February 16, 
i4o 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, February 16, 1907. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Great Preparations for Onions. 322 
Sassafras for Fence Posts. 124 
Basic Slag and Lime. 124 
Plowing Straw Under. 12o 
A Case of Alfalfa Fever. 126 
The Plant Food in Ashes. 127 
Growing Tomatoes for Canners. 128 
Hope Farm Notes. 163 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Value of “Old Maids". 124 
The Fat in Cow's Milk. 121 
I.Ime and Sulphur for Germs. 134 
Doors for a Silo. 134 
Ayrshire Cattle . 134 
Purebred Live Stock Associations and 
Their Methods. 135 
A Poultry Cross . 136 
Sensible Talk on Brooding Chicks. 136 
The Use of Milking Machines. 137 
Mad Dog and Cows.• • 137 
Corroborated Testimony for the A. .T. C. C. 139 
HORTICULTURE. 
San .lost* Scale and Fruit Growing.... 121 
San JosS Scale on Market Fruit. 123 
Planting New Trees in Old Holes. 123 
The Pansy and Its Seeds. 124 
Celery Goes to Seed. 125 
Starting Apple Trees . 125 
How to Pack Greenhouse Plants. 120 
Making Lime and Sulphur Wash. 120 
Western N. Y. Horticultural Society.... 127 
The Best Stock for Apples. 129 
Ground Leak in a Greenhouse. 129 
Soft Soap Effective . 129 
Spray for Apple Scab. 129 
A Talk About Nozzles. 129 
Starting :ui Orchard in Stumps. 130 
A Day’s Work Picking Apples. 131 
Notes’ from the Rural Grounds. 132 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 142 
Cotton-Seed Oil . 142 
coffee Fruit Cake . 142 
Potato Salad . 142 
Destroying Croton Bugs . 143 
The Rural Patterns . 143 
How Do You Make Peanut Butter?.... 143 
'llie Bookshelf . 143 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Wooden Water Pipe. 122 
Concrete Blocks and House Heating... 122 
A Homemade Wagon. 122 
Child Labor . 125 
Products, Prices and Trade. 128 
Editorials . 138 
Publisher’s Desk . 141 
MARKETS 
Prices current at N. Y. during week end¬ 
ing February 9, 1907, wholesale unless other¬ 
wise specified. 
FEED. 
Spring bran . — @23.50 
Middlings .22.85 @24.75 
Red Dog . — @25.50 
Hominy chop . — @22.50 
Linseed meal . — @29.00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hav, prime . — @21.50 
No. 1 .20.00 @21.00 
No 2 18.00 @19.00 
No’. 3 .15.00 @16.00 
Clover, mixed .15.00 @19.00 
Clover .14.00 @17.00 
Straw, long rye .12.00 @13.50 
Short and oat . 9.00 @11.00 
EGGS. 
White, fancy . — @ 
White, good to choice . 29 @ 
Mixed colors, extra . — @ 
Western and Southern . 24 @ 
Storage . 20 @ 
DRIED FRUITS. 
evap., fancy . —@ 
choice . 8%@ 
31 
30 
29 
28 
24 
9 
8 % 
8 Vi 
7% 
2.25 
19 
31 
Apples, 
Evap., 
Evap., prime . » 
Evap.. common . 7 
Sun dried . 6 
Chops. 100 lbs. — 
Cherries . 18 
Raspberries . 30 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.71 per 40-quart 
can netting 3Mi cents to 26-cent zone ship¬ 
pers who have no station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery exl ra . — @ 33 
Lower grades .. • • • • 22 @ 
Storage . 20 @ 
State Dairy . 19 @ 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, Jonathan, bbl.3.00 
Gano .2.75 
King .2.75 
Spitz .2.00 
Baldwin .2.00 
Greening .1.60 
Western, bu. box.1.00 
Strawberries, Fla., qt. 25 
Cranberries, bbl.3.00 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Asparagus, green. No. 1. bunch —— 
Cucumbers, No. 1, dozen.... 1.50 
No. 2 . 75 
Culls, box .2.00 
Lettuce, doz. 50 
Mushrooms, large white, lb. .. 40 
Large tan . 35 
Buttons . 20 
Radishes, 100 ubnclies .4.00 
Parsley, dozen bunches. 15 
Tomatoes, lb. 15 
VEGETABLI 
Potatoes. Bermuda, No. 1, bbl.5.50 
Bermuda No. 2.3.50 
Maine, 165 lb. bag.1.75 
lbs. 
bb 
Long Island, bbl 
State & W’n, 180 
Jersey, bbl. or hag. . 
Sweet potatoes, Jersey. 
Brussels Sprouts, quart 
Carrots, old. bbl. 
Cabbage, D’h seed, w’te, ton 
Red. ton . 
Kale, Norfolk, bbl. 
Lettuce, Florida, basket 
Onions, white . 
Red . 
Yellow . 
Cuban, new, crate... 
Radishes, N. Or., 100 bunch 
Romaine. N. Or., bbl. 
Florida, basket . 
French, dozen . 
String beans, Fla., basket. 
Spinach, Norfolk, bbl. 
31 
30 
29 
@5.00 
@ 3.50 
@4.00 
@4.50 
@ 3.00 
(a 3.50 
@2.50 
@ 1.00 
@ 7.50 
@ 50 
@2.00 
@ 1.00 
@ 3.00 
@ 1.00 
@ 00 
@ 45 
@> 30 
@ 5.00 
@ — 
@ 30 
. l.o 
. 1.50 
.1.45 
.2.00 
• 4 
.1.00 
15.00 
25.00 
.1.25 
.2.00 
.3 00 
.1.50 
. 2.00 
.2.75 
s. 1.50 
.2.00 
.1.00 
.1.50 
.6.00 
.2.00 
@> 6.00 
@4.00 
@ — 
( 5 ) 2.00 
@1.75 
@1.55 
@3.50 
@ 12 
@1 .75 
@18.00 
@ 40.00 
(a 1.75 
(5 5.00 
@6.50 
@ 2.00 
@3.00 
@ 3.00 
@2.50 
(5)4.00 
(5)3.00 
(51.75 
(58.50 
@ 3.00 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl... 
White, nearby, bbl. 
Tomatoes, Florida, carrier. 
Other W. I., carrier... 
Watercress, 100 bunches.2.50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls, lb.. 
Roosters . 
Turkeys . 
Ducks . 
Geese . 12 
Pigeons, piar . 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys . 13 
Chickens . 
Fowls . 11 
Capons .. 
Geese . 
Ducks ._ 12 
Squabs, doz. 
COUNTRY DRESSED 
Calves ._ 8 
Lambs, hothouse, head . 
Pork . 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .4.70 
Bulls 
Cows . 
Calves . 
Lambs . 6.50 
90 
@1.00 
@1.75 
.2.00 
@3.50 
1.25 
@2.25 
2.50 
@3.00 
L . 
@ 13% 
7 
@ 10% 
_ 
@ 13 
— 
@ 15 
12 
13 
RY. 
@ 25 
13 
@ 17 
13 
@ 20 
11 
@ 14 
. 15 
24 
8 
@ 13 
12 
@ 15 
@6.00 
MEATS. 
8 
(5 11 
9.00 
11.00 
. 9 
@ 10 
.4.70 
@6.00 
. 3.45 
@4.50 
. 2 .on 
@4.15 
.5.50 
@10.00 
@8.50 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Prices for ton lots. Smaller quantities 
proportionately higher. 
Nitrate of soda(95% pure), ton — @56.00 
Muriate of potash (50%actual), 
2,016 lbs. — @41.85 
Sulphate of potash (48-50% 
actual), 2,016 lbs. — @48.15 
Dried blood (14% ammonia), 
ton . — @51.00 
Basic slag (17-19% plios. acid), 
ton 7..17.50 (510.00 
Kainit, ton . — @14.00 
Acid phosphate, ton. — @14.00 
Ground bone, (4% am., 20% 
phosphoric acid) . — (528.00 
Peruvian Guano, Chincha, ton. — @43.00 
Lobos . — @32.00 
POTATO GROWERS 
WANTED 
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D EWBERRY PLANTS and Ward Blackberry 
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Thoroughbred Holstein=Friesian 
YEARLING BULLS 
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Perfectly marked, large, handsome animals, ready 
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0 R Ann Fertile Wh.Wyandotte Eggs, $4 per 
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P Whitoo young sows, $12.00. Fall pigs, sows only, 
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