1912. 
THE NEW-YORKER 
616 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, May 11, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Preparation for Alfalfa Seed.597, 59S 
Shall It Be Clover or Alfalfa?. 59S 
Farming on Stony Soil. 599 
Three Horses on Plow. 600 
Potatoes Under Mulch. 600 
Cleaning Peas . 600 
Harrowing Wheat . 600 
Black Root in Cauliflower. 601 
Spring Work on a South Jersey Truck 
Farm . 602 
A Bargain in Pigeon Manure. 603 
Hope Farm Notes. 604 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Breeding Mare. 610 
Beef from Silage in Delaware. 610 
The Cattle Grub. 610 
The Egg-Laying Contest. 611 
Rye and Vetch for Hog Pasture. 611 
The Massachusetts Milk Situation.... 612 
Alfalfa, Oleo and the South. 612 
What About Mechanical Milkers. 612 
Mulberries and Turkeys. 613 
Loss of Feathers. 613 
Egg-bound Hens . 613 
Soft-shelled Eggs . 613 
Dry Mash for Chicks. 613 
Trouble with Chicks . 613 
Excelsior and Pine Needles for Nests. 613 
HORTICULTURE. 
Triangular Orchard Planting. 598 
When to Spray . 598 
What About Those Low Heads?. 599 
Singletree for Orchard. 601 
Notes and Comments. 601 
“The Half Has Not Been Told”. 601 
Orchard Fertilizer for Wisconsin. 603 
Fruit Prospects . 603 
Quack Grass in Irises. 605 
Grass for Shady Place. 605 
Hardy Persian Walnuts. 605 
Experience With Persimmons. 605 
Denatured Tobacco for Insecticides. . . . 605 
Making Bordeaux Mixture. 605 
Fruit Notes . 607 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 608 
Occupations for Shut-ins. 608 
Lemon Pie Without a Lemon. 608 
The Rural Patterns . 609 
Pea Coal for Domestic Use. 609 
Bread from Winter Wheat. 609 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Town Improvement Club. 598 
Loving Cups or Cash. 602 
Editorials . 606 
The Next President. 607 
Events of the Week. 607 
The Parcels-Post “Lemon”. 607 
Boston Markets . 607 
Publisher's Desk . 614 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New Y'ork, 
Week Ending May 4, 1912. 
BUTTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb.32 .a .33 
Goon to Choice.28 @ .30 
Lower Grades.25 @ .27 
State Dairy, best.31 to .32 
Common to Good.21 @ .29 
Factory.22 @ .25 
Packing Stock.21 @ .21 
Elgin, 111., butter market Arm at 31 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 32 14 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 33 cents. 
EGGS 
White, good to choice.22 @ .23 
Mixed Colors, best.20 ® .21 
Common to Good.16 @ 19 
Western, best.21 @ .22 
Under grades.15 @ .18 
Checks and dirties.11 @ .18 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best.15 @ .15J£ 
Common to Good.13 @ .14 
Skims.08 ® .11 
BEANS 
Marrow’, 100 lbs. 4.30 to 5.00 
Medium. 4.00 ® 4.60 
Pea... 4 00 @ 4.75 
Yellow Eye. 3.95 to 4.00 
Red Kidney. 4 00 to 4.60 
White Kidney. 5.25 @ 5.85 
Lima, California.O.oO to 6.60 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.49 @ .52 
Common to Good.35 @ .47 
Pacific Coast.41 @ .44 
German Crop, new.80 @ .85 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Spy,bbl.2.50 @ 5.50 
Spitzenburg . 2.50 ® 5.00 
Ben Davis. 2.00 @ 1 00 
Baldwin. 2.50 @ 1.50 
Greening. 2.50 ® 6.00 
Winesap. 3.00 ® 5.00 
Western, box. 1.25 @ 3.00 
Strawberries, Virginia, qt.10 @ .18 
Carolina.08 ® .13 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911.09Y£to .10 
Common to good.07 ® .09 
Chops. 02 ® . 02 J^ 
Raspberries.27 @ .28 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—N. Y. State, bbl.3.50 @ 4.00 
Maine, bbl. 3.87 to 1.25 
Foreign, 168-10. bag. 1.25 @ 2.25 
Bermuda, bbl. 5.00 @ 6.50 
Fla., new, bbl. 3.00 @ 5.75 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel... .75 @ 2.00 
Artichokes, Cal., bu. drum. 2.00 ® 3.00 
Asparagus, Cal., doz. 2.00 @ 4.00 
Southern, doz. 1.50 @ 2.25 
Jersey . 1.60 to 3.00 
Beets, new, 100 bunches. 1.00 to 3.00 
Carrots, bbl.3.00 to 3.50 
New, 100 bunches. 2.00 ® 3.00 
Cucumbers, Fla., bu. 1.00 ® 1.62 
Cabbage—New, bbl., crate. 1.50 to 3.00 
Kale, bbl.25 @1.00 
Chicory, bbl. 1.00 @ 3.00 
Lettuce. 3a-bbl. bkt. 50 @2.00 
Onions. State and Western, 100 lbs... 1.60 to 4.50 
Texas, bu. 1.50 ® 2.50 
Peppers, Southern, carrier. 1.25 @ 2.50 
Peas. Southern, bu. 1.00 & 2.75 
Radishes, )4 lb. bkt.40 to 1.00 
Rhubarb. 100 bunches. 1.50 to 3.50 
String Beans, bu. 1.00 to 2.50 
Spinach, bbl. 1.25 ® 2.00 
Squash, Old, bbl. 1.25 to 1.50 
New, bu.50 to 1.50 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Egg Plants, Fla., box. 2 00 @ 3 25 
Tomatoes, Fla. Carrier. 1.00 to 3.25 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers, No. 1, doz.50 to .75 
No. 2. box. 2.50 @ 3.50 
Tomatoes, lb.10 to .25 
Lettuce, doz.25 to .75 
Mushrooms, lb.15 @ .35 
Radishes, 100 bunches. 1.00 @ 150 
Cauliflower, doz. 1.00 @ 3.00 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls.13 ® .14 
Roosters.09 @ .10 
Ducks. 13 @ .14 
Geese.03 to .09 
Turkeys.13 to .14 
Guineas, pair.50 @ .60 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.21 to .22 
Common to Good.14 ® .18 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.35 to .45 
Broilers, common to good.25 @ .23 
Roasters.16 © .21 
Fowls.14 @ .15 
Ducks, lb. .15 @ .22 
Geese.13 @ .16 
Squabs, doz. 1.50 @ 4.25 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay. Timothy No. 1, ton.31.00 to 32.00 
No. 2.29.00 ® 30.00 
No. 3.25.00 to 23.00 
Clover Mixed.24.00 to 30 00 
8traw, ltye.19.00 to 21.00 
Oat and Wheat.13.00 to 15.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs. 7.40 @ 8.65 
Bulls.4.00 to 7.00 
Cows. 2 00 @ 6.00 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.7.00 @ 9.25 
Culls. 5 00 to 6.00 
Sheep, 100 lbs.6.50 ® 7.25 
Lambs.8.00 ® 9.00 
Hogs.7.00 @ 8.25 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS 
Calves, prime, lb. 11 @ .12 
Common to good.09 @ .16RJ 
Buttermilks.07 @ .08 
Lambs, hothouse, head. 3.50 @ 7.00 
Pork. Light.09 @ .10 
Heavy.7.05 to .07 
MILL FEED—Car LOTS 
Spring Bran.ton. 28 25 to 29.10 
Standard Middlings. 30.00 to 32.00 
Red Dog. 32.00 @ 33.00 
Hominy Chop.. . 29.U0 to 31.00 
Linseed Meal. 38.00 @ 39 00 
Corn Meal.31.00 to 32.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1.21 to ... 
No. 2, Red. 1.22 to ... 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.24 @ ... 
Corn, as to quality, bush.75 to .86 
Oats, as to weight, bush.60 @ .64 
Rye, No. 2, Western.90 to .95 
Barley, choice. 1.25 ® 1.30 
COTTON 
New York Middling Upland. 11.10 
Middling Gulf. 11.65 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 11.10 
Good Middling. 12.15 
WOOL 
NewYork Fleeces, Fine, unwashed. 20 to .21 
Ohio half blood combing.26 to .27 
Kentucky, three-eighths blood.27 to .28 
Michigan, half blood.25 @ .26 
PRICES AND TRADE. 
We have no auction sales in this vicinity. 
Horses sell for $150 to $850; cows from 
$30 to $40; hay, $12 per ton; potatoes, 
$1.25 per bushel; butter, 28 cents; eggs, 
20 cents; veal, nine cents per pound. No 
milk sold in this town. Pigs, $3 and 
$3.50. Cornmeal, $1.72 per bag. No 
silage raised here. J. H. 
Cooper, Me. 
We have no auction sales, but below will 
give you prices farmers are getting: Young 
horses (1200 pounds), $200; young or two- 
year-old cattle, fat, six cents a pound; 
pigs, six and seven weeks old, $6 to $7 per 
pair; cows, $45 to $65. Potatoes, $1.60 a 
bushel. Eggs, 16 cents; butter, 30 cents; 
old hens, 12 cents. Farmers are paying 
$1.60 for bran. $1.80 for cracked corn, $1 
for white middlings, and some are buying 
bay at $30 per ton. No silage put up in 
this part of county. No milk sold except 
direct to consumer at seven cents per quart 
Burlington, W. Va. l. c. m. 
The auction prices are as follows: 
Horses from $100 to $200, according to 
size and age; cows, from $35 to $50; 
sheep, $4 per head. Hay, $20 to $25 per 
ton. No silage or manure sold here. Milk. 
$1.40 per 100 at station. Potatoes. $3.60 
per barrel. Maple sugar, 15 cents per 
pound; syrup, $1 to $1.25 a gallon. Dressed 
pork, $8 a 100; beef, $7 right through. 
Eggs, 20 cents a dozen. Apples, $3 a barrel. 
Labor, $1 a day and board ; by month, $20 
to $25. Two-horse team, 30 cents an hour. 
Farms with buildings on are selling for 
from $S to $50 an acre, according to loca¬ 
tion. o. II. s. 
Arlington, Vt. 
Listers are assessing cows at $25; two- 
year-olds. $20, and yearlings, $12; horses 
at $75 for average; appraised at two-thirds 
estimated value. Hay is $17 and $18 whole¬ 
sale, and $20 to $22 to local barns deliv¬ 
ered. Oats are selling for 75 cents from 
grist mill. Potatoes are $4 a barrel and 
going higher, as there are practically none 
in farmers’ hands; stores retail at 40 cents 
a peck. Butter sells for 38 cents out of 
stores; eggs, 22 cents. No apples for sale 
except what are shipped in. Silage is not 
sold, and very little manure; latter brings 
from $1 a load to $3 a cord—mostly $2 a 
load. Spring pigs are $7 a pair. c. e, k. 
No. Bennington, Vt. 
With regard to the auction sales of cat¬ 
tle, etc., will say this has never been done 
except during the State Fair held here in 
October of each year. A very satisfactory 
sale was made last October and good prices 
were realized—in fact some of the prices 
were regarded as “fancy.” At this period 
farm products are also sold, embracing such 
articles as are displayed during the fair. 
The prices realized for such sales are not 
usually very good, as the exhibitors are 
in a hurry to close up and get back home. 
Milk is sold at 10 cents per quart retail, 
though some dealers are cutting this price 
down five cents on the gallon. Eggs have 
been bringing from 20 cents to 30 cents all 
Spring, and during the Winter they went 
as high as 00 cents. Last Saturday eggs 
became scarce and we were offered 22% 
cents wholesale. e. w. b. 
Macon, Ga. 
The prices for farm produce and live 
stock are as follows: Cows, fresh, $40 to 
$60; veal calves, 8% cents a pound; year¬ 
lings, from $20 to $25. Fat hogs sell for 
7% cents a pound; pigs, $2.50 to $4 per 
head; fowls, 12% cents per pound; eggs, 
17 cents a dozen; butter, 20 to 27% cents 
a pound. We have to buy our potatoes, as 
last year very few were raised here on ac¬ 
count of the drought. The stores retail 
potatoes at $1.60 per bushel, but ask more 
for seed potatoes. Clover seed sold here 
for 18 to 20 cents a pound. Feed is very 
scarce on account of the long and very cold 
Winter and backward Spring, as to date 
there is no prospect of pasturing soon. This 
has been a wheat and corn country up to 
late years, but now the farmers are keep¬ 
ing more cows and shipping the cream to 
St. Louis to the Fox River Butter Co. The 
price for cream at present is 31 cents de¬ 
livered. e. 11 . 
Washington, Mo. 
We have asked a large number of corre¬ 
spondents in New York and New Jersey 
about crop outlook for grain, and give sum¬ 
mary of their replies: In New York oat 
seeding is very late, but acreage about the 
same as last year. Winter wheat acreage 
about the same, with conditions only aver¬ 
age or worse. The condition of Winter rye 
somewhat improved; very little left in 
farmers’ or dealers’ hands at present. In 
New Jersey Winter wheat acreage less, with 
better condition ; rye acreage smaller but 
crop condition better, otto keusch, inc. 
New York. 
Fruit of all kinds except peaches promises 
a bountiful crop. Budded peaches mostly 
killed, but seedlings will lie fairly plenti¬ 
ful if late frosts do not catch them. Mr. 
Nichols’ article on strawberry growing is 
line, but we cannot use his methods here by 
reason of the stony ground. Feed scarce 
and high, but stock look well considering 
the long hard Winter. Dairying, fruit 
growing, general farming and poultry rais¬ 
ing are the occupations of this portion of 
the Ozarks. Joe Netger has the only silo 
in this immediate neighborhood, and his 
four cows together made $90 for March. 
Hand separators are so numerous our 
creamery at Billings is likely to stop sepa¬ 
rating and become a cream and butter sta¬ 
tion. w. c. 
Billings, Mo. 
GASOLINE ENGINES 
for PUMPING WATER 
The above picture shows our Combined Engine 
and Pump, and is one of the many types of outfits 
shown in our catalog. You need, right on your farm, one of our 
engines, as it will save you much hard work and earn you money, 
you can use the above outfit also for spraying, and then have the 
engine for any other work. Write us today, tell us what you want 
to do with an engine and get prices, and also the FIRST buyer 
in each locality gets a special price. Do it now, write us today. 
Waterloo Engine Works, 137 Liberty St., N.Y.City 
RFFS SALE cheap—Fine out-door wintered 
Italian Bees; patent hives; no better stock 
anywhere; selling out. DR. JOHNSTON, Suffern, N. Y. 
MAI F HFI PFor farmers, gardeners, dairies. 
1 H/\LiEi 11 17L,I Private places furnished at short¬ 
est notice ami at reasonable wages. Call or write. 
B. HOLZHAUSEN, 443 W. 13th St., N.Y. Est. 1891. 
L ARGE YORKSHIRES— Sows tired for June and August 
farrow. Boars ready for service. May pigs. 
Order now. Gunmakk Farm, Robertsville, Conn. 
AB8ITS—Pure-bred prize stock. Write for infor¬ 
mation. Maple Shade Farm, Pleasant Valley, N. Y. 
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STRAWBERRIES 
Calves, Poultry, Fancy Eggs, Hothouse 
Products, Fruits, Vegetables. 
Top Prices Secured for Choice Goods. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St., NewYork 
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 
rnpO CFa Direct to newt trade In Greater New 
LU Ijo LlUi York. Highest market value anti 
J account sales day of arrival. Refer to 
Rural New-yorker, Dun’s or Bradsti eet’s. 
Zenith Butter & Euo Co., 355-59 Greenwich St., N.Y. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited 
GEO. 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 house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. 34 & 36 I.ittlo 13th St.. New York- 
The Aermotor with the auto¬ 
matic regulator stops when 
the tank is full and 
starts when the 
water is lowered 4 
inches. You oil it 
once a week. A 
gasoline engine has to be 
started and stopped and oiled 
and attended almost constantly, 
and you have large expense for 
gasoline and oil. The wind is 
free. 
We make gasoline engines (exceedingly 
good ones) but, for the average water supply 
for the home and 150 head of stock, an 8-foot 
Aermotor with a storage tank, — which is a 
necessity with any kind of water supply—is 
all that is needed and is by far the more 
economical. The supply of wind for the Aer¬ 
motor is more to he relied upon than the supply 
of gasoline, batteries and repairs for the gaso¬ 
line engine. 
The cost of gasoline, oil, batteries and re¬ 
pairs in pumping for 150 head of stock with a 
gasoline engine, will buy an 8-foot Aermotor 
every year, and you are still to the bad the 
amount of time you spend over the gasoline 
engine. 
But the gasoline engine has its place on the 
farm notwithstanding the fact that 100 people 
are maimed or killed with gasoline where one 
is injured by a windmill, and that 100 farm 
buildings are burned with gasoline where none 
is injured by a windmill. For the water supply, 
the windmill is the thing. Thousands of farmers 
who have done their first power pumping by a 
gasoline engine have become tired of it and are 
buying windmills. That is one reason why our 
windmill business increases from year to year. 
We can furnish you much testimony like the 
following: 
Devine,Tex., Dec. 16,1911. 
1 amsendlngyou a photo¬ 
graph of one of the oldest 
windmills In this country— 
It being the first Aermotor 
put up In Medina County— 
and Is used to furnish water 
for hundreds of bead of cat¬ 
tle. It was put up In the year 
1889 and Is owned by Mr. 
Murdo Monroe. The only 
repairs this mill has ever 
needed are one small gear 
and a rocker arm, the total 
cost of which was»2.50. Thin 
Aermotor Is still running and 
doing good service, furnish¬ 
ing water for cattle and 
family. 
LOUIS GACONET. 
Find, If you can, a state¬ 
ment like this regarding 
gasoline engines. 
Of course, there are places where a windmill 
cannot be used. There you will have to use a 
gasoline engine, with all of its disadvantages. 
We will furnish for that place a small engine 
which costs but $37.50 complete, so it can be set 
to pumping in 30 minutes. Or we will furnish 
you a pump jack—the best made—for $6.00. to 
do pumping with a larger gasoline engine. 
Send for catalogue giving full information 
about water supply. Aermotor Co.. Chicago. 
Branch Houses: Oakland, Cal.; Kansas City. 
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