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THE R.U KAlr. IS!ECW-YOKKEK 
Crops and Markets 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending January 6, 1912. 
BUTTER ] 
Cream erf. fancy, lb.37 3 .Si’s 
Good to Choice.... -32 @ -36 
cower Grades .25 @ .30 
Storage. 27 @ .36 
State Dairy, best.35 @ .36 
Common to Good.24 @ .33 
Factory.20 @ .23 
Packing Stock.17 @ .22 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 36 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 36 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 38 cents. 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best.15 @ .16 
Common to Good.12 @ .14 
gkims.06 @ .13 
EGGS 
White, good to choice.36 @ .38 
Mixed Colors, best.33 @ .34 
Common to Good...28 @ .32 
Western, best.32 @ .35 
Under grades.18 @ .25 
Checks and dirties.14 @ .20 
Storage, prime.24 @ .26 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4.15 id) 4.60 
Medium.... . 3.00 @ 4.15 
Pea. 3.90 @ 4.20 
Vellow Eye. 4.35 ffl 4.40 
Bed Kidney... 5 00 @ 5.25 
White Kidney...6.90 © 6.00 I 
Lima. California. . 6.50 @ 6.60 J 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.54 @ .56 
Common to Good.48 @ .53 
Pacific Coast.-. 45 ® .50 
German Crop, new.93 @ .98 
DltllSD Fit UITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911.09%® .10 % 
Common to good. 07 ® .09 
Sun dried.07 @ .08)^ 
Chops. 02V6@ .03 
Cherries. ..19 (ri> .21 
ltaspberrles.27 @ .28 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Spy.bbl. 2 00 & 4.00 
Spitzenburg . 2.00 @ 4.00 
Ben Davis. 2.00 @ 3 00 
Baldwin. 2.00 ® 3.25 
Greening. 1.75 @3.75 
King.2.25 @ 3.50 
Hubbardston .. 2.00 @ 2.50 
York Imperial. 1.75 @ 3.00 
Western, box . 1.00 @ 3.00 
Pears, Kieffer, bbl. 1.00 @ 2.50 
Cranberries. Cape Cod, bbl. 6.00 @11.00 
Jersey, bbl.7.00 @ 8.00 
Strawberries, Fla., qt.30 ® .65 
Calif., pt.20 @ .35 
VEGETA BUBS 
Potatoes—N. Y. Slatp. bbl.3.00 ® 3.12 
Maine, bug. 2.85 @ 3.15 
Uong Island, bbl. 3.25 @ 3.50 
Foreign, 168-lb. bag. 2.50 @ 2.65 
Bermuda, bbl.4.00 @ 6 00 
Sweet Potatoes.Jbbl.2.00 @ 3.50 
Brussels Sprouts, qt.08 @ .12 
Beets, bbl. 1.00 @ 1.50 
Carrots, bbl.75 @ 1.50 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton.20.00 @25.00 
Hod, ton.24.00 (a 25.00 
Cauliflowers, Ii. I., bbl.2.00 @ 8.00 
Kale, bbl. M ® .65 
Cliicory, bbl. 2.00 @ 2.50 
Endive, Erench, lb....:.14 @ .15 
lettuce, ta-bbl bkt. 150 @ 3.50 
Onions, State and Western, 100 lbs... 2.00 @ 2.50 
Orange Co., bag.2.00 @ 2.75 
White, bu. 1.50 @ 2.25 
Peppers, Southern, carrier. 1.50 @ 2.75 
Peas. Southern, bu. 1.00 @ 4.00 
String Beans, bu. 1.00 @ 3.60 
Spinach, bbl.50 @ 1.00 
Squash. Marrow, bbl.50 @ .75 
Hubbard, bbl.60 @ .75 
Turnips. Rutabaga, bbl.90 @ 1.00 
White, bbl. 1.00 @ 1.50 
Egg Plants, Fla., box. 1.00 @ 2.50 
Tomatoes, Fla. Carrier. 1.50 @ 3.00 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers. No. 1, doz. 1.00 @ 1.25 
No. 2. box. 3.00 @4.00 
Tomatoes, lb.06 @ .20 
Lettuce, doz.50 @ .75 
Mushrooms, lb.15 @ .30 
Radishes, 100 bunches.2.00 @ 3.50 
Below are noted a few of last year's 
doings: 
One Wisconsin company made 15,000,000 
pounds of beet sugar. 
Oregon produced 160,000 pounds of dried 
Loganberries. 
Securities (more or less secure) to the 
amount of $1,739,487.700 were issued. 
Three-fourths of these were railroad paper, 
and the remainder industrials. This issue 
is much in excess of the two previous 
years. 
The number of bankruptcy petitions was 
the largest for six years, 1,518. Since the 
bankruptcy act went into effect in 1898 
15.999 petitions have been filed. 
The total fire losses for this country and 
Canada were $234,387,000. There were 12 
fires causing from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 
loss. 
The grape yield in the Chautauqua. N. Y., 
district was 7.900 carloads, bringing $2,- 
150.000. 
Alaska turned out fish and mineral pro¬ 
ducts to the value of $38,000,000. 
Ego prices on the better grades have de¬ 
clined 10 cents during the past week at 
New York. The drop has been less in the 
poorer qualities, as they were quite near 
bottom. The range in price is now from 14 
to 40 cents. Such drops are rather a set¬ 
back to hen boomers who claim that fresh 
eggs can be sold to city customers the year 
around for 60 to 75 cents. A few are. but 
buyers who will pay such prices are scarce, 
and 25 to 35 cents for fresh eggs is all 
that should be figured on except in famine 
times, which some years do not come at all, 
and as a rule are short. 
Many apple speculators have lost heavily 
this year. Trade has been only mom-rate, 
and prices have not advanced nearly up to 
expectations. In fact going prices on 
standard varieties are no higher thafi two 
months ago. No doubt there will be a rise 
within the coming month, but the outlook 
is not encouraging for those who need to 
realize soon on the money they have tied up 
in apples. It is difficult to increase apple 
consumption very much in New York City, 
owing to tlie poor facilities for'storage in 
living apartments and expensive cartage, 
but there ought to he more aggressive 
work toward appleing the smaller places, 
villages from 1.000 to 1.500 and cities from 
3,000 to 5,000. It is a common experience 
to find hotels and stores in such places 
with plenty of other fruit but no decent 
apples. Some of the apples that surplus 
the markets of New York. Boston and Phil¬ 
adelphia should go to these smaller places. 
Many grocers approached in the right way 
woubl make a canvass of families that 
would take from one to three barrels, be¬ 
sides laying in a fair stock for retail store 
trade. Fruit growers’ societies should work 
this trade to the limit, and see that Coopcrs- 
town, Cortland. Delhi, Schenectady, Dan¬ 
bury. Waterbury, Binghamton ‘and scores 
of other places have the apple idea im¬ 
pressed on them. 
Farm produce sells as follows hero: 
Wheat. 90 cents per bushel : oats, 45 cents ; 
potatoes. 75 cents; corn, 60 cents; apples, 
$1. Ilay. $20 per ton. Milk, 5 cents per 
quart; butter, per pound, 35 cents. Sheep, 
four to five cents per pound: hogs, 5% 
cents; cattle, 4% cents; cows, $40 to $50; 
horses, $150 to $200. eli l. 
Barry Co. Mich. 
Milch cows are selling for from $40 to 
$50; yearlings coming to $20 to $25; 
Spring calves, $12 to $15; sows due to far¬ 
row in Spring. $12 to $17; Fall pigs, $5; 
hay. $15 to $18; manure in village, $1 a 
load. The co-operative creamery offered 
the farmers 31 3-4 cents a pound for No¬ 
vember. Potatoes $1 a bushel. Apples to 
dealers, $1.25 to $2 a barrel. Pork to 
butcher, 6 1-2 cents a pound. There is very 
little grain sold around here, most farmers 
buy about half they feed. w. E. w 
Speucertown, N. Y. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, lb. .12 @ .12)^ 
Fowls.13 @ .14 
Roosters.07 @ .08 
Ducks. 14 @ .16 
Geese.10 @ .11(<j 
Torkeys.17 @ .18 
Guiueas, pair.40 @ .50 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys. Spring, best.23 @ .24 
Common to Good.14 @ .21 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.22 @ 25 
Broilers, common to good.18 @ .21 
Roasters. 16 @ .20 
Fowls. 12 @ .15 
Spring Ducks, lb.16 @ .20 
Geese. 12 @ .16 
Squabs, doz. 1.50 @ 4.50 
COUNTRY DRE8SED MEATS 
Calves, prime, lb.12 @ .14 
Common to good.09 @ .11 
Buttermilks......07 @ .08 
Lambs, hothouse, head.4.90 @ 7.00 
Pork. Light. 09 @ .10 
Heavy. 4)7 @ .08 
HAY AND STRAW 
Ray, Timothy No. 1, ton.25.00 @ 26.00 
No. 2. ...23.00 ® 24.00 1 
No. 3.20.00 @ 22.00 ; 
Clover Mixed.19.00 @ 24 00 
Clover.20.00 @ 24.00 I 
Btraw, Rye.18.00 @ 20.00 ' 
Oat and Wheat.11.00 @ 12.00 
LIVESTOCK _. 
Native Steers, 100 lbs.5.50 ~® 7.0u * 
Oxen.4.00 @ 6.00 
Cows.2.00 @ 5.25 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.7.00 @11.00 
Culls.5.00 @ 6.50 
Sheep, 100 lbs.2.00 @4.00 
Lambs.5.00 @ 7.00 \ 
Hogs.5.25 @ 6.40 j 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1.2o <a ... , 
No.2, Red. 1.00 @ ... ] 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.10 @ ... 
Corn, as to quality, bush.65 @ .69 ' 
Oats, as to weight, bush.50 @ .55 ’ 
Rye, No. 2, Western.95 @ .96 
Barley, choice. 1.15 @ l AO 
MILL FEED—Car Lots |- 
Spring Bran,ton. 26.00 @ 27.00 
Standard Middlings. 27.60 @ 30.00 
Red Dog. 31.00 @ 32.00 
Hominy Chop. 29.00 @ 30.20 
Linseed Meal. 39.00 @ 40.00 
Corn Meal. 31,00 @ 32.00 
COTTON 1 
New York Middling Upland. 9.35 
Middling Gulf. 9.00 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 8.40 
£4ood Middling. 9.10 
The following prices have been paid at 
public sales this Fall : Apples, Stayman 
Winesap, $3.10 per barrel; No. 1 corn, on 
cob, 54 to 60 cents per bushel; hav, $18 to 
$25 per ton ; horses. $100 to $150; cattle, 
$25 to $60 each ; hogs, 6% cents on foot. 
No silage ever sold in this locality, nor 
manure from the farms; livery stable ma¬ 
nure, $1 per two horse load. Very few 
dairies in this district, we are nearly all 
fruit growers. Milk sells at seven cents per 
quart; farmers’ butter, 25 to 30 cents; 
eggs, 30 cents a dozen ; chickens, 12 cents, 
and turkeys. 22 cents per pound, a. c. b. 
Camden, Del. 
Ilogs, six cents on foot. Cattle from 
four to 4% cents; cows from $25 to 
$85 ; best sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; chickens 
eight cents a pound: turkeys. 12 cents; 
ducks, 10 cents. Eggs, 35 cents a 
dozen : Butter, 28 and 30 cents; milk, 
10 and 12 cents a quart. Veal calves, five 
cents. Ilay. $22 and $26 per ton; cow 
peas, $15 and $17 per ton; corn. 80 cents 
per bushel ; wheat, 80 cents per bushel. 
Potatoes, $1.10 per bushel; onions, $1.40; 
turnips, $1; apples, 85 cents and $1 per 
bushel. r. m. 
Gallia Co., O. 
At a sale near town corn brought $1.04 ; 
Timothy hay, $30, and millet $22 a ton. 
Of course the long credit is what makes 
such prices. I have just sold good baled 
hay to a dealer for $25 a ton. It is very 
high and retails at $28 to $32. Corn is 
worth from 75 to 80 cents; wheat at the 
mills, 90 cents; rye almost as much. Rye 
straw, $16 (baled). Milk about four cents 
wholesale, and in the towns eight cents 
a quart. No silage sold. Horses are very 
high. Good Western farm chunks bring 
from $450 to $600, and mules are still 
higher for large ones. Dressed hogs sell 
for eight cents. There are no potatoes here 
for sale, as they sold well in the Fall and 
none is kept on hand. Almost everyone 
here uses northern seed, as the bulk of 
potatoes grown are Giants, and they ma¬ 
ture too early to use for seed. One dealer 
tells me he has sold this Fall 36 cars of 
Maine seed, or more than 7,000 barrels, 
and there are several others in the busi¬ 
ness. I have one neighbor who has 400 
barrels of northern seed in his cellar. It 
is not unusual for our farmers to plant 100 
acres, and some plant more c. a. j. 
Bradvelt, N. J. 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, January 13, 1911 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Problem of Winter Wheat Flour- 
Use of Rock Phosphate in Illinois.. 
A Farmers' Cooperative Association... 
Lime-Sulphur for Potatoes. 
Mountain Grass .. 
Adapting Grasses ... 
Some Illinois Corn Iluskers. 
Economical Experience with Clover Seed 
Fertility in Wastes Part II. 
Rural New-Yorker No. 1 Potato. 
That Storage Building. 
Farm Forestry . 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Government Crop Report. .. 
Changes in Massachusetts Farming. . . . 
Crops and Prices. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Good Poultry for Farmers.25, 
Hens That Write Records. 
Sprouted Oats . 
Milk Producers Dose Again. 
Mismanagement of a Cow. 
Figuring on Hogs. 
Must Have a Silo. 
Heaves . 
Lame Dog . 
Throat Disease in Horse.... 
Purchased Grain with Home-grown Fod¬ 
der . 
Ration for Cows and Pigs. 
Milk Ration; Pigs in Orchards....... 
Ration to Fatten Steers. 
Oat Chaff in Ration; Warts. 
Feeding Horse and Ilogs. 
Paving Penalty for Paint. 
Milk . 
The Tax on Oleo... 
Concrete Trough and House. 
Trouble with Churning. 
Lameness . 
Curing Self-sucking Cow. 
Dairy Short-Horns . 
Delaine Sheep in Missouri. 
Jersey or Holstein? . 
Ask the Cow. 
A Laying Ration . 
Nursing Baby Chicks. 
Experience with Cream. 
Salt and Cows. 
Disinfecting Stable . 
Thumps . 
Mare with Colic . 
Swollen Membranes . 
Stifle Disease in Cow and Mare. 
Selecting the Dairy Bull. 
Colt with Wind-puff . 
Strangles . 
Feeding Sheep and Lambs. 
Lime-Sulphur and Lice. 
Horses Tear Blanket. 
La meness . 
Foul in Foot . 
Scurfy Skin; Worms.. 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Home-boiled Lime-Sulphur . 27 
Thermal Test of North Carolina. 28 
Treatment of Chinese Lily. 28 
Scions or Buds from Mature Trees.... 28 
Shed Room for Peach Orchard. 29 
Inspect the Spray Rig. 30 
Geared Wheel Powers. 30 
Hand Pump or Power. 30 
Gasoline Power iu Orchards. 30 
Spitzeburg Apple . 31 
Working Under Low Trees. 31 
New Plant Immigrants . 31 
Quality in Squash Wanted . 31 
Top-Working on Kieffer. 32 
Non-bearing McIntosh Tree. 34 
Tomato Figs . 34 
Lime to Kill Peach Borers. 34 
Cheap Nursery Stock . 34 
Wood for Greenhouse Heater. 34 
The Free Seed Distribution. 35 
American Medicinal Leaves and Herbs 35 
Pecan Possibilities on Poor Soil. 36 
Oleasters in Turkestan. 37 
Beurre Bose on Kieffer Stock. 37 
Top-working Apple Trees. 37 
Notes from the Florists. 39 
Christmas Flower Trade. 39 
A Potato Competition . 39 
WOMAN AND 
From Day to Day. . . 
THE nOME. 
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The Rural Patterns. 42 
Egg Corn Broad . 42 
Boston Brown Bread . 42 
Suggestions in Cooking Mutton. 43 
Old-fashioned Yeast . 43 
Entire Wheat Bread . 43 
Butter Cakes . 43 
Delicate liaised Biscuits. 43 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Sign Nuisance in New Jersey. 26 
Yours for Parcels Post. 29 
Parcels Post in Civilized Countries.... 35 
Editorials . 40 
Other People’s Money . 41 
Events of the Week.. 41 
Publisher’s Desk . 54 
Scarlet Globe still remains the best 
forcing radish, and the crop is only second 
to lettuce in importance .in many localities. 
Careful thinning is needed to give shapely 
radishes-—long “necks” and excess of foli¬ 
age bar them from the best trade. 
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