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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 16, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rckal New-Yorker, March 16, 1007. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Prime Jersey Sweet Potatoes. 225 
A Corn Husker in Connecticut. 225 
Greater Corn Yields.225, 226 
Crushed Cow Pea Ilay. 226 
Grinding Alfalfa. 226 
Feeding Value of Ground Alfalfa.226 
Tomatoes for a Canning Factory. 227 
Plain Phospnates Again.. . .. 227 
Clover in Sprayed Orchard. 228 
Potash for Fertilizing. 228 
Nitro-Cul ture Once More. 22!) 
Gang Plows for Small Farms. 284 
Street Sweepings and Night Soil. 224 
Land Plaster and Salt. 284 
Growing Cannery Tomatoes. 234 
Grinding Alfalfa Meal. 235 
The Need of Lime. 235 
Hope Farm Notes. 237 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Connecticut Pig Business. 227 
Mapes, the Hen Man. 232 
Whole Grain for Cattle. 238 
Worms in Swine. 238 
Gasoline Treatment for Sheep. 239 
Calf with Swollen Jaw. 239 
A Cow with a Cough. 239 
Effect of Clipping Poultry. 239 
Silage Under Ground. 240 
Diarrhoea in Cows. 240 
Good Care for Good Cows. 240 
Raising Geese. 240 
Warbles or “Grubs” on Cattle. 241 
Southern Dairyman’s Business. 241 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Truth About the Spencer Seedless 
Apple. Part. II. 226 
Fruits in Ohio. 229 
Eastern Meeeting of the N. Y. State 
Fruit Growers’ Association. 230 
The St. Lawrence Apple. 233 
Alfalfa in a Pear Orchard. 234 
That Leaky Greenhouse. 235 
Notes from' the Rural Ground. 236 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 246 
Ragout with Dumplings. 246 
Mrs. Spraker Talks. 247 
The Rural Patterns. 247 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
\n Old Nebraska Home. 227 
Ventilating a Cold Storage Room.228 
Products, Prices and Trade.228 
Depth of Driven Well. 229 
State Experimenters’ League. Part 1... 231 
The Measure Grows Smaller. 233 
Editorials . 242 
Publishers’ Desk. 245 
MARKETS 
Prices current at N. Y. during week end 
ing March 9, 1907, wholesale unless other¬ 
wise noted. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red. — @8314 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth.... — @ 91 % 
Corn . — & 53% 
Oats . ■ 
@ 48 
@24.00 
@25.50 
@ 26.00 
@22.50 
@30.00 
FEED. 
Bran .22.50 
Middlings .23.50 
Red Dog. — 
Hominy Chop . — 
Linseed Meal . — 
IIAY AND STRAW. 
Choice grades very scarce. 
Hay, No. 1. — 
No. 2 .20.00 
No. 3.16.50 
Clover mixed.17.00 
Clover .14.00 
Straw. Long Rye.12.00 
Short and Oat . 9.00 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.61 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3% cents to 26-cent zone ship¬ 
pers who have no extra station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best . 
Lower grades 
@23.00 
@ 21.00 
@18.00 
@20 00 
@ 16.00 
@13.00 
@11.00 
22 
20 
Storage . 20 
State Dairy . 25 
Factory . IS 
Renovated . 19 
Creamery . 
Lower grades. 
Storage .t. 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best . — 
Lower grades. 11 
Skims. 4 
EGGS. 
Seven to 10 cents lower. 
White, fancy . 22 
White, good to choice . 20 
Mixed colors, extra. — 
Lower grades . 16 
DRIED FRUITS. 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
w 
@ 
@ 
34 
32 
31 
32 
21 
25 
32 
31 
30 
15 
14 
8 
23 
21 
@ 20 
@ 18% 
Apples, evap., fancy 
— @ 
Evap., choice . 8%@ 
Evap., prime . 7 @ 
Evap., poor to fair. — @ 
Sun dried . 6 @ 
Cherries .. w 
Raspberries . 30 @ 
FRESH FRUITS 
9 
8 % 
7!4 
6% 
6 % 
19 
31 
Apples, best . 
Lower grades .*-.00 
Strawberries, Fla., qt. 20 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bu.2.00 
Pea. — 
Red Kidney . — 
White Kidney . — 
Black Turtle Soup. — 
Yellow Eye . 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, doz. 75 
Lettuce, doz.•. l-‘ 
Radishes. 100 bunches. 2.00 
Tomatoes, lb. 15 
VEGETABLES. 
4.00 @5.50 
@3.50 
@ 60 
@2.20 
@1.55 
@2.30 
@2.90 
>Ti 2.00 
@1.90 
@2.00 
OT 50 
@3.00 
@ 25 
_5. no 
@7.00 
@2.00 
_2.00 
@3.75 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 
.... 5 
@ 20 
@ 25.00 
T?prl . 
. . .40.00 
@55.00 
. . . . 15 
@ 50 
@1.50 
Lettuce, % bb. bkt. 
. . .. 75 
_4.00 
@2.50 
@7.00 
. 
_2.00 
@2.75 
V oil r\xxr . 
_2.00 
@3.00 
Spinach, bbl. 
_1.50 
@2.50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls. — @ 13 
Roosters . 8 @ 11- 
Turkeys . — @ 12 
Ducks. — @ 16 
Geese . 10 @ 13 
Pigeons, pair . — @ 25 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 12 @ 16 
Chickens, best . 17 @ 18 
Lower grades. 12 @ 15 
Fowls. 11 @ 13% 
Capons, best . 22 @ 24 
Under grades . 12 @ 16 
Ducks . 8 @ 12 
Geese .. 8 (5) 11 
Squabs, doz.2.00 @5.00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, 100 lbs.9.00 @12.00 
Lambs, hothouse, head.5.00 @9.00 
-10% 
Pork !. 9% @ 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .4.85 
Oxen .4.10 
Bulls .3.50 
Cows .1 -65 
Calves .5.00 
Sheep .4.50 
Lambs .7.00 
Hogs . — 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Prices for ton lots. Smaller 
proportionately higher. 
Nitrate of soda (95% pure), ton — 
Muriate of potash (50% actual), 
2.016 lbs. — 
Sulphate of potash (48-50% 
actual), 2,016 lbs. — 
Dried blood ((14% ammonia), 
ton .. • • — 
Basic slag (17-19% plios. acid). 
ton .17.50 
Kainit. ton . — 
Acid phosphate, ton . — 
Ground bone. (4% am., 20% 
phosphoric acid) . — 
Peruvian Guano, Chinclia, ton. — 
Lobos . — 
@5.85 
@4.30 
@4.35 
@4.00 
@9.50 
@5.00 
@7.75 
@7.60 
quantities 
@53.00 
@41.85 
@48.15 
@51.00 
@19.00 
@14.00 
@14.00 
@28.00 
@43.00 
@32.00 
On front cover page of January 26, O. W. 
Mapes copies an inquiry from “Poultry 
Woman,” asking for a remedy for “white 
diarrhoea,” “cholera,” etc. It is supposed 
we have also been troubled with the same 
disease (from the description) which we 
called cholera and to distinguish it from the 
cholera of older fowls “peepy cholera.” We 
gave our chicks a small quantity of whisky— 
about a tablespoonful—in about a quart of. 
mash. Others of our neighbors mixed the 
mash with strong coffee; still others mixed 
a local “pain qure” remedy with the feed. 
All three remedies were thought to be ef¬ 
fective. Please, now, do not understand that 
we claim this a “cure.” We simply give this 
as we heard it and used it, and our results, 
after first having thoroughly examined for 
lice. ___ s - 
“Was your wife angry with you for get¬ 
ting home late last night?” “Angry! why 
my dear man, she actually threw flowers 
at me.” “Well, how do you account for 
that black eye?” “Oh! She forgot to take 
’em out of the pots!”—Ally Sloper. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and vou’ll get a quick reply and 
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HARRISON’S NURSERIES, Box 29, Berlin, Md. 
MACHINERY 
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Best and cheapest. 
Send for catalogue. 
BOOMER & BOSCHERT 
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CAPITOL 
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Address, C.W. D. care Rural New-YOKKEB. 
AN OPPORTUNITY 
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prices. Farm bred and great layers. Eggs for hatch¬ 
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T HE CHOICEST OF BREEDING cockerels. Single 
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GltEYSTONE POULTRY FARM, Enfield, Mass. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS 
from a strictly high-class good laying strain, 75 cents 
for 15: $3.75 per 100. Also, Partridge Wyandottes,$1 
for 15. ELLIS WISSINGER. Tunnelton, Penn. 
VGHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY-15 years 
” experience as a breeder of this popular variety. 
Eggs from fancy matings, $1 50 per 13. Incubator 
Eggs, $0 per 100. Circular on application. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. MATT M.FARliELL, Sodus Point,N.Y. 
QUNNYSIDE POULTRY FARM, 
U Prize Winning S. C. B. Legl 
Box B. 
, Shermansville.Pa. 
.eghornsj Bd. Rocks, 
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CHOICE PUPS now ready to ship for $5.00 
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Wayville, Saratoga County, New York. 
D. A. PALMERTON, Eden, N. Y. 
W/ ANTED MARRIED MAN to care for cows, milk 
VV sold to creamery; wife to board men, she has 
no dairy work; employment for grown sons. State 
age. size of family and when disengaged. 
“DAIRY,” rural New-Yorker. 
DARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK, R. I. RED AND 
“WHITE LEGHORN EGGS, from the best strains 
in the country. $1 per sitting; $5 per hundred. 
GEORGE HOWARD, Jr., South Bound Brook, N.J. 
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pGGS FOR HATCHING— Giant Bronze Turkey, 
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l>f ANTED—Farmer and wife (Germans preferred); 
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occupied by owner as a summer home. Man must 
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QUFF, Wh. Leghorns, Kggs 7r>c. per 15, $1.25 per 30; S. C. R. I. 
D Red Kggs 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30; Mottled Ancona Eggs, $1.25 
per 15, $2.00 per 30; Cir. free. JOHN A. ROTH, (Jnakertown, Pa. 
Standard-bred Poultry— Highest quality: lowest 
prices; catalog free. Fairview Farm, Shrewsbury, Pa. 
White WjaBdottM-iS.’SJSJ S? r 
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Immigrant Labor Exchange, Inc., 2 Carlisle St., N. Y. 
CPPC rnn CCTTIIIIS-l , ' or fine Thoroughbred 
tUUO run Otl linu Plymouth Rocks and 
Brown Leghorns, send to Mrs. Lenora Compton, 
Oolesville, N. J. $1.00 for 13; $5.00 hundred. 
Sell Your Old Rubbers and Metals 
For tlie Highest Prices. 
We buy old rubber, scrap metal, copper, brass, lead, etc., in 
50 lb. lots or over, and pay tlie freight. Write for pricelist. 
UNITED RUBBER & METAL CO., 432 Broadway, N. Y. 
GOLDEN ROD POULTRY YARD. $8 
Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale, 75c. setting of 15: $4.00 
per hundred. Satisfaction guaranteed. HOWARD 
SUTTON, Fairmount, New Jersey. 
CGGS $1 per 15; $2 per40; from thoroughbred Brah- 
t mas. Rocks. Wyaudottes, Reds and Leghorns, 
12 varieties. Catalogue. S. K. Mohr, Coopersburg, Pa. 
White Rocks 
Prize Winning Strain 
The Bird Uncle Sam Has Adopted. 
A limited number of Settings, $3 per 15, securely 
packed—Express prepaid. 
SEVEN ELMS FARM, Box 2r. Brewerton,N.Y. 
DARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS $1.00 per 15; 
□ *5 00 perlOO. 4,500 eggs sold last year for hatching. 
N. P. WESTFALL, Beemerville, New Jersey. 
■ ■ n Tn.I.xiia—Still have a few choice young 
M K T TkPIK Toms for sale. 
ITIi Ui 1 U 1 IVU JO £ WITHROW, Dublin, Va. 
HAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS— Toms, $5; hens, $3; trio, $W. 
IV1 Indian Runner Ducks, pair, $2.50; trio, $3. B. P. 
Rock cock’ls,$l-50-$5. W.T.Easton, Rt.5, Delaware,O. 
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