1912. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, March 23, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Soy Beans in Tennessee. 390 
Profitable Corn Raising. 390 
Sweet Potato Culture. Part II.391 
How Does Potato Blight Spread?.... 391 
Cleaning Out Brakes. 394 
The Farmer’s Nitrogen Mixer. 397 
Fertilizer for Pasture. 397 
Fertilizer and Spraying for Potatoes... 397 
Figuring on Fertilizer. 398 
Plowing in Manure. 398 
Farmers of Forty Centuries. Part IV. 398 
Value of Acetylene Refuse. 398 
Selecting Seed Potatoes. 399 
Turnips in the Potato Crop. 399 
Vitality of Weed Seeds. 401 
Clover on Corn Stubble. 401 
When Oats Grow Too Fast. 401 
Oats on Corn Stubble. 401 
Oats \Vithout Plowing. 401 
Rye as a Forage Crop. 412 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Photogi’aphing Live Stock. 408 
Results of Cow Testing. 408 
Tuberculosis and Wild Deer. 408 
The Dutch Belted Cattle. 409 
Questions About Silage. 409 
Experience With Fireless Brooders. . . . 411 
Milk . 413 
The “Butter Merger” Fake. 413 
The Value of Milk. 413 
Ration for Guernsey Cow. 413 
Milk Ration . 413 
Contagious Mammitis . 413 
Twin Calves . 413 
The Egg-Laying Contest . 415 
Buying Baby Chicks . 415 
Mixed Hatching . 415 
Scaly Leg. 415 
Feeding Hens . 415 
An Egg-eating Dog. 415 
Arrangement of a Henhouse. 410 
Alfalfa Needed for Soiling.. 410 
HORTICULTURE. 
J. H. ITale on Peach Varieties.... 389, 390 
An Apple Analyzed . 390 
Trimming and Caring for Grapes.... 392 
Fruits for Delaware. 392 
Fruit Trees in Henyards. 392 
Fight Against Codling Moth. Part II. 
393, 395 
Wood Fuel for Greenhouses. 394 
Cutting Back Grapes. 395 
Wormy Hickorynuts . 395 
Grafting Plums . 395 
A Weedy Old Asparagus Bed. 395 
Watermelons in West Virginia. 396 
Nurserymen and Variety Description.. 390 
Grafting Wax . 390 
Top-working Seedlings . 390 
American Apples in England. 396 
Fertilizing a Vineyard. 397 
Michigan Peach Bud Report. 397 
More Freakish Fruits. 399 
Radishes Run to Tops. 399 
Location for Orchard. 400 
Grafting Cherries . 400 
“A Calabash Farm”. 403 
Fitting Soil for a Lawn. 403 
Commercial Pansy Growing. 403 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Keeping Maple Syrup . 406 
Two Texas Recipes . 400 
Home Cheese-Making. 407 
Barred Out . 407 
Another Connecticut Election Cake.. 407 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Long Winter . 390 
Connecticut for Parcels Post. 400 
The European Starling Once More.... 401 
Other People’s Money. 405 
Notes from Albany.;. 410 
Substitutes for Linseed Oil. 412 
What to Do With Hard Water. 412 
Barrel Smoke House. 414 
How to Build an Ice Box. 414 
Keeping Maple Syrup. 414 
German Agricultural Schools. 417 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week Ending March 16, 1912. 
BUTTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb. 
.29 
a 
.30 
Good to Choice. 
.26 
@ 
.28 
Lower Grades . 
.25 
Storage. 
.25 
<3> 
.29 
State Dairy, bust. 
.28 
© 
.29 
Common to Good. 
@ 
.27 
Factory. 
@ 
.25 
Packiug Siock. 
.21 
@ 
.23 
.25 
.23 
20 
.23 
.20 
.18 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 28 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 31 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creumury, 30 ceDts 
ICG (18 
White, good to choice.24 @ 
Mixed Colors, best .22 @ 
Common to Good.18 @ 
Western, best.22 @ 
Under grades.18 @ 
Checks and dirties.16 @ 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best.18 @ 
Common to Good.15 @ .17 
Skims.08 @ .13 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs.4.30 © 4.85 
Medium. 4.00 @ 4.40 
Pea. 4.00 @ 4.50 
Vellow Eye. 4.00 ® 4.05 
Red Kidney. 4 25 @ 4.76 
White Kidney. 5.80 @ 5.86 
Lima. California.655 © 6.80 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.43 @ .45 
Common to Good.35 @ .42 
Pacific Coast.41 @ .44 
German Crop, new.86 @ .91 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Spy, bbl.2.00 @ 4.00 
Spitzenburg . 2.00 @ 4.00 
Ben Davis. 2.00 @ 3 00 
Baldwin. 2.00 @ 3.75 
Greening. 2.00 © 4.00 
King.. 2.00 ©4.00 
Gano. 2 75 ® 3 25 
York Imperial. 2.00 @ 3.00 
Western, box. 1.00 @ 2.50 
Cranberries. Cape Cod, bbl. 5.00 © 0 00 
Jersey, bbl. 7.50 © 0.00 
Strawberries, Fla., qt.20 @ .65 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1011.10 © .1014 
Common to good.07 © .09 
Chops. 02 @ .021^ 
Raspberries.27 © .29 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—N. Y. State, bbl. 3.25 @ 3.75 
Maine, bag. 3.50 © 3.75 
Foreign. 168-lb. bag. 1.50 @ 2.90 
Bermuda, bbl. ... . 5.00 @7 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel.75 @ 1.85 
Artichokes, Cal., bu. drum. 6.00 © 9.00 
Asparagus, Cal., doz.4.00 @ 9.00 
Beets, new, 100 bunches. 3.U0 © 4.00 
Carrots, bbl. 1.50 © 2.00 
New, 100 bunches.'2.50 @ 4.00 
Cabbage—Danish seed, ton. 50.00 @55.00 
Red, ton.25.00 @35.00 
New, bbl. crate. 3.25 @ 3.50 
Cauliflowers, Cal., case.2.00 @ 2.50 
Fla., bkt. 2.00 @ 2.75 
Kale, bkt ..75 @1.25 
Chicory, bbl. 3.00 @ 4.00 
Lettuce,H£-bbl. bkt. t ,75 @ 2.50 
Onions, State and Western, 1U0 lbs... 3.00 @ 3.50 
White, bu. 2.00 @ 2.75 
Peppers, Southern, carrier. 1.50 @ 4.50 
Peas. Southern, bu.2.00 @ 5.00 
Salsify, 100 bunches. 4.00 © 0.00 
String Beans, bu. 1.60 @ 4.00 
Spinach, bbl.75 @ 3.50 
Squash. Marrow, bbl. 1.25 © 1.50 
Hubbard, bbl... 1.00 © 1.25 
TurniDS. Rutabaga, bbl. 1.25 @ 1.50 
White, bbl. 1.00 @ 1.50 
Egg Plants, Fla., box. 2.50 @ 3.50 
Tomatoes, Fla. Carrier.50 @ 2.50 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers. No. 1, doz. 1.50 © 2.00 
No. 2, box. 4.00 @ 6.00 
Tomatoes, lb. 15 © .35 
Lettuce, doz. 50 © .75 
Mushrooms, lb.20 @ .40 
Radishes, 100 bunches. 1.50 @ 3.00 
Rhubarb, doz.60 @ .90 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay, Timothy No. 1, ton.26.00 © 27.00 
No. 2. ...23.00 @ 25.50 
No. 3.21.00 © 22.50 
Clover Mixed.20.00 © 24 00 
Clover.20.00 © 24.00 
8traw, Rye.18.00 @ 18.50 
Oat and Wheat.11.00 @ 14.00 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, lb.12 © .13 
Fowls.. .16 @ .17 
Roosters.09 @ .10 
Ducks.16 @ .17 
Geese.9 © .10 
Turkeys.15 © .20 
Guineas, pair.40 @ .50 
Will Be Held at the 
Sharon Valley Stock Farm, Newark, Ohio 
TUESDAY, APRIL 2d, 1912 
BLUE RIBBON and CHAMPION 
Stallions and Mares 
Both BELGIAN & PERCHERONS 
CLOSING OUT TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW 
IMPORTATIONS. 
Home-bred Farm MARE and GELDINGS. 
FORTY head of mules right from my ranch in 
Kansas. All broken to harness; sold in pairs. 
Age from three to four years. All will bo sold. 
Every one can get what they want. Sale to com¬ 
mence at 10 A. M. sharp. Como early and make 
your selections. 
Any one interested, write for Catalog. Any one 
wanting any information, address the proprietor. 
COL. G. W. CRAWFORD 
Prop. SHARON VALLEY STOCK FARM, NEWARK, OHIO 
Auctioneers 
F. W. Andrews & Son—Elliott & Smith. 
JACKS and PERCHERONS 
colts. Some nice Perctieion stallions, maros, colts and Tam- 
worth swine. AH stock registered or subject to registry. 
Write for circular or visit The Cloverdale Farms. 
H. T. BROWN & CO., Lexin gton, Ky. 
Working Foreman Wanted-^’t'2; 
horses, run gasoline engine, do general repairs, and team¬ 
ing to fill in. Wife board help. Farm 300 acres, near 
New York. Complete shop, grist mill and modern ap¬ 
pliances. Pay 850, house and garden. Owner is manager. 
Geo. F. Weston, Agr. Expert, 97 Water St., New York.N.Y. 
Eastern Shore of Maryland f^laie, 4 ndias 
from Poeomoke, town of 3,000 people; 74 acres 
arable, 26 timber. Ideal land for potatoes, berries, 
gram and grass. Best apple orchard in county. 
Buildings new, 8-room dwelling, slate roof, 3 largo 
porches, beautiful shaded lawn. Price $6,000; $2,000 
cash, remainder on mortgage. Other farms $25 to 
xl 5 J ,e r.A 1 ® fSi—F °. r description in detail, address 
M. L. VEAbEY, Box 11, Poeomoke City, Md. 
GREATEST BARGAIN 
WE HAVE EVER OFFERED 
(~)WNER, retiring, must sell this money-making, 
finely-located farm of 350 Acres, eight-room 
house, five room office, running water, electric 
lights; four barns—large barn cost $10,000, has 
basement, concrete floors, 101 tie ups, numerous 
box stalls; horse barn with basement cost $2,500; 
two other barns; two silos—1,100-ton capacity, 200- 
ton ice house, concrete milk house, twenty hen 
houses, hog houses, calf house, 72 fine cows, 18 
young cattle, six mules, three horses, nine bronze 
turkeys, 450 hens; tools that cost $15,000, including 
four milking machines, three gasoline engines, one 
steam engine and saw, threshers, harvesters, bind- 
ers, mowers, side delivery rakes, hay press, loaders, 
tedders, manure spreaders, sulky cultivators, to¬ 
bacco planters, potato planters, diggers, ensilage 
cutter, seeders, harrows, four incubators—1,000-egg 
capacity, ten wagons, harness, etc. Large quantity 
of hay, grain, ensilage and straw; 4,700 bushels of 
potatoes, 2,000 bushels of oats were raised last year; 
milk has been bringing $1,000 a month. Everything 
in fine condition. Price for this, one of the best 
equipped farms in the State, one-half mile from 
village limits—$40,000. Terms—$25,000 cash, the 
balance time. 
Hall’s Farm Agency, Owego, Tioga Co., N.Y. 
A GOOD FARM FOR SALE near Atlanta, Georgia, 131 
n acres $3,500, good neighborhood. Mostly level. No 
stumps or stones. Address Owner, Box 24, Sparr. Fla. 
M oney-making FARMS-Spiendid assortment, size 
and price. Some must be sold at big sacrifice. 
Some with stock, crops and tools included, for 
quick sale. Descriptive catalogue free. 
BURRIS, Robinson Building, Elmira, N.Y. 
Protect Your 
Poultry 
from all kinds of weather—rain and snow, heat 
and cold. To do so, you need a roofing for 
your poultry buildings that is rain-preof, snow- 
proof, heat-proof, cold-proof, time-proof and 
fire-resisting. RU-BER-OID is all of these. It lasts 
longer than metal or shingles, is easier 
to apply and costs less. 
(Accent on the “RU” and always spelled with one “B”) 
Is the cheapest roofing known, considered from 
the standpoint of 10 or 20 years’ service. It is the 
original smooth surface, ready-to-lay roofing. It is made of 
wool fabric, saturated and coated with RU-ber- 0ID Gum. 
When buying roofing always demand RU-BER-OID and remember, unless 
the RU-Ber-010 Man is shown on the outside wrapper, the roofing is not 
the genuine RU-BER-OID- The RU-BER-OID Man is your protection. Look for him. 
KA-lor *0lD ** tI,e on ^ y Permanently colored prepared roofing— 
(Colored Ruboroid) THREE COLORS: RED, GREEN, BROWN. 
We want every reader of this excellent publication to send at once for book, “Around the 
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THE STANDARD PAINT CO. 
100 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK 
Branches: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Paul, Denver 
Don't Be a Clam! 
any 
Well. ___ „___ 
map. Darlington is a great place to get a wife. If you ai-e fortunate enough to get a Darlington 
girl for a wife, and she does not open your eyes, come over to the EGG FARM and you will see 
things that surely will. The MAMMOTH HOT WATER MACHINE is rolling out the 
Chicks for you at $18 per 100. After May 1st hatch, $10 per lOO. Eggs for Hatching: 
15—$1.35; lOO—$5; I.OOO—$40. As I control 1,500 Breeding Hens, I cau supply the above— 
all but the wives—IN ANY QUANTITY. 
DARLINGTON EGG FARM . . . Alfred P. Edge . . . DARLINGTON, Md . 
S.C. White LEGHORNS 
UTILITY STRAIDI 
Eggs for Hatching from Selected Breeders 
$1.50 to $2.50 per 15—$5 to $8 per lOO 
Orders Booked for Future Delivery. 
CHOICE COCKERELS AT $3.00 EACH. 
INDIAN RIVER POULTRY FARM 
P. D. Purdey, Prop. THERESA, IM. Y. 
Single Comb White Leghorn 
Eggs. Stock and Day Old chicks from Prize winning 
White Leghorns. Eggs Ten cents each. 
MARYLAND SQTJAB CO., Cambridge, Maryland 
HfltlGHT BABY CHIX—$12.50—100. 
lHIHIT 16 EGGS—$4.50—100. 
■Vf YANDOTTE GRAND VIEW FARM 
11 INNERS Stanfordville, N. Y. 
White African Guinea 5?SiSBi 
cheap. W. WILBUR WALLACE, SiGEL, Pa. 
Wild & BronzeTurkeyEggsi^omecatlufg 
2c. stamp, showing pure wild gobbler from the 
mountain. VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM, Belleville, Pa. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 
Walnut Hill Stock Farm 
NATHANIEL BACON, Manager, Talcott, W. Va. 
ninnL Rrnt 17 P TURKEY EGGS, $3.00 per 10. 
uiaui uiuiizc R> 0 R- j, Reili $100 per 15> 
Indian Runner Ducks, $1.00 per 10. Write 
H. J. VAN DYKE. Gettysburg, Pa. 
P p IAI ORPINGTONS—Eggs, $5.00 per 15. R.U.W. 
O.Uilli Wyandottes—Eggs, $2.50 per 15. Fer¬ 
tility guaranteed. Haynsworth Baldrey, Hempstead, N.Y. 
ORPINGTONS—S. C. White Pullets, Black Cockerels. 
U Standard bred. Prices reasonable. Eggs, $1.50 
and $2.50 per setting. R. M. Morrison, Lyme, N.H. 
S.C. Rhode Island REDS 
ful egg record. For quotations on settings, address 
Wm. F. Ireland, Philadelphia, N. Y. (Jeff. Co.) 
rt 1“} f-v ^ 75 Rose and Single Comb Cock¬ 
le 11^ erels, $2.50 to $5.00 each; 100 
t Yearling Hens and Pullets, 
$1.50 to $3.00 each. Farm raised; large, strong 
and vigorous: can be returned if not satisfactory, 
RONOAKE POULTRY FARM_ Sewell, N. J. 
Austin’s 200-Egg Strain S.C, R. 1. Reds. 
Standard bred, record stock, lied to the skin. Eggs 
*1.50 to$5.00 per 15; $6.00per 100. Mating list. AUSTIN 
Poultry Farm, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N. H. 
EGGS—Purebred Poultry—Imperial W. Pekin Ducks, 
$1 for 11. White Rock eggs from hens that weigh 10 
lbs. apiece, 50c. for 13. C. E. Cassel, Union Deposit, Pa. 
WHITE PEKIN DUCKS 
Eggs and Ducklings. From mammoth prize-winning Pekin 
Ducks that have free range on salt water. Eggs 10 cents each. 
MARYLAND SQUAB CO., Cambridge, Maryland 
BADDCn DfiPir C —L,arge ’ vigorous, well- 
DHilTlEU llUUIVd barred Layers. $1 per 
15; $5 per 100. J. It. ELLIS, Pulaski, N. Y. 
DAIRY OR POULTRY FARM 
in New Hampshire, 3 hours from Boston, about 
110 acres. D. R. MARSHALL, 2S West Broadway, M. Y. 
AN OUTLET FOR BUTTER AND EGGS DIRECT 
To best trade jn Greater New York 
Offeringf ullest value and quick returns 
We Need Eggs. You Need Money 
LET’S SWAP! 
Refer to Aetna National Bank and 
ship promptly. 
ZENITH BUTTER & EGO CO. 
350 Greenwich Street, New York City. 
Our large con¬ 
sumptive outlet 
enables us to pay HIGHEST PRICES for 
WHITE and BROWN EGGS. Also DUCK 
EGGS. Try us and you’ll know why our ship¬ 
pers continue with ns. Empties furnished. 
George M. Rittenhouse & Co., 154 Reade St., New York 
Eggs, Poultry, Meats, Produce. 
Shipments solicited. JELLIFFE, WRIGHT 8 CO.. Com 
mission Merchants. 284 Washington St.. New York 
Erickson Leg 
Sold on Easy Terms 
The largest limb factory in the world 
K. If. Erickson Artificial Limb Co, 
19 Washington Avo., N., Minneapolis, Minn. 
Does not chafe, overheat 
or draw end of stump. 
Send for Catalog 
w 
ANTED—Position as Helper on poultry farm. 
H. JACKSON, R. D. 34, Trumansburg, N. Y. 
WANT Fn WOMEN Attendants in an institution 
IInil I LU for feeble-minded boys; salary $20 a 
month and maintenance to start with. A Iso women 
cooks; salary $30 a month and maintenance to 
start with. Apply to the SUPERINTENDENT OF 
LETCHWORTH VILLAGE, Thie lls, N. Y. 
WANTFn HANDS in an institution for 
If Mil I LU feeble-minded boys. Salary $30 a 
month and maintenance to start with. Apply to 
the SUPERINTENDENT OF LETCHWORTH 
VILLAGE, Thiells, N.Y. 
WANTED—Local Agents to sell high grade 
Cream Separators. GOLDEN ROD SEPARA¬ 
TOR CO., 132 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 
W ANTED immediately, for general housework, private family, 
in country, 20 minute® from city, woman or mother* daugh¬ 
ter; competent; references. Mrs. M. J. Huntington,Koine, N. r. 
P OSITION WANTED by experienced farmer and gar¬ 
dener. No liquor or tobacco. Best references, 
$60.00 a month, house and privileges. Address 
BOX 200, Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York. 
S TRONG BOY, aged 17, desires situation with farmer, 
truck or fruit grower, to learn the business; in 
central N. J. preferred. Y. J. A., care of R. N.-Y. 
Consulting Agriculturist 
Invaluable Services to Prospective Farmers. 
Farms Inspected and Equipped. Specialty—Select¬ 
ing reliable farm superintendents and managers. 
C. D. BLACK, N. J, Agricultural College Graduate, 
I 50 Nassau Stroot, Now York City. 
OUPERINTENDENT. —Open for engagement April 1st. 
0 Thoroughly versed in all up-to-date methods of- 
agriculture.—Box 296, .Bernardsville, N. J. 
WANTED—Practical Apple ami Poach Grower ai Assistant Man¬ 
ager on larKOdevelopIni; western Maryland farm. Married man, 
able to handle men. No pretenders; hD future for right man j 
references required; state salary. ORCHARD, care It. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE 
A largo Massachusetts Stock Farm. 
Address Box 381, Warren, Mass. 
CA DUC Circular free. Dept. 151, I,elands’ 
IHllIYIO Farm Agency, 31 Milk St., Boston 
G ARDEN, FRUIT and POULTRY FARMS between Phila. & 
New York. Mild climate; excellent nearby 
markets; good home surroundings. Send for list 
of farms. A. W. DRESSER, BURLINGTON, N. J. 
Would You Like to Own a Farm 
Yet hold your job in the city 1 ? Let ns 
talk it over. Send for Booklet. 
RURAL LIFE COMPANY, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
W E SELL GOOD FARMS m Oceana, greatest fruit Co. 
in U. S.; also grain,potatoes, alfalfa, dairying. 
Write for list, etc. HA! 
& SON, Hart, Mich. 
A BEAUTIFUL FARM 
ing and trucking section in tiie world; fertile soil, 
and fine climate; also a beautiful water front farm 
witli timber. For full particulars address Samuel 
P. Woodcock. Salisbury, Wicomico Couuty, Md. 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., 
Boston. 
JOHN O. QUICK CO. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 34 JAY STREET, NEW YORK 
Fancy Poultry Farm Eggs Our Specialty 
QUICK Returns Our Motto. Established 1855 
