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CONTENTS 
Ti:e Reral New-Yorker, January 25, 1008. 
FARM TOPICS. 
A Ban of Fertilizer. Part 1. 58 
The Gasoline Engine on the Farm. 
Part 1. 59 
A Minnesota Silo . 59 
Phosphate Rook aiul Sour Soil. (50 
Using Swamp Muck. (10 
Handling' Cotton and Alfalfa. 02 
Chances in the Far West.02, 03 
Hope Farm Notes . 65 
Crop Prospects . 71 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Ration for Pullets. 00 
Dimensions of Henhouses . 66 
Silage and Tuberculosis . 00 
Value and Place of the Delaine Merino 07 
Raising a Calf . 68 
Incubator or Hen-hatched Chicks. 09 
Paper Milk Bottles. 69 
Chronic Indigestion . 09 
“Yellow Journalism’’ in the Cattle Case. 71 
Feeding Buckwheat .08, 71 
HORTICULTURE. 
Apple Culture in Western New York. . . 58 
Fall vs. Spring Spraying. 59 
Plants in Sleeping Room. 00 
Different Methods of Pruning. 00 
New York State Fruit Growers. 01 
Iturfllisms . 64 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 72 
A Neat Collar and Cuff Set. 72 
Comfort for Aching Limbs. 72 
Canned Beans . 72 
The Start. 73 
Christmas Pudding . 73 
The Rural Patterns . 73 
Baked Apple Butter . 73 
Rabbit Pie . 73 
Anchoring Side Combs . 73 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Baby Electric Light Plant.57, 58 
Keep Them in Mind. 00 
Tenant Selling Straw . 00 
Distribution of Bachelor’s Estate. OO 
Inheritance from Grandparent . 00 
Foreclosure of Mortgage . 00 
Damage from Quarry . 00 
Products, Prices and Trade. 68 
Editorials . . 70 
Events of the Week. 71 
Postal Reply Coupons . 71 
Publisher’s Desk . 75 
MARKETS 
Prices current at New York during week 
ending January 17, 1908, wholesale unless 
otherwise noted. * 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2. Red, export.. — rtv 1.07 
No. 1, Northern. Duluth.. — @1.22 
Corn . 60 @ 70 
Oats . 55 (57’ 57 I 
Rye . — M 62 
Barley . — @1.2o 
FEED. 
Bran ..25.00 (57 27.00 
Middlings .26.00 (5728.00 
Red Dog .29.00 (57 30.0(1 
Linseed meal . — @31.50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Ilav No 1 .20.00 (5721.00 
No 2 .18.00 @19.00 
No 3 .16.00 @ 17.50 
Clover Mixed .15.00 @17.00 
Clover . 13.00 (57 10,00 
Straw, Long Rye . 13.00 (57 14.00 
Short and Oat-.*.10.00 @12.00 
MILK. 
New York Exchange price $1.91 per 40- 
quarf can, netting four cents in 26-cent 
zone points. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best . — @ 31 
Common to good. 24 @ 30 
Storage . 23 @ 29 
State Dairy . 19 @ 24 
Factory . 15 (5( 20 
Packing stock . 15 @ 18 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best . — @ 15% 
Common to good. 12 @14 
Part skims . 1 @ 9 
EGGS. 
Faney white . 32 @3 34 
White, good to choice. 28 @ 31 
Mixed colors, best. 27 @ 28 
Lower grades . 17 @ -2 
Storage . 12 (57 17 
BEANS. 
Marrow . 2.00 @2.25 
Medium .2.00 @2.20 
Pe a .2.00 @2.25 
Red Kidney .1.85 @2.00 
White Kidney .2.60 @2.65 
Yellow Eye .2.10 @2.15 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples. Evap., fancy. 10 @ 10% 
Evap., common to good... 8 (5/ 9% 
Chops, 100 lbs.2.00 @2.05 
Raspberries . 50 @ 32 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apple, King, bbl.2.50 @4.00 
Spy and Spitz .2.25 @3.50 
Baldwin .2.00 @3.50 
Pears, Kieffer. bbl.2.00 @3.00 
Cranberries, bbl .4.00 @8.00 
Strawberries, Fla., qt. 20 @ 50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes. Bermuda, bbl....3 00 @5.00 
Long Island, bbl.2.25 @2.50 
Maine, bbl.2.00 @2.25 
State and W’n, 180 lbs..2.00 @2.25- 
German, 168-lb. bag. — (57 2.30 
Sweet potatoes, bbl.3 00 (57 4.00 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 6 @ 12 
Carrots, bbl. 2.00 @3.00 
Celery, doz. 25 @ 60 
Chicory, N. O.. bbl.1.50 @3.00 
Cucumbers, Fla., basket.1 00 @2.00 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton. .9.00 @12.00 
Red, ton . 18.00 (57 20.00 
Domestic, ton . 6.00 @7.00 
Cauliflowers, L.T.,sh’t e’t. bbl. 150 @3.00 
L. I. long cut. bbl.1.00 @2.00 
Escaroi, N. O., bbl.2.00 @3 00 
Eggplants, Fla., box.1.00 @2.00 
Kale. Norfolk, bbl. -10 @ 50 
Kohlrabi, N. O.. 100 bchs...2.00 @4.00 
Lettuce, Florida, f’ey, bkt..i.75 @ — 
Poor to good.1.00 @1.50 
New Orleans, bbl.I.oo @2 00 
Lima beans, Bermuda, box.3.50 @4.00 
Mint. Bermuda, l>ox.1.00 (57 1.25 
Onions, Conn., white, bbl....3.00 @5.00 
Conn., yellow .2 25 @2.50 
Conn., red .1.75 @2.25 
f-jtnjte, & W’n, white^ bag. . 2.50 @ 
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T-HE7 R.UR.A.L NEW-YORKER 
January 
State & W'n, yellow, bag..1.00 @2.00 
State & W'n, red. bag.... 1.00 @1.75 
Orange Co., yellow, bag. .1.50 @1.87 
Orange C’o., red, bag.1.25 @1.75 
Okra, Fla., carrier. 75 @1.00 
Oysterplant. 100 bunches ...3,00 @5.00 
75 @1.00 
.00 @ 1.50 
75 @ 1.00 
.50 @2.50 
00 @ 6.00 
00 @ 2.50 
50 @1.00 
50 @1.25 
1.25 @3.00 
. . 00 @ 1.00 
..1.75 @2.00 
..2.25 @2.50 
.. 75 @1.25 
.. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Peppers, I 
■’la., carrier..., 
Pumpkins, 
bbl.. 
_1. 
Parsnips, 
bbl.. 
Peas. Fla. 
, basket. 
_1. 
Parsley, X 
. O.. bbl. 
_4. 
Romaine. 
X. ()., bbl. 
... .1. 
Fla., basket .. 
Radishes, Charleston, basket. 
String beans. Fla., basket. . . 
Spinach. Norfolk. 1)1)1.. 
Squash. Marrow, bbl.... 
Hubbard, bbl. 
Turnips Rutabaga bbl.. 
Tomatoes Florida carrier 
LIVE POULTRY. 
— @ 11 
— @ 13 
— @13 
— @ 12 
Chickens, lb. 
Fowls .. 
Roosters . — @ 8 
Turkeys . — @ 13 
Ducks . 
Geese . 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 12 @ 16 
Chickens . 16 @ 22 
Fowls . 10 @ 13 
Capons . 16 @ 20 
Ducks . 10 @ 12 
Geese . 10 @ 13 
COUNTRY-DR ESSED MEATS. 
Calves . 9 @ 13 
Hothouse lambs, each.5.00 @11.00 
Pork . 0 (a 7% 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers .4.25 @5.60 
Bulls .3.35 @4.45 
Cows .1.90 @4.20 
Calves .5.00 @9.50 
Sheep .3.65 @5.00 
Lambs .6.00 @7.75 
Curixg Leaky Windows.—O n this farm 
there is a large eight-room house, but all 
the upstairs windows open just like a door. 
When it rains the rain beats in under the 
windows and runs down into the room and 
the room below. We have tried everything 
we can think of but thought we would write 
to you. How can we remedy this? 
Escambia Co., Fla. J. T. r. 
R. N.-Y.—Perhaps some of our Florida 
friends can help in this matter. 
For the land’s sake use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers.—They enrich the earth.—Adv. 
A Garden for 12c. 
In order to add 250,000 new customers to our 
list we make the following bargains: 
lPkg. “Quick Quick” Carrot , , , 10c. 
IPkg- Earliest Kipp Cabbage . ■ ■ 10c. 
II*kg. Earliest Emerald Cucumber • • 15c. 
lPkg. I.aCrosse Market Lettuce • . . 15c. 
JPkg. Early Dinner Onion . . . . 10c. 
lPkg. Strawberry Miiskmelon , , , 15c. 
lPkg. Thirteen Way Kndlsh ... 10c. 
1000 kernel) gloriously beautiful flower seed 15c. 
Total, $1.0«r 
Above is sufficient seed to grow 35 bus. of 
rarest vegetables in succession during the 
coming season and thousands of brilliant flow¬ 
ers,and all is mailed to you 
Postpaid lor 12c. 
or If you send ltic., we will add a package of the 
famous Berliner Earliest Cauliflower. 
Salzer’s Seed and Plant Catalogue. 
Most original seed book ever published. 
Brim full of bristling seed thoughts. Gladly 
mailed toall intending buyers free ;write today. 
John A. Salzer Seed Co. 
La Crosse, Wis. 
BEST HARNESS IN THE WORLD 
_et us send pictures of harness in use every 
day lor 20 years and still good. Equal to best 
custom-made—will positively out-wear any two 
sets of factory-made harness. We guarantee all 
harness for 5 years. Always money back, with 
transportation charges, too, if you’re not satis¬ 
fied. Catalog free, buy A direct from maker, 
and save 25 percent. K\ Owego, Tioga Oo„ 
King Harness Co.. _N. Y. 
[nj||jgj| You need a Green Mountain Bilo 
So write For Special Offer 
For Early Orders 
Low Prices if ordered NOW. 
Creamery Package Mfg. Co., 
220 WETS STREET. RUTLAND, VT* 
PI P A QC send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
■ LLHOL mission House inNew York. Established 
1838. Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultry, Hay, Apples, etc 
E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St.. New York, 
LIVE WILD RABBITS WANTED. 
E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St., NewY'ork 
WANTED 
—Supply of Dressed Chicken 
Broilers, Capons, Fresh 
Brown Eggs,Duck Eggs and 
Creamery Print Butter. Highest prices given 
and prompt returns, .fumes Wilcox, 931 Sixth 
Ave„ New Yorft City. 
Do You 
Shave 
Yourself? 
Do not buy a razor until you have an opportunity 
of trying it. We will send the magnificent 
“Palmer” Razor to you absolutely 
FREE for 30 Days’ Trial. If 
you wish to buy it at the end 
of this time—and we 
think you will 
S1 s - d « s ^ OtJIIU no money and we will send the razor 
ci./a, yurj^to you nt once. If after purchasing the rnzor you desire 
S pe C l a 1 F to exchange it for nnother. yon may do so free of charge 
price of any time within one year from the day you bought it. 
the razor. Roya , s . Palmer & Co., 37 River St., Chicago, III. 
Remem¬ 
ber. it will 
not cost you 
a single penny 
to use the razor for 
days, except a 2c 
stamp to return it if un¬ 
satisfactory. You are under 
no obligations to buy it unless 
yon desire to do so. Our confidence 
In its quality is such that wo are will¬ 
ing to let it act us its own salesman. 
Send No Money° pos, ''> 1 card °rletter. 
WSjUSElfi 
- w CREAM i 
JHARVESTER?%_ 
IF NOT WHY NOT? 
I T enables you to get every particle 
of butter fat from the milk. You 
can’t get it by hand skimming. 
You will have fresh, warm, sweet 
skim-milk for calves and pigs—a most 
excellent feed. When you skim by hand, 
tlie milk is cold and stale. 
It saves work. You have no idea how 
much drudgery a cream harvester will 
save if you have never used one. 
You want your dairy products to be of 
the highest grade. Everywhere it is tlie 
cream harvester users who make the 
prize products. That’s another good 
reason why you should use one. 
The International Harvester Com¬ 
pany of America offers you a choice of 
two of the best machines manufactured. 
The Bluebell, a gear drive machine 
and the Dairymaid, a chain drive ma 
chine, are both simple, clean skimmers 
easy running, easily cleaned and are 
built to cause the least possible trouble 
in operation. 
You should be satisfied with nothing 
but the best separator you can buy. The 
I. H. C. cream harvesters are designed 
and manufactured to be as nearly per¬ 
fect working machines as possible. 
Both have stood the hardest tests 
ever given any cream separator. Every 
machine is given a thorough factory test 
before it goes out. There is no possi¬ 
bility of your getting an I. H. C. cream 
harvester that is not right working. 
International local agents can supply 
you with catalogs, hangers and full par¬ 
ticulars Call and take the matter up 
with them, or write the Home Office. 
You will be interested in seeing a copy 
of booklet on the “Development of the 
Cream Separator” which will be mailed 
on request. 
International Harvester Company of America, Chicago,U.S. A. 
(Incorporated) 
PERFECT POTATO 
PLANTING 
Every farraor knows the importance 
of proper potato planting. Here’s a 
machine that does it perfectly. Has 
none of the faults common with com¬ 
mon planters. Opens the furrow 
perfectly, drops the seed 
correctly, covers it uni- . / » T „_ 
formly, and best of all „ lron , „ 
neverTruises or A (Improwd RobblM) 
punctures the A A Potato Planter 
seed. Send a 
postal for 
our 1908 
free 
Book. 
No Troublei 
BATEMAN MFO. CO., Box 102PGrenloch, N. 3. 
For Sale 
HICKORY HILL FARM, consisting: of 61 
acres. Situate 
in town of Hamilton, Madison Co. Five miles 
from Colgate University. Price, 8L800. Not 
the value of the buildings. 
J. Grant Morse, Hamilton, N. Y. 
SKUNKS 
-I want them. 
For imme¬ 
diate ship¬ 
ment of lots of as many as you 
can get—the more the better. I will pay for prime 
skins the following: No. 1, $1.15; No. 2, 75 ets.; 
No. 3, 40 ets.; No. 4, 30 ct.s.; from N. Y., X. J., 
Can., Mich., Minn., Wis., Nor. Iowa, Kansas, Neb., 
Nor. Mo.. Nor. Ohio, Ind., III. Ship at once. I buy 
all other kinds of furs at highest market prices. 
Would be pleased to hear from all parties who 
still handle furs, who have ever shipped to Orange 
Co. CHARLES A. KAUNE, 
Montgomery, Orange Co., N. Y. 
CUTAWAY TOOLS FOR LARGE HAY CROPS, 
Three of Clark’s Intense Cultivators produced 
this year on 14 ’2 acres, 102 tons of well dried Alfalfa, 
Timothy and Redtop Hay. If you want to know how 
DOUBLE ACTI ON JOINTED POL E CUTA 
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Jointed Bole takes all the weight off Horses 
and keeps their heels away from the Disks. 
His Rev. Disk Plew cuts a 
furrow 5 to 10 in. deep, 14 in. 
wide. All Clark’s machines 
■will kill witch-grass, wild 
mustard, charlock, hard¬ 
back, sunflower, milk weed, 
thistle or any foul plant. * 
CUTAWAY (iARROW COIYIPANT, 
( Main St., lligganiiin, Count 
6 (10 [) Money-Making Farms for Sale 
f ^ ^ ^ in 14 States; “Strout’s List 19,” 
the largest illustrated catalogue of farm bargains, 
with reliable information of of farming localities, 
ever issued, including Bond good for R. R. Fare, 
sent for 10 cents to pay postage and mailing. Briof 
circulars mailed FREE if you mention State in 
which interested. Dept. 42, E. A. STltOUT CO., 
150 Nassau St., N, Y. 
grain, CHEAP, and on your own 
t s commission, direct from owner 
A GREAT RARGAIN- The 1lest 230 acre I arm 
UnCA I DAilUHin in southern Michigan; 
both stock and 
terms; no agent’] 
to you. Write for full particulars. 
S. S. WITH1NGTON, Adrian, Mich. 
POK SALE—Dairy Farm of 150 acres; good 
* buildings,soil and water; 2^2 miles from village. 
Price $3,500. M. Elizabeth llecox, Morrisville, N.Y. 
VA/ R ITF J- L>- S. Hanson, Hart, Mich., for list of 
If III l L Fruit, Grain, Stock and Poultry Farms. 
‘Site 
SO. CANNAN JACK CO., So 
WE HAVE A FEW 
BLACK JACKS 
Age, 3 to 5 years, 
thorough 1 y accl im ated; 
broke to drive in har¬ 
ness ; will tease and 
serve mare without 
Jennet. Also have a 
few black Jennets,some 
with foal. 
Caiman, Pa. 
ETOR SALE — Two-Hundred-Acre FARM, 
* 14 miles from Hartford, 4 miles from Rockville, 
Conn. The house is located a quarter of a mile from 
trolley station,with half-hour service hetweenRock- 
ville and Hartford; a quarter of a mile from steam 
railroad station, through express service from New 
York to Boston. Good local markets; and has 
twenty five acres of excellent tobacco land. Faim 
is adapted to dairy, gardening or poultry. Two 
bouses; barn, with 40 cow stalls; running water in 
stables; cement floor; stalls ford horses. Also, if 
desired, 14 cows, 14 bead of young stock, farm 
horses, tools, 1500 bushels of corn in the ear, hay 
and fodder. Address, BOX 987, Hartford, Conn. 
WANTED - Married working foreman for fruit 
iihii i ku farm. Good wages; good house; per¬ 
manent position for right man. Best references 
roquired. W. A. HENRY & Son,Wallingford,Conn. 
Don’t Wear a Truss 
Brooks’ Appliance is a new 
scientific discovery with auto¬ 
matic air cushions that dinws 
tli© broken parts together and 
binds them as you would a 
broken limb. It absolutely 
holds firmly and comfortably 
and never slips, always light 
and coolandconforms to every 
movement of the body without 
chafing or hurting. I make it 
to your measure and send it to 
you on a strict guarantee of 
satisfaction or money refund¬ 
ed and I have put my price so 
low that any body, rich or poor, 
can buy it. Remember, I make 
it to your order—send it to you 
—you wear it—and if it doesn’t patisfy you, you send it back to 
me and I will refund your money. The banks or any responsi¬ 
ble citizen in Marshall w’ill tell you that is the way I do busi¬ 
ness—always absolutely on the square and I have sold thou¬ 
sands of people this way for the past five years. Remember,! 
use no salves, no harness, no lie3, no fakes. I just give you a 
straight business deal at a reasonable price. 
C. E. Brooks, 5239 Brooks Bldg., Marshall, Mich. 
