1912. 
Crops and Markets 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending January 13, 1912. 
BETTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb.39 @ .40 
Good to Choice. --to @ .38 
Loner Grades .28 @ .32 
Storage. .30 @ .37 
State Dairy, best.37 @ .38 
Common to Good.24 @ .36 
Factory.20 @ .23 
Packine Stock. .19 @ .22 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 36 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 37 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 40 cents. 
CHEESE 
Fall Cream, best.15 @ .16** 
Common to Good.12 @ .14 
Skims.06 @ .13 
EGGS 
White, good to choice. 
Mixed Colors, best . 
Common to Good. 
Western, best. 
Under grades. 
Checks and dirties. 
8torage, prime. 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium. 
Pea. 
Yellow Eye. 
Bed Kidney. 
White Kidney. 
Lima, California...'. 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice. 
Common to Good. 
Pacific Coast. 
German Crop, new. 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911. 
Common to good. 
Sun dried. 
Chops. 
Raspberries. 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Spy,bbl.2.00 @ 4.00 
Spitzenbnrg . 2.00 @ 4.00 
Ben Davis. 2.00 @ 3 00 
Baldwin.2.00 @ 3.25 
Greening. 2.50 @ 3.50 
King. 2.25 @ 3.75 
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 @1100 
Jersey, bbl.8.00 @ 9.50 
Strawberries, Fla., qt.2o @ .75 
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.07 
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.09 
.07 
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.27 
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.28 
.54 
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.56 
.48 
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.53 
.45 
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.50 
.91 
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.96 
4.20 @ 4.75 
4.00 @ 4.25 
4.00 @ 4.25 1 
4.25 @ 4.30 
5.00 @ 5.20 | 
5.90 @ 6.00 
6.50 @ 6.6011 
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.40 
.35 
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.36 
.28 
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.32 
.34 
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.36 
.20 
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.14 
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.24 
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.26 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—N. Y. State, bbl.. 3.00 @ 3.50 
Maine, bag. 3.25 @ 3 50 
LoDg Island, bbl. 3.50 @ 3.75 
Foreign. 168-lb. bag. 2.60 @ 2.75 
Bermuda, bbl.4.00 @ 6 50 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel.75 @ 1.50 
Brussels Sprouts, qt.08 @ .12 
Beets, new, 100 bunches.3.00 @ 4.00 
Carrots, bbl.75 @ 1.50 
New. 100 bunches. 2.50 @ 3.00 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton. 23.00 @26 00 
Red, ton.23.00 @27.00 
Cauliflowers, Fla., basket.75 @1.75 
Kale, bbl.50 @ .65 
Chicory, bbl. 2.00 ® 3.00 
Endive, Eiench, lb.11 @ .14 
Lettuce, **-bbl. bkt. 1 50 @ 3.50 
Onions, State and Western, 100 lbs... 2.00 @ 2.60 
Orange Co., bag.2.75 @ 3.25 
White, bu. 2.00 @ 2.50 
Peppers, Southern, carrier. 1.25 @ 2.25 
Peas. Southern, bu. 2.00 @ 2.25 
String Beans, bu.50 @ 4.50 
Spinach, bbl. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Squash, Marrow, bbl. 1.00 @ 2.25 
Hubbard, bbl. 1.50 @ 1.75 
Turnins. Rutabaga, bbl.90 @1.00 
White, bbl. 1.00 @ 1.50 
Egg Plants, Fla., box. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Tomatoes,-Fla. Carrier. 1.25 @ 2.75 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers, No. 1, doz. 1.00 @ 1.25 
No. 2, box. 3.00 @ 4,00 
Tomatoes, lb.06 @ .20 
Lettuce, doz.75 @ 1.25 
Mushrooms, lb.15 © ,30 
Radishes, 100 bunches. 2.00 @ 3.50 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, lb.13 @ .13*6 
Fowls.15 @ .16 
Roosters.09 @ .10 
Ducks. 17 @ .18 
Qeese.12 @ .13 
Turkeys.11 @ .16 
Guineas, pair.40 @ .50 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.19 @ .21 
Common to Good.14 @ .21 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.25 @ 28 
Broilers, common to good.18 @ .22 
Roasters.16 @ .22 
Fowls. 12 @ .17 
Spring Ducks, lb .16 @ .20 
Geese.12 © .16 
Squabs, doz. 1.50 @ 4.50 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS 
Calves, prime, lb.14 @ .15 
Common to good.12 @ .13 
Buttermilks.07 @ .08 
Lambs, hothouse, head.5.00 @11.00 
Pork. Light.09 @ .10 
Heavy.07 @ .08 
HAY AND STRAW 
Bay, Timothy No. 1, ton.25.00 @ 26.00 
No. 2 . 23.00 @ 24.00 
No. 3.20.00 @ 22.00 
Clover Mixed.19.00 @ 24 00 
Clover.20.00 @ 24.00 
Straw, Rye.18.00 @ 20.00 
Oat and Wheat.11.00 @ 12.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers. 100 lbs. 5.00 @ 7.15 
Oxen.4.00 @ 6.00 
Gows. 2.00 @ 5.50 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs. 8.00 @11.00 
Culls.6.00 @ 7.50 
Sheep, 100 lbs.3.00 @ 4.30 
f- ambs . 5.00 @7.50 
H °SS.5.25 @6.75 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 
No. 2, Red. 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 
Rye, No. 2, Western. 
Barley, choice. 
1.14 @ ... 
1.01 @ ... 
1.10 @ ... 
.65 @ .69 
.50 @ .55 
.95 @ 1.00 
1.15 @ 1.30 
MILL FEED—Car LOTS 
Spring Bran,ton. 26 00 @ 28.00 
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 
New York Middling Upland. 9.65 
Middling Gulf. 9.90 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 8.75 
Good Middling. 9.50 
THIS RURAk NEW-YORKER 
«7 
Market quotations show advances in the 
price of many articles. This is mainly be¬ 
cause of the extreme cold, which has made 
handling of fruits and vegetables difficult. 
The market for potatoes is especially firm. 
They are slow things to handle and more 
susceptible to frost damage than apples; 
that is a little chilling gives them a sweet¬ 
ish taste distasteful to many people. A re¬ 
port is going the rounds to the effect that 
the potato supply is 80,000,000 bushels short 
of normal at this time of year and there¬ 
fore potatoes ‘are likely to sell well towards 
$2 per bushel before Spring, which is pos¬ 
sible but not highly probable. The supply 
available for shipment from Europe is not 
nearly exhausted, and our own potato sec¬ 
tions, especially of the Northwest, have a 
habit of sending unexpectedly largo quan- 
ties to the East when weather permits and 
prices are attractive. Hut the prophets of 
very high potato price seem to forget 
that consumption drops rapidly as prices 
advance, rice and other starchy substances 
taking their place. 
Good, blocky young farm horses of 1,200 
pounds bring .$175; draught horses, 1,600 
pounds, $250; drivers, $175 to $225; com¬ 
mon, all ages, $150 to $160. Cattle, fat, 
3% to 5y 2 cents, depending on size and 
quality. Stock cattle bring three to five 
cents ; cows, $30 to $75; sheep about $2 to 
$2.50 for choice Delaine ewes ; lambs, $1.60 
to $1.75; mutton, 3% cents. Hay around 
$18 if No. 1 ; $16 if mixed and good. No 
silage sold here. Manure about 50 cents 
for double bed. The manure is from horse 
stables and is thrown out so it becomes ex¬ 
posed before it is hauled. Creameries pay 
10 cents for milk. Large quantities of 
milk are shipped to Columbus, O., for which 
a little more is paid. b. m. 
Fataskala, O. 
Farm products bring about the following 
prices: Hay, good Timothy, $22; mixed 
Timothy and clover, $18; corn fodder, 25 
cents per shock, cut 12x12: corn. 55 cents 
per bushel, delivered, 70 pounds per 
bushel before Christmas; oats, 45 to 50 
eents per bushel: potatoes. No. 1. 89 cents 
per bushel; turnips, 50 cents per bushel; 
apples. $1 to $1.50 per bushel box; eggs, 
30 cents per dozen; ducks, 10 cents; hens, 
12; roosters, nine, and turkeys, 14 cents; 
No. 1 milch cows, good types, $50 to $75 ; 
common milkers, $30 to $40. Very little 
silage sold or used iu this locality. We 
buy our manure from Columbus, 40 miles 
away. A delivery company loads it for us 
at 35 cents per ton, taking care that no 
rubbish gets into it. Freight is 65 cents 
per ton. making a car cost $25 to $35 or 
$1 per ton. We use one car every week 
52 weeks per year. Very little local manure 
is sold : when a load is sold it generally 
brings 50 cents per wagon load of one ton. 
Wheat straw brings from $4 to $6 per ton, 
and is scarce. Milk is generally sold on 
foot, that is, in hogs and butter, vet a 
few here ship in cans on the electric line 
at 18 cents per gallon delivered, h. a. a. 
Toboso, O. 
Auctions are quite numerous in northern 
Ohio, particularly in the Fall. The past 
Fall found prices about as follows : Timothy 
hay, $15 to $18 per ton ; milch cows to 
freshen in the Spring, from $25 to $50; 
registered Holsteins, $200 to $350; horses, 
$150 up for good age and sound; wheat, 
95 cents to $1; oats, 50 cents; potatoes, 
75 to 85 cents; apples, 50 to 70 cents per 
bushel. Maple syrup is made in large quan¬ 
tities here in Geauga County. Last season 
we received 80 cents in bulk, 11 pounds to 
the gallon. It is worth now $1 per gallon 
in cans. Manure is sold from the villages 
to farmers at $1 per load. Silage does not 
often change hands; no market value. Milk 
is bringing $1.60 per 100 pounds now, cart¬ 
age out; from 85 cents to $1 in the warm 
weather. Land is worth from $40 to $80 
per acre. Lots of farms for sale. 
Chardon. O. h. w. t. 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, January 20, 1912. 
FARM TOFICS. 
Record for Kansas Acre. 58 
Plain Sailing for Potatoes. 59 
Have Several Main Crops. 60 
Cow Peas Kill Wiregrass. 61 
Egyptian Cotton . 62 
Farm Forestry. Tart II. 66 
Notes and Comments. 66 
A Celebrated Deer Case. 66 
Who Owns the Quail?. 66 
The Rock Problem in New England.... 67 
Hope Farm Notes. 70 
Japanese Sugar Cane in Florida.78 
Crops and Prices. 80 
Conditions in Central Illinois. 80 
Farm Conditions and Prices. 84 
Fertility in Wastes. 85 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Good Poultry for Farmers. Part II.... 58 
Scratch Feed Peas. 61 
Selecting the Dairy Bull. Part IV.... 76 
Thin Horse . 76 
Tankage for Hogs. 76 
What About Milch Goats. 77 
Corn and Forage for Hogs. 77 
The Egg Laying Contest. 77 
Ration for Butter Making. 77 
Milk . 79 
Cow with Depraved Appetite. 79 
Concrete in Silo Making. 79 
The Truth About Capons. 81 
Taking Cow’s Picture. 81 
Feeding Beet Pulp. 82 
Feeding Cow, Dorses and Hens. 82 
Another Balanced Ration. 82 
A Cow Ration. 82 
Trouble with Pigs. 82 
Weak Stifles ....:. 82 
Fattening a Horse. 82 
A Few Hen Records. 83 
Sneezing Hens . 83 
Beef Cake for Hens.83 
Hogs on Rape and Alfalfa. 84 
HORTICULTURE. 
How the Middleman Was Cut Out. ...57, 58 
The “Misfit” Tree Proposition. 58 
Apple Box With Glass End. 58 
Hand Power Sprayer. 60 
Culture of Garlic. 61 
Sunscald in Trees. 61 
Apples for Indiana. 61 
That Packing House Proposition. 62 
N. Y. State Fruit Growers Meet. 62 
Grafting Wax . 62 
Apples for Southern New York. 67 
Canning Crops . 68 
Missouri Garden Notes. 71 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 74 
Old-Fashioned Yeast . 74 
Expedients in Millinery. 74 
Egg Lemonade . 74 
The Rural Patterns . 75 
Frost Cure for Roaches. 75 
Another Dumb Waiter. 75 
Bread and Biscuits. 75 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Galvanized Iron Cistern . 60 
An Ohio Family . 60 
Why Some Concrete Fails. 60 
Building a Smokehouse . 61 
Cutting Timber by Wire. 61 
Cold Storage Room Near Icehouse. 64 
A Gasoline Farm Team. 64 
Potash on Pacific Coast. 64 
A Friend of the Deer. 64 
An Icehouse Arrangement. 67 
Editorial . 72 
News from Albany. 63 
Drying a Cement Floor. 78 
Tile to Drain Concrete. 84 
Publisher’s Desk . 86 
GBO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches, Ber 
ries Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot-honse Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. 34 & 36 Little 12tli St.. Hew York- 
The Rochester Produce 
& Commission Company 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS 
Highest Prices Paid for Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Lard, 
Poultry, Calves, Beans, Potatoes, Etc. 
244-246 Clinton Avenue. North ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merctiants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited 
POULTRY AND HOTHOUSE LAMBS 
Ship to WM. II. COHEN CO., Commission Mer¬ 
chants - • . - 229 Washington tjt., New York 
P LEASE send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com¬ 
mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter, 
Eggs, Poultry, Pork, Calves, Hay, Grain, Beans, 
Apples, etc. E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St., N. Y 
BOOKS WORTH BUYING 
American Fruit Culturist, Thomas.... $2.50 
Bush Fruits, Card. 1.50 
Principles of Fruit Growing, Bailey.. 1.50 
Successful Fruit Culture, Maynard.... 1.00 
Dwarf Fruit Trees, Waugh.50 
Plums and Plum Culture, Waugh.... 1.50 
Pruning Book, Bailey. 1.50 
Nursery Book, Bailey. 1.50 
Spraying of Plauts, Lodeman. 1.25 
Plant Breeding, Bailey. 1.25 
Evolution of Our Native Fruits, Bailey 2.00 
Survival of The Unlike, Bailey. 2.00 
Horticulturists’ Rule Book, Bailey.... 2.00 
The Soil, King. 1.50 
Soils, Ililgard . 4.00 
Fertility of the Land, Roberts. 1.50 
Irrigation and Drainage, King. 1.50 
Fertilizers, Voorhecs . 1.25 
Agriculture • and Chemistry, Storer, 3 
vols. 5.00 
Forage Crops, Voorhees. 1.50 
Principles of Agriculture, Bailey. 1.25 
Garden Making, Bailey. 1.50 
Vegetable Gardening, Bailey. 1.50 
Forcing Book, Bailey. 1.25 
How Crops Grow, Johnson. 1.50 • 
How Crops Feed, Johnson. 1.50 
Cereals in America, Hunt.. ... 1.75 
Fc-°ge and Fiber Crops iu America, 
Hunt . 1.75 
Book of Alfalfa. Coburn. 2.00 
Farm Grasses in United States, Spill¬ 
man . 1.00 
Clovers and How to Grow Them, Shaw 1.00 
The Potato, Fraser.75 
Tomato Culture, Tracy.50 
Celery Culture, Beattie.50 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
409 PEARL ST., NEW YORK CITY 
IN THE FIELD 
Making “ 
Money- 
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or in the Born Wasting it 
Whether your horses work or not, their feed costs you big money. When a horse is laid up you 
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Since there is no way to \ prevent spavin, curb, splint, ringbone, sprains and lameness, your thought ^ 
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saved thousands of dollars’ worth of horse flesh , to say nothing of the worry, time and trouble it lias saved 
horse owners. You should get ar.d keep a bottle of— 
Kendall's Spavin Cure 
for emergencies. You never can tell when you’ll need it, and when 
the time does come, you’ll be mighty glad you had the foresight to 
prepare. Here are samples of the thousands of letters we receive 
from grateful horse owners every year. Mr. J. J. Sandlin, New 
Hope, Ala., writes:—“I am a great believer in Kendall’s Spavin 
Cure. A few applications have just taken an unnatural growth off 
my horse’s back, thereby increasing his value 525.00 at least.” 
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a mule for 565.00. He had a bad Spavin and was unable to work 
but after using three bottles of your Spavin Cure, I cured it and 
he was sold in March for J180.00. I advise all horse owners to use 
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bunch all off and leaving the horse as sound as he ever was. The 
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Cure. Light work and careful handling are better than 
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people would take proper care of him. I use the Spavin Cure 
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the trouble. There is enough in one bottle to cure three large 
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Thoropin in a hurry. With over twenty years’ experience with 
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Why experiment with other remedies—when you know what Kendall’s has done and can do. You can get Kendall’s Spavin Cure at 
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