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E VERY farmer who wants the best engine will lose no time getting in 
his request for all the facts about the Witte Gasoline Engine. NOW 
sold direct —no dealers—making it the cheapest good engine on the 
market. The dealer’s profits are yours. For 25 years the standard— 
the best farm engine built today. 61 distinct points of superiority. The free 
book tells all. We are pioneers in gasoline engines, for 25 years we’ve led 
the field. While Witte prices are very low we want to hammer home quality. 
It s quality that pares down your gasoline bill to an average ofonecentan 
hour per horse power. It’s Quality that gives you a five-year guarantee on 
That’s why you should be satisfied 
Not only the dealer’s profit on these splendid engines is yours, but 
another great saving; we have our own gas well. It costs us nothing 
for power to operate. Fuel for long tests of every engine; fuel for 
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cut off the already low factory price. 
WRITE-get the entire Witte offer—get the Witte engine facts— 
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a wealth of engine information. Get the factory prices—60 days’ 
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your request on postal card. 
The most liberal proposition made by any engine factory in the 
country. None other caw meet it. Write and see. Mention horte 
power needed or machinery you want to run. 
Oakland Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
1912. 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, October 26, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Sulphur as a Fertilizer.1089. 1090 
A Gasoline Tractor at Work.1090 
Farmers and the Hay Business.1090 
A Season’s Experience with Alfalfa... 1091 
A Primer of Farm Forestry.. if me; 
Alfalfa Soil. 1098 
Traveling Farm Experts.1098 
Crops . 1:096 
Coming Farmers' Meetings.1996 
Notes and Comments.1096 
Hope Farm Notes.109H 
Crops .not 
The Potato Outlook.1101 
Protection Against Deer.1106 
DIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
“The Old-fashioned Butter".1104 
Where Are the Sheep?.1104 
Milk .1105 
Tile Milk Situation in Southern Cen¬ 
tral New York.1105 
The Now England Milk Situation. ... 1105 
Inoculating Pigs.1106 
Breeding Out Disease.1106 
Vicious Horse......1106 
Dog with Indigestion...1106 
Depraved Appetite...1106 
Garget .1106 
Doss of Pigs.1106 
Death of Hogs.1106 
Cough .1100 
The Orange County Poultry House... 1107 
Grains for Milch Cows.1108 
Feeding Flour or Stale Bread.11 OS 
Ripe Grain in Silo......... It OS 
Feeding Calf.1108 
The Price of Sheep Pasture. 1108 
The Egg-laying Contest.1109 
Hen Rice. . i.1109 
How to Sprout Oats.... .. 11 09 
The Dog for Protecting Poultry.1109 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Fall Grafting Fad.1090 
Fruit and Deaf Buds. 1091 
Fox’s Seedling Peach. 1 092 
Gooseberries in Michigan.1092 
Fall Flower Notes.1092 
Nuts Wanted at Washington.! . 1 092 
Low-headed Trees...1094 
A National Score-card for Fruits. 
Part II... 1097 
Warty Apple Tree.1097 
Troubles Affecting House Plants.1099 
Chemical Fertilizers for Pot Plants... 1099 
Laying Out Home Grounds.1099 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day..1102 
The Rural Patterns...1102 
German Hot Slaw......1102 
Canned Beans Without Cooking1102 
More A bout Oregon...ii 08 
Hungarian Goulash... 11 o;; 
Brown Pudding.... ! 1108 
MI SO JIDDA NU O U S. 
Air Pressure for Water.1094 
Muddy Water in Well.!l094 
The Cooperative Movement.1094 
Those Unjust Game Daws.j ’ ] 094 
Plaster for Wall...' ’ 1094 
A Scow of Concrete.H007 
Editorials . . .... 1100 
Da rge Public Questions.,1101. 
Events of the Week. 1101 
A Trapper’s Notes. Part IV.!!!!llOT 
Publisher’s Desk. 1110 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Oct. 19, 1912. 
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Lower Grades .'94 
Storage. ....'. .28 
State Dairy, best. .28 
Common to Good. \ .<>2 
Factory.'<>1 
Packing Slock.20 
Elgin, 111., butter market. Arm at. 29 cetus 
Boston, western creamery. 31 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 31 cents 
EGGS 
White, good to choice. 45 
Mixed Colors, best .3c, 
Common to Good.. 
Western, best.,., ’ ’‘ 
Under grades. 
Checks ami dirties. 
Storage . 
Grapes. Niagara, 20-lb. bkt.30 
Delaware, ilb. bkt.07 
Concord, 41b. bkt.06 
Bulk, ton. 30.00 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 5,00 
VEGETA BLK8 
Potatoes—bong Island, bbl.2.00 
Jersey, bbl. 1 do 
Maine, 168 lb. bag. 1.05 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1.35 
Beets, bbl.' .50 
Brussels Sprouts at. 05 
Carrots, bbl... 75 
Cauliflowers, bbl .” .50 
Celery, dost, bunches....,.15 
Cucumbers, nearby, bu .!_ .75 
Dong Island, bbl. , 2.00 
Cabbage, bbl... ,50 
Ton-...-. . 5.00 
Lettuce.Hjbbl. bkt...... 25 ® 
Mushrooms,lb. . id ,<*, 
Sweet corn, 100.75 @ 
Dima beans, bu.. . 75 rco 
Onions, State & W’n., Tim lb. bag.25 ® 
Orange Co-.. 100 lb bag.DO @ 
Peppers. bt»t . 75 
Peas. Southern.bu.. i.do 
Radishes, 100 bunches. .75 
String Beans, bu.35 
Squash, bbl. ho 
Egg Plants, Jersey, bkt..30 
Tomatoes. Jersey, box.. .DO 
Turnips, white, bbl.75 
Rutabaga.75 
N U! 8. 
Chestnuts. Northern, bu. 5.00 
Southern. 3.50 
Cultivated. l.ou 
HONEY. 
Clover, comb, lb.14 ® 
Buckwheat, lb.10 ® 
Extracted, lb. ] .07 ® 
DIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, lb. 
Roosters. 
Ducks.. 
Geese. 
Turkeys. 
Guineas, pair. 
DRESSED PCUD 
Turkeys, best. 
Common to Good. 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.... 
Squab, broilers, pair. 
Broilers, common to good ... 
Fryers .. 
(fowls. 
Ducks, Spring, lb . 
Squabs, doz. 
HAY 
Hay. Timothy No. 1, ton. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Clover Mixed. 
Clover. 
Straw, Rye. 
Oat and Wheat. 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers. IU0 lbs. 
Bulls.. 
Cows. . .. 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs. 
Culls..... 
Sheep, 101) lbs... 
Lambs. .......... 
Hogs..... 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. I. Northern Spring . 
No. 2, Red. 
No. 2 Hard Winter.. 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 
COTTON 
New Fork Middling Upland. 
Middling Gulf. 
New Orleans, Low Middling 
Good Middling. 
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NewYork Fleeces, Fine, unwashed ..... 22 @1 .23 
Ohio half blood combing ..2‘> ® .30 
Kentucky, throe eighths blood. JJ2 
Micnigan. half blood...27 
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PRICES. 
Prevailing prices on produce and other 
staples are as follows: 
Potatoes, from fanners at present time, 
60 to 70 cents per bushel; rotting very 
badly. Hay, $12 to $15 per ton, very 
good crop. Corn, 80 cents per bushel; 
oats, 40 cents; wheat, 90 cents. Live 
cattle, about six cents per pound ; live hogs, 
eight cents. 
Good peaches, $2 per bushel. Apples, 50 
to 80 cents per bushel; hand picked may 
range 50 to 60 cents later. Eggs, 28 to 
80 cents. 
Cabbage, celery, cauliflower, onions, let¬ 
tuce, etc., every farmer a law unto him¬ 
self as to prices: cabbage, one to three 
cents per pound. Butter, 28 to 32 cents; 
OD'-s 
BEANS 
Marrow, 1 (JO lbs. 4 50 
Madium. 4 Si 
pea . ^ 
Yellow Eye. 4 n.-. 
Bed Kid nay..‘ ’ 375 
White Kidney.505 
Lima. California.” |“’’ 0 40 
HOPS 
Prime t.o Choice. 31 
Common to Good. . 27 
Pacific <’oast. on 
Old Stock.......... ‘(ig 
German Crop. . . .44 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911.09 
Common to good.‘ 07 
Sun dried. 04fipa> 
Chops, 160 lbs.. I 35 
Raspberries. ia 
Cherries.'1 
Blackberries.jj 
Huckleberries..!!.'!!"!!”! 43 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Wealthy, bbl.2.00 
Alexander .’’’’ 9*50 
Gravenstein. 9'nii 
Blush.;;;; 2.00 
York Imperial. 9.00 
Twenty-ounce. 2.00 
King. ' 0 00 
Fall Pippin. 2.00 
McIntosh.. 2 50 
Greening. 1.75 
Holland. " 9’0'n 
Baldwin.j'75 
Western box.‘ 75 
Common and drops..’_ 50 
Crabapples, bbl 1.. . i.dq 
Peaches. Western N. Y, bkt.. '■>:> 
Pears—Kieffer. bbl. ’ niO 
Bartlett, bbl.3 00 
Seekel. 5 i)U 
Bose, bbl. 400 
Anjou .3.00 ® 4.00 
rh^. rgeaU . 2-50 ® 4 50 
Sheluon . 4,00 ® 6.50 
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it matches garden truck pretty well as to 
prices. 
No cheese is made in this part of Clarion 
County, Pa. Milk, by pint or quart bottle, 
eight cents per quart. 26 quarts per $1 by 
taking tickets; cream, per pint, 10 cents. 
Poultry generally very high : dressed, 18 
to 22 cents per pound, retail. No sheep 
raised around here. Tomatoes, standard 
price. 50 cents per bushel. 
East Brady has about 1.450 inhabitants. 
Industries mostly coal mining and railroad 
yards. Poor farming community. 
Clarion Co.. Pa. p. a. d. 
Corn and wheat are the principal crops 
grown here. A great many hogs are fed. 
but few cattle, and very little dairying. 
Tomatoes and sweet corn are grown for 
the canneries- 
Prices: Corn. 65 cents a. bushel; wheat.. 
95 ; hogs, $8.50 per hundred ; cows, $40 to 
$60. Cream gatherers paying 26 cents for 
cream, which. Ls shipped to an Indianapo-ILs 
creamery. Eggs, 25 cents; chickens, II 
cents; butter. 23 cents; tomatoes. $9, and 
sweet corn, $8.50 per ton at cannery. 
Hope, Ind. c. e. 
Oats, 40 cents; corn, new. per bushel, 
50 cents; potatoes, 6»> cents; wheat. $1 ; 
hay, on track. $15 per ton ; milk, price to 
farmer, 1.6 cents per gallon; hogs, 8'/i 
cents per pound. 
Cattle values depend so much on quality 
that it is hard to make a price; all the 
way from three cents per pound for cows 
to 11 cents per pound for choice steers. 
The bulk of the sales between six and 
seven, cents per pound. a. w. T. 
Black Lick, O. 
Horses, $75 to $150 ; milch cows. $40 to 
$65; hogs, $8 to $8.50 per hundred; wheat, 
$1; corn, 70 cents; oats, 30 cents; Tim¬ 
othy hay. $10 to $13 per ton; clover. $s ; 
Alfalfa, $14; milk, 12 cents per gallon; 
butter, 25 to 30 cents per pound : eggs, 20 
cents per dozen; apples, 20 to 50 cents per 
bushel ; potatoes, GO cents per bushel; sweet * 1 * * * * * * 
potatoes, 30 cents per bushel; onions, 60 : 
cents per bushel; green beans, 40 cents per 
bushel; tomatoes, 35 cents per bushel; I 
dried beaus, $3 per bushel. e. q. 
Bartholomew Co.. Ind. 
Corn, light crop, about two-thirds, and 
with a few exceptions quite late, some 
being cut before ripe in order to save the 
fodder. Potatoes, poor crop ; early planted 
very light crop, in many cases much less 
than 100 bushels per acre; late planted, 
much better, and in a few instances a fair 
crop; the entire yield will not be more 
than 60 per cent. Apples, small crop and 
prices low; one dealer offering $2 for 
strictly No. 1. smooth and free from bruise 
of any kind, not less than 2V> inches in 
diameter, and $1.25 for remainder of hand 
picked; the largest buyer in this section 
is offering $1.50, delivered, and asking 40 
cents for empty barrels. Pears, fair crop 
and selling $1 a bushel, delivered to sta¬ 
tion. Peaches, average crop, selling $1.50 
per bushel. Buckwheat, average crop, $1 
per bushel. Cabbages, good crop, selling 
75 cents to $1 per 100 pounds; some extra 
fine sold at 1% cents per pound. Cows, 
$45 to $60; choice cows, $75. Butter, 
creamery. 37 cents; eggs. 37 to 40, Corn 
and cornmeal, $1.75; mixed feed. $1.60; 
oats, $1.25 2^4-bushel bag. Pigs, six weeks 
old, $2.50 each: hogs. $10 per 100 pounds. 
Potatoes. 60 to 65 cents. Turnips, 40 cents 
per bushel. Fowls, live weight, 15 cents 
per pound. K . 
Worthington. Mass. 
BeArmon Automatic 
TRAP NEST 
Make Your Own Trap Nests 
For $1.00 will mail you 
-- blue print 
drawings and full instruc¬ 
tions for making an abso¬ 
lutely reliable Trap Nest, 
that is both cheap and sim- 
mu ■ . . ■mi.. 111 1 Geo. W. DeArnion, 911 
-==S r - » IV. Superior A v©., Day ton, O. 
FAR CAI C—On account of departure: an entire 
I UI1 unLt Stock Farm in Port, Washington, D. 
D March and April Pullets, all kinds $1.25 apiece. 
Docks and Cockerels, $2.50 apiece. Geese, $2 apiece. 
Pekin Ducks, $1.25apiece. Muscovy Ducks, $1 apiece. 
Drakes, $2. Homer Pigeons, $1 a pair. Laying 
yearling Hens, $1.50 apiece. Several Berkshire 
Boars, Da year old, registered, $15 apiece. A fine 
driving Horse, 16 hands. $200. Wagon and carriages. 
4,000 Egg Cyphers Incubator, $275. Small Cyphers 
luO egg incubator, $10 each. Nine and a half acres land 
with pond and spring. Cottage. Garage for 1 autos. 
Lanuee brooder; house and poultry houses; $25,000. 
At small distance from Port Washington. Larjje 
tract for garden and fino orchard. A nice place for 
pnuliry raising and gardening. 
CH. P. HATCH, Plumbeacii Farm, Port Washinnton, L I 
1111 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1841 
R. MacKEDLAR’S SO NS CO., Peekskill, N. Y. 
WANTFn- ( alves - Poultry. Fancy Eggs. Chest- 
a tiU, "S Hiack Walnuts, Butternms, 
Shellbarks, MM. H. COHEN & CO.. Conimis- 
sion Merchants , 229 Washington St., New York. 
Cfn Small consignments from 
j- LIUi producers in Ohio and 
7 Michigan bring attractive pricer. 
Holer to Rural Xew-Vorlo-r, Pun’s or Brndxtieel’s. 
Zenith Butter 8 E(jo Ca., 355-59 Greenwich St., N.Y. 
Eggs, Poultry, Meats, Produce. 
Shipments solicited. JELLIFFE, WRIGHT S CO.. Corn, 
mission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York- 
HAMMOND. KST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
nes Butter, Eggs Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
Solicited. 34 An 36 Little lfith St.. New York- 
ft I FOREMAN WANTS POSITION ON FARM. 
n 1 Dairy, Referenc e. F. H0LZHAUSER. Madison, 0. 
WANTKD—By young married man—Position on 
M chicken farm to learn business. Board for him¬ 
self and wife. Small salary. Address C. S., c. R. N.-Y. 
YoungMan Wishes Position on Stoch Farm 
157 Main St. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
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Partner in Jersey and Dairy Business. 
A(i<trft»g M M. (J. - Rural New-Yorker, N. Y. 
NEWYORK STATE FARMS. ,i,='Zi: 
1»S l'> farms thi-niiKliout New York .Slate, lleierem-o 
OU reipieat. Caialus sent t» preapurtlve purelmaers. 
C. 6. Y A UK It A CO., 73(1 IVess Itld)-., MiiRlmmton, X. Y. 
Da rv Farm fnr p~ navi,, i-' a » output of be- 
UQ 1 j "TV 1,1 IUI tween 800 and 900 quarts of 
milk and 4o quarts of cream a day at 10c. for milk ami 
00 c. for cream. Town of 10,000 inhabitants. For full 
particulars address D. F. F., 13 Dean St., Eitolewood, N. J. 
COME TO MINNESOTA crop! 
Plenty rainfall. Good markets. Land cheap, but 
• Literature and information 
J' RKL. Write H. J. MAXPIKLI), State 1 nimigration 
Commissioner, 202 Sta te Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. 
Connecticut Farmer ^.^^'^d’vn 8 * * 
age. i), acres, more than half tillable; 9-room house, 
basement barn, lot of wood and timber; barn lull of 
hay. Bargain for a quick sale. G ” 
Real Estate Broker, 88 State St., 
H. CARRIER, 
Hartford, Conn. 
124 Acre Farm near Newtown, Pa„ For Sale 
substantial atone house of 16 rooms, bath—wide hull and 
open stairway—porches—hot water, heat, electric lights, 
line old shade trees—tenant house—large barns—Xe , li- 
ailing meadow, Only 5 minutes to railroad station ami 
trolleys—near Philadelphia— Trenton markets. A splen¬ 
did farm and country house—offered at a bar train on 
a quick sale. HORACE Cl. REEDER, Newtown, Pa. 
For Sale at North Greenwich, N. Y. 
A farm of 77 acres, 20 acres of orchard. Also small 
fruits; eleven-room houso; ample barns in lino re¬ 
pair; well watered; ice supply. School, store and 
cnrrrcn near by. A very attractive country home 
Nold only on account of death of owner. Inciuire 
on premises or address 
MRS. CORTLAND A SKINNER, - North Greenwich, N. Y. 
For Sale at One-Half Value 
THE OAK GROVE SQUAB FARM —largest successful poul¬ 
try and squab ;arm on Eastern Dong Island. Best 
trade for all products at best prices. Main building 
over 400 feet long. Thoroughly up-to-date in every 
particular. Price. $5,0(10; less than half original 
, c, S l1 - For particulars address A. H. 
1 EiNNY, Oak Grove Squab Farm, Riverhead, N.Y. 
Heavy Financial Loss in Other Business Forces 
this Money-Making Farm, Stock, Tools, Hay 
and Grain on the Market 
220 acres; 12-room house, just painted and papered 
inside; good condition; tenement house,- largo 
barns; room for -10 head stock; large silo; $1,500 
worth timber; 180 acres cultivated; on macadam 
road: Ue miles to railroad station; 80 rods to school. 
Twenty cows and heifers, registered Holstein bull, 
2 pair horses worth $800, 2 lumber wagons, 2 plat¬ 
form wagons, one 1-horse wagon, 1 buggy, sleighs, 
4 sets of harness, mower, rake, snlkey plows, 
sulitey cultivators, harrows, reaper. I acre pota¬ 
toes, plenty corn to lill silo, 8 acres buckwheat, lot 
o' hay, straw, other grain. $7,000. $4,500 cash; bal¬ 
ance. tune. 
HALL’S FARM AGENCY, 1300 Lake St., Elmira, N. Y. 
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