934 
December 5, 
STOVE FOR BOILING LIME-SULPHUR. 
I send sketch of a stove I had made 
last Winter to boil the lime-sulphur 
wash in. The tank is made of gal van- 
iron with angle iron around the top and 
bottom edge inside. The tank has an 
angle iron riveted to the sides about 
six inches from the bottom to carry it 
when in place on the stove. The fuel 
door is made to slide up, but it could be 
made with hinges if preferred. The tank 
has handles on the sides so that it can 
be lifted off to rinse it out. The smoke 
pipe may be any length. To keep it from 
being blown over the pipe may be wired 
to a stake driven in the ground near it. 
I used this stove last Spring in cooking 
over 1000 pounds of sulphur. The base 
is made without a bottom, and the door 
is made large to admit of using large 
pieces of wood. The tank will take 30 
pounds of lime and 30 pounds of sul¬ 
phur with the necessary water without 
danger of boiling over. 
Illinois. CHARLES HEAD. 
HOW MUCH OF THE DOLLAR ? 
The Hope Farm man’s inquiry re¬ 
garding the producer’s portion of a 
dollar invested in milk by the con¬ 
sumer is certainly timely and in my case 
uncovers a surprise. In 1907 our dairy 
herd averaged 13.5 cows; total milk pro¬ 
duction, 68,879 pounds, equal to S009 
gallons. This milk sold at the door for 
13 cents per gallon or a total of 
$1,041.17. The total cost of feeds con¬ 
sumed was $583.76, showing a gain to 
cover labor, interest on investment, de¬ 
preciation, etc., of $505.10. This milk 
was of a high grade and sold to the 
consumer for 8 r /$ cents per quart, or a 
total of $2,669.65. This product com¬ 
puted on the consumer’s price basis, 
gives the following result: 
Cents. 
Producer's cost for feed. 21.87 
Producer’s margin to cover labor, 
.investment depreciation, etc. 18.92 
Cost to dealer. 40.79 
dealer’s margin for delivery. 59.21 
Cost to the consumer.81.00 
In this case the producer gets 18.92 
cents with an investment of over 
$12,000, as against 59.21 cents and an in¬ 
vestment of not to exceed $800, showing 
a ratio of 1,3.13. I have always con¬ 
sidered this was a “wide ration” finan¬ 
cially, but never before so fully realized 
its greatly unbalanced proportions. 
Thanks to the Rural. This year, 1908, 
1 am getting about one-third more for 
milk, which with other things being 
equal would stand 25.22 cents for the 
producer and 52.91 cents for the dealer, 
or as 1.2.10. This looks somewhat bet¬ 
ter on the face of it, but in reality the 
advance in milk is being swallowed up 
by the advanced prices in feed stuffs, 
leaving the margin yet very small. I 
THE Rt'RAl NEW-VORKliR 
hope the Hope Farm man will cause 
others to figure themselves out. In 
business we use the pencil freely to de¬ 
termine our position, and the farmer 
who neglects to do likewise is making a 
mistake. b. w. putnam. 
Michigan. 
R. N.-Y.—That is as good a job of 
figuring as we have seen in many a day. 
Try it on your own business. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Foreign Game Barbed. —A poultry dealer 
in this city doing a large business in im¬ 
ported game claimed the right to sell game 
out of season here provided it came from 
a foreign country and was taken in ac¬ 
cordance with the laws there. lie was 
prosecuted and carried the case to the 
United States Supreme Court, which has 
just upheld the lower courts in decisions 
against him. This settles the matter finally 
until some change in the law is made. The 
justice in a law of this sort is scarcely evi¬ 
dent. It upsets a profitable business and 
robs hotels bills of fare of much desired 
items. Game laws are supposed to be made 
in the interest, of sportsmen, but just how 
this item benefits sportsmen or anyone else 
we are unable to see. The “dog in the 
manger’’ was a highly generous individual 
compared with the promoters of some mod¬ 
ern game laws. 
Cheese Situation. —The price in North¬ 
ern New York producing sections for the sea¬ 
son just closed has averaged a little under 
last year. Jefferson County. N. Y., holds the 
lead for cheese production, the past sea¬ 
son’s sales on the Watertown Produce Ex¬ 
change being 185,833 boxes, worth $1,- 
274,152. Adding to this the milk shipped 
and butter made gives a total dairy pro¬ 
duction of more than .$2,400,000 for the 
county. Cheese trade in New York at pres¬ 
ent is fair, and dealers handling the better 
grades are not disposed to make any cut in 
prices. Retail prices for full cream cheese 
are too high for a product that Is so easily 
handled and showing so little waste. On 
perishables the retailer has some excuse 
for taking heavy profits when he can, but 
a cheese is disposed of with practically no 
waste, as handled in dairy stores here. 
Fruits of all kinds had the usual 
Thanksgiving trade boom. Choice Baldwin 
apples sold up to $3.50, and Spitz and 
Spy, $4. Some of the choicest eastern 
grapes are saved for this and the Christ¬ 
mas trade. Four-pound baskets of prime 
Niagaras have retailed at 50 cents, but 
these were fancy and uniformly packed. 
Kieffer pears of really excellent quality are 
selling at $4 per barrel. The condition in 
oranges is not satisfactory, a great many 
being green and sour. The exception is the 
California late Valencia, the largest sell¬ 
ing for $1 per dozen. 
Poultry. —The Thanksgiving market 
windup was the worst noted here in several 
years, owing to warm sticky weather and 
fog, which tied up train and ferry service. 
Receipts proved much heavier than were 
anticipated, and 1 have never before seen 
so many scrawny turkeys offered for 
Thanksgiving. Doubtless the high prices 
of game were responsible for this rush of 
partially fattened birds. Really choice tur¬ 
keys were scarce and sold at 22 cents or 
above, while culls brought from 12 cents 
down, some going as low as seven. Con¬ 
siderable stock that should have brought 
20 cents was cut to 15 because of delay 
in getting it across the river. Dry-packed 
poultry had reached the limit of safety, 
and iced packages were sloppy, but because 
of the fog trucks and express wagons were 
unable to cross the river with anything 
like their usual promptness, As is always 
the case in such weather, scalded did not 
come out nearly so well as dry picked. In 
brisk cold weather little difference in con¬ 
dition is noted. The supply of geese was 
much in excess of requirements and they 
sold at low figures. w. w. h. 
point where they-can supply a want. Car¬ 
bohydrates pass from the leaves, not only 
downwards, to nourish new roots, but up¬ 
wards, to feed the buds, flowers, and fruit.” 
Then, this being true, and recalling that 
the bud is really the plant unit, is it 
not reasonable that the bud or scion should 
affect the resulting tree or plant, in all its 
parts? From the first the leaves of the 
bud or scion elaborate the food supply for 
the entire plant, and therefore it seems 
reasonable that the scion should dominate 
the character of the resulting tree, which is 
in line with practical experience. Whether 
the stock affects the resulting tree is an¬ 
other question, for it is not known that 
any chemical changes lake place in the 
roots, and certainly no elaboration of plant 
food takes place there. However, careful 
experimentation is a safer guide than theo¬ 
retical deductions, however logical they may 
be. My experience along these lines has 
not been extensive enough to make positive 
statements about the effect or non-effect 
of stock on scion, or vice versa, but my 
observation of numerous cases of top-work¬ 
ing, leads me to believe that such effects 
are not as marked as is sometimes as¬ 
serted. Were it so, in a few years we 
would have but one kind of apple on a 
top-worked tree where a number of kinds 
had been grafted, the resulting kind of 
apple being, as it were, a sort of graft 
hybrid, whereas the different kinds of apples 
remain true to type as long as the tree 
lives. A mutual reaction or change there 
probably is, but it is not markedly apparent. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
Family Settlement. —On page 817 I was 
very much interested in the article by W. 
A. Sherman entitled, “Why Boys Leave the 
Farms.” There is a case, next door, of the 
very same thing as M'r. Sherman wrote 
about. There were four or five boys and one 
girl, and they all married and left the 
homestead except the last: one. To-day he 
still owes for his farm, and he has streaks 
of grey hair on his head now. E. G. 
New York. 
Another Big Squash. —In answer to the 
call for the record of the largest squash, 
I would like to give you the record of 
squash grown by O. G. Eaton. On one 
vine was grown one squash weighing 137 
pounds, one 50 pounds, one 51 pounds, one 
72 pounds, 1 making in all 310 pounds of 
squash grown on one vine, and they were 
not fed in any way, and received none but 
ordinary care and attention. The squash 
weighing 137 pounds was on exhibition in 
one of the store windows for a while this 
Fall, and 1 know that the above figures 
of the weight of the four grown on the 
one vine are correct. m. l. m. 
Waitsfield, Vt 
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