1906. 
THE 'RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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COSGROVE'S WHITE WYANDOTTE. 
The picture of one of my White Wyan¬ 
dotte cockerels, Fig. 412, page 910, does 
not do the bird justice. It is very diffi¬ 
cult to get a fowl to pose as you wish 
when he is conscious that he is not at 
liberty. He is in a half-squatting posi¬ 
tion as taken; if he could talk he might 
say “So are you,” and does not show the 
real beauty of his shape. Still his small 
head and comb, deep body and full breast 
are fairly well shown. This bird weighs 
8]/ 2 pounds, is clear white and will head 
one of my breeding pens next Spring. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
BRINGING WATER THROUGH A 
SYPHON. 
In the first article by E. J. H. on the 
water question, is discussed the method 
of syphoning from a well, and the writer 
reaches the conclusion that this method 
is unsatisfactory and entirely out of the 
question.- I would like to give a little 
experience of mine along this line. On 
the farm on which I am living there is a 
water supply to house and barn syphoned 
from a well under very similar condi¬ 
tions to those mentioned by E. J. H. This 
plant was installed by my father and a 
neighbor about 37 years ago, both getting 
water from the same well, and both using 
the same pipe for some years, but later 
each having separate pipe; the pipe is a 
^-inch lead. This has been in continu¬ 
ous operation since, with some tempo¬ 
rary stoppages of course, but since I 
have been old enough to know anything 
about it. for 20 years or more, I do not 
believe the time spent on it would aver¬ 
age more than two hours a year, and for 
the past five years it has had no atten¬ 
tion whatever. 
Another of mv neighbors has a similar 
system, put in ov.er 20 years ago, and in 
all that time has had but one stoppage, 
taking, perhaps, a half day to fix. This 
is a half-inch pipe. There are quite a 
number of these svphon systems in op¬ 
eration in this immediate neighborhood, 
working successfully and giving but little 
trouble. These wells from which the 
water' is syphoned are all rather shallow, 
from 15 to 20 feet deep I should judge; 
the fall of most of them is about 25 feet, 
and the length of pipe from 800 to 1,200 
feet. No svstem of water works will run 
forever without attention, be it what it* 
may, and where an all-gravity system can 
be secured it is undoubtedly the nearest 
to perfection of any small-cost plant, but 
where this cannot be had I believe the 
syphon method will furnish a fairly re¬ 
liable wav of getting water at a small 
expense for repairs, provided there is 
fall enough to give the water a good 
headway, otherwise I think it will give 
considerable trouble. n. e. \v. 
Connecticut.___ 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Butter is four to six cents above prices 
at this time last year. Fancy fresh cream¬ 
ery is especially scarce, wholesaling as high 
as 30 cents. Best State dairy comes very 
near this figure. Speculators who put away 
Summer butter are now picking up a good 
profit. 
Oranoes are selling at high figures. The 
first car of fancy Arizonas, packed in half 
boxes, brought from $2 to $4.20. This car 
was sent so as to get here just in time for 
the Thanksgiving trade. The hest late Va¬ 
lencias from California have brought even 
more than this. Florida oranges are work¬ 
ing out at from $2.50 to $4.00. 
The German goverrmenf has issued an or¬ 
der excluding from the mails all postal cards 
decorated with bits of colored glass or other 
substances to give a sparkling effect. The 
reason for this order is that the mineral dust 
gets rubbed from the cards, and the mail 
clerks breathe these injurious substances as 
well as getting the sharp particles stuck in 
their fingers. 
Dressed Poultry. —The 'Thanksgiving 
market developed a much stronger tone than 
was expected. The proportion of choice tur¬ 
keys was small and many of these whole¬ 
saled at 23 cents or above. Lower grades 
went at 20 to 22, with practically nothing 
decent to he had for less than 18 cents. 
The demand for chickens was not heavy and 
no exceptional prices were noted. The 
weather, while not quite so cool as is liked 
tor a poultry holiday, was dry and but little 
sticky, badly out of condition poultry was 
seen. 
Salads From Europe. —France and Bel¬ 
gium are liberal exporters of endive, chic¬ 
ory, escarol, the globe artichoke, and to 
some extent, asparagus. Some of these vege¬ 
tables are shipped to New York, where they 
meet a ready sale at prices above home¬ 
grown salads. In France and Belgium the 
art of gardening has been developed to an 
extent unknown in this country except in 
occasional spots where the work is done by 
“Old Country” people or those who have 
learned their methods. Every bit of land 
is utilized, labor is cheaper and the weeds 
not being permitted to go to seed, much 
hand weeding is avoided. Yet the essentials 
of these conditions could and doubtless 
would be worked out in our own South if 
transportation conditions were fairly favor- 
.alfift. Hundreds of vegetable growers in 
Florida and other Southern States could tell 
a story of railroad and express abuses that 
would astonish the French farmer, and lie 
would have to conclude that while this may 
be the “land of the free,” the express com¬ 
panies and railroads are not yet conscious 
of It. w. w. II. 
THE HIRED MAN QUESTION 
I have just read Medora Corbeft on the 
farm laborer question, page 793,' and there 
is truth in every word of it. I would suggest 
the following for the solution: Let every 
neighborhood where it is practicable select 
a-tract of land, lay it out in tracts or parcels, 
one or two up to five acres, and sell to 
laborers at reasonable price per acre on un¬ 
limited time, a small payment down and 
monthly or yearly payments. The plan 
works well here. There is a man in Seattle 
who has built ’fine surburban towns by lay¬ 
ing out land that way in lots and acre tracts, 
and selling at $5 down, $5 monthly. He 
even furnishes lumber to build with on 
terms; he has helped many poor men to 
homes and made money at it. The farm 
laborer would want enough land partially to 
support his family, and an opportunity to 
educate his children, and could and should 
live in groups sufficiently large to supply 
the immediate neighborhood demand for 
labor and his social requirements. The 
laborer and his family could raise much of 
the small fruit and vegetables that now are 
bought at the stores in the shape of canned 
goods by the farmer. I think if such a plan 
could be worked out it would not only be 
a good thing for the farmers in the matter 
of help, but would be a bless'ing nationally. 
Fall City, Wash. l. m. p. 
Poultry Shipments.-—T he following note 
is from a well-known New York commission 
house. 
“Poultry shipments for Christmas trade 
should be here by December 17. as the tour 
davs following will be the best selling days 
for that holiday this year. Geese are gener¬ 
ally in demand for the Christmas trade 
and bring good prices. The best general 
market days for poultry are Tuesday, Wed¬ 
nesday and Thursday, and it is to advan¬ 
tage to have shipments arrive here on those 
days. We advise having stock dry-picked 
an’d as fat as possible. 
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