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MarcH 30, 
THE RURAL'NEW-YORKER. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, March 30, 1907. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Big Tomato Crop.273, 274 
Greater Corn Yields. 274 
Double Cropping on I/ong Island. 275 
Nitrate of Soda on Corn. 276 
Crop Prospects. 278 
Oats, Peas and Grass. 290 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Records of Big Hen Flocks. 275 
Selling Mohair. 278 
Cloth Ventilation for Stables. 282 
Ration for Milch Cows. 282 
To Help Out Pasture. 282 
Sale of Holstelns. 282 
West Virginia Hens. 282 
Clean Dropping Boards. 282 
Care of Young Bull. 283 
Cow Refuses to "Give Down". 283 
Green Forage for Stock. 283 
Stomach Worms in Sheep.283 
Steer with Eye Trouble. 284 
Heating a Brooder. 284 
The “Average” of a Jersey Cow. 284 
What About a Sucking Cow?. 284 
Sweep Power and a Silo. 285 
Paralysis of Hens. 285 
The Identification of Cattle. 285 
Four Yolks in an Egg. 285 
HORTICULTURE. 
Spraying Melons to Prevent Blight. 274 
Starting Orchards in Stumps. 275 
Grafting Seedling Apples. 275 
Packing Plants for Shipments. 276 
Grapes in Hudson Valley. 276 
Chestnut Culture. 277 
Fumigating Nursery Stock. 277 
Farm Under Glass. 277 
Eastern Meeting of the N. Y. State Fruit 
Growers’ Association. 278 
Strawberry Culture. 279 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 280 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 288 
Covering for Chocolate Drops. 288 
Perennial Mixtures. 289 
The Rural Patterns. 289 
The Bookshelf. 289 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Advice About a Pipe. 274 
The Young People on the Farm. 274 
Destroying a Mold.276 
Building Cement at Intervals. 276 
Shingles Dipped in Tar. 278 
Editorials . 286 
Products, Prices and Trade. 290 
Publisher’s Desk. 291 
M A R K E T 8 
Prices current at N. Y. during week ending 
March 22, 1907, wholesale unless otherwise 
noted. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red. 83 >4 
No. 1, Northern Duluth. 91 
Corn . 55 
Oats . 50 
Rye . 70 
Barley . 74 
FEED. 
Spring bran. 24.00 
Middlings . 25.00 
Red Dog . 26.00 
Linseed meal. 29.00 
SEEDS. 
Retail prices at New York. At tbis season 
clovers, especially, are subject to sudden price 
changes. 
Clover, medium, red, 60 lbs. 12.50 
Clover, scarlet, 60 lbs. 6.00 
Clover, white, 60 lbs. 15.00 
Timothy, 45 lbs. 3.50 
Red Top, 32 lbs. 5.50 
Orchard Grass, 14 lbs. 3.00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Market very firm. 
Hav, No. 1.23.00 @24.00 
No. 2 .21.00 @22.00 
No. 3 . — @19.00 
Clover, mixed.16.00 (a 20.00 
Clover .15.00 @17.00 
Straw, long rye.12.00 @13.00 
Short and oat.10.00 @11.00 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.61 per 40-quart 
can, netting 314 cents to 26-cent zone ship¬ 
pers who have no extra station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best, lb. 
@ 
31 
Lower grades. 
@ 
28 
Storage . 
20 
@ 
28 
State Dairy. 
20 
@ 
26 
Factory . 
18 
@ 
21 
Packing stock. 
17 
@ 
20 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best. 
— 
@ 
15 
Common to good. 
12 
@ 
14 
Inferior . 
— 
@ 
11 
Skims . 
4 
@ 
8 
EGGS, 
White, fancy. 
21 
@ 
White, good to choice. 
19 
@ 
20 
Mixed colors, extra. 
18 
@ 
in 
Western and Southern. 
16 
@ 
18 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., fancy. 
814 
@ 
Evap., choice. 
7 
@ 
Evap., common to prime.. 
6 
@ 
@ 
6% 
Sun dried. 
6 
6'4 
Cherries . 
18 
@ 
18% 
Blackberries . 
13 
@ 
14 
Raspberries . 
30 
@ 
31 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, best, barrel.4.00 @5.00 
Common to good.2.00 @3.50 
Strawberries, quart. 35 @ 50 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bushel.1.50 @2.10 
Medium .».1.45 @1.50 
Pea . — @1.45 
Red kidney. — @2.25 
White kidney. — @2.85 
Yellow Eye. — @1.85 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, Bermuda, bbl.5.00 
Cuban .4.00 
Maine, 165-Tb sack.1.65 
State and Western, 180 lbs.. 1.50 
Sweet potatoes, barrel.2.00 
Asparagus, dozen.3.00 
Cabbage, old, ton.15-00 
New. barrel-crate .2.00 
Kale, barrel.......1-25 
@ 7.00 
@7.50 
@1.75 
@1.62 
@3.75 
@8.00 
@30.00 
@3.00 
@1.50 
Lettuce, % -barrel basket.1.00 @3.00 
Onions, white, barrel.4.00 @7.00 
Red .2.00 @3.00 
Yellow .2.00 @3.00 
Spinach, barrel.1-00 @2.00 
Tomatoes, Fla., 24-quart crate. 1.25 @3.00 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, No. 1, dozen.1.00 @1.25 
No. 2 . 50 @ 75 
Lettuce, dozen. 25 @ 50 
Mushrooms, lb. 15 @ 55 
Radishes, 100 bunches.2.00 @3.00 
Tomatoes, lb. 15 @ 25 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls, lb. -—• @ 17 
Roosters . 10 @ 12 
Turkeys . — @ 13 
Ducks . —• @ 17 
Geese . 10 @ 12 
Pigeons, pair. — @ 30 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 12 @ 15 
Fowls . 10 @ 15 
Chickens . 15 @ 22 
Squabs, dozen.2.00 @5.00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves . 9 @ 12 
Lambs, hothouse, head.6.00 @10.00 
Pork . 8%@ 9 5 / 2 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .4.90 @6.00 
Bulls .3.50 @4.40 
Cows .1.60 @4.25 
Calves .5.00 @9.50 
Sheep . — @5.00 
I.ainbs .6.00 @8.00 
Hogs . — @7.50 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Prices for ton lots. Smaller quantities 
proportionately higher. 
Nitrate of soda (95% pure), ton — @53.00 
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% phos. acid), 
Kainit. ton . — @14.00 
Acid phosphate, ton . — @14.00 
Ground bone. (4% am.. 20% 
phosphoric acid) . — @28.00 
Peruvian Guano, Chincha, ton. — @43.00 
Lobos . — @32.00 
FARM FORMULAS. 
Potato Scab. —Soak the seed before catting 
in a solution of one pint of formalin to 40 
gallons water. Dust with dry sulphur after 
cutting. 
Oat Smut.—P ut the sacked oats 20 min¬ 
utes in formalin solution, one pint to 50 
gallons water. 
Borpeaux Mixture. —Full strength : Four 
pounds copper sulphate, five of unslaked lime, 
40 gallons water. Half strength or less for 
tender foliage. To make Bordeaux an in¬ 
secticide add four ounces Paris-green to each 
40 gallons. 
Grafting Wax. —Hard : Melt slowly four 
pounds resin, one of beeswax and one pint 
pure linseed oil. Pull like molasses candy. 
Liquid wax: Melt one pound resin and one 
oumce beef tallow. Remove from the tire 
and add eight ounces alcohol. Keep in 
corked bottle. ___ 
dealer had a hard job to sell because they 
were not honestly packed. Usually 96 No. 1 
cucumbers fill a box. These boxes contained 
96 but would have held 120. The hothouse 
man will get only No. 2 price, and a reputa¬ 
tion for dishonest dealing which will make 
competition with southern cukes still harder 
for him. A man who is raising hothouse 
products or anything that appeals to a fancy 
trade needs friends, and there is nothing 
that “makes friends” with these buyers equal 
to good goods and honest measure. 
South African Fruit. —The shipments of 
plums, peaches and pears from the Cape of 
Good Hope district to New Y’ork have largely 
exceeded the business of previous years, and, 
what Is still more interesting, the quality 
of the fruit as received here is excellent. 
The peaches I have seen (Alexander) would 
compare favorably in aroma and flavor with 
home grown. The first shipment of pears 
(Bartlett) arrived the week ending March 9. 
There were 250 boxes running about 20 to 
the box, and sold to the retailers at $3 per 
box. A fair proportion of the fruits were 
sold at 25 cents each, though some retailers 
in expensive parts of the city have charged 
as much as $1. It would appear that the 
pear trade might be worked up to a greater 
extent than that of peaches or plums, the 
pears being less perishable than the other 
fruits. Of course, the price would have to 
come down to 10 or 15 cents each before 
much business could be done. w. w. n. 
Oats, Peas and Grass. 
IV. E. K., Fitchburg, Mass .—If you had a 
piece of land that had been planted with corn 
last season and you wished to seed it to 
oats to cut green in the milk and to get a 
good stand of clover and Timothy hay the 
following year, how would you do it? 
Ans. —In our case we would as soon 
as the ground was fit, sow five pecks of 
Canada field peas to the acre, and work 
them under with a small plow or a disk 
harrow. Then sow on the furrow's three 
bushels of oats and work them in with 
an Acme or tooth harrow. Use at least 
400 pounds of a good grain fertilizer per 
acre. Cut this crop while the little pods 
are soft and cure as you would clover 
hay. The peas will prove a good addition 
to the oats. After harvest we would 
plow the stubble or chop it up with a 
Cutaway or disk, and keep the surface 
thoroughly w'orked with surface tools. 
About September 1, depending upon the 
weather, sow at least 12 quarts of Tim¬ 
othy and six quarts of Red-top seed per 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Inferior Salt. — I recently saw four tubs 
of butter on which the maker will lose three 
or four cents per pound because of the qual¬ 
ity of salt used. The butter would nob have 
been fancy anyway but might have sold as 
“good” if that nasty fishy salt had not been 
used. Choice dairy salt Is hard to get in 
some localities, as the dealers get more 
profit from the poorer grades. But butter 
absorbs flavors and odors so readily that it 
is ruinous to use salt other than that which 
is as nearly pure as it can be made com¬ 
mercially. There are various chemical tests 
for purity but the following will be found 
sufficient for general use : Put a tablespoon¬ 
ful of salt in a pint of clean water; stir 
until thoroughly dissolved. Then let it stand 
an hour and look for sediment and discolora¬ 
tion of the water. There should be no gritty 
settlings at the bottom and almost no change 
in color of the water. But a still more im¬ 
portant test is to taste both the dry salt and 
a strong solution. Any flavor other than 
salt will thfln be readily noticed. Large 
quantities of farm dairy butter have been 
discounted in price and the farmer’s wife 
called a poor butter maker solely because 
she did not have salt fit for the purpose. 
More Kicks. —A man in Illinois sent two 
bags of hickorynuts to this city early in 
December of last year. They were not re¬ 
ceived by the commission man. He at once 
made a claim against the railroad company. 
acre with 500 more fertilizer. We shall 
tell more about this grass seeding in time. 
With us it pays better to seed to grass in 
the Kali rather than in a Spring crop. 
Deacon Clovertop: “How arc you 
gettin’ on with your incubator?” Farmer 
Mcdclergrass; “Why, the dern thing hain’t 
laid an egg since I got it.”—Philadelphia 
Record. 
Lecturer: “And what man is most apt 
to reach that elevation whence the earth 
may be viewed as one vast plain?” Smart 
Student: “The one that works in a gun¬ 
powder mill.”—Chums. 
Sympathetic Friend: “I am sorry 
to hear of your loss, Mrs. Flanagan.” 
Widow—“Loss! Sure, mum, don’t I git 
tin thousand dollars insurance and him 
niver worth thirty cents!”—Baltimore 
American. 
“See here. That horse you sold me 
runs away, kicks, bites, strikes and tries 
to tear down the stable at night. You 
told me that if I got him once I wouldn’t 
part with him for $1,000.” “Well, you 
won’t.”—Philadelphia Inquirer. 
About the middle of March they discovered 
the nuts in their freight house in this city 
and insisted on delivering them three months 
after they were sent. But the commission 
man said: “No, they would have sold well 
during the holidays but will bring almost 
nothing now." The shipper feels cranky and 
wants his pay. but can scarcely expect the 
commission man to pay him for goods that 
have not been received. In this case the 
railroad people are clearly responsible. They 
received the goods and through somebody’s 
carelessness they have been hidden away 
until unsalable. The only thing that will 
satisfy the owner of the nuts will be a 
check for their value three months ago. A 
private individual or concern that cared any¬ 
thing about Bs standing would settle the 
matter up in this way at once. 
Hothouse cucumbers are meeting bard com¬ 
petition with outdoor southern-grown stock. 
Under these circumstances it would seem 
ruluous for hothouse men to try to pass off 
seconds for firsts. Yet I saw a lot which the 
MAPES. THE EGG MAN. 
Consignments of Kggs wanted from country store- 
keetters and producers WINFIELD H. MAPES.son 
of MnpeR, the Hen Man, Commission Merchant, 671 
Hudson street, New York City. 
F OR FINE BREEDERS, RUNT and HOMER 
Pigeons, address L. JENSEN : Yantic. Conn. 
RIVERSIDE POULTRY FARM. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks, bred for six years from 
selected stock. Kegs, 76c for 15 $4.00 per hundred. 
F. R. PINKERTON, Pocomoke City,Md. 
00 Cf2f2Q <M —Reds, Rocks, Wyandottes, Leg- 
ZU LUUu Oli horns. Minorcas. AIsq,_Plgeons 
and Hares. 
Thirty varieties of Kggs. ListFree. 
A. L BKRGEY, Telford, Penn. 
• CPPC prr hen from my Barred Rocks In 1906. My 
Cl I CUUO REDS are equally pood layers. Cnsh with order. 
Ers:b, 76c. per 13 ; $2.25 per 60. W A. BUCK, Naples, N, Y. 
s. c. 
range. 
WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY. 
Healthy stock bred for heavy laying. Free 
Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15; $4 per hundred. 
D F. ARNOLD, Burlington Flats, N. 
GOLDEN ROD POULTRY YARD. S3 
Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale, 75c. setting of15: $4.00 
per hundred. Satisfaction guaranteed. HOWARD 
SUTTON, Fairmount, New Jersey. 
VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE. 
The farm formerly used as a Town Farm located 
near Pratts Junction in Town of Sterling. Mass., con¬ 
sisting of 154 acres of land divided into wood, mowing 
and pasture: two large orchards with all kinds of 
fruits. House of 26 rooms In good repair. Just the 
Mace for summer boarders. Located on high ground, 
> minutes walk to Electrics runn'ng between Fitch¬ 
burg and Worcester hourly, 15 minutes walk to Pratts 
Junction Station when; good train service Is furnished 
to all points. Fine buildinglots on line of Electric. 
Barn 80X 50 feet, shed and tool house in good repair. 
House and barn supplied with excellent never fall¬ 
ing water. Farm will keep 26 head of cattle and is 
a very desirable place for anyone looking for a good 
farm and pleasant ho re. Farm isospecially adapted 
to early vegetable growing. Per orner Selectmen of 
Sterling, Mass. Chas. F. Adams, Clerk, Post Office 
Address, Pratts Junction, Mass. 
Farm, Stock and Tools. 
80 Acres; 100 barrels Baldwins in season from 
good orchard; big wood lot; keep 10 cows; seven 
room house, barn 40x 40 and outbuildings; to get 
quick sale, four cows, 100 hens, wagons, farm 
machinery, &c., Included for only $1,450, with $<>00 
down; details and travelling instructions pago 6, 
farm No. 10.861, Strout’s list 18. Another splendid 
bargain In this big book of great bargains Is44,0.84, 
on page 34 It is a Delaware peach Farm of 105 
acres, new house and barn, 1,200 peach trees, keep 
8cows, good poultry house, main road, only H4 miles 
to depot village from which more fruit is shipped 
than any other town In Delaware. On account of 
other business, owner’s price cut to $4,200. “List 18” 
mailed FltEm. E. A.-STROUT CO., Dept. 42, 150 
Nassau 8t., New York. 
Buy Land Now Tennesse© 
I can toll you farms and plantations today in deep, rich 
toil sections of Tennessee at $5 to $‘Z0 an aero for cash, 
or, on easy terms. You can raise cotton, wheat, potatoes, 
hay, vegetables, or fine stock fast enough iu that fine, 
healthful climate to quickly pay for your land, which is 
advancing in value rapidly with the prosperity of the South. 
Write me today for facts and free booklets. H. F. SMITH, 
Traffic Mgr. N. C. & St. Louis Ry.,Nashville, Tenn. Dept.C*. 
$5to $20 an Acre & going up 
M ICHIGAN Fruit, stock, poultry and grain farms 
selling cheap; productive soil, nice climate. 
Write for list 8. Benham & Wilson, Hastings, Mich. 
Roantifnl Qtnok and water front farm 
UCuUIIIUI OlUlm for Sale, on the Eastern Shore 
of Maryland. For full particulars, address SAMUEL 
P. WOODCOCK, Salisbury, Wicomico County, Md. 
FOI? QA1 C—A good 20 aero farm planted with 
* UIY O/VLL berries, etc. Good buildings & water. 
Stock included. Allen Schoch, Hammonton, N. J, 
POP CAI p—Complete outht for Skimming Sta- 
I ”i\ oALC tion, excellent order, DeLaval Tur¬ 
bine 8eparntor, 3,000 pounds, 8 h. p. eng'ne, vats, 
scales. welgh-can,8ink, double pump. Babcock tester, 
Babcock cooler, valves, pipes, and all small necessary 
utensils. Bargain. For particulars address 
WESTPORT CREAMERY, Westport, N, Y. 
llfanlarl-Will give married man house rent, fire 
TT dillCU woo d, half of wliat he produces from the 
land How much do you want a month besides this? 
Good chance. Inquire, 0. A. Spinney, Thompson,Ct. 
W ANTED-Man to work on farm; good habits; 
good milker and teamster. Give references and state 
wages. Win.Robinson,Terryvilie,Litchfield Co.,Conn. 
upi o for farms, dairies and factories fue 
nCLr nished. Mail Ogders a Specialty. 
Immigrant Labor Exchange, Inc., 2 Carlisle St., N. Y. 
ni r * or send a trial shipment to the Oldest, Com- 
rLCrtOL 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 & CO., 
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 t ‘Jtli St.. New York. 
WANTED 
Dressed Lambs, Calves, Poultry, Hot¬ 
house Products, Fruits, Vegetables. 'Pop 
prices for choice products. Write us 
what you have to sell. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., ICO Murray St., N. Y. 
“Perfect” Incubator 
60 Egg Incubators 
120 
. $4.00 
6.45 
240 " - • • • • 9.25 
The safe way to buy anincuhatorison 
trial. That’s the way the “Perfect" is 
fold. Ilrooders at equally low prices. 
Write for 200-page free book. 
The United Factories Company, Dept. X31 Clorelud. 
pucioiUTO_Pheasant breeding pays 1,000 percent, better than 
rncHOHIIIO Cliiekeoe. Most beautiful birds. Easily raised. 
Also qunil, Swsns, Peacocks, Wild Turkeys. Zoological stock, 
itantains, standard poultry 90c. setting. Catalogue, 100 pages, 
200 illustrations, colored pictures, exchanges. How to breed 
Pheasants, 20c. N. WICKS, Arlington, N. T. 
BRONZE GOBBLERS, g£. 
O. QUIGLEY, Box 266, Goshen, New York. 
A U A s- Large, hardy, snow-white, heavy 
UllBO layers. Eggs.$1.50Iper 15. Incubator 
I per 100. U. G. CLARK, Tylerville, Conn. 
ingle Comb Rhode Island Reds ■ ougiibreds.care- 
illy mated. Eggs 10(f- each. W. R. FISHER, Mem- 
ar R. I. Red Club, Swiftwater, Monroe Co., Peuu. 
w 
.HITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS,Fishel strain,eggs 
•from tested layers, $1.50 per 15; $5.00 per 100. Large 
rders filled promptly. Isaac C. Clark,Penn Yan.N.Y. 
and BROWN 
age. Eggs, 15, 
- o o.. 
NELSON’S BARRED ROCKS » 
LEGHORNS lay at 131 days of 
$1.00. Stock bred 23 years. Nelson’s, Grove City, Pa. 
White Plymouth Rock Eggs ^.^’^per 
100. No circular, order from this ad. 
STONYCROFT FARMS. Box 368, Rome, N. Y. 
Choice S. C. Brown Leghorn Eggs, 
$1.50 per 13. C. S. COOK, Jr., West Newton, Mass. 
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds'^ln^KS! 
Try a few settings and be convinced and raise some 
prize winners besides. Eggs from prize winning stock 
and satisfaction guaranteed. Eggs, $1.00 per setting 
of 15. J. F KELLOGG, Avon, N. Y. 
FOR SALE. 
Ducks. 
EGGS for hatching from thorough¬ 
bred White Wyandottes and M. Pekin 
Pri'-es right. Descriptive circular free. 
E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, N. Y. 
