448 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 3, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 3, 1905. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Corn in Northern Michigan. 438 
A Woman’s Farm Notes. 439 
Washing Away of Fertilizer. 439 
Value of Burned Phosphate. 440 
Angleworms in Cabbage. 440 
Soy Beans for Western New York. 440 
Hope Farm Notes. 443 
Crop Prospects . 445 
Ohio Crop Notes. 445 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Babcock Milk Tester. 437 
Water Tank for a Silo. 439 
Use of Water Glass. 440 
The Small Silo . 445 
Where the Horses Come From. 450 
Cow Peas in Indiana. 450 
Important Guernsey Auction. 451 
Mange on a Horse. 451 
Can a Farmer Practice Dishorning?.... 451 
Rye Straw and Abortion. 451 
Value of Rye for Feeding. 451 
Brittle Hoofs and Distemper in Horse. . 451 
Lumpy Jaw in Calves. 451 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Value of Young Orchard Trees. 438 
Samples of Horticultural Advice. 438 
“New Process” Lime for Bordeaux.439 
Apples in Wet Soil. 440 
Greenhouse Work in June. 441 
Notes on Dust Spraying. 441 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 442 
Magnesia In Lime. 442 
Coal Ashes and Mulching. 449 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 440 
Charity Sweetheart's Letters. 440 
In Cherry Time. 440 
Seasonable Recipes . 447 
The Rural Patterns. 447 
The Bookshelf . 447 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Rent for Farm Machinery. 440 
Editorials . 444 
Events of the Week. 445 
Good Roads Conference at Cornell. 445 
Products, Prices and Trade. 449 
Killing Ants . 450 
Chestnut for Shingles. 451 
MARKETS 
Prices current at New York during week 
ending May 27, 1905. Wholesale except other¬ 
wise noted. The prices of grain, butter, 
cheese and eggs are based on the official fig¬ 
ures of the Produce and Mercantile Ex¬ 
changes, with such revision as outside deals 
noted appear to warrant. Prices of other 
products are from reports of dealers, in¬ 
quiries and observation of sales in the vari¬ 
ous market sections. Where possible these 
figures are the average of several sales. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat No. 2, red. — @ 96 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth.... —• @1.11% 
Corn, No. 2, mixed. — @ 57 
Ogts, mixed. — @ 35 
Rye . — @ 74 
Barley . — @ 45 
FEED. 
Wholesale prices. 
Spring bran T. 
. . 
@19.50 
Middlings . 
.21.00 
@22.50 
Cotton-seed meal . 
@26.00 
Linseed meal . 
. . 
@30.00 
Retail Western New 
York. 
Spring bran . 
Middlings . 
.22.00 
@23.00 
.23.00 
@26.00 
Red dog . 
.26.00 
@27.00 
@27.00 
Oil meal . 
@35.00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, No. 1. 75 
No. 2 . 65 
No. 3 . 50 
Clover and clover mixed.... 50 
Straw, long rye. 70 
Short and oat. 45 
@ 77 % 
@ — 
@ 60 
@ 70 
@ 75 * 
@ 60 
MILK. 
New Y’ork Exchange price 2% cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-eent freight zone. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, extras . 
Firsts . 
Seconds . 
Thirds . 
State dairy, half-tubs, extras. 
Tubs, firsts . 
Tubs, seconds . 
Lower grades . 
Western imitation creamery, 
extras . 
Firsts . 
Seconds . 
Western factory, firsts. 
Seconds . 
Lower grades . 
Renovated, extras . 
Firsts . 
Seconds . 
Lower grades . 
Packing stock No. 2. 
No. 3 . 
22 Vi @ 
21 % @ 
20 @ 
18 @ 
20 %@ 
20 %@ 
19 @ 
20 @ 
18 y 2 ® 
18 § 
17 @ 
16 @ 
i9%@ 
18i/ 2 ® 
17 @ 
— @ 
17 @ 
15 @ 
22 
21 
19 
22 
21 
20 
18 
19 
18 
19 
19 
18 
16 
18 
16 
CHEESE. 
NEW. 
Full cream, small, white, fine 
Small, white, fair to ch... 
Small, colored, fine. 
Small, colored, fair to ch. . 
Large, white, fine 
— @ 10 % 
ioy, 
ioy> 
ioy, 
ioy 
10 
_9% 
~9%^ 
10 @ 
Large, colored, fine. 9 %@ 
EGGS. 
Fresh gathered, fancy, white.. 20 @ 
Selected, white, good to ch. 19 @ 
Extra, mixed. 18% @ 
Western, choice to fancy. 18 @ 
Good to prime. 16%® 
Poor to fair. 15 @ 
Kentucky, fair to prime. 15 @ 
Tennessee and other Southern. 15” 
Southern, poor to fair. 10 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, Spy, Spitz. & Greening.2.50 
Ben Davis and Baldwin... .2.50 
Russet ..2.25 
Common stock.1.00 
Huckleberries, qt.. 
Strawberries, Md. & Del. 3 
South Jersey . 
Virginia . 
Peaches, Fla., carrier. 
Muskmelons, Fla., bu. crate. 
Watermelons, Fla., each.... 
21 
19% 
19 
17% 
16 
16% 
15 
10 
% @ 
16 
15 
1 . 
2.50 
@3. 
50 
2.50 
@3, 
.25 
@3. 
25 
1.00 
@2. 
00 
— 
® 
18 
3 
@ 
10 
5 
@ 
10 
2 
@ 
6 
2.00 
@4. 
00 
2.50 
@5. 
00 
» ___ 
@ 
75 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes ,old, 180 lbs. 75 @1.10 
Bermuda, No. 1, bbl.3.50 @4.00 
No. 2 .2.00 ® 3.00 
Southern, Rose, No. 1.2.00 @2.75 
Chili, white. No. 1.2.00 @2.50 
Chili, No. 1 red.2.00 @2.25 
Culls and seconds.1.00 @1.75 
Sweet potatoes, Jersey, bbl... .2.50 @4.00 
Asparagus, Colossal, doz.3.25 @4.00 
Prime .1.50 @3.00 
Culls . 75 @1.25 
Beets, new, 100 bunches.1.00 @5.00 
Carrots, new, 100 bunches. ... 1.00 @4.00 
Cabbage, new, bbl. 25 @1.30 
Cucumbers, Southern, bu.1.00 @1.75 
Corn, 100 .1.50 @3.00 
Celery, State & W’n, doz. 20 @ 90 
Chicory and escarol, bbl.2.00 @4.50 
Egg plants, bu. box.2.00 @3.50 
Kale, bbl. 40 @ 60 
Lettuce, bbl.1.50 @2.25 
Mushrooms, lb. 10 @ 60 
Parsnips, bbl. — @1.00 
Peppers, Fla.. 24-qt. carrier. .. 2.00 @3.00 
Peas, green, bu. 25 @1.50 
String beans, bu. 50 Or 1.25 
Spinach, bbl. 75 @1.00 
Turnips, ruta baga, bbl. 50 @1.00 
Rhubarb, 100 bunches of 3 to 5 
stalks . 50 @1.00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, veal, fancy. — @ 9% 
Poor to good. 6 @ 9 
Spring lambs, head.2.50 @5.50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native steers.4.95 @6.00 
Bulls .3.35 @4.40 
Cows .1.90 @4.40 
Dressed beef . 8%@ 9 1 ' 
Milch cows with calves.20.00 @50.00 
Calves .4.00 @6.50 
Sheep .3.50 @5.00 
Lambs .6.00 @8.75 
Hogs .6.00 @6.20 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Prices for ton lots f. o. b. New York. Sin¬ 
gle bag lots 10 to 25 per cent higher. 
Muriate of potash. — @43.00 
Nitrate of soda. — @50.00 
Acid phosphate . — @12.50 
Kainit, 12 per cent potash. .. —< @12.00 
Dried blood . — @45.00 
Tankage . — @35.00 
Bone meal . — @20.00 
Peruvian guano . — @37.00 
Sulphur flowers, bbl. lots, lb. — @ 2% 
Copper sulphate, bbl. lots, lb. —* @ 5% 
Since the catalogue for the breeders’ con¬ 
signment sale, to be held in Syracuse, N. Y., 
June 8-9, has been completed, and we have 
had opportunity to look over the breeding of 
the offerings from Brookside Herd, we are 
almost Inclined to question the prudence of 
risking the value of so many high-class ani¬ 
mals on the uncertain chances of a public 
sale. However, we made our selections with 
the intention of picking out from among our 
350 Holsteins tin' finest lot of cattle ever of¬ 
fered in public auction. Among them are 30 
whose dams average over 27 pounds, 20 with 
dams over 20% pounds, and 15 with indi¬ 
vidual records of over 20% pounds. Worthy 
of special mention is Pontiac Netherland De- 
Kol, whose sire, Ilengerveld DeKol, was re¬ 
cently sold for $1,500. This heifer made an 
official record of 19% pounds butter in seven 
days, with her first calf, as a two-year-old, 
and her dam has recently closed an A. R. O. 
record of 22.6 pounds butter in seven days. 
Others are the 24-pound cows. Tehoe DeKol 
and Edith Prescott Pauline DeKol; the 23- 
pound cows, DeKol Koningen Pauline and 
Clothilde Artis Topsy ; the 21 pound daughter 
of DeKol 2d's Butter Boy 3d, Molly Wood 
2d's DeKol 2d, with her yearling daughter 
and bull calf, both sired by Beryl Wayne’s 
Paul DeKol ; the two-year-old daughter of 
Beryl Wayne’s Paul DeKol and Mutual Friend 
2d’s Pauline, the latter being a 20% -pound 
cow, whose dam was Mutual Friend 2d, with 
an official record of 25% pounds: yearling 
bulls from the 24-pound cow, Ed I till Prescott 
Pauline DeKol, and the 23-pound cow. DeKol 
Koningen Pauline, both bulls sired by 
Duchess Ormsby’s Butter King: the 20-pound 
cows, Ilengerveld Duchess DeKol, Martha 
Dowager, Alta 3d, and others of equal quality. 
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