468 
CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 8, 1907. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Michigan Concrete Barn.457, 458 
Cheap Farms in Pennsylvania. 458 
Some Questions About Beans. 459 
Why Should Farmers Move?. 459 
Crimson Clover or Cow l’eas. 401 
Kainit for Preserving Manure. 402 
Fighting the Striped Bug. 402 
Hope Farm Notes. 408 
Starting Alfalfa in West Virginia.408 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
That Lost Jersey Cattle Report 
Hen Turkeys . 
Lost by Express. 
Chronic Cough in Horse. 
King Ventilating System. 
The Little Chick Problem. 
Cotton Seed for Cows. 
Abnormal Breathing in Cow. 
Dorset and Tunis Sheep. 
Curing a Sucking Cow. 
Bitter Milk . 
Dipping Sheep for Ticks. 
Periodic Ophthalmia . 
405 
408 
408 
408 
408 
409 
47(1 
470 
470 
470 
471 
471 
471 
HORTICULTURE. 
Planting Pecans in Florida.458 
Some Wisconsin Apple Problems. 401 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 402 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 400 
Canned Apples . 400 
'The Rural Patterns. 400 
Molasses Cookies . 400 
Homemade Health Foods. 407 
Winter Supplies Without Cooking.407 
The Domestic Partnership. 407 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Lightning and Lightning Rods.... 
A Nebraska Smoke Hole. 
Cement Tanks for Water Pressure 
Pumping Water to Hilltop. 
A Problem in Cold Storage. 
Size of Power Needed. 
Editorials . 
Events of the Week. 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Remember Wadsworth . 
Publisher’s Desk . 
Humorous . 
458 
400 
400 
400 
400 
462 
404 
405 
408 
408 
469 
472 
mar kets 
Prices current at N. Y. during week end¬ 
ing May 31, 1907, wholesale unless otherwise 
noted. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2. red, 
No. 1, Northern 
Corn . 
Oats 
Rye 
in elevator 
Duluth’... . 
1.02 
1.12 
.04 
.51 
.84 
Bran . 
Middlings . 
Red Dog .. 
Hominy chop 
Oil meal . . 
MILLFEED. 
.22.50 
.23.50 
@24.50 
@26.00 
@26.50 
@23.25 
@29.50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hav, prime, ton. — 
No. 1 . — 
No. 2 .. 
Clover, mixed.17.00 
Clover .15.00 
@24.00 
@23.00 
@ 22.00 
@20.00 
@18.00 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.41 per 40-quart 
can, netting 2% cents to 26-cent zone ship¬ 
pers who have no extra station charges. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best . 
. 23 
@ 
@ 
25 
24 
Lower grades . 
. 19 
@ 
22 
@ 
24 
(ct 
21 
Packing stock . 
. 15 
@ 
19 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best. 
— 
@ 
>2% 
Common to good. 
. 10% @ 
12 
Part skims. 
5 
@ 
8 % 
Utica market, top quotation. 
. - 
@ 
12 
EGGS. 
Fancy, white . 
. - 
@ 
19 
White, good to choice. 
. 18 
@ 
18% 
Mixed colors, extra. 
@ 
18 
Lower grades . 
. 16 
@ 
17% 
Western and southern. 
. 15% @ 
17% 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bushel . 
.1.90 
@2 
.25 
Medium . 
@1.80 
@ 1.90 
Red kidney . 
@2 
.45 
White kidney . 
@2 
.85 
Yellow eye . 
@1.85 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap.. best. 
8 
@ 
8% 
Common to good. 
5%@ 
7% 
Sun dried . 
5 
@ 
6 
Cherrjes . 
. IS 
@1 
18% 
Raspberries . 
. 30 
@ 
31 
FRESTI FRUITS. 
Apples, best, bbl. — 
Common to good.2.50 
Peaches. Fla., carrier.2.00 
Strawberries, Norfolk, qt. 7 
Md. and Eastern Shore. 8 
Muskmelons, Fla., crate.2.50 
Watermelons, each . 50 
@ 6.50 
@5.50 
@3.25 
@ U 
@ 12 
@4.50 
@ 60 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, Bermuda, bbl.4.00 
Southern, new .3.50 
Old, 180 lbs.2.00 
Sweet potatoes, barrel.2.50 
Asparagus, dozen .1.75 
Beefs & Carrots, new, 100 belts.2.00 
Cucumbers, bushel .1.25 
Cabbage, new, bbl.1.75 
Sweet Corn, southern, 100....2.50 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl.4.00 
Kale, barrel .100 
String beans, bushel.1.50 
Lettuce, %-bbl. basket.1.00 
Spinach, barrel .1.25 
Onions, bushel .2.00 
Salsify, 100 bunches.4.00 
Peppers, carrier .1.00 
Parsley, barrel .7.00 
Peas, 1 bushel .1 00 
Radishes, 100 bunches. 75 
Tomatoes, carrier .2.00 
@6.50 
@5.50 
@2.50 
@ 4.no 
@4.75 
@5.00 
@ 2.00 
@2.50 
@ 4.00 
@6.00 
@ 1.50 
@3.00 
@ 2.00 
@1:75 
@3.00 
@ 6.00 
@2.50 
@10.00 
@1.25 
@1.25 
@4.00 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Spring chickens, lb. 
Fowls . 
— 
@ 
@ 
@ 
33 
16 
10 
Turkeys . 
— 
@ 
14 
Ducks. Spring . 
— 
(3) 
21 
8 
(Sj 
10 
Pigeons, pair . 
@ 
30 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkevs . 
12 
@ 
14 
Broilers, 3 to 4 lbs to pair, lb. 
35 
@ 
45 
11 
@ 
15 
Ducks . 
11 
@ 
14% 
8 
@ 
13 
Squabs, dozen . 
2.00 
@E 
i.00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, veal . 
. 8 
@ 
12 
l^imbs, hothouse, head. 
@>6.00 
Pork . 
8%@ 
9% 
WOOL. 
Ohio and Pennsylvania. 
33 
@ 
34 
Unwashed Delaine. 
Michigan fine washed. 
— 
@ 
24 
LIVE STOCK. 
@6.50 
@4.60 
@r 
>.00 
Calves . 
4.00 
@7.00 
@0.50 
Lambs . 
6.00 
@10.00 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Lemon Business. —Trade lias been very 
good despite the cold, late Spring. There 
is no doubt that the pure food law has de¬ 
cidedly benefited the lemon business, as it 
shuts out the artificial acid lemonade. This 
stuff is still vended about the streets, but 
not to the extent formerly noted, and the 
sellers run a constant risk of getting into 
trouble. At the first of this week the supply 
of Sicilian lemons in this country and on 
the way was estimated at 360,000 boxes, 
running from 300 to 360 lemons each. The 
best of these are mow bringing about $4.50 
per box wholesale. 
Cherries from California are arriving in 
carload lots, selling at $1.50 to $5.25 per 
flat box containing about 460 cubic inches, 
or a trifle over 4y 2 quarts. The top price 
named, over $1 per quart, is rather high for 
pie making. So far as the writer knows, 
no commercial experimemts have been made 
in the East in handling cherries after the 
California plan, and it is doubtful whether 
the flat box and extra care im packing would 
pay. The California cherries strike this 
market at a time when cherries are a novelty, 
and thus far the supply has scarcely been 
large enough to do away with the novelty 
element. But when our local crop ripens, 
cherries become a staple, and few would pay 
double price for fancy packing, when just as 
good fruit can be had in quart or four-pound 
handle baskets. There Is, nowever, room 
for improvements in methods of marketing 
our local cherries. Cherries should be picked 
by the stems and laid into shallow vessels. 
The 'four-pound grape basket makes an ex¬ 
cellent cherry package, and If the fruit is 
not pinched when packed, leaky baskets are 
seldom seen. The 16-quart peach basket is 
sometimes used, but if the cherries are at 
all ripe those in the lower half will be 
crushed by the weight above. w. w. H. 
HEN TURKEYS. 
“ What She Said/' 
The Hope Farm man is smart, but not 
versed in turkey lore. Nearlv all turkeys con¬ 
tinue to lay for a few days after they com¬ 
mence to show signs of becoming broody, 
even after they stay on over night. We 
have one that laid five eggs this week, and 
was off only one day in the time. As a rule 
they cannot be moved successfullv until after 
they stop laying. Had he nreDared a nice 
nest for his wayward, roadside ben where he 
wanted her to sit, put three china eggs in it, 
and after she had settled down to business, 
be bad carefully lifted her from the nest just 
at dusk, and put her gently on his nest, she 
would have accepted with thanks. If he and 
the children and the dog went after her 
with baste, noise and daylight, and yanked 
her ofT by one leg and scared her out of her 
wits before they got her to his nest, and 
then jammed her into a dark, empty barrel, 
which she would never have entered herself, 
she would rebel, of course. A big barn door 
is about as small a hole as you can drive a 
turkey into. I have moved three this Spring 
which are now sitting in shallow drygoods 
boxes. One was brought from the woods. 
Moral—“Get Madame to handle the hen tur¬ 
keys.” C. E. CHAPMAN. 
Lost By Exfress. —The majority of your 
readers regard this explanation of the A. J. 
C. C. as a fake, but if the committee really 
did send it and it was lost, they can prove the 
transaction by showing their receipt for the 
package from the express company. It is 
unusual to send such a package by express 
when the mail is cheaper, quicker and safer, 
and it is equally strange that there should 
be only one copy in existence. Are we to 
infer that the committee is as slow to adopt 
modern improvements as they are to seek 
to find out the truth? It is a pretty small 
concern nowadays that does not own a type¬ 
writer or a letter press that does not make 
a carbon copy, and it is a very careless one 
that does not file a copy. Show a receipt. 
C. E. C. 
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. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
Barred Rock and Brown Leghorn Hens 
cheap. Bred to lay strains. Nelson’s, Grove City, Pa. 
PI CACC send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
I LlHoL mission House in New York. Established 
1838 Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultry, Hay, Apples, etc. 
E B WOODWARD. 302 Greenwich St., New York. 
FRUITS, 
Vegetables, Dressed Lambs, Calves, Hot¬ 
house products, etc., wanted. Top prices 
secured for choice products. Write us 
what you have to offer. 
p. M. ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray Street, N. Y. 
GKO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & GO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY I’RODllCK, Apples, Peaches, Berries. 
Butter. Eggs, Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms and Hot¬ 
house Products a Specialty. Consignments solicited. 
34 & 30 Little 1 2t!i St., New York. 
M ICHIGAN FARMS; improved; productive soil; 
selling cheap. Splendid climate—good schools. 
Write for list20. Benham & Wilson, Hastings, Mich. 
CHRONIC COUGH IN HORSE. 
Can you give me a remedy for a horse 
with a cough? I have a young mare that 
has had a hacking cough for some time. I 
have tried lots of different remedies, but do 
no good. n. c. h. 
Cough may be due to one of a great 
many different causes, and the special 
cause should, of course, be determined 
and removed as the chief step in success¬ 
ful treatment. On general principles, 
however, glyco-heroin in dose of half to 
one ounce two or three times daily as 
found necessary will prove effective. Wet 
all food; avoid dusty hay; have teeth put 
in proper order, and see that the stable is 
kept perfectly clean and well ventilated, 
to prevent emanations of noxious gases 
that prove irritating to the sensitive lining 
of the throat, a. s. Alexander, v. s. 
KING VENTILATING SYSTEM. 
Does the ventilating shaft in the King sys¬ 
tem of ventilation pass out through the roof, 
or is it sufficient to have it terminate be¬ 
neath the roof in the interior of the barn? 
My ridge is 40 feet high. F. w. k. 
Strykersville, N. Y. 
The ventilating shaft should always 
pass through the roof, and to a point 
high enough so there will be nothing to 
Summer Hotel 
ON FISHER’S 
ISLAND,NEW 
YORK.in Long 
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let or sell; furnished complete; established 
trade; accommodate 100; popular resort: ex¬ 
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J. J. DILLON, 409 Pearl St., N.Y. City 
O NCE A YEAR LICE FAINT will keep 
houses, brooders, etc., free from mites if used 
once a year; 50c. gal. Woodsdale Poultry Plant, 
Summit, R. I. 
100 ACRE FARM 
WITH 
STOCK AND TOOLS $1,600. 
Outs 25 tons of hay: 400 cords of hardwood. Quite 
a lot of hemlock; 40 bbls. of apples in season from 
orchard; 7 room bouse; barn 40x60 with cellar; 
shingled walls; convenient out buildings. Maple 
shade; owner lias other business, and to settle affairs 
Quickly will include 2 horses, 2 cows, wagons, farm 
tools and machinery for only $1,000. For travelling 
details see No. 1543, page 4 “Strout’s List 18.’ Copy 
mailed FREE. It describes hundreds of farm bar¬ 
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ISO Nassau Street, New York. 
BANNER LICE AND 
VERMIN POWDER 
■^> 0 . W“ WA cheap, effective dis- 
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m in powder form to be 
■HIHw dusted on. Perfectly 
harmless. 5 oz. 15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
31bs. 50c. 6 X Lbs.$1.00. (f. o. b.N. Y. City) , 
Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co., , 
Dept. HG 26-28 Vesey St., New York City. 
FIVE MINUTE TALK 
prevent direct passage of wind across 
the top of the flue. In this system of ven¬ 
tilation the force of aspiration produced 
by currents of air passing over the top 
of the flue, is, to a great extent, respon¬ 
sible for its success. I do know of one 
barn, however, where the flues were run 
to the cupola with the intention of con¬ 
tinuing them. Delay was caused lor 
some reason, and yet they worked fairly 
well. The location of this barn is ex¬ 
ceptionally favorable. If one will study 
the workings of a chimney he will have 
all of the principles involved in the venti¬ 
lation flue. While the flue might work in 
some cases in cold weather, the tendency 
would he to condense the moisture at the 
mouth of the flue, even though there was 
some circulation of air through the flue. 
It must be remembered that this current 
of air is laden with water in the form of 
vapor, and it must reach the outside air 
before condensation takes place, or trouble 
will follow. H. E. COOK. 
SENT FREE “HOW TO KEEP AWAY 
CHICKEN-LICE AND M ITES,”by only 
ONE APPLICATION A YEAR 
Successfully used upward of 30 years 
Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co., 
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BOOKS WORTH OUTING 
Business Hen, Collingwood.75 
Care of Animals, Mayo. 1.25 
Campbell’s Handbook of Synonyms.50 
Clovers and How to Grow Them, Shaw. 1.12 
Dairy Chemistry, Snyder. 1.00 
Fruit Harvesting and Marketing, Waugh 1.00 
Farmer’s Veterinary Advisor, Law.... 3.00 
Fertilizers, Voorhees . 1.00 
Greenhouse Construction, Taft. 1.50 
Irrigation and Drainage, King. 1.59 
Landscape Gardening, Long.25 
Landscape Gardening, Waugh.50 
Medical Dictionary, Black. 2.66 
Milk and Its Products, Wing. ... 1.00 
Methods of Testing Milk, Van Slyke.. .75 
Mushroom Growing, Falconer. 1.00 
Pruning Book, Bailey. 1.50 
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