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American Agriculturist, October 20,1923 
Puts 2 H-P Engine on 
Your Place For Only $ 14M 
News From Among the Farmers 
Dairymen's League Announces September Prices—New York Farm News 
Ed. H. Witte, Famous Engine Manufac¬ 
turer, Makes Startling Offer On Witte 
Throttling-Governor Magneto- 
Equipped Engine 
Farmers, now more than ever, appreciate 
the need of power on the farm and know 
they can make $500 to $1,000 additional 
profit a year with an all-purpose engine. 
Ed. H. Witte, nationally-known engine 
manufacturer, has announced a 2-horse 
power engine which burns either kerosene, 
gasoline, distillate or gas with a special 
throttling governor. It delivers full power 
on kerosene, gasoline, distillate or gas. 
This new WITTE ENGINE has revolu¬ 
tionized power on the farm as it handles 
practically every job with ease at a frac¬ 
tion of the cost of hired help. Easily 
moved from one job to another, it is troub¬ 
le-proof and so simple that a boy can 
operate it. 
To introduce this wonderful new engine 
to a million new users Mr. Witte has ar¬ 
ranged to put it on any place for a 90-day 
guaranteed test. Since it costs only $14.24 
to take advantage of this sensational offer 
and nearly a year to pay the low balance. 
Mr. Witte confidently expects every pro¬ 
gressive power-user to be soon using a 
WITTE. Every reader of this paper who 
is interested in making bigger profits and 
doing all jobs by engine power should write 
today to Mr. E. H. Witte, 1805 Oakland 
Ave., Kansas City, Mo., or 1805 Empire 
Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa., for full details of 
this remarkable offer. You are under no 
obligations by writing. 
T HE Dairymen’s League Cooperative 
Association announces that the 
gross pool price for September milk is 
$2.30. From this gross price there 
will be deducted 10 cents for expenses, 
leaving a net pool price of $2.20. From 
this amount the association will bor¬ 
row 10 cents per hundred pounds on 
Certificates of Indebtedness. This 
leaves a net cash price to farmers of 
$2.10. 
September prices compare very fa¬ 
vorably with those received for milk 
delivered in August. The gross pool 
price for August was $2.19 and the 
net pool price for the same month was 
$2,085. The net cash price to fai’mers 
for August milk was $1,985. 
STATE FAIR GUESSING CONTEST 
WINNERS ANNOUNCED 
Commissioner of Farms and Markets 
Berne A. Pyrke has announced the 
winners in the contest conducted by 
the department, in the State Institu¬ 
tions Building, at the State Fair, in 
which estimates were submitted by visi¬ 
tors to the exposition on the amount of 
milk produced by nine cows which were 
on exhibition. The contest aroused a 
large amount of interest, especially 
among farmers and cattle owners dur¬ 
ing the week, and a total of 8,840 es¬ 
timates were submitted on the cows ex¬ 
hibited. 
Commissioner Pyrke stated that the 
contest was intended to emphasize the 
economic advantage of improved stock, 
and the desirability of daily milk rec¬ 
ords of individual cows, thus providing 
for the elimination of unprofitable ani¬ 
mals. The prizes consisted of four 
pure-bred calves and $100 in cash. 
Almon O. Nye, Pleasant Valley, N. 
Y., was the winner of the first prize, 
which consisted of a choice of four 
calves, and selected the pure-bred 
Guernsey Bull Calf donated by Henry 
$1,000 Insurance for 75c. 
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M. Sage, Fernbrook Farm, Albany, 
N. Y. 
W. A. Pritchard, of Oswego, N. Y., 
won second prize, a pure-bred Ayrshire 
Bull Calf from the Metropolitan In¬ 
surance Company Sanitarium Farm, 
Mt. McGregor, N. Y. 
H. W, Burritt, of Romulus, was third 
in the contest and the winner of the 
pure-bred Holstein Heifer Calf, donated 
by R. E. Chapin and Son, Bonalevo 
Farm, Batavia, N. Y. 
Fay J. Dougherty, 106 Eldorado St., 
Syracuse, won fourth prize, a pure¬ 
bred Jersey Bull Calf donated by Meri- 
dale Farms, Ayer and McKinney, pro¬ 
prietors, Meredith, N. Y. 
Leigh H. Park, Cortland, was fifth 
and won the $50 cash prize. 
C. H. Burroughs, Savannah, was 
sixth, prize $30. 
The nine cows, which were from the 
State Institution farm^, were lined up 
in stanchions in the State Institutions 
building, at the State Fair, and num¬ 
bered. Cards were handed to visitors 
and they were asked to indicate on 
the cards the order of the cows, in the 
matter of the amount of milk produc¬ 
tion. 
WESTERN NEW YORK NOTES 
ALVAH H. PULVER 
Copious rains breaking the long 
drought have done much to help the 
late fruit crop fill out. Altogether, 
September proved far different from 
the previous growing months as nearly 
four inches of precipitation was re¬ 
ceived in the fruit belt of western New 
York. This is a high figure for this 
month and untold good was done by 
the timely rains. 
Usual Wheat Acreage Planted 
In spite of the fact that farmers 
are now receiving a much lower price 
for their wheat than they had planned 
on, about the usual acreage of winter 
wheat will be planted in most sections 
of western New York this season. The 
rains were of decided benefit to the 
growers, as for some time the land had 
been too dry for planting. Practically 
all the growers, heeding their farm bu¬ 
reaus, held off planting until Septem¬ 
ber 20 had passed so as to dodge the 
Hessian fly. The growers assert/that 
during the last few years they have 
been growing wheat at a loss in most 
instances. The growers’ records have 
shown that on an average it costs 
them approximately $1.25 a bushel to 
raise wheat on most farms. 
NEW YORK COUNTY NOTES 
Essex Co. —A few rains during the 
last two weeks in September broke the 
long dry spell, helping pastures and 
relieving the water supply. However, 
the rain came too late to help crops 
materially. Oats and barley have 
turned out very well, but corn made 
a poor crop. However, there will be 
considerable corn fodder. Silos are all 
filled. Many farmers are working 
teams on the road, to bolster up their 
incomes a little. Butter prices are im¬ 
proving and farmers are feeding their 
cows in the barn. Eggs, 50c a dozen; 
peaches, $2 to $2.25 a bushel.—M. E. B. 
Broome Co.— After several killing 
frosts in the third week in September, 
quite a rainy spell set in. However, the 
rain came too late to help crops to any 
extent. Springs are flowing once more 
and fall plowing has been made easy. 
Fruit is scarce and high. Potatoes 
have been bringing from $2.75 to $3.50; 
peaches have not begun to come on the 
market in any amount. Eggs are now 
bringing 50 cents. Threshing and silo 
filling are about completed.—Mrs. 
E. M. C. 
Steuben Co.— Rain during the last 
week in September helped pastures 
and late crops to some extent. How¬ 
ever streams and springs are still very 
low. Water for stock is scarce on 
many farms. . Frosts have damaged 
much ensilage corn. Many potato 
fields have also been seriously damaged 
by frosts. There is some complaint 
of late blight in potato fields where 
the potato crop will be light, not more 
than forty per cent.normal. The buck¬ 
wheat crop which looked very promis¬ 
ing before the cold weather of middle 
September was hurt by frost.—H. I. D. 
Wyoming Co.— Severe frosts during 
the last week in September caused 
damage to corn, potatoes, buckwheat; 
in fact, nearly everything. Silo filling 
is completed. During the last week in 
September, potatoes were selling at $1 
a bushel; tomatoes, $1.20;. plums, $2; 
eggs, 35c; butter, 45c to 50c. The bean 
crop is turning out very poorly; there 
will be little more than half a crop. 
Apples promise to be fair.—L. W. F. 
Each Side Accuses the Other 
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of whom the farmer is a consider¬ 
able class. 
I am a church member, but I do 
not blame people sometimes for neglect¬ 
ing church going as our ministers 
preach prohibition more than anything 
else and I believe people are pretty 
sick of it. Prohibition has proven a 
farce as far as keeping liquor from 
those who abuse it, as every one knows. 
Those who got drunk before prohibi¬ 
tion, are still drinking while the de¬ 
cent man is deprived altogether. Some 
one has said that “eternal vigilance is 
the price of liberty.” Let us hope that 
some leader will arise and give the 
people a chance to make their will 
effective in this matter.—J. J. P., New 
H AVE been a reader of your paper 
for many years and I am glad of 
your method of approaching this issue. 
I am a resident of Atlantic County and 
Atlantic City. Our best market has 
enjoyed the distinction of being Amer¬ 
ica’s playground until prohibition has 
made it anything but a desirable place 
to visit. Prohibition, as viewed by the 
farmers of this county, has made 
thousands of “law breakers” from good 
law-abiding citizens and our Grange 
and county board, of which I have the 
honor of being president, are very much 
in favor of a modification of the Vol¬ 
stead act.—J. C., New Jersey. 
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Drink and the Farm Help 
Problem 
P ROHIBITION is a highly economic, 
as also a moral problem and will 
win out as such. No class of citizens 
have greater interest in the subject 
than farmers who are overwhelming in 
majority for it. The Grange represents 
the most intelligent and progressive 
farmers throughout our United States 
and its members, men and women, for 
years have been unceasing in their 
efforts to abolish the legalized sale of 
intoxicating liquors. 
On my farm I have made it a rule 
not to rent a house to a drinking man, 
or to allow day workers to bring beer 
or whiskey upon the farm in their 
dinner pails or baskets. Some of my 
best workers have been young men 
discharged for their drink habit. 
They proposed that if a movement 
would be made to close all saloons, they 
would work for it for “if one saloon 
was left the boys could not go by it.” 
A town election was held and a dry 
majority of twenty-eight was obtained. 
The liquor forces succeeded in getting 
a new election when a dry majority 
of 129 was the result, the drinking 
young men doing their best to have a 
dry town. 
Our agricultural interests, joined by 
the general business interests of our 
nation, stand by the Eighteenth Amend¬ 
ment and the enforcement of the act.— 
G. T. P., Mass. 
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Booze and the Autos 
W ITH the fast auto traffic, prohibi¬ 
tion is absolutely necessary. 
Drunken drivers are killing too many 
now. As to the personal liberty, how 
will law against murder and theft de¬ 
prive men of personal liberty and have 
never been fully enforced. Prohibition 
is as necessary as either, for drinking 
not only is a curse to those now 
living, but to the generations unborn. 
—Reader, New York. 
