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CONTENTS. 
The Rural New-Yorker, October 26, 1907. 
FARM TOPICS. 
How to Keep Cabbage. 782 
Sweet Clover as Stock Food. 7»o 
New York Rural Districts. 783 
Connecticut Conditions . <£” 
Twine in a Corn Harvester. 784 
Small Crops—High Prices. 784 
Harvesting Sunflowers . 784 
Destroying the Bean Weevil. 784 
Stay by the Clover. 784 
Feeding Out Hay . 784 
Seedling Asparagus Plants Are Weeds.. 786 
Hope Farm Notes . 787 
Conditions of Farming. 789 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A One-acre Dairy Farm. 781 
Nitrate of Soda Poisons Stock. 7SJ 
Waiting for the Executive Committee.... <89 
Live Stock Exhibits. 7 
Cement Blocks for Poultry Houses.79 1 
Portable Henhouses. 79- 
A Prize-winning Bull. 7J4 
Grading Up the Herd.794 
Chicks Shedding Feathers. 794 
Warts on Cow. 74.> 
Sore Teats .795 
S Ur fe!t . 79;> 
Abnormal Breathing . 795 
Elephantiasis . 7.m 
Sore Throat . 795 
HORTICULTURE. 
Scalecide and the Scale.781, 782 
New England Hilltop Orchards. Part IV <83 
Notes from the Rural Grounds. 786 
Handling Seedling Peach Trees. 786 
Keeping Fruit Cuttings. <92 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 790 
Apple Butter Without Cider. 790 
The Rural Patterns. 791 
An Autumn Suggestion. 791 
MI SCELLANEOUS. 
“The Best Crop”. 782 
Some Nebraska Products. 782 
The Fuel Supply.78- 
Keep Them in Mind. < ”4 
Products, Prices and Trade. <84 
Rabbit Law in Pennsylvania.785 
Renewal of Notes and Judgments. 78,> 
Defective Line Fence. 78,> 
Overdue Notes . 785 
Payment on a Lost Note. 78-> 
Weed Cutting on Highway. 78.> 
Husband's Right in Property. 78o 
Widow’s Property Rights.785 
Agent’s Verbal Contract. 78,> 
Breach of Timber Contract. 785 
Liability of Employee . 785 
Widow’s Dower . 78.> 
Telephone Poles on Highway . 785 
Editorials . 788 
New Mexico Notes . 792 
Publisher’s Desk . 793 
Cement Block House . 795 
marke_ts 
REVIEW OF THE WEEK. 
Butter is 1% cent down, and the market 
unsteady, with the prospect of a further 
drop. Cheese higher and trade slow. Prime, 
fresh-gathered eggs scarce, storage and all 
other grades in excessive supply and market 
shaky. Apple market firm. Tomatoes 
plenty and hard to sell. 
Prices current at N. Y. during week end¬ 
ing October 18, 1907, wholesale unless 
otherwise specified. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red, in elevator — 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth.. — 
Corn . — 
Oats . — 
Rye . — 
Barley . — 
MILLFEED. 
Spring bran .27.00 
Middlings .28.50 
Red Dog . — 
Hominy chop . — 
Linseed meal . — 
Corn meal . — 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, No. 1 .21.00 
No. 2 .19.00 
No. 3 .17.00 
Clover mixed .15.00 
Clover .14.00 
Straw, Long Rye .14.00 
Short and Oat . 8.00 
MILK. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 26. 
Blush and Gravenstein .2.00 @3.75 
Fall Pippin .2.50 @3.5.0 
King .2.00 @4.00 
Baldwin and Greening .2.00 @3.00 
Western, bu. box.150 @3,25 
VARIOUS FRUITS. 
Peaches, Pine Island, carrier. 2.00 
State, basket . 50 
Pears, Seckel & Bartlett, bbl.5.00 
Bose .4.00 
Clairgeau .3.50 
Anjou .3.00 
Sheldon .3.00 
Kieffer .2.00 
Quinces, bbl.4.00 
Plums, 8-lb. bkt. 25 
Grapes, 20-lb. case. 50 
4-lb. bkt. 8 
Cranberries, bbl.5.00 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatotes, bbl.125 
Sweet potatoes, bbl.1.00 
Brussels sprouts, qt. 6 
Carrots, bbl.100 
Celery, doz. 20 
Cucumbers, bbl.2.00 
Cabbage, ton .7.00 
Corn, 100 . 75 
Cauliflowers, bbl.1.00 
Eggplants, bbl. 75 
Lettuce, %-bbl. bkt. 25 
Lima beans, bu. 35 
Onions, bbl.1.00 
Peppers, bbl.1.00 
Spinach, bbl. 50 
Squash, bbl. 75 
Turnips, bbl.1-00 
Tomatoes, bu. box. 20 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Spring chickens, lb. — 
Fowls . — 
Turkeys . — 
Spring ducks . — 
Geese . 11 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, Spring . 20 
Old . 12 
Best broilers, lb. 22 
Com. to good. 14 
Roasting chickens . 20 
Fowls . 12 
Ducks .-.. 12 
Geese . 17 
Squabs, doz.2.00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .3.80 
Bulls .3.00 
Cows .1.40 
Calves .5.00 
Sheep . 3.50 
Lambs .5.00 
Hogs .6.00 
@ 1.12 
@1.25 
@ 75 
@ 60 
@ 98 
@ 1.20 
@28.50 
@31.50' 
@32.00 
@30.00 
@31.50 
@30.00 
@22.00 
@ 20.00 
@18.00 
@20.00 
@17.00 
@14.50 
@12.00 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.91 
per 
40-quart 
can, netting four cents at 
26-cent 
zone 
points. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best . 
— 
@ 
29 
Common to good. 
25 
@ 
28 
Storage . 
27 
@ 
2814 
State Dairy . 
25 
@ 
28 
Factory . 
20 
@ 
24 
Packing stock . 
18 
@ 
23 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best. 
— 
@ 
16 
Common to good . 
-13 
@ 
15 
Skims . 
5 
@ 
10 
EGGS! 
Fancy white . 
34 
@ 
36 
White, good to choice. 
29 
@ 
33 
IVestern . 
17 
m 
24 
Storage . 
15 
20 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bu.2.15 
Medium .2.10 
Pea . 2.10 
Red Ividney ................2.2*> 
White Kidney .2.70 
Yellow Eye .2.20 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., fancy. — 
Evap, com. to prime. 8 
Raspberries . 33 
APPLES. 
Alexander,’ bb. .3.00 
Snow and Wealthy .2.00 
Twenty Ounce .2.00 
@2.50 
@1.12 
@7.00 
@6.00 
@5.00 
@4.50 
@5.00 
.00 
.00 
50 
@ 75 
@ 15 
@ 8.00 
@2.25 
§ 2.25 
15 
@1.25 
@ 50 
@3.00 
@10.00 
@1.50 
@2.75 
@1.25 
@1.25 
@ 1.00 
@3,50 
@2.50 
@ 75 
@ 1.00 
@1.50 
@ 60 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@‘ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
12 
13 
14 
14 
12 
25 
16 
24 
18 
24 
14 
17 
21 
@5.00 
@6.65 
@3.75 
@4.00 
@9.50 
@5.50 
@7.25 
@7.00 
@2.45 
@2.40 
@2.45 
@2.45 
@2.75 
@2.25 
@ 10% 
@ 10 
@ 34 
@5.00 
<@4.00 
@3.50 
CEMENT BLOCKS FOR POULTRY 
HOUSES. 
What do poultry’ men say about using ce¬ 
ment blocks for building chicken houses? 
A henhouse built of rough boards on three 
sides and covered with tarred paper with 
muslin front, will be cheaper, drier and best 
of all more successful than one built of ce¬ 
ment blocks. j. e. van alstyne. 
While we have no knowledge of cement 
blocks for that particular purpose, we have 
heard the subject discussed, and are of the 
opinion that the use of hollow blocks on nat¬ 
urally well-drained dry land with floors up 
from surface of ground would be advisable. 
They surely should be wind-proof and warm, 
and we believe a building thus constructed 
could be kept perfectly dry if properly venti¬ 
lated. E. H. KNAPP & SON. 
My experience "with cement blocks has 
proved to my mind that they are unfit for 
use in poultry houses. The poultry men wish 
to avoid, as far as possible, all dampness, 
and what few cement blocks I have used on 
my buildings have been more or less porous. 
They would absorb moisture, and in wet 
weather, to a degree which would allow it to 
go through the block, even though the blocks 
had considerable hollow space for circula¬ 
tion. It is possible that if the blocks were 
made with a very large proportion of cement 
and a little sand, this might, to a certain 
degree, be overcome. But I would, under no 
circumstances, use them for poultry houses, 
or advise others to do so. Sinclair smith. 
I have not had an opportunity to see a 
cement block poultry house constructed or to 
observe it in actual operation. Persons who 
should be competent to judge of the com¬ 
parative cost of a cement block poultry house 
as compared with one of wood construction 
tell me that the former would cost in the 
neighborhood of 20 to P5 per cent more with 
present prices of materials and labor. I 
would question whether the cement blocks 
would provide as dry a wall as a board wall 
of single matched lumber. It should be a 
tighter wall so far as admitting air is con¬ 
cerned. ’ If we were building these days dou¬ 
ble-boarded, idouble-papered poultry houses 
with dead air spaces as we formerly did, 
there would be less difference in the cost of 
construction as compared to the cement block 
house, but we are finding that with our open- 
front construction, where fowls are being 
kept more largely in the fresh air, poultry 
houses having walls of single matched boards 
will, as a rule, answer all of the purposes. 
This probably will make poultry house con¬ 
struction much cheaper than the cement 
blocks. In the construction of an incubator 
house where fireproofing is an important fac¬ 
tor, and where uniform temperatures are par¬ 
ticularly desirable, it would seem to me the 
cement block could be used to excellent ad¬ 
vantage. JAMES E. RICE. 
New Mexico Notes. —Eggs are now worth 
30 cents a dozen, butter 35 cents a pound the 
year round. The farmers in this section have 
had irrigation water this Summer, under 
Government auspices, for the first time since 
the dam was destroyed in 1904. They are re¬ 
planting their orchards and increasing their 
acreage of Alfalfa this Fall. It is astonish¬ 
ing how the Alfalfa fields, which the “knock¬ 
ers” declared dead, burnt out by the long 
drought, have revived and yielded three and 
four cuttings; it is certainly a wonderful 
plant. M - E - w - 
Carlsbad, N. M. 
Keeping Fruit Cuttings. —Your corres¬ 
pondent, H. F. O., asks about cuttings. This 
was the method of one of the best small 
fruit growers that I ever knew for currant 
and gooseberry cuttings. Prepare them as 
you advise on page 714. Tie them in bunches 
of about 50 cuttings with copper wire, 
having the butts as level as possible. Bury 
them butt up, with about three inches of soil 
over the butt in a sunny, sheltered situation, 
and cover well with leaves or anything of the 
kind to keep the ground from freezing. Take 
off the leaves early in Spring and let the sun 
get at the soil until time for planting. I 
have taken up the bunches with masses of 
roots on them. I suppose- the principle is 
that the sun warms the butts more quickly 
than it would if they were buried butt down. 
Massachusetts. e. w. a. 
Portable Henhouse. —Here in Newport 
County, R. I., the most successful hen men 
house their birds in small movable buildings. 
It is true that occasionally you will see a 
henhouse or barn backed up on the south 
side of a big rock, or a stone wall built up 
as a wind-break from north and northwest, 
and with a roof and open front, as Mr. Tail- 
man, but the result is unsatisfactory, as the 
ground beneath and for 10 to 100 feet in 
front soon becomes foul and not easy to re¬ 
new it; sickness comes on generally. We 
have learned by experience to build small, 
cheap houses of cull lumber on skids; place 
them 25 to 50 feet apart in rows and move 
them as often as need be a few feet on to 
clean ground. The grass and weeds will 
spring up and purify the ground long before 
it will be time to cover it again. Cement 
blocks may be cheap for a permanent build¬ 
ing, but I can see but few situations where 
it would be best to use them for henhouses. 
WALTER SHERMAN. 
“Gentlemen,” said the prisoner after 
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tion.” ‘‘Young feller,” replied the fore¬ 
man of the jury, “you don’t seem to 
know the difference between a vindica¬ 
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