only to clear the next day without 
rain, or at most a light shower. Last 
summer it was just the opposite. Any 
cloud would produce rain. Meanwhile, 
more cisterns and wells are going dry 
which, if it freezes up without rain, will 
cause much inconvenience this winter. 
Last night about two inches of snow fell 
and the ground has remained white all 
day with a sharp air. The ground is 
frozen hardly at all yet. 
The most active farm enterprise this 
last week was cabbage harvest and mar¬ 
keting. Almost as much cabbage has 
been hauled into storage and shipped in 
the last two weeks or since the freeze as 
was brought into our local shipping point, 
before the freeze upon November 17th. 
Some buyers will not take frozen cabbage 
claiming it is practically worthless while 
others are still buying and a few even 
storing it. Growers have stored and 
shipped heavily themselves. The freeze 
had a remarkable stimulating effect on 
prices, which rose from $5 and below to 
$8 and $10. Our local cooperative has 
loaded several cars at $12 and one at $14 
this week. Demand is much stronger 
and inquiries more active. If the cab¬ 
bage arrives in the markets in good con¬ 
dition the freeze may prove a blessing in 
disguise. 
Few Apples and Potatoes Frozen 
There are still a few apples on the 
ground which may be salvaged for cider 
if there are no further hard freezes for a 
few days. Drops which were picked up 
and left out in crates and bags were badly 
frozen and are rotten now, except in the 
centers of the containers. The apple 
market is rather slow just now, not many 
sales being made, although prices remain 
firm. Everyone seems to be expecting 
more activity right after December first. 
Some potatoes were frozen in the 
ground and more in barns. But the loss 
is small. South of us, buyers are offering 
from thirty to thirty-five cents a bushel 
for shipping. Such prices are dishearten¬ 
ing to growers. Potatoes have the lowest 
buying power in many years. “This 
shirt cost eight bushels of potatoes,” one 
grower remarked as he donned a new 
one. How many would it take to buy a 
good enclosed car no one cares to figure. 
Wheat Buys More This Year 
Time now permitting, farmers are be¬ 
ginning to deliver their wheat to local 
mills. The price ranges from $1.40 to 
$1.50 a bushel. Wheat buys about half 
as much more than it did last year. 
The relief from the pressure of field 
work is real and greatly needed for it 
gives opportunity to do so many neces¬ 
sary things that have been long neglected 
because of the pressure of harvest. 
Thrifty farmers seize this opportunity to 
open surface ditches, bank up young fruit 
trees to protect them from mice, repair 
broken floors, windows and leaky roofs, 
make the stock snug for winter, store the 
last vegetables for winter and innumer¬ 
able other small jobs. The livestock on a 
fruit and general farm must be particu¬ 
larly glad of this time for during fruit 
harvest they are more or less neglected. 
Now they are beginning to get the atten¬ 
tion which they deserve. “Chores” oc¬ 
cupy a much larger part of the day’s 
duties.—M. C. Burritt. 
* * * 
In the Hudson Valley 
The first rain in forty-two days set in 
last Saturday and continued over into 
Sunday night. In all some two and 
sixteen-hundredths inches fell. This was 
a very welcome rain for the farmers, as all 
cisterns and other water supplies are now 
plentiful. A considerable number who 
had been drawing water from a consider¬ 
able distance for their stock are relieved. 
On Monday, a number of farmers took 
advantage of the condition of the soil and 
were hard at work plowing on the lighter 
soils. There has been less fall plowing 
done this year in the county than usual 
owing to the unusual drouth. 
Frost Caused Heavy Losses 
The freeze of last week apparently hits 
other persons as well as the farmer, as 
several commission firms lost rather 
heavily in apples that they had not 
packed as yet out of the orchards. Sev¬ 
eral cases of a loss of two to three hundred 
barrels are reported as well as many 
smaller ones. Many cars are not in com¬ 
mission as yet, as it has been hard to 
obtain enough cylinder blocks to go 
round. One local garage placed an order 
for two thousand dollars worth of heads 
the day following the freeze and this 
amount has been undoubtedly increased. 
Several tractors were severely damaged 
that had been left standing in the field. 
There is always some damage the first 
frost of the season but not so heavy as 
this usually. 
Marauders Kill Stock 
A w r eek or so ago in the southern parts 
of the county hunters or rather marauders 
in the guise of hunters, entered on the 
premises of a farmer and shot and carried 
away six valuable Red Bourbon turkeys, 
at the same time leaving another gobbler 
lying with a broken wing and another 
with a shattered leg. No arrests were 
made, altho a fifty dollar reward was 
offered by the owmer. A few days later, 
at the annual meeting of the County Fish 
and Game Club, resolutions were offered 
w’hich said in part: “That all law abiding 
hunters and fishers are constantly being 
brought into disrepute by irresponsible 
hoodlums and loafers and in view of this 
suitable rewards are offered by the club 
for information that leads to conviction 
of persons guilty of violations of the game 
laws as affecting the farmer and that 
every member of the club stand ready to 
assist the farmer in any way that he is 
able in the protection of his property 
from damage in return for the courtesies 
allowed in not posting his land.” A great 
deal more of a spirit of cooperation might 
be developed between the constantly 
growing membership of the Fish and 
Game clubs and the rural people. If the 
members of those associations will try to 
understand the problems and the attitude 
of the farmer, they may be assured of 
every courtesy of the land owners. But 
if the acts of the game and farm product 
hog continue it may not be very far in the 
future when the majority of the farm 
lands will be posted. 
Watching Rye Market 
As Columbia County is and has been 
for many years now a heavy producer of 
rye, considerable comment has arisen 
lately over the fact that according to a 
recently published report, there is a world 
shortage of 173,000,000 bushels of rye. 
Exports of rye last year to Europe were 
72,000,000 bushels, while estimates show 
that this year about 65,000,000 bushels 
out of an estimated surplus of 68 , 000,000 
bushels. For a number of years now the 
price of rye has been low, so low, in fact, 
that it is forcing the growers out of rye 
production against their will. Discussion 
now is prevalent as to whether or not this 
shortage will mean an increase in local 
prices. The majority are skeptical. 
—D. V. Rivenburg. 
* * * 
Greene County. —The recent cold spell 
froze a lot of apples, coming as it did very 
unexpectedly. Corn was a little late and 
a lot of it froze before it was ripe. Buck¬ 
wheat is bringing $1.25 and corn $1.55. 
The hay crop was light this year. Farm 
sales are bringing large crowds and offer¬ 
ings are bringing good prices with the 
exception of cows. Strippers are meeting 
poor sale and there is practically no de¬ 
mand for horses.—J. A. 
An Amazing 
Experiment 
Testing the Strength of a 
Harness Strap 
it RECENT experiment in an engineering 
laboratory proved that thousands of 
farmers are buying harness with the 
straps robbed of half their strength. 
Looking at the picture you would think the 
strap would, surely break where it was cut 
away, but—it didn’t—it broke at 
the buckle. 
The test shows how buckles and 
buckle tongues tear and weaken 
harness, making it wear out long 
before it should, causing frequent 
and cosdy repairs. 
The famous Walsh No-Buckle 
Harness does away with this weak¬ 
ness in harness—has no buckles to 
tear, no rings to wear, no buckle 
holes to weaken straps. It is the 
world’s strongest harness. 
Thousands of farmers in every 
state save money by using the 
Walsh No-Buckle harness. James 
M. Walsh will send you a set to 
use on your team thirty days free 
without obligating you to buy. 
After trial if you find it the best 
harness in every way you ever saw, 
you can pay #5 down, balance in 
easy monthly sums. 
Write today for big new free 
book, describing ten styles of Walsh 
1925 No-Buckle Harness, telling 
about interesting tests, experiences 
of users, free trial offer and liberal 
long time terms. Address James M. 
Walsh, Pres. Walsh Harness Co., 
513 Keefe Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 
Send far 
Catalog 23 
A Modern Bathroom, $60 
J UST one of our wonderful bargains. 
Set comprizes a 4, 4 X, or 5 foot iron 
enameled roll rim bath tub, one 19 inch 
roll rim enameled flat-back lavatory, 
a syphon action, wash-down water closet 
with porcelain tank, oak post hinge 
seat: all china index faucet3. nickel- 
plated traps, and all nickel-plated fittings. 
J. M. SEIDENBERG CO., Inc. 
i- i West 34th St., New York City 
Send for 
Catalog 
FARM WAGONS 
High or low wheels— 
steel or wood— wide 
or narrow tires. 
Wagon parts of all 
kinds. Wheels to fit 
any running gear. 
Catalog iilu*tr»ted in colon free 
Electric Wheel Co., 2 Elm St., Quincy, III. 
CATTLE 
Guernsey Bull Calves 
Snpfial Offer We are offering choice of two bull 
_L_ calves about eight months old for 
Price $100.00 
Both bulls sired by May Rose bulls and out of cows either 
on test or with official records. Send for pedigrees and 
description, they are bargains. 
Herd officially tested for tuberculosis. 
OAKS FARM Cohasset, Mass. 
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 
HOLSTEINS 
Car load high class grade springers 
and fresh cows. 
Car load grade heifers 2 to 3 years old. 
IoRegistered ayearolds. Servicebulls. 
J. A. LEACH Cortland, 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. 
fl.M.LUX,20S Washington St.,Woburn,Mass. 
uu v w ivii cat ly r etu j 
lor a breeder at $10 each. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
LOUIS U. SHUSTKR, 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
