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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 15. 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Farming in the Flood Waters.697. 698 
Saved by Waste Wood Ashes. 698 
Value of Manuring Crops. 69N 
Hop Mildew and Its Control. 699 
Brickyard Ashes as Fertilizer. 700 
Carcasses for Fertilzcr. 700 
Land riaster . 700 
Lime Questions . 700 
Soil Survey of Connecticut. 701 
Harvesting Clover for Hay. 702 
The Maine Potato Crop. 702 
Organizing iu Maine. 702 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 702 
Canadian Seed Law...... 702 
Crop Notes . 702 
Cooperative Notes . 702 
Cultivating Potatoes When in Bloom.. 703 
Plant Food in Foundry Sand. 703 
Lime and Alfalfa. 703 
Lime and Sulphate Rock. 703 
Killing Live-forever . 703 
Hope Farm Notes . 704 
Hood Neighbors and Bad. 704 
A “New” Grain-Emmer. 705 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Arsenate of Lead and Live Stock. 
Mule Sense . 
The Tamworth Swine. 
Skin Disease. 
Soft Horse . 
Skin Troubles; Poor Laying Hen. 
Thin Ilorse . 
Toe Cracks .. 
Sweating Horse . 
Operation for Roaring .. 
A Successful Cooperative Creamery. 
Milk ... 
A Case of Dairy Inspection. 
A Hint to Dairymen. 
Roosts for Chicks. 
Hatching Turkeys . 
Feeding Leghorn Chicks. 
Experience with Duckwing Leghorns.. 
Aphtha in Fowls. 
Cannibalistic Chicks . 
Poultry and Lantern Light. 
Guinea Fowls as Brooders. 
Hens in Town. 
Another Hen Record. 
HORTICULTURE. 
A Case of Pear Blight. 
Seedling or Grafted Walnut Trees. .. 
Cultivation of the Vineyard. 
Weather Conditions and Spraying. . .. 
Ringing Apple Trees.I. 
Trouble from Peach Curl. 
Cost of Cold Storage Apple Houses... 
Missouri Fruit Notes. 
Treatment of Lobster Cactus. 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. * 
From Day to Day. 
Removing Wall Paper. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Drying Currants . 
Destroying Black Ants. 
Bedroom Fashions. Part II. 
Sun-cooked Preserves . 
More About Canned Dandelions. 
Canning Dandelions: Mushrooms. 
Salted Dandelions; Pie Crust. 
A Miner’s Safe . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
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Another Experience with Crooks. 700 
A Pipe in a Well. 703 
Quicksand in a Well. 703 
A Damp Potato House. 703 
Horse Power of an Engine. 703 
The Republican Candidate. 707 
The New Jersey Primary Election.... 707 
Events of the Week. 707 
Editorials .. 706 
Publisher’s Desk . 714 
Humorous . 716 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending June 8, 1912. 
BUTTE II 
Creamery, fancy, lb.27 @ .27^ 
Good to Choice.25 <§» .26' 
Lower Grades.23 @ .tPA 
State Dairy, best.26 @ .27 
Common to Good.22 @ .25 
Factory.20 @ .23 
Packing Slock. 18 © .20 
Elgin, 111., bntter market linn at 25 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 28 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 28 cents. 
EGGS 
White, good to choice.22 © .24 
Mixed Colors, best.20 © .21 
Common to Good. 15 © 13 
Western, best.. 20 © .22 
Under grades. 15 @ 47 
Checks and dirties.10 ® .15 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best. 13 © 44 
Common to Good. 11 © .12 
Skims.04 © 41 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs.4.50 
Medium..... 4.35 
Pea. 4.35 
Vellow Eye.4.50 
Hod Kidney. . . 4.40 
White Kidney. 5.30 
Lima. California. . 0.25 
® 5 50 
: n 5.00 
(St 5.00 
® 4.60 
® 5.60 
@ 6.60 
® 0.35 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.48 @ .50 
Common to Good. 3.5 © .45 
Pacific Coast. 41 © [44 
Old Stock. 14 rd< 22 
Gorman Crop.SO @ .85 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Soy,bbl. 2 50 @ 6.50 
Spitzenburg .. 2.50 @3.50 
Ben Davis. 2.00 © 3 00 
Baldwin. 2.00 © 3.00 
Western, box. 75 © 2.00 
Strawberries, Jersey, qt. , .03 @ .12 
Staten Island. 10 @ 12 14 
Maryland.03 © .10 
Peaches, «onthem, carrier. 1 50 ® 2 25 
Cherries. 1^-bu. bkt. 1.25 © 1.75 
Gooseberries, qt. 06 © .09 
Huckleberries, qt.06 @ .13 
Blackberries, qr.08 ® .12 
Muskmelons, s’n, bn. 1.50 © 3 25 
Watermelons, 100 . 25.00 ®30!oO 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911.. 
Common to good. 
Chops, 100 lbs.... 
Raspberries. 
VEGETABLES 
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2.00 ® 3.SG 
.26 ® .X • 
Potatoes—Old. bbl.* . 
Foreign. 168-ID. bag. 
Bermuda, bbl. 
Southern, new bbl. 
Sweet Potatoes bushel. 
Artichokes, Cal., bu. drum. 
Asparagus, Green, doz . 
White. 
.75 
.0.50 
. 1.25 
Beets. 100 bunches. 
Carrots, bbl. 
New, lot) bunches. 
© 3.00 
€ 2.28 
@ 5.50 
@ 3.75 
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fa) 1.75 
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Cucumbers. Southern, bu. 
Cabbage—New, bbl., crate. 1.25 
Lettuce. l a-bbt bkt.. 
Sweet corn. Southern. 100. 1.50 
Lima beans. Southern, bkt. 1.00 
Onions, Bermuda, bu.50 
Texas, bu.. ..70 
Peppers. Southern, carrier.1.25 
Peas. Southern, bu.75 
Radishes. ib. bkt.75 
Rhnbarb. 100 bunches. 
String Keans, bn. 
Spinach, bbl.0.50 
Squash, Dew, bbl...... 100 
Egg Plants. Fla., bbl. 
Tomatoes, Fla. Carrier.75 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers. No. 1, doz.50 ® .60 
No. 2. box. 1.50 @3.00 
Tomatoes, lb.08 ® .15 
Mushrooms, lb. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Broilers, lb. 
Fowls. 
Roosters.... 
Ducks... 
Geese. 
Turkey s. 
Guineas, pair. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best. 
Common to Good. 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 
Broilers, common to good. 
Roasters... 
Fowls. 
Ducks, Spring, lb .... .. 
Geese. 
Squabs, dot. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay, Timothy No. 1, ton.29.00 ® 30.00 
No. 2 .28.00 @ 28.50 
No. 3.25.00 ® 27.00 
Clover Mixed.23-00 ® 29 00 
Straw, Rye.19.00 ® 21.00 
Oat and Wheat.14.00 @ 15.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers. 100 lbs.7.40 
Bulls.3.75 
Cows. 2.00 
Calves, Prime Yeai, 100 lbs.7.00 
Culls.5.00 
Sheep, 100 lbs.3.25 
Lambs.7.00 
Hogs.7.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 1.26 
No. 2, Red.1.21 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.20 
Corn, as to quality, bush.75 
Oats, as to weight, bush.60 
Rye, No. 2. Western.90 
Barley, choice. 1.16 
COTTON. 
New York Middling Upland. 11-05 
Middling Gulf. 11.90 
New Orleans. Low Middling. 11.25 
Good Middling. 12.35 
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Canadian Prices. 
I herewith give you the prices of some of 
the farm produce in this part of Canada: 
At auction cows (grade), $40 to $100; 
purebred Ilolsteins, $100 to $500; horses 
(grade), $100 to $300; purebred Clydes¬ 
dales, $300 to $500: very few 1’ercherons. 
Hay very schrce, $20 per ton. No silage 
sold. Farm sales total from $3500 to $4000 
per 100 acres; one near here totaled $5600. 
Seventeen grade Holsteins averaged $86. 
Land values about $100 per acre. Oats, 
60 cents per bushel; bran, $27; shorts, 
$28; cottou-seed meal, 41 per cent protein, 
$33 per ton; potatoes scarce, $2.50 per 
bushel. Eggs. 20 cents; butter, 35 ; cheese, 
13 to 14. Milk averages $1.06 per 100 to 
patrons. Bordens are paying, April, $1.35 ; 
May, $1.15; June. $1: July, $1.05; August, 
$1.15; September, $1.25. Not enough for 
last three months. Single men. $200 to 
$300 per year, board and washing; married 
men, $350 to $400 and garden. 
Ingersoll, Out. w. w. n. 
Selling Fruits at Auction. 
On one of the piers in lower New York 
occupied by a railroad making a specialty 
of transporting perishable products, may 
be found every business day many car¬ 
loads of oranges, grape fruit, lemons, and 
in their season cherries, peaches, pears, 
plums, apples, grapes, etc., packed in stand¬ 
ard crates and boxes, opened for examina¬ 
tion, making an exhibit well worth seeing. 
Around and between these packages swarm 
hundreds of buyers. At a given hour a 
bell is rung and all go to the large auction 
room, where the auctioneer sells to the 
highest bidder in quantities best calculated 
to suit the needs of the trade. 
In this open market it is not a case 
of sellers competing with one another and 
thus lowering prices, but the competition 
is among the buyers, and the effect is to 
raise rather than lower prices, especially 
when fine products are offered. While the 
sale is in progress delivery of the goods 
begins at once, and it often happens that 
fruit sold at 9 o'clock in the morning is 
delivered and actually consumed before 
noon. At any rate it is all removed from 
the pier that day to make room for the 
next day’s sales. The prices realized are 
spread broadcast; the grower is notified by 
wire immediately after sale; and the grow¬ 
er’s representative is given a check the 
same day. Foreign lemons and Almeria 
grapes are sold in the auction company’s 
rooms, upwards of a million barrels of 
these grapes being thus handled in a sea¬ 
son. 
Wherever this auction system of sell¬ 
ing fruit has been introduced it lias shown 
itself the fairest method for all concerned. 
A movement is now on foot to establish 
the selling of cut flowers and plants in a 
similar manner to that in which fruit is 
now distributed. c. K. thurston. 
New York. 
Speculators in butter at New York 
have been taking rather large quantities 
for storage during the last week, paying 
from 26 to upwards of 27 cents for‘the 
better grades of creamery. The quality of 
most of the creamery arriving at present is 
above the average, and storage men evi¬ 
dently think it a good risk even at these 
Jngh figures. 
British India has a population more 
than three times as large as the United 
States, „A nd oulv three-fifths the area. 
About ~-3.000.006 acres are under cultiva¬ 
te? 11 ’ 42.000.000 being under irrigation. 
The chief crops are rice, millet, wheat and 
cotton, the approximate acreage being- 
Rice. 79.000.000: millet. 38.000.000; wheat’ 
23,000,000; cotton. 13.000.000. other 
crops grown to tlio extent of 1,000 0(!7) 
acres or over are: Pulse, barley, maize, 
jute, flax, sugar caue and tobacco. 
PUBLIC MARKETS IN CANADA. 
In this town we have the larger part 
of a block in the centre of the city de¬ 
voted to this special purpose, and the 
result seems to be satisfactory and pleasing 
to all. The space is perhaps 100 by 150 
yards in dimensions and at one end has 
two or three buildings, tbe most popular 
of which Is seated and has long tables in 
front of the seats, on which farm produce 
is displayed. This building is used by 
farmers’ wives who bring a comparatively 
small quantity of eggs, chickens, butter, 
etc., to market. Those who have a larger 
quantity are located in wagons in lines in 
the open space on the rest of the square. 
No charge is made for any of this accom¬ 
modation, and an active and efficient mar¬ 
ket clerk wearing a uniform is in control 
on the three market days of the week. 
Saturday is tbe principal day but on cer¬ 
tain occasions, Tuesday and Thursdav, are 
large days. 
Active bidding takes place between the 
grocers and other supply men of the city 
with the farmers to secure their loads in 
bulk, and the farmer has only to choose 
whether he will take a slight reduction 
from the full retail price and get rid of 
his load in one sale or whether he will 
sell it out in smaller quantities and get 
the whole price, at the cost of the addi¬ 
tional time required. In the caste of 
heavy goods like potatoes, apples, etc., the 
farmer usually delivers them. By this 
method the farmer certainly secures the 
whole of the consumer’s dollar without 
any discount or expense whatever, and on 
good days in the Autumn our market square 
is a sight to behold. Ou such occasions the 
market extends into the two streets bor¬ 
dering on the square, and the wagons are 
filled with everything good for the human. 
There is now a suggestion that we should 
have another market in the east end. The 
town has a population of 50.000, and is 
growing more rapidly towards the east than 
in other directions and many people in 
that end are two miles from the market. 
We townspeople are inclined to think 
sometimes that the farmers get a little too 
much as we find that we can buy iu other 
cities better, articles, particulai-iy apples, 
at lower prices. For instance, last Fall 
the lowest price at which I saw apples of 
fair quality was $2 a bushel, and even 
those contained a good proportion of scabby 
and some wormy apples, whereas, by order¬ 
ing from outside one found that $2 was 
about the top price and for that figure 
one could procure really fine apples. 
Our farmers do not endeavor to cultivate 
the market as they might, although this 
statement applies more to fruit than to 
dairy produce. In the latter we have many 
farmers who devote themselves to producing 
specially fine articles which they deliver 
direct to the houses, and charge either the 
top market price or one or two cents more 
for select butter. In the matter of apples, 
however, the export trade really gets the 
cream of their product, and the culls onlv, 
come on our market. I have no doubt that 
just as good a result could be obtained in 
marketing fruit as is now obtained in mar¬ 
keting dairy produce and that tbe man who 
would pay attention to the delivery of scab-* 
less and wormless apples could build up an 
exceptionally satisfactory trade. 
London, Ontario. w. e. s. 
„ Hay, $16 to $20 per ton; horses up to 
$260 each; cows, $35 to $60 each; calves, 
coming one year, $15 to $18. Few one or 
two-year-old cattle on farms here. Feeds 
high priced and scarce. Sheep are not 
kept on farms here now as much as for¬ 
merly. No manure sold here; fertilizers 
bought. Potatoes selling at $1.10 per 
bushel; wheat. $1.07 per bushel; beans, 
$2.55 per bushel (hand picked); oats 53 
cents per bushel; wool. 18 to 22 cents; but¬ 
ter, 26 cents; butter fat. 26 cents per 
ponnd; eggs, 16 cents. No milk sold at 
wholesale; selling in city at six cents per 
fiunrt. j. l. 
Bad Axe, Mich. 
May has been a very changeable month ; 
some days have been extremely hot and the 
following would be as cold. Wet weather 
has retarded farming. Some com to plant 
yet, others have barley to sow. Grass 
lauds are looking fine; pasturage is abund¬ 
ant. Cabbage seed bus come well, a good 
acreage will be put out, also of beans. The 
prospect for all kinds of fruit is good. We 
are spraying now with lime-sulphur and 
arsenate of lead. Greening, Baldwin, Rome 
Beauty, Ben Davis and Gano bloomed well. 
Wheat is $1.15, oats 60 cents; seed corn 
$1.50; early seed potatoes $2; late $1.10; 
butter 25 cents; eggs 18 cents. e. t. b. 
Canandaigua, N. 1". 
No auction sales here for past two 
months. Horses are in good demand and 
bring from $100 to $300. Cattle high and 
beef cattle scarce. Dairy cows bring $40 
to $80. and fat cows four to five cents 
per pound. Hay, $23 to $25 per ton in 
mow; young clover starting good. Pota¬ 
toes. $1.50 per bushel. Corn, when it can 
bo bought, brings 80 cents; oats, 60 cents. 
Hogs, $7.15, and eggs 17 cents at stores. 
Oats look line. Old -Timothy meadows look¬ 
ing fine. Young clover meadows are very 
scarce. No silage or manure sold. More 
people are buying silos this season than 
heretofore on account of the high prices of 
feed last Winter and the prospect of the 
same next Winter. The prices for milk 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N -Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
100 pounds. 
No. Lewisburg. O. 
Harris’ Steel Stalls 
and Stanchions 
Save Time and Money and Make 
Your Dairy More Profitable 
Y our cows will give more 
and better millc, your cost of 
labor and production will be 
materially reduced, and you will 
rnake more money from your dairy 
if you equip your bam with Harris' 
Patented Steel Stalls and Stan• 
chions and Labor-Saving Litter and 
Feed Careers. 
Write today for our free. 
Illustrated Calalogue. 
THE HARRIS MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
Box 552 SALEM, Ohio 
I give you better quality lumber and construction, save 
■—- J ou * 1010 fc 30 * ^ est patented doors,extra strong patented 
hoops and many other special features. Lacey Silos aro built 
to last 20 years—write for booklet. My prices will surprise you. 
ELMER B. LACEY, Box 20 ^ tJnlon, N. Y. 
Eggs, Poultry, Meats, Produce . 1 
Shipments solicited. JELLIFFE, WRIGHT 8 CO., Com 
mission Merchants. 284 Washington St..New York 
WANTED—MAN and WIFE 
Man to work under superintendent, wife to help in 
house, small family. Must be neat and agreeable. 
State all particulars in first letter. 
EAST O’LAKE FARM Burlington, Vt. 
MANAGER WANTED. F0 EXCHflNGE°lnc. U,T 
IF you are competent to buy fruit supplies and 
market apples and other fruits, address, with uf- 
eren cos .HAYWOOD FRUIT EXCHANGE. InO.. 
care of Bolling Hall, Way nesville. N. C. 
W E SE , LL G000 FARMS in Oceana, greatest fruit Co. 
” J" l - ' S ,v «lso grain, potatoes, alfalfa, dairying. 
Write for list, etc. HANSON & SON, Hart, Mich. 
For Suit* i? evern ' York State river and creek 
farms at bargain prices; elegant lo- 
cation. 1 he Billings Farm Agency, Apalachin, N.Y. 
EASTERN SHORE of Maryland and Virginia. Poultry, 
,, Fruit, Truck, Grain and Grass Farms for sale. 
Catalog free. M. L. VEASEY, Pocomoke City, Md. 
DFI A WARF Beautifully illustrated booklet 
•’ NVI\L« a b 0n t the State of Red Apples, 
luscious Peaches, Strawberries, diversified farm¬ 
ing and of ideal homos. Address STATE BOARD 
OF AGRICULTURE, Dover, Delaware. 
FOR IMEW YORK FARMS 
or for farm lands in the West and South call on or 
write to B. F. MeBURNEY 8 CO., 309 Bastable Block. 
Syracuse, New York, or 703 Fisher Buildino, Chicaoo, III. 
COME TO MINNESOTA crop! 
Plenty rainfall. Good Markets. Land Cheap, but 
advancing rapidly. Literature and information 
FREE. Write H. J. MAXFIELD, State Immigra¬ 
tion Commissioner,202State Capitol, St.Puul.Miun. 
DELAWARE FARMS 
Money-making farms throughout the entire State, 
$15 an acre nr ”— ' 
REIS, Inc., Dept. 56, Wilmington, Delaware. 
HOMESTEAD MUST GO TO SEnLE ESTATE 
$2,000 INCOME LAST YEAR 
Farm of 250 acres ; fourteen-room house, two barns. 
36x40 and 30x56 with annex 16x50; granary, hog, hen, 
ice, milk and suioke-houset; apples, pears, peaches, 
jflums and grapes; nice lot of timber; two miles 
from railroad town and markets. Price, for limited 
time, $3,500; part cash; balance, five per cent long 
time. Hall's Farm Aoency, Owego, Tioga County, New York 
FOR SALE—CHICKEN RANCH 
with buildings, yards, etc. 500 standard bred Leg¬ 
horns, 1,000 chicks, incubators, brooders, wagons, 
implements, utensils, horse with colt, cow, calves, 
etc., and other things too numerous to mention. 
5-room house; 12 acres, barn, fruit, running water, 
also piped. Reason for selling, death. Price, $3,000. 
Terms. Mile from village and station. LOI, 
Box 56, Huguenot, Orange Co. N. Y. 
FOR SALE-FARM OF 186 ACRES 
4 mites from 3 railroads, in Wayne Co., Penna. 
Close to church, school and neighbors. 100 acres 
smooth, rich fields, 86 woodland, 9-room plastered 
and painted house, 2 barns, 2 orchards, spring water 
piped to house, creek watered pasture, including 
full complement of wagons, tools, and machinery; 
team of horses, 12 cows, and 5 head of young stock. 
All farm work dono to date. Price, everything in¬ 
cluded, only $3,500. Part cash. TACKAWANNA 
BEAL ESTATE CO., Scranton, Fenna, 
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