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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 18, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, May 18, 190?. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Silo of Concrete Blocks.409, 410 
Great Corn Crops In New England.... 410 
Use of Raw Phosphate “Floats”. 410 
A Rake for Stones.412 
Value of Acetylene Waste. 413 
Storing Mangels Over Winter. 413 
Hope Farm Notes. 415 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Method of Feeding Calves. 422 
The Sucking Cow . 422 
Prepotency of Animals. 423 
Buying Footsore Horses.423 
Feeding for Large Eggs.423 
HORTICULTURE. 
Training an Old Grape. 410 
Can We Hold Fruit Buds Back?.410 
Mulching Crop with Strawberries.412 
A Talk About Rhubarb .412 
'Phe Mulch System . 412 
Grape Note . 412 
Notes on Dahlia Culture.413 
A Rose Garden . 413 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 414 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 418 
How I Would Run a Farm. 418 
Peanut Butter . 418 
The Rural Patterns . 419 
Canning Vegetables . 419 
The Bookshelf . 419 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Digging Post Holes by Steam. 411 
Disposal of Farm Sewage . 411 
A Douse of Concrete . 411 
Editorials. 41(1 
Events of the Week. 417 
Iowa Farm Notes . 417 
Gov. Hughes and Insurance Grafters.... 417 
Crop Notes. 417 
Products, Prices and Trade. 420 
Publisher’s Desk . 421 
Humorous.424 
MARKETS 
Prices current at N. Y. during week ending 
May 10, 1907, wholesale unless otherwise 
noted. 
Wheat, No. 2, red. — @90% 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth.... — @1.00% 
Corn. — @ 59% 
Oats. — @ 48 
FEED. 
Spring Bran . 
Middlings. 
Red Dog . 
Linseed meal . 
22.75 @23.15 
24.00@25.75 
— @26.00 
— @29.00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hav, No. 1 .23.00 
No. 2 .21.00 
No. 3 .18.00 
Clover Mixed . 17.00 
Clover.15.00 
Straw, Long Rye .11.00 
Short ana Oat . — 
@23.50 
@22.00 
@ 20.00 
@21.00 
@17.00 
@ 12.00 
@ 9.00 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.51 per 40-quart 
can, netting three cents to 20-ceut zone ship¬ 
pers who have no extra station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best . 
Lower grades . 
State Dairy . 
Factory. . ’. 
Packing stock . 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best . 
Fair to good .. 
Part Skims . 
— 
@ 
27% 
22 
@ 
26 
20 
@ 
26 
19 
@ 
22 
18 
@ 
21 
@ 
15 
12 
@ 
14% 
6% 
@ 
8% 
EGG Si 
Fancy white . 
White, good to choice. 
Mixed colors, extra. 
Western and Southern . 
— @ 21 
19% @ 20 
19 % @ 20 
16% @ 18 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap, best. 
Evap., fair to good. 
Sun-dried. 
Cherries. 
Raspberries. 
8 @ 8% 
5%@ 7% 
5 @ 0 
18 @ 18% 
30 @ 31 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, best ...5.00 
Common to good..2.00 
Strawberries. 4 
@5.50 
@4.50 
@ 30 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bu.1.50 
Pea. — 
Red Kidney . — 
White Kidney . — 
Yellow Eye . — 
@ 1.95 
@1.55 
@2.20 
@2.75 
@1.75 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, Bermuda, bbl.3.50 
Florida, new .3.00 
Maine, 168-lb. sack. — 
State and W’n. 180 lbs....2.00 
Sweet potatoes, bbl.1.50 
Asparagus, doz.2.00 
Cabbage, old, ton.9.00 
New. bbl.1.00 
Kale, bbl.1.00 
Lettuce, %-bbl. bkt. 75 
Green peas, bu.1.00 
String beans, bu.1.75 
Spinach, bbl.1.75 
Tomatoes, 24-qt. carrier.1.25 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, doz. 40 
Lettuce, doz. 50 
Mushrooms, lb. 20 
Radishes, 100 bunches.1.50 
Tomatoes, lb. .. .. 10 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Spring chickens, lb. 20 
Fowls. — 
Roosters. — 
Turkeys. — 
Ducks. — 
Geese. 8 
Pigeons, pair. — 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys. 12 
Chickens, fancy broilers, lb.. 37 
Roosters. 15 
Fowls. 10 
Ducks. Spring . 18 
Squabs, doz. . . . ..2.00 
@6.00 
@4.75 
@2.25 
@2.12 
@4.00 
@5.00 
(a 12.00 
@2.25 
@1.25 
@ 1.50 
@4.00 
@3.50 
@2.50 
@2.00 
@1.00 
@ 1.00 
@ 65 
@2.00 
@ 20 
@ 28 
@ 15 
@ 10 
@ 11 
@ 13 
@ 10 
@ 30 
@ 14 
@ 40 
@ 20 
@ 14 
@ 20 
@4.00 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves. 6 @ 10 
Lambs, hothouse, head.3.00 @7.00 
Pork. 8%@ 9% 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers.4.00 
Bulls.3.50 
Cows.2.30 
Calves.5.00 
Lambs.7.00 
Hogs. — 
WOOL. 
Unwashed, Delaine . 26 
Ohio, XX . 33 
Mohair. 25 
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), 2,010 lbs. — 
Dried blood (14% ammonia), 
ton. — 
Basic slag (17-19% pbos. acid). 
ton.17.50 
Kalnit, ton. — 
Acid phosphate, ton . 
Ground bone. (4% am., 20% 
phosphoric acid) . — 
Peruvian Guano, Chincha, ton. •— 
Lobos. — 
@6.15 
@4.70 
(a 4.30 
@6.00 
@7.75 
@7.00 
@ 80 
@ 34 
@ 27 
quantities 
@■53.00 
@41.85 
@48.15 
@51.00 
@19.00 
@14.00 
@14.00 
@28.00 
@43.00 
@32.00 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Buttek. —The market Is' firmer than last 
week, partly owing to the freight handler’s 
strike, which has prevented deliveries, and 
partly to the continued cold weather, which 
makes pasture late. The lower grades and 
storage have been cleared out very well tills 
week. 
A Real Rtiuke. —The truck drivers’ strike 
referred to last week was the result of mis¬ 
understanding and ofliciousness on the part of 
a walking delegate. It was soon settled, al¬ 
though half a day’s business was spoiled 
meanwhile. But a more serious affair is the 
longshoremen’s strike, now on. which is tying 
up work on the railroad and steamship docks. 
About 10.000 men quit work, freight is pll 
ing up and several steamers are unable to 
leave on time, or are taking short cargoes. 
The longshoremen’s union lias made a general 
demand of 40 cents per hour for day work 
and 60 cents for nights and Sundays. In the 
more important work they have been getting 
30 cents for regular hours. 40 for overtime 
and 60 for Sunday. Some are now demand¬ 
ing 80 cents per hour for Sunday work. The 
stevedore business is hard work and, in a 
way, comes within" the pale of skilled labor, 
the skill lieing the ability to handle all sorts 
of packages quickly and work close together 
without getting in one another’s way. 
Fruits. —There is still a fair supply of the 
better kinds of apples which sell at .$5 up; 
common sorts down as low as $2. The straw¬ 
berry and southern produce business has been 
in bad condition on account of the freight 
handlers’ strike. As has heen explained pre¬ 
viously, much of this stuff is sold from the 
docks on the New York side, the cars being 
lightered across the river and unloaded by the 
dock employees. The strike upset this and 
the dealers to whom the produce is con¬ 
signed have had to send their trucks to the 
Jersey City railroad yards and unload it 
themselves. The difficulty about this is that 
few dealers have room in their stores for 
handling the produce. The great southern 
carload business in this market has been built 
up on the basis of selling the stuff quickly 
on the dock and making deliveries from there. 
In this way dealers can handle 10 times the 
amount that could lie run through their 
stores. Orange trade is very active. The 
large California navels are at their best, and 
some of the finest are retailing eight for 
25 cents. 
Keep It Quiet. —Two men sitting near me 
on a train recently had an interesting argu¬ 
ment. One was evidently a clerk in a New 
York branch of one of Ihe great meat pack¬ 
ing houses. The other started the argument 
by saying: “The fellow who wrote the book 
that stirred up all that row (The Jungle) 
was in my office (a stock brokerage place), 
to-day.” “I would Jike to hit him,” said the 
other. “Why, a man has a right to express 
his opinion, hasn’t he?” 
“Yet, but he hurt business. He exagger¬ 
ated and said things that were not decent.” 
“Well, it wasn't an appetizing subject.” 
The packing house clerk felt sore, but be 
was mistaken in his analysis. What made 
him and his employer mad was not the ex¬ 
aggeration in “The Jungle,” but the bits of 
truth that the book contained. Men are mad¬ 
dest at being called uncomplimentary names 
when they know that the names fit them. 
This young man admitted that there were 
things in the meat business that needed to be 
remedied, but it ought to be done quietly and 
no splurge made about it. This method of 
reform would be ideal, provided it were quick¬ 
ly and thoroughly carried out. But manufac¬ 
turers of food products became so blindly 
brazen in the use of preservatives and adul¬ 
terants that nothing but a club and public 
branding could bring them to their senses. 
w. w. H. 
“Did Bulger say anything unkind of me 
when he visited you?” “Yes,” said the 
Boston girl, “I’m sorry, but he did. He 
called you an epidermis.”—Judge. 
SWEET CLOVER NOTE. 
Oij. page 338 there Is inquiry about Sweet 
clover; it is considered a weed here, taking 
possession of the roads, but it is very little 
trouble in cultivated fields, as it is nearly 
as easy to exterminate by cultivation as Red 
clover, unless you have some low-lying land 
where the seed is washed on from higher 
ground not cultivated. It is a very prolific 
seeder, more so than any other clover I know 
of, and I should not wonder if under favor¬ 
able conditions it would yield 20 bushels of 
seed to the acre. I>ast year I made some 
hay from a low-lying piece of ground of 
less than an acre in Sweet clover; I had 
sown the strip in Timothy the year before, 
but as the seed of the clover was washed 
on it from higher ground, the clover choked 
the Timothy, and so I went and cut it for 
hay. It made about three loads, but it is 
very difficult to cure, as the stems persist 
in staying sappy for days after the leaves 
crumble off when you touch it. It has to 
be made young or it will bo so hard that 
horses cannot eat it, let alone cows. I fed 
it to horses and they seemed to relish It: 
cows also like it green in pasture as long 
as it is young, say not more than a foot 
high; but they have to become used to it, as 
some cows will not touch it at first. Most 
cows Jike it as hay at first trial. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
S. Cooper 6 Son’s ANNUAL SALE of about 
100 Head of Imported 
JERSEY CATTLE 
-WILL TAKE PLACE- 
THURSDAY, MAY 30th, 1907. (Decoration Day) 
* 
Among tlie number to be sold will be the Gold, the Silver and the Bronze Medal Winners 
in the Public Butter Tests on the Island, also other butter test winners, as well as First Prize, 
and Champion Winners over the Island. 
All ages and sexes will be sold, and as a whole it is the most sensational importation that 
we have ever offered for sale. Great bargains can be expected for the purchasers of heifer 
calves as well as bulls. 
Mention Rural New-Yorker and send for Catalogue, that alone "1'ells the Tale." 
Address. T. s> COOPER & SONS, 
“Linden Grove,” Coopersburg, Lehigh Co., Pa. 
