1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5o5 
Among the Marketmen. 
zWHAT / SEE AND HEAR. 
AMERICAN WOOL FOR ENGLAND. 
—Within the past week or two, it is re¬ 
ported that somewhere in the neighbor¬ 
hood of 5,000,000 pounds of wool have 
been purchased here for England. It is 
said, too, that more than 15,000,000 
pounds of fine foreign and domestic wool 
have been purchased in this country for 
export during the past three months, of 
which more than one-third was domestic 
wool. This is likely to stimulate the 
wool market here, and naturally, will 
advance prices. This export movement 
in wool is said to be an unprecedented 
event in the history of the country’s 
wool trade. The dealers have been 
doing their best to keep the news of 
this large export trade quiet, knowing 
that a general knowledge of it would ad¬ 
vance prices. 
CANTALOUPES COMING—Receipts 
from Florida have been heavy, but large 
quantities of them have been in bad con¬ 
dition, and have been sold for transpor¬ 
tation charges. The railroads are re¬ 
ported as contemplating the demand for 
guarantee or prepayment of transporta¬ 
tion charges, unless more care is exer¬ 
cised in the selection of the stock sent. 
One trouble with a large part of the 
melons shipped from Florida was that 
they were in baskets, which do not 
stand transportation well. The crate 
adopted for the Rocky Ford melons, 
which is about 12 x 12 x 24 inches in size, 
is in much greater favor. Shippers from 
other parts should govern themselves 
accordingly. Rocky Ford melons from 
Texas are beginning to arrive, they be¬ 
ing grown under the same management 
as those from Colorado. It is said that 
the Western Poultry & Game Company, 
which shipped the latter, have about 400 
acres in Texas this year. 
HOW ABOUT POTATOES?—The ques¬ 
tion with many now is as to the outlook 
for potato prices. There has been little 
change in the market so far, and al¬ 
though receipts have been large, prices 
have been well maintained. The quality 
of those seen in market, too, is pretty 
good. Very few have come from nearby 
points as yet, the large supply coming 
from Norfolk and the Eastern Shore. 
Long Island is usually an important 
source of supply during the Summer, 
but this year the quantity coming from 
there is likely to be light, on account of 
the extreme drought. I find that the 
general opinion among potato dealers 
here 'is that prices are likely to be pretty 
well maintained. They do not look for 
any such great demand as we sometimes 
see at this season, or a little later. Po¬ 
tatoes are likely to be good property the 
season through. 
THE SAME FELLOW.—Mr. J. H. 
Hale says that their Georgia peach crop 
is an entire failure this year; but they 
have planted a large area to cantaloupes 
to make up for the deficiency. The ques¬ 
tion is to put them on the market to 
the best advantage. Mr. Hale’s peach 
label, which has been used on all his 
famous Georgia peaches, is a well- 
known feature in the fruit markets. He 
has devised a special crate for marketing 
his cantaloupes, and he purposes to use 
this same peach label on these crates. 
Above the peach label, will be another 
slip, on which is printed in large letters 
the fact that these are fancy melons, and 
are packed by the same lellow who 
packed the peaches indicated by the 
label. In this way, he keeps his peach 
label before the public, and also uses the 
reputation gained by his peaches in past 
years, to help sell the melons. The idea 
is thait those who have found the 
peaches all right, will take to the melons 
without any hesitation. It is a good 
scheme, and will probably work first- 
rate. F, H. V. 
ORANGE COUNTY (N. Y.) NOTES. 
Drought in the Dairy. 
Many farmers are mowing their fields, 
and plowing for millet and fodder corn. 
Some are sowing millet who have never 
used it before. One man near here cut only 
one-half ton of hay off three acres, and all 
are complaining of the shortage of hay. I 
do not think that many will sell off their 
cows in the Fall, if they can possibly raise 
enough to winter them on, as their only 
income comes from milk production, and 
they would have to sell them at a loss. 
One of our Goshen dealers says that he has 
sold more millet and fodder corn seed this 
year than ever before. w. n. e. 
The hay crop will not be one-fifth of the 
usual amount around here. This is a milk 
district now, no one making butter. The 
farmers are breaking up meadows, and 
sowing fodder corn for Winter teed; many 
cows must be sold or starve. Last year’s 
hay crop was very abundant, and there is 
considerable old hay left over, which will 
be a great help. Timothy does not head 
out; it is only about one foot high, and 
dead on top—burned up almost. There is 
not one ton of good Timothy in all Orange 
County, the great grass region of New 
York State. m. d. d. 
Farmers are endeavoring to plow and get 
in as much fodder corn, etc., as they can, 
but find it very hard and discouraging to 
try to break up any ground. It is baked so 
hard that it is almost impossible to plow. 
I believe that farmers will dispose of every 
non-producer this fall; in this section they 
have been raising a great many young 
cattle for the past year or two, and it will 
be too bad to be forced to dispose of this 
nice young stock. I believe the extreme 
shortage of hay will be the cause of ex¬ 
treme low prices for cattle this Fall. All 
the farmers are very much discouraged, 
and, without doubt, the production of milk 
will be much smaller than usual. Many 
farms near here have been sold at auction 
of late at ruinous prices. w. w. 
The dairymen in my section figure on 
about one-third of a hay crop, and are 
planting some fodder corn. Most farmers 
have turned the stock into the oats, as 
they did not expect them to amount to any¬ 
thing, and expect to put fodder corn in 
their place. 1 do not think that farmers 
will winter any more cows than they pos¬ 
sibly can. The present outlook is that cows 
will be quite reasonable in price, c. m. t. 
While the drought has ruined our hay 
crop, many farmers have mown their fields, 
plowed them, and sown millet and fodder 
corn. The rainfall in this section on June 
24 was sufficient to wet down plow depth. 
One sees nearly as many plows in a 10- 
mile ride as mowing machines. I think we 
will produce little if any less milk in this 
section this Winter. Many farmers are 
overstocked largely with young stock, 
which most of them seem inclined to hold. 
We depend largely on cows to freshen this 
Fall for our Winter milk. There will be a 
weeding out of a few of the poorest Sum¬ 
mer cows, I find, in many dairies. Al¬ 
though a few less in number, with better 
care, I think (if feed be as low as last 
Winter), the average farmer would have as 
much money. I think, with the rain we 
had, most farmers will make up for their 
shortage, and will go into winter quarters 
in fair shape, although it makes extra 
work. w. p. s. 
Some meadows are very good, but those 
on upland are very light, some not paying 
to cut, where last year we had very heavy 
crops. 1 don’t think that the crop will 
average more than one-third. Oats will not 
amount to anything except to make a little 
fodder. Hundreds of peach orchards have 
been set in this part of Orange County dur¬ 
ing the past few years, and those set this 
year and last are mostly planted to corn, 
which makes a large crop of fodder, but it 
cannot begin to make up the shortage in 
hay, as every orchard set makes less hay 
land. Farmers ought to sow more millet 
and Hungarian grass; both make good fod¬ 
der if cut before they get too ripe. I saw 
a field of Orchard grass a few days ago, 
that was cutting a large crop for this dry 
weather. It had been seeded three years. 
I believe that should be sown more in 
place of Timothy. It also makes fine 
pasture. Short pasture is forcing the farm¬ 
ers to feed their cows all Summer. There 
will be no cows for sale here except those 
brought from the West. We believe in 
making mostly Fall and Winter milk. We 
stock up heavy in August and September, 
and sell in March, April and May. We 
must buy heavy cows, or else we have to 
discount too much on them when we sell. 
For the past two years, we have paid from 
$45 to $60 per head. A good straight heavy 
cow will now bring from $55 to $60. 
We have sold some on the market that 
averaged over 1,300 pounds, 10 in one lot. 
Some will buy less stock than usual this 
Fall, but others will buy more, feed heavier 
and economize on hay. I think the supply 
of milk from Orange County will be far 
less the coming Winter than it has been 
for a great many years. n. r. f. 
Hammond’s Cattle Comfort keeps the flies 
off cattle, so those say who used it the past 
two years, and are ordering it again this 
year. Seedsmen sell it, or it may be had 
of Hammond's Slug Shot Works, Flshkill- 
on-Hudson, N. Y. 
PREMATURELY OLD. 
A man ought not to feel old, or to be old 
until well up towards the nineties, but 
now-a-days you don’t see many such tnen. 
Instead, you hear people no older than 40 
or 45 who begin to complain of tired backs 
and brains, of stomachs 
giving out, of shattered 
nerves, of lost energy, 
of aversion to work. 
These men have 
thought more of dollars 
than of health. They forget that money is 
almost worthless without health to enjoy 
it. If men and women will take Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery, they needn’t 
worry much about old age. The years will 
go by, but they won’t show it. This medi¬ 
cine makes digestion perfect, and changes 
a disordered stomach into a healthy one 
that works as Nature intended. It regulates 
the liver, enriches the blood and tones the 
nerves. It prevents consumption by curing 
bronchitis, lingering coughs and bleeding 
lungs. The “Discovery” contains no al¬ 
cohol; no false or uncertain stimulus; the 
power it gives is the power of Nature: deep, 
genuine and lasting. It does not create a 
craving for stimulants. In serious cases of 
sickness, Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 
will give free advice and counsel to those 
who write him. 
“The reason I delayed writing was because I 
wanted to wait one year after I had taken the 
medicine before giving my statement, and now 
I can send a good, conscientious testimonial," 
writes Chas. H. Sergeant, of Plain City, Madison 
Co., Ohio. “ During the summer and fall of 1896 
I became all ‘run-down,’ nerves and stomach 
were out of order. I wrote to Dr. Pierce for ad¬ 
vice. He said I had general debility, and advised 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, aud I 
used six bottles. Since I stopped taking it about 
one year ago, I have not taken any medicine of 
any kind, and have been able to work every day. 
My appetite is good, I can eat three square meals 
a day, and I do not feel that miserable burning 
in the stomach after eating.” 
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CORN FODDER 
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B |_ 
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The 
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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New.Yorker, July 8, 1899. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Potato-Canning Factory.495 
Corn Stalk “Combine”.496 
Irrigating Schemes.496 
When to Cultivate.496 
Cattle Turnips; Hard Water.497 
Salt on Clover. 497 
Value of Beardless Barley. 497 
Derrick for Stacking Clover.497 
Salt in the Manure Pile. 497 
Hope Farm Notes.499 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Feeding Sugar Beets to Stock.497 
Wanted Red Hornless Cattle.506 
Sow Whips Bull. 506 
Ranch Horses In Demand. 506 
“Modified Milk” Notes.507 
Calf and Kitten. 507 
Calf Dairying. 507 
Brief Veterinary Notes....507 
Scraps .507 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Girdling Fruit Trees. 494 
Some Notes from Illinois. 494 
N. Ohmer—An Ohio Horticulturist.494 
The Home of the Strawberry.495 
The San Jose Scale. 495 
The Coxcomb Elm Gall. 497 
Cow Peas for Strawberries.497 
Arsenic as an Insecticide.498 
Sugar Growing in Hawaii.501 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 502 
The Organization of a Home.502 
Town and Country Boys.502 
Among the Children of Gibeon. Part II..503 
With the Procession. 503 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Cow or the Brewer.493, 494 
Swallowing Toads.496 
Proper Food.496 
A Smart Boy. 496 
A Strange Importation. 4 % 
Making a Living.496 
How Many Americans.496 
A Good Suggestion.496 
“Prosperity” .496 
How Many Coats of Cement.497 
Ruralisms .498 
Bulletins Boiled Down.498 
“Play Ball”.499 
Good Drinking Water. 499 
Editorials .500 
Brevities .500 
Events of the Week.501 
New York’s New Bicycle Law.501 
Markets .504 
Orange Co., N. Y. Notes.505 
Among the Marketmen.505 
Humorous .508 
