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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, April 27, 1907. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Returns from an. Iowa Farm. 
Fighting Squash Insects. 
The Harlequin Cabbage Rug. 
Hope Farm Notes . 
Selecting Seed Potatoes. 
Connecticut Agricultural Education 
LIVE STOCK. 
Footing It witli Jersey Cows. . 
Turkeys and Their Raising. 
Madison Co., N. Y., Dairies. 
Scours in Calves. 
Hens in Close Quarters. 
Cure for Sucking Cow. 
Human Nature of the Hog.... 
Ailing Sliotes. 
Another Sheep Talk. 
Butter Fat and Butter. 
358 
359 
360 
363 
365 
365 
.357, 
HORTICULTURE, 
and Pruning Raspbei 
Trees,. 
ies. 
Growing 
Part III. 
Scale on Fruit; Dipping 
Earliana Tomatoes in Ohio. 
A Woman’s Suggestion. 
Dust Spray on Grapes and Apples. 
Testing Fruit Varieties. 
Planting a Rare Grapevine. 
Asparagus Questions; Pot-grown Straw 
berries .. 
Orchard Questions from Massachusetts. 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 
Some Damage to Fruit. 
Fruit Prospects . 
That Hillside Vineyard. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
Advice About Canned Tomatoes. 
Flower Notes. 
The Rural Patterns . 
The Bookshelf . 
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360 
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360 
.360 
370 
370 
371 
371 
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367 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Drag the Muddy Roads. 
Editorials . 
Products, Trices and Trade. 
Wind-break . 
Publisher’s Desk ... 
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369 
M A RKBTS 
Prices current at N. Y. during week end¬ 
ing April 19, 1907, wholesale unless other¬ 
wise noted. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red, for export- 
No. 1 , Northern Duluth. 
Corn. . 
Oats . 
Rye ... 
84% 
01 % 
56 
48 
68 
FEED. 
Spring bran. 
Middlings . 
Red Dog. 
Linseed lineal. 
21.50 
22.00 
@22.50 
@23.00 
@24.60 
@29.00 
HAY 
Hay, prime .... 
No. 1 . 
AND STRAW. 
No 3 . 
.16.119 
Clover mixed.. 
.16.09 
.14.00 
il* l | „ _ 
Short and oat. 
. 10.00 
@23.00 
(a 22.00 
@21.00 
@18.00 
@20.00 
@ 1 7.00 
(a 12.00 
(a 11.00 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.61 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3*4 cents to 26-cent zone ship¬ 
pers who have no extra station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best. — @ 31 
Lower grades. 2- @ 28 
State Dairy . 21 @ 27 
Factory . 5 8 @ 21 k 
Packing Stock. 16 @ -0 
CIIEESE. 
Full cream, best. — @ 15 
Common to good. 12 @ 14 
Skims . -1 @ 8 
EGGS. 
Fancy, white... — @ 20 
White, good to choice. 19 @ 19 !4 
Mixed colors, best. — @ J" 
Lower grades..... lo @ 1* 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., fancy, lb. — @ 8 
Evap., choice . ——' @ 7 
Evap., fair to good. 5.*4@ 6% 
Sun dried . /> @ « . 
Cherries . 18 @ 18% 
Raspberries . 30 @ 31 
Blackberries . 13 @ 14 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, best. —r 
Common to good.2.50 @4..»0 
Strawberries, quart. 15 @ 30 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, dozen. 50 @ 75 
Lettuce, dozen. 60 @1.2.i 
Mushrooms, lb.@65 
Radishes, 100 bunches.3.00 @7.00 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, Bermuda and Cuban.5.00 @7.50 
Florida, new .4.00 @6.50 
Old stock, 180 lbs.1.40 @1.60 
Sweet potatoes, barrel.2.00 @4.00 
Asparagus, dozen.3.00 @<->0 
Cabbage, old, ton.4.00 @8.00 
New, barrel.1.50 @2.00 
Kale, barrel. 75 @1.00 
Lettuce, %-bbl. basket.LOO @3.00 
Onions, barrel .100 @2.25 
Peas, bushel basket.1.25 @2.7-> 
String beans, bushel.2.00 @5.00 
Tomatoes, 24-quart carrier... 1.00 @3.00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls, lb. — @ 10 
Roosters .. 10 @ 1 ~ 
Turkeys . — @ 11 
Ducks . — @ 13 
Geese . 8 @ 10 
Pigeons, pair. — @ 30 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 10 @ 14 
Fowls . 10 @ 14 % 
Chickens, broilers. 18 @25 
Roasters . 14 @ 20 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers ....•• .4.65 @6.;>0 
Bulls .3.75 @4.80 
Cows .2.25 @4.40 
Calves ..4.00 @8.25 
Sheep .4.00 @5.00 
Lambs .8.00 @9.25 
Hogs . — @7.40 
WOOL. 
O. and Pa. Delaine, unwashed — @ 30 
Michigan, fine, unwashed. 24 @ 28 
Ohio and Pennsylvania XX. .. — @34 
FARM FORMULAS. 
Potato Scab. —Soak the seed before cutting 
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. 
Bordeaux Mixture. —Full strength ; Four 
pounds copper sulphate, five of unslaked lime, 
40 gallons 1 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 
ounce beef tallow. Remove from the fire 
and add eight ounces alcohol. Keep in 
corked bottle. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Peanut Farms.—A St. Louis peanut deal¬ 
er is s'aid to be about to plant 300 acres to 
this cron in Texas. Great quantities of 
peanuts are used in candy and bakery goods. 
Frost Damage. —The last cold snap was 
very severe in the fruit and trucking dis¬ 
tricts of the South. In parts of Georgia 
six degrees of frost were reported, Injuring 
cotton, peaches and vegetables. As far 
north as Virginia, peach, cherry and pear 
blossoms were killed; apples escaped. Some 
of the heaviest losers will be the straw¬ 
berry growers in districts where the plants 
were in heavy bloom. 
Potatoes. —The market Is very weak, and 
prices lower. This does not apply to seed 
stock which in tills city sells at $2 to $2.50 
for fair to good and as high as $4.50 for 
extra selected from seedsmen. Ordinary 
Irish Cobbler sells at $2.50, and the demand 
is heavy for this good quality large yielding 
early potato. It has a way of hustling along 
and turning out a crop of good-sized tubers 
that makes the grower feel like planting it 
again. 
Trade With Germany. —It Is good news 
that that threatened tariff war with Germany 
is apparently about to be buttered over, at 
least for a year. The Administration is 
anxious to avoid a break with Germany, and 
it is said that a temporary understanding 
has been patched up between Secretary Root 
and the German ambassador to continue the 
present arrangement until Congress has had 
another chance to think it over. In the 
meantime it will be a good plan for the 
apple Interests in particular to set the think¬ 
ing machinery of Congress in motion. It is 
safe to say that Congress will not do any¬ 
thing toward the reciprocity Germany insists 
upon until the emphatic demands of a large 
number of their constituents penetrate their 
understandings, Germany can use a large 
quantity of our apples, both fresh and dried, 
and there is no sense in. our putting a 
barrier in the way of this trade. Germany 
has already come half way. 
Heavy Customs. —Average daily receipts 
at this port thus far during the year 
beginning July 1 exceed last year’s daily 
average by more than $70,000. At this 
rate the present fiscal year will be by far 
the heaviest one at the port of New York. 
This heavy business has caused exasperating 
delays to importers. The appraisers’ ware¬ 
houses are badly crowded, but some of the 
complaints point to a lack of common sense 
In management. One recent case concerned 
several shipments of perishable plants which 
were actually held 13 days before examina¬ 
tion and release. This comes near being 
a prohibition of such importations, but I am 
told of something even worse. A shipment 
of plants from France, by express, was 30 
days getting through the Custom House. It 
was then forwarded by error to a point in 
New York State; held there 20 days, and 
then sent to the right address in Kentucky. 
Of course the plants were ruined long be¬ 
fore they got there, but it happened that 
the man who received them was a lawyer, 
lie at once sued the express company and 
collated full value for the plants and costs. 
w. w. H. 
MADISON COUNTY , N. Y. DAIRIES. 
This is a dairy country, and the farmers 
about here depend almost entirely on the 
cow for a living and profits. For years their 
only dairy products have been butter and 
cheese and the bulk of the farm labor came 
in the Summer months, when the milk was 
turned into butter or cheese at the home¬ 
stead or at the factory or co-operative 
creamery. At the present time, the demand 
for a milk supply from the populated cities 
of the State takes up most of the flow of the 
Summer and all that the farmers can make 
in the Winter even under forced conditions, 
so conditions have changed in the past few 
years. Under the old methods the milk 
supply depended upon the pasture supply, and 
no other feeding was thought necessary. 
Now the Winter milk pays much better 
than the Summer supply, so that the flow 
and thereby the profits of Winter months 
depend almost entirely on the feeding and 
care given individual cows. This condition 
of affairs has brought about a great change 
in the methods of dairy work. Good feed¬ 
ing and extra care count for extra milk 
supply from the same number of cows. Silos 
for Winter feeding with ground grain and 
meal for a well-balanced ration and the study 
of profitable feeding has made of the dairy 
farmer a great hustler for profits. He ndw 
takes great pride in his dairy, giving them 
warm and clean housing with much extra 
care for their daily comfort. The outcome is 
that in the same neighborhood a great diver¬ 
sity of results appear. One farmer can show 
big returns from his dairy, while a near 
neighbor has but a small part of the amount 
to his credit, number one brags of his suc¬ 
cess while number two claims that had he 
naid out as much for feed as number one 
he too could have shown equal results. For 
example we have neighbor A, who has 10 
cows, graded and picked, can show returns 
from the creamery of $85 per cow ; this was 
brought about by extra care and high and 
careful feeding. Now neighbor B can only 
show a credit of $35 per cow of a dairy of 
10 cows, not any care in grading and selec¬ 
tion and no extra food to produce extra 
milk for profits, but following the old meth¬ 
ods of farming. This condition prevails 
where 15 or 20 years ago all dairy returns 
were about the same for every farmer. Now 
some double or treble their income from the 
same number of cows. w. B. 
Madison Countj, N. Y. 
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VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE. 
The farm formerly used as a Town Farm located 
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DELAWARE STRAWBERRY FARM 
$1000 worth of strawberries were sold last year. 
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