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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December d, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, December 9, 1905. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Tile Drainage .877, 878 
Nitrate of Soda Alone. 880 
Lime With Fertilizer. 880 
Fertilizer in Spring for Wheat. 880 
White Grubs and Potatoes. 880 
Hope Farm Notes. 883 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Breeding Successful Dairy Cows. 877 
Dairy Conditions in Southeastern New 
Hampshire . 878 
Some Needs of Dairymen. 879 
Mapes. the Hen Man. 885 
Dairy Instruction in Pennsylvania. 885 
• Another Freemartin . 889 
Silage and Bran for Cow Feed. 890 
'The Balky Ilorse. 890 
Winter Care of Hens. 890 
Co\y Gives Bloody Milk. 891 
Concerning Garget . 891 
Possibly Cowpox . 891 
Ration for Milch Cows. 891 
Another Milk Ration. 891 
HORTICULTURE. 
Fumigation of Nursery Stock. 878 
Fruit Growing in Alabama.879 
Cultivation for a Y'oung Orchard. 879 
Wintering Manure for the Garden. 880 
Wood Ashes for Peach Trees. 880 
A Mixture for Garden Truck. 880 
Fruit Notes . 880 
Oil Spray . 880 
Strawberries for Hill Culture. 880 
Tuberous Rooted Begonias. 881 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 882 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 880 
The Rural Patterns. 880 
Two Christmas Shoppers. 887 
The Bookshelf . 887 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Contamination of Water. 881 
Trees Encroaching Over Line. 881 
Trespass by Telephone Company. 881 
Trespass in Fence Building. 881 
Editorials . 884 
Events of the Week. 885 
Business Bits . 885 
Prices. Products and Trade. 888 
Publisher's Desk . 889 
MARKETS 
Prices current at New York during week 
ending December 2, 1905, wholesale except 
otherwise 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, inqui¬ 
ries and observation of sales in the various 
market sections. 
Where possible 
these fig- 
ures are the avera; 
ge of several sales. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, North., Manitoba — 
No. 1 Macaroni. — 
No. 2. Northern Duluth.... — 
Corn . 
@ 8814 
@ 89 
@ 88% 
@ 54 
@ 35 
@ 70 
@ 44 
Oats . 
Rye . 
Barley, feeding . . 
Spring Bran . ... 
Middlings . 
Red Dog . 
Cottonseed meal . 
Linseed meal . . . 
FEED, 
@18.00 
@21.00 
@22.10 
@28.00 
@30.50 
HAY 
AND STRAW. 
Prices for large bales. Small bales about 
50 cents per ton less. 
Hay, No. 1 . — @16.00 
No. 2 .14.00 @14.50 
No a i o no fiiutnn 
Clover mixed . . 
Clover . 
.12.00 
.10.00 
@14.00 
@13.00 
/fTl 1 J. 
Short and oat. . 
<a 11.00 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.61 per 40-quart 
can. Deducting 26 cents freight and five 
cents ferriage, this nets the shipper 314 cents 
per quart at points where there are no ad¬ 
ditional station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, extra . 
Lower grades. 
State Dairy . 
Factory . 
Imitation Creamery . 
Packing Stock . 
EGGS. 
Fancy, selected white. 
Selected white choice. 
Mixed firsts . 
Western and Southern. 
Storage . 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, sept., fey. 
Fair to choice. 
Part Skims . 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap.. fancy. 
@ 11 
Evap.. choice . 
. . . . - 
@ 10 
Evap.. prime . 
... - 
@ 9% 
Evap.. common . 
, . - 
@ 7 
Sun-dried Canadian ... 
%@ 6% 
Sun-dried. Southern .... 
4 
@ 5 
Chops. 100 lbs. 
. . . . - 
@3.25 
Cores and skins. 
@1.90 
Cherries . 
,. . . 14 
@ 15 
Raspberries . 
@ 27 
FRESH FRl 
'ITS. 
Apples, McIntosh. Spitz & King.3.00 
@5.00 
Spv and Greening. 
@4.50 
Baldwin, Ren Davis 
and 
Bellflower . 
@3.50 
York Imperial . 
@4.00 
Culls . 
... 1.00 
@2.50 
Western, bu. box. 
@5.00 
Pears. Bose and Clairgeau, 
bbl.3.00 
@5.00 
Anion and Duchess. 
. . .2.00 
@3.50 
Sheldon . 
@4.50 
Kieffer . 
. . .2.00 
@3.00 
Grapes, 4-lb. basket. 
... 10 
@ 16 
Cranberries, bbl. 
@11.50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes. Bermuda, bbl.... 
. . .6.00 
@7.00 
Long Island, 80 IDs. . .. 
@2.75 
State and Jersey, bbl. . . 
.1.75 2.25 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 
6 
@ 12 
Beets, loo bunches. 
@1.00 
Carrots, bbl. 
@1.25 
Cabbage, ton . 
@20.00 
Colerv. dozen . 
... 15 
(7? 50 
Chicory and escarol, bbl. . . 
(7? 3.50 
Cauliflowers, bbl. ...N..N 
. N. 50 
@1.50 
Eggplants, bbl. 
... 1.50 
(7? 2.50 
Horseradish, prime, bbl... 
. . . 5.00 
@5.50 
Kale, bbl. 
... 50 
@ 65 
24 
@ 
24 % 
17 
@ 
23 
16 
@ 
23 
15 
@ 
UV 2 
17 
@ 
19 
15 
@ 
17 
38 
@ 
40 
35 
@ 
37 
30 
@ 
34 
23 
@ 
31 
19 
@ 
23 
_ 
@ 
13% 
11 
@ 
12 V, 
8%@ 
9% 
Lettuce, bbl. 
Onions,'white, bbl. 
.2.50 
Y’ellow . 
Red . 
Peas, %-bbl. basket.... 
.1.00 
Green Beans, bkt. 
.1.25 
Spinach, bbl. 
. 40 
Squash, bbl. 
Turnips, bbl. 
. 50 
HOTHOUSE 
STUFF. 
Tomatoes, lb. 
Mushrooms, lb. 
. 25 
Lettuce, dozen. 
Radishes, 100 bunches. . 
Cucumbers, dozen . 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 
. 18 
Common to fair. 
Olds . 
German, 1905 . 
. 30 
BEANS. 
Marrow. 
Pea . 
1 
Yellow Eye . 
LIVE POP 
I.TRY. 
Chickens . 
Fowls . 
in 
Roosters ... 
Turkeys . 
Ducks . 
Geese . 
Pigeons . 
@1.25 
@5.50 
@ 2.50 
fa 2.25 
@2.50 
@ 2.50 
@1.25 
@ 1.00 
@ 1.00 
@ 15 
@ 65 
@ 75 
@4.00 
fa ©0 
@ 21 
@ 17 
@ 8 
@ 40 
fa 3.25 
@1.85 
@2.95 
@1.80 
@ 10 
@ 11 
@ 7 
@ 13 
@ 85 
@1.75 
@ 25 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Prime Turkeys . 
Fair to choice. 
Chickens, choice . 
Fair to good. 
Fowls . 
Ducks . 
Geese. 
Squabs, dozen . 
21 
@ 
22 
17 
(a) 
20 
20 
@ 
24 
14 
rot 
15 
12 
@ 
14 
10 
@ 
15 
12 
(<t 
17 
@2 
1.50 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Veal calves. — @ 11 
Common to good. 7 @ 10% 
Pork . 5 !4 @ 7% 
Roasting Pigs, lb. 10 @ I2y, 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Prices named are for car lots; single bag 
lots 10 to 25 per cent higher. 
Nitrate of Soda, ton. — @52.00 
Muriate of Potash. — @42 00 
Dried Blood . — @55.00 
Kainit. — @12.00 
Acid Phosphate . — @14.00 
WILD GINSENG. 
Northern .7.00 
Western .6.75 
Southern .6.50 
@ 7.50 
@7.00 
@6.75 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Poultry. —The Thanksgiving market was 
only fairly favorable. The weather Tuesday 
and Wednesday was too warm, and some of 
the stock that had been delayed came out 
in poor condition. The better grades of 
turkeys were mostly sold at fair prices, but 
there were a good many small thin turkeys 
not at all suitable for a holiday market. If 
such poultry is to be shipped here at all it 
will often do better on a general rather 
than special market, but it is doubtful whether 
there is ever real profit in shipping these birds 
that ought to have two or three weeks more 
of good feeding. Chickens were plentiful 
enough to make the common run of stock 
sell as low as 12 to 15 cents. The demand 
for fancy grades was strong enough to put 
prices at 20 cents or above. 
Potatoes. —Choice new Bermudas are on 
hand, bringing $6 or more per barrel. 
Arrivals of European potatoes are increas¬ 
ing to such an extent as to weaken the 
market on the general run of tubers. These 
potatoes come in 168-lb. bags and most of 
them have sold at $1.50 to $1.85. A few 
Scotch brought $2. A $3 market appears to 
be farther away than two weeks ago. 
Apples. —Thanksgiving made a brisk de¬ 
mand for nice table fruit and improved the 
trade in common grades, even down to culls, 
used for mince pie and other Thanksgiving 
cookery. Top grades of Spitzenburg, King 
and McIntosh have brought $5. 
Medicated Egos.— One of my neighbors has 
been feeding his hens a homemade egg pro¬ 
ducer composed of beef scrap, red pepper, 
fenugreek and several other ingredients which 
are supposed to make hens happy and am¬ 
bitious. He has used too much fenugreek 
or has mixed the dose so imperfectly that 
some hens have got a surplus of this strong 
smelling drug, as the fresh eggs are so 
rank with fenugreek as to remind one of 
“condition powder." Such strong flavored 
ingredients should be used very sparingly. 
One mistake of this sort would ruin the 
reputation of a choice brand of eggs, and 
even in a mixed lot will make trouble for the 
dealer. It is doubtful whether a healthy hen 
needs any such rank dose, and sick hens 
should be kept by themselves and doctored. 
This man was told that the mixture he fixed 
up would “make a hen lav 200 eggs a year." 
As his did not average 50 a year he thought 
it worth trying, but has decided that the 
fewer they lay the better if the eggs are to 
taste like condition powders. Even good 
brands of commercial beef scraps will flavor 
an egg if fed heavily. 
Egg Prices.—“C an one rely on the prices, 
quoted in The R. N.-Y. for eggs in New 
York markets. We are intending shipping 
eggs this Winter and must have reliable in¬ 
formation as to prices.” b. 
Erie Co., N. Y. 
The figures given from week to week cover 
the prices made by the egg quotation com¬ 
mittee of the N. Y. Mercantile Exchange. 
These figures are based on supply and de¬ 
mand as indicated by business oh this ex¬ 
change. and are used as a guide by the 
trade throughout the city, although there 
are sales every week both above and below 
the range of figures given. While the specu¬ 
lators in the produce trade are able to man¬ 
ipulate prices to some extent It Is not possi¬ 
ble to do this in just the wav that is done 
on the stock exchange, as the actual con¬ 
sumptive demand for eggs makes itself felt 
every day and tends to crowd out errors in 
artificial prices. Another question some¬ 
times asked is whether these prices, made in 
the city bv dealers are not a 1 wavs in favor 
of the dealer at the expense of producer. 
But the danger of unfairness is not so great 
as might appear. If these neople were al¬ 
ways buyers and never sellers, the case 
would be different, but they have to sell at 
least nart of the time, hence are interested 
in advanced as well as depressed prices, and 
prices come nearer working themselves to a 
fair level than might seem possible. Tt is 
tb» purpose of The R. N.-Y. to give in the 
weekly quotations figures representing the 
actual conditions of trade, which mav be fair 
to both buyer and seller and the information 
gathered is carefully sifted and weeded with 
this end in view. h. 
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the latest and 
most fashionable 
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Walrus black 
leather, 8-inch 
fine gilt metal 
frame, Moire silk 
lined, containing 
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and Viniagrette, 
This bag retails 
at $2.00, It will be 
I sent free to any 
lady sending us 
an order for 10 
Ibs.of our Sorosis 
Mocha and Java 
Coffee at 30c. per 
_lb.—say 5 lbs. for 
your own use and 5 lbs. for some iriend. Or you can 
order 6 lbs. of our 50c. teas, any kind. Send order 
and money by Registeied Mail. 
NEW YORK CHINA & JAPAN TEA CO., 
309 Hudson St., New York City. 
A TTP NTION -Needing male 
M I I CIl II VS ll help of any kind, 
favor us with your orders. Mail orders a Specialty, 
International Labor Exchange, 103 Greenwich St., N.Y 
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WE TRUST YOU 30 DAYS. 
WHEN YOU WRITE tor our 
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SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO. ILL. 
You never saw a 
saw which saws 
likethis saw saws 
andlastsolong atime. 
Frame of heavy angle 
steel strongly 
braced—absolutely 
no shake. Patented—adjust¬ 
able, dust-proof, non-heating 
oil boxes, etc. We make these 
Appleton Wood Saws 
in 6 styles—strong, simple, safe andsuccesssful 
and we make a 4-wheel mounting for wood 
saws and gasoline engines which is unequalled 
for convenience and durability. Saw your own 
wood and save time, coal and money —then saw 
vour neighbors’ wood and make $5 to $15 a Day. 
We make the celebrated 
HERO FRICTION FEED DRAG SAW 
nothing like it—no other so good. Also feed 
grinders, shellers, fodder cutters, buskers, 
manure spreaders, farm trucks, windmills, 
etc., all guaranteed full Appleton Quality. 
Catalog free for the asking. Ask for it now. 
APPLETON MANUFACTURING CO. 
27 Fargo Street Batavia. Ill.. U. S. A. 
Save % the Feed 
Original Eureka Steam Feed Cooker will cook 
a barrel of Feed in one-half hour. Requires 
but little fuel. Saves labor. Tested to one 
hundred pounds’ pressure. Been on the 
market for 20 years. With proper care, 
will last a lifetime. 
Price No. 1 with 9 Flues.$19.50 
“ “ 2 “ 13 “ .20.50 
We have a special No. 3 size, which is 
tested to 100 pounds' pressure, and will de¬ 
velop 2 horse-power. Price $30.50. 
KETTLE COOKERS 
HingedCover extra$. 3 0 
Coal Grate extra.. 1.85 
1 elbow, ) 
1 length pipe, > free. 
1 damper, ) 
You could not buy better 
i i o ii.hu kettle cookers at any 
’ price, as there is nothing better manufactured. 
Farmers’ Favorite Feed Cooker 
1 gals. 
Price 
15 
$4.80 
20 
5.40 
30 
6.70 
40 
7.90 
55 
9.00 
65 
10.20 
75 
11.40 
NO. 
GAI.R. 
SIZE 
I.ENGTH 
PRICE 
CAPACITY 
BOILER PIKE BOX 
1 
25 
22x22x12 
24 in. 
$7.65 
2 
30 
22x23x121$ 
24 in. 
8.65 
3 
40 
22x30x14 
30 in. 
10.10 
4 
50 
22x36x15 
36 in. 
10.75 
5 
75 
22x4Sxl7 
4S in. 
11.90 
6 
100 
22x60x17 
90 in. 
13.25 
Grate for Coal extra. 
Furnished free, length pipe, damper and elbow. Can furnish 
extra pans for boiling sap, sorghum, and preserving fruit, etc. 
This is a very line cooker and is used extensively by butchers, 
sugar makers, stockmen, dairymen and others. 
Another Well-Known Feed Cooker 
No. Length Capacity Price 
0 6 ft. 6)jbbls. $12.00 
1 6 ft. 4 *bbls. 10.25 
2 4 ft. 3 bbls. 0.00 
3 4 ft. lkbbls. 8.50 
Elbow, length of pipe 
and damper, free. Extra 
pans at extra cost. 
Catalogue No. 87 showing 
lowest prices of most 
everything used on the 
farm. Send for it. We send 
any cooker or any article shown In our new 
mammoth catalogue on receipt of $1.00 to show 
good faith. When received if not entirely satisfactory, leave it 
with the freight agent and we will refund your $1.00 and pay 
freight both ways. CASH SUPPLY & MFG. CO. 
547 Lawrence Square, • KALAMAZOO, MI0H. 
WANTED AND FOR SALE. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches. Berries. 
Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms and Hot¬ 
house Products a Specialty. Consignments solicited’ 
34 & 36 Little 12tlx St.. New York. 
WA ]Si TED: YVe need 
large quantities of 
Fruits, Produce, 
Poultry, Butter, 
Eggs, Nuts, etc. 
We can secure you top 
market prices for these pro¬ 
ducts. Write to-day for our 
illustrated booklet, mailed 
free upon request, Also 
shipping cards, stencil and 
market reports. 
F.H, KEELERS,CO. 
104 Murray St., New York. 
WM. H. COHEN & CO., 
Commission Merchants/ 
2JV and 281 Washington Street, New York. 
Game, 
OUR SPECIALTIES: 
1 Poultry ■ 
Mushrooms, 
Furs, 
| Calves 
Nuts, 
Ginseng, 
1 Hot House Lambs,! 
Fancy Eggs. 
Poultry for Holidays, 
Apples, Pears, Grapes, Potatoes, and all fruits and 
Vegetables Fancy Eggs, Nuts and Game, Top 
prices secured for choice products. Write us what 
you have for sale. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St., New York. 
potatoes—Bliss, Bovee, Carman, Cobbler, Hustler, 
1 Rose, Noroton,85 kinds. C.W. Ford, Fishers, N.y! 
To Raw Fur Shippers and Trappers. 
For reliable prices on RAW FURS and GINSENG 
send two-cent stamp to LEMUEL BLACK, Lock 
Box 48, Hightstown, N. J. Prices ready about 
December 1st. No curiosity seekers answered. 
DON’T THROW MONEY AWAY. 
by selling your furs in the wrongplace. New York is 
the greatest and best fur market in the world¬ 
s' 6 helped to make it so. We want Skunk, Mink. 
Raccoon, Rats, Opossum, Otter, Beaver, White 
Weasel and all other furs. Top prices. Liberal as- 
sortment. Check same day furs arrive. Send in your 
name for price list, shipping tags, references, and full 
information. 
WM. EISENHACER & CO., 
507-509 West Broadway, New York,N.Y. 
BETTER THAN AN INSTITUTE-Our School 
Proposition for Farmers’ Families. School Agency 
Room 1 255 W 104th St.. New York, N. Y. Enclose 
stamp for booklet. 
PILLING 
MILK 
FEVER 
OUTFIT 
FOR AIR TREATMENT 
Postpaid with full directions $3. Most suc¬ 
cessful method known ; recommended by 
United States Agricultural Department ;cures 
97 per cent of the cases treated. Also a full 
line of cattle instruments. Catalog free. 
GEO. P. PILLING A SON, Philadelphia, Pa. 
FOR SALE. 
A Goulds Triplex Power Spraying outfit. Consists 
of 2ki horse power, Fairbanks and Morse Gasoline 
Engine complete, connected with Goulds Triplex 
pump with all the latest improvements, two 25 foot 
lines of best oil hose and all accessories. Mounted on 
a 5 barrel half round tank, on a low wheeled truck; 
team handles it easily. Fine for sawing wood ami 
other power work. Used one season and good as ever. 
Cost $275.00, will sell for $200.00, as machine is larger 
than I want on my place. GILBERT SCUDDER, 
Box 282, Huntington,’New York. 
f flfl ACRE Delaware Fruit and Poultry Farm 
I wW'for sale. House for 700 fowls, incubator 
house, brooder house, yards, etc. Dwelling house. 10 
rooms; 3 barns, with stables. Three never failing 
drive wells. Peach orchard, appie orchard, pears, 
plums and berries for home use. Price, $5,000. 
Address, DELAWARE, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Marvland 
FARMS ARE MONEY-MAKERS FOR STOCK, 
POULTRY, CORN, GRAIN, PEACHES, BERRIES 
AND EARLY VEGETABLES. MILD WINTERS. 
WRITE FOR BIG ILLUSTRATED CIRCULAR 
OF FARM BARGAINS. F. B. ALLEN, DRAWER 
42, PRINCESS ANNE, MD. (3 YEARS FROM 
OHIO.) 
$5 TO $20 AN ACRE 
is the price paid to-day for rich lands in Tennessee 
suitable for raising Cotton, Wheat, Potatoes, Hay, 
Grasses, Vegetables, Fine Stock, etc. Climate the 
best in the world, with conditions of health unsur¬ 
passed. Values increasing, For free literature write 
- F. SMITH, 
Traffic Manager, N. C. & St. Louis Ry., Nashville, 
lenn. Dept. C. 
W E WILL PAY WEEKLY 
Salary and Expenses to 
successful Canvassers. 
About a dozen men wanted at 
once. Experience and very best 
references required. Send ref¬ 
erences with application. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT, 
409 Pearl Street, New York 
TILE DRAINED LAND IS MORE PRODUCTIVE 
creases the value. 
admits air to the soil. In- 
Acres of swampy land reclaimed and made fertile. 
S~ ] Jackson’s Kouml Drain Tile meets every requirement. Wealso make Sewer 
* " .7 Pipe, Red and Fire Brick, Chimney Tops, Encaustic Side Walk Tile, etc. Write 
for what you want and prices. JOIIN H. JACKSON, 76 Third Are., Alb»uj, N. Y. 
