1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7u6 
CONTENTS 
The Rcbal New-Yorker, Jane 29, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Saving Western Kansas Again.... 737, 
Agriculture in High Schools. 
Back to the Land in Illinois. 
The Farm Playground. 
Thrashing Alsike for Seed. 
Coining Farmers' Meetings. 
The Farmers’ Institute Problem. 
Crops and Prices.. 
Countv Agricultural Experts. 
Work on a South Jersey Truck Farm. 
In the Nick of Time. 
Spraying Potatoes and Mustard. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Killing Out Persimmon. 
A Sensible Texas Story. 
Potato Imports .. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Old Hen Mothers. 
A Cistern as a Silo. 
Sawdust and Cow Flavor. 
What Kind of a Silo. 
Silage for Beef Cattle. 
Fur-bearing Sheep . 
Cotton-seed Meal for Calves.. 
Milk .. 
Dairying on the Desert. 
Dairying on Long Island. 
Selling Eggs in New York. 
Anthrax and Blackleg. 
Death in the Pit. 
Killing Cattle Grubs... 
The Egg-laying Contest.. 
Liver Trouble in Fowls.. 753 
Worms in Chicks. 753 
Hen Advice Wanted. 753 
Proportion of Ducks and Drakes. 753 
Cages for Broody Hens. 753 
A Poultry Disinfectant. 753 
HORTICULTURE. 
Grafting Tomato on Potato. 739 
A Late Cherry.. 740 
Horticultural Briefs . 740 
Striped Cucumber Beetles. 740 
Destroying Snails . 740 
Ants in Lawn. 740 
What Ails the Grapes?. 740 
No Pear Blossoms. 740 
Harvesting Peaches . 742 
The Outlook for Apple Barrels. 742 
A Tree Specialist Takes Exception.... 743 
Transplanting Evergreens. 745 
Honoring an Apple. 745 
Breeding Out “Hobo” Trees. 745 
Fruits for the Southwest. 745 
Rosa Eugosa and Harrison’s Yellow 
Hybrid . 745 
Champion Berry Pickers. 747 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 748 
The Rural Patterns. 748 
Fruit Relishes . 748 
Winter Wheat Bread..748, 749 
Waking a Grange. 749 
A Few Good Soups. 749 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
An Agricultural Parcels Tost. 7415 
Land Transfers in Germany. 741 
Medical Uses of Skunk Cabbage. 745 
Editorials . 746 
Large Public Questions. 747 
Events of the Week. 747 
Publisher’s Desk . 754 
A Buyers’ Association. 755 
Humorous . 756 
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MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending June 22, 1912. 
BUTT 15 K 
Creamery, fancy, lb.2«^a .27 
Good to Cboice.25 @ .26 
bower Grades .23 @ .24hj 
State Dairy, best.26 0 ,26J^ 
Common to Good.22 @ .25 
Factory.19 @ .23 
Packing Stock. 18 @ .20 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 25 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 27 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 27 cents. 
EGGS 
White, good to choice.25 @ .27 
Mixed Colors, best .21 @ .23 
Common to Good.....15 @ 18 
Western, best.22 @ .23 
Under grades.15 ® .17 
Checks and dirties.10 0 .15 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best. ... .14 @ .15 
Common to Good.11 @ .13 
Skims.114 @ .12 
Marrow, 100 lbs . 
Medium. 
Pea. 
Yellow Eye. 
Red Kidney. 
White Kidney.... 
Cima. California. 
Prime to Cboice 
Common to Good 
Pacific Coast. 
Old Stock. 
German Crop .... 
BEANS 
1101*8 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Spy, bbl. 
Beu Davis. 
Baldwin. 
Western, box . 
Southern, new, bbl. 
Strawberries, Jersey, qt. 
Staten Island. 
Western N. Y. 
Up-river. 
Peaches, Southern, carrier. 
Plums. Southern, crate. 
Cherries, hj-bu. bkt. 
8 -lb. bkt... 
Gooseberries, qt . 
HucKleberries. qt.. 
Blackberries, qr.. 
Raspberries, red, pt. 
Muskmelons, s’n, bu. 
California crate. 
Watermelons, 100... 
4.50 @ 5.40 
4.30 @ 4.95 
4.30 @ 4.95 
4.40 0 4.50 
4 (HI ® 5.05 
5.35 @ 6.U0 
6.15 0 6.25 
.40 @ .42 
.30 @ .35 
.39 @ .42 
.14 0 .22 
.73 @ .75 
2 50 @ 5.50 
2.00 @ 3 00 
2.00 @ 4.00 
.75 @ 3.00 
1.00 @ 2.00 
.05 @ .12 
.10 0 .20 
.10 ® .12 
.08 ® .18 
1.50 0 3.00 
. 1.75 0 2.75 
1.25 @ 2.00 
.40 @ .75 
.06 ® .09 
.10 @ .16 
.06 ® .13 
.06 ® .13 
1.50 @ 2.75 
3.00 0 4.50 
15.00 ®35.00 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, erap .cboice, 1911.09J4® -10J6 
Common to good.07 @ .09 
Chops, 100 lbs . 2.00 ® 2.50 
Raspberries.26 ® .27 
VEGETA BUMS 
Potatoes—Old. bbl.2.00 ® 2.75 
Foreign. 168-lb. bag. 1.00 ® 2.50 
Southern, new, bbl . 1.50 @ 3.75 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel.75 @ 2.25 
Asparagus, Green, doz . 1.50 @ 3.00 
White.1.00 fa) 2.25 
Beets, 100 bunches. 1.00 0 4.00 
Carrots, bbl... 3.00 0 3.75 
New. 100 bunchqe. v .. 1.00 ® 3.00 
Cucumbers. Southern, bu..0.50 @ 1.00 
Cabbage—New. bbl., crate.75 0 2.00 
Lettuce, l£-bbl bkt. 25 @ 0.45 
Sweet com, Southern, 100. 1.50 @ 2.50 
Lima beans, Southern, bkt. 1.00 0 4.50 
Onions, Bermuda, bu.50 @1.00 
Texas, bu.50 @ 1.10 
Peppers, Southern, carrier. 1.00 @ 3.00 
Peas. Jersey, bu . 
. 1.25 
@ 
2.00 
Western N. Y. 
. 2.00 
(a) 
2.25 
Radishes, lb. bkt. 
.75 
(a' 
1.00 
String Beans, bu. 
.50 
0 
1.25 
Spinach, bbl.f . 
. 0.50 
0 
3.00 
Squash, Dew, bbl . 
. 60 
0 
1.00 
Egg Plants. Fla., bbl . 
. 1.00 
@ 
3.00 
Tomatoes, Fla. Carrier.... 
f d ) 
2 .e 0 
HOTHOUSE 
PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers. No. 1, doz .... 
0 
.50 
No. 2, box . 
@ 
3.00 
. 08 
& 
.15 
Mushrooms, lb . 
. 10 
& 
0.35 
LIVE POULTRY 
Broilers, lb..—..30 
Fowls.13 
Roosters.09 
Ducks...12 
Geese. -09 
Turkeys.12 
Guineas, pair.50 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.21 
Common to Good.M 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb...35 
Broilers, common to good.25 
Roasters.19 
Fowls.14 
Ducks, Spring, lb . 18 
Squabs, .. -50 
HAY AND STRAW 
@ 
.32 
0 
.14 
@ 
.10 
@ 
.13 
0 
.10 
0 
.13 
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.60 
0 
.22 
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.18 
0 
.38 
@ 
.28 
® 
.20 
@ 
@ 
.19 
@ 
3.75 
Hay. Timothy No. 1, ton. 
No. 2.... 
No. 3. 
Clover Mixed.. 
Straw, Rye.. 
Oat and Wheat.. 
LIVE STOCK 
29.00 ® 30.00 
.26.00 @ 28.00 2 
.22.00 0 25.00 1 
,21.00 0 25 00 | 
.17.00 fa) 18.00 J 
,12.00 0 15.00 
Native Steers, 100 lbs...... 
Bulls.. 
Cows.. 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs 
Culls. 
Sheep, 100 lbs 
Lambs. . 
Hogs. 
.. 6.50 
... 4.50 
... a .00 
.. 7.00 
.. 5.00 
.. 3.00 
.. 8.00 
.. 7.00 
@ 8 50 
0 7.00 
@ 6.40 
@ 10.00 
fa) 6.50 
@ 4.50 
@ 9.50 
@ 8.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1.24 0 ... 
No. 2, Red.1.17 ® ... 
No. 2 Hard Winter.1.17 @ ... 
Corn, as to quality, bush.80 0 .85 
Oats, as to weight, bus-h.60 @ .64 
Barley, choice. 1-1*> ® 1-25 
COTTON 
New York Middling Upland. 11-60 
Middling Gulf. 11.85 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 11-50 
Good Middling. 12.55 
WOOL 
NewYork Fleeces, Fine, unwashed. 19 0 -20 
Ohio half blood combing.28 0 .29 
Kentucky, three-eighths blood.27® 
Michigan. halE blood.25^@ .26 _j 
potato Imports. 
From October 1 to June 1 we imported 
nearly 13,000.000 bushels of potatoes front 
over the seas, beating all previous record of 
imports by 6,000,000 bushels. On this im¬ 
port the total duty paid amounted to a lit¬ 
tle over .$3,000,000 and over $1,000,000 
more was paid the transportation companies 
for freight, bringing the total transactions 
up to $10,000,000. All this wealth went 
abroad except that collected by the Na¬ 
tional Department for duty. Had the do¬ 
mestic crop been sufficient to meet the de¬ 
mands of the various markets of the coun¬ 
try prices would not ruled so high, hut it 
is safe to say that there were $5,000,000 
lost to the farmers of the country and this 
$5,000,000 was added to the millions more 
the American millionaires scatter through¬ 
out European countries. This reduced the 
luiyiug capacity of the American farmer 
$5,000,000 and the various industries suf¬ 
fered to the extent of $5,000,000. While 
many favored sections profited largely be¬ 
cause of the high prices which prevailed 
the fact remains that the country as a 
whole suffered to the amount of over $7,- 
000,000. Aroostook County, Maine, beat all 
previous records by shipping to the mar¬ 
kets 15,000,000 bushels, receiving therefor 
$10,000,000 or $4,000,000 more than was 
received for the 1910 crop. Central Maine 
did not make a gain in the amount re¬ 
ceived, for the Central Maine farmer lost 
his courage in 1910 and reduced the acre¬ 
age by nearly 60 per cent in 1911. 
c. H. E. 
A Buyer’s Association. 
All over the Eastern States, as well a» 
West, consumers are organizing buyers’ as¬ 
sociations. Most of this work is naturally 
being done by women—since they are the 
household managers. As an illustration of 
what these associations are doing, we print 
the following from Flushing, Long Island : 
Because of the present immaturity of 
the plans of the Flushing Branch of the 
Housewives League, of which I have the 
honor to be president, we have preferred 
to take time and go over the ground care¬ 
fully before taking any positive steps. We 
have twice held conferences with the Flush¬ 
ing Business Men's Association and dis¬ 
cussed possible reductions of expenses which 
would reduce the prices on food-stufCs 
especially. We have suggested to them the 
establishment of a central delivery com¬ 
pany, which shall deliver twice a day the 
goods from all the Flushing stores so that 
the large expenses of from three to eight 
delivery wagons for each store can be done 
away with. This the men are considering. 
We have looked up various cooperative sys¬ 
tems and at the present time many of the 
members are joining the World Home Sup¬ 
ply Company and testing the goods they 
offer. We have also made an arrangement 
with a Whitestone truck gardener to de¬ 
liver vegetables, fruit and eggs of his own 
raising to our members three times a 
week, each customer ordering when goods 
are delivered the articles needed the next 
delivery day, so that the man will bring 
the supply the housewives desire and not 
waste time in going from house to house 
of people who want nothing. If this plan 
works this summer I think it can be car¬ 
ried out on a much larger scale another 
season. I think it is quite likely some 
further cooperative buying will he estab- 
ished this autumn, hut the details are still 
too uncertain to pubish. 
ANNA BARNARD O’CONNOR. 
Our barrel dealer in this vicinity quotes 
barrels delivered at barn 38 cents. This is 
three cents higher than last year. I con¬ 
sider it economy always to buy early. 
Barrels never go lower in price as season 
advances. They will be apt to go higher 
this year. The crop of Baldwin and 
Hubbardston will be full if not heavy in 
this vicinity. Greenings will be light. Per¬ 
sonally, our crop will he lighter than for 
two years past when we had heavy yields. 
Most orchards around here have borne 
light for two years. The yield will be 
considerably larger this year. W. A. B. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Fruit growers near Crozet, Virginia, met 
recently and organized an apple packing 
school. The proposition is to send experts 
about showing growers just how to handle 
and pack apples and other fruit. These 
growers reeognize the fact that while their 
apples are of high quality, they must learn 
how to put them on the market uniformly 
and well packed in order to obtain the best 
results. This school will enable growers 
to know just how to do it. H. T. Bowles 
is Chairman, and Arthur H. Smith, Secre¬ 
tary of the new Association. 
In southeastern Nebraska wheat was win¬ 
ter-killed to some extent, but is coming on 
in fine shape, all headed out, and a good 
prospect for SO percent of a crop. Oats 
late on acount of late Spring, but looking 
well. Corn very good stand, has been cul¬ 
tivated once. Early potatoes looking fine. 
First crop of Alfalfa good and nearly all 
cut. Hay of all kinds has been very scarce 
and high in price, as high as $30 per ton 
was paid. It is much lower now. Alfalfa 
brings $7 per ton at the mill. Wheat 
$1. corn, 70 cents, oats 60 cents, sweet 
cream 35 cents, country butter 22, creamery 
30, eggs 14. Potatoes $1.50; poultry 10 
cents alive; hogs seven cents, cows $50 to 
$65; good horses and mules $200 up. A 
24-h"ours’ rain June 8 and 9 puts every¬ 
thing in fine shape. h. m. r. 
Jefferson Co., Neb. 
So far this season there has been but 
slight injury due to insects and diseases. 
Some correspondents report scab and 
blight, also damage from curculio and 
Codling moth, especially in unsprayed or¬ 
chards. These do not appear, however, to 
be widespread, as most reports give no in¬ 
sect or disease injury. The set has been 
only fair to good. Some varieties, as Ben 
Davis. Gano and Winesap, set well and will 
give best crop. Jonathan and York set 
poorly in all sections, while most sections 
report poor set for Summer varieties. As 
an average for the State, estimated by our 
correspondents. th<> apple crop now stands 
at 72 per cent. This seems to be fairly 
uniform throughout the State. The lowest 
range is for northeast Missouri. 64 per 
cent, while the highest, northwest Missouri, 
has 77 per cent. At this time last year the 
outlook for an apple crop was placed at 
35-40 per cent. The average number of 
growers reported spraying is 16 per cent. 
Northwest Missouri leads with highest num¬ 
ber, 20 per cent, while central Missouri re¬ 
ports the least. 11 per cent. 
W. W. CHENOWETH, 
Mo. Board of Horticulture. Secretary. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl Street, New York 
Ohio cows sold near here at auction aver¬ 
aged $63; the highest price obtained was 
$91. At another sale cows averaged $56.40. 
Hay is selling at the Trenton market from 
$28 to $30 per ton. Corn is selling whole¬ 
sale at $1 a bushel. Milk is sold at four 
cents a quart by most farmers, but some 
are getting 4 1 /> cents the six Winter months 
by very hard lighting. n. h. d. 
Bristol, l’a. 
We had a very wet Spring which made 
plowing and planting very late. Some corn 
that was planted early has been worked 
once. Some are not much more than done 
planting corn yet. The weather has been 
dry for about three weeks, with only one 
or two good rains in that time. No rain 
at all for nearly two weeks. Nothing need¬ 
ing rain very badly except the old meadows. 
Pasture good; new meadows look well. 
Good prospect for apples and peaches un¬ 
less the frost the morning of June 8 hurt 
them on low land. Heavy frost on creek 
and low land and some on high ground, 
doing some damage to potatoes and garden 
stuff, especially on low land. Early-sown 
wheat looks well except that the heads are 
short. Most of the late sown is short and 
thin on the ground, the hard cold Winter 
was too much for it. Not many silos in 
this county. A good many sheep raised ib 
this county, mostly finc-wooled ones. Some- 
farmers are selling their cream, shipping 
it to West Jefferson, O. They got 31 cents 
a pound for the butter fat it contains. 
Prices of farm products are about as fol¬ 
lows : Butter, 20 to 25 cents; eggs, 17 
cents per dozen; chickens, 10 cents per 
pound live; wheat, $1.10 a bushel; corn, $1. 
Hay sold here last W’inter and Spring for 
$22 to $25 per ton in the mow, and as high 
as $30 delivered. Wool started at 27 cents 
and has got to 28 cents a pound Tor wool 
in good condition. Sheep, four and five 
cents a pound for good fat ones. Horses 
as high as $250 for good ones, and some 
extra good ones $300. Very few fat hogs 
in the country. Pigs sold this Spring for 
$2.50 to $3 and some as high as $4. Pig 
feed high. Middlings. $1.75 per 100 pounds. 
Good milch cows, $30 to $45. In Muskin¬ 
gum County they say the frost on the morn¬ 
ing of June 8 was the worst for 54 years. 
The ground is getting dry, especially for 
plowing. There is some ground to bo plowed 
yet. as a good many farmers are going to 
try to raise forage crops, as cow peas and 
cane, to help out on the feed, as the old 
meadows are in bad shape owing to the dry 
weather last Summer. The old hay is 
pretty well cleaned up. j. s. 
Malta, O. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
Apfiun D au— 16, wants farm experience. Willing to 
HblllC DUj work. E. Mardfin, 1384 Bristow St.,New York 
\kl A IJTpn—Position on Farm in New York State by Ameri- 
Tf Mrl 1 LU can (26); married? no children. Experience in 
fruit growing anti poultry. Milker. Will not hoard help. Ad¬ 
dress, F. L. DOUGLAS, 882 Quincy St*, Brooklyn, New York 
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Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited 
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Farm of 176 acres, two-story house, three large 
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42 acre farm, 8 acres of timber, sugar bush, 5 cows, 
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FOR SALE-FARM OF 186 ACRES 
4 miles from 3 railroads, in Wayne Co.. Penna. 
Close to church, sciiool 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 done to date. Price, everything in¬ 
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HEAL ESTATE CO., Scranton, Penna. 
