THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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September it, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, Sept. 21, 190?, 
FARM TOPICS. 
Asparagus In Monmouth Co., N. J., 
Part II. 
Some Brief Oregon Notes. 
Fall-sown Cabbage . 
A Farmer’s Back . 
Marketing Horseradish . 
Grazing New Seeding . 
Killing Witeh Grass.. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
698 
699 
700 
700 
701 
702 
702 
703 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Monday Morning Disease.698 
Closely Inbred Holsteins. 710 
Grinding Charcoal . 710 
Pedigree and Chicken Disease. 710 
Cosgrove's Poultry Notes. 711 
Epilepsy . 711 
HORTICULTURE. 
Shall We Plant New Orchards?. 699 
Killing the San Josti Scale. 700 
Peach on Plum Roots. 700 
Propagating from Nursery Stock. 700 
A City Garden . 701 
Transplanting Wild Blackberries. 701 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 702 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 706 
Notes from My Kitchen. 706 
Handling Books . 707 
The Rural Patterns . 707 
Some Tomato Dishes . 707 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Care and Improvement of Rural Ceme¬ 
teries .697, 698 
Experience with Poison Ivy. 699 
Painting a Buggy. 700 
Whitewash Hot or Cold. 701 
Editorials . 704 
Events of the Week . 705 
Facts and Figures About Life Insurance. 705 
Agricultural Troubles in France.705 
Publisher's Desk . 709 
Humorous . 712 
MARKETS 
Prices current at N. Y. during week end¬ 
ing September 13, 1907, wholesale unless 
otherwise noted : 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red. 1.01 
No. 1, Northern Duluth. 1.14 
Corn . 72 
Oats . 60 
Rye . 88 
MILL FEED. 
Spring bran .26.00@27.00 
Middlings .28.00@29.00 
Red Dog . 30.50 1 
Hominy chop . 28.50 
Linseed meal . 30.50* 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, new, No. 1. 
No. 2 . 
No. 3 . 
Clover, mixed . 
Clover . 
Straw, long rye . 
Short and oat . 
20.00@ 21.00 
18.00@ 19.50 
16.00 @ 17.00 
15.00 @20.00 
14.00 @17.00 
11.00>@ 13.00 
8.00@10.00 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.61 per 40-quart 
can netting 3% cents to 26-eeut zone ship¬ 
pers who have no additional station 
charges. A ’A-cent increase is expected 
soon. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best ... 
Common to good............ 
State Dairy ... 
Factory .. 
.. — @ 28 
.. 23 @ 27 
.. 22@ 26% 
.. 18@ 21 
Packing stock... 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best . 
Cojypion to good.......... 
Skiyqs . .. 
.. —@ 14 
EGGS. 
Fancy, white . 
Good to choice . 
Western . 
Storage . 
.. 28@ 30 
.. 24@ 26 
.. 18@ 23 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bu. 
Medium . 
Pea . 
Red kidney . 
White kidney . 
Yellow eye . 
. .1.90@2.30 
. .1.70® 1.90 
. .1.70 @1.95 
. .2.20@2.25 
. . —@2.70 
FRUITS. 
Apples, choice, bbl.3.00@5.00 
Fair to good .1.50@2.50 
Peaches 24-qt. carrier.2.00@3.50 
16-qt. bkt. 50@1.75 
Pears, Seckel, Bartlett and 
Clapp’s Favorite, bbl....4.00@6.00 
Common kinds . 2.00@3.00 
Plums, 8-lb. bkt.. 15@ 30 
Grapes. 24-lb. case. 50@1.00 
Blackberries, qt.. 03@ 12 
Huckleberries, qt. 06@ 12 
Muskmelons, bu.. 30@ 1.00 
VEGETABLES. 
Sweet potatoes, bbl. ..........1.50@2.50 
Carrots, bbl.1.00@2.00 
Celery, doz. 10@ 40 
Cucumbers, bbl.1.00@2.00 
Pickles, 1,000 .2.00@2.75 
Cabbage. 100 .•.3.50 @6.00 
Corn, 100 .1.00@2.25 
Cauliflowers, bbl.1.00@4.00 
Eggplants, bbl. 75@1.00 
Lima beans, bu. 50 @1.00 
Onions, bbl.1.75 @2.50 
Peppers, bbl. .. 75@1.00 
Squash, bbl. 75 @1.00 
Turnips, bbl.1.00@1.25 
Tomatoes, bu. 30@ 60 
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LIVE POULTRY. 
Spring chickens, lb. —@ 16 
Fowls . —@ 14% 
Roosters . —@ 9% 
Turkeys . —@ 13 
Spring ducks . —@ 13 
Geese . —@ 11 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 12@ 16 
Best broilers . 22@ 24 
Fair to good . 13 @ 18 
Fowls . 12 @ 14 
Ducks . 15@ 16 
Squabs, doz.2.00@4.00 
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LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .4.35 @6.50 
Bulls .2.75@3.60 
Cows .1.25@3.80 
Calves .5.00 @9.25 
Sheep .3.50 @5.00 
Lambs .6.25 @7.85 
Hogs .7.00@7.10 
WOOL. 
Fine, unwashed . 24@ 25 
Delaine, unwashed . 26@ 28 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Fruits. —The finest Fall varieties of ap¬ 
ples are now on hand, Gravenstein leading 
in quality, though not always bringing the 
highest price, on account of the dull color. 
Peaches have been cheaper than for several 
weeks, 16-quart baskets of fair quality hav¬ 
ing retailed as low as $1.50. The plum 
market has been In bad condition owing to 
the muggy weather and the Jewish New 
Year holidays, which took these buyers en¬ 
tirely off the market. Several thousand 
baskets which ought to have been sold the 
same day they arrived were held three days 
on account of scarcity of buyers, and when 
the writer saw them they were not worth 
two cents per basket. One of the men who 
was loaded up in this way said he wrote 
the shipper, begging him not to send any 
more plums for two or three days, but no 
attention was paid to the request, and the 
plums came on with the result above de¬ 
scribed. The shipper will get nothing for 
the fruit, and the seller’s reputation will be 
injured for being stuck with such a lot of 
stuff on his hands. People unfamiliar with 
the New York produce trade have no idea 
of the extent to which this trade depends 
upon the Hebrew buyers. When they are off 
the market for a single day, business in 
many produce lines is very light. 
Butter continues high, four cents above 
last year’s price at this date. The drought 
in some producing sections has cut the but¬ 
ter crop and the increased use of cold stor¬ 
age by speculators tends to keep prices up, 
as a surplus is quickly taken by these peo¬ 
ple if they see a few dollars possible profit 
in it. Speculators in this line take risks 
that would not have been considered former¬ 
ly, say five to 10 years ago, when putting 
away eggs at 19 cents and butter at 24 
cents had not been heard of. In addition 
to the profits resulting from the storage of 
butter there is a reason why certain of these 
speculators are determined to keep butter 
prices up. They were at one time heavily 
interested in oleomargarine, and since the 
passage of the 10-cent tax bill all sorts of 
ingenious schemes have been devised to 
work up oleo sympathy. The crocodile tears 
shed over the hardships of the butter con¬ 
sumer are real tears over the chopping off 
of their 100 per cent profit on oleo which 
they sold as butter. As has been said here 
before secret cold storage of such staple 
necessities as butter and eggs in large quan¬ 
tities is a pernicious practice, injurious to 
the trade and the public in general. Here 
is a form of trustism in whch a great middle 
class of handlers can move the market up or 
down, as may best, suit their needs regard¬ 
less to a large extent of actual supply or 
demand and the injustice to the tradesman 
doing a moderate business and the people at 
large is no less than in the various forms 
of rebating which the Government is now 
working to suppress. The writer believes 
that the present price to the butter user 
is not warranted by the condition of supply 
and that it would not be possible to force 
the price to any such point if the public 
could know even approximately, how much 
butter is m existence every day or week. 
w. w. H. 
REMEMBER WADSWORTH. 
The following members of the New 
York Senate voted against Governor 
Hughes in his efforts to remove the Su¬ 
perintendent of Insurance. They repre¬ 
sent agricultural counties, where farmers 
are in a majority. Every one of them 
merits defeat, and should be plowed un¬ 
der by the votes of farmers. Send them 
to the political graveyard at the first op¬ 
portunity : 
JOTHAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. FANCHER, . . Salamanca, N. Y. 
S. P. FRANCHOT, . . . Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES.Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH, . . . Chatham, N. Y. 
WM. J. TULLY, . . . Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE.Syracuse, N. Y. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX, .... Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD.Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE, . . East Schodack, N. Y. 
Batchby: “You have a burglar alarm, 
haven’t you?” Muchpop: “Used to have, 
but I had it taken out.” Batchby: “No 
good ?” Muchpop: “Oh, I guess it was 
all right. But I was afraid that if it was 
ever sprung at night it would wake the 
baby.”—Cleveland Leader, 
CONCRETE FOR HENHOUSES. 
Would it be advisable to build a henhouse 
for 125 hens out of concrete building blocks, 
and also put a cement floor in same building, 
to have a southern or eastern exposure on 
dry level ground? c. k. s. 
New York. 
When yotf tvtlte advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal." See guarantee, page 8. 
/XUXiltVJiU. IT JUl AJ'J ttlili r.IV 
Send for Illustrated Circular. $1.25 
bushel, f. o. b. Tivoli, N. Y. 
E. L. CLARKSON, Tivoli, N. Y 
per 
1 do not think it would be advisable to 
build a henhouse of concrete building 
blocks. The one serious objection to the 
poultry industry is the immense amount 
of money that people tie up in plant; 
i. e., buildings and equipment, compared 
to the small amount of money that they 
put into machinery, viz., hens. A house 
CTARK 
Largest 
8TARK 
Nurseries Pay Cash Weekly 
and Want More Salesmen Every¬ 
where. Best Contract, Best Outfit. 
Largest N urseries—with an 82-Year Record. 
STARK BRO’S, LOUISIANA, MO. 
Highest prices guaranteed for White or Brown 1 
Leghorns or mixed eggs. Write us for information. 
A trial will convince you of our ability to obtain 
extreme prices. Address 
can be built of coarse lumber and covered 
with a cheap roofing on the sides that 
will be fully as satisfactory and much 
less expensive than one built of cement. 
It may not last so long, but there are 
very few people in the poultry business 
to-day who are satisfied with the houses 
they built 10 years ago. I would strongly 
recommend building cheap, portable 
houses; use the colony method if possi¬ 
ble. Put no floors in the houses, so that 
they can be idle for a month each year, 
and raised from one to two feet off the 
ground during that time to let the air 
circulate in and around. c. k. g. 
If you are seeking a safe and profitable invest¬ 
ment, write Industrial Savings and Loan Co. of 
New York City and learn what decided advantages 
they offer. See their advertisementon Page 707,-ylcfo. 
GREEN ^ nf" T ^H 
MOUNTAIN O JL ■ * V —J 
The Oldest Silo Manufactured, 
The Best Silo Made. 
ALL GRADES AND ALL PRICES. 
Agents Wanted. Send for Catalog, 
Stoddard Mfg. Co., Rutland, Vt. 
The International Silo 
An Automatic-Take-Up-Hoop. Self Adjusting. 
A Continuous, Open Door Front. An Easy 
Operating, Non-Sticking Door. A Permanent 
Ladder. Selected Tank Pine and Guaranteed 
Workmanship. INTERNATIONAL SILO 
COMPANY, Erie St., Linesville, Pa. 
COLID COLOR BULL.— Three mos. old: strictly 
. first class. A. G. Son of St. Lambert Rioter King, 
sire of 30 tested cows. Dam sired by a Double G. 
Son of St. Lambert Boy, sire of 57 tested cows. 
J. ALDUS HERR, Lancaster, Pa. 
A MATURE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULL 
FOR SALE. BURKE FAMILY, Large A. R. O. 
backing. A bargain. Address, 
J. K. WALKER, Holland Patent, New York. 
RAMBOUILLET RAMS 
Yearlings and Two-Year-Olds. Large and heavy¬ 
boned; great leg and face covering. The ideal wool 
and mutton sheep. For prices write 
JOHN MACNAUGHTON, Caledonia, N. Y. 
Young Pigs "°p.ir5( 0J ‘ l Berkshires, $6 
Pedigreed Collie Female Puppies, $5. 
HAWTHORN FARM, Williamsville, N. Y. 
For Sale.—BERKSHIRES 
of the great Masterpiece strain. A choice lot of 
Boars and Sows of May farrow, at $25 each. Also, 
one Yearling Boar at $45.00. They are all good ones, 
and sure to please. 
BLYTHEWOOD FARMS, 
John Buckler, Supt. Pittsfield, Mass. 
JACKS 
Imported Catalonia, Majorca and Kentucky Mam¬ 
moth Jacks and Jennets, saddle horses, trotting 
and pacing stallions, Poland China and Tamworth 
Hogs. Our importation of Spanish Jacks which 
arrived August 12th, are the largest and finest ever 
brought to the United States. Our herd of Tarn- 
worths are headed by the first and second prize 
Boars at the Royal Show in England. Our catalogue 
is the finest ever issued by any Jack breeder. Write 
us your wants or visit our farms. 
J. F. COOK & CO., Lexiugton, Kentucky. 
BRANCH BARN : Greenville, Texes. 
JOHNSTONE €) COUGHLAN, 
164 Duane Street : : New York 
Highest prices paid for fine fresh Leghorn, Browm 
or mixed eggs. Let us have your shipments and we> 
will remit promptly. Address 
JOHN SCHOLL & BRO„ 
147 Reade Street, - • New York City - .. 
semi a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
-mission House in New York. Established! 
1838. Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultry, Hay, Apples, etc... 
E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St.. New York,, 
Sure Income For Life 
affected neither by trade conditions nor Increasing age 1 
Is offered to young men of good character by the 
United Slates Government. Thousands will soon bei 
appointed to the Railway Mail Service. Our students are 
getting quick appointments. You can too. If you take 
our correspondence course—Booklet 15 tells how—free- 
Wrlte for 11 today State age. height and weight. 
CENTRAL CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE 
Indianapolis, Indiana I. 
FREE LABOR OFFICE. 
Farm help supplied free of charge by the Labor 
Information Office for Italians, 59 Lafayette 
St., New York City. Send for elreulnraud application blank.. 
PATENT ToV INVENT!: 
Your Ideas May Bring You a Fortune I: 
$1,000,000 offered for One Invention 
FREE BOOK: gives list of inventions wanted; tells> 
liow to protect them. Write for it. 
Patent Obtained or Fee Returned 
No charge for report as to patentability; soadl 
sketch or model. Patents advertised for sale free.. 
WOODWARD 6 CHANDLEE, Attorneys, 
1252 F Street, Washington, I>..C, 
For Sale-Pretty Village Home 
Seven-room bouse, furnace, pump in kitehen. 1 3 4 >, 
acres of land, plenty of fruit, good neighborhood. 
Box 292, De ep River, Conn. 
ACRE FRUIT AND STOCK FARM; 4,000) 
fruit trees, new house, wire fence, plenty off 
springs, $3,000; half cash. D Hopkins, Imboden, Arfc. 
MICHIGAN FARMS. 
Stock, grain, fruit farms, selling cheaig. Good 
schools, ideal climate. Write for list No, 3. 
C. B. BENHAM. Hastings, Michigan. 
WANTED 
|—FARM FOR HOME, POULTRY 
AND FRUIT, 80 to 100 acres, run¬ 
ning water preferred; near good town and school, and 
near Boston and New York markets. JULIUS 
ROTH, 6038 LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill. 
FARMERS 
Rockland County, N. Y. borders the Hudson River 
and is close to the New York market; its soil is rich 
and well watered. A new trolley system is building 
throughout the county, Send for a list of paying 
farms that are steadily increasing in value. 
GOLDSMITH & POLHEMUS, Nyack, New York. . 
Cnp C.l C—A fine farm in central New York 
■ Un OMLL State, adjoining a thriving, grow¬ 
ing village between Syracuse and Utica, having fine i 
schools and churches; twelve factories, creamery, , 
milk shipping station, canning and pickling factories. 
Farm contains 250 acres; has 15 farm buildings; a 
large dairy: rich pastures; fine timber lot and best 
of water. Soil, deep and rich. Grows grain, hay,, 
canning crops, pickling crops, silage, onions and! 
celery. Located on prominent highway and close to> 
stations of three railroads and to markets. Beauti¬ 
ful landscape. Will divide or sell in a body at a: 
bargain to effect settlement between owners. Terms: 
easy. Write for particulars. MRS. SHERWOOD* 
MacCOLLOM, 556 West 173d St., New York City. 
ADDI tr TDCCTC nothing but A.rr»LE8 
MrrLE I li EL EL O Rogers on the hill, Dansviiic, n. y. 
DO YOU SHIP APPLES? 
If you do, ship them In the ,Yv i ’V York: 
or Canadian Bushel Box made Ivy 
South Side Mfg. Co., Petersburg, Va.> 
CLOSING OUT AUCTION SALE 
TUESDAY, October I, 1907, 
LOCUST VALLEY (Nassau Co.), L. I., N. Y. 
Of registered and grade Jersey Cattle, registered and grade Shropshire Sheep,, 
heavy draft horses, driving horses, combination saddle and driving horses, half- 
bred Arabian colts, carriages and harness. Also, graders, scrapers, machinery, 
wagons, implements and tools necessary to the carrying on of a large estate. 
The above animals and articles are in first-class condition, and the sale affords 
an unusual opportunity for securing desirable stock and good farming and 
agricultural implements. 
For catalogue, address, 
LEANDER F. HERRICK, Auctioneer, 
No. 405 Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 
Or, MALCOLM ROSS, Superintendent, 
Locust Valley (Nassau Co.), L. L, N. Y. 
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