THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 20 , 
852 
MARKETS 
Wholesale prices at New York. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red, Winter... — @1.18% 
No. 1, Northern N. Y. — @1.26% 
Corn, No. 2, mixed. — @ 69% 
Oats, mixed . — @ 35 
Rye, new . — @ 81 
Barley . — @ 46 
FEED. 
Flour middlings . 23.00@ 26.00 
Bran . 2l.00@ 24.00 
IIAY AND STRAW. 
Ilay, prime . 16.00@ 17.00 
No. 3 to No. 1. 13.00@ 15.00 
Clover, mixed . 13.50@ 15.00 
Straw, long rye. 21.00 @ 22.00 
Short and oat. 10.00@ 14.00 
MILK. 
Exchange price 3% cents per quart in 26- 
cent freight zone. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, extra . 25 @ 25% 
Lower grades . 15 @ 21 
State dairy . 16 @ 22 
Factory . 13 @ 16 
Packing stock . 13 @ 15 
CHEESE. 
Full cream . 0%@ 11% 
Skims . 3%@ 8 
EGGS. 
Fancy, selected, white. 35 @ 38 
Fresh gathered, good to eh.. 30 @ 33 
Lower grades . 24 @ 28 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, bbl.1.75 @2.25 
Sweet potatoes .1.50 @2.50 
Beets and carrots, bbl. 75 @1.00 
Cabbage, 100 .2.00 @3.50 
Cauliflowers, bbl.1.25 @2.75 
Celery, dozen . 20 @ 35 
Chicory, bbl.2.00 @3.00 
Egg plants, bushel .1.50 @2.00 
Lettuce, bbl. 75 @1.25 
Onions, white, bbl.2.00 @6.50 
Yellow .2.00 @2.50 
Red .1.00 @1.75 
Spinach, bbl.1.00 @1.25 
Turnips, ruta baga, bbl. 50 @ 00 
Watercress, 100 bunches.1.00 @2.00 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evaporated . 4%@ 6% 
Sun dried .. 3 @ 4% 
Chops, 100 lbs.1.40 @1.65 
Cores and skins.1.25 @1.30 
- Raspberries . 21 @ 22 
Huckleberries . 12 @ 12% 
Blackberries . 6% @ 7 
Cherries . 13 @ 14 
FRESII FRUITS. 
Apples, table sorts.2.00 @4.00 
Lower grades .1.25 @1.75 
Pears .2.00 @5.50 
Quinces, bbl.3.00 @4.00 
Grapes, Delaware, 4-It> bkt... 13 @ 16 
Niagara . 10 @ 15 
Black . 10 @ 13 
Cranberries, bbl.5.00 @0.00 
NUTS. 
Chestnuts, bushel .2.50 @4.00 
Hickory nuts .1.50 @2.50 
Butternuts . 25 @ 50 
Black walnuts . 50 @ 75 
Pecans, IT) . 7 @ 8 
HOPS. 
N. Y. State, choice. 37 @ 30 
Ordinary . 31 @ 33 
Pacific coast . 30 @ 37 
Olds . 14 @ 18 
German crop, 1004. 62 @ 74 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb . — @ 11 
Fowls . — @ 12 
'Rooster 3 - . — 8 
Turkeys . —- @ 15 
Ducks, pair . 50 @ 80 
Geese .1.12 @1.50 
Pigeons . — @ 20 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 18 @ 21 
Chickens, choice . 10 @ 20 
Lower grades . 11 @ 16 
Fowls . 10 @ 11% 
Ducks . 10 @ 14 
Geese . 14 @ 17 
Squabs, dozen .1.75 @2.75 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves . 6 @ 11 
Hogs . 7 @ 8 
Roasting pigs . 11 @ 12 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, dozen . 50 @ 60 
Lettuce, dozen . 50 @ 60 
Mushrooms., lb . 15 @ 40 
Radishes, 100 bunches.1.00 @2.00 
Tomatoes, lb .10 @ 20 
LIVE STOCK. 
Calves .4.50 @8.50 
Sheep .3.00 @4.00 
Lambs .5.50 @6.37% 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Ton to car lot prices. 
Muriate of potash. 38.00@ 44.00 
Kainit . 9.75@ 12.00 
Acid phosphate . 10.00@ 15.00 
Nitrate of soda. 48.00@ 53.00 
Dried blood . 55.00@ 60.00 
Cotton-seed meal . 30.00@ 35.00 
TOBACCO. 
Seed leaf. Conn, fillers. 5 @ 10 
Fine wrappers . 30 @ 70 
N. Y. and Pa. fillers. 3 @ 5 
Virginia shipping, com. to good 
lugs . 6 @ 7 
Medium to good leaf. 9 Cal 11 
THE OUTLOOK FOR MILKING 
MACHINES. 
From inquiry, experience and observa¬ 
tion I do not think there is a perfectly 
satisfactory milking machine made. My 
first experience was brought about 
through the kindness of Prof. Henry, who 
invited me to inspect the working of a 
Mehring machine, near Madison, Wis., 
three years ago. I was quite pleased with 
what I saw, and was free to say that 
there was some merit in the contrivance, 
and later gave it a trial. The milking 
was fairly satisfactory, but there was so 
much soft rubber used in the interior con¬ 
struction that it was cleaned with diffi¬ 
culty, making trouble in the milk. The 
cows did not object in most cases to its 
use. From 16 to 20 cows an hour was 
about its capacity, and one man did the 
whole business. I have understood re¬ 
cently that one was in use in central New 
York of an improved pattern, that was 
possible to clean. The question as to the 
effect on milk flow I could not answer, 
because we did not use it long enough. 
Two very prominent and reliable manu¬ 
facturers of dairy apparatus are working 
upon milking machines at the present 
time, but their experiments are not yet of 
such a character that they are ready for 
publication. They are very hopeful of 
soon having a perfect machine. The facts 
are about like this: There is no appara¬ 
tus upon the market yet that fills the 
much-needed want for milking cows by 
machinery, but the problem is being ac¬ 
tively engineered by good mechanics, so 
that we may eventually expect to have 
milking machinery of a practical nature. 
H. E. COOK. 
VALUE OF SUNFLOWER SEED. 
I have a fine lot of sunflowers. Could you 
tell ine the value of them for stock, and what 
proportion to feed? Is there any market for 
them? If so, what is the price per bushel? 
Sherburne, N. Y. w. D. c. 
As compared with some other well- 
known foods the sunflower will stand as 
follows: 
Muscle Fat Pure 
makers, forms, fat. Value. 
Cornmeal . 7% 63% 3% 1.03 
Wheat middlings.... 11 % 49 2% 1.06 
Sunflowers .13% 24% 18% 1.62 
Linseed meal .26 26% 7 1.66 
Wheat bran.11% 44% 2% 1.02 
These figures are comparative; that is, 
if wheat bran is worth $1.02 per hundred 
sunflower seeds are worth $ 1 . 62 . Other 
things must be considered. The greatest 
value of the sunflower seeds lies in the 
large amount of oil which they contain. 
The few experiments on record do not 
show that as a food they are very much 
superior to cornmeal. As a tonic or 
special food for poultry or pigs they give 
good results. We would not use them 
mixed with other grains unless they were 
crushed, in which case they will partly 
take the place of meat in the poultry 
mash, or of linseed for larger animals. 
The seeds are not quoted in market. They 
ought to be worth, for feeding or tonic, 
about the same as linseed meal. 
“BALANCED RATION” FOR HENS. 
Can we have Mr. Mapes’s formula for feed¬ 
ing hens reprinted in The It. N.-Y. ? 
Connecticut. e. s. b. 
You ought to have a copy of The 
Business Hen. This gives several good 
rations for poultry—among others one 
used by Mr. Mapes: Wheat bran five 
pounds, wheat middlings five pounds, 
cracked corn 10 pounds, cornmeal 10 
pounds, animal meal two pounds. This 
is wetted with skim-milk to form a mash. 
If there is no skim-milk, we would use 
10 pounds of wheat bran and five pounds 
of cornmeal. _ 
Millet Hay for Horses. 
Is millet hay injurious to horses? If so, 
why? Is it the seed or the beard, and would 
it cause colic in a horse? Is it hurtful to 
cows in any way? s. 
North Haven, Conn. 
When millet has headed so that the seeds 
are hard the hay should not be fed to horses. 
The seeds do the injury. They affect the 
joints and kidneys. Millet hay should be 
fed to cattle. 
Mixed Feed. —“I used to buy wheat 
mixed feed for my cows until my wife was 
ordered by the doctor to make some bread 
for some trouble out of bran. We used 
some of that mixed feed and found it 
full of sticks, rubbish, dirt and oat hulls. 
We had to get some coarse wheat bran, 
and that’s clean. I now buy that entirely 
for my cows for a wheat feed and they 
do better than on the mixed feed and 
I know what I’m feeding.” This was told 
us by a live dairyman, and there is some 
truth in it. We use the coarse bran as 
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RAW FURS AND GINSENG WANTED. 
JACKS FOR SALE. 
The finest lot of .JACKS and JENNETS I ever 
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APPLES. POULTRY. 
During Fall and Winter we have a large 
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it is cheaper and better for our purpose; 
it is more bulky and is better to mix 
with heavier grain. Many farmers pick 
up a sample of bran, and in their eyes it 
is no good unless there is a lot of flour 
in it. At the present and probable future 
price of wheat feeds the man who buys 
carbohydrates or the starchy part of the 
feed in mixed feed or middlings is going 
to pay a round price for them, and prob¬ 
ably more than the cow can afford to 
pay. We ought to raise the carbohy¬ 
drates at least, on the farm, and not ex¬ 
pect the cow to pay us a profit on high- 
priced starchy feeds. h. g. m. 
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