We Want to Know, You Know -Continued 
1. When should peach trees ue ti tinmen a no how r 
2. What are the four best varieties toi Eastern Long 
Island? “Suffolk county woman.” 
Ans. —1. At any time ot tear when tney need it. 
Spring is the best time to remove dead wood, weak 
and Interfering branches, and to shorten In branches 
that are too long. Sometimes in the growing seuson 
Is best to snorien In shoots that are stretching out 
beyond their rellows, In order to preserve the shape 
of the tree. Judicious shortening lu at this season 
Is also to ue recommended. 2. We can't undertake 
to say which are best. The Crawfords, Early and 
Late, are good TheCrosbey is highly recommended 
by many growers. Ulooe is highly recommended In 
some localities; ripens about with Crawford's Late. 
Mountain Rose Is a good, early, white peach. O.d- 
mixon Free is a medium early whlte-tleshed peach of 
good quality. The Good, a late white peach, Is also 
highly recommended. 
What Is the formula for Bordeaux Mixture ? 
M. S. MCM. 
Ans —There are several formulas used by differ¬ 
ent parties. A good one is as lollows: Dissolve 
six pounds sulphate or copper In two gallons hot 
water. Add It gallons cold water. Slake lour pounds 
of quicklime in six gallons ot water, and stir thor¬ 
oughly until it is completely mixed. Four tne lime 
slowly througu a strainer into the mixture, and stir 
it thoroughly. Strain through line gauze before 
using, to prevent clogging the spraying machine. 
CJse soon after mixing. 
I have a held of rich bottom land which occasion¬ 
ally overflows during the high water of the Missis¬ 
sippi, usually In June; the water sometimes stays on 
a part of the Held several days. Would it injure 
asparagus provided the water did not come over it 
oftener than once In eight or ten years ? Would It be 
advisable to plant asparagus on this Held ? M. F 
Illinois. 
Ans.- If the water covers the growing shoots for 
several days at a time, the plants would be likely to 
be Injured, but If such a contingency did not arise 
more than once In eight or ten years, we would be In¬ 
clined to risk it, other things being favorable. 
In writing to advertisers please always mention 
Tub Rural. 
DAIRY appliances* 
Dairy 
Farm 
Sales of 
Ashton’s 
Salt 
for 1S91 exceeded 
those of 1890 by 
10,000 sacks, 224 pounds each. 
Sales for 1892, largest in the 
history of the brand. 
Plain proof of its increasing 
popularity. Higher in price, 
too, than many others. 
FRANCIS D. MOULTON & CO., 
General Agents for U. S. and Canada, 
29 Broadway, New York. 
CHEESE. 
8tate factory, full cream, fall made, colored. 
fancy,. 11^012 
Full cream, white, fall made, fancy.119f@12 
Full cream, choice.ll$$@ll?g 
Full cream, good to prime.10$$@11)$ 
Full cream, common to fair. 9 @]0)$ 
Part cream, Chenango and neighboring 
counties, small size, choice. 9 @ 9)$ 
Part skims, small size, fair to prime. 8 @ 9 
Part skims, choice. 9 @ 9 )$ 
Part skims, prime. 7 @8 
Part skims, fair to good. 6)$@ 8 
Part skims, common. 3 @6 
Full skims. 1 @2 
Pennsylvania skims. )$@ 1 
EGG8. 
State and Pennsylvania, new laid, choice... 16)$@— 
Western, fresh gathered, extra.16)$@16)$ 
Southern Fresh collections, good to prime.. 15)$@16W 
Duck.20 @23 
Goose.30 @35 
FRUITS—GREEN. 
Apples, N. Spy, prime to fancy, per bbl. 2 50@3 00 
N. Spy, good to prime.2 25@2 75 
Spltzenburg, extra fancy. —@ 
Good to prime.2 50@3 00 
Common to fair, small bbl.1 75@2 25 
Greenings, extra fancy. 2 50@ 
Good to prime.2 25@2 50 
Up-river, small bbl .2 00@2 50 
Baldwins, extra fancy.2 75@3 00 
Good to prime.2 25@2 50 
Up-river, small bbl.1 50@2 00 
Roxbury Russets, prime.2 50@3 00 
Russets, common to fair.2 00@225 
FLORIDA FRUIT. 
Oranges, Indian River.3 00@5 00 
Bright fancy, 176 to 200s per box.3 00@3 50 
Bright straight lines, per box.2 25@2 75 
Bright inferior per box.1 50@2 00 
Russet, per box.1 50@2 50 
Grape fruit, choice, per box.400@600 
Strawberries, Florida, per quart. 10@ 25 
Charleston, per quart. 15@ 25 
North Carolina, per quart. 12® 20 
NEW BUTTER. 
Creamery, Pennsylvania, extras, per lb ....30 @— 
Western, separator, extras.30 @— 
Western, flrst.28 @29 
Western, seconds.26 @27 
Western, third.21 @25 
State dairy, half-fiikln tubs, extraj.28)$@29)$ 
First.27 @28 
Beconds.25)$@26 
Thirds.— @— 
Western Imitation creamery, firsts.25 @26 
Seconds.22 @23 
Thirds .19 @20 
Western dairy, firsts.23 @21 
Seconds.20 @22 
Thirds.18 @19 
Western factory, extras.23 @24 
Firsts.21 @22 
Seconds.19 @20 
Thirds.17 @18 
Rolls.18 @23 
POTATOES. 
Bermuda, per bbl.6 00 @ 9 00 
Havana. — @ — 
Scotch Magnums, per sack.2 00 @ 2 50 
Irish and English, per sack.180 @2 15 
German, per 112-lb sack. 75 @ 1 60 
Florida, per bbl.5 50 @ 7 25 
Rose, Maine, per d. h. bbl.2 75 @ 3 25 
State and Michigan, per d. h. bbl ...2 50 @ 2 75 
State and Michigan, bulk, 180 lbs ....2 00 @ 2 50 
Burbank, State and Mich., bulk 180 lbs ..2 00 @ 2 25 
Hebron, State and Mich., bulk, 180 lbs...200 @2 25 
Jersey, good to choice, In bulk, per bbl ..1 75 @ 2 00 
Poor to fair, per bbl.125 @ 175 
Sweet potatoes, Vineland, fancy.4 50 @ 5 00 
Other So. Jersey, fancy.4 25 @ 4 50 
So. Jersey, fair to good.3 50 @ 4 00 
POULTRY—LIVE. 
Fowls, nearby. 14 @ — 
Southern and Western, per lb. 13)$ @ 14 
Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 13 @ — 
Ducks, Western, per pair. 70 @ 90 
Eastern, per pair. 90 @1 00 
Geese, Western, per pair.1 00 @1 37 
Eastern.125 @150 
Roosters, old, per lb. 8 @ 8)$ 
Western spring chickens, per lb. 18 @ — 
Local spring chickens per lb. 13 @ — 
Live pigeons, per pair. 36 @ 60 
DRB88ED POULTRY—FRESH KILLED. 
Turkeys, Western, clear hens, per lb.13 @ 15 
Western, young toms, per lb.12 @13 
Western, mixed, per lb.13 @14 
Chickens, Phila., broilers, light, fancy.... 45 @ 50 
Phila., broilers, average.30 @ 40 
Fowls, clear, Jersey, per lb.14 @15 
Clear, State and Penn, per lb.12)$@ 13 
Clear, Ohio and Mich., per lb.12**@ 13 
Western, Inferior. 9 @10 
Old roosters. 9)$@ 10 
Capons, Philadelphia, large.22 @23 
Capons, Philadelphia, medium.20 @ 21 
Capons, small and slips.17 @19 
Capons, western, mixed weights.16 @20 
Ducks, Western, per lb. 8 @18 
Geese, Md. and Del., per lb.— @ — 
Western, per lb.6 @10 
Squabs, white, large, per dot. 3 50@ 4 00 
Dark and small, per doi. 2 50@ 3 00 
VEGETABLES. 
Asparagus, Charleston, per doz bunches....2 00@7 00 
Norfolk.4 00@4 60 
North Carolina.2 00@4 00 
Carrots, per barrel.1 25@1 50 
Cauliflower, Florida, per bbl.3 00@5 00 
Poor to fair, per bbl. —@ — 
Celery, Southern, per dozen. 20® 75 
Cabbage, Florida, per bbl.1 50@2 75 
Charleston.2 5U@3 00 
Egg plant, Southern, per box.2 00@6 00 
Onions, Connecticut, white, best.2 00@3 00 
State, yellow, per bbl.1 25@2 5u 
Connecticut red, per bbl.1 75@2 00 
Orange County, yellow, per bbl.1 25@2 50 
Orange County, red.1 25@1 50 
Bermuda, per crate .175® — 
Havana, per crate.1 75@2 00 
Radishes, per 100 bunches. 75@1 00 
Squash, Hubbard, per bbl.2 50@2 75 
Marrow, per bbl.2 50@2 75 
Turnips.. 75 ® 80 
Norfolk spinach, per bbl. 75@1 25 
Norfolk kale, per bbl. 75@100 
Tomatoes, Florida, per carrier.1 50@2 50 
Florida lettuce, per basket.1 00@2 00 
Beets, per crate. 75@1 00 
Peas, per orate. 16@2 00 
String Beans, per orate.1 00@2 50 
THE 
jASHTON 
1937 Market St., 
PHILADELPHIA. 
KTa ttlbi Aatsmtlc Capillary Milk Coelnt 
mmi Otter 8j- T ” 
kter Specialties. Price List fkjbibi 
VICTORIA CRJBAM SEPARATOR 
IT HAS BEEN PROVED 
Thatgreen cut bone is tho most 
economical and greatest egt* 
producing food known. 
r kl MANN’S BONE CUTTER. 
31 Hyi/ Warranted to cut green bones 
71 8*" meat, gristle, and all without 
I 1 fl 1 clog or difficulty, or 
jULZjPl MONEY REFUNDED. 
U catalogue free if you munc this paper 
fat. Aug. w.Tstsu. F. \V. MANN, Milford,Maas- 
EUREKA 
WOOD 
MILL. 
Boyd’s System of Ripening Cream. 
No Invention ot late 
years so Important to 
butter-makers as the 
l.oyd K i |>li i ii g 
Cream > at and Fer¬ 
menting Cau Thej 
save time and labor In 
the dairy 23?” One at 
wholesale « here there 
Is no agent. Satisfac¬ 
tion guarantied. Write 
for rircular. 
JOHN H'»Y l>, 
199 Lake St , Chicago 
1; K h 
Guaranteed to be the 
Xgaw best made. Our Four- 
Cornered, Patent Ta¬ 
sk bular Steel Tower Is a 
winner The Strongest 
Tower made. Tanks and 
Pumps ot all descriptions. ‘40 
years’ experience In the Wind 
Mill business. 
SMITH & POMEROY, 
Mfrs., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
‘ BOYD'S 
cfuam'Vat 
CROP AND MARKEI NOiES. 
Beans are unchanged. 
Hothouse stuff Is being laid by. 
Skim cheeses are dull and loner. 
Broilers ure soarce, and high-priced. 
The few sweet potatoes bring good prices. 
Prime produce produces plump pccketoooks. 
Asparagus holds up well under heavy arrivals 
Beets come from Florida, Bermuda and Cnarleston. 
Poor produce—that which doesn’t pay the freight. 
Southern vegetables are becoming plentiful and 
cheap. 
Full cream cheeses are In good demand at lair 
prices. 
Florida cabbages rub beads with those from Long 
Island. 
The Norfolk steamers are loaded with all kinds of 
vegetables. 
Southern strawberries are already being resblpped 
from this city to Canada. 
Beeswax sells well for 27 to 28)$ cents for Southern, 
and 26)$ to 27 for Western. 
Foreign potatoes are doing better, as the heavy 
surplus is well cleaned up. 
Oranges of good quality are in demand at higher 
prices. Receipts are not heavy. 
From latest reports, the winter wheat crop prom¬ 
ises to be lighter than that of last year. 
Receipts of live poultry nave been heavy, but the 
good demand has kept prices lalriy steady. 
Eggs have been lower inun quotations, which are 
the same as one week ago. Goose eggs lower. 
Strawberries are plentiful and selling well at the 
lower quotations. Many are coming from Nortn 
Carolina 
Dressed poultry has been In light demand, but as 
the receipts have been ditto, prices have been fairly 
well sustained. 
Receipts of domestic potatoes are considerable, 
but demand is fair and prices good for those of good 
quality. Poor ones are dull. 
What Is said to be the largest graln^ fleet that ever 
left Chicago at the opening of navigation staited 
east last week, with 11,000,000 bushels of grain. 
Receipts of apples have been heavy, but the 
quality of most of them has been poor, and suen are 
neglected. Choice apples are In good demand. 
Dried fruits of all kinds except peaches, and the 
lowest grades of apples, cores, skins and chops, have 
slumped. Trade is extremely dull at quotations. 
Onions are in large supply and dull. Domestic 
onions have been rushed In In large quantities, and 
Havana and Cuba are evidently trying to glut the 
market, over 30,000 crates having come within a few 
days. 
Butter seems a slippery customer nowadays. In 
regard to the market the Journal of Commerce says 
that under a short supply of dll kinds of butter and 
a good demand, the market has advanced on the 
more Important varieties and rules firm at the higher 
figures. Strictly extra Western creamery cannot be 
had for less than 30 cents, and firsts and seconds 
have advanced in proportion, the former to 28 and 29 
cents, and the latter to 26 and 27 cents. Receivers 
have scarcely enough goods with which to supply the 
wants of their regular customers and outside buyers 
in need of butter have made bids even above quota¬ 
tions. It is in fact wholly a sellers' market, but the 
policy generally adopted Is a conservative one and 
holders avoid pushing prices as much as possible at 
a time when a decline cannot be far off. New half- 
firkln dairy tubs have been.cleaned out at a range of 
28)$ and 29 cents for fancy lines, and in Instances a 
little more money has been paid for fancy selections. 
Best Welsh tubs have sold at 27 and 28 cents. A car 
of California butter has been selling at a range of 
25 and 27 cents, exceptionally high prices for the 
goods and which could not be obtained except on a 
market like the one we are now experiencing. 
25 COLD MEDALS 
MORF, than all competitors combined can boast of. Awe 
—_turaoR. ' 
IV• Cream Raiser or Separator can show 
a record of as tlioreug’U and complete IJ^ “oWRcabimet 
skimming. It is tho only apparatus In tho World j l 9 . 
that can show Laboratory Tests by the gravi- ”1 I 
metric system, having absolutely no trace of fat left in the milk. flfl. Ifl 
It lias many records by gravimetric process, under one-tenth of one per H 
cent, which shows It to be without a peer. j In 
When run according to directions it is absolutely unapproacli- 
able In its work. MADE IX 4 STYLES and 10 SIZES. M 
Don't be Influenced to purchase any other Cream Kaiser or Separator, fcb _ | > gj \ 
until you have sent for Illustrated Circular and read it carefully. Jr 1 
THE VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vermont, 
MANUFACTURERS OF FULL LINKS OF FACTORY AND DAIRY APPARATUS. 
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Crystal Glass Milk Cans 
Creamery Steel Plate Water Tanks 
CREAM WITH OR WITHOUf ICE. 
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Non-corrosive, no Leaking. Sediment removed by bottom skim¬ 
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BARDEN CABINET CREAMERY, 
DIAMOND BALANCE CHURN, 
make dairying a pleasure. BUTTER WORKERS, RAILROAD AND 
CHEESE MILK CANS, and general DAIRY SUPPLIES. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue. 
Barden Automatic Cream Separator Co., 
Agents Wanted. HIDDLE GRANVILLE, N. Y. 
AS yet commercial fertilizers have not been generally 
Jtx. popular with tobacco growers ; they are afraid of 
them. Why? Because the plant food in them is not 
suitable to tobacco requirements. It doesn’t give 
QUALITY. 
Those who grow the best Connecticut Wrapper Leaf 
use “ Pinney’s Formula.” It is as familiar as the 
sun in certain sections of that State. (They have long 
ago discarded barnyard and stable manure.) 
Do you want to become acquainted with u Pinney’s 
Formula ” Fertilizer for your tobacco crop ? 
E nterprise tortiie0681 uogor Bnec p 
DbU DOU/rn P owel ’» for churning, and 
LU for full information about 
.d the best Horse-powers 
f VFi w--c r’'~Tf = Ti Threshers, Clover-hullers, 
I —1 iS--, Farming-mills, Feed-mills, 
S3l Circular saw Machines and 
\ i Land-rollers, send for 
Fearless Cata- 
THF I g-~logue. For Fodder cut- 
BEST\J ^3ag ggrr— ; ters, Carriers and Drag saw 
PVTifB Machines, and for infor¬ 
mation showing “Why Ensilage Pays,” send for 
Lnsilage Catalogue. 
VAddress. MIXAltD HARDER, Cobleskill N V 
Fertilizer for your tobacco crop ? 
WE MAKE I Til 
THE CLEVELAND LINSEED OIL CO., Cleveland, O 
TUTT’S PILLS do not na jseate or gripe. 
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