1911 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New Yorker, May 20, 1911. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Wlreworras and Mien. 602 
What Shall We Do With the Manure? 602 
Chemicals for the Hay Crop. 00:5 
Hay Making in Illinois. 603 
An" Experience with Vetch. 603 
A New Agricultural Society. 604 
Crop Notes . 604 
Smut in Corn. 604 
Ammonia and Nitrogen. 604 
Making a Hay Farm.1)05 
Cleaning Out Poison Ivy. 605 
What Crop Before Alfalfa?. 605 
A Tennessee Farm. 605 
Rye or Vetch with Buckwheat. 606 
Rye for the Silo. Part II.. 606 
Saving the Seed of Vetch. 607 
More About Ground Limestone. 607 
Truth About the "Sand Hills”. 607 
Hope Farm Notes. 608 
Diary of Farm Work. 611 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Mapes the Heu Man Comes Back With 
a New Hen Story.601, 
Live Stock and Poison Sprays. 
Guernsey Cattle Club. 
Cows Leaking Milk. 
High Dairying in Wall Street. 
Substitute for Calf's Milk. 
A Small Summer Silo. 
Milk . 
Milking the Ohio Men. 
A New Sort of Horse Company. 
That Hen Contest . 
The Egg-Eating I-Iabit. 
Big Eggs . 
Good R. I. Reds. 
A Duck of a Duck. 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Simple Apple Storage. 602 
A Garden With Chemicals. 604 
Cover Crops in Orchard. 604 
Grass for Sod Growing. 609 
Ants in Lawn. 609 
Mice-gnawed Trees . 609 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 612 
Homemade Floor Coverings . 612 
Dry Mops and Bagged Brooms. 613 
When Lemons Are "It". 613 
The Rural Patterns. 613 
Amber Marmalade . 613 
More About Shoe Numbers. 613 
Intensive Farmers . 613 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Cinders Rusting Fence. 604 
Products, Prices and Trade. 606 
Editorials . 610 
Other People’s Money. 611 
Events of the Week. 611 
Publisher’s Desk . 618 
MARKETS 
Wholesale at New York, 
Week Ending May 12, 1911. 
BUTTER 
Trade is dull, and considerable faulty 
stock is noted in current receipts. 
Creamery, fancy, lb.21 IQ .22; 
Good to Choice.19 ® .20 
Lower Grades .15 & .18 
Storage.15 @ .20 
State Dairy, best.20 ® .21 
Common to Good.It @ .18 
Factory.14 ® .10 
Packing 8tock. 12 @ .15 
Elgin 111. butter market firm at 21*4 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 22)6 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 28 cents. 
CHEESE 
Market generally dull, except on some of 
finest lots of old colored. 
Full Cream, best. Fall made.12 ® .14 
Common to Good. .. .10 @ .11 
New Made.09 ® .11 
Skims.03 @ .09 
EGGS 
Receipts are large, hut storage operations 
are so active that the market is not over¬ 
loaded. 
White, good to choice.18 @ .21 
Mixed Colors, best.17 @ .18 
Common to Good.15 @ .17 
Western, best.18 @ .19 
Under grades.12 ® .15 
Duck eggs, dozen.20 ® .22 
BEANS 
choice marrow and Red Kid- 
Market on 
ney firm. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 3.U0 
Medium.... . 3.00 
Pea. 3.00 
Yellow Eye. 3.50 
Red Kidney. 6.00 
WhiteKidney.5.00 
Lima, California.... .. 6.70 
HOI’S 
Demand strong for new 
any old stocks available. 
Prime to Choice.•. 
Common to Good.28 
Pacific Coast 
German Crop, 1910. . ...... .50 
CIDER VINEGAR 
N. 1'. prices for single barrel lots. 
Extra Choice Old, gal.22 
Standard Grade. 
PRIED FRUITS 
Some future sales of eva; 
at 8% are reported. 
Apples, evap. prime.12 
Evap., com. to good 
Snn Dried. 
Chops. 
Cores and Skins_ 
Raspberries.28 
Cherries.14 
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FRESH FRUITS 
The few choice apples left are selling 
well; very little demand for poor stocks. 
Strawberry receipts light and quality fair. 
A few poaches from Florida are noted. 
Apples, Russet, bbl. 3 00 @ 5.00 
Greening. 4.00 ® 7.00 
Baldwin. 4.00 ® 6.00 
Ben Davis. 3.50 ® 5.50 
Spy. 4.00 ® 7.00 
Western— 
Newtown, box. 1.75 ® 2.75 
Rome, box. 2.00 @ 2 75 
Black Ben, box. 2 00 ® 2.50 
Gano. box . 1.75 ® 2.25 
Strawberries. Virginia, qt_'. 12 ® .18 
Carolina.13 ® .25 
Peaches, Fla., carrier. 1.50 ® 2.50 
Muskmelons, Fla., crate. 2.00 ® 3.90 
Watermelons, Fla., each.25 ® .40 
VEGETABEES 
Market on both old and new potatoes 
very weak. Asparagus in rather free sup¬ 
ply and selling in a lower range. Cab¬ 
bages higher. Cucumbers and lettuce very 
weak. Tomato market firm. 
Potatoes—N. Y. State, 180 lbs... 1.62 
Maine. 1.75 
Southern, new, No. 1, bbl.4.50 
Southern, new, No. 2, bbl. 3.00 
Sweet, Jersey, bkt. 1.00 
Asparagus, Jersey, green, f'ey.2.25 
Jersey, white, f'ey. 2.00 
Long Island, white, prime... 1.50 
Penn., green, choice.2.50 
Culls...' 1.00 
Beets, new, 100 bunches. 3.00 
Carrots, bbl.2.00 
Southern, new, 100 bunches. 2.00 
Cabbage—old. ton . 3.00 
New. Southern, bbl. 1 25 
Chicory, bbl. 3.60 
Sweet Corn, Southern. 100. 3.00 
Cucumbers. Fla. bu.. ,. 1.00 
Escarol, bbl. 3.50 
Kohlrabi,Southern. 100bunches. 4.00 
Lettuce, hj-bbl. bkt.50 
Peppers. Southern, bu.-._ 1.50 
Horseradish, 100 lbs. 4.00 
Okra. Fla. Carrier . 2.00 
Onions, Texas, new, crate.1.50 
Bermuda, crate. 1.75 
Peas. Southern, bu. 1.50 
Radishes, S'n 8> bbl. bkt.50 
Rhubarb, 100 bunches.2.00 
Salsify, 100 bunches. 3.00 
String Beans, bu.75 
Spinach, bbl. 1.00 
Squash, bbl. 1.75 
New, bu.75 
Turnins, Rutabaga, bbl. 2.00 
White, bbl. 1.00 
Leeks, 100 bunches. 2.00 
Egg Plants. Fla., box. 1.00 
Parsley bbl . 2.00 
Tomatoes, Fla. crate . 1.50 
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Many of the mushrooms received are 
poor. Choice are selling higher. Toma¬ 
toes scarce. 
Cucumbers, best, doz.60 ® .65 
Common to good.40 ® .50 
Mushrooms, lb.15 ® .50 
Tomatoes, lb.10 ® .20 
LIVE POULTRY 
Business is active and market improved. 
Chickens, Broilers, lb.30 @ .35 
Fowls. 14 ® .15 
Roosters.09 @ .09)6 
Ducks.13 @ .14 
Geese. .09 ® .10 
Turkeys. 12 ® .13 
DRESSED POULTRY—Fresh Killed 
Fowls in food demand. Turkeys scarce 
and poor. 
Turkeys, best.15 ® 16 
Common to Good. .13 ® .14 
Chickens, fancy broilers, lb. 35 @ .45 
Broilers, common to good.25 @ .30 
Fowls. 14 @ .15 
Squabs, doz. 1.75 ® 4.26 
DRESSED- POULTRY—Frozen 
Fancy roasting chickens very firm. Other 
poultry selliug slowly. 
Turkeys, best.22 ® .23 
Chickens, milk-fed broilers . .22 ® .25 
Corn-fed broilers.18 @ .22 
Milk-fed roasters.17 ® .18)4 
Corn-fed roasters.15 ® .16)6 
Fowls. 12 ® .15 
Ducks, best. 15 @ .16 
Common to good.13 ® .14 
Geese.07 ® .11 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS 
Calves in good demand and slightly 
higher. Lambs in large supply but of bet¬ 
ter quality. 
Calves, good to prime.09 ® .10 
Common..U6 @ 08 
Lambs, hothouse, head.3.00 ® G.50 
fiAY AND STRAW 
Market active on higher grades of Tim¬ 
othy and clover. Low grades accumulating 
and dull. 
Elay, No. 1, ton.25.00 ® 26.00 
No. 2.22.00 ® 24.00 
No. 3.18.00 @ 10.00 
Clover Mixed.15.00 ® 21 00 
Clover....12.00 ® 19.00 
Straw, Rye. 9.00 @ 11.00 
Oat and Wheat. 8.00 ® 9.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs. 5 55 ® 6 40 
Bulls.4.00 ® 5.50 
Cows. 2 00 ® 4.75 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.5.00 ® 7.50 
Culls . 4.00 ® 4 50 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3.25 ® 4.uo 
Lambs. 6.50 ® 6/25 
Hogs.. 6 00 @6.75 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 1.10 ® 
No. 2, Red. 99 r@ ... 
No. 1 Macaroni. 97 © ... 
Corn, as to quality, bush.53 ® .59 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 35 @ ,39 
MILL FRED 
Spring Bran,ton. 26.25 @ 27.50 
Standard Middlings. 27.00 @ 28.00 
Red Dog. 28.01) @ 29.00 
Hominy Chop. 22.50 @ 23.00 
Linseed Meal. 33.00 @ 34 00 
Corn Meal. 23.U0 @ 24.00 
COTTON 
New York, Middling Upland. 15.90 
Middling Gulf. 16.15 
New Orleans, Low Middling. n.87 
Good Middling. 15.78 
WOOL 
NewYorkFleeces, Delaine, unwashed.. 22 ® .23 
Ohio half blobd combing .26 @ .27 
Kentucky, three-eighths blood. ’24 @ 25 
Michigan, half blood.24 @ !?5 
TOBACCO. 
Conn, broadleaf-llller.08 ® .10 
Fine wrppcs. 6(1 @ .75 
N. Y. State Fillers.05 @ .00 
Fine and Selections.r> ® .16 
Ohio. Zimmer's Spanish..19 @ .20 
Virginia Dark Lugs.07 @ .09b; 
Dark Leaf.iu ® . 20 ' 
Bright Cutters. 12 ® 30 
The MACY SEPARATOR 
.45 
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if you pay a cent 
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anyone at any price 
until you have sent 
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letter asking us for 
our special Cream 
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prices—we allow you 30 days trial on your 
own farm—you needn’t send us a cent in ad¬ 
vance, if you prefer not to. 
THE MACY IS THE BEST AND 
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We will send you a machine on trial so you can find 
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bearings make it easiest running. Guaranteed forever. 
Five sizes; five popular- factory-to-farm prices. Cut 
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in your own pocket. Write to-day for our special intro¬ 
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R. H. MACY & CO. 
801 Macy Building, - New York 
Farmers Now 
Making Cheese 
Invention of Wonderful Com¬ 
plete Cheese-Making Outfit 
Enables Every Farm Home to 
Make Cheese at a big Profit. 
It is no longer necessary for Farmers to buy 
store cheese at a high price, or sell their milk to 
the Cheese Trust at a low price. A clever inven¬ 
tor has perfected a Complete Cheese-Making 
Outfit which enables every Farmer to make either 
a soft, rich, granular, or American Cheddar 
cheese right at home either for his own con¬ 
sumption or for sale to Dealers, 
Outfit consists of the following: One Cheese 
Press, One Horizontal Curd Knife, One Perpen¬ 
dicular Curd Knife, One Dairy Thermometer, 
One Bottle Rennett Extract, One Bottle Col¬ 
oring Matter and One Mold. This Complete 
Cheese-Making Outfit is sold direct from factory 
to farm at one small profit over actual cost to 
manufacture. It is simple, inexpensive, easily 
operated and pays for itself in a very short time. 
Capacity of this Outfit is from 25 to 40 quarts, 
making a cheese weighing from eight to ten 
pounds. With milk selling around 80 and 90 cents 
per hundred, any Farmer can save about one- 
third of the price he pays for store cheese, and 
at the same time have an outlet for either his 
whole or skimmed milk. This excellent home¬ 
made cheese sells readily to the Dealer at a big 
profit, either for cash or in exchange for goods. 
This wonderful Complete Cheese-Making Outfit 
is manufactured by the Holland Sporting Goods 
Mfg. Co., Dept. E Holland, Mich. Every Farmer 
should write them for full description of the Out¬ 
fit, prices, etc., and exact directions telling how 
to make cheese at a profit right on the farm. 
A Reliable Water Supply System 
Have "running water when amt where 
you want It.” Pumped from stream, pond 
orspring. Noexpfense tor powerjno trouble; 
no repairs. Install U yourself, or we will 
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Power Specialty Company 
111 Broadway, Now York 
flsfck 
T he terra conn tile well cistern is the simplest, 
cheapest, most practical and sanitary method 
known for producing plenty of pure water for 
village or city water supplies, for Fire Depts, 
irrigating or domestic purposes, protected by 
patents, endorsed by the U. S. Geological survey, 
easy to learn and operate, plenty of work and large 
profits. State and county rights for sale. A 
full investigation solicited. For particulars en¬ 
quire of J. ELLIOTT, Melville, N. Y. 
I WILL pay big wages and 
furnish house free to a 
first rate farm hand who 
understands cultivation, 
spraying and pruning peach 
and apple trees—married 
man preferred. Address giv¬ 
ing references and wages 
expected. GEO. BATTEN, 
Walpack Centre, New Jersey. 
New Method of Celery Growing. 
Can you describe the new method of 
growing celery without banking, as appears 
to be practiced by some ? e. r. 
Meadville, I’a. 
This “new” method consists in planting 
the celery close together on rich level ground 
The plants are put one foot or 15 inches 
each way. The ground is made verv rich with 
manure or fertilizer and thoroughly fined. 
It is necessary to have some system of ir¬ 
rigation to .provide water. The plants are 
forced into a rank, solid growth, and being 
so close together they shade and blanch 
each other. This is no "system” for an 
amateur! 
F ARM FOR SALE— Ideal place for city party wanting 
Summer Home for family. Write for particu¬ 
lars. No postals. 1SOX 63, Oak - Hill, N. Y. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York, 
Poultry, F.ggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited. 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston. 
Highest Quality and Best Color 
The prepotency of the Guernsey Bull or his 
ability to stamp the desirable characteristics of the 
breed on his offspring 
Makes him most valuable for improving the 
common dairy stock of any section. 
A Dairy of Grade Guernseys will give Rich, 
Fine-Flavored, High-Colored Milk, 
Cream and Butter. 
FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE GRADE 
GUERNSEYS BY ADDRESSING 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
Box R PETERBOEO, N. H. 
T WANT to purchase 3 good 
A grade Jersey Cows —must be 
fresh or nearly so and bred. 
Address with full description 
and price, GEO. BATTEN, 
Walpack Centre, New Jersey. 
JERSEY COWS-ItettSrt 
FRANK A. MAR0N, Bush Bldg.,34th St .Brooklyn, N.Y. 
JERSEY BULL 
Registered thoroughbred,about two yearsohl. First 
prize winner Conn. State Fair. Lady Letty’s Victor, 
sire: Beauty of Flanders,dam. Sellingeheap to close 
out herd. J. P. MARST0N, 247 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass. 
PlTNNY BANK FARM BERKSHIRES—3 Service Boars. 
0 Booking orders for Spring Pigs. Masterpiece, Long¬ 
fellow and Duke Breedings. Prices reasonable. Regis¬ 
tration free. A. E. JONES, Itox 117, llridgehanipton, N, Y. 
REGISTERED BERKSHIRE PIGS 
From Son of Berryton Duke, Jr., 77341, and 
well bred Sows. 
JERSEY BULLS ALL SOLD. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 
CHAS. B. DAYTON, Snpt. 
She!<l oner oft, - - Silver Lake, Fa. 
LARGE YORKSHIRE HOGS. 
I have for sale a limited number of four months 
old registered pigs from imported sire. Better 
try a pair of this genuine bacon hog. Address : 
W. ALLAN GARDNER, 
SNYDER, ... Erie County, N. Y. 
EGGS^*S 
anteed. H. A. 
. $3. per 
leghorns. 
1HACHEK, 
100. Single-comb 
Good stock guar- 
Ferulaek, l’a. 
RABY CHICKS—Single Comb White Leghorns. 
| 1 ’ Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, 7c and Sic each. 
Strong and livablo. From vigorous free range stock, 
bred for utility and standard qualities. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. WESLEY GRINWELL, Sodus, N Y 
Eleveax First Frizes 
At leading Poultry Shows, Indian Runner Ducks and 
Rouen Ducks. Madison Square Garden Winners our Rose- 
comb Black Minorcan won Silver Cup at Paterson and 
Barred Plymouth Rocks. All eggs $2.00 per 15, 33.50 pcr30, 
$X per 100. Also pure bred Angora Goats and Collie Dogs. 
$10 and up. CLARK FARM, BOONTON, N. J. 
I RDS OF QUA LITY, Bred to lay; S. C. W. Leuiiorn 
Hatching Eggs, 86 per 100 ; Chicks, $12 per 100. 
S. C. R. I. Red Eggs, $8 per 100; Chicks, $15per 100 
THE WINONA FARIAS . Drawei 272 . LANSDALE PA. 
CARMS WANTED— hi all parts of New York State, 
1 Have great demand for good farms. Communi¬ 
cate with Dutchess Really Co., Pounlikeepsic. N. Y. 
FOR SALF —I ' n,lcl1 of 725 acres, within 50 miles 
run OHkC o[ Buffalo, N. Y, Bottom lands, 
thoroughly drained; 200 acres black muck soil; re¬ 
mainder decomposed vegetable matter, mostly in 
hay; large barns, til 1 necessary machinery, railroad 
switch on premises. Will pay 20 percent on invest¬ 
ment. Good reasons for selling. For further infor¬ 
mation address, A H. JACKSON, 343 Grant St..Buffalo. N.Y. 
JARM TO RENT— Good chance for the right man. Ad¬ 
dress Ravella Hall, Hasbvouck, Suil. Co., N.Y. 
150 Farms 
FOR SALE CHEAP, in fertile 
Delaware Valley. New catalogue 
and map free. Horace G. Reeder, Newtown, Pa. 
Y OVSd COUPLE wants place on farm for summer. Little ex¬ 
perience. Willing. Good cook. Low wuges. 
S. 1. iSAKKR - - 140 Jiromlway, New York* 
WANTED 
— First-class Dairyman and all¬ 
round Farmer. Experienced 
man witli college training preferred. Fine 
location near city of 30,000. Registered Stock. Ex¬ 
cellent markets. Share proposition if preferred. 
Address “MICHIGAN,’’ care Rural New-Yorker. 
W A NT ED DAIRYMAN coin Petent to supervise 
EXPERIENCED “Ain I IY1AM conversion of farm of 275 
acres within two miles of the City of Cleveland into 
a dairy farm and operato same. Preference given to 
one able to contribute something to the business on 
the basis of a favorable working interest. Address 
I). & H., 1015 Garfield Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. 
DO YOU NEED FARM HELP? 
The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid 
Society has on its lists men wishing to obtain em- 
ploym nt upon farms. Most of them are without 
experience, but they are able-bodied and willing 
to work. They speak little or no English, although 
many of them speak German. If you can make 
use of such help, please communicate with us, 
stating what you will pay, whether the work is 
permanent, and whether you prefer a single or a 
married man. We are a philanthropic organiza¬ 
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Jews to become farmers. We charge no commis¬ 
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THE J. A. 8 I. A. S., 174 Second Avenue, NEW YORK CITY 
pi. EASE send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
* mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter 
Eggs. Poultry, Pork, Calves. Hay, Grain. Beans, 
Appies. etc. I!. U. WOODWARD, 302 tireonnieii St., .N.Y, 
