1912. 
THE RUR \I) NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, June 22, 1912. 
FARM TOriCS. 
Hay Crops for Old Age. 
Sawdust in Manure. 
Do Canning Outfits Pay?. 
Measuring Ilay for Weight. 
Spreading Lime with Broom. 
Cropping on Shares. 
Winter Spelt in Michigan. 
Giving Corn a Chance. 
Ringing the Crows. 
Bloodhound as a Farm Dog. 
English Sparrow Pest. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Production of Timothy Seed. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
What 10 Business Hens Did. 
Mules in Maine. 
Changing Milk Prices. 
Mule Peculiarities . 
Composition of Green Fodder. 
Peanut Wastes for Feeding. 
Wounded Horse . 
Shrink of Milk. 
Hyroina . 
Shipping Butter in Hot Weather. 
Why the Milk Was Rejected. 
Paralysis in Cows. 
Loss of Pigs. 
Pig Facts . 
Boston Milk . 
Adulterated Butter Law . 
Colored Oleo . 
Cost of Milk . 
Ohio Holstein Cattle. 
Egg-Laying Contest . 
The lien Crowds the Cow. 
June-Hatched Chicks . 
Plan for Hatching. 
Are liens Too Fat to Lay?. 
HORTICULTURE. 
Strawberries and Lime.. 
Spray for Rose Bugs. 
Strawberry Leaf-roller . 
Spraying Tomatoes . 
Mr. “Smooth" and Nursery Stock. 
Currants Losing Fruit. 
Orchard Proposition . 
Whitewashing Peach Trees. 
White Grubs in Strawberries. 
Cost of Growing Raisins. 
Killing Out Persimmons. 
English Walnuts in Michigan. 
Greenhouse Heating . 
Krauser and Red Doctor Apples. 
Care of Easter Lily. 
Ruralisms . 
Colors in Corn. 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
Root Beer Recipe Wanted. 
Remedies for Ivy Poison.. 
Conquering Moths ... .. 
Sweet Flag Root. 
The Rural Patterns... 
Getting Rid of Ants... 
Experience with Ladies’ Aid Society. . 
The Bread Question. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Starling in America. 
Good Advice to Campers. 
Cost of Country Roads. 
Cut Photograph Humbug. 
Editorials . 
Farmers and Cooperation . 
What Roosevelt Stands For. 
Publisher's Desk . 
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MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending June 15, 1912. 
RUTTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb.27 © .28 
Good to Choice.26 @ .26 
Lower Grades .23 @ .2414 
State Dairy, best.26 © .27 
Common to Good.22 @ .25 
Factory.20 © .23 
Packing Stock.18 © .20 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 25^ cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 28 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 28 cents. 
EGGS 
White, good to choice. 
Mixed Colors, best . 
Common to Good. 
Western, best. 
Under grades. 
Checks and dirties. 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best. 
Common to Good. 
Skims. 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium. 
Pea. 
Yellow Eye. 
Red Kidney. 
White Kidney. 
Lima, California. 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice. 
Common to Good. 
Pacific Coast. 
Old Stock. 
German Crop. 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Spy,bbl. 
Cooper. 
Ben Davis. 
Baldwin. 
Western, box. 
Strawberries, Jersey, qt. 
Staten Island. 
Maryland. 
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Peaches, Southern, carrier. 
Cherries. Ig-bu. bkt. 
8 -lb bkt. 
CLooseberries, qt. 
Huckleberries, qt. 
Blackberries, qr. 
Raspberries, red, pt. 
Muskmelons, s’n, bu. 
California crate. 
Watermelons, 100... 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911. 
Common to good. 
Chops, 100 lbs. 
Raspberries. 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—Old. bbl . . 
Foreign, 168-lb. bag. 
Southern, new, bbl. 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel. 
Artichokes, Cal., bu. drum. 
Asparagus, Green, doz . 
White. 
Beets, 100 bunches. 
Carrots, bbl. 
New. 100 bunches. 
Cucumbers, Southern, bu. 
Cabbage—New, bbl., crate. 
Lettuce, tg-bbl bkt. 
Sweet corn, Southern, 100. 
Lima beans, Southern, bkt. 
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Peppers, Southern, carrier. 1.25 © 2.50 
Peas. Southern, bu.1.25 @ 2.00 
Radishes, hj lb. bkt.75 © 1.00 
Rhubarb, 100 bunches.60 © 100 
String Beans, bu. 1.50 © 2.25 
Spinach, bbl.0.50 © 1.00 
Squash, new, bbl. 50 © 1.00 
Egg Plants, Fla., bbl. 1.00 @ 3.00 
Tomatoes, Fla. Carrier.75 © 3.00 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers, No. 1, doz.50 © .65 
No. 2, box. 1.50 © 3.00 
Tomatoes, lb.08 © .15 
Mushrooms, lb.35 @ 1.00 
LIVE POULTRY 
Broilers, lb.30 © .33 
Fowls.13 © .14 
Roosters.09 © .10 
Ducks.11 © .12 
Geese. .03 © .09 
Turkeys.11 @ .12 
Guineas, pair. .60 © .60 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.21 ® .22 
Common to Good.14 © .18 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.35 © .40 
Broilers, common to good.25 @ .28 
Roasters.20 ® .24 
Fowls.14 @ .16 
Ducks, spring, lb .19 © .20 
Squabs, doz.50 © 3.75 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay, Timothy No. 1, ton.30.00 © 31.00 
No. 2.28.00 © 29.00 
No. 3.26.00 © 27.00 
Clover Mixed.23.00 © 29 U0 
Straw, Rye.19.00 © 20.00 
Oat and Wheat.14.UU © 15.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs. 6.50 © 9 30 
Bulls.3.75 ©6.00 
Cows. 3.00 @ 6.20 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.7.00 @ 9.75 
Culls. 5 00 © 6.50 
Sheep. 100 lbs.3.00 © 4.75 
Lambs. 8 00 © 9.00 
Hogs.7.00 © 8.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1.24 © ... 
No. 2, Red. 118 © ... 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.19 @ ... 
Corn, os to quality, bush.80 © .85 
Oats, as to weight, bush.60 © .64 
Barley, choice. 1.16 © 1.25 
COTTONj 
New York Middling Upland. 11.80 
Middling Gulf. 12.05 
New Orleans. Low Middling. 11.60 
Good Middling. 12.75 
Jersey Cattle Club Premiums. 
The American Jersey Cattle Club offers 
gold medals in each of two classes, and 
gold, silver and bronze medals (first, sec- 
one and third premiums), in each of two 
other classes, at 31 of the 1912 fairs and 
shows, and has made appropriations for 
special premiums and booths at four agri¬ 
cultural shows of national or interstate 
scope and importance. The pecuniary ob¬ 
ligations to which the Club is liable in 
carrying this out amount to SG,372, dis¬ 
tributed as follows : 
Medals at 31 State fairs.$3,472 
Special premiums, demonstration 
work and booths at 
National Dairy Show. Chicago.... 500 
International Dairy Show, Milwau¬ 
kee . 1,400 
State Diary Association Fair, 
Waterloo . 500 
New England Fair, Worcester, 
Mass. 100 
Student’s scholarship competed for at 
National Dairy Show. 400 
Total .$6,372 
The total amount approbated for 1911 
fairs and shows was $7,000. 
it. M. cow, 
_ Secretary. 
THE BUFFALO MARKET SITUATION. 
In taking up the market problem in the 
interest of the producer and what he re¬ 
ceives for meats, grains and vegetables it 
will he necessary to enter upon an entirely 
now line of work, for these reports are 
commonly made mostly in the interest of 
the middleman. As a rule nothing is said 
as to which of the several prices an article 
is subject to while it is on the way from 
producer, but it is really the retailer’s 
buying price and is published in the inter¬ 
est of the trade almost entirely. I once 
tried to get a report that would show what 
the consumer pays, hut was put off with 
the excuse that such figures meant nothing, 
as they would be based on the daily 
fluctuations in the supply, which were often 
large. While this is true, it might be well 
to keep it in view, even while using the 
prices from the wholesaler to the retailer, 
as well as not forgetting what the producer 
obtains. Another point that must be kept 
in sight all the time is that there are peo¬ 
ple in the business of handling food stuffs 
who are not above shading the prices they 
give out, so that they will favor their busi¬ 
ness. On this account it is common for a 
merchant to say that the published market 
reports get him into trouble because they 
are incorrect. The evident reply in all 
such cases is that if the complainant is 
able and willing to give out figures that 
are reliable ho is just the man to do it. 
There is great need of him wherever mar¬ 
ket reports are gathered. At present about 
all the green vegetables that the Northern 
farmer has to sell are rhubarb. There are 
some Winter onions, hut the lettuce and 
radishes are hardly grown to any size on 
account of the very backward season. 
While it is well to raise rhubarb for the 
reason that it is early, it retails In city 
markets at three bunches for five cents and 
is not earning anyone a fortune. Spinach 
is also on the way, as the falling price to 
15 cents a half peck to consumers shows. 
Farmers are getting great prices for some 
things now if they have them. One whom 
I know has lately sold his beans, ordinary 
whites, at $2.65 a bushel and says he could 
now get $2.75 for them. Potatoes are 
bringing as high as $1.25 at the farm, re¬ 
tailers getting $2 for new, hut they are so 
scarce that the next crop will be small for 
want of seed. Besides it is now 10 days 
into June and not much is done yet, at 
least in western New York, in planting 
either potatoes or corn. And now comes a 
big frost on the night of .Tune 7 as a fur¬ 
ther discouragement. Many farmers were 
unable to sow oats on account of the rains. 
They will have to depend on a big hay 
crop, which is now assured, for a great 
part of their profits. It is significant that 
the price of hay still goes up, even though 
there should be new hay in the market from 
southern points, at least the quotation of 
best Timothy has gone up within a week 
from $28 to $30. Buffalo is known as an 
overflow market for Southern green crops. 
Markets further south order consignments 
on if there is a full stock on hand, but 
Buffalo must accept and sell all that comes, 
as it is the end of the line, hence bad 
fluctuations at times. C. 
Another Canadian Market. 
We can boast of having the best public 
market there is in Canada. In the city of 
Hamilton we have a market for produce, 
fruits and vegetables that cannot be beaten. 
The market is kept up by the city and they 
charge a fee of five and 10 cents for wagon 
space for one and two-horse rigs. We 
have a market three days a week, Tuesday, 
Thursday and Saturday anil in the rush 
of the fruit season there is market every 
day. The wholesale is early in the morn¬ 
ing. At this time of year and later on, 
is from five to seven o’clock and about 
nine the retail will start. As a general 
thing the best fruit and vegetables are 
picked up by the wholesale trade. Quite 
a lot of our green stuff goes to Toronto 
and is picked up early by buyers from 
there. The markets are very largely at¬ 
tended by growers for several miles who sell 
their goods, spend their money in the city 
and return home. As to selling direct to 
consumer there is quite a percentage who 
retail all their load where others sell 
wholesale, go home and may bring in a 
second load to the stores. As to portion 
of retail price, they pay about the same 
as you would get it at the stores in lots 
of cases, but when you buy from the 
grower you get it fresh and in better shape. 
A certain class of people, especially the 
laboring, come to the market for all their 
stuff. The system is considered good both 
for the city and the surrounding country. 
It brings a lot of trade to the city that 
would not come, only for the market. We 
have a large meat market in connection 
with the other market, which is a covered 
place for the butchers to drive in to sell 
their loads. w. a. d. 
Hamilton, Out. 
The second annual training conference 
for rural leaders will be held at the New 
York State College of Agriculture, Cornell 
University, June 25-July 5. The conference 
is open to all persons who are interested. 
Special invitation is given to rural min¬ 
isters, secretaries of rural Young Men’s and 
Young Women’s Christian Associations, offi¬ 
cers of men’s brotherhoods and other re¬ 
ligious organizations, hoy scout masters, 
school superintendents, principals, and 
teachers, editors, officers of Granges, insti¬ 
tute lecturers, and other active rural work¬ 
ers. 
. . . $ 500.00 . . . 
The Rural New-Yorker Will 
Pay $500.00 in Cash for 
- THE MAFES- 
DAYLIGHT EGG TESTER 
NO MORE WAITING UNTIL AFTER DARK 
TO TEST YOUR EGGS 
Invaluable 
to 
Every 
Farmer 
Egg 
Collector 
Poultryman 
Store¬ 
keeper 
Handler of 
Eggs Showing howl! is nsod Wl! 
The Farmer by using our new "Tester” may pick 
out every bad egg from the stolen hen’s nests. 
The eggs from two stolen nests will pay for 
this tester. 
The Poultryman may now test his incubator eggs. 
The Storekeeper will find in this "Tester” absolute 
protection in buying his eggs. 
DON’T DELAY-SENS! $1.00 AT ONCE 
Money Refumieil W. H. MACKS 
If Not Satisfied 17 Harrison St., New York 
Cheap Running Water Supply for Farm and 
Home. Costs nothing to operate—gives all year 
round -uniting water supply to all parts of your 
home, barn, stables, troughs, etc. Ifyou'live 
near a spring or flowing stream install a 
NIAGARA HYDRAULIC RAM 
More comfort for yonr family—better for 
your stock—saves labor. Doesn't need 
attention—can’t get out of order. Prices 
really low. Free booklet. 
Nl/ftAR.A HYDRAULIC ENGINE 
P.O.Box 1008, Chester, Pa. 
Erickson Leg 
Does not chafe, overheat 
or draw end of stump. 
_ Send for Catalog 
Sold on Easy Terms 
The largest limb factory in the world. 
K. II. Krickson Arliflrin! I.Inib Co. 
19 Washington Avo., N., Minneapolis, Minn, f 
WiNTFD"" married man of good habits to take 
"nil 1 charge of a farm near Boston or New 
York. A good proposition will be made to the right 
man. W. I. COBURN, North Bennington, Vermont. 
MANAGER WASTED F ° EXCH Y fl l NGL ) Inc UIT 
IF you are competent to buy fruit supplies and 
market apples and other fruits, address, with ref¬ 
erences. HAYWOOD FIIUIT EXCHANGE, INC., 
care of Bolling Hall, Waynosvillo, N. C. 
1 nr&lTP MAKE BIG money selling the 
AuL.ll H \ Buckeye Line-Support 
** ** * ■ ■ w# Att.acliod to hip-strap prevents 
tail getting over lines. 35c pair, postpaid. 
OHIO SPECIALTY CO., Ocpt. B, MADIS0NVILLE, OHIO 
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 such 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. Ours is a philanthropic organiza¬ 
tion whose object is to assist and encourage Jewish 
immigrants to become farmers. Wo charge no 
commission to employer or employee. Address 
FARM LABOR BUREAU, 17G Second Avenue, New York City. 
BEARING APPLE ORCHARD FOR SALE 
40 acres, young trees, best standard varieties; good 
crop this year. Abundant water and good house 
sites. Located in the finest apple section of West¬ 
ern North Carolina where wator, climate and 
scenery are unsurpassed. Fruit Growers’ Selling 
Association just organized. Cold Storage planned. 
Only reason for selling: The manager has more 
orchard than he can look after. Price, $300 per acre. 
Terms. Bolling; Hall, Waynesville, N. C. 
ESTATE MUST BE SETTLED AT ONCE 
Farm of COO acres, 200 acres timber, three houses, 
ten barns, five horses, twenty-four cows, two bulls, 
sixteen hogs, 100 hens, 75 sheep and lambs, wagons, 
mowers, rakes, sulky plows, harrows, harnesses, 
etc. All go for $20,000, part cash, balance at five per 
cent. Hall's Fakm Agency, Elmira, New York. 
E ASTERN SHORE of Maryland and Virginia. Poultry, 
Fruit, Truck, Grain and Grass Farms for sale. 
Catalog free. M. L. VEASEY, Pocomolce City, Md. 
nri AWADp Beautifully illustrated booklet 
LfLiLin TV nl\L about the State of Bed Apples, 
luscious Peaches, Strawberries, diversified farm¬ 
ing and of ideal homes. Address STATE BOAKD 
OF AG BICULTURE, Dover, Delaware. 
FOR NEW YORK FARMS 
or for farm lands in the West and South call on or 
write to B. F. McBURNEV 8 CO.. 309 Bastable Block, 
Syracuse, New York, or 703 Fisher Building, Chicago, III. 
DELAWARE FARNIS 
Money-making farms throughout the entire State, 
S15 an aere up; live stock, implements and crops 
often included. We offer best bargains, and pay 
buyer’s railroad fare. Catalog free. FORD & 
REIS, Inc., Dept. 56, Wilmington, Delaware. 
A Suitable Story of Farm Life 
MINNESOTA! 
1,800,000 ACRES FKKK 
HOMESTEAD LANDS 
2,500,000 acres State School Lands on 40 years' time. 
For Free Literature and .nformation, write H. J. 
MAXFIELD, State Immigration Commissioner, 
202 State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. 
Such a story should contain about 50,000 words. We want a 
strong story suitable to go with The Rural New-Yorker into 
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Vigorous Human Interest 
dealing forcibly with some vital problem of country life. 
We must have the manuscript of this story by September 15th, 
1912. This offer is open to all, and fuller details regarding the 
story will be given by mail. We invite correspondence with 
authors everywhere. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl Street, New York 
JELUFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington SI., New York 
Poultry, Eggs, Meals, Produce. Shipments Solicited 
STRAWBERRIES 
Live Poultry, Fancy Eggs, Hothouse 
Products, Fruits, Vegetables. 
Top Prices Secured for Choice Goods. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St., NewYerk 
Etc. 
Direct to ueet trade in Great*. 
-New York. Highest market 
# value and account sales day of arrival. 
Refer to Rural New-Yorker, Dun’a or liradstreet’s. 
Zenith Butler & Egg Co., 355-59 Greenwich SI., N.Y 
GEO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIM 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTKY PKOiniCE, Apples. Peaches, lier 
ries Butter, Eggs, Cheese. Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. 34 Hi 3« Little ltfth St., New York' 
