1912. 
THE BLURA.lv NEW-YORKER 
571 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, April 27, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Monmouth County Farmers’ 
change. Part I. 
A New Potato Disease. 
Potatoes Plenty in Canada. 
Whipping Up Grass Lands. 
Those Government Seeds. 
Cow Peas in Nebraska. 
Notes on Grain Diseases. 
Lime and Potato Scab. 
Cover Crops for Asparagus. 
Hay for Dry Sand. 
The Best Harrow. 
Oats in Iowa. 
Growing Alfalfa Successfully.... 
Substitute Hay Crops. 
Burning Manure . 
Alfalfa on Limestone Soil. 
Alfalfa Inoculation . 
What Cover Crop?. 
Oats and Peas. 
Oats and Peas in Sod. 
Sulphur for Potato Scab. 
Hope Farm Notes.v. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Hens in Sprayed Orchard. 546 
When Photographs Lie. 550 
Income from Hothouse Ewes. 560 
The Lath and Plastered Silo. 560 
Another Underground Silo. 560 
Champion Holstein Cow. 561 
That Cow Fake. 561 
Butter Merger Again. 561 
Twelve Sheep . 561 
Ration for Pigs . 562 
Ration for Thin Cows . 562 
Ration for Cows on Grass. 562 
Cow Dislikes Bean Straw. 562 
Jersey and Holstein Ration. 562 
Wet Brewery Grains . 562 
Ration for Fattening Calves. 562 
A Cow Ration . 562 
Cotton-seed Meal for Cows. 562 
Feeding for Milk Quality. 562 
The Good Sheep. 562 
“Adulterated Butter” . 564 
Beet Pulp and Breeding Poultry. 566 
Raising Runner and Pekin Ducks.566 
Egg Laying Contests. 565 
Green Crops for Hens.. 565 
Fattening Poultry . 565 
More About Guineas . 565 
Breeding Large Flocks. 568 
Chick Feed . 568 
Single or Rose Comb White Leghorns. . 568 
Stale Bread for Hens. 568 
Tile Henhouse . 568 
Egg-bound Pullets . 568 
Hens With Brain Trouble. 568 
Soft Yolks and Shells. 568 
Profit iu Goose Culture. 569 
Hogs Refuse to Eat Rape. 569 
HORTICULTURE. 
Fertilizer Experiments for Fruit. 
Growing Albemarle Pippins. 
Effective Weed Killer . 
Hogs in Orchard. 
Evergreen For Hedge. 
Red Cedar Hedge. 
Tarring Corn . 
Analysis of Russian Thistle. 
New Growth After Dishorning. 
What Ails the Grapes. 
The Mother Apple. 
Value of Wild Cherry . 
Winter Injury to Trees. 
Lime-Sulphur on Fruit; Top-Grafting 
Asphaltum for Peach Borers. 
Vegetable Garden in River Flat. 
Improving Garden Soil. 
Trouble with Cucumbers. 
English Walnut in Connecticut. 
How to Grow Prize Tomatoes. 
Alfalfa in Young Orchard. 
Fertility for a Garden. 
Another Grapevine Trellis. 
The Business of Pear Growing. 
Low-1 leaded Trees . 
Artificial Pollination of Pecans. 
Kansas Peach Outlook. 
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WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 558 
Soft Soap . 558 
Molasses Vinegar . 558 
The Rural Patterns . 559 
Spring Canning . 559 
Oatmeal Cookies . 559 
Baked Brown Bread. 559 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Commission House Bill. 543 
That Concrete Icehouse. 546 
Immigration Laws . 546 
Growing Post Timber. 547 
A Job on an Estate. 548 
A “Cement Gun” . 548 
An Old Trouble Once More. 550 
Pure Food and Drug Regulations. 550 
Heating a Water Tank. 552 
How is Lumber Measured?. 552 
Two Yankee Farm Institutions. 552 
Editorials . 556 
Notes on Postal Reform. 563 
Spring in Idaho. 563 
Boston Markets .567 
Texas Cattle Business. 567 
New Method of Selling Tobacco. 567 
The Underground Silo. 567 
Hebrew Loan Association. 569 
Publisher’s Desk . 570 
PRICES AND TRADE. 
Hay. $20 per ton in mow; oat straw, $8; 
oats. 60 to 70 cents per bushel; potatoes, 
$3.50 to $4 per barrel; horses, from $75 
to $250 as to age and quality; cattle, cows, 
$75 for best, other grades down to $15 for 
Spring calves. No silage sold. Manure, $1 
per load when sold. For milk the pro¬ 
ducers get four eents per quart. J. d. w. 
Burnt Hills, Mass. 
Hay is bringing about $30 per ton; corn, 
$1; wheat, $1.05; oats, 60 cents; rye, 85; 
potatoes, $1.15; eggs, 20; butter, 38; milk, 
4% cents at creamery; pork, $8 per 100. 
Fresh cows from $70 to $150 ; horses. $150 
to $275. No silage sold; manure, $1.50 a 
two-horse load. Live pullets, $1 each. 
Veal calves, 9% cents per pound. T. o. 
Bridgeton, N. J. 
At auction sales live stock usually sell 
pretty low on account of scarcity and high 
prices of feed. Sheep are especially cheap. 
The bean and sugar beet crops have so 
raised the value of farm lands that farmers 
seem to think sheep do not pay, and dairy¬ 
ing is on the increase. In some cases farm¬ 
ers are keeping very little stock and are 
cropping their farms. Best Timothy hay 
is bringing $20 per ton at barn ; straw is 
worth half as much. Milk retails at five 
cents per quart in villages, and batter fat 
brings at our creamery one cent below 
Elgin quotations. There are many silos 
here, but no silage has been sold that I 
know of. I should think it would depend 
largely upon quality and amount of grain 
in it. I think village people sell their 
stable manure for 50 or 25 cents per load. 
Lapeer Co., Mich. c. ic. f. 
There was an auction sale of consider¬ 
able size held at Newbury recently, and 
grade Holsteins sold at from $20 to $50 
each. Hay, $12; silage and manures are 
never sold in this vicinity. The tools sold 
at a good price. The Lyndon Creamery 
paid 33 cents for butter fat the 17th of 
March. Potatoes are high, reported to be 
$1 per busheL Eggs are 20 cents. 
Bradford. Vt. F. E. H. 
Horses, from $40 to $250 for the best; 
cows, from $10 to $50 for the best; hogs, 
$5.50; live calves. 7% cents; poultry, live, 
12 cents wholesale. Hay. Timothy, $23; 
cornstalks, live to six cents per bundle. 
Eggs, wholesale. 20 cents; potatoes, $1 per 
bushel; milk, six cents per quart on farm; 
butter, 21 cents; red kidneys. $2 for 62 
pounds ; pea-beans, $1.90 ; medium, $1.90 ; 
apples, best. $1 per bushel. No manure or 
silage sold. m. j. 
East Palmyra, N. Y. 
No manure or silage sold. Hay, good, 
$17, poor, $10 to $12 per ton in the barn. 
Cows, $45 to $60. Eggs, 20 cents per 
dozen. Butter at store 32 cents per pound. 
The latest sale of potatoes was $1.25 per 
bushel, delivered at car; few left in the 
hands of farmers. Milk, two cents under 
specials; four pounds butter taken to the 
100 pound milk and 12 cents allowed for 
the separated milk left, that Is, 12 cents 
per 100 pounds. ' h. h. h. 
.Center Lisle, N. Y. 
Potatoes, per bushel, 60 pounds. $1.25; 
oats, 50; buckwheat (at mill) 70 cents: 
corn on cob, 70 cents. No apples. Honey. 
100 pounds ; $15 ; ginseng per pound. $5.50 ; 
hay, per ton. $18 to $20. Milch cows, $20 
to $40. Milk, per 100 ponnds, $1.53; 
graded butter fat. $1.65; pork, dressed, 
per 100 pounds, $8: eggs, fresh at store, 
per dozen, 20 cents; fowls, dressed, per 
pound. 18 cents; fowls, live, 10 to 12 
cents: maple syrup per gallon, best, $1.25. 
Castleton. Vt. s. o. 8. 
We have no auction sales of farm pro¬ 
duce here, but at private sales cattle are 
worth about as follows: One-year-olds, 
$16; two-year-olds. $30; cows, from $35 to 
$50; sheep, about $3; first-class horses, 
$250 to $300 each. Ilogs are hard to get 
at; pigs four weeks old sell in the Fall for 
$2 ; in the Spring. $4, and dressed hogs at 
eight cents a pound. Hay, $12; no silage 
sold; barn manure, $1 a ton. There is 
only a small local trade in milk at six 
'•ents a quart. Butter. 30 cents; potatoes, 
$1.25; turnips. 50 cents. g. w. b. 
Columbia Fails, Me. 
Good cows average about $40 at auction ; 
young cattle from $10 to $30. Horses 
from $50 to $250. Hogs about $7 per 100 
pounds. ITay $14 to $20 per ton. Silage 
very rarely sold and no fixed price recog¬ 
nized. Manure $1 per wagonload. Milk 
$1.5214 per 100; butter, 38 cents per 
pound ; eggs, 28 cents per dozen. Corn, 80 
cents per bushel; oats. 58 cents; barley, 
75 cents; rye, 80 cents; buckwheat, 75 
cents: potatoes. $1.10 per bushel. Wheat, 
$1 ; chickens, 14 cents per pound; maple 
syrup. $1 per gallon. f. e. g. 
Middletown Springs, Vt. 
Hav up to $35 per ton; cows, from $47 
to $70: horses, good teams, from $300 to 
over $500. There are no silos in this sec¬ 
tion. At Avon the cow men all have silos, 
not much being sold. Very few men have 
feed of any kind to spare. Many farmers 
very short of feed. Manure sells in town 
at $1 per load. The milk men are getting 
four cents; potatoes, $1.10 offered; beans, 
$2.30; wheat. $1 last week; clover seed, 
$16.25. Feed at the elevator: Bran and 
middlings, $35 per ton; eornmeal, $35; 
oats, two cents per pound. Cull beans, 
free from stone, one cent a pound. 
Livingstone Co.. N. Y. a. w. r. 
Sugaring is backward, with light run 
of sap as yet. Prices of farm products 
here are as follows; Hay is selling for $15 
per ton at barn for best, with other grades 
figured on that basis. Potatoes, $1.20 and 
$1.25 per bushel. Silage when sold brings 
$3 per ton. Fresh cows from $45 to $60. 
Heavy working oxen, wpight 3.000 pounds 
and over, from $175 to $250 per yoke. 
Young cattle are high, yearlings, $15 to 
$25; two-year-olds, $20 to $30; dressed 
hogs, eight cents per pound. Butter, 35 
cents per ponnd: no milk sold here of any 
amount. No sale of sheep this Spring; 
wool is low; many farmers have last year’s 
clip on hand. a. s. b. 
Lempster, N. H. 
Cows are selling from $40 to $60. The 
farmers raise but very few sheep and we 
depend for the greater part of our supply 
of lamb and mutton upon the West 
(Armour & Co.) Native beef is very scarce, 
and what little is sold in this market is 
peddled by the farmers, the meat markets 
drawing their stock from Armour & Co., 
who have a warehouse at Calais (30 miles 
away). There are only two silos I know 
of within a radius of seven miles, the sil¬ 
age being used on the farms. Stable man¬ 
ure is sold to farmers at an average price 
of 50 cents a two-horse load, but there are 
times that considerable can be had for the 
hauling. At the present time hay is sell¬ 
ing for $12 per ton; potatoes. $3 per 
barrel; turnips. 75 cents to $1 per barrel. 
The above prices are the prices received by 
the farmers. Milk is being retailed for seven 
cents per quart; wholesale price, five cents 
per quart. G . R . R . 
Eastnort. Me. 
Considerable snow yet around fences and 
in the woods. Good sleighing continued 
till March 28. Wagons used now. Cows 
are worth from $30 to $65. the last figure 
for good Cows that freshen this Spring. 
Some butter is made here which sells at 
the local stores for 30 cents. The greater 
part of the cream is sold to the creameries 
which paid per pound for butter fat for 
February 40 cents, for March. 36 cents. 
Eggs sell for _20 cents per dozen at stores; 
potatoes, $1.25 per bushel; hay in the barn, 
$12 to $15. Most farmers have hay 
enough to carry through their stock In 
good shape. There is no manure or silage 
sold here, although most farmers have silos 
A large amount of fertilizer is being 
bought, which indicates that the potato 
acreage will be large. But little maple 
syrup is being made, not one quarter as 
much as 20 years ago, chiefly because there 
are but few boys growing up. and it is 
impossible to hire competent men to do the 
work. What syrup is made finds a ready 
sale at $1.25 to $1.50 per gallon delivered. 
Thorndike, Me. r. w. ii. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Plugged Teat. 
WhafJ causes a cow to have what we call 
spider teat or plugged teat, and what will 
cure it? It is very prevalent in this sec¬ 
tion and we are unable to find the cause 
and cure. w. e. b. 
New York. 
The cause is formation of a warty 
growth in the duct at end of teat, or it 
may come from spread of infection from a 
sore at end of teat. The infection comes 
from dirty floors, or may be carried by 
teat plugs, milking tubes, dilators or cut¬ 
ting instruments. Operations on teats 
should be done by a trained veterinarian 
who will use every antiseptic precaution to 
prevent infection. The owner should not 
attempt the cutting as he may ruin his 
cow. a. s. A. 
Hard Milker. 
On page 376 B. E. W. wants to know 
how to make a hard milker milk easy. 
A. S. A. tells us if there is obstructions in 
the teat to cut. Why not tell us how to 
make. a hard milker milk easy. Can the 
hole in teat be made larger by using leads 
or pins to stretch them? j. c. p. 
Difficult milking usually is due to an ob¬ 
struction. and cutting by the veterinarian 
is necessary. Dilators and teat plugs, 
bought from any dealer in veterinary in¬ 
struments or ordered through the drug¬ 
gist, commonly are used to dilate the milk 
duct, but they are almost sure to cause 
irritation and infection, despite steriliza¬ 
tion, so that the quarter eventully is lost. 
Boll and bake the teat dilator or plug each 
time before use. a. s. a. 
Weak Stifle. 
We have a colt, bred from trotting stock, 
now about 10 months old, with one stifle 
that slips in and out very easily. When 
he moves about one can hear a little snap 
in that joint. When this colt was about 
three weeks old he rolled under the manger 
in his stall and I suppose injured the joint 
or dislocated it at that time, as be was 
foaled all right. When he was three months 
old had a veterinary look at him and he 
advised to blister it. This we have done 
several times, but still he does not im¬ 
prove. Would a high-heeled shoe on the 
opposite hind foot be of any value? 
e. w. w. 
The shoe sometimes helps and should he 
tried. Tie colt up short in stall. From a 
collar around neck pass a strap or padded 
rope between forelegs and tie to a strap 
buckled around portion of affected leg so 
as to keep the foot of that Teg slightly 
advanced under the body. Then blister 
the stifle twice in a month. The absolute 
rest of joint is necessary to recovery. 
a. s. A. 
Scours in Calf. 
Calf three weeks old got diarrhoea for 
about 10 days. Calf suckles; milk first, 
then let the calf have what I think Is 
enough for it. Calf eats a little hay 
(prairie) and licks a little bran and cot¬ 
ton-seed meal, equal parts, say two or 
three tablespoonfuls twice a day; no grass; 
Is suckled twice a day. Cow is fed about 
2% pounds cotton-seed meal and two 
pounds bran twice a day, prairie hay and 
what grass she can pick on prairie; breed 
Jersey. The grass on the prairie this Win¬ 
ter is all frozen until it is brown and dry, 
but I do not think the frozen grass is the 
cause, because I had a calf with the scours 
the same as this one last July when the 
grass was not frozen. The calf is in good 
condition, always ready to nurse and ap¬ 
parently feels well by tlie way it jumps 
about. The treatment I used vvas to dis¬ 
solve powdered alum in cold water and to 
drench the calf with about half a cupful 
twice a day before feeding. The powdered 
alum dissolves better in cold water than 
the lump, and cold water will not dissolve 
as much of the alum as hot. l. m. 
Texas. 
Feed oatmeal with bran in place of cot¬ 
ton-seed meal and bran. When a calf 
tends to scour mix an ounce of limewater 
with each pint of milk fed, or if it is nurs¬ 
ing. give a dose of castor oil in milk and 
then give two or three times a day one or 
two teaspoonfuls of a mixture of one part 
of salol and two parts of subnitrate of 
bismuth according to age of calf and sever¬ 
ity of case. a. s. a. 
Cattle Quarantine; Another Hard Milker. 
1. How long must imported stock be held 
in quarantine before they can be shipped 
through the States? 2. B. E. W. asks what 
he can do for a Holstein heifer that miljts 
hard. I do not approve of A. S. A.’s ad¬ 
vice : I ruined a good cow by that cutting 
method. Cows’ teats are a "delicate mem¬ 
ber. I find the best treatment for hard 
milkers is to insert a large knitting needle 
or a piece of hard wood tapered down In 
the dnets of the teats, and you have no 
wound to nurse or no kicking. f. a. s. 
1. Ninety days. 2. We do not advise 
owner to do the cutting necessary where 
obstructions are present. It should be done 
by a careful graduate veterinarian. The 
greatest possible care has to be taken to 
prevent infection, else the udder will be 
ruined. The same precautions have to he 
taken if a dilator or teat plug Is used. 
Many an owner has ruined his cow by 
cutting and lack of cleanliness. a. s. a. 
A reader has a 50-acre farm in northern 
New Jersey. It has about 300 apple and 
pear trees in bearing, and a fully equipped 
poultry plant with pond and running 
stream suitable for duck raising. He wants 
to rent this place on favorable terms if 
the right tenant can be found. The case 
is mentioned in this way as somewhat un¬ 
usual and we shall be glad to forward to 
this owner any letters from people who 
mean business, and are looking for such 
an opportunity. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
COWS FOR SALE 
EAST RIVER GRADE HOLSTEINS 
They are producers. Good size and well marked. 
Forty Fresh Cows, 40 to 00 lbs. per day. Twenty- 
five Cows due to calve soon, “extra nice.” Fifty 
Cows due in September and October, that will pro¬ 
duce 9,000 to 11,000 lbs. of milk per year. Fivo 
registered Holstein Bulls and four grade Bulls for 
sale. Bell 'phone—No. 311 F 5. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER, Dept. R, Cortland. N. Y. 
1 V7IV TURKEY, Silver 
Laced Wyandotte and Single Comb Brown Leg¬ 
horn Chickens. F. S. Montgomery, Toboso, Ohio. 
C C. WHITE LEGHORNS —Hatching Kggs from selected 
winter layers, $1.00 per 15. Low prices on larger 
orders. MAPLE GROVE FARM, Smithville, N.Y 
large, utility chickens. 
Breeding stock- from lien-hatched free range chick¬ 
ens, 90s. fertility guaranteed—$4.50 hundred, 75c. 
setting. EUGENE D. HALL, Doe Run, Chester County, Pa. 
Single Comb White Orpingtons 
direct. IRVING C. HAWKINS, Goshen, N. Y. 
RFFS SALE cheap—Fine out-door wintered 
UL, “ Italian Bees; patent hives; no better stock 
anywhere; selling ont. OR. JOHNSTON, Soffern, N. Y. 
W ANTED— Second-hand, bnt only if in first-class 
condition—Power Sprayer, Sprine Tooth Har¬ 
row. I,and Roller, Lime Spreader, Grain Drill, 
Corn Planter, Cultivator and Corn Harvester— all 
two-horse; 10 to 15 h. p. gasoline engine, small 
portable engine, blower for silo, Babcock tester. 
State full particulars. 
C. W. DAVIDSON. 42 Broadway, New York. 
WE van supply women help for farm families at 
” nominal wages and good home. No charge. 
Guild of the brfaat Saviour, 105 E. 224 St., New York City. 
Y oung man wanted on Poultry Farm on Long 
Island. One able to milk if necessary, and nsed 
to driving horses. Permanent position to right 
party. Give references and fnli particulars to 
W. H. HEARSFIELD, Woodmere, L. I.. N. Y. 
WANTED HANDS in an institution for 
iTMlY I LI! feeble-minded boys. Salary $30 a 
month and maintenance to start with. Apply to 
the SUPERINTENDENT OF LETCHWORTH 
VILLAGE, ThtkIjT/S, N.Y. 
MAT F HFI PFor farmers, gardeners, dairies 
ltlrtLE, HLLr Private places furnished at short 
est not ce and at reasonable wages. Call >>r n rite 
B. HOLZHAUSKN, 443 W. 13th St., N.Y. Est. 1891 
DO YOU NEED FARM HELP ? 
The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid So¬ 
ciety has on Its lists men wishing to obtain em¬ 
ployment on farms. Many of them are without 
experience. They are able-bodied and willing to 
work. If you can make use of snch help, please 
communicate with us. stating what wages you will 
pay. whether the work is permanent, and whether 
you prefer a single or a married man. with or with¬ 
out experience. Onrs is a philanthropic organiza¬ 
tion whose object is to assist and encourage Jewish 
immigrants to become farmers. We charge no 
commission to’employer or employee. Address 
FARM LABOR BUREAU, 176 Second Avenue, New York City. 
Etc. 
Direct to beat trade in Greater New 
_York. Hlxlieat market value anti 
J account sales day of arrival. liefer to 
Rural New-Yorker, Dun’s or Hi adsti eet’a. 
Zenith Butter 8 Eyy Co., 355-59 Greenwich St., N.Y. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants. 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solie ited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston . 
The Rochester Produce 
and 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. 
JOHN C. QUICK CO. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 34 JAY STREET, NEW YORK 
Fancy Poultry Farm Eggs Our Specialty 
QUICK Returns Our Motto. Established 1855 
Hothouse Lambs 
Calves, Poultry, Fancy Eggs, Hothouse 
Products, Fruits, Vegetables. 
Top Prices Secured for Choice Goods. 
ARCHDEACON & C0„ 100 Murray St., NewYerk 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kindsof 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches Ber 
ries Blitter, Cheese. Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. 34 & 36 Little 12th St.. New York- 
THE LEVIN PRUNER 
The best pruner. Cuts >4-inch dry 
branch. Quick, clean, easy cut. We 
will send it post paid for club of two 
new yearly stibscriptions at $1 each, 
or for club of 10 ten weeks trials at 10 
cents each. 
The Rural New-Yorker, New York 
