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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, May 6, 1911. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Immigrating to New York State.- Part 
il. 558 
A Year's Work in Potato Breeding. . .. 559 
Carbide Residuum for Fertilizer. 560 
Green Manure Crop.560 
Preparing for Potatoes.'. 560 
Rotation from Old Soil. 560 
How He Slakes Lime. 560 
Keeping Up the Fertility. 561 
More About the Manure Spreader. 561 
Hungarian Grass or Millet. 563 
Canada Thistles . 563 
Eastern Shore Lands. 564 
Spray Mixture and Cattle. 564 
At hen Crimson Clover Fails. 565 
Stable Manure Compared with Ferti¬ 
lizer . 565 
Hope Farm Notes . 566 
Saved the Home. 566 
Corn . 567 
Corn Acreage . 569 
Chemicals and Clover. 577 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mule Raising . 
How to Hobble a Cow. 
Rats, Mice and Hens. 
Weasel that Eats Oxen. 
A “Back to the Land” Cow. 
Breeding Up Holstein Cows. 
More Experience with Horse Com¬ 
panies . 
Pigs and Molasses. 
Ration for Guernseys. 
Changing from Silage. 
Ration for Work Horses and Mules.... 
Value of Oat Hay. 
Alfalfa .Makes Good Stock. 
Tax on Milk. 
“Come Back” . 
Consider the Profit. 
That Celebrated Guernsey Case. 
Live Stock in the South. 
Pig Experience . 
Reciprocity and New England Milk.... 
Wanted, a White-egged “American”.. 
Shipping Baby Chicks. 
The Egg-eating Habit. 
Trouble with Turkeys. 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Apple Conditions in Central Illi¬ 
nois .557, 558 
Apple Maggot or “Railroad Worm”.... 559 
One-man Spray Rig. 560 
Use of Old Sawdust. 560 
Alfalfa in a Mulched Orchard. 561 
Spraying in Nebraska. 562 
Grapevines with Little Fruit. 563 
Fruits for Northeastern New York.... 563 
English Walnut in Pennsylvania. 563 
Pears in Michigan. 563 
Selling those Oklahoma Peaches. 564 
Those Barren Quince Trees. 565 
The Culture of Holly. 565 
Shrubs Propagated from Cuttings. . .. 567 
Treatment of Calla. 567 
Black Spot and Mildew on Roses. 567 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Woman and the Home. 4. 570 
My .lungle Garden. 570 
Crullers, Doughnuts and Oleykoeks.... 570 
The Rural Patterns. 571 
The Real Things of Home-making..'... 571 
Crescent Sandwiches . 571 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Tar Paper and Cement. 
A Bold Swindle in Soap. 
Coal Ashes in Concrete. 
An Old-time Fake. 
"Blood Money” . 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Working Dogs . 
Making Cement Pipe. 
'Florida’s Water Power. 
Editorials ... 
Other People’s Money. 
Events of the Week. 
Publisher’s Desk . 
Humorous . 
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MARKETS. 
( Continued f rom page 677.) 
LIVE POULTRY 
There is a considerable accumulation of 
stock and prices on fowls lower. 
Chickens, Broilers, lb.10 @ .40 
Fowls . 13 ® .14 
Roosters. .09 @ .10 
Ducks.13 @ .14 
Geese. .09 © .10 
Turkeys.13 © .13 
DRESSED POULTRY—Fresh Killed 
Fowls and roosters in fair supply, but 
trade dull. Broilers selling well. 
Turkeys. Fancy.17 © 18 
Common to Good. 15 ® .10 
Chickens, fancy broilers, 1b. 35 la) .40 
Broilers, common to good.25 © .30 
Fowls. 14 @ .10 
Squabs, dor.. 1.75 @ 4.25 
DRESSED POULTRY-FltOZEN 
Trade in roasting chickens good. Other 
stock generally dull. 
Turkeys, best.22 © .23 
Chickens, milk-fed broilers.22 © .26 
Corn-fed broilers.15 © .22 
Milk-fed roasters.17 © .18 14 
Corn-fed roasters.15 @ .10 
Fowls.*. 12 © .15 
Ducks, best. 15 <g> .10 
Common to good ..13 @ .14 
Geese.07 @ .11 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS 
Calves in moderate supply, but business 
very slow. Hothouse lambs running poor, 
a good many selling under $4. 
Calves, good to prime.08 @ .09 
Common.00 @ .07 
Lambs, hothouse, head.3.00 © 5.50 
Pork, light.09 ffi .10 
Medium to heavy. 06 © .08}£ 
HAY AND STRAW 
Market active on higher grades of Tim¬ 
othy and clover. Low grades accumulating 
and dull. 
Day, No. 1, ton.25.00 © 26.00 
No. 2. 22.00 @ 24.00 
No. 3.18.00 © 19.00 
Clover Mixed.15.00 © 21 00 
Clover...12.00 © 19.00 
Straw, Rye. 9.00 @ 10.00 
Oat and Wheat. 8.00 © 9.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers. 100 lbs .5.00 ® 6.65 
Oxen and Stags. 4.50 ©6.00 
Cows. 2.00 ® 4.50 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.6.00 © 7.00 
Culls . 4.00 © 4.50 
Sheep, ioo lbs. 2.25 & 4.00 
Lambs.5.50 © 6.00 
Hogs. 6.00 @ 7.0(1 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring ... 
... 1.06 
© 
No. 2, lied. 
... .95 
© 
No. 1 Macaroni. 
... .95 
® 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 
... .53 
la) 
.58 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 
® 
.39 
Hye. 
® 
.80 
MILL FEED 
Spring Bran, ton. 26.25 © 27.50 
Standard Middlings. 27.00 © 28.00 
Red Dog. 28.00 @ 29.00 
Hominy Chop. 22.50 ® 23.00 
Linseed Meal. 33.00 ® 34.00 
Corn Meal. 23.00 © 24.00 
COTTON 
New York, Middling Upland. 15.25 
Middling Gulf. 15.50 
New Orleans, Low Middling.. 14.70 
Good Middling. 15.60 
WOOL 
NewYorkFleeces, Delaine, unwashed.. 22 © .23 
Ohio half blood combing.25 © .26 
Kentucky, three-eighths blood.24 ® .25 
Michigan, half blood.24 @ .25 
TOBACCO. 
Conn, broadleaf-llller.08 © .10 
Finewrppe r s.50 @ .60 
N. Y.State Fillers.05 @ .06 
Fine and Selections.12 © .16 
Ohio Zimmer s Spanish.19 @ .20 
Virginia Dark Lugs.07 @ .09 
Dark Leaf.10 © .20 
Bright Cutters.12 ® .30 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Cow With Brain Trouble. 
What is the matter with my cow I first 
noticed her about two weeks ago; she 
comes out of the barn and turns around to 
the left, but lately she turns either way, 
holds her head to one side and acts queer. 
She oats well, chews her cud, and gives a 
good llow of milk. c. w. b. 
The symptoms indicate derangement of 
the brain, but this often is associated with 
indigestion. Lessen her food and increase 
exercise. Give a full dose of epsom salts 
(one pound) and afterward keep bowels 
acting freely by feeding succulent or laxa¬ 
tive foods. She may do better when grass 
can be had. a. s. a. 
Texas Fever. 
What is the best treatment to administer 
to cows stricken with Texas fever? The 
symptoms are high fever, sudden stop of 
flow of milk, constipation and retention of 
urine. The subject often dies within 24 
hours after stricken, hut sometimes will 
linger for two or three days. h. w. u. 
We are sorry to say that we can suggest 
no lim* of treatment that would be likely to 
save the animals. No remedial treatment 
has ever been found. Prevention, therefore, 
is of prime importance. It is .had by keep¬ 
ing the cattle free from the ticks which 
carry the contagion. a. s. a. 
Chorea. 
I have a large dog which has good appe¬ 
tite, hut is falling all over himself. Ills 
legs are all shaken ; besides he has two 
sores where the hair has disappeared. We 
put ointment on the two spots, hut find 
no results. l. k. 
Long Island. 
The dog apparently has chorea (St. 
Vitus’ dance) which is practically incur¬ 
able. Hair cannot he made to grow if the 
hair roots have been destroyed. Apply a 
little sulphur ointment once' daily. As a 
tonic give twice daily three drops' of Fow¬ 
ler's solution of arsenic and increase a 
drop or so daily until ill effects, such as 
diarrhoea, begin to show, at which stage go 
hack to the first dose and repeat. Let him 
live an outdoor life as much as possible. 
a. s. A. 
Irregular Teeth. 
I have an old horse which has done no 
work all Winter, is very poor. I feed him 
daily with three quarts of bran and corn 
and ground oats. It seems there is some¬ 
thing wrong with him ; he always stretches 
his head even with his neck in his chew¬ 
ing, also water runs out of his mouth all 
the time every time he drinks. He coughs 
three or four times; he has no cold. What 
is the matter with him? What can I do 
for him? I give him plenty of good cut 
hay. a. J. H. 
New Y r ork. 
There can be little question that this 
horse has a diseased or split molar tooth 
which ought to be extracted or that There 
are irregularities of the molars which make 
proper mastication of food impossible. Em¬ 
ploy a veterinary dentist to put the teeth 
in proper condition. a. s. a. 
Chronic Indigestion. 
I have a horse that will not take on 
flesh as he ought. His excrement Is thinner 
than normal and too free, and this condi¬ 
tion appears to be chronic. What can I 
do for him? f. b. T. 
Kentucky. 
It seldom pays to bother with such 
chronic cases as the teeth are likely to be 
incurably irregular or the horse may have 
a long, loose, “washy” coupling, and in that 
case will always scour when heated with 
work. Have the teeth attended to. Keep 
the horse clipped. Feed oats, bran and 
mixed" hay. If improvement is slow give 
half an ounce of Fowler’s solution of ar¬ 
senic night and morning until improvement 
is marked, then discontinue the medicine 
gradually. Treatment will not pay if the 
horse has a washy coupling and is cut up 
in the flank like a greyhound. a. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
I have a brood sow that had 13 pigs, five 
were dead, eight alive and are nice and 
healthy. When the shotes were six weeks 
old she started to vomit and never ate any¬ 
thing for three weeks. I do not know what 
to give for a cure. I feed clean corn bran 
and slop from the creamery, sometimes 
shelled corn. Could you tell' me what to 
give for a cure? p. p. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Read answer under head of “Weak Sow.” 
Stop all rich food and let her have new 
milk, to which add limewater at rate of 
one ounce to the quart of slop. Make her 
run out doors as much as possible. When 
she can take the milk without vomiting add 
middlings gradually, and after a time sub¬ 
stitute sweet skim-milk gradually for the 
new milk. A little cornmeal may also be 
worked into the slop after she is doing 
well, it may be found necessarv to wean 
the pigs. a. s. a. 
A DIP THAT DOES THE WORK 
WITHOUT INJURY 
TO THE ANIMAL OR FLEECE 
NO BURNING OF THE FIBRES; 
NO STAINING; NO POISONING; 
NO SICKENING. 
WHY USE DIPS THAT HAVE THESE DESTRUCTIVE 
AND DANGEROUS QUALITIES? WHY EXPERIMENT 
WITH UNKNOWN PREPARATIONS? 
INEXPENSIVE, EASY TO USE 
PERMITTED BY THE U.S DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE FOR THE OFFICIAL DIPPING 
OF SHEEP FOR SCAB -=^=T' 
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS 
WE HAVE BOOKLETS GIVING FULL DIRECTIONS 
FOR USE ALSO MANY VALUABLE HINTS ON 
HANDLING SHEEP. WRITE FOR FREE COPIES. 
Parke, Davis &Co 
^ -.. DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 
(. &'W \ DETROIT, MICH. 
MAY OFFERING 
of Maple Hurst Stock Farms, Guilford, Conn.: 
Pan tint's Zac Taylor, head of our Guernsey herd, 
is offered for sale to avoid inbreeding: as fine an 
animal as stands in U. S.; guaranteed perfect in 
every respect. Also one Yeailing Guernsey Bull 
sired by above-named bull and from a dam produc¬ 
ing 42 44 pounds of milk per day, testing 5.4-5.0. 
Three Registered Berkshire Boars, models of per¬ 
fection in form and points, weighing from 175 to 200 
pounds each; seven months old. Four unregistered 
but full-blooded C. W. Boars, 14 months old; all 
magnificent animals; must bo sold to make room. 
Guaranteed Tuttle Strain S. and J). C. R. 1. R. Eggs 
for hatching, $1.00 per 15; $5,00 per 100. Imperial 
Pokin Duck Eggs, $1.00 per 11; $7.00 per 100. Two 
Registered Jersey Bull Calves, four to five months 
old, from heavy producing stock and Pogis blood. 
RED CHOICE STOCK OF EITHER SEX 
PQLLED AT SPRINGDALE FARM 
- . . ' Prices reasonable 
■ TLE E. J. ADAMS, Adams Basin, N. Y* 
COWS FOR SALE 
60 TO 150 HEAD ALWAYS ON HAND 
New milkers and forward springers, in car lots, 
$.•>0.00 to $55,00, Tlie big, young, heavy milkers— 
Holsteins, Guernseys, Ayrsliires, Dm hams and big 
Devon. Family cows, shipped to all parts, $60.00. 
All cows guaranteed. Consult: 
P. L. HAWLEY 
H. R. Tel. 99.R. STILLWATER, SARATOGA CO., N. Y. 
REGISTERED AYRSHIRES —Bull Radnor Fizzaway, 3 
II years, Dull calf, yearling lieifer. Reasonable. 
MISS MOORE, 386 Washington Street, New York. 
CTERIJXG DILI, FARMS—CHESHIRE 
SWINE—Orders booked for Spring Pigs reg¬ 
istered stock and grades; large litters and best of 
breeding. Bioelow 8 Swain, Oodensbura, Sussex Co., N.J. 
nhpQtpr WhitPQ Enquiries promptly answered. 
OIICDICI " miw Eugene t‘ Black, Scio, N. Y. 
rurcm»re The pig Kr ° w ° u pasture. 
1.n SawII 8 K ■ \ Good grazers, active and 
hardy; cheap pork-makers. 
OOMETHING NICE— Duroc Jersey Swine, Partridge 
O and Golden Rock Chickens, Bourbon Red 
Turkeys, Embden Geese, Crested White Ducks. 
J. H. LEWIS, R. No. 2, Cadiz, Ohio. 
Alfalfa Lodge Yorkshires 
Short Nose Type, March Pigs. 
JOHN G. CUKTIS - - Rochester, N. Y. 
BERKSHIRES BOARS 
Six months to one year old. Grandsons of Star 
Masterpiece. Prices $20.00 to $35.00. 
SPRING HILL FARM, White Haven, Pa . 
Sunny 3ank Farm Berkshires For Sale—3 Service Boars. Book 
Masterpiece and Longfellow Breedings. Prices reasonable. 
Registration tree, A. F. Junes, |{ox 117, Brirfgehumpton, N.Y* 
MILCH GOATS— Toggenberg; % blood buck kids, perfectly 
HI marked ; two months old. Also young half-blood buck. 
Other gradeToggenbefgs. E. N. Barrett, Bedford Ilills. N.Y 
Milk PrndlTfPIW ,or New York City market 
milK riuuuterfc desil . ing information how to 
form branches of the Dairymen’s League, write to 
the Secretary, Albert Manning, Otisville. N. Y. 
S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCHING 
15 for $1.50, $7.00 per ]00. Baby Chicks, 15c. each. 
Pens headed by choice cockerels direct from D. W. 
Young. E. M. YOUNG, Edenville, N. Y. 
di U. W. LBgllOrnS tion, Si'/.e, vigor and whit 
ness: 100 grand yearling hens mated with mal 
hatched from I). W. Young's $15 eggs. Eggs, $1. 
per 15; $5.00 for 100. Baby chicks, $10 per 100. 
. HICKORY ISLAND FARM, Clayton, N. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
K. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
"square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
uunNAii 1 E.C.U i rnuiLLl YUUK EYES 
Indisp ensab le to the farmer who epiay«, threshes, whitewashes, 
mills or in any disa¬ 
greeable out doorwork. Abso¬ 
lutely dust and wind pmof. 
jSampIe pair prepaid 50c. 
Money refunded if not en¬ 
tirely satisfactory. 
Agents Wanted 
SPECIALTY MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Va. 
RUNNING WATER 
WHEN AND WHERE YOU WANT IT 
Water pumped day and night automatically 
from nearby stream, pond or spring, 
expense ; no attention ; no repairs. 
FOSTER Suty RAM 
e.- . 
No 
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is low In 
- - - - -- first cost 
,and high in efficiency. No 
attention or expense to main¬ 
tain. Write us for Freo Book 
of helpful suggestions. 
POWER SPECIALTY COMPANY 
111 Broadway, New York 
INOCULATED ALFALFA SOIL 
75 cents per hundred, $10.00 per ton. F. O. B Ash- 
ville, Pa. Send for FREE booklet “Hotv to Grow 
Alfalfa.” Dr. H. SOMERVILLE, Chest Springs, 
Cambria Comity, Pa. 
Bees on the Farm 
will help you get more pleasure and more profit 
from Bee keeping. 6 months trial subscription 25c. 
Book on Bees and Catalog of Supplies sent free. « 
THE fl. I. ROOT COMPANY, Box 65, MEDINA, OHIO 
WANTFIl~ BflBY CHICKS Rl,0,le Island Reds- Name 
(Vnll I LU price and how soon they can be 
shipped. CHESTER CREST, Mount Vernon, N.Y. 
S, C, White Leghorn BABY CHICKS 
$10 per 100 in any quantity. Breeders are vigorous 
yearlmgsand 2-year-olds. Circular. VANCREST 
POULT KY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 
MAPLE COVE FARM 
Leghorns, Rocks. Wyandottes, Reds, Cochins, Pekin 
Ducks and White Emdon Geese. Send forcatalogue 
. ATHENS, PA' 
MAPLE COVE FARM 
R. D. 24 
S C. RHODE ISLAND REDS §gj| 
At The Horseshoe Road Poultry Farm 
WM. R. BURKHOLDER, 
ing. Write for 
prices. Address 
Box 152, R. 5, Lancaster. Pa. 
T>I Ft. WHITE AND BLACK OU PIN ft TON EGGS for 
" hatching. Best American and English strains—Cook 
Smiswiek, Owen Karin, Kellerstriiss. $5,00 for thirteen 
eggs. I. 15. CLARKE, It. F. I)., Hempstead, N. Y. 
Black Orpiagtons itatWn® 
winners mated with males bred by May Irwin' 
Eggs at farmers’ prices. F. B. GARNSEY, Clayton. N. Y. 
ORPINGTONS, S. C. BLACK AND WHITE R. C. BUFFS— Eggs 
u from exhibit ion stock. $2.00 for 15. Stock for 
sale. R. M. MORRISON. Lyme, N. II. 
E GGS AND STOCK from Thoroughbreds—White Orping¬ 
tons, Buff Orpingtons, White Wyandottes and But! 
■Wvandottes, White Rocks and Burred Rocks, Rhode 
Island Reds, Black Minerals. SI. T. JIOOItE, Sy mouse, N, Y. 
(~m;ystal white Orpingtons. Keiierstrass 
Strain—Eggs from a select pen, $2.50 for 15, 
—Eggs from a select pe 
GEO. BOWDISH, Es 
SPERANCE, N. Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES^'SVrS 
me for 12 years. Large, fine birds, splendid layers. 
Have been winning for 5 years. Eggs, high fertility, 
100,$5.00, Sitting,$1.00, WILLIAM 0. BURR, Fairfield, Conn. 
Huiin Lake Poultry Farm MS’-„«• 
vVluteWyandotteChicks, $12per 101). Eggs,taper 100. 
T) C. B. MINORCAS ; great layers; eggs. $1.00 
1V> for 15. GEO. BOWDISH, Esporance" N. Y . 
Elewen First Prizes 
At lending Poultry Shows, India.. Runner Ducks and 
Rouen Ducks. Madison Square Garden Winners our Rose- 
comb Black Minorcas won Silver Cup at Paterson, and 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. All eggs $2.00 per 15. $3.50 per30 
$.S per 100. Also pure bred Angora Goats and Collie Dogs 
$10 and up. CLARK FARM, BOONTON, N. J 
UflNPC R0SE C0MB RH0DE ISLAN0 TIID/CVO 
llUIlL O REDSAN0 MAMMOTH BRONZE I UtHVlIO 
Eggs and baby chicks from high class matings 
at reasonable prices, quality considered. Safe ar¬ 
rival and satisfaction guaranteed on all orders. 
D. R. HONE, Crescent Hill Farm, Sharon Sprinqi, N. Y. 
CPPQ _INmAN KENNER DUCKS-Barred 
LUUU ^ymouth Rocks, Mammoth Bronze Tur* 
*oys and Pearl Guineas. Write for free 
Price list. POPLAR LAWN FARMS, West Falls, N. Y. 
Pm. Q a ] 0 Two carloads Prime Alfalfa Hay. 
^ OalG W. W. Porter, Syracuse, N. Y. 
150 Farms POE SA, ' E 0HE4P 
and map free. 
in fertile 
Delaware Valley. New catalogue 
Horace G. Reeder, Newtown, Pa. 
P 1.10 A SIS semi a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
* mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter, 
Eggs, Poultry. Pork, Calves. Hay, Grain, Beans, 
Appies. etc. 1!. II. WOODWARD, 3m: Ureeimieh St., N.Y. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York, 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited. 
Boston Produce Go. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston. 
JOHN C. QUICK CO. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 34 JAY STREET, NEW YORK 
POULTRY FARM EGGSoUR SPECIALTY. 
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