1911 . 
^PHK RURAb NE^W-YORKEH 
7Y9 
Crops and Markets 
Wholesale at New York, 
Week Ending July 14, 1911. 
DRESSED POULTRY— Frozen 
Turkeys. best.22 ffl .23 
Chickens, milk-fed broilers.18 ffl .22 
Corn-fed broilers.16 ffl .18 
Milk-fed roasters. .17 ffl .18)^ 
Corn-fed roasters.15 ffl .16H 
Fowls. . II @ .16 
HAY AND STRAW 
BUTTER 
Market decidedly easy, receipts showing 
hot weather damage. City trade moderate, 
owing to large number of people absent. 
Creamery, fancy, lb.24 a .25 
Good to Choice.21 ® .23 
Lower Grades .18 @ .20 
State Dairy, best.22 ffl .23 
Common to Good.15 © .20 
Factory.14 @ .19 
Packing Stock. 15 ® .18 
Elgin 111. butter market firm at 24 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 25& cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 26 cents. 
CHEESE 
Business is rather dull, owing to high 
prices asked for best whole milk stock. Un¬ 
der grades are in surplus. 
Full Cream, best, new.11 ® .12 % 
Common to Good.00 ® .10 
Skims.(15 ® .10 
Old, common to good. 11 © . 13 ^ 
EGGS 
Choice eggs are scarce. Business in other 
grades is very much demoralized owing to 
heat defects. Large quantities of western 
and gathered stock have sold under 12 
cents. 
White, good to choice.24 © .26 
Mixed colors, best .20 @ .23 
Common to Good.15 ® .18 
West to, best.17 @ .20 
Linder grades.12 @ .16 
Checks and dirties.06 ffl .11 
BEAN8 
Market steady on Timothy. Low grades 
are working out fairly well on a lower 
price basis. 
Bay, No. 1, ton.26.00 ffl 27.00 
No. 2.22.00 ® 25.00 
No. 3.18.00 ffl 20.00 
Clover Mixed.18.00 ffl 22 00 
Clover..16.00 ffl 18.00 
Straw. Rye.,.11.00 ® 12.00 
Oat and Wheat.8.00 ffl 9.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs.SCO ® 6.55 
Bulls.3.00 ffl 4.45 
Cows. l 50 @4.60 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.7.80 @ 9.60 
Culls . 5.00 ffl 6 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs.2.50 @ 4.00 
Lambs. 5.80 ffl 8.00 
Hogs. 6.60 @ 7.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1.07 @ .. 
No. 2, Red.94 ffl ... 
No. 1 Macaroni. .98 @ .. 
Corn, as to quality, bush.60 @ .70 
Oats, as to weight, bush.50 ® .55 
Rye, No. 2, Western. 94 @ .96 
MILL FEED 
Spring Bran, ton. 23.50 ® 24.00 
Standard Middlings. 25.35 @ 28.35 
Red Dog. 27.60 @ 29.00 
Hominy Chop. 24.00 ® 25.20 
Linseed Meal. 33.00 @ 34.50 
Corn Meal. 27.00 ® 28.00 
COTTON 
New York, Middling Upland. 14.25 
Middling Gulf. 14.50 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 14.10 
Good Middling. 15.05 
WOOL 
Trade is dull. Holders ask 10 cents ad¬ 
vance for choice Pea. White Kidney very 
scarce. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.3.25 ® 3.85 
Medium .. 3.15 @3.75 
Pea. 3.15 ® 3.90 
Yellow Eye.3.50 @ 3.60 
Red Kidney. . 6.00 @ 6.45 
WhlteKidney.6.10 @ 5.20 
Lima, California.6.70 ® 6.75 
HOPS 
A sale of 350 bales 1910 hops at 25 
cents net is reported from the Pacific Coast. 
The entire stock in first hand there is now 
but 500 bales. 
NewYork Fleeces, Fine, unwashed. 18 @ .19 
Ohio half blood combing.21 @ .25 
Kentucky, three-fourths blood...23 @ 24 
Michigan, half blood.23 @ .24 
TOBACCO. 
Conn, broadleaf-ttller.08 @ .10 
Fine wrappers .60 ® 75 
N. Y.State Fillers.05 @ .06 
Fine and Selections.12 @ .16 
Ohio Zimmer's Spanish. 19 @ .20 
Virginia Dark Lugs.07^@ D9J4 
Dark Leaf. 10 @ .20 
Bright Cutters.12 @ .30 
Penn, broad leaf fillers. 10 @ .12 
CHICAGO 
Butter, creamery. 20 ® .24 
Prime to Choice. 
20 
<§> 
C(A 
.32 
30 
jLiive mrKeys.. 
Fowls. 
28 
(21 
29 
Chickens.. 
60 
64 
Potatoes, new, bbl. 
Bohemian, 1910. 
@ 
Blackberries, quart .. 
CIDER VINEGAR 
New York jobbing prices for single bar¬ 
rel lots. Very little vinegar good enough 
for top quotations is offered. 
Extra Choice Old, gal.22 @ .24 
Standard Grade.13 © .15 
DRIED FRUITS 
Evaporated apples very scarce. Sales of 
future stock at 9% to 10 cents are re¬ 
ported. 
Apples, evap. prime.14 @ 16 
Evap., com. to good.06 @ .13 
Cores and Skins.07 @ .07}£ 
Raspberries.29 ® .34 
Cherries.16 @ .20 
FRESH FRUITS 
The supply of new apples is increasing, 
some fairly good stock being offered. 
Peaches scarce and bringing high prices. 
Small fruits in bad condition an account of 
weather. Business in watermelons good 
where top quality is to be had. 
Apples, Astrachan,bbl. 
9 
3.50 
Sweet Bough, bbl. 
@ 
3.00 
Windfalls, bbl. 
@ 
2.00 
Various, }4-bbl.-bkt. 
@ 
2.00 
Pears, Southern, Le Conte, bbl.., 
. 4.50 
© 
8.50 
Peaches, Ga., carrier. 
..... 1.2i» 
fa) 
3.26 
Cherries, lb. 
a 
.14 
Muskmeions, Southern, crate..., 
. 1.25 
@ 
2.50 
Cali forma, crate. 
Watermelons. Southern, 100. 
@ 
3.75 
.10.00 
@35.00 
Jersey and Pa. 
.07 
@ 
.12 
Blackberries, qt. 
.07 
ffl 
.12 
Raspberries, red, pint... 
..05 
@ 
.09 
Gooseberries, qt.. 
ffl 
.15 
Currants, qt. 
.11 
ffl 
.13 
VEGETABLES 
Choice new potatoes are scarce, many of 
the receipts showing rot. Jersey corn more 
plentiful and lower. Peas and string beans 
selling in a wide range of prices. Cucum¬ 
bers largely poor and hard to sell. Onion 
market improved. 
~ r i.. ..... •«.OU V£5» t.Uil 
Lambs, 100 lbs. 4.00 @ 7 00 
Hogs.6.00 @ 6 85 
BUFFALO 
Butter, creamery. 22 @ .25 
Eggs, State. '.16 ® ,16U 
Live Chickens. 20 @ 225 
Fowls. 12 @ . 13 ^ 
Potatoes, new, bbl.2.00 @ 3.00 
Calves, live, 100 lbs.5.60 @ 9 50 
Sheep, 100 lbs.1.50 @ 4 25 
Lambs, 100 lbs.5.00 ® 8.00 
Hog 8 ...6.35 ® 6.60 
Wheat, No. 2, Red. ® .94 
Corn.64 @ .68 
Oats.48 © .50 
In Chautauqua Co., N. Y„ near Riplej 
and Silver Creek, vineyards have been dam* 
aged by the grape leaf-hopper. The remedj 
is spraying with strong tobacco extract as 
soon as the insects are noticed. In some 
parts of the grape belt, root-worm is active 
The outlook for apples is excellent, anc 
prospects for pears and peaches good. 
We are having an unprecedented hoi 
drought here, practically only two thunder 
showers of less than an hour’s duration 
each, and two more even lighter since April 
24. Everything is dried and burnt up, no 
vegetables even. It is positively a calamity 
for our farmers. And hot, why that’s no 
name for the whole time, and more especial¬ 
ly this week. Walter whateley. 
Secretary Va. Hortl. Society. 
The fruit crop in Berrien, Allegan and 
Van Buren counties will be as follows: 
Winter apples, 25 per cent or less; Fall 
apples, a full crop; pears, 50 per cent; 
plums, 75 per cent.; sour cherries, a full 
crop. Leaf blight has been very bad, and 
on many of the orchards the foliage is 
nearly destroyed. Spraying with Bordeaux 
mixture gives much better results than did 
lime and sulphur together with arsenate 
of lead. Peaches will oe 75 per cent of a 
crop. Hay crop rather Tight. e. v a 
Allegan Co., Mich. 
Potatoes, Jersey, bbl.3.76 @ 4225 
Southern, No. 1, bbl.3.50 @ 4.00 
Southern, No. 2, bbl.2.00 ® 2.25 
Long Island, bbl.3.75 © 4.25 
Beets, new, 100 bunches. 1.00 @ 1.75 
Carrots, new, 100 bunobe6.1.00 @ 1.75 
Long Island, bbl.75 @ 1.25 
Sweet Corn, Southern, 100.50 @ .75 
Jersey, 100. A0 @ 1.00 
Cucumbers, bu.40 ® .50 
Celery, Jersey, bunch.10 @ .40 
Cauliflower, L.I., bbl.75 @ 1,75 
Lettuce, !4-bbl. bkt.40 @ .75 
Peppers, Southern, bu.1.00 ffl 1.50 
Jersey, bu. 1.00 @ 1.75 
Horseradish, 100 lbs.3.00 @ 6.00 
Okra. Southern, Carrier. 1.00 © 2.00 
Onions, Long Island, bbl.2.00 @ 2.75 
Egyptian, bag.2.00 © 2.50 
Jersey, bu. 1.25 © 1.50 
Peas. State, bu. .75 @ 1.50 
Jersey, bu.50 @ 1.50 
Radishes.lOO bunches.35 @ .75 
Rhubarb, 100 bunches. 1.00 @ 1.50 
String Beans, bu. 220 @ .50 
Lima Beans, bu.2.00 @ 3.00 
Spinach, bbl.50 @ 1.00 
Squasn. Marrow, bbl. 1.00 ffl 2.00 
Crook Neck, bbl. A0 @ 1.60 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl.75 © 1.00 
White, bbl. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Leeks, 100 bunches. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Egg Plants, Southern, bbL.2.00 @ 2A0 
Tomatoes. Del. and Md.derate.0.36 @ .60 
Jersey, box. A0 ffl 1.75 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, Broilers, lb.20 ffl .21 
B’owls.14 ffl . 14 ^ 
Roosters.08 @ .09 
Ducks.11 @ .12 
Geese.08 ffl .09 
Turkeys.10 ffl .11 
DRESSED POULTRY— Fresh Killed 
Turkeys, best.14 @ .15 
Common to Good.12 @ . .13 
Chickens, fancy broilers, lb. 25 ffl .27 
Broilers, common to good.20 ffl .24 
Fowls. 13 @ .16 
Spring Ducks, lb.13 @ .15 
Squabs, doz. 1.75 © 3.50 
Reports from various parts of Niagar; 
county, N Y., are that the berry crop ha 
been practically mined by the continued ho 
weather. The berries were dried up, and th 
farmers claim that they will not realize s 
dollar on the crop this year. This conclu 
sion is drawn with reference to red rasp 
berries. Considerable of the black raspber 
ry crop has been picked before the drought 
Much damage has been done to the graii 
crop also, according to reports from th 
country. During the hot weather period 
the grain has been ripened several week 
ahead of the usual time and the producer 
state that an inferior crop can only result 
while much of the grain has been blighted. 
The weather in this section all througl 
May and June has boon extremely hot am 
dry, thermometer reaching 100 degrees a 
times and for days running from 94 to 98 
I have found it impossible to get tomat* 
plants to live, though I have tried ever 
way and have almost wholly failed, doinj 
only an acre or two for my cannery, am 
they will be late and may yet be destroyed 
After the breaking of about eight week 
of drought, by a few showers, temporaril 
refreshing and invigorating, there seem 
now to be setting in a second drought am 
we have fears for our corn and cotton 
The early corn has been badly damage* 
by the first drought through May and June 
Now the cotton, our main crop, is beginnini 
to wilt. w. T. B. 
Pocahontas, Ark. 
The farming in this locality is of the 
mixed variety, most of the farmers keeping 
hens, turkeys, geese, pigs, sheep and cows, 
also raising some colts. The milk is sep¬ 
arated and cream gathered by creamery 
teams and skimmed milk fed to calves or 
pigs. The farms are more or less stony, 
but there are some with scarcely a stone 
on them, some clay and some sandy or 
gravelly. There are a lot of oats and some 
barley raised for grain, while corn is mostly 
put into silage. There is also some lum¬ 
bering done and maple sugar is made in 
large quantities. Tberw are some orchards, 
but I don’t know of much spraying being 
done. There are good pastures, but I am 
afraid that paint-brush will spoil a lot of 
them, as some of them are so stony that it 
would be impossible to plow them. On 
some farms there are flews that are as red 
as a brick this year. g. h. w. 
No. Troy, Vt. 
Ohio Crops. —The Ohio Department of 
Agriculture gives the following estimate of 
conditions in that state: Wheat, acreage at 
harvest, _1,990,727—84 per cent; corn, 
2. 986,625 acres, 89 per cent, damage by 
worms, 11 per cent; potatoes, 130,690 
acres, 78 per cent; oats, 76; rye, 86 ; bar¬ 
ley, 88 per cent. Wheat was considerably 
injured by fly. Drought has damaged hay, 
oats and pastures. Corn is spotted, but 
much improved by recent rains. 
Fruit Prospects in Iowa. —A summary 
of the monthly reports on the condition of 
the fruit crop in Iowa for July is as fol¬ 
lows: Summer apples, 76 per cent; Fall 
apples, 72 per cent; Winter apples, 65 per 
cent; pears, 51 per cent; Americana plums, 
61 per cent; Domestiea plums. 53 per cent; 
Japanese plums, 37 per cent; peaches, 12 
per cent; grapes, 85 per cent; red raspber¬ 
ries, 45 per cent; black raspberries, 50 per 
cent; blackberries, 65 per cent; currants, 
60 per cent: gooseberries, 61 of a full crop. 
The average condition of the crop for the 
month is 55 per cent, a decline of 10 per 
cent from the June report. Apples are 
smooth and free from worms and scabs, and 
a larger part of the crop will be marketable 
this year than usual. Apples, peaches and 
grapes have improved in condition one to 
two per cent since last report, but berries 
and vegetables have declined 10 to 50 per 
cent under the intense heat and drought. 
With normal weather conditions wc may ex¬ 
pect a good crop of apples and grapes this 
Fall. WESLEY GREENE. 
Des Moines, la. 
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. 
The report issued July 10 shows consider¬ 
able damage to wheat, corn and oats, al¬ 
though the injury to corn is not so great 
as anticipated, recent rains having improved 
the situation. Hay will be about two-thirds 
of a normal crop, and oats 12 per cent under 
the five-year average. The following per¬ 
centages of present conditions are based on a 
normal yield : Corn, 80.1 per cent; Spring 
wheat, 73.8; Winter wheat, 76.8; rye, 85; 
oats, 68 . 8 ; barley, 72.1 ; hay, 64.9. The 
greatest hot weather damage appears to have 
been in the Dakotas, Nebraska. Kansas and 
Oklahoma. Following are the principal 
acreages: Wheat, 52,124,000; corn, 115,- 
939,000 : oats. 35,250,000; rye, 2,004,000; 
barley, 7,038.000. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
The Utah peach crop promises to exceed 
1,000 carloads this year. 
A chunk of ambergris valued at $150,000 
was taken from a whale killed off British 
Columbia last week. 
The Connecticut peach crop is expected 
to be about 350,000 baskets this year. 
Hay and oats are short crops in the Cen¬ 
tral West, and pastures have suffered se¬ 
verely from drought. 
The hard coal output for June amounted 
to 6,215,357 tons, the heaviest quantity 
ever mined in June. The Lehigh Valley 
led with 1,214,852 tons. 
Tomatoes in the canning sections of 
Maryland promise to be about half a normal 
crop. 
Thousands of cattle have died from 
heat, hunger and thirst in western Texas 
recently. 
Wheat and hay will be less than the 
average in Pennsylvania. Fly damage is 
extensive in all except the western section 
of the State. 
There are 242,107 miles of railroad in 
the United States. The net earnings for 
1910 amounted to $2,804,580,939. The en¬ 
tire capitalization is $18,890,850,293. 
Hot Weather Victims. —During the re¬ 
cent excessively hot week, 948 horses and 
3,617 cats and dogs died in New York City. 
To a very large extent the horse deaths 
were due to overloading or mismanage¬ 
ment. 
A neighbor asked me to buy some fire¬ 
works for him in New York. These were 
bought at one of the largest places just off 
Broadway. The salesman told me that sales 
of fireworks were decreasing yearly. While 
making this remark he calmly lighted his 
pipe and threw the match on the floor. For 
a less indiscretion some dealers in explo¬ 
sives have traded their business for fair¬ 
sized excavations. But nothing happened 
this time. Not caring to take part in any 
atmospheric commotion such as the blowing 
up of a powder house, I shall not go to 
that store again. 
Types of Commission Men. —Great quan¬ 
tities of farm produce are handled by men 
with very little capital. They have learned 
the business in large houses and are familiar 
with both distribution and soliciting of pro¬ 
duce. After a few years of such apprentice¬ 
ship; a live man sees the possibilities of 
profit and starts for himself unless the firm 
sees fit to take him in. Some large houses 
have been seriously injured by the loss of 
such men, who controlled much more trade 
than was thought. Thus equipped with am¬ 
bition and expert knowledge the new con¬ 
cern may easily do better for the producer 
than some houses with extensive capital, 
widely known as competent in their line. 
But there is one point that the producer 
seldom considers. No matter how honest or 
well meaning the new man may be, because 
of the lack of capital and the steadying 
influence of an old business, he is more like¬ 
ly to take risks and get “swamped.” Every 
year men of this type go through bankrupt¬ 
cy or make mutual adjustments with credi¬ 
tors at considerably under the 100 -cent 
basis. No dishonest intent is shown, but 
there is faulty judgment or a speculative 
plunge that proves disastrous. Many far¬ 
mers have to decide between the new con¬ 
cern with its hustle and apparent efficiency 
in selling goods and the older house that 
may at times be too conservative for the 
good of its customers. Granting that both 
are honest there is an element of risk worth 
considering in handing over your goods to 
the first man who does not have the steady¬ 
ing influence of capital and established busi¬ 
ness reputation. w. w. h. 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 22, 1911. 
FARM TOPICS. 
School Teaching or Farming on Shares 766 
Seeding Grass in Corn. 766 
Picking Out a Farm. 766 
The Short Hay Crop in New York.... 767 
Work of a Gasoline Engine. 767 
A Long Island Alfalfa Grower. 768 
Potatoes Beat Alfalfa on Long Island. 768 
The Facts About Florida. 769 
Hope Farm Notes. 770 
Diary of Farm Work. 773 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Two Chautauqua County Cows. 776 
Milk . 776 
Those $45 Dairy Cows. 776 
The Massachusetts Milk Situation.... 776 
The Hen Contest. 777 
The Cat and the Goslings. 777 
Picking the Culls. 777 
Ration for Dairy Cows. 777 
HORTICULTURE. 
Congenial and Uncongenial Stocks.765, 766 
More About Galled Trees. 766 
Various Fruit Questions. 767 
Work in Western Apple Orchards.... 767 
Trouble With Maple Trees. 76!) 
Care of Strawberry Field. 769 
A Talk About Roses. 771 
Wild Apples in Chinese Turkestan.... 771 
Hickorynut Trees in Pasture. 771 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 774 
Sweet Cucumber Pickles. 774 
The Rural Patterns. 774 
Lentil Recipes. 774 
Ranch Life in Wyoming. 775 
Baked Ben Davis. 775 
Four Good Recipes. 775 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
That Lightning Rod Agent Again. 766 
A Drainage Tax. 766 
Those Albany Farm Statesmen. 768 
Leaking Cement Wall. 769 
Editorials. 772 
Other People’s Money. 773 
Events of the Week. 773 
Publisher’s Desk . 779 
