1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, April 15, 1911. 
FARM TOriCS. 
The King Road Drag.4S9, 
Corn After Vetch. 
Alfalfa Growing in Michigan. 
The Story of a Canning Factory... 
The Joy in “Back to the Band'... 
A Large Crop of Clover Hay. 
Growing Seed of Hairy Vetch. 
How to Use Lime. 
Corn Smut and Seed Corn. 
Corn Notes . 
Potato Situation . 
Tar on Seed Corn. 
Corn Growing in Illinois . 
Flowing Clover: Flint Corn. 
Champion Potato Diggers. 
Dope Farm Notes . 
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COTTON 
New York, Middling Upland. 14.60 
Middling Gulf. 14.85 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 13.87 
Good Middling. 14.70 
WOOL 
NewYorkFleeces,Delaine.unwashed.. .24 © .25 
Ohio half blood combing.25 © .27 
Kentucky, three-eighths blood.25 © .2654 
Micnigan. half blood.25 @ .26 
TOBACCO. 
Conn. broadleaf-Hller.08 © .10 
Fine wrppcs.50 @ .60 
N. Y. State Fillers. .05 @ .06 
Fine and Selections.12 @ .16 
Ohio Zimmer s Spanish.19 @ .20 
Virginia Dark Lugs.07 @ .0954 
Dark Loaf.10 @ .20 
Bright Cutters.12 @ .30 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
That Celebrated Guernsey Case. No. I.. 
The Virginia Hen Contest. 
Testing a Holstein Cjw. 
Live Stock in Ohio. 
I>ame Pigs . 
Mr. Taylor’s Side of the Guernsey Cow 
Case . 
The Woman Hen Farmer. 
The Houdan Birds . 
That Cow-Hen Controversy. 
Express Rates on Eggs. 
Feather Fulling . 
Blood Spots in Eggs. 
Those .$12 Hens. 
A Chicken Law. 
Milk . 
The Foley Milk Bill. 
Sanitary Milk Pail. 
Notes from the Dairymen's League.... 
HORTICULTURE. 
Failure of Peach Buds. 
Pecan Trees in Kansas. 
Dry Bordeaux . 
Lime-Sulphur and Arsenates. 
Cow Manure for a Hotbed.. 
The Fruit Outlook. 
Educational Horticulture in Virginia., 
New Plan of Tomato Growing.. 
Who Produced the Abundance Plum?. 
Is Oldenburg Apple Self-Fertile. 
Flora of Puget Sound. 
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WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 502 
Doughnuts and Crullers. 502 
More About Fudge. 503 
Ferns from the Woods. 503 
Chopped Horseradish . 503 
The Rural Patterns. 503 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Cheap Paint . 493 
Products, Prices and Trade. 496 
Editorials . 500 
Publisher's Desk . 510 
MARKETS. 
( Continued from page 507.) 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Mushroom market improved. Tomatoes 
and cucumbers dull. 
encumbers, best, doz.75 © 1.00 
Common to good.50 @ .60 
Musnrooms, lb.20 
Radishes, UK) bunches. 2.00 
Rhubarb, doz bunches.25 
Tomatoes, )b.05 
© .40 
@ 2 75 
.65 
.10 
© 
© 
LIVE POULTRY 
There is an active demand for fat fowls, 
ducks and geese for the Hebrew Passover 
holidays. 
Chickens, lb.14 © .15 
Fowls.18 © .19 
Boosters.09 66 .10 
Ducks.16 06 .18 
Geese.09 © .10 
Turkeys.12 © .14 
DRESSED POULTRY-— Fresh Killed 
Fowls and fancy broilers in moderate 
supply and market firm. 
Turkeys. Fancy.19 @ 20 
Commoii to Good.16 @ .18 
Chickens, fancy broilers, lb. 35 @ .40 
Broilers, common to good.25 © .30 
Fowls. 14 @ .16 
Squabs, doz. 1.75 @4.75 
DRESSED POULTRY-FROZEN 
Roosters, ducks and geese very dull; 
fowls firm. 
Turkeys, best. 
© 
.23 
Chickens, milk-fed broilers . 
.22 
© 
.25 
© 
.22 
Milk-fed roasters. 
.17 
© 
.18 
Corn-fed roasters. 
© 
.16 
Fowls. 
© 
.15 
Ducks, best. 
66 
.17 
Common to good. 
.13 
66 
.15 
Geese. 
@ 
.12 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS 
Receipts of calves are large and trade 
dull. Hothouse lambs very plentiful and 
running low in quality. 
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.08 h> 
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firm ; 
Medium to heavy. 
Roasting Pigs, lb. 
HAY AND 8TRAYV 
Choice Timothy and clover 
lower grades dull. 
Hay, No. 1, ton.20.00 © 21.00 
No. 2.18.00 66 19.00 
No. 3.14.00 © 16.00 
Clover Mixed.12.00 © 18 00 
Clover.11.00 © 16.00 
Straw, Rye. 9.00 © 11.00 
Oat and Wheat.8.00 © 9.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Most of the native steers and cows offered 
are low grade and hard to sell. Calves 
scarce; medium and upper grades selling 
well. Demand for lambs active. 
Native Steers. 100 lbs.6.25 @ 6.65 
Oxen and Stags. 4.50 © 5.25 
C°ws. 2.40 @ 5.00 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.6.00 @ 8.25 
C»6s .4.00 © 5.50 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 4.00 @ 4.50 
Lambs. 6.00 © 7.30 
Hogs.. @7.50 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1.05 © ... 
No. 2, Red. 93 © ... 
No. 1 Macaroni.95 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush.49 © 
Oats, as to weight, bush.35 @ 
K ye.. @ 
MILL FEED 
Spring Bran, ton. 26.25 © 27.75 
Standard Middlings. 27.00 © 28.00 
Red Dog. 28.00 @ 29.00 
Hominy Chop. 21.50 © 22.70 
Linseed Meal. 34.50 @ 35.00 
Corn Meal. 23.00 © 24.00 
.53 
.38 
.80 
Spring-halt. 
ricase let me know what causes a horse 
to have the spring-halt and if these is any 
cure for it? s. J. B. 
New York. 
In some cases the peculiarity in action is 
the result of a nervous disorder (chorea or 
St. Vitus dance) ; in others it comes from 
accident, or overstrain. The former type of 
the trouble usually is incurable; peroneal 
tenotomy often succeeds in the other cases 
and always is worth trying if an expert sur¬ 
geon can be employed. It consists in sev¬ 
ering the peroneal tendon below the hock 
joint a. s. a. 
Pawing. 
I have a horse which continually paws the 
floor while in the stable. I do not under¬ 
stand the cause of it. What can I have 
done to prevent his pawing? k. D. 
New York. 
See that the horse is worked every day or 
turned out for abundant exercise and that 
he is fed regularly. If the stall floor is not 
bedded and horse has to stand on it all day 
bo may not care to urinate, and that would 
induce pawing. Give him a box stall and 
bed with shavings. Constipation, or worms, 
also cause pawing and have to he treated. 
If the habit continues when possible causes 
are removed, hobbles may be put on fore 
feet. a. s. a. 
Pigs Dying. 
1. Can you tell what the matter is with 
two weeks old pigs when they breathe with 
difficulty? This noisy breathing, or heaves, 
is increased when they exercise. They take 
little food and do not grow much. Three 
out of 10 have died since they were two 
weeks old, the last being five weeks old. 
The sow is not fat, hut has been well fed 
through tlie Winter, and her grain has been 
increased since the pigs were born. The 
ration consists of mixed feed and ground 
oats and peas and a small amount of corn- 
meal, with a sufficient amount of separator 
milk. She had also lime, charcoal, salt and 
clover hay. 2. What causes dysentery in 
cows at this time of year? Is it due 
to feeding Red-top hay? The excreta be¬ 
comes very soft. The trouble lasts about 
two days with each animal. The cows 
shrink in milk during this time, hut gain 
again when it is over. c. J. s. 
Vermont. 
1. Dust from the bedding is a very com¬ 
mon cause, as it induces fatal pneumonia. 
Dusty and chaffy oat straw often used for 
bedding is a fertile source of such troubles. 
Shredded corn fodder makes a safe bed for 
new-born pigs. Overfeeding and lack of ex¬ 
ercise are the cause of “thumps,” which 
may he the disease present. Make the sow 
take lots of exercise before farrowing and 
as soon as possible after farrowing, and do 
not feed heavily. Then the pigs will not be 
likely to suffer. 2. Indigestion from moldy 
or otherwise spoiled food or some unusual 
food may be suspected as the cause. Such 
cause will have to be determined and re¬ 
moved. Feeding cotton-seed meal tends to 
check scours at time of changing hay or 
turning on Spring grass. a. s. a. 
Cars of all makes bought and sold. 
“Hints to Buyers and SeHers”mailedFree. 
20th CENTURY AUTOMOBILE CO. 
246 West 49th, near Broadway, New York 
BAR6AINS 
FOR SALE—Eureka PotatoPlanter.littleused,with 
fertilizer attachment; two-horse, one-row machine 
in good condition. Two 360-egg Cyphers Incubators, 
1907 model, cheap. Marcus M. Browne, Marlboro, Mass. 
JOHN C. QUICK CO. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 34 JAY STREET, NEW YORK 
POULTRY FARM EGGSoUR SPECIALTY. 
QUICK Returns Our Motto. Established 1855 
SHIP YOUR CONSIGNMENTS 
-TO- 
GEO. OLIVER & COMPANY 
Established 1SSO 
COMMISSION MERCHANT8 
WEST WASHINGTON MARKET. NEW YORK, N. Y. 
PROMPT RETURNS 
Hothouse Lambs. 
Calves, Poultry, Fancy Eggs, Hothouse Products, 
Fruits, Vegetables. Top prices secured for choice 
goods. Correspondence solicited. 
Archdeacon & Co., 100 Murray St., N. Y. 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., 
Boston. 
GKOjP. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN U ETC D III 1 fl 1/ IIIBTRIIUPItTA 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS 
This Dain Loader 
Solves the Haying Problem 
As the haying season draws near, even 
though hired help is scarce and the 
weather threatening, you won't need to 
worry if you have a Dain Loader. For with 
a Dain you can get your hay onto your 
wagons in quick order. It’s a real loader, 
not a mere hay elevator. The Dain has a 
force delivery that puts the hay well for¬ 
ward on the wagon where one man can 
easily handle it. There is no return 
carrier to drag the hay off. 
The Dain is the one loader for which 
apologies or excuses need never be made. 
Its mechanical principles are perfect. It 
is fractical down to the smallest details. 
By the overlapping stroke of the rakes, 
the ground is practically raked twice, 
gathering the hay cleanly. The hay is 
picked up so gently that the tender leaves 
are unharmed and the stalks unbroken. 
The Dain is the lightest draft loader; 
All loaders claim lightest draft. The 
actual test with the dynamometer—the 
instrument that registers draft —troves the 
Dain is lightest draft. How far it excels 
other loaders in every way you can readily 
sec by reading these 
Dain Points of Superiority 
Geared properly to rake cleanly 
and run easily 
No long, crooked crank shaft! 
operated Ly swinging pitmans 
Force delivery shoves the hay 
well forward on load 
No return carrier to drag hay off 
load 
Saves one man’s labor over other 
types of loaders 
Supported entirely upon wheels; 
runs most easily 
Elevating parts hammock 
mounted 
Hinged tongue for coupling with 
any height wagon 
Patent ed hinged board at bottom 
to turn up for windrow 
Nine gathering rakes, each inde¬ 
pendent. Can be set any distance 
from the ground 
Geared to insure greatest liny- 
gathering efficiency 
Hinged apron guides hay to load 
and prevents blowing off 
Caster wheels In rear permit 
short turns 
Wheels set under machine; works 
close to fence 
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In addition to making this loader, we 
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) 802 VINE STREET 
OTTUMWA, - IOWA 
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Shoe Boils, Capped 
Hock, Bursitis 
are hard to cure, yet 
AB$ 
will remove them and leave no blem¬ 
ish, Does not blister or remove' 
the hair. Cures any puff or swelling. Horse can 
be worked. $2.00 per bottle.delivered.Book 6 D free. 
ABSORBINE, JR-, (mankind, $1.00 bottle.) 
For Boils, Bruises, Old Sores, Swellings, Goitre, 
Varicose Veins, Varicosities. Allays Pain. 
VI. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mass. 
Sound Horses 
made and kept sound the world 
over by 
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v* OINTMENT 
Note the sign. Price $ 1.00 per 
Bottle. Of druggists or by mail. 
Testimonials free for the asking. 
W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N.Y. 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches, Ber 
ries Butter, Eggs, Ciieese, Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. 34 «& 36 Little lath ,8t„ New York. 
P'OR SALE—Farm of 150 acres, 13-room house, 
x three barns, other outbuildings, fruit, R. F. D. 
and telephone. Price $2,200; $1,000 cash, the balance 
on time. HALL’S FARM AGENCY, Owego, 
Tioga County, New York. 
(Trocars, Hopples, Impregnators) 
for Horses, Cattle, Swine, Poultry, 
Etc. Received only award World’s 
Fairs Chicago, St. Louis. Write for 
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Yorkshire Pigs From Registered Stock 
LOUIS A. HOLT, North Andover, Mass. 
Bred fg J^gy Dustin Strain W. Wyandottes and 
$1.00 per 15. 
Parks Strain Barred Roci-s. Eggs, 
H. R. STARNER, Corning, N. Y. 
S. C. W, LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCHING 
15 for $1.50, $7.00 per 100. 
‘ ch 
old hen*, $2.00, 
If nv>re than foui 
Baby Chicks, 15c. each 
Pens headed by choice cockerels direct from D. W. 
Young. E. M. YOUNG, Edenville, N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS—Single Comb White Leghorns, 
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, 10c and 12c each. 
Strong and livable. From vigorous free range stock, 
bred for utility and standard qualities. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. WESLEY GR1NNELL, Sodus, N. Y. 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORNIS 
Cockerels, $l.r»oj ** ’ ' 
chicks, 8c. each, 
chicks are dead 
to each 100 you 
buy, when 
reaching your 
express office, I 
will make good 
the loss. Cata¬ 
log about chick „— 
feeding and diseases fiee. 
C. M. Lauver. Box 73, Richfield,Pa. 
S. C W*UTE LEGHORNS, Barred Plymouth flocks, 
, 7. * Mammoth White Pekin Ducks, Stock 
hatchingeggs, chicks, ducklings. Circular Est.1904 
Abovo Poultry Farm, Chatham, Morris Co. N. J. 
C P RUFF ORPINGTON EGGS S1.50 and 53.00-Setting 
O. U. u run of pens $10.00 per 100. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. EZRA C. LEHMAN. Sharon Sprinos, N. Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE 0RPINCT0NS 
Kellerstrass strain. Eggs for hatching, $3.00 per 
15; from prize winning stock. W. A. KAISER, 
_2703 Jamaica Ave., Richmond Hill, L. I. 
Cfif}Q~ KVKKK1> PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 
L U UO Mammoth Bronze Turkeys,Pearl Guineas, 
„ T , . ABh Tndian Runner Ducks. Write for 
Free Price List. POPLAR LAWN FARMS. West Falls, U. Y. 
RIANT RRRN7F TURKEY EGGS, $3.00 per 
UIHI1I DnUllLL 10; Rose Comb R. I. Red 
Eggs, $1.00 per 15: Indian Runner Duck Eggs. $1 00 
per 10. SHROPSHIRE SHEEP. 
H. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
PRIZE WINNING STRAINS! WS 
dottes, Rhode Island Reds, both combs, Single 
Comb White and Brown Leghorns, eggs $1.50, 15; 
$7.00, 100. Light and Dark Brahmas, $2.00, 15 Cat- 
alog gratis. F. M, PRESCOTT, Riverdaie, N. J; 
KEAN’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Bred for large size, heavy laying and fancy pur¬ 
poses. Eggs, $1.00 per setting; $5.00per 100, for re¬ 
mainder of season. Address 
E. FRANKLIN KEAN .... Stanley, N. Y. 
Him Lake Poultry Farm 
WliiteWyandotte Chicks, $12 per 100. Eggs,»5per 100. 
W HITE EGG STRAIN INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS-Thor- 
oughbred, vigorous birds. Wonderful layers 
of large white eggs; muted with imported drakes, 
well marked, fawn and white; $2.00 for 15; Buff 
Orpingtons, $1.50 for 15. Liberal discount for incu¬ 
bator eggs. Cherry Hill Farms, Pittstown. N. J. 
WYCKOFF-BLANCHARD strains Single-Comb 
White Leghorns, $1.25 setting. Heavy laying 
Rose-Comb Black Minorcas, $1.50 setting. Circular 
HIGH RIDGE POULTRY FARM, Laurel. MiY 
WHITE ORPINGTONS, Cook strain; Eggs for hatching, 
" 8'2'per 15; Cockerels, $3 each; Mammoth Pekin 
Duck Eggs, $1 per 12. WAVERLEY FARMS. Haymarket. Va. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 
Free range, extra good winter laying strain, $1 00 p< 
15 eggs; $5.00 per 100. F. CYRUS TWINING, Pineville, P 
FARM SUPT. OR WORKING MANAGER, Ger- 
A man, 47, married, wants position on Grain and 
Dairy Farm; good reference and experience. 
A. JENDRICKE, Elmsforii, N. Y. 
ier 
For Sale-400 Acres 
R.R. Alfalfa soil, fine timber, splendid water power* 
M. Williams, 1317 East Genesee, Syracuse, N. Y. 
17 miles from Syracuse, 
near Ontario & Western 
Wanted—Y oung Man and sister on poultry farm: 
best references. Poultry, P. O.. Paterson, N. J. 
DLL ASK send a trial shipment to tho Oldest Com- 
* mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter 
Eggs, Poultry, Pork, Calves, Hay, Grain. Beans! 
Apples, etc. E. II. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich 8t., N.Y. 
JELLIFFE. WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York, 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited. 
