1912. 
THE K URAL NliW-YOK KER 
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MILK 
The New York Exchange price is $2.01 
per 40-quart can, netting 4% cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Dairymen are generally of the opinion 
that the cows are not giving the milk we 
should naturally expect. Silage does not 
seem to increase the quantity above our 
former system of dry feeding. We are 
feeding as much grain as formerly. The 
Bordens are making preparations to dis¬ 
continue condensing milk at their Wassaic 
plant and ship the fluid milk to New York. 
Wassaic, N. Y. h. v. d. e. 
price. However, the last sale that I at¬ 
tended they scarcely brought market prices. 
Cows sold for $20 to $35; hogs, $0 to $7 
per 100; one brood sow with nine eight- 
weeks-old pigs sold for $31 ; hay, $16; 
wheat, 90 cents; oats, 41 cents. There 
was no corn or fodder sold. With 
the exception of hogs these products 
brought on the open market. There is no 
silage nor manure sold here. We have no 
milk market here at this time. The Van 
Camps had established a station at this 
place, but have discontinued it now. They 
paid two cents per pound for milk. Butter 
fat on the cream routes bring 32 cents. 
We have an Elgin creamery here that at 
this time is paying 36 cents per pound for 
butter fat, delivered at creamery. 
Butler, Ind. b. t. h. 
Cows are selling at from $30 to $50; 
horses from $100 to $300. Pork per hun¬ 
dredweight, $7.50; hay, No. 1, $18 per 
ton; oats, per bushel, 47 cents. Shelled 
corn, per bushel, 80 cents; wheat, 90 cents. 
Eggs, 30 cents per dozen; chickens, 11 
cents per pound; turkeys, 19 cents per 
pound; potatoes, 80 cents per bushel. There 
is no silage sold here. The milk around 
here all goes to a creamery and the skim- 
milk is returned. Butter for November 
sold for 39 cents per pound. j. p l 
C lyde, N. Y. 
Very few auctions held; at one recently 
cows sold from $19 to $77; two-year-olds, 
$15 to $21; Spring calves, $11. I have 
never known of any manure or silage being 
sold. Milk at shipping station this month, 
$1.90 per 100. Hay sells up to $19, ac¬ 
cording to quality. Pork, 8% cents dressed; 
potatoes were a failure and have been 
brought in and are $1.10 to $1.20. Butter 
35 cents; fresh eggs about whatever pro¬ 
ducer asks, 40 to 50 cents per dozen. 
H. p. 
Our location is in the northwestern part 
of Steuben County on the Arkport muck; 
ha id land hilly; muck level. Celerv and 
lettuec are main crops on muck. Ori hard 
land main crop is potatoes. Dairving is 
carried on quite extensively. Milk is taken 
to ondensery, selling at $1.60 per 100. 
1 lice ol land, muck, $400 to $500 per acre* 
hard land. $30 to $100. Potatoes 95 
cents, wheat. 9o cents; oats 45 cents- 
eggs, 35 cents; butter. 30 cents: horses’ 
$100 to $200 each; cows, $30 to $50; poul¬ 
try, 1- cents; hogs, eight cents. Celery, 
?? Id in 20 t0 2 8 cents in the rough! 
Hay, $20; straw, $10. Help sea rce and 
high. Hood locality, churches, good schools 
R. F. D.. and telephones in every house. 
Arkport. N. Y. j. j; D _ 
There have been no auction sales in this 
neighborhood this Fall, but hay is selling 
from $14 to $20 per ton in the open mar¬ 
ket. Hogs. $7.50 to $9 per 100. Manure 
is seldom sold here at any time, hut I am 
told sells for from $1 to $2 per two-horse 
load. Milk sells for about four cents per 
quart, or a little better at present, and new 
milch cows from $35 to $50 each. Butter, 
3o cents per pound; eggs (fresh), 40 cents 
a dozen; potatoes, 90 cents to $1 per 
bushel ; apples, $3 to $4.50 per barrel 
Queensbury. N. Y. w> D R 
Hay is selling at $15 per ton ; oats. 60 
cents per bushel; corn, 75 cents; potatoes, 
<0 cents. Silage sold here last Spring at 
$4 per ton. There is no manure sold here 
Horses are selling from $165 to $225 ac¬ 
ting to size; cows bring from $35 to 
$00; yearlings $15 to $20; hogs, $5.50 per 
100 live weight; $7.50 dressed. Milk brings 
$1.60 per 100 at cheese factory. c ii 
Thorp, Wis. 
tt a «ction cows averaged $36.80. 
Hay, $16 in the barn. Good cows bring a 
good price, but those a little off are hardly 
worth anything more than their hides, as 
the beef market is overrun here and to 
ship to New York City the express com¬ 
pany takes the profit. Milk brings $2 20 
per hundred weight, testing 5.3 ; below that 
three cents off per one-tenth per cent. 
Bloomville, N. Y. G. c. h. 
At public sales good stock usually sells 
at , r ather high prices, as credit is given 
and the excitement of bidding spurs men to 
recklessness. Good cows sell at from $50 
up; good horses. $150 up; mares higher 
than horses; mule teams, $300 up. In the 
market now heavy hogs are worth about 
six cents per pound ; beef steers, four cents ; 
fat cows, 3% cents; hens, seven cents- 
geese, seven cents; ducks, eight cents; 
turkeys, 12 cents; eggs, 24 cents per dozen; 
good dairy butter, 22% cents per pound: 
corn, from 55 to 58 cents per bushel of 68 
nounds (in the ear) ; wheat. 80 cents 
Manure is not shipped into our little citv. 
The local livery stables sell all their ou't- 
nit to farmers or gardeners at so much 
ner year. I have paid 25 cents per double 
vagon-box load. Some charge 50 cents per 
'oad. Within the last two years five silos 
mve been built in my vicinity, but silage 
is not yet a commercial article. Milk in 
Washington is 30 cents per gallon retail 
20 cents wholesale. This is chiefly a grain 
md stock raising section. Fruits, vegetables 
and dairy products are produced mainly for 
home consumption. Prices of beeves' and 
logs are fixed by those prevailing in Cin¬ 
cinnati and Indianapolis. h k 
Washington, Ind. 
Wheat, 87 ents; oats. 44; corn, 52; pnta 
toe*. $1; hay, $18 to $20 a ton; straw, $6: 
J’ 01 !£!C S- 8150 to $200; driving horses 
S200 to $250; beef steers, choice, 87.25 tf 
>8 Per 100; beef cows, $4; hogs, $5.60 
sheep, $3 to $3.75 ; lambs, $4.75 to $6.25 
butter, 25 cents a pound; eggs, 30 cents a 
dozen; milk, five cents a quart; poultry 
nine cents a pound. c w 
Loda, Ill. 
There has been but one public sale in this 
section this season ; that was caused by 
farm buildings being burned with season’s 
crops and all cows, 10 head. The three 
horses were saved ; three yearling heifers 
and a small bunch of sheep. At this sale 
the horses sold from $50 to $125, all old. 
The yearling calves sold from $18 to $25. 
They were small Jersey grades. Sheep sold 
$o per head. At a recent auction sale of 
cows held at Clinton prices ranged from 
$45 to $80. Prices for farm produce are 
about as follows; Wheat, $1 ; oats, 50 
cents; corn, 55 cents; buckwheat, 65 cents; 
eggs, 44 cents per dozen ; butter, 36 cents. 
Pork, dressed, seven to nine cents; poultry, 
live, 12 cents. No turkeys raised here. 
Veal, live, nine cents. Apples, plenty, about 
30 cents per 16-quart basket. Timothy 
hay. $22 per ton. a. a. a. 
High Bridge, N. J. 
As a rule in this section of the State, 
staple farm products, including live stock 
of all kinds, sell for more than market 
Apples, from $1.25 to $2.25; eggs as high 
as 48 cents a dozen : chickens, dressed, 18 
to 20 cents a pound. At a sale near us 
hay sold for $27.50 to $29: corn. 78 
cents; potatoes, $3 a barrel; cows, $65 to 
$80; yearling heifers. $15 to $20. At one 
sale hay sold for $32 per ton. We are get¬ 
ting for our milk flye cents a quart. I 
have a herd of 40 cows and heifers, milking 
at this time 17. J. o w 
Farmingdale, N. ,T. 
Cattle or oxen bring about $180 per yoke; 
cows, fresh, from $45 to $70 ; springers, $20 
to $30. Horses, $160 to $200. Hay, $16 
to $26 per ton; no silage sold; stable 
manure $4 per cord, mixed $3 to $4. Milk 
is bringing 40 to 45 cents per 10-quart 
can at present, the highest ever; it has 
been as low as 28 to 32 cents. It retails 
at village for from five to seven cents per 
quart. Eggs, 45 cents; chickens, dressed, 
22 cents per pound; potatoes, $1 bushel. 
Apples, 55 cents per busb-el. j. l. 
Baltic, Conn. 
These are the average taken from auction 
sales in this neighborhood: Horses, $150; 
colts. $65; cows. $45; hogs. 5% cents a' 
pound; sheep. $3; lambs, $2.75;" hay. $15 
to $20 a ton ; straw. $7 ; bean pods, $7 per 
load : wheat. 87 to 93 cents a bushel: corn, 
30 to 38 cents bushel ears; beans, white 
$1.90 per bushel : red. $2.40; oats, 40 cents; 
butter, dairy, 28 cents; eggs, 28 cents per 
dozen. Milk six cents per quart for Winter 
months, five cents for Summer. Silage and 
manure are sold with the farms. 
Hickory Corners, Mich. m. j. d. 
Farmers as a rule buy their cattle from 
drovers who bring them in from New York 
and Pennsylvania. Milch cows of the ordi¬ 
nary mixed grades sell from $50 for the so- 
called Jersey to $65 for a Holstein. The 
local creamery at Changewater. N. J., is 
now paying 4% cents a quart for milk. 
Many farmers food brewery grains, for 
which they pay 40 cents per hundred at the 
railroad station. Butchers are paying four 
cents per pound for drv cows. Hay scarce 
and not very choice, selling for $23 per ton 
Apples are plentiful at $1.50 per barrel, but 
very little spraying is done, so they do not 
show up as well as they should. Stores are 
paying 40 to 45 cents a dozen for eggs 
Five chickens sell for 10 cents a pound 
1 ork seven to eight cents a pound. Corn 
(new) 75 cents per hundred. Wheat, 93 
and 95 cents a bushel; rye. 75 cents bushel. 
Rye straw, long, in bundles, $12 to $15 
per ton. I have learned that some manure 
Is being sold at 75 cents per two-horse 
ioad and you do your own carting. 
Glen Gardner, N. .T. n c c 
Cow With Depraved Appetite. 
What does a cow need when she will 
leave good feed and eat old boards and 
shingles? H „ 
Richmond, Me. 
She lias not had the right kind of food. 
Her system craves bone-forming food like 
lime and phosphates. Feed wheat bran or 
linseed meal, or give her a handful of fine 
ground bone in her grain. That will re¬ 
lieve her by supplying what she needs. 
Concrete in Silo Making. 
Is there any reliable preparation to use 
with I ortland cement to overcome its ab¬ 
sorbing moisture, as is the case with the 
cement, silo and silage becoming damaged 
by coming in contact with the cement? 
Fenton, Mich. j j M 
It is not necessary to mix anything with 
< onejete to make it waterproof. The only 
requisite is that the cement, sand anil 
stone be so proportioned as to give the 
densest possible mixture, that is, so that 
all the spaces between the particles of sand 
and stone are filled with cement, and that 
the stone and sand particles he sufficiently 
giaded in size as to produce a minimum 
of spaces between them. Silage is not 
affected in any way whatsoever by its eon- 
rf l< t„ w *J;h concrete, neither is the concrete 
itself affected in any way by the silage I 
have personally built three silos 18 feet 
in diameter and 50 feet high. These have 
been filled several times, and the owners 
are more than pleased with their concrete 
silos and are very enthusiastic indeed about 
them. After three years of use, an ex¬ 
amination of the interior of the concrete 
silos shows that the cement is in exactly 
the same condition as when first used 
with this exception, that it probably is a 
little harder and, if possible, a little better 
and so air-tight and moisture proof are the 
silos that there is no molding of the silage 
all. The outside of the silos is per- 
iectly ary at all times, except when they 
are wet by rain. It is hard to account for 
tile belief on the part of some farmers that 
either the concrete or the silage is affected 
in a concrete silo. Such a suspicion is 
very unfortunate on the part of anyone, 
as it probably prevents them from appre¬ 
ciating the innumerable advantages of a 
concrete structure over any other form of 
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