1912. 
the rurae new-yorker 
1030 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, October 5, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Money in Massachusetts Onions.1018 
Sugar Beets and Fertility.1018 
Pure Culture Bacteria.1019 
Storing Turnips.1020 
Crops .1022 
Orleans Co., N. Y., Notes.1022 
Information on Raw Phosphate Rock. 1023 
Clearing Wood and Brush Baud.1023 
Vetch and Wheat.1023 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.1024 
Fish Scraps for Fertilizer.1023 
Hollow Potatoes.1025 
Fitting Old Sod.1025 
Hope Farm Notes.1026 
Meeting of Vegetable Growers.1029 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Story of the Horse. Part IV.... 1032 
The Massachusetts Milk Situation.... 1033 
Live Stock Pictures.1034 
Stocked Legs.1034 
Dog with Itching Skin.1034 
Ashes and Charcoal for Pigs.1034 
Uneasy Calves.1034 
Indigestion .1034 
Two Sides of the Dog.1035 
An Argument for Angora Goats.1035 
Counting the Poultry Cost.1030 
Feeding Problem.1036 
Puffs .1036 
The Egg-laying Contest.1037 
Fertility of Eggs.1037 
Poultry Rations.1037 
Lame Hens.1037 
Asthmatic Hen.1037 
Marking Fowls.1037 
Rye for Poultry.1037 
Convenient Water Fountain.1037 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Lake Erie Vineyards.1017 
Remarks on the New York Fruit Show. 1020 
Peach Orchard Record.1020 
Cider Making on the Farm. Part I..1021 
Making a Garden Soil.1021 
Wintering Over Cabbage Plants.1021 
Western New York Apples.1022 
Blue Pearmain Apple.1023 
Peach Growing in Georgia.!l023 
Treatment of Currant Cuttings.1023 
Fruit at the N. Y. State Fair. Part 11.1024 
Building an Apple Cave.1025 
Brown Rot in Plums.1025 
Tulip Planting Time.1027 
Notes from the Central West.!l027 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.1030 
The Rural Patterns.!l030 
Community Pickles.1031 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The New York Game Law.1019 
The Cooperative Movement.1020 
Nodules on Locust Roots.1025 
Destroying Ants.1025 
Editorials .. |! 1028 
The Case of Mr. Taft..1029 
Roosevelt and the Four-sided Platform.1029 
Events of the Week.1029 
The Buffalo Markets.1033 
Publisher’s Desk.1038 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Sept. 28, 1912. 
HOTTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb. 30 q . 3 ] 
Good to Choice. 27 @ op 
Lower Grades . .'34 @ ^ 
State Dairy, best.28 @ 29 
Common to Good.22 @ 25 
Factory. .20 ® .23 
Packing: Slock. 18 & .21 
Elgin, 111., butter market Arm at 2814 cents”. 
Boston, western creamery, 30 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 31 cents. 
EGGS 
White, good to choice. 
Mixed Colors, best . 
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Common to Good. 
YV estern. best.. 
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Under grades. 
.28 
.16 
Checks and dirties. 
Storage. 
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Full Cream, best. 
' Common to Good. 
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Skims. 
BEANS 
Marrow. 100 lbs. 4.50 @ 5.65 
Medium.. 4.30 @5.00 
.. 4.40 @ 5.25 
Yellow Eye. 4.10 @ 4.15 
Red Kidney. 3 50 @ 4.15 
White Kidney. 5.50 @ 6.50 
Lima. California.. 6.20 @ 6.35 
HOPS 
@ .31 
@ .28 
@ .24 
@ .15 
@ .46 
Prime to Choice.29 
Common to Good.26 
Pacific <'oast.20 
Old Stock. .08 
German Crop. 44 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Wealthy, bbl. 2.50 @ 2.50 
Alexander . 2.50 @ 3.50 
Gravenstein.2.50 @ 3.50 
Blush. 2.00 @ 2.50 
Fall Pippin. 2.00 @ 3.25 
Duchess. 2.00 @ 3.00 
Greening. 2.00 @8.25 
Hoi land. 2.00 @ 3.25 
Wolf River. 2.25 @ 3.50 
Common and drops.50 @ 1.25 
Crabapples, bbl . 1.50 @ eAO 
Peaches, up-river, bkt. 25 @ ,7b 
Jersey, bkt. .30 ® ^75 
Western N. Y , bkt.30 @ 75 
Pears-Kieffer, bbl. 1.00 @ 2.50 
Bartlett, bbl. 4.00 @ 7.00. 
Seckel. 6.00 @9 00 
Bose, bbl. 8 00 ffi 4.50 
Anjou . 2.00 @ 3.25 
Clairgeau. 3.00 @ 4.00 
Le Conte. 1.25 @ 2.00 
Common. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Plums. 8 -lb. bkt. 15 @ .22 
Grapes. Niagara, case.25 @ .75 
Delaware . 3 ;, <g> .70 
Concord. 35 @ . 60 
Raspberries, red, pt.05 @ .08 
Muskmelons, Far West, crate. 1.00 @ 2.50 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 2,50 ® 5.50 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 2.00 @ 2 25 
Jersey, bbl. 1 25 @1.50 
Maine, 168 lb. bag. 1.50 ® 1.75 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1.50 @ 2.50 
Beets, bbl.75 @ 1.00 
Brussels Sprouts.06 ® .10 
Carrots, bbl.75 @ 1.00 
Cauliflowers, bbl . 1.50 @ 3.00 
Celery, doz. bunches. 15 ® .35 
Cucumbers, nearby, bu . .50 ® 1.00 
Long Island, bbl. 1.75 ® 2.75 
Cabbage, bbl.50 @ .75 
Ton. 7 (10 ® 9.00 
Lettuce. 4 -bbl. bkt. 50 @1.00 
Sweet corn, Jersey, 100.50 ® 1.00 
Lima beans, bu.75 
Onions, Jersey, bu. 
Long Island, bbl. I .50 
Orange Co., 100 lb bag. 
Peppers, bbl... 75 
Peas. Western N. Y., bu. 
Radishes. 1U0 bunches. 75 
String Beans, bu.. 
Squash, bbl.50 
Egg Plants, Jersey, bkt. ____ 
Tomatoes. Jersey, box.15 
Turnips, white, bbl.1.00 
Rutabaga.75 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, lb.11 
Fowls.14 
Roosters.;. 10 
Ducks. 15 
Geese. 
Turkeys.14 
Guineas, pair. 
OKESSE1) POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.. 
Common to Good. 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb....... 
Squab, broilers, pair... 
Broilers, common to good.. 
Roasters. 
Fowls. 
Ducks, spring, lb ... 
Squabs, doz. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay. Timothy No. 1, ton. 
No. 2.20.0b @ 22.00 
No. 3.18.00 @ 19.00 
Clover Mixed.17.00 @ 20 00 
Clover.17.00 @18.00 
Straw, Rye.17.00 @ 18.00 
Oat and Wheat.10-00 @ 11.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs.5.50 @ 9.20 
Balls.3.50 @ 5.00 
Cows. 2.25 @ 4.75 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs.8.50 @12.50 
Calls.5.00 @ 7.00 
Sheep, 100 lbs.2.50 @ 4.00 
Lambs. 6.00 @ 8.00 
Hogs. 750 @9.00 
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BOSTON MARKETS. 
Trade is slow and easy, and prices low 
in Boston market as the rule. Green corn 
in fair supply and slow demand at 35 to 
60 cents per box; cabbage, four cents per 
head, 75 cents per barrel, supply large; 
cauliflower, very dull, 25 to 50 cents per 
box; cucumbers and pickles move better at 
75 cents to 82 for the former aud .$1 to $3 
for the latter ; carrots, 75 cents per bushel; 
beets. 50 to 60'cents; parsnips, $1; squash, 
75 cents to $1 per barrel; peppers. 75 cents 
per box; tomatoes, 35 to 75 cents per box, 
in large supply and fair demand; egg 
plants, .$1.50 per long box; turnips, 75 
cents per box; string beans. 75 cents per 
box; shell beans, 50 to 85 cents per box; 
potatoes, dull and low. $1 to $1.25 per bag 
of two bushels; sweets, $1.75 per barrel; 
onions. 75 cents per box; small pickling, 
$1.50 to $3. Apples in heavy supply and 
slow demand ; Gravcnstein, $1 to $2 per 
box; good table apples, $1 ; cooking. 40 
to 75 cents per box. Bartlett pears, $2.50 
per box; Clapp, $1.50 per box. Peaches, 75 
cents per basket. Cranberries, $6 per 
barrel. Butter, on the rise; fancy, 33 
cents per pound; good, 29% to 31 ;‘cook¬ 
ing. 27 cents. Cheese, sage, 18 cents; 
cream, 17; skim, 13 to 14. Eggs, moving 
up; fresh, 37 ; good. 33; Western, 25. 
Best beef, 15; hindquarters. 18; fores, 12. 
Dressed hogs, 10 and 11 ; live, 8%. Veal. 
10 to 15. Lamb, 16 cents for best: 12 to 
14 cents for others. Live hens, 16 to 17; 
broiler chickens, 20. Best horse hay, $25 
per ton; other grades, $23 down to $16; 
rye straw. $17; oat straw, $8 to $10 per 
ton. Bran. $24 to $25 per ton ; mixed 
feed. $26 to $28; cotton-seed meal, $29 to 
$30 per ton; corntneal. $1.70 per bag 
wholesale; new oats, 38 to 43 cents per 
bushel. a. e p 
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mm r to-Name Trees. 300 Acres. 2 Rose Bushes, 
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] Dansville’s Pioneer Wholesale Nurseries. 36 Main SL, Dansville, N. Y. 
For durable painting of all kinds use 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY’S 
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Ask for Farra Helps No. 470. Sent free on request. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY, 
Breed Up-Nil Down 
■Jersey Bull Calves 
you can afford to 
.Superior ,’ai y (lams. No better sires. R. F. 
SHANNON, 907 llb.Ttv Street. Pittsburg, Pa. 
JERSEY RULLS-FOR SALE 
Sired by Goldie’s Jap cf Meridnle 85989, who scores 
94.1 points and weighs 1350 lbs. at 3 yrs. 9 mo His 
sire and grandsires are R. of M. Bulls and his only 
Daughter, in milk is a credit to the Breed. Golden 
Jap 10o89b, A. J. C. O., dropped Dec. 8 , 1911, solid 
r i Vn V?i r ,o tly fi rst-dass. Price. $100 Dam. Fox 
Inka 222213. now on test, 5753.6 lbs. milk, 308.5 ll.s. 
butter in 7*2 months. Her Dam has record, 7065 lbs. 
i? lhs - 3 oz ■ butter in 288 days. Her 
.1 1 C ;l llt „' vas , dropped May 9. 1912. Write us for 
other Bulls, also BKKKSHIR1C PIGS. 
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For Sale at North Greenwich, N. Y. 
A farm of 77 acres, 20 acres of orchard. Also small 
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MRS CORTLAND A. SKINNER, • North Greenwich. N. Y. 
FOR CAT F — 113 acres, 6 -room house: barn,30x40. 
i on ijrxiuLi 45 nppif, trees. Two miles to rail¬ 
road town. Included one pair of mules, one cow, 
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THE OAK GROVE SQUAB FARM —largest successful poul¬ 
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trade for all products at best prices. Main building 
over 400 feet long. Thoroughly uji-to-dato in every 
particular. Price. $5,000; less than half original 
cost; $2,500 cash. For particulars address A. H. 
PENNY’, Oak Grove Squab Farm, Riverhead, N. Y'. 
