1912. 
'PHIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CROPS AND PRICES. 
Hay, ton, .$15 to $20, not much sold in 
this dairy section. Ilogs, 5% cents live 
weight; cows, grade, $20 to $60. Kggs, 36 
cents a dozen. Silage and manure are never 
sold. Fowls and chickens 10 cents a pound; 
turkeys, 16 cents live. Milk is about all 
taken to D. R. Stephens’ creamery ; we are 
paid for what butter fat there is in the 
milk monthly the highest New York market 
price; one cent a pound premium if more 
than 25 cents a pound. Apples, bushel, 65 
cents; potatoes, 80 cents. Buckwheat, $1.40 
per 100. These are not auction sale prices, 
not many auctions here. C. e. b. 
E. Smithfield, Pa. 
I have just finished packing and shipping 
my crop of 10,860 barrels of apples—I had 
6,500 in 1909, 7,200 barrels in 1910, and 
10,860 barrels in 1911. Most of my crop 
Is stored in New York. We shipped from 
the station about 20,000 in 1909. 26,474 in 
1910, and have shipped to the present time 
26,279 and are still shipping. We have a 
large fruit bud for next season. We raise 
more apples per acreage, and the number 
of trees, than any section of the State. 
Albemarle Co., Va. j. j. boaz. 
Loose Timothy hay has been selling for 
from $15.50 to $18 per ton; clover nay 
from $10 to $12. Corn in shock (10 hills 
square) from 60 to 84 cents per shock; corn 
In market, 55 cents per bushel. No wheat 
offered, nor oats. Milch cows, ordinary 
grade, $20 to $35; good grade cows, $30 
to $45; good grade cows fresh, $50 to $75 ; 
hogs, $5 to $7; pigs, 50 to 65 pounds, $4 
to $5. Horses, heavy draft, $150 to $175 
(same would have brought from $65 to $100 
more a year ago) ; chunks and wagon 
horses, $85 to $125 ; plugs are slow at any 
price. Yearling steers and heifers, $11 to 
$14; veal calves, six to seven cents per 
pound ; fat cows, two to four cents ; sheep, 
old, $1 to $2 per head ; younger sheep and 
lambs, $2 to $4 per head. Apples, 30 to 50 
cents per bushel at the orchards. Potatoes 
75 cents to $1 per bushel. Butter fat 
shipped, 36 cents per pound. Eggs, 36 cents 
per dozen. Neither silage nor manure is 
sold here. J. c. w. 
Licking Co., Ohio. 
Timothy hay, No. 1, $20, No. 2, $18.50 per 
ton ; clover hay, $15 to $18; straw, wheat 
and oat, $5 ; corn, new, 60 cents, old, 80 
to 90 cents bushel; oats, 50 cents; wheat, 
90 cents. Live stock, good fat steers, five 
cents a pound ; hogs six and three-quarter 
cents; no sheep here. Feeds of various 
kinds are extremely scarce in this vicinity, 
so that prices cannot continue long at these 
figures. Potatoes are short crop in this 
State, now selling around $1 and up. Milk 
Is mostly shipped to our cities, price paid 
according to quality. l. m. g. 
Kirkersville, O. 
The sudden and severe and continual 
Winter works discomfort to many and has 
caused some losses, but these will be ten 
times discounted by resultant benefits. 
Principal of these will undoubtedly be the 
killing of the grasshopper eggs which must 
have filled the soil, and which would have 
given us a destroying pest next year had 
this been a mild and dry Winter. These 
are not the migratory hoppers which many 
years ago darkened the air in swarms. 
They have not been known for a generation. 
But the common grasshoppers are a con¬ 
tinual menace. Should there be a succes¬ 
sion of warm Winters they become numer¬ 
ous enough to do immense damage. Some 
localities are worse than others. They 
travel but little, and toward the east. A 
sandy dry creek bed or a graded railroad 
track will hold them back. a. b. 
Kansas. 
Prices on farm products run as follows: 
New milch cows, $45 to $60 ; dry cows, $20 
to $30; pork, 7% cents a pound; hay, per 
ton, $18 to $20; butter, per pound, 35 
cents; potatoes, bushel, 95 cents • to $ 1 ; 
apples, barrel, $2 to $3; milk, $1.65 at 
farm, $1.75 at factory; dressed veal, 12 
cents; live veal calves, seven cents; chick¬ 
en, dressed, 18 to 20 cents; chickens, live, 
10 to 12 cents; silage and manure not sold. 
Colchester, Vt. a. s. m. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Weak Back. 
I have an elglit-year-old mare that drags 
hind feet when backing, stands with legs 
spread, and when reaching down to drink 
lowers hindquarters and keeps shifting 
from one foot to the other. She humps 
her back when pulling hard. Mare is with 
foal; have had her five years. There was 
something wrong when I bought her, but 
did not know it. What is the matter and 
Is there any cure? I have three months’ 
old mare colt with a rupture the size of a 
hickory nut at the navel. What shall I do 
for it? w. p. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
This condition may have come from a 
severe sprain of the muscles of the loins 
and treatment does no good. Recovery is 
gradual if the animal is pastured or lightly 
worked. As she is in foal medicines should 
not be given. The tendency is for a small 
umbilical hernia to disappear without treat¬ 
ment as the colt grows. To hasten this, 
blister the enlargement with cerate of can- 
tharldes once a month. If it increases in 
size have a veterinarian operate or put on 
wooden clamps. a. s. a. 
“Hollow Horn.” 
What kind of a disease is hollow horn 
in cattle? I have a Red Polled cow that 
was sick with it and came very near losing 
her. One of the principal symptoms is 
cold horns with the hair standing away 
from said horns as far as it can get. My 
cow never had any horns, but she was de¬ 
cidedly sick just the same; rough hair and 
no appetite, etc. l. N. s. 
There is no such disease as “hollow 
horn.” The horns of all adult cattle are 
hollow. In chronic or malignant catarrh 
pus may work its way into the hollow of 
the horn. This fact perhaps led to the 
naming of the mythical disease in question. 
A polled cow might suffer from catarrh, 
but of course could not have “hollow horn.” 
"Hollow belly” is quite common, however, 
and means semi-starvation, which would 
cause staring coat, tight hide, weakness 
and emaciation. There is nothing in your 
description that would enable us to deter¬ 
mine the nature of the ailment present. 1 
Garget; Stifle Lameness. 
1. I have a cow eight years old. Last 
Spring or early Summer one of the rear 
quarters of her udder began to swell and 
became quite hard and sore. I bathed 
it well with hot water and rubbed it with 
hot lard, but it kept on getting worse ana 
at last it broke and a lot of matter came 
out of it. I washed it with disinfectant 
and after a time it got better and healed 
up, but would break open again and a 
little pus would run out of it. I con¬ 
sulted a veterinary and he said to syringe 
it with peroxide. I have done so but it 
still continues to heal up and break open 
again with a little matter running out 
of it. This cow is due to calve now. 
What can I do for her? I was feeding her 
a quart of gluten, a quart of cotton-seed 
and three quarts bran when she was milk¬ 
ing well. 2 . I also have a horse nine 
years old: I bought him In May. He 
weighs about 1,200 pounds, had a sore 
stifle when -I got him and he still continues 
to be sore on it. He works all right but 
if trotting he goes lame on it. I had a 
veterinary see him and he advised painting 
the stifle with iodine, which T did. The 
stifle does not seem sore to touch, but the 
inside of the leg does. I also used a lini¬ 
ment. What can I do for it? J. w. R. 
Massachusetts. 
1. Ten days after the cow calves have 
her tested with tuberculin, as tuberculosis 
of the udder may be present. If she 
proves to be free from the disease better 
dry her off as soon as possible and sell her 
to the dealer for immediate slaughter, ft 
does not pay to keep such a cow for 
dairying as the condition of the udder Is 
Incurable. 2. Have the stifle puneture-flrea 
and blistered by a graduate veterinarian 
If you cannot hav'' this done blister the 
Joint once a month with cerate of ean- 
tha rides. Chronic stifle disease is prac¬ 
tically incurable; so it may be that the 
treatment will not succeed. a. s. a. 
Feeding Young Calf. 
A milkman near Boston advises as soon 
as the calf is born to tie it in front of 
cow. Milk and feed same to cow, a few 
minutes after calving. Then in the course 
of a few hours give cow a feed of warm 
shorts and water. The calf gets his first 
meal at next regular milking. The calf 
never sucks the cow ; it is taught to drink. 
Massachusetts. h. c. 
This milkman knows his business—no 
doubt about it. This plan is now followed 
with great success by some of the best 
dairymen in the country. 
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A Few of the Subjects 
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Rhode Island Turkeys havea nutty 
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The industry on the decline. 
How the eggs are set. 
Is ** Shooting the Red ” a myth ? 
How sickness is prevented. 
How Turkeys should be marketed. 
Introducing new blood. 
The hatch must not be disturbed. 
The first feeds for young. 
Weights and ages for breeding. 
Feeding breeding stock. 
How the Turkeys are fattened. 
Killing and dressing for market. 
Best month for hatching. 
Some facts about mating. 
Distinguishing the sexes. 
The Turkey egg record. 
Handling eggs and hatching. 
The various breeds of Turkeys. 
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