1908. 
187 
CONTENTS 
Tub Rural New-Yorker, February 29, 1908 
FARM TOFICS. 
Preparing Soil for Potatoes. 160 
Demonstrating Value of Manure. 167 
Manure Spreaders and Composted Ma¬ 
nure. 167 
Fertility Questions . 168 
Starting Blue Grass . 168 
Plant Lice on Peas. 168 
Talks About Basic Slag. 169 
Cow Peas for Connecticut. 109 
Killing Sassafras; Grass for Sandy 
Land. 169 
“State of Maine’’ Potatoes. 170 
Use of a Subsoil Plow. 173 
Hope Farm Notes . 175 
Buying a Fertilizer . 185 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Promising Holstein Youngster. 180 
Economical Calf Feeding for Veal... 180 
Purebred Live Stock. Part 1. 181 
Questions in I’ig Feeding. 181 
Sheep Shearing Machines. 182 
Ailing Lambs . 182 
Soiling Cows ... . 182 
Horse Breeding in the East. 183 
The Rat Question . 183 
Handling Dairy Cows . 184 
Silo Questions . 184 
Ration for Fattening Steers. 184 
Merino Sheep Breeders United. 184 
Preventing Fraud in Registry. 185 
The Raising and Feeding Value of Oats 
and Peas . 185 
HORTICULTURE. 
Apple Growing for Profit. Part 1.165, 166 
The Rutter Pear . 166 
Wood Ashes and Strawberries . 168 
Japan Golden Russet Pear. 169 
Tire Currant Borer . 169 
Gooseberries for Washington. 169 
Fruit Questions . 169 
Kieffer Pear for Grafting Stock. 170 
Constructing Rockwnrk . 170 
Culture of Amaryllis . 170 
Blackberries, Pear and Hollyhock.... 170 
Eucalyptus for Timber . 170 
Chestnut Requirements . 170 
The Western Catalpa . 170 
Horseradish Seed . 170 
Western N. Y. Horticultural Society.. 171 
New York State Fruit Growers. 172 
Pears for Ohio . 173 
Ruralisms . 174 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 178 
The Rural Patterns . 178 
Charity Sweetheart's Letters . 179 
Plain Suet Pudding . 179 
The Cost of Dress . 179 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Curse of Pheasants . 166 
Keep Them in Mind . 172 
Commercial Canning at Home. 172 
A Plaster House . :.... 172 
Soldier’s Pension Money . 173 
Property of Married Woman . 173 
Short-weight Milk Bottles . 173 
Short Telephone Line . 173 
Editorials . 176 
The Character of Melvin Benedict.... 177 
Institute Speakers Advise Free Use of 
Whitewash. 177 
“Civil Rights" in the Cattle Case.... 177 
From a Breeder's Standpoint . 177 
Events of the Week. 177 
From Vermont to Ohio. 177 
Windmill for Power . 184 
Publisher’s Desk . 186 
MARKETS 
THE RURAL 
BEANS. 
Marrow, bu.2.05 @2 25 
Medium .2.05 <5)2.30 
Pea .2.10 @2.40 
Red Kidney .2.00 @2.20 
White Kidney .2.40 @2.50 
Yellow Eye .2.00 @2.10 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Beet Tops, bu. 75 @1.00 
Cucumbers, choice, doz....l.25 @1.75 
Lettuce, doz. 15 @ 75 
Mushrooms, lb. 25 @ 45 
Radishes, 100 bunches.2.00 @3.00 
Tomatoes, ]b. 10 @ 25 
Prices current at N. Y. 
ing February 21, 1908, 
otherwise noted. 
GRAIN. 
during week end- 
wholesale unless 
Wheat, No. 2, Red, in 
ele. . — 
@ 97 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth. — 
@1.12 
Corn . 
. 61 
@ 62 
Oats .. 
. 58 
(f? 65 
Rye . 
@ 90 
FEED. 
Wheat Bran . 
.24.50 
@26.00 
Middlings .. 
.25.00 
@28.00 
Red Dog . 
@30.00 
Hominy chop . 
.... - 
@26.75 
Oil meal . 
.... — 
@32.00 
HAY AND 
STRAW. 
Hay, No. 1 . 
_18.00 
@10.00 
No. 2 . 
@17.50 
No. 3 . 
_14.00 
@16.00 
(’lover Mixed . 
_14.00 
@17.00 
Clover . 
@16.00 
Straw, Long Rve. 
_12.00 
@14.00 
Short and Oat .... 
_10.00 
@11.00 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
32 % 
31 
30 
25 
24 
22 
MILK. 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.81 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3% cents to 26-cent zone ship¬ 
pers. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best . — 
Good to prime . 27 
Storage . 25 
State Dairy . 21 
Factory . 20 
Packing stock . 19 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best. — 
Common to good . 12 
Skims . 4 
EGGS. 
Fancy white . 31 
White, good to choice. 28 
Mixed colors, best. — 
Western and Southern .... 23 
Storage . 13 
„ DRIED APPLES. 
Evaporated, fancy . 10 
Evap., common to good. 7 
Sun Dried . 6 
Chops, 100 lbs. — 
„ , HOPS. 
Prime to fancy . 14 
Common to good . 9 
Olds . 4 
German crop, 1907.... .. . . 28 
FRUITS. 
.4.00 
.2.00 
.6.00 
. 15 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
16 
14 
9 
32 
30 
27 
26 
20 
11 
9 
7% 
2.00 
@ 
@ 
@ 
15 
13 
7 
34 
FRESH 
Apples, best, bbl.. 
Common to good 
Cranberries, bbl. .. 
Strawberries, qt. .. 
Oranges. Calif., box.2.75 
Florida .2.50 
Jamaica, bbl.3.50 
Grape Fruit, box.4.50 
@5.00 
@ 3.50 
@10 00 
@ 30 
@3.75 
@ l 50 
@4.50 
@6.50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, Bermuda, bbl.4.00 
Florida, No. 1. bbl.5.00 
Carolina, No. 1, bbl.2.50 
Long Island, bbl.3.00 
Maine, bbl. or bag.2.50 
State & W'n, 180 lbs_2.50 
Sweet potatoes. Jersey, bbl. 3.00 
Artichokes, Calif., drum. .. .8.00 
Asparagus, Calif., bunch ..1.00 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 10 
Beets. N. 0., 100 bchs_2.50 
Carrots, N. O., bbl.2-50 
Celery, Calif., case.4.25 
Florida, case .1.00 
Chicory, N. O., bbl.2.50 
Cucumbers, Florida, basket..2.00 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton.. 10.00 
Red, ton .15.00 
Florida, new, crate.1.00 
Cauliflowers, Fla., basket.. 1.00 
Escarol N. O., bbl.3.00 
Eggplants, Florida, box....1.00 
Kale, Norfolk, bbl. 65 
Kohlrabi, N. O., 100 bchs..2.00 
Lettuce, Florida, basket.... 1.00 
Leeks. N. O., 100 bunches. .2.00 
Onions, Conn., white, bbl...3.00 
Conn., yellow .2.25 
Conn., red .2.25 
State & W’n, bag.2.00 
Okra, Florida, carrier.1.50 
Oystorplant, 100 bunches... 1.00 
Peppers, Florida, carrier. .. 75 
Parsnips, bbl. 75 
Peas. Florida, basket.2.00 
Parsley, Bermuda, box.1.75 
New Orleans, bbl.6.00 
Romaine, N. O., bbl.2.00 
Florida, basket .1.00 
Bermuda, crate . 50 
Radishes, N. O., bbl.2.50 
String beans, Fla., crate.. 2.00 
Spinach, Norfolk, bbl.1.00 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl.... 75 
N. O., white, bbl.1.00 
Tomatoes, Florida, carrier. .1.00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb. -—- @ 
Fowls . 11 @ 
Turkeys . 8 @ 
Ducks . 13 @ 
Geese . 10 @ 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys . 12 @ 
Chickens, best broilers .... 25 @ 
Good to prime and roasting 17 @ 
Lower grades . 11 @ 
Fowls . 10 @ 
Capons .16 @ 
Ducks . 12 @ 
Geese . 8 @ 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
@5.50 
@6.00 
@ 3.50 
@3.25 
@3.00 
@2.75 
@4.50 
@12.00 
@ 2.00 
@ 14 
@4.50 
@3.00 
@4.75 
@2. Q 0 
@3.00 
@4.00 
@14.00 
@18.00 
@1.50 
@2.00 
@4.00 
@2.00 
@ 75 
@4.00 
@2.50 
@3.00 
@6.00 
@2.75 
@2.75 
@3.50 
@2.50 
@3.00 
@1.50 
@1.25 
(<< 5.00 
@ 2.00 
@7.50 
@3.00 
@ 2.00 
@1.25 
@3.00 
<g LOO 
@2.50 
@ 1.10 
@1.50 
@3.00 
11 % 
13 
13 
15 
11. 
17 
28 
20 
16 
13 
23 
14 
12 
Calves, 
100 lbs.8.00 
@12.00 
Lambs, 
hothouse, head.5.00 
@11.00 
Pork . . 
.6.00 
@7.50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers 
@5.75 
Cows 
.2.00 
@4.00 
@4.00 
Calves 
@9.00 
Sheep , 
@4.00 • 
Lambs 
.7.00 
@7.50 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
The only real potato boom of the sea¬ 
son is on hand at this writing, but the 
general impression is that' it will be short¬ 
lived. The cold snap is probably the chief 
cause, as it prevented shipments and dam¬ 
aged a good many lots of otherwise good 
stock. Long Island potatoes have sold 
as high as $3.25, and State up to $2.50 
per 180 pounds. 
Farm Help Wanted. —From the number 
of questions received it is evident that the 
help question is as serious as ever this 
Spring, despite the fact that large numbers 
of men are out of work, with but little 
prospect of having anything to do in their 
trades this season. At least some of these 
men can do farm work, and the indications 
are that it will be this or nothing with 
many. There is a perhaps well-founded 
prejudice against employing factory, shop 
or city men for farm work on the ground 
that they have had shorter hours and a 
higher scale of wages than the farmers can 
afford; that if they are obliged to do farm 
work temporarily they will quit as soon 
as anything in the shop line can be had. 
In spite of this we believe that many farm¬ 
ers are going to solve their help problem 
this year by picking up these men, some 
of whom will make permanent homes in 
the country. Try a small want advertise¬ 
ment in the local papers in one or two 
large towns in your section, especially 
those where shops are closed or on short 
time. The labor bureau ot the New York 
State Department of Agriculture, 23 Park 
Row, New York, has done good work in 
supplying farm help, especially jScandi- 
navian immigrants. It is also said that the 
Department of Commerce and Labor, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., is making an effort to help 
the unemployed and farmers to get to¬ 
gether. Terence V. Powderly, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., is the Government official in 
charge of this work. 
“Sanitary Milk Pail.” —The writer has 
just examined a so-called “sanitary” milk 
pail kept in stock by a dairy supply house 
in this city, and alleged to have been made 
at the suggestion of some one in the N. Y. 
NEW-YORKER 
Board of Health. The top of the pail is 
covered, with the exception of an opening 
about six inches in dimeter, in which a 
wire strainer with bottom an inch below 
top of pail is set. You are supposed to 
milk directly into the strainer, which 
catches any dirt that falls and keeps it 
out of the pail. This is a beautiful idea, 
but the man who evolved it evidently 
thought that the streams of milk drop like 
a gentle rain instead of hard enough to 
dissolve the soluble portion of the dirt and 
force it through the strainer into the sup¬ 
posedly clean milk below. This pail is 
merely a mill for grinding up the dirt and 
mixing it into the milk. The writer has 
milked a large number of cows, kept under 
ordinary farm conditions, and knows that 
it is possible to have the milk clean without 
any elaborate paraphernalia. Of course 
this cannot be done if the cows, stable, 
milker’s hands or clothes are filthy, but 
these conditions are all opposed to sane 
dairying. It would be as sensible to do 
family washing in a mud-puddle. 
__ w. w. H. 
Commercial Canning and Apple But¬ 
ter. —What information can you give me 
in regards to a canning factory? One to 
can tomatoes, 10,000 cans per day; also 
sweet corn and apples. What should such 
a plant fully equipped cost, size, etc.? Do 
you know of any successful apple butter 
factories and their methods and apparatus? 
Bedford, Pa. b. f. l. 
A Hen Record. —I give you my returns 
from poultry for the month of January just 
passed. From my 48 purebred Brown Leg¬ 
horn pullets, hatched last May, I have sold 
just 51% dozen eggs at an average of 28 
cents per dozen ; besides we have used some 
in family which I have not kept account of. 
Who can show a better month's work for 
that number of pullets for month of Jan¬ 
uary? w. s. g, 
Castorland, N Y 
Pa Twaddles: “Tommy, I am not at 
all pleased with the report your mother 
gives me of your conduct to-day.” 
lommy Twaddles: “I knowed you 
wouldn’t be, an’ I told her so. But she 
went right ahead an’ made th’ report. 
Jest like a woman, ain’t it?”—Cleveland 
Leader. 
“Call that a ham sandwich ?” ex¬ 
claimed an absent-minded man at a rail¬ 
way refreshment room. “It’s the worst 
I ever ate. No more taste than saw¬ 
dust, and so small you could hardly see 
it.” “You’ve been eating your ticket*” 
said the attendant—“this is your sand¬ 
wich.”—The Australasian. 
RAW FURS 
WANTED. 
Free price list and best posting possible for 
the asking. 
LOWELL LAMB & CO., 
52 East 10th St., New York, N. Y. 
A C* C" fVJ TO make money with 
I O the R. B. Patent 
Glass Cone Lamp Burner. Guaranteed to 
give one-third more light; uses only one-half 
as much oil: lasts five times louger. Agents 
sell to nineteen out of twenty families, from one to twelve burners 
each. One agent sold sixty-eight dozen the first week. A boy, 
before and after school hours, cleared $4.50 in two days. A lady 
cleared $‘.£7.25 in sixteen hours. Ask for Circular and Terms to 
Agts. Sample, 30 cts. I. C. 1MBODEN CO. f Clconu, Pa. 
STICKNEY GASOLINE ENGINES 
ARE THE BEST 
The engine with an 
OilTSlOE IGNITER 
'Stationary 
Portable and 
Wood Sawing 
Outfits 
SEND FOR CATALOG 
CHAS. A. STICKNEY CO., - 55 Batterymarch St„ Boston 
You need a Green Mountain 8ilo 
So write For Special Offer 
For Early Orders 
Low Prices if ordered NOW. 
Creamery Package Mfg. Co., 
220 wets STREET. RUTLAND, VT 
I IGHT BRAHMAS, prize stock. PEKIN 
^ DUCKS. O. Gordon. H.F.D. 1, S] akors, N.Y. 
HOLL1KOOD POULTRY FART I- Eggs and 
“ Stock. Write for catalogue. Baby chicks and 
ducklings. F. T. Herbert, prop., Wyo ming, Del. 
Manokin White Leghorns Satisfy 
Bred 13 years from best laying flocks in America. 
Stock and eggs at Farmer’s Prices. 
R. B. PUSEY, Princess Anne, Md. 
40 WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 
Must Go by Marcli 15th. Walnut Hill Stock 
Farm, Nathaniel Bacon, Mgr., Talcott, W. Ya. 
WHITE CHINESE GEESE, Pekin Ducks and 
n SC. and K.C. Wh. and S.C. Buff Leghorns stock 
and eggs. Miss Zella Wilson, Chandlersvllle, O. 
FOR 4JAI for Hatching from White 
I WH vNLL Plymouth ltocks, and White Wy- 
andottes of the best strains; $1.00 for 15; $5.00 for 
100. G. H. BARKER, Littleton, Mass. 
U*-LP FOR FARMS furnished by THE IM- 
■■ MIGRANT LABOR EXCHANGE, INC.. 2 
Carlisle Street, New York. 
WAMTFD- Matl w h 0 understands making good 
i lu butter to take charge of Dairy under 
foreman s instructions. Must be absolutely sober 
and honest and furnish references. Wagos, married 
man, $50.00 monthly and house rent; single man, 
$35.00 monthly and board. Apply 
_THE NOE FARM, Madison, N. J. 
PI F AQP send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
> LLrtQL mission House inNew York. Established 
1838. Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultry, Hay, Apples, etc 
E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St.. New York, 
WM, H. COHEN & CO., 
Commission Merchants, 
229 and 23t Washington Street, New York. 
HOTHOUSE LAMBS, CALVES 
AND POULTRY. 
Also FURS, GINSENG and FANCY ECCS. 
Hothouse Lambs, 
Calves. Poultry, Fancy Eggs, Hothouse Pro¬ 
ducts, Fruits, Vegetables. Top prices secured 
for choice goods. Correspondence solicited. 
Archdeacon & Co., 100 Murray Street, N. Y. 
GKO. P. HAMMOND. KST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & GO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
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Large modern house, 10 rooms. Ideal place for one 
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H. Latkrop, North Franklin, Conn. 
■TEN ACRE TRUCK AND POULTRY 
■ FARM, close to Norfolk, Va. Rich, black 
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exceptional opportunity. $ 1 , 000 ; terms to suit. 
Write. I. HERZ, 2 Carlisle St., New York. 
6000 
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