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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
331 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, April 4, 1908. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Farm and the Spinster.309, 310 
Plan for a Maryland Farm. 310 
Notes on Southwest Nebraska. 310 
The Highest Bred Seed. 311 
That Southern Hay Farm. 311 
The Cabbage Maggot. 311 
Ke-seeding a Meadow. 312 
Quality of Wild Parsnips. 312 
Destroying Asparagus Beetles. 312 
A Bag of Fertilizer. 313 
Sprouted Seed Potatoes.. 313 
Wheat Straw for Potatoes. 313 
Early Potatoes .. 314 
Manure with Pine Needles. 314 
A General Purpose Fertilizer. 315 
Grass and Grain Mixture. 315 
Kainit on lien Manure. 315 
Ashes. Hen Manure and Hand Plaster. 315 
Fitting and Selecting Seed. Oats. 310 
Questions from Indiana. 310 
Clover and Turnip Seeding. 317 
Fertilizing Value of Soot. 317 
Fertilizing the Corn Crop. 317 
Manure or Chemicals for Alfalfa. 317 
Hope Farm Notes. 319 
Club-Foot in Cabbage. 331 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Governor Hughes and the Cattle Case. 321 
Weeds and Sheep. 324 
Ration for Milch Cows. 324 
Blood Spots in Eggs. 324 
Hens Eating Their Eggs. 320 
Metal Collars for Horses.326 
Why Not More Sheep?. 326 
Ration for Fresh Cow. 327 
Training a Colt. 327 
Arsenic for Horses. 327 
Horse with Worms. 328 
Scratches..... 328 
Horse Out of Condition. 328 
Lice on Horses. 328 
Horse with Mange. 328 
Cement Henhouses . 328 
The Families of Jersey Cattle. Part III 329 
The Calf's Horne. 329 
HORTICULTURE. 
Planning the Home Grounds. 311 
Pear Blight . 312 
Apples for Worcester Co., Mass.317 
Ruralisms. 318 
Cement Hotbed ... 327 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 322 
Another Suet Pudding. 322 
Grandmother’s Roast Chicken. 322 
The Rural Patterns. 323 
Some Suggestions for Bedding. 323 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Soldering Iron . 313 
Keep Them at Home. 316 
Dynamo for Use With Gasoline Engine 317 
Editorials. 320 
Events of the Week. 321 
Publisher's Desk . 330 
A Word for the Cat. 331 
MARKETS 
Prices current at New York during week 
ending March 27, 1908, wholesale unless 
otherwise noted. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, Red. 
No. 1, Northern, Duluth. 
Corn. b........ .......... 
.* 70 
@1.01 
@1.12 
<ai 75 
@ 00 
Oats ... 
@ 78 
FEED. 
Bran .. 
Middlings . 
Red Dog . 
.26.50 
@28.00 
@29.50 
@30.50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Ha.v, No. 1 . 
No. 2 . 
No. 3 . 
Clover Mixed . 
Clover . 
Straw, Long Rye. 
Short and Oat. 
18.00 
.15.00 
.14.00 
. 9.00 
@19.00 
@17.50 
@10.00 
@10.50 
@15.00 
@14.00 
@11.00 
MILK. 
New York Exchange price $1.71 per 40- 
quart can, L.T.ing 3cents to 26-cent zone 
shippers. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, fancy . — @ 29| 
Fair to gc-d . 23 @ 28 
Stato Dairy . 20 @ 26 
Factory . 17 @ 20 
Packing stock . 16 @ 19 
CHEESE. 
Full cream, best . -—- (5) lO 1 ^ 
Common to good . 14 @ 16 
Skims . 3 8 
EGGS. 
Fancy white . 19 @ 20 
White, good to cho'ce.... 17 @ 18 
Mixed colors best. 15 @ 16 
Western and Southern.... 14 @ 16 
Duck eggs, doz. 26 @ 30 
Goose eggs . 70 <§> 75 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., fancy. — @ 10 
Evap.. common to good.. 79% 
Sun dried .7. 6 @ 7 
Chops, 100 lbs.1.75 @1.80 
Raspberries, lb. 25 @ 28 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, best, bbl.3.00 @4.00 
Common to good.1.50 @2.50 
Cranberries, bbl.6.00 @12.00 
Strawberries, Fla., qt.25 @ 40 
VEGETABLES;. 
Potatoes, Bermuda, bbl.3.50 @5.75 
Florida.4.00 @0.00 
Long Island, bbl.2.50 @2.75 
Maine, bbl. — @2.50 
State and W’n, 180 lbs... 2 00 @2.25 
Sweet potatoes, bu. basket. 1.50 @2.25 
Asparagus. Calif., doz.7.00 @10.00 
Chicory, bbl.2.00 @3.00 
Charleston, doz .3.00 @8.00 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 5 @ 15 
Carrots, new, bbl.2.50 @3.50 
Chicory, bbl.2.00 @3.00 
Cucumbers, bu.2.00 @4.00 
Cabbage, old, ton .6.00 @10.00 
New, bbl. crate.1.25 @1.50 
Eggplants, bu.1.00 @2.00 
Kale, bbl. 50 @ 75 
Lettuce, %-bbl. basket. 50 @2.00 
Onions, white, bbl.4.00 @5.50 
Yellow and red.2.00 @2.50 
Peppers, 24-qt carrier.1.00 @1.50 
String beans, bn.1.50 @4.00 
spinach, bbl.1.00 @150 
Tomatoes, 24-qt. carrier.. 1.00 @2.75 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, best, doz. 
@1.25 
No. 2, box. 
@4.00 
Lettuce, doz. 
25 
@ 
75 
Mushrooms, lb. 
25 
@ 
55 
Radishes, 100 bunches. 
2.00 
@ 
3.00 
Tomatoes, lb. 
15 
25 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls. 
_ 
@ 
14 
Roosters. 
9 
(a>. 
12 
Turkeys. 
12 
(a 
14 
Ducks. 
— 
@ 
15 
Geese.. 
8 
@ 
10 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
12 
@ 
17 
Chickens, fancy broilers.... 
35 
@ 
40 
Com. to good and roasting 
16 
@ 
20 
Low grades . 
. . 12 
@ 
15 
11 
(dl 
14 
Ducks. 
8 
0 
10 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves. 6!£@ 9% 
Lambs, hothouse, head.4.00 @7.00 
Pork. 5 @ 7i/o 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers. 
Bulls. 
.5.00 
Cows. 
Calves. 
.4.50 
Shepp. , . 
Lambs. 
Hogs. 
@6.75 
@4.70 
@4.00 
(if 8.00 
@5.00 
@8.60 
@5.25 
A WORD FOR THE CAT. 
I just want to say a few words to J. S., 
whose letter appears under Hope Farm 
Notes, page 127. I think he condemns 
cats altogether too much. True, there are 
cats that are nuisances because they catch 
chickens, birds, and the like, but they 
do not begin to do the damage that his 
“intelligent” dogs do to young cattle, sheep, 
and even to poultry. It seems to me a 
wonder that he didn't include chickens in 
his condemnation, for don’t they ever 
scratch in the garden? Oh, his are shut 
up, are they, and it’s his neighbor's that 
do the scratching. Well, isn’t the* cat 
that catches his chickens his neighbor’s, 
too? I do not like a dog, but I am not 
going to call them “the most despicable” 
animals on earth. There are a good many 
more worthless dogs in this country than 
there are cats, and the damage they do 
is more than a hundredfold as great. 
For me, I should like to see every dog tax 
placed at $25, and if cats were taxed ij 
would be a good thing—for the cats. There 
wouldn’t be so many homeless ones left in 
our cities and towns each Spring and Fall. 
Give the cats the protection and maybe 
such people as “J. S.” must have been 
when a boy will be more careful bow they 
maltreat a stray cat, to let it crawl away 
painfully hurt, maybe to die before it 
can reach home. I should judge that 
“J. S.” is a fair type of the game hog we 
are so familiar with, that comes in the 
Fall to trample all over a man’s farm, 
leave bars down or tear down walls, shoot 
toward his buildings, and make himself 
generally disagreeable by his lawlessness. 
Why doesn't he shoot every dog he sees on 
sight? They are a thousand times more 
likely on “mischief bent” when away from 
home in the fields than the cat. If I ever 
caught any hunter on my land indiscrim¬ 
inately shooting cats he’d he a wiser man 
before I was through with him. I think 
I will make it a rule from now on to 
have every gunner I can arrested for tres¬ 
passing, for my observation teaches me 
that thev are “only on mischief bent,” 
and are about the “meanest animal on 
God’s footstool.” I have no sympathy or 
respect for such men. They are in the' 
same class and a worse nuisance than the 
“auto hog.” Treat the cat as kindly as 
you would your horse or dog, and don’t 
starve it Give it a fair show and it will 
repay you. c. b. f. 
Massachusetts. 
The public auction sale which was held 
at the Sharon Valley Stock Farm March 
18, 1908, was very successful. The first 
animal that stepped out on the tanbark at 
9.30 a. m. sharp was a beautiful chestnut 
Belgian mare, Mina de Zuzenkerke 55729 
Amer. No. 450, rising three years old, 
weight 1,800 pounds; considered by all 
judges to he the best draft mare that ever 
came across the Atlantic. She was bought 
by G. C. Huffman. Lancaster, O.; price 
$1,005. The imported maresl ranged in 
price from $450 to $1,005 each, making an 
average of $603.40 per head. The highest 
priced stallion sold at the auction was a 
fine bay Belgian rising four years old, 
weighed 1,850 pounds; sold to W. C. Saw¬ 
yer, Lockburn. O., for $1,350. There were 
a number of home-bred stallions sold, extra 
good ones. They averaged in price from 
$500 to $1,200 each. Two or throe of 
them were not full bloods and of course 
were not registered. The auctioneer held 
the crowd from 9.30 until 6 p. m., and 
Col. Crawford stood by his side on the stand 
and announced the breeding, age and sound¬ 
ness of every animal that was sold under 
the "hammer, and the audience appreciated 
the fairness of the statements, and bid 
without any hesitation. This Is what 
made the sale such a success, and the 
purchasers were well satisfied c. 
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$5 pr 100; Exhibition matings $3 pr 15, $5 pr 30. Stock 
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EGGS FOK HATCHING, $1,16; $1.75, 30; $3.25, 60; $6,100, 
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A few ehoice cows to spare. MAPLEHURST 
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WESTERN CANADA 
Some of the choicest lands for grain growing, stock 
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Entry fee in each case is $10.00. For pamphlet “Last 
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An endless variety in size, 
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The Rural New-Yorker, 409 Pearl St., 
New York. 
Don’t Wear a Truss 
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scientific discovery with auto¬ 
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the brokeu parts together and 
binds them as you would a 
broken limb. It absolutely 
holds firmly and comfortably 
and never slips, always light 
and coo land conforms to every 
movement ofthe body without 
chafing or hurting. I make it 
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use no salves, no harness, no lies, uo fakes. I just give you a 
straight business deal at a reasonable price. 
C. E. Brooks, 6217 Brooks Bldg., Marshall, Mich. 
The undisputed success of the 
Auction Sale, March 18th, at the 
SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, 
was proven by the buyers who represented every draft horse 
section and who went home more than pleased with their pur¬ 
chases. There are 80 head now on the water from Belgium, and 
bound for the Sharon Valley Stock Farm, Newark, O., and they 
will be ready for sale either privately or by auction in a very 
short time. The Sharon Valley Stock Farm has now become 
the leading draft horse market of America, and it is the only place 
to go to purchase the best draft stallions and mares obtainable at 
a reasonable price. Send for catalogs. All customers met at the 
trains with conveyances. 
COL. G. W. CRAWFORD, Prop, and Owner, 
Citizens ’Phone 266. Bell ’Phone 651 W- 
