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July 21, 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker July 21, 1000. 
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FARM TOPICS. 
The Elgin System of Renting Farms. 
The Effect of Lime Upon Sorrel. 
A Disease Kills Live-forever... 
Value of Hen Manure. 
Starting Alfalfa . 
Grinding Clover Ilay. 
Seven Years on Our Truck Farm. Pa 
Treatment of Hired Men. 
Why the Alfalfa Failed. 
Seeding to Clover in Delaware. 
Killing Garlic . 
Hope Farm Notes . 
Handling the Wheat Crop. 
Crop Prospects . 
Work on Jersey Truck Farm... 
Killing Cabbage Maggot. 
LIVE STOCK AND HAIR'S 
A Woman's Experience With Chicks 
A Group of Jersey Reds. 
Muslin Windows; Beef Scrap.... 
Praise for the Guinea. 
Six Months With liens. 
Overfed Ducks. 
The King Barn Ventilators. 
Shipping Partly Hatched Eggs... 
Praise for the Guinea. 
Fraud in Cattle Registration.... 
Making Butter from One Cow.... 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Ohio Garden Notes. 568 
Shaping Trees . 569 
Berry Picking Rules. 569 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 570 
How to Blanch Celery. 570 
Danger in Too Much Spraying. 573 
Mulch Culture on Dili Farm. 576 
Poison for Cutworms. 576 
The Hyde King Apple. 576 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 574 
Mrs. Spraker Talks. 574 
Pocket Croquet . 574 
Four Frozen Desserts. 575 
The Rural Patterns. 575 
The Bookshelf . 575 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Effect of the King Drag on Roads. 
Influence of the Moon. 
Pressure of Gas Well. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
“Approved" Mail Boxes. 
Business Bits . 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Building Cement Cistern. 
Humorous . 
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580 
MARKETS 
Prices current at New York during week 
ending July 14, 1906, wholesale unless other¬ 
wise specified. The prices of grain, butter, 
cheese and eggs are based on the transac¬ 
tions 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. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red, for export — 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth Ins — 
Corn, No. 2, mixed. 1 — 
(Inis .. — 
@ 84% 
@ 87 % 
@ 60 
@ 42 
@ 59 
Rye . 
FEED. 
Trade dull. 
City B ra n . 
@20.00 
@22.00 
@24.00 
Middlings ... 
Red Dog . 
HAY. 
No. 1 . 
No. 2 . 
No 3 . 
..18.00 
.. 15.50 
.. 1 3.50 
@19.00 
ci 16.50 
@14.50 
@16.00 
@11.00 
Clover, mixed . 
Clover . 
. .10.00 
STRAW. 
Long live . 
. .11.00 
@12.00 
. . 7.50 
@ 8.50 
HOPS. 
Trirae to choice. 
Common to fair. 
German crop . 
. . . 12 
. .. 10 
.. . 27 
@ 14 
@ 12 
@ 30 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.21 per 40-quart 
can, netting 214 cents per quart to 26-cent 
zone shippers who have no extra station 
charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, extra . 
20 Vr. @ 
21 
Seconds and firsts. 
18 
@ 
20 
Slate Dairy, best. 
— 
@ 
20 
Lower grades . 
15 
@ 
19 
Factory . 
14 
@ 
17 
Renovated . 
13 
@ 
18% 
Packing Stock . 
12 
@ 
16 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, fancy. 
— 
@ 
11 
Fair to good. 
10% 
@ 
10% 
Inferior . 
8% @ 
9 % 
Half skims . 
8 % @ 
8% 
Full skims . 
1 
@ 
2 
EGGS. 
Selected, white, fancy. 
— 
@ 
23 
White, good to choice. 
21 
@ 
22 
Mixed colors, extra. 
20 
@ 
21 
Lower grades . 
15 
@ 
18 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., fancy. 
— 
@ 
12 
Evap., choice . 
11 % @ 
11% 
Evap., prime .. 
11 
@ 
11 '/» 
Chops, 100 lbs.2.40 
@2.50 
Raspberies . 
— 
@ 
30 
Cherries . 
14 
@ 
15 
Huckleberries . 
10 
@ 
12 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Old apples practically out of the market. 
Apples, Astrachan, %-bbl. bkt.1.00 @1.50 
Green varieties, %-bbl. bkt. 75 @1.25 
Windfalls, bbl. ..1.25 @2.00 
Pears, Le Conte, bbl.1.50 @5.00 
Plums, 20-quart carriers.1.00 @2.50 
Peaches. Ga., Carman, 24-quart 
carrier . 50 @1.25 
Mountain Rose . 75 @1.25 
Elberta .1.00 @2.00 
Relic of Georgia.1.00 @2.00 
Md. and Del., 16-qt. bkt. . . 50 @ 75 
Cherries, blk., 8-lb. basket.... 50 @ 75 
Red and white. 30 @ 50 
Sour . 25 @ 50 
Currants, quart . 7 @ 9 
Strawberries, W’n N. Y., 
qt.. 6 
@ 16 
Blackberries, quart . ... 
. -1 
@ 8 
Raspberries, red, pint. . 
. 3 
(a) 0 
Black Caps, pint. 
. 3 
@ 5 
1 luckleherries, quart .. 
. 8 
@ 14 
Gooseberries, quart . 7 
Musk melons. Southern, 30-quart 
@ 9 
crate . 
.1.00 
@1.75 
California . 
.1.00 
@4.00 
Watermelons, carload .. 
. . .150.00 
@300.00 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, Rose, No. 1, bbl...3.00 
i rlsh Cobblers, No. l.2.75 
White Chilis, No. 1.2.75 
Red Chilis, No. 1.2.50 
Culls, per bbl.1.00 
Sweet Potatoes, Jersey, bkt.. 75 
Asparagus, dozen bunches. ... 1.00 
Beets, 100 bunches.1.00 
Carrots, 100 bunches.2.00 
Cabbage, L. I. and Jersey, bbl. 75 
L. I. and Jersey, 100.3.00 
Cucumbers, Norfolk, bbl.1.50 
Del. and Md.. Vi -bbl. basket. 1.50 
Baltimore, bushel-basket ... —- 
Corn, North Carolina, case... 50 
Jersey, Del. & Md., 100.... 75 
Southern, bbl.1.50 
Celery, Michigan, dozen. 15 
Jersey . 15 
Cauliflower, bbl. 75 
Eggplants, Southern, box.1.00 
Norfolk, bbl.4.00 
Jersey, box .1.00 
Garlic, New Orleans, lb. 5 
Horseradish, 100 lbs.4.00 
Kale, nearby, bbl. 25 
Lettuce, nearby, bbl. 40 
Onions, KenKfuck.v, bag. — 
Virginia, red, bbl.3.00 
Virginia, Potato, bbl.2.00 
Md. and Del., white, bushel- 
crate . 75 
Peppers, Jersey, per box.1.00 
Norfolk, per carrier.1.00 
Peas, L. I. & Jersey, bkt.1.00 
Western N. Y., per basket.. 1.25 
Radishes, nearby, 100 bunches. 50 
Rhubarb, nearby, 100 bchs... 50 
String Beans, Jersey, wax. bkt. 50 
Jersey, green, per basket... 50 
Spinach, nearby, bbl......... 50 
Squash, marrow, bbl-crate.... 50 
Yellow crook-neck, bbl-crate. 35 
White, bbl. crate. 35 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl. 75 
White, 100 bunches. 50 
Tomatoes, Fla., carrier. 50 
Georgia . 50 
Norfolk . 75 
Md. and Del. 60 
Baltimore, box .1.50 
Nearby Jersey, box.1.75 
South Jersey, Acme, box... 1.75 
South Jersey, common, box. 1.25 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Spring Chlckons. 
Fowls . — 
Roosters . — 
Turkeys . 11 
Ducks, pair . 45 
Geese, pair . 90 
Pigeons . 25 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 11 
Spring Chickens, fancy...... — 
Fair to good. 20 
Fowls . 12 
Ducklings . 12 
Geese . — 
Squabs, best .3.00 
Lower grades .1.25 
@3.50 
Cl 3.50 
@3.25 
<i 3.00 
@1.50 
@1.25 
ci l.oo 
@ 2.00 
@3.00 
@ 1.00 
ci 4.00 
@ 2.25 
@2.00 
@1.00 
@ 1.50 
@ 1.50 
@3.00 
@ 30 
cr 60 
@ 2.00 
@ 2.00 
@5.00 
@1.75 
@ 7 
@5.00 
@ 50 
Cr T-i 
@ 1.50 
@3.50 
@2.75 
@1.00 
@2.00 
@1.25 
@1.25 
@1.50 
@> 75 
@1.00 
@ 1.00 
@ 75 
@1.00 
@ 1.00 
@ 75 
@ 75 
@ — 
@ 7 •> 
@ 1.00 
@ 1.00 
@1.50 
@ 90 
@1.75 
@2.25 
@2.25 
@1.75 
@1.50 
30 
@ 13 
@ 25 
@ 24 
@ 14 
@ 12 % 
@ 18 
@4.00 
@2.50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .4.00 @5.85 
Bulls .3.00 @4.25 
Cows .4.50 @4.80 
Calves .5.50 @8.00 
Sheep .3.50 @5.50 
Damns .7.75 @9.50 
Hogs . — @7.25 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Prices for ton lots, smaller quantities pro¬ 
portionately higher. 
Nitrate of soda, ton. •— @51.50 
Muriate of potash. 2,016 lbs.. — @41.85 
Sulphate of potash, 2,016 lbs.. —— @48.15 
Dried blood :. — @53.00 
Kainit . — @11.00 
Acid phosphate . — @11.00 
Basis slag. 2.016 lbs. — @17.55 
Peruvian guano, Cbincha.... •— @40.50 
Lobos . —■ @30.00 
Ground bone . — @28.00 
Copper sulphate, bbl. lots, lb.. — @ 6% 
Sulphur flowers, bbl. lots. — @ 2% 
Water glass, bbl. lots. — @ 2 
LONDON WOOL SALES. 
Figures from July 11 auction. 
New South Wales, scoured... 30 @ 45 
Greasy . 15 @ 28 
New Zealand, scoured. 25 @ 50 
Greasy . 12 @ 27 
Cape of Good Hope, Greasy. . 13 @24 
Buyers had much the best end of this sale. 
WORK ON JERSEY TRUCK FARM. 
My money crops are tomatoes, sweet corn 
and potatoes, with hay enough to winter 
three horses and three cows, and an acre 
or two of rye for horse feed and rye flour 
limber, as we always have rye bread for 
those who prefer it. These with a patch of 
strawberries and miscellaneous vegetables 
for the house, keep me and my two hired 
men busy from May to October. 
I get the tomato plants started in hotbeds 
early in March and find that a hotbed is an 
exacting master, as it must be watched, 
aired, watered and shaded properly to secure 
strong healthy plants. The latter half of 
last March was very cold, several nights 
near zero, and the beds had to be closely 
covered at night to save the plants. The 
varieties of tomatoes raised are Trucker’s 
Favorite, Livingston’s Stone and Matchless. 
As we are out of the very early belt, no 
attempt is made to raise Earliana or similar 
varieties. The first plants were set in the 
field this year May 18. A very heavy frost 
shortly after killed several thousand plants 
nearby; mine being on high ground, escaped. 
But these plants were set on ground where 
potatoes grew last year, and an army of 
Potato beetles at once attacked the toma¬ 
toes, nearly wiping out the first setting. I 
shall set no more tomatoes on potato 
ground, and shall make special effort to kill 
all late crops of bugs that appear on the 
potatoes this Summer. It is a bad plan 
to let them go merely because the potatoes 
have got their growth. 
For sweet corn I raise Cory, and use early 
and late strains of my own saving. The 
corn ground is heavily dressed with stable 
manure before plowing. Hen manure is 
used in the hill as far as it goes, and ferti¬ 
lizer for the remainder. Most of the toma¬ 
toes have stable manure in the hill. I buy 
several carloads of manure in Winter and 
compost It in large piles. G. M. 
New Jersey. __ 
Killing Cabbage Maggot. —Use a brine 
made of salt that will float a potato, put 
a teacupful about each plant, close about 
the plant, and all maggots will disappear 
and the cabbage will grow all the better 
for the application. Do not be afraid; it 
will not kill or hurt the plant, but do it 
well; try it and know for yourself. I have 
used it for 30 years with good result. 
Elmira, N. Y. A. D. 
Mulch Culture on Hill Farms. —The 
Hope Farm man is our kind of a man; 
he must have a farm like some of us down 
here in southern Ohio, where they stand on 
their edge. We have about 20 acres in all 
kinds of fruits; we follow the mulch plan, 
and we think we have hit upon the right 
way for this country anyway. Clean cul¬ 
ture? I would say for a farm standing on 
edge you would soon have no soil nor even 
rocks. c. L. STEED. 
Praise for the Guinea. —You malign the 
Guinea. He spends the long season in laying 
on about 214 pounds of gamy flesh, where the 
turk would make 12 or 15, and in cultivating 
his voice. He keeps hawks away here, and 
my neighbor tells me he has seen his 
Guineas chasing a hawk in his own element, 
as much at home as he. I can well be¬ 
lieve it, for our Guineas seem to fly as easily 
as they run. They make quite good watch 
dogs day and night. Anything strange at¬ 
tracts attention, and excites garrulous com¬ 
ment. r. 
I Poison for Cutworms. —The R. N.-Y. told 
me to use a bait of bran, molasses and 
Paris-green for killing cutworms. Since I 
received the information I have reset my 
whole patch of tomato plants, and only lost 
one or two plants, and last week I took 
a trip out to Hartford, Conn., and visited a 
number of market gardeners there and saw 
them using the bran, Paris-green and mo¬ 
lasses for the same, and I also got many 
other good hints. I study your paper care' 
fully and think a great deal of it. It is 
written in a very plain way and is easily 
understood. j. f. h. 
The Hyde King Apple. — I have seen in 
The It. N.-Y. several allusions to this little- 
known variety. In a recent Issue you quoted 
Prof. S. A. Beach as saying that “this is 
a most valuable variety, (he fruit very large 
and attractive, not highly flavored but of 
good; quality.” I regret that I have to dis¬ 
agree with such high authority as my friend 
Prof. S. A. Beach, as regards the quality 
and flavor of this apple. I had a tree of 
Hyde King in bearing for several years on 
my place. I was astonished at the mar¬ 
velous productiveness of the variety. The 
tree was burdened annually with all the 
fruit it could possibly carry. This 
fruit was of large size aud uniformly fair 
and attractive; there seemed to be only one 
thing lacking about the Hyde King, and that 
was its quality was so poor that it was 
absolutely uneatable by any creature who 
had a sense of taste; therefore we destroyed 
the tree and thus ended my experience. 
Possibly the Hyde King spoken of by Prof. 
8. A. Beach was another apple by the same 
name. Charles a. green. 
BERRIES, PEACHES, 
Fresh Vegetables, Fancy Rggs, and Choice Farm 
Products of all kinds wanted. Market information 
on request. Write us what you have to offer. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St„ N.Y. 
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¬ 
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E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St., New York. 
Uf Ai|TCn~Head farmer understanding general 
¥1 All I til farming, cows, horses, etc. Perman¬ 
ent place. E. MACAULAY, Somerville. N. J. 
\VANTED— Married couple for farm in eastern 
Pennsylvania. Man for farm work and should 
have had some experience with chickens: wife for 
housework. Fair pay, fair treatment and permanent 
position for right people. F. J. M., care R. N-Y. 
WANTED 
An honest, intelligent young man to assist in the 
wholesale fruit and produce commission business. 
S. H. & E. H. FROST, 319 W ashington St,N.Y. 
BUTTER BRED HOLSTEIN BULL CALF. 
Dropped March 19, 1900. Nicely marked, a little 
more black than white. 
Sire, Canary Butterfly Sir Henry No. 33521, grandson 
of tiie noted butter fat record cow Canary Mercedes 
with a record of 25.10 lbs. butter and nearly 5 
per cent butter fat. 
Dam, Genie Clothilde No. 48097, a tine large cow 
with a seven year record just made of 22.60 lbs. butter, 
average fat 4.1. First draft for $00.00 takes him 
registered and transferred. 
WL W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
GUERNSEY BULLS from 1 to 12 mouths old 
Breeding, price and individuality right. 
W. A. ALEXANDER, Union Springs, New Y'ork. 
FOR 
QU| F—Black, Tan and White Collie 
wALEL Puppies; nicely marked; strong 
Ni 
and vigorous; eight weeks old. Nine males, one 
female, by Jack Galopin out of Golda, she by Blanek 
Flockmaster. $5.00 each while they last. 
IIILLHURST FARM, Orchard Park, N. Y. 
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THAT RAIL TICKETS ARE ACCEPTED 
ON D. & B. DAILY LINE STEAMERS? 
Under special arrangement with the 
Michigan Central, Wabash and Grand 
Trunk Railways all classes of tickets 
reading via these lines between Detroit 
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accepted for transportation on D. & B. 
Steamers. 
Send a two cent stamp for illustrated 
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Dept. A, Detroit, Mich. 
THE LEVIN PRUNER. 
The best pruner. Cuts tj-inch dry branch. Quick, 
clean, easy cut. We will send it post paid for club of 
two new yearly subscriptions at $1 each, or for club 
of 7 ten weeks trials at 10 cents each. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
GREEN MOUNTAIN SILOS 
MEAN PROSPERITY ON THE FARM 
Fortune smiles when the Green Mountain Silo becomes a part of 
the farm equipment. It brings profit instead of loss, lifts the mort¬ 
gage and turns hard times into happiness. 
Fresh, green pasturage can be fed all the year round. The stock 
thrive and fatten and the milk-yield increases 25 per cent. You can 
keep twice as many cows at tiie same cost, or the same number at half 
the cost. Either way your profits are more than doubled. 
No other so scientifically constructed, so substantial, so convenient, 
so durable, or so universally satisfactory as the Green Mountain Silo. 
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NEW YORK STATE FAIR 
SYRACUSE, September 10=15, 1906. 
$65,000.00 IN PURSES AND PREMIUMS. 
INDUSTRIAL 
AND 
AGRICULTURAL 
EXHIBITION. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Now olassos added—Improved classifi¬ 
cation in Swine Department. 
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. 
Exhibitors in this department, unable to 
be present at the fair, can have their ex¬ 
hibit placed for them and returned at the 
close of the fair. 
WT1ATTY FOH 3P11IZE LIST. 
*S. C. SHAVER, - - Agricultural Hall, Albany, N. Y. 
LIBERAL PRIZES 
offered in the Dairy. Farm Produce, Fruit 
and Flower Departments. 
ENTRIES CLOSE. 
Live stock. August 13th, Implements 
and Machines September 10th, all other 
departments September 3rd. 
