1912. 
THE KURAb NEW-YORKEH 
183 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, February 10, 1912 
FARM TOPICS. 
Marketing Silage . 154 
Free Labor Bureau. 154 
A Western Smokehouse. 154 
High-Grade Fertilizers . 156 
Renting and Sharing Land. 156 
Alfalfa in Pennsylvania. 156 
Handling an Old Sod. 156 
Cost of Potato Crop. 157 
A "Back to the Land” Experience.... 159 
Frames as a Factor in Truck Growing. 
Part II. 163 
Lespedeza Saving Louisiana Farming.. 162 
“French Peas” . 162 
Phosphate and Potash on Clover. 164 
Producers’ and Consumers' Markets. . . 165 
Hope Farm Notes. 166 
A Winter Day’s Work. 169 
Cost of Silo Filling. 174 
Alfalfa Questions . 174 
Returns from Big Crops. 174 
Seeding to Alfalfa. 175 
Human Wastes; Hen Manure.... 175 
The Use of Raw Phosphate Rock. 178 
Literature for a Farmer. 178 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
One Year of That “Horse Company” 155 
Good Poultry Fixtures. 155 
New Hampshire Ayrshires . 172 
The Sheep or the Cow?. 172 
Sweeny . 172 
Rickets . 172 
Ergotism . 172 
Swine Raising as a Business. 173 
Beef Cattle in Brazil. 174 
Connecticut Dairymen’s Association... 177 
Horse Breeders’ Association. 177 
Milk. 179 
Is Up to Producers. 179 
Letter to a Congressman. 179 
Raising Turkeys in Confinement. 180 
Remedies for Frozen Combs. 181 
A Woman's Hens. 1S1 
That Leghorn Egg Test. 181 
HORTICULTURE. 
Who Guarantees the Grower?. 154 
Pecan Growing on Light Land. 154 
Peach Buds at New Brunswick, N. J.. 156 
Lime-Sulphur Statements. 158 
Spraying Notes. 160 
How to Buy Trees. 164 
Destroying Sowbugs . 167 
Roman Chamomile . 167 
An Agricultural Explorer’s Caravan.. 167 
Cata'lpa Trees Splitting. 167 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 170 
Pea Coal in Domestic Use. 170 
Virginia Dry Hop Yeast. 170 
Bread From Winter Wheat. 170 
Keeping New Milk Warm. 170 
The Rural Patterns. 171 
Some Books and Talk. 171 
Keeping Maple Syrup. 171 
Lenten Soup ..'. 171 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Parcels Post in Germany. 153 
Future of the European Starling. 155 
Concrete Work in Cold Weather. 156 
This Senator Needs Attention. 158 
Editorials . 168 
Events of the Week. 169 
More About the Lancaster, Pa., Market 176 
Contract Systems of Marketing. 176 
Publisher's Desk. 182 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending February 3, 1912. 
BUTTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb.34 © .36 
Good to Choice.31 © .33 
Lower Grades .28 @ .30 
Storage.30 @ .36 
State Dairy, best.33 © .34 
Common to Good.26 @ .32 
Factory.23 ® .26 
Paeking Stock..20 © .24 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 36 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 38 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 36 cents. 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best.16 ® .17 
Common to Good.14 @ .15)4 
Hkims. .08 ® .13 
EGGS 
White, good to choice.37 ® .42 
Mixed Colors, best.35 @ .37 
Common to Good.28 ® .32 
Western, best.38 © .40 
Under grades.24 ® .32 
Checks and dirties. .20 © .27 
Storage, prime.27 @ .30 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4.35 ® 5 00 
Medium. 4.00 ® 4.35 
Pea. 4.15 ® 4.20 
Vellow Eye. 4.15 © 4.20 
Red Kidney. .4.70 ® 5.15 
White Kidney. 5.90 @ 6.00 
Lima, California.6.40 ® 6.50 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice. .53 ® .55 
Common to Good.47 ® .52 
Pacific Coast... 45 @ .49 
German Crop, new. 88 © .93 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911.10 © .1014 
Common to good.117 ® .09 
Sun dried.07 ® .08)4 
Chops. 02)4© .0294 
Raspberries.27 © .28 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Spy,bbl.2.00 © 4.00 
Spitzenburg .2.00 @ 4.00 
Ben Davis. 2.00 @ 3 00 
Baldwin.2.25 @ 3.50 
Greening. 2.00 © 3.60 
King. 2.25 © 4.00 
Hubbardston ... .2.00 @ 3.75 
York Imperial. 1.75 ©3.00 
Western, box. 1.00 @ 3.00 
Cranberries. Cape Cod, bbl. 7.50 © 9 50 
Jersey, bbl.8.00 @ 9.50 
Strawberries, Fla., qt.25 @ .50 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—N. Y. State, bbl..3.00 
Maine, bttg. 3.00 
Long Island, bbl. 3.50 
Foreign. 168-lb.bag. 1.25 
Bermuda, bbl. .. . 5.00 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel.75 
Brussels Sprouts, qt.06 
Beets, new, 100 bunches.3.00 
Carrots, bbl. 1.50 
New. 100 bunches. 3.00 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton.25.00 
Red, ton.20.00 
Cauliflowers, Fla., basket.75 
Kale, bbl.50 
Chicory, bbl. 1.00 
Endive, Erench. lb. 11 
Lettuce, bbl. bkt. 100 
Onions. State and Western. IU0 lbs... 2.60 
Orange Co., bag.2.50 
White, bu . 1.75 
© 3.50 
© 3 75 
® 4.00 
© 28.0 
@6 50 
© 1.00 
© .13 
® 4.00 
© 2.00 
© 4.00 
@33 00 
(a 28.00 
(a) 1.25 
@ .75 
@ 3.00 
@ .14 
® 3.50 
(irt 3.00 
® 3.50 
© 2.50 
Peppers, Southern, carrier. 1.50 @ 3.00 
Peas. Southern, bu.3.00 @10.00 
Salsify, 100 bunches. 4.00 © 5.00 
String Beans, bu..^. 1.00 © 3.50 
Spinach, bbl. 2.00 © 8.60 
Squash. Marrow, bbl. 1.00 © 1.50 
Hubbard, bbl. 1.25 ffl 1.60 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl.75 © 1.25 
White, bbl. ... 1.00 <a 1.60 
Egg Plants, Fla., box. 1.00 © 2.50 
Tomatoes, Fla. Carrier. — 1.25 © 4.00 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers, No. 1, doz.75 © 1.00 
No. 2, box. . 3.00 @ 4.00 
Tomatoes, lb.10 ® .40 
Lettuce, doz.76 ® 1.00 
Mushrooms, lb.20 © .40 
Radishes, 1 00 bunches.. 2.00 ® 4.00 
LIVE POULTRY 
Cbickens, lb.12 © .1214 
Fowls.12 54® .18 
Roosters.08 @ .09 
Ducks.17 @ .18 
Geese.12 © .13 
Turkeys.14 @ .16 
Guineas, pair.40 @ .60 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.19 © .21 
_ Common to Good.14 @ .18 
Cbickens. choice broilers, lb.28 © 30 
Broilers, common to good.18 © .25 
Roasters.16 © .22 
Capons, 7 to 8 lbs.24 @ .25 
Smaller sizes.17 ® .21 
Fowls. 15 @ .1654 
Spring Ducks, lb.16 @ .22 
Geese.12 @ .16 
Squabs, doz. 1.60 @ 5.25 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS 
Calves, prime, lb. 12 @ .13 
Common to good.11 @ .1154 
Buttermilks.07 @ .09 
Lambs, hothouse, head. 3.00 @ 7.00 
Pork. Light.UJ54@ -08 
Heavy.005a© .07 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay, Timothy No. 1, ton.26.00 @ 27.00 
No. 2.25.00 © 25.50 
No. 3. 22.00 © 23.00 
Clover Mixed.19.00 © 24 00 
Clover.20.00 r© 24.00 , 
Straw, live.18.00 © 19.00 
Oat and Wheat.11.00 ® 12.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs. 5.00 @ 7.00 
Oxen.4.00 © 6.00 
Cows. 2.00 @ 5.60 
Calves, Prime Veal, UK) lbs.7.50 @10.60 
Culls. 6 00 © 7.60 
Sheep. 100 lbs.3.00 ® 4.25 
Lambs. 6.00 ® 7.30 
Hogs.6.25 © 7.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 1.21 © ... 
No. 2, Red. 1.02 © ... 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.12 © ... 
Corn, ns to quality, bush. 68 ® .73 
Oats, as to weight, bush.50 © .66 
Rye, No. 2 , Western.95 © .98 
Barley, choice. 1.20 @ 1.35 
MILL FEED—Car Lots 
Spring Bran,ton. 27.00 @ 29.75 
Standard Middlings. 27.60 ® 30.00 
Red Dog. 31.00 © 82.50 
Hominy Chop. 29.00 @ 30.30 
Linseed Meal. 39.00 @ 40.50 
Corn Meal. 30.00 @ 31.00 
COTTON 
New York Middling Upland. 9.90 
Middling Gulf. 10.15 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 9.15 
Good Middling. 9.90 
A Penn’a “Market Train.” 
The papers recently stated that the Bes¬ 
semer & Lake Erie Railroad would run a 
special market train and open public mar¬ 
kets iu Pittsburgh. Mr. J. B. Mclntire. 
who has charge of this work, thus outlines 
his plan : 
"We are preparing the way for such, a 
service to be installed in the early Spring. 
At the present time I am organizing the 
farmers for this, to them, new line of 
work, which consists of less stock and 
grain growing and more truck farming. 
Then there are the questions of standards, 
packages, packing, and all these many ques¬ 
tions which, enter into a successful market 
proposition. The Bessemer and Lake Erie 
Railroad Co. will operate a daily market 
train on a passenger schedule over their 
entire road, covering about 200 miles, all 
of which is farming, country and much of 
it very choice. We will establish market 
houses at the various cities and towns along 
our line wherever we believe that we are 
warranted in so doing. The first one will 
be at East Pittsburgh, the southern ter¬ 
minus of our road, right in the heart of 
the milling and manufacturing district of 
Pittsburgh, where we can reach a popu¬ 
lation of more than half a million on a 
10-cent carfare. It is perhaps needless to 
say that this market house will be strictly 
modern and up-to-date, and will be all that 
will he required for the most expeditious 
and successful handling of the most perish¬ 
able of farm products. It is the plan of 
the management of this enterprise to have 
on sale at these market houses the prod¬ 
ucts of all food supply centers of the 
United States where the consumer can go 
and buy direct from the producer or his 
agent at first hands and first cost. Not 
only the farmers along the line of our 
road, but the truck growers of the South, 
as well as the fruit growers of the West 
are greatly interested in the movement.” 
J. B. MC INXIRB. 
Peach Buds in Maryland. —Regarding 
the condition of our peach buds at this 
time in the peach belt of Washington Co., 
Md., I learn that it is pretty much the same 
all through Maryland, Pennsylvania, Vir¬ 
ginia and West Virginia. My orchards arc 
situated along the western slope of the 
South Mountains, and have an elevation 
ranging from 890 feet, U. S. Geological 
Survey, at the lowest point, to 1030 at the 
highest point. During January we have 
had very severe weather, mercury ranging 
from IS to 80 degrees below zero, accord¬ 
ing to location and exposure, it being 
around that mark for several days, a tem¬ 
perature that we do not experience prob¬ 
ably more than once in a lifetime. All the 
buds from 900 and below are all killed, 
and in some extreme cases the wood of the 
trees is damaged to a certain extent. When 
we get to above 910 to 920 we find a 
sprinkling of good healthy buds in the 
higher top branches, and continue to find 
more as you go to higher ground, say 975, 
where the Carman and Elberta on 3%-year- 
oid trees are 40 per cent good, and Salwav 
and Smock at the same elevation on old 
trees are about 75 per cent good. Then we 
go on up to the highest point and we find 
Champion, Elberta, Frances, Belle of 
Georgia and Salway on five-year-old trees 
with about 60 per cent, while Stump on 
the same age trees are only about 30 and 
Fox Seedling only 20 per cent good. This 
will prove true on elevations ranging from 
1000 to probably 1050 feet, and maybe a 
little higher, but I learn that on the ex¬ 
treme high points near the top of the 
mountain they arc all gone. Anyone know¬ 
ing the elevation of his orchards can form 
some idea from this as to their prospects 
in the South Mountain peach belt. 
Smithsburg, Md. d. v. p. 
Good blocky horses bring $150 to $225; 
draught horses, $200 to $300 ; milch cows. 
$30 to $70 ; hogs, $5.70 per 100 pounds, or 
$8 dressed. Fat cattle from five to eight 
cents; stock cattle, two to five cents. Geese. 
10 to 12 cents a pound live; chicks. 
Spring, 11 cents; ducks, 12 to 14; old hens, 
11 to 13; turkeys, 14 to 16; dressed, two 
cents a pound more; eggs, 30 cents a dozen. 
Hay brings from $16 to $22 a ton; no 
straw sold here, nor silage. Milk brings 
12M> cents per gallon shipped, or six cents 
a quart delivered in town or around town ; 
cream or butter fat, 43 cents. Potatoes, 
$1.15 to $1.80 per bushel; corn, 57; oats, 
46; wheat, $1 per bushel. Manure is sent 
in from Chicago and brings $18 a ear f.o b 
here. w s 
l'apineau, Ill. 
Farms are selling for nearly double what 
they did 10 years ago, because the Western 
rush has turned, and many are coming back 
to old Vermont. And why not? Vermont 
stands among the first as to amount of 
corn, oats, potatoes, maple sugar and hay 
of any of the States, and her mountains 
are a great source of profit for lumber. 
Farms sell for $100 for each cow they wili 
keep; a horse counts two cows in this 
reckoning. Cows sell at auction from $25 
to $50 each; horses (sound), $150 to $250, 
mostly Western horses for heavy work 
Hogs, live, four cents. Butter, 35 cents •' 
eggs, 30 cents; milk, $1.75 per 100; hay, 
$10 to $20 a ton ; potatoes. $1 for 65 
pounds; oats, 60 cents for 32 pounds. Four- 
foot body hard wood, $4 cord : stove wood, 
16-inch, $2 a cord. Fresh pork, $8 a hun¬ 
dred, whole hogs; calves (veal), eight cents 
a pound, live. Hired men, $30 a month with 
hoard : hired girls, $20 a month with board ; 
girls are not expected to help milk or work 
outdoors. Large quantity of Western feed 
stuff is sold here; most of the milk is sold to 
the Boston Dairy Co., and shipped daily in 
special cans and in special cars, distance 
about 250 miles. Some milk goes to New 
York City, distance about the same. This 
is a marble producing section, and home 
markets are good. alb 
So. Vermont. 
Following are prices for farm products 
here: Corn on cob, $3.50 per barrel (five 
bushels). Timothy hay, $27.50 per ton: 
clover, $25 ; cow-pea hay, $20 ; sorghum and 
pea hay, $20; millet hay, $20 ; Crab grass 
bay, $lo ; ragweed hay, $10; wheat straw, 
$10; stalk fodder (tied with four-foot 
strings), five cents per bundle; blade fod¬ 
der, $1.50 per hundred bundles; shucks 
30 cents per barrel (the shucks from one 
barrel of corn). Wheat, $1 per bushel; 
oats, 75 cents per bushel; potatoes, $1.25 
per bushel; cabbage, 15 cents per head; 
Winesap apples. $3 per barrel ; honey, 20 
cents per pound, wholesale, and 25 Vents 
retail ; sweet potatoes, $1.25 per bushel 
retail; pigs, (eight weeks). $2 each ; eggs, 
25 cents (at stores). There is no dairy 
business here that produces milk for mar¬ 
ket. Borne farms sell butter at 25 cents. 
One farm supplies the hotel at the county 
seat with butter at 30 cents. This Is a 
heavily timbered, sparsely settled vicinity 
The timber is being cut for ties, lumber 
and cordwood, which makes sale for all 
the feed we farmers can produce for horses 
and. oxen. We have a good market at 
Indian Head, the government naval gun 
proving ground, for all truck, poultry, veal, 
honey, etc. Dairying has not vet developed, 
and the farmers still think there is money 
In tobacco growing. I am making a good 
business of selling grain and all kinds of 
hay and buying lime for my farm, supple¬ 
mented with clover and cow peas and phos¬ 
phate. s. s. s. 
Maryland. 
Qur coldest weather here was eight below 
January 13, our coldest for many years, 
but it was seven below seven years ago, 
which is nearest to it, and the report is to 
expect colder weather to-night. It is close 
after peaches now. u. T. c. 
Lawrence Go., Ohio. 
TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION 
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FIGURES NEVER LIE 
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IF THIS IS POSSIBLE 
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