1912. 
THE K.UR.A.I, NEW-YORKER 
771 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, July 6, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Idle Soil Grows Stronger. 7.57 
Weeds to Save Fertilizer.757, 758 
Fighting Weeds in Potatoes. 758 
Cover Crops in Porn.. 758 
Lime and Potato Scab. 759 
Soy Beans and Oats. 760 
The Fearful Grain Prices. 760 
The Nuisance of Repairs. 760 
Alfalfa Seeding on Long Island. 761 
Lime-Sulphur for Potatoes. 761 
Cropping on Shares.. 761 
Dried Potatoes . 761 
Paying for Farms. 761 
Hope Farm Notes. 762 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 765 
World Crops . 765 
DIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Dairy Partners in Ohio. 759 
Spraying and Poisoned Sheep. 760 
The Egg-laying Contest. 765 
Selling Immune Breeding Hogs. 768 
The Dairy Industry of Stark Co., O. . . 768 
Ducks as Scavengers.. . 769 
Cannibalistic Chicks . 769 
Inbreeding Pigeons . 769 
Prices for Eggs.. 769 
Another Hen Record. 769 
Chick Rations .... -.... 769 
HORTICULTURE. 
Plan for Explosives in Tree Planting.. 759 
Propagating Honey Locust. 760 
Various Horticultural Queries. 760 
Apricot Paste . 760 
Burning the Strawberry Patch. 761 
Experience in Girdling Trees.. 761 
Sterile Apricot Trees... 761 
Squash Bugs . 761 
Setting Onion Plants in Texas. 761 
Fruits for Valley. 761 
A Swiss Horticultural School. 763 
Kansas Fruit Prospects. 765 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 766 
Tomato Catsup . 766 
IIow to Remove Wallpaper. 766 
A Miner’s Safe . 766 
Preserved Pineapple and Strawberry.. 766 
The Rural Patterns... 767 
Pleasing to Palate and Eye. 767 
Defective Flavor in Canned Fruit. . . . 767 
New England Tomato Soup. 767 
Cream of Vegetables. 767 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Sensible Advice About Summer Boarders 758 
A Home Canning Outfit. 760 
Editorials .. 764 
Events of the Week. 765 
The Bill of Lading Situation. 765 
Railroads and Express. 765 
Publisher’s Desk . 770 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending June 29, 1912. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, fancy, lb.27)4@ .2734 
Good to Choice......25 @ .26 
Lower G-rades . ... .23 @ .24)4 
State D.uiry, best....26 @ .26)4 
Com ui on to Good.22 @ .25 
Factory..'.... .19 @ .23 
Packitu: Stock...18 @ ,21)jj 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 25 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 27)4 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 27 cents. 
EGGS 
White, good to choice.25 @ XI 
Mixed Colors, best ..21 @ .23 
Common to Good...... .15 @ 18 
Western, best.22 @ .23 
Under grades.15 @ .17 
Checks and dirties.10 @ .15 
CHEESE 
Pull Cream, best.14 @ .15 
Common to Good....11 <® .13 
Skims. 04 @ .12 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4.50 @ 5.40 
Medium. ... 4.30 @ 4.95 
Pea.,... 4.30 @ 5.00 
Yellow Eye...-.4.30 @ 4.40 
Bed Kirtney......4.00 @5.05 
White Kidney. 5.35 @ 6.00 
Lima, California. 6.10 @ 6.15 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice....-.. .38 @ .40 
Common to Good.30 @ .35 
Pacific Coast.38 @ .40 
Old Stock...12 @ .20 
German Crop.70 @ .75 
FliKSH FRUITS 
Apples—Southern, new, bbl. 1.00 @ 2.00 
8 trawbeniies, Jersey, qt. ..06 @ .10 
Staten Island.09 @ .18 
Western N. Y.07 @ .14 
Up-river ..08 @ .18 
Peaches. Southern, carrier.1,00 @ 2.25 
Plums. Southern, crate. 1.20 @ 2.75 
Cherries. )4-bu. bkt. 1.25 @ 1.65 
8 -lb bkt.30 @ .65 
Gooseberries, qt.06 @ .10 
Huckleberries, qt... 08 @ .14 
Blackberries, qr. .05 @ .08 
Raspberries, red, pt......06 @ .13 
Muskmeions, s’n, bu..- 1.50 @ 2.25 
California crate. 2.25 @ 3.00 
Watermelons, 100...—..15.00 @40.00 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911. .09 @ .10)4 
Common to good.07 @ .08)4 
Chops, lOO lbs..... 2.00 @ 2.50 
Raspberries... .26 @ .27 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—Old, bbl... 1.50 @ 2.25 
Foreign. 168-lb. bag. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Southern, new, bbl. 1.50 @ 2.50 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel. .75 @ 2.25 
Asparagus, Green, doz .1.00 @ 2.00 
White... 40 ® 1.25 
Carrots, bbl.3.00 @ 3.75 
New. 100 bunches. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Cucumbers, Southern, bu. .50 @ 1.00 
Cabbage—New, bbl., crate.75 @ 1.25 
Lettuce, to-bbi bkt. .-25 @ .60 
Sweet corn, Southern, 100. .75 @1.25 
Lima beans. Southern, bkt.1.90 © 4.00 
Onions, Bermuda, bu. .50 @1.00 
Texas, bu..........25 @ .90 
Peppers. Southern, carrier. 1.00 @ 3.00 
Peas. Jersey, bu.1.25 @ 1.50 
Western N. Y. 1.25 ® 1.75 
Radishes, J4 lb. bkt.75 @ 1.00 
String Beans, bu. ,50 ® 1.75 
Spinach, bbl. A0 @1.50 
Squash, new, bbl.50 @ 2.00 
Egg Plants, Southern, bbl.1.00 ® 3.00 
Tomatoes. Fla. Carrier.75 @ 2.50 
Maryland and Del... 1.25 @ 1.75 
Jersey, box.2.60 @ 3.00 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers. No. 1, doz.40 @ .50 
Tomatoes, lb....08 @ .15 
Mushrooms, lb.10 ® A0 
LIVE POULTRY 
Broilers, lb.28 ® .30 
Fowls-........ ....14 @ .14)4 
Roosters... 09 @ .10 
Ducks. 12 @ .13 
Geese. iQ9 @ .10 
Turkeys.. ...__ .12 @ .13 
Guineas, pair. .50 @ .60 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.21 < .22 
Common to Good.14 @ .18 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.35 @ .38 
Broilers, common to good.25 @ .28 
Roasters.19 ® .20 
Fowls. 14 @ .15)4 
Ducks, spring, lb . 18 @ .19 
Squabs, doz.50 @ 3.75 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay, Timothy No. I, ton.28.00 @ 29.00 
No. 2.26.00 ® 26.00 
No. 3.20.00 @ 22.00 
Clover Mixed.17.00 @ 20 00 
Straw, Rye.14.00 @ 16.00 
Oat and Wheat.9.00 @ 10:00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs. 5.75 @ 9.00 
Bulls.4.50 @ 6.30 
Cows. 2.50 @ 6.00 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.7.00 @10.00 
Culls. 5.00 @ 6.50 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 3.00 @ 4.50 
Lambs -. 7.50 @ 9.40 
Hogs.7.00 @ 8.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1.26 @ ... 
No. 2, Red. 1.19 @ ... 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1:21 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush.80 @ .85 
Oats, as to weight, bush.60 @ .63 
Barley, choice.. 1.15 ffl 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 @ .22 
Ohio half blood combing.28 @ .2!'J4 
Kentucky, three-eighths blood.27 @ ,2T)4 
Michigan, half blood.25)4® -SO 
We never have auction sales of farm 
produce in oxir neighborhood. Cows, good 
ones, bring about $35 to $40. There is not 
much buying or selling here of live stock. 
Manure is never sold, the farmers using all 
they have. Milk ■ brings six cents per 
quart; thick cream 40 cents. Green peas 
sell for $2 per bushel for the early mar¬ 
ket. Eggs just now 20 cents, and butter 
25 to 30 cents for dairy, 35 for creamery. 
Potatoes are selling for $1.50 per bushel. 
Bridgton, Me. F. C. w. 
The following prices were paid at a re¬ 
cent public auction : Brood sows, $15 to 
$30; Spring pigs, 40 pounds, $3.50; Fall 
beef calves. $20 to $30; Fall Holstein 
calves (heifer), $37.50 to $53; one-year 
steers, $25 to $40; silage and grass-fed 
steers, 1000 pounds, $70 to $75; cows, old 
and dry, $20 to $35; fresh (common), $35 
to $60; grade Jerseys and I-Iolsteins, $60 
to $100. Corn. $1 per bushel; oats, 65 
cents ; hay, $27.50 ; baled straw, $15. Im¬ 
plements used one and two years brought 
half price. On the market we receive and 
pay as follows: Horses, plugs, $50 to 
$100; light drivers, $100 to $250, all pur¬ 
pose, $125 to $200; draft, $200 to $300; 
yearling colts, draft. $100 to $150 ; mules, 
one year, $100; two years, $150; three 
years, $200 ; four, live and six years, $400 
to $600; sheep, young, 4% cents; lambs, 
7% cents; hogs (fat), seven cents; veal 
calves, five to six cents; heifers (fat), six 
to 7% cents; young cows (fat), five cents; 
dry-fed steers, 7 y 2 cents; grass-fed, six to 
seven cents. Strawberries. 12% cents a 
quart; cherries, 40 cents a gallon; goose¬ 
berries 25 cents: potatoes, 45 cents a peck ; 
com, $1 per bushel; oats, 65 cents ; wheat, 
$1.20; rye, $1.25; cow peas, $2.75; Soy 
beans, $3; millet, $3; hay, $25 to $30 per 
ton, baled, delivered. Butter, 20 cents; 
eggs, 15 cents; butter fat at Indianapolis, 
27 cents a pound. As to crop prospects, 
cherries, one-fourth crop and wormy; 
peaches, none; blackberries, none except 
wild; strawberries, plentiful; apples, one- 
half to three-fourths crop. Hay scarce, new 
and old ; pastures short and grown up with 
knot-grass. Corn late; oats a failure, also 
rye and wheat. Vetch killed out except 
where limed. Alfalfa winter-killed. 
Casey, Ill. _ b. h. e. 
We are looking for a good crop of apples, 
and expect there will be a shortage in 
barrels. I understand that on account of 
the floods in the South and West the usual 
amount of barrel stock has not been re¬ 
ceived from those sections. Fearing more 
trouble than last year in getting barrels, T 
have bought a carload of stock and will 
have it made up at once. I have not hom'd 
of any barrels being sold under 35 cents. 
Last year* the prices ranged from 32 to 50 
cents. I would advise growers to order 
early. Barrel stock has advanced within 
the last two weeks. F. w. c. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
We passed a very cold Winter and wet 
Spring, and now we see a few effects of 
it. Less than 50 per cent of wheat and 
rye was put in that farmers intended, and 
very few got in oats this Spring. The wet 
Fall and sudden and severe cold combined 
injured corn badly and it was almost im¬ 
possible to get good seed corn. A great 
many planted over, as there was not stand 
enough to replant and leave what little did 
grow, and some were not done planting 
June 20; if that should turn out badly the 
corn crop will be light with a great many. 
We had corn put away in swinging wire 
net about two ears deep in top of crib, 
and selected when busking in Fall, and yet 
some ears would not sprout a grain al¬ 
though looking perfect. We had enough 
cars tested to plant ours, but one three- 
year pasture field was badly taken by cut¬ 
worms, and we had to use some there and 
finish with untested, and although we got 
a moderate stand it was quite a contrast 
to that from the tested. Some clover fields 
fair to good, but Timothy almost a failure, 
and high prices for hay seems certain for 
another year. Very few getting in wheat 
last Fall and oats this Spring; little new 
meadows of any kind were started. Some 
fruit trees injured by cold, and as far as I 
see around here there will be a small fruit 
crop. Some plums and a few apples and 
pears, but the grape crop will make up 
loss if nothing happens, as I never saw 
better prospects. Our blackberry patch was 
almost entirely killed, the first time in 15 
or more years. The Snyder stood best, but 
Eric and Early Harvest had almost all 
canes killed, and where we picked bushels 
last season it will be quarts this year. The 
roots generally were not hurt, and T saw 
new canes to-day four feet high. Several 
roses were killed to ground. The Phila¬ 
delphia Rambler (from Tiie R. N.-Y.), of 
which we have a lot of plants and some we 
gave to neighbors, were all killed to ground, 
as also was the other rose from The 
R. N.-Y. (Ruby Queen), while the Crimson 
Rambler of our neighbors was not hurt. Is 
the Crimson Rambler hardier than Phila¬ 
delphia? J- a. M. 
St. Martins, O. 
R. N.-Y.—In our own garden in northern 
New Jersey Crimson Rambler suffered more 
than Philadelphia last Winter. Exposure, 
air drainage and general condition of the 
plant causes these variations in hardiness. 
Under all ordinary conditions we think the 
two roses about equal in hardiness. 
Less of Hair. 
I had a horse about 14 years old, weigh* 
3,100 pounds, in fair condition. His Jaws 
became swollen so it bothered him to eat 
•hav; he swells between the fore legs and 
both sides of his tail and forelegs and got 
stiff so that it bothered him to walk, had 
chills. I gave him aconite and got him over 
chills; he got over his stiffness. He ate 
well, that is had a good appetite all of 
the time, drank good measure. I gave 
him six quarts bran mash every night with 
salts and oil. His hair is all coming off 
and he is scurfy. What can I do for him? 
New York. f. h. h. 
Have him clipped at once and wash af¬ 
fected parts of skin with a 1-100 solution 
of coal tar dip. Give half an ounce of 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic, night and 
morning, after a few smaller preliminary 
doses. Green feed will be good for him. 
A. 8 . A. 
Heaves. 
Four months ago I bought a horse which 
has heaves. I am feeding him 12 quarts 
of oats and ground feed mixed, and three 
tablespoonfuls stock feed a day, and give 
heaves powder with no Tesnlt. Can you 
tell me what to do for him so I can work 
the horse and keep him up In flesh? 
New Jersey. a. d. 
Stop feeding ground feed and stock feed. 
A horse should grind his own feed. Feed 
whole oats and wheat bran dampened with 
water and in Summer allow green grass as 
the only roughage and in Winter feed wet 
oat straw in preference to bay. Do not 
feed any bulky fetid at noon and do not 
work horse soon after a meal. Give the 
drinking water before feeding. Give Fow¬ 
ler’s solution of arsenic in half ounce dose 
night and morning after a few smaller 
doses have been given. a. s. a. 
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...FOR SALE... 
10 “Iru Berkshire Boar Pigs 
Stapleton and Hood Stock. 
Fine Fellows. $10 Each. 
10 Shropshire Ram Lambs 
Wardwell Stock. Open 
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The MAPLES FARM, Berlin, Conn. 
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BOOKS WORTH BUYING 
American Fruit Culturist, Thomas... .$2.50 
Bush Fruits, Card. 1.50 
Principles of Fruit Growing, Bailey.. 1.50 
Successful Fruit Culture, Maynard.... 1.00 
Dwarf Fruit Trees, Wangh.50 
Plums and Plum Culture, Waugh.... 1.50 
Pruning Book, Bailey. 1.50 
Nursery Book, Bailey. 1.50 
Spraying of Plants, Lodeman. 1.25 
Plant Breeding, Bailey. 1.25 
Evolution of Our Native Fruits, Bailey 2.00 
Survival of The Unlike, Bailey. 2.00 
Horticulturists’ Rule Book, Bailey.... 2.00 
The Soil, King. 1.50 
Soils, Hilgard . 4.00 
Fertility of the Land, Roberts.. 1.50 
Irrigation and Drainage, King. 1.50 
Fertilizers, Voorhees . 1.25 
Agriculture and Chemistry, Storer, 3 
vols... 5.00 
Forage Crops, Voorhees. 1.50 
Principles of Agriculture, Bailey.1.25 
Garden Making, Bailey. 1.50 
Vegetable Gardening, Bailey. 1.50 
Forcing Book, Bailey. 1.25 
How Crops Grow, Johnson. 1.50 
How Crops Feed, Johnson. 1.50 
Cereals in America, Hunt. 1.75 
Forage and Fiber Crops in America, 
Hunt — ... 1.75 
Book of Alfalfa. Coburn. 2.00 
Farm Grasses in United States, Spill¬ 
man . 1.00 
Clovers and How to Grow Them, Shaw 1.00 
The Potato, Fraser.75 
Tomato Culture, Tracy.50 
Celery Culture, Beattie.50 
Chrysanthemum Culture, Herrington.. .50 
Plant Culture, Oliver. 1.50 
The Rose, Kingsley. 2.00 
Landscape Gardening, Waugh.50 
Diseases of Animals, Mayo. 1.50 
Farmer’s Veterinary Adviser, Law.... 3.00 
The Horse, Roberts. 1.25 
Hens for Profit, Valentine. 1.50 
Swine in America, Coburn. 2.50 
Sheep Farming,' Wing. 1.00 
How to Plan the Home Grounds, Par¬ 
sons . 1.00 
Ornamental Gardening, Long. 1.50 
The Small Country Place, Maynard.. 1.50 
Bean Culture, Sevey.50 
Hedges, Windbreaks and Shelters, 
Powell.50 
Asparagus, Hexamer .50 
Mrishrooms, Falconer . 1.00 
New Rhubarb, Culture, Morse.50 
Greenhouse Construction, Taft. 1.50 
Greenhouse Management.. Taft. 1.50 
Our Insect Friends and Enemies, Smith 1.50 
Economic Entomology, Smith. 2.50 
Law for the American Farmer, Green 1.50 
Feeds and Feedings, Henry. 2.25 
A B C of Bee Culture, Root. 1.50 
Feeding of Animals, Jordan. 1.50 
Feeding Farm Animals, Shaw. 2.00 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals, 
Plumb .. 2.00 
Principles of Breeding, Davenport.... 2.50 
Animal Breeding, Shaw. 1.50 
The Study of Breeds, Shaw. 1.50 
Milk and Its Products, Wing. 1.50 
Milk Testing, Van Slyke.75 
Practical Farming, McLennan. . 1.50 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
409 PEARL ST., NEW YORK CITY 
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