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Crops cost too much 
to risk with unreliable sprays 
T HE real business farmer never thinks 
of growing vegetables and fruit crops 
without carefully selected sprays. For 
their job is to protect his profits. He 
knows he can trust Pyrox! 
Pyrox, based on 25 years’ experience 
with sprays, is a deadly poison and a 
powerful fungicide, extra high in copper. 
Bugs can’t live, disease makes little prog¬ 
ress where it is sprayed; plants grow 
sturdy, fruits luscious, vegetables fat and 
firm under its invigorating power. Ideal 
for home gardens. 
Pyrox is a smooth, finely milled paste. 
Easy to buy—in jars, cans, drums and 
barrels; easy to mix; easy to spray through 
finest nozzles. Sticks! Your dealer has 
it or can get it for you. 
You can now buy all your spray materials from 
the complete Bowker line. 
Bowker’s Arsenate of Lead —Dry powdered and paste. 
Bowker’s Calcide —Highgrade calcium arsenate ; quick-acting. 
Bowker’s Bodo —A ready-mixed Bordeaux, 10% copper. 
Bowker’s Lime Sulphur —Concentrated liquid and dry. 
Bowker’s Dusting Materials —Sulphur, Copper, etc. 
Nicotine Sulphate. 
BOWKER CHEMICAL COMPANY 
49 Chambers St., New York 
/ RP&UCPAT. orr, 
yrox 
the powerful triple-duty spray 
Kills bugs—controls diseases—stimulates growth 
Lays Them Out Clean 
H ERE’S THE DIGGER that will separate your potatoes perfectly 
and without bruising. The single extra long elevator carries them 
gently yet does thor 
roller type, guides 
use the Babcock* 
steel, with elevator 
Built rugged and simple 
digger must undergo. 
Investigate the 
ough work. The foretruck, either standard or 
perfectly and will not skid sideways. You can 
Pugh without costly breakage. Practically all 
chain of extra tough high carbon spring steel, 
to stand the hard grinding strains every potato 
Tractor hitch if you prefer. Fully guaranteed. 
Babcock - Pugh before you order your 
digger, Write today for full particulars. 
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388 Drexel Bldg. 
Philadelphia, Penna. 
BabcockPugh Potato Digger 
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INTERNATIONAL SILO CO. 
Dept. 12 MEADVILLE, PA. 
Improved filter removes dirt. Solid 
drawn steel. Easy to keep sweet and 
clean Full twelv«-quart capacity. Will last 
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American Agriculturist, May 31, 1924 
New York Farm News 
League Has Traveling ft 
OMETHING distinctly new in the 
business of handling and marketing 
milk is the traveling milk plant that has 
just been completed by the Dairymen’s 
League Cooperative Association. This 
plant is contained in two standard re¬ 
frigerator cars, each 40 feet long. One 
car is a power house; the other the milk 
handling station. When a call for service 
comes, the plant can be transported to 
the point where it is needed, and thus 
can be delivered to the most distant 
place in League territory in a very short 
time. In case a League plant is de¬ 
stroyed by fire, or a breakdown unex¬ 
pectedly occurs, or the necessity arises 
for a sudden diversion of milk in some 
particular locality, this portable receiv¬ 
ing station will be drawn by a railroad 
locomotive to the place where the emer¬ 
gency exists, and the handling of milk 
will go on as if nothing had happened. 
This portable plant has a capacity of 
250 cans or 10,000 quarts of milk a day. 
It has its own refrigerating plant, carries 
a full supply of tools, has a storage place 
for seventy-five cans, and is similar to any 
standard plant of like capacity, excepting 
that it occupies much smaller space. 
The dairyman delivers his milk at the 
door in the middle of the second car. 
The milk is dumped into the weighing 
can and weighed. Then the farmer’s 
cans are passed to the washer in the 
back end of the car, where they are 
washed, sterilized, and dried. The milk 
passes from the weighing can into the 
receiving vat. It is then pumped through 
a tube cooler and run into a glass-lined 
tank with a 600-gallon capacity. From 
the tank the milk is run off into 40-quart 
cans, in which it is transported to the 
city markets. 
The association states that had it 
been in possession of this portable station 
during the past year there would have 
been work for it practically every day. 
Mr. Harry A. Sieck, in charge of en¬ 
gineering work of the League, lias the 
credit for perfecting this outfit. 
County News [from Among the 
Farmers * 
T HE outlook for farmers here in Lewis 
County is’rather discouraging so far this 
spring, as the present high price of feeds, 
the drastic cut in the price of fluid milk 
and weather conditions, make the outlook 
far from encouragirg. Pastures, because 
of the cold, raw weather through the 
month of April, have been very backward 
in starting with the result that farmers 
have had to feed their cattle in the barn 
and in many instances have had to buy 
large quantities of hay at prices ranging 
from $15 to $18 per ton. With mill 
feeds of good quality around $40 per 
ton it leaves them with scarcely any 
profit at the end of the month. 
The almost continuous rains of the 
past three weeks have greatly retarded 
spring work and scarcely any seeding 
has been done. Hundreds of acres of 
good meadow land, through the Black 
River valley, have been inundated, and in 
many instances this includes plowed 
fields intended for oats, barley, and corn. 
Unless weather conditions change for the 
better in the very near future, it will be 
early June before it will be possible to 
seed anything excepting barley or millet. 
The Sheffield Farms Company owning, 
and operating one of the largest and best 
equipped milk plants in this section of the 
North Country has been receiving more 
milk at their local plant early in May than 
during the flush season of last year and 
although the price was cut recently to 
the flat rate of $1.63 per cwt. it does not 
show any marked falling off in receipts. 
On their last check day they distributed 
among the farmers more than $40,000 
in checks, which with the large and well 
built motor trucks used in transporting 
their milk would indicate Lewis County 
farmers are in a fairly prosperous state 
even though conditions are so unstable. 
tilk Plant—County Notes 
Farm help seems rather scarce this 
spring with prices ranging from $55 to 
$60 per month with board and being in 
direct competition with state road work 
with more remunerative wages and shorter 
hours, perhaps accounts for a shortage 
of competent farm help. 
Not much farm property changing 
hands here this spring, no doubt] the 
gradual slump in about all farm products 
accounting for that.— Charles L. Stiles. 
Essex County—Up to the middle of 
May there is practically nothing sown in 
the ground on account of the almost con¬ 
stant rains. Larger acreage than usual 
was plowed last fall and many parts are 
now green with grass. Farmers are feel¬ 
ing somewhat discouraged. Dairies are 
doing well but prices .are considerably 
lower than they were a year ago. Eggs 
are 25c a dozen, veal 14c a pound dressed, 
potatoes $1.50 a bushel. No apples left. 
There is a great call for spring pigs at $4 
each.—M. E. B. 
In the Hudson Valley 
Washington County—Up to the middle 
of May the ground was very wet and very 
few oats have been sown. As a matter of 
fact practically no planting was done up 
to that time. Grass looks good, especially 
new seedings. Winter grains are also in 
fine shape. Farmers are gradually put¬ 
ting their stock on to pasture, the animals 
look to be in very good condition. There 
is not a whole lot of enthusiasm over the 
milk situation at the present time. There 
is some call for grade Guernseys if they 
are nice and the price is right. There 
seems to be little or no sale for other 
stock. Veals are bringing 9c, fat hogs 7c, 
4 weeks old pigs $4 to $5 apiece.—L. P. P. 
Dutchess County—The Dutchess Coun¬ 
ty Board of Supervisors have passed an 
appropriation for T B work for $3,000 
annually. Fifteen hundred dollars was 
voted beginning July 1 for this year. 
Work is to be carried on in the townships 
of Hyde Park, Rhinebeck and Clinton. 
Groups of six or more breeders in the 
communities outside of this clean area 
district will probably be granted free 
service from the county veternarian. The 
county committee to have direction of 
the work is as follows: 3 Supervisors: 
Lewis Allen, W. H. Tompkins and John 
B. Creswell; 2 breeders at large, Edwin 
J. Chaffee and James B. Rymph. 
In Western New York 
Niagara County. —We have been ex¬ 
periencing a lot of rain during the early 
part of May. The ground has been too 
wet for much plowing. During the 
second week in May it rained off and on 
for four days. The result of this is that 
there is not much spring planting done, 
on account of the cold and wet but these 
rains make the grass grow and are helping 
winter wheat which looks a whole lot better 
than it did. Fruit buds have not started a 
great deal yet but there is a fair show for 
fruit. Wheat has been selling for $1.10 
a bushel; potatoes, 65c a bushel; beans, 
medium, $4.75 per 100; pea beans, $3.75 
per 100; white kidneys, $9 per 100; 
timothy hay, $14 per ton; clover, $12 per 
ton; eggs, 23c per dozen; butter, 49c a 
pound; live poultry, 25c a pound; dressed 
poultry, 28e a pound; dressed calves, 16c; 
live hogs, 10c; dressed hogs, 11c.—J- C. 
Erie County—Farmers have their 
.plowing all done, but not a seed has been 
sown on account of the almost continual 
rain. We had a good sugar season around 
Holland. Several farmers are selling off 
their cows. Every one is keeping hens 
with the belief that they are paying better 
than cows. Eggs are now bringing 24e 
a dozen; butter is 42c a pound. Four 
gas .wells have been struck on the Ribers 
farm and they are still drilling for more. 
Mrs. A. C. 
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