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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 1, 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker., June 1, 1907. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Hiding: the Ugly Places.441 
No Sport Over This Game.441, 442 
Work on an Iowa Farm.442 
Yellow Trefoil as a Forage Crop.442 
Trouble with Hursting Cabbage.443 
Salt on Silage.444 
Use of Kainlt. 444 
Soot for Fertilizing . 444 
Successful California Alfalfa.445 
Hope Farm Notes.447 
Crop Notes . 449 
Baling Hay .449 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Young Stock at Sunrise Farm. 443 
Plain Facts About That Cattle Case.... 449 
Questions About Angora Goats.454 
Eye Diseases of Horses. 454 
Ser ous Cyst in Knee. 455 
Experience In Soiling Cattle. 455 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Spring chickens, lb. — @ 30 
Fowls'. — @ 15 
Roosters . — @ 10 
Turkeys . — @ 14 
Duks, spring . •— <8? 21 
Pigeons, pair . — @ 30 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 12 @ 14 
Chickens, broilers, lb. 30 @ 45 
Fowls . 11 (ft) 15 
Ducks, spring. 18 @ 20 
Squabs, doz.1.75 @4.50 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Veal calves. 8 @ 11 
Lambs, hothouse, head.3.00 @7.00 
Pork . 8%@ 9% 
Steers .5.30 @6.00 
Bulls .3.50 @4.70 
Cows --..2.10 @4.25 
Calves .5.30 @8.00 
Sheep .3.50 @4.75 
Lambs .7.75 @8.75 
HORTICULTURE. 
Facts About the Kieffer Pear. . . . 
Questions About a Maine Orchard 
Fertilizing a Young Orchard.... 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. . 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
Ohio Flower Notes. 
Plant Notes . 
The Rural Patterns . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Coal Tar on Shingles . 
Don’t Use Lead Pipe. 
Oil and Iron for Shingles. 
Remember Wadsworth . 
The Pictures . 
A Substitute Rural Mail Carrier. . 
Concrete for Well Curbing. 
Maple Is Not Wood. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Markets . 
Products. Prices and Trade. 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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MARKETS 
Prices current at N. Y. during week ending 
May 24, 1907, wholesale unless otherwise 
noted. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2. red. — @1.05 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth.... — @1.15 
Corn. — @ 61 
Oats. ■— @ 50 
Rye. — @ 82 
FEED. 
Spring Bran.22.50 @23.50 
Middlings.24.00 @26.00 
Red Dog . — @27.50 
Ilomiuy chop. — @22.50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. primp, large bales.. . 
No. 1 . 
No. 2 . 
@24.00 
@23.00 
@22.00 
No. 3 . 
... 18.00 
@20.00 
@21.00 
@18.00 
Clover mixed . 
. . . 20.00 
. . .15.00 
Straw, Long Rye. 
ty 13.ou 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price reduced one-fourtli 
cent to $1.41 per 40-quart can, netting 2 : vj 
cents to 26-cent zone shippers who have no 
extra station charges. 
BUTTER. 
v nsHucr,y, .. x 
Lower grades . 19 @ 23 
State Dairy, best . — @ 24 
l/ower grades . 18 @ 23 
Factory.1. 18 @ 21 
Packing stock. 15 @ 18 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best. — @ 12% 
Common to good. 11 @ 12 % 
Inferior. 8 @ 10 
Part skins . 5 @ 7 
EGGS. 
Fancy white . —@ 19 
White, good to choice. 18 @ 18% 
Mixed colors, best. — @ 18 
Western and Southern. 15 @ 17 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., fancy. — @ 8% 
Common to good. 5 % @ 7 % 
Cherries . 18 @ 18% 
Raspberries. 30 @ 31 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, best . — @6.00 
Fair to good.2.50 <ft>5.00 
Peaches, Florida, carrier.2.00 @3.50 
Strawberries, qt. 7 @ 12 
Muskmelons, Fla., crate.1.50 @2.50 
Oranges, Calif., box.2.75 @5.00 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, Bermuda, bbl.4.00 @6.50 
Southern, new .3.00 @5.50 
Northern, old, 180-lbs.2.00 @2.50 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl.2.50 @4.00 
Asparagus, doz.1.50 @3.00 
Cucumbers, bu.1.50 @3.00 
Cabbage, new, bbl. crate.2.25 @3.00 
Corn, Southern. 100.2.50 @4.00 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl.4.00 @6.00 
Kale, bbl. 75 @1.00 
Lettuce, bu. bkt.1.00 @1.75 
Onions, bu.1.50 @2.00 
Peppers, carrier .100 @2.50 
Parsley, bbl.7.00 @10.00 
Green peas, l>u.1.00 @2.75 
String beans, bu.1.00 @5.00 
Spinach, bbl.1.25 @2.00 
Tomatoes, carrier .1.00 @3.50 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, doz. 40 @ 90 
Lettuce, doz. 50 @ 75 
Mushrooms, lb. 25 @ 65 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bu.1.80 
Pea. — 
Red Kidney . — 
White Kidney. — 
Yellow Eye. — 
@ 2.20 
@1.75 
@2.40 
@2.75 
@1.75 
WOOL. 
Ohio and Pa. fine unwashed. 25 @ 26 
Michigan and Wisconsin. — @ 24 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE. 
Fruits. —Maryland and Eastern Shore 
strawberries are arriving, and the quality of 
the receipts as a whole is improving. The 
results from the Carolina crop have been 
disappointing both to grower and seller. 
Florida peaches in small quantities are on 
hand, wholesaling at about $3 per crate; 
varieties mainly Alexander and Honey. Old 
apples are working out at slightly increased 
prices. 
Butter Quotations. —The N. Y. Mer¬ 
cantile Exchange is an association composed 
of butter, cheese and egg dealers. Its pur¬ 
pose is to facilitate trade. Meetings are 
held in the exchange building, Hudson and 
Harrison streets, every business day, at¬ 
tended quite largely by buyers, sellers and 
others interested. In some respects this 
Mercantile Exchange bears the same relation 
to butter dealers that the Stock Exchange 
does to dealers in stocks and bonds. A 
feature of the day’s business is the report 
of the butter quotations committee, who 
before any buying and selling is done give 
the figures which are to be considered the 
“official’’ quotations for the day. It is 
aimed that this committee be composed of 
men of good judgment with years of experi¬ 
ence in butter trade. They are supposed 
to consider the whole situation and name 
figures which shall as nearly as possible 
represent the actual value of butter. It is 
believed, however, that the prices given are 
habitually too low. The exchange has a 
rule which states in effect that the quota¬ 
tions shall represent the actual current of 
trade. That is, if “extras” are quoted at 
24 cents the wholesale buyer should be 
able to get this grade of butter on the mar¬ 
ket at this price. But it is well known that 
as a rule he has to pay from one to two 
cents per pound more. A butter house in 
this city has sued the exchange, claiming 
loss as a result of this continued misrep¬ 
resentation, and the matter is now being 
thrashed out in the courts. The testimony 
has shown that practically all butter deal¬ 
ers consider the “official” quotations regu¬ 
larly too low, and that the bulk of business 
is done with this understanding. Some of 
the dealers say that the misquotation does 
not hurt their business any, because “every¬ 
body knows it and makes due allowance.” 
The defense in this suit states that the 
price may not as a rule correspond with the 
actual current of trade, but that no decep¬ 
tion is intended, and that the quotations com¬ 
mittee does not play into the hands of any 
of the dealers, as has been asserted. 
A butter quotation below actual value can 
be made of service to the buyer at first hand. 
He can say to the creameryman or producer, 
I want your butter and will give -, 
which is a half cent (or more- above the 
“official” quotation, and this argument has 
weight, even though the producer is some¬ 
what familiar with the actual conditions. As 
was Intimated on page 404, strict compliance 
with the Golden Rule is not a strong point 
with the speculators, either those dealing 
in financial paper or butter, and unlimited 
secret cold storage gives the butter man op¬ 
portunities for price manipulation about equal 
to those enjoyed by the money kings. This 
squabble among New l T ork butter dealers has 
thus far worked along the line of personali¬ 
ties rather than principles to such an ex¬ 
tent that the public has taken but little in¬ 
terest in it, being content to let them fight 
it out among themselves. In the writer's 
opinion the exchange discredits and hence in¬ 
jures Itself more than any individual dealer, 
by wilfully giving out an untrue quotation. 
Some may be deceived by It, but they are 
few, and practically every newspaper publish¬ 
ing butter quotations revises the “official” fig¬ 
ures in accordance with the observation of its 
own reporters in store to store trading. 
_ w. w. H. 
“The State Legislature,” said the pa¬ 
triot, “is the nursery of political great¬ 
ness.” “Yes,” answered the expert in 
horticulture; “but don’t you think that in 
some nurseries they pay too much atten¬ 
tion to grafting?”—'Washington Star. 
Chemicals with Hen Manure. 
G. It. Bridgewater, Mass .—I am working 
info quite a flock of fowls, and have con¬ 
siderable hen manure. I have usually put 
my wood ashes with it and used it on corn 
for the hens. I have tried to use it the 
same day I mixed it in order to save the 
ammonia. I have tried two barrels of hen 
manure to one of ashes, and also one of each, 
but am aware it is not a well-balanced plant 
food. I wish to mix some phosphoric acid 
with it, but do not know what would be a 
good mixture. Can you help me? 
Ans.— Fine ground bone would be 
good to mix with the manure. We 
would weigh a barrel of the wood ashes 
and use an equal number of pounds of 
ground bone. We do not advise acid 
phosphate with the wood ashes, as the 
lime in the ashes would cause the phos¬ 
phoric acid to “revert” or become less 
soluble. As for mixing ashes and hen 
manure, there would be some loss of am¬ 
monia if this mixture were not used at 
once. The escape of ammonia would be 
much the same if the mixture were put 
into the soil at once, but it would not be 
lost, as the soil would hold it. 
Stock fob McIntosh Red. —After growing 
fruit trees 66 years, beginning in Illinois, 
Wisconsin, Iowa. Colorado, Idaho, Washing¬ 
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is a thrifty grower and very hardy. It orig¬ 
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took its first start of popularity in Wisconsin 
over 40 years ago. Mr. Soulard said the tree 
he knew of yielded in one year over 30 
bushels, 'and had to be destroyed to give way 
for the city of St. Louis. I was following 
tree growing in Wisconsin 32 years, and the 
Haas is the only variety that endured the 
Winter to have a surplus to ship "out of the 
State from Vernon Co. I would let it grow 
in orchard two years, then bud three to five 
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