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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 15, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, September 15, 1906. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Wheat Culture Condensed. 694 
Silo Inside or Outside of Barn. 694 
Plowing Down or Across a Hill. 694 
Wintering Cabbage Plants. 694 
The Hired Man Problem. 695 
Handling the Corn Crop. 695 
Hope Farm Notes. 699 
Crop Prospects . 701 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Conditions of the Sheep Industry. 695 
Mapes, the lien Man. 705 
Fungoid Disease in Chicks.705 
Sheep in Virginia . 706 
Ration for Pigs . 706 
How Small a Silo Is Practical. 707 
Alfalfa in Maryland . 707 
HORTICULTURE. 
Pollination of Orchard Fruits.693, 694 
New York Fruit Growers Meet. 696 
Rose Beetle on Grapes . 696 
Columbian Raspberry . 696 
Codling Moth on Fence Picket. 697 
Back-Furrowed Strawberries . 697 
Notes from the Rural Grounds.698 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 702 
Some Unfamiliar Preserves . 702 
Mrs. Spraker Talks . 703 
The Rural Patterns . 703 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Products, Prices and Trade.697 
Editorials.700 
A Correspondence with .T W. Wads¬ 
worth.701 
MARKETS 
Prices current at New York during week 
ending September 8, 1906, wholesale unless 
otherwise specified. The prices of grain, 
butter, cheese and eggs are based on the 
transactions of the Produce and Mercantile 
exchanges, with such revision as outside 
deals noted appear to warrant. Prices of 
other products are from reports of dealers, 
inquiries and observations of sales in the 
various market sections. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red, for export — @ 77% 
No. 1, Northern Duluth ins. — (a) 83 
Corn, No. 2, mixed. — @ 58 
Oats . — (a) 49 
Rye . — @ 56 y 2 
GRASS SEEDS. 
Retail prices for best quality at 
Timothy, bu. of 45 lbs. 
Blue Grass, bu. of 14 lbs. 
Orchard Grass. 14 lbs. 
New York. 
_ 2.50 
Red Top, 30 lbs. 
Alfalfa, lb. 
Medium Red Clover, lb. ... 
HAY. 
No. 1 . 
@18.00 
@17.00 
@15.00 
@17.00 
@15.00 
No. 2 . 
No. 3 . 
Clover, mixed . 
Clover . 
STRAW. 
Long rye . 
Short and oat. 
@13.00 
@10.00 
MILK. 
New York Exchange price $1.41 per 40 
quart can, netting 2% cents per quart to 
26-cent zone shippers who have no extra 
station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, finest . 
Extras . 
Seconds and firsts. 
Lower grades . 
State Dairy, best. 
Under grades . 
Imitation Creamery .. 
Factory . 
Renovated . 
Packing Stock . 
— @ 
24 %@ 
20 @ 
— 1 
17 @ 
18% @ 
15 @ 
15 @ 
14 %@ 
25% 
24 % 
23% 
19 
23 
21 
21 
18 
21 
17 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, fancy. 
Fair to good. 
Lower grades . 
Skims . 
— @ 
12 % @ 
10 @ 
3 @ 
12% 
12% 
11% 
8 
EGGS. 
Selected, white, fancy. 28 @ — 
White, good to choice. 26 @ 27 
Mixed colors, extra. 25 @ 26 
Lower grades . 14 @ 18 
BEANS. 
Marrow, choice, bushel.2.85 @2.90 
Fair to good.2.50 @2.80 
Medium, choice . — Co) 1.70 
Common to good.1.40 (ft 1.60 
Pea, choice .1.55 @ — 
Fair to good...1.40 @1.50 
Red kidney, choice.3.12% @3.15 
Fair to good*.2.75 @3.05 
White kidney, choice.3.05 @3.15 
Yellow Eye, choice.1.55 @ — 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 15 @ 17 
Common to fair. 11 (ft 12 
German crop . 27 @ 30 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples. Evap., 1905, best, per lb 10 @ 11 
Evaporated. Arkansas, new. 7 @ 7% 
Evap., State, new. 6%@ — 
Chops, 1905, per 100 lbs...2.30 @2.50 
Cores and skins, 1905, per 
100 lbs.2.25 @2.50 
Cherries, 1906, lb. 15 (ft 16 
Huckleberries. 1905 . 13 @ — 
Raspberries, 1905 . 27 @ — 
Blackberries, 1906 . 10 @ — 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, Duchess, choice, bbl..2.25 
Alexander .2.25 
Wealthy .2.25 
Maiden Blush .2.25 
Holland Pippins .2.25 
Fall Pippin .2.25 
Gravenstein .2.25 
Open heads, good to choice. 1.50 
Open heads, poor to fair... 75 
Pears, Bartlett, bbl.2.00 
Seckel .2.00 
Clairgeau .1.50 
Anjou .1.50 
Sheldon .1.50 
Flemish Beauty .1.25 
Tyson .1.50 
Le Conte .1-50 
Common sorts, per bbl.1.00 
Plums, State, 8-lb. basket.... 20 
Prunes, State, 8-lb basket... 40 
Peaches, Western Maryland & 
W. Virginia, carrier.1.50 
Western Maryland & West 
Virginia, basket . 50 
Pennsylvania, carrier .1.50 
Pennsylvania, half-bushel... 50 
Jersey, basket . 50 
Up-river, 2-bkt. crate.T.25 
Up-river, basket . 40 
Pine Island, carrier.2.00 
Pine Island, basket. 75 
State, carrier .2.00 
State, basket . 75 
Grapes Up-river, Niagara, case 75 
Up-river, Delaware, case... 75 
Up-river, Concord & Worden 
carrier . 70 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl...5.00 
Cape Cod, crate.2.00 
Huckleberries, quart. 6 
Muskmelons, Colorado, stand¬ 
ard crate .2.00 
Colorado, pony crate.1.25 
Oklahoma, standard crate..2.00 
Oklahoma, pony crate.1.25 
Watermelons, Va., via steamer, 
100 .3.00 
Del. and Md„ 100.10.00 
Rail receipts, carload.75.00 
VEGETABLES. 
(ft 3.25 
@3.25 
@2.75 
(ft 3.00 
@3.25 
(a 3.25 
@2.50 
@1.25 
@3.50 
@3.25 
@ 2.00 
@ 2.00 
(a 2.00 
@ 2.00 
@2.00 
@ 2.00 
@1.50 
@ 30 
@ 50 
@3.00 
@1.25 
@2.25 
01 1.00 
(ft 1.35 
@1.75 
@1.25 
(ft 3.00 
(ft 1.50 
@3.00 
@ 1.00 
@ 85 
@ DO 
@ 75 
(ft 6.00 
@2.25 
@ 12 
@2.50 
@1.75 
@2.50 
@1.75 
@9.00 
@20.00 
@175.00 
Meat Inspection Law. —If the inspection 
of meat-producing animals at Chicago is put 
into competent and unbiased hands the effect 
will not make any material difference in the 
demand or price of live stock. I think Mr. 
Thompson and his committee who went to 
Washington for conference with the Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture will so map a plan if 
adopted that all interested, from the pro¬ 
ducer to the consumer, will be satisfied, and 
that business can be conducted by the seller 
and commission men in a way that no one 
will be the loser thereby. 
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Appl es, Pears, 
Peaches. Plums and all Fruits and Vegetables. 
Fancy eggs and choice farm products. Write us 
what you have to offer. Top prices for choice goods. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St., N.Y. 
D| C AOE send a trial shipment to the Oldest Oom- 
I LLMOL mission House in New York. Established 
1838. Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultry, Hay, Apples, etc. 
E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St., New York. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & GO., 
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 1 2th St., New York. 
150 Acres Plateau Land 
in the Middle South for sale. Address 
J. A, MCKEE, Kingsville, Kentucky. 
COR 
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EXCHANGE-Two desirable Beach Lots, 25 
miles south of Boston, for small country place 
or “Abandoned Farm,” in Connecticut or Massa¬ 
chusetts preferred. For full particulars, address 
Post Office Box 195, Needham, Mass. 
II1/ A |t| “P ET O anywhere, to rent a good dairy 
“ “I" * farm furnished with 10 or 15 
good cows and necessary tools to operate, for *3 share. 
Address GEO. WHETSON, P. O. Box 718 Sebring, O. 
POSITION AS FARM MANAGER where re- 
* suits are looked for and appreciated by business 
farmer who knows and attends to his business, dairy¬ 
ing, poultry, vegetable and general farming. 
“COMPEI'ENT” care The Rural New-Yorker. 
W ANTED— Married Sawyer and Married Farmer 
witli furniture: single farm hand. 
CARRINGTON PHELPS, North Colebrook, Conn. 
WANTED- Single man to drive team, strictly 
•’ temperate, good habits. LEONARD-KURTZ, 
70 Greenwood Street, New Britain, Conn. 
Potatoes, L. I., bbl. 
Jersey, bbl. 
Jersey, bag . 
Sweet Potatoes, S'n yellow, bbl, 
Jersey, No. 1, half-bid. 
Jersey, No. 2, half-bbl. 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 
Beets, bbl. 
Carrots, bbl. 
Cabbage. L. I. & Jersey. 100. . 
Cucumbers. Jersey & L. I., bbl. 
Rockland Co., bbl. 
State & Western, bbl. 
State & Western, basket... 
Boston, box . 
Cucumber Pickles, 1,000. 
Barrel . 
State, bushel-basket . 
Corn, nearby. 100. 
Celery, Michigan, dozen. 
Jersey, dozen . 
Cauliflowers, L. I., bbl. 
Fancy up-State, bbl. 
Eggplants, Jersey, bbl. 
Lima Beans, half-bbl. bkt. . . 
Lettuce, nearby, bbl. 
W’n N. Y., per 2 dozen box. 
Onions, Conn., white, bbl.... 
Connecticut, red . 
Connecticut, yellow . 
State & W'n, white, crate — 
Orange Co., white, hag.... 
Orange Co., red, hag. 
Orange Co., yellow, bag.... 
Peppers, red, bbl. 
Green, barrel . 
Pumpkins, barrel . 
Peas, W’n N. Y.. basket. 
Western N. Y., bag. 
String Beans, Jersey, basket.. 
Squash, Marrow, hbl-crate. . .. 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl. 
Tomatoes, nearby, bu. box.... 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Spring chickens . 
Fowls . 
Roosters . 
Turkeys. 14 
Spring ducks, lb. 
Ducks, pair . 50 
Geese, pair . 
Pigeons . 20 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, old . 
Spring, fancy . 30 
Spring chickens, fancy. 21 
Fair to good. 14 
Fowls . 12 % @ 
Ducks, Spring . 10 
Geese ..18 
Squabs, best . 
Lower grades.1.25 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .4.50 
Bulls .2.50 
Cows .1.25 
Calves . 5 -00 
Sheep .3.50 
Lambs . c 
Hogs . 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
@2.00 
@1.75 
@1.40 
.1.00 
@2.50 
1.00 
@1.25 
50 
@ 60 
12 
@ 18 
, 50 
@ 75 
1.00 
@1.50 
4.00 
@6.00 
1.00 
@2.00 
75 
@1.25 
75 
@ 1.50 
50 
@ 75 
1.00 
@1.25 
1.00 
@2.00 
75 
@1.50 
, 50 
@ 75 
75 
@1.50 
15 
@ 40 
10 
@ 35 
75 
@2.00 
4.00 
@8.00 
1.00 
@1.50 
1.00 
@1.75 
50 
@ 75 
50 
@2.00 
2.50 
@3.25 
@2.50 
1.50 
@2.50 
75 
@1.25 
@3.00 
. 75 
@1.75 
1.00 
@2.00 
1.00 
@1.50 
75 
@1.00 
75 
@ — 
2.00 
@2.50 
@2.00 
30 
@ 75 
50 
@1.00 
50 
(ft 1.25 
40 
@1.00 
@ 13 
— 
@ 14 
— 
@ 9 
14 
@ — 
12 
@ 13 
50 
@ 80 
90 
@1.50 
20 
@ — 
RY. 
11 
@ 13 
30 
@ — 
21 
@ 22 
14 
@ 19 
12% 
(ft 14 
10 
(ft 12 
IS 
@ 20 
@3.25 
@2.50 
@5.75 
@ 3.85 
(ft 4.00 
@8.75 
@5.00 
@9.00 
6.50 
L,S. 
@7.00 
Prices for ton lots; smaller quantities 
proportionately higher. The decided advance 
in nitrate of soda is due in part to the 
earthquake in Chili and the export duty 
placed on this substance by the Chilean 
government as a revenue measure, and also 
to the increased demand, owing to the adop¬ 
tion of nitrate of soda by the U. S. Govern¬ 
ment in the manufacture of explosives in 
place of nitrate of potash. Dealers are now 
paying more in 1,000 ton lots on board 
ship than the price they charged a year ago 
for single tons f.- o. b. New York. The 
market is very unsettled, and changes may 
occur at any time. 
SQUABS 
are raised in one months 
bring big prices. Money 
makers for poultrymen, 
farmers, women. 
Send for our Free Book and learn this 
rich industry. Correspondence inviteddWl 
Plymouth Rock Squab Co., 
335 Howard St., Melrose, Mass. 
€GS FROH BONE 
Green cut bone doubles egg yield. More fertilo 
eggs, vigorous chicks, early broilers, heavy fowls. 
M«UI|IC LATEST MODEL 
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10 days free trial. No money In advance. Send It 
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F. W.MANN CO., Box 15»Mllford, Knit 
YOUNG MEN WANTED — To learn the 
Veterinary Profession. Catalogue sent 
free. Address VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 46 LOUIS STREET. 
IDEAL ALUMINUM LEC BAND 
To Mark Chickens. Cheapest and Best 
12 for 15c., 25— 30c., 50-50C., 100-75C. 
FRANK MYERS, Mfr.. Box 59 Freiport, III, 
SEPTEMBER 
IN THE 
ADIRONDACKS 
No finer place can be found than 
the Adirondacks in September. 
The air is cool and bracing, the 
scenery beautiful and the sense of 
perfect rest that comes with the night 
is delightful. 
This wonderful region is reached 
from all directions by the 
••AMERICA’S GREATEST RAILROAD.’- 
For a copy of “The Adirondack Mountains and 
How to Reach Them,” send a two-cent stamp to 
George H. Daniels, Manager General Advertising 
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C. F. DALY, 
Passenger Traffic Manager, 
NEW YORK. 
# 15,000 FERRETS, 
illustrated ferret book published. 48 pages 
°f practical experience from a life study 
~ 9 of these useful little animals, telling how 
to successfully breed and work ferrets, how ferrets 
clear buildings of rats, drive rabbits from burrows. 
Price list free. SAMUEL FARNSWORTH, Middletown, Ohio. 
MAN OR 
WOMAN 
wanted to travel, distribute 
samples and employ agents. $18 
a week, expenses advanced. Lo- 
_ cal manager and canvassers also. 
ZIEGLER CO., 270 Locust St., Philadelphia. 
O. I. C. SWINE, all ages, at reasonable prices. 
VAN DOREN BROS., Lysander, Onon. Co., N. Y. 
For Sale—SHROPSHIRE RAMS 
and ewes, yearlings and Iambs; $10cash for rams, $8 
ewes; full blood, but not eligible to registration. Ad¬ 
dress IRA II. HASBROUCK, Box 987, Kingston, N. Y. 
bloo b d e of WOODLANDS FARM 
Largest Utility Poultry Plant in America. 
If you wish to head your breeding pen with one of 
the cocks that headed our choice breeding pens this 
year, here is a chance to do so; a chance to produce 
pullets that will lay 200 eggs. We are doing it, 
and will give others a chance to do the same. Even 
with our 30,800 square feet of floor space we shall find 
it impossible to bouse the thousands of pullets we 
have in our colony bouses, and will be compelled to 
sell 3,000 hens and pullets, 100 cocks and 400 cockerels. 
*1.50 to $ 3.00 
112.50 to!! 5.00 
113.00 to 1115.011 
$3.00 to $10.00 
PRICES. 
S. C. White Leghorn Hens . . 
S. C. White Leghorn Pullets 
S. 0. White Leghorn Cocks . . 
S. C. White Leghorn Cockerels 
Same prices for White Wyandottes and Barred 
Plymouth Rocks. All these birds are from our great 
laying strains. A few extra choice selected cock¬ 
erels and pullets, from ancestors with un¬ 
usual trap-nest record, $10.00 to $25.00 each. 
WOODLANDS FARM, 
Lee T. Hallock, Prop., Iona, New Jersey. 
00 
S. C. White Leghorn Pullets, three, 
r four and five months old at 50c, 75c and $1.00 
Also a few cockerels and yearling hens. One 
/ x__1. _ T_._1... d*OC AO 
BUFF PLYMOUTH COCKERELS 
For Sale. March and April hatch. $1 to $2 if taken 
at once. Also, a limited number of Buff Rock Hens 
at $1 each. HOWARD SUTTON, Fairmount, N. .1. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 
W. Plymouth Rocks and W. Holland Turkeys. 
DEVIN nilPVt Now is the time to get your Fall 
rklVIll UUUIVv show birds from yards contain¬ 
ing First Prize pair at N. Y. State Fair. 1905, also 
many other wiuuers. Let us know your wants, $1.00 
to $3.00 each. WALTER McEWAN, Lauder¬ 
dale Farm, Loudonville, Albany Co., N Y. 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, m 7Sn'a. a> 
Breeder of Thoroughbred Poultry. Priees reasonable. 
COR SALE— High bred White Wyandotte Pullets, 
* Cockerels, Hens and Cocks at honest prices. Also 
Pekin Ducks. E. F. KEAN, Stanley, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Cockerels and 
Pullets, five mouths old, $1.00 each. Catalogue free. 
I C. H. ZIMMER, R. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
Var's Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats, 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book, 10c. 
Rates free. J. A. BERGEY, Box8, Telford,Pa. 
B O A C Breeders of high class 
A* M t Single and Rose Comb 
FARM White Leghorn Chickens 
l Minn ; and Mam mo tli Pekiu 
Moui Rnnhollo N Y Ducks, winners of 22 rib- 
IlCn nUUItllC, 111 li Dons at last Madison 
Square Garden and Poughkeepsie shows. Special 
bargain prices during the Summer and early Fall of 
mated pens of 10 yearling hens and one selected coek- 
eral of a fine breed, Single or Rose Comb White 
Leghorns, $15.00 per pen. 1,000 laying pullets now 
ready. Choice mammoth Pekin Ducks for breeding, 
$1 each for any number. Selected breeders. $1.50 each. 
Nitrate of soda, ton. — @54.00 
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 
Basic slag, 2,016 lbs. — @17.55 
Peruvian guano, Chincha. — @40.50 
Lobos . — @30.00 
Ground bone, 3 per cent am.; 
54% per cent bone phos.. . — @26.50 
Copper sulphate, bbl. lots. lb. — @ 6% 
Sulphur flowers, bbl. lots.... — @ 2% 
Water glass, bbl. lots. — @ 2 
CCDDCTC Raised in small lots are strong and 
renne Id healthy. Warranted good rat and 
rabbit hunters. Descriptive circular and price list 
free. Shady Lawn Ferret Farm, New London, Ohio. 
SPORTING AND PET DOGS, 
Cattle, Sheep, Swine. Pigeons, 
Ferrets and Rabbits. Eight 
cents for fifty page illustrated 
catalogue. 
C. G. LLOYDT, 
Dept. K, Sayre, Pa. 
S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose, Pa. 
(COLLIE PUPS, Shropshire Rams. Buff Orpington 
and Barred Rock Chickens. Stock right, prices 
right. W. A. LOTHERS, Peru Lack, Pa. 
Cox Hounds— Pedigreed trained Hounds and Pups. 
Reliable Trained Coon Hounds. Rabbit and Wolf 
Hounds. Squirrel Dogs. D. Hopkins, Imboden, Ark. 
S COTCH COLLIE PUPS, the intelligent kind, 
also Ferrets. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa, 
At your drugg] 
