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CONTENTS 
The - Rural New-Yorker; Nov. 2, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Water Supply, Drainage and Irrigation 
on the Farm 
Rat-proof Cornerib.. 
The Corn-worm. 
Onion Notes.. 
The Michigan Mint Crop. 
Value of Tillage.. 
Western Fruit Growers and Eastern 
Farms . 
Potash or Soda. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Agricultural Credits in Europe. 
Crops . 
1115 
1116 
1117 
1117 
1117 
1117 
1119 
1119 
1120 
1123 
1123 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Selecting the Profitable liens.1113 
Some Grade Colts.1114 
Direct Sales of Rutter.1114 
Farm Young Stock.1126 
Lambs Come Weak.1126 
Comparison of Corn Fodder and Hay. 1126 
Curing Balky Horse.1126 
Lice on Hogs.1126 
Yorkshire Pigs.1126 
Pigs for Clearing Land.1126 
Dissatisfied with Borden Prices.1127 
Ohio Holstein Breeders Meet.1127 
The Orange County Poultry House. 
Part II.1128 
Warts .1128 
Pig with Cough.1128 
Hoof Formation. 1128 
The Egg-laying Contest.1129 
Early Laying Leghorns.1129 
Fumigating Henhouse.1129 
HORTICULTURE. 
Sprouted Tree Agents and Their Back¬ 
ers .1114 
Soil for a Garden.1115 
Plant Diseases: Outdoor Mushrooms.. 1116 
Notes from a City Garden.1116 
“Inarching” .1121 
Late Fertilizing for Asters.1121 
Deadlock Between Apple Buyers and 
Growers .1123 
WOMAN AND THE nOME. 
From Day to Day.1124 
Apple Butter.1124 
The Scraps at Butchering Time.1124 
The Rural Patterns.1124 
A Sheaf of Household. Grain.1124 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Milkweed Fiber.1116 
A Septic Tank.1119 
Editorials .1120 
Boston Markets.1129 
Publisher’s Desk.1130 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Oct. 26, 1912. 
BUTTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb. 
© 
•3H6 
Good to Choice. 
.28 
@ 
•2916 
Lower Grades . 
@ 
.27 
Storage . 
.27 
@ 
.30 
State Dairy, best. 
© 
.30 
Common to Good. 
@ 
.26 
Factory. 
@ 
.25 
Hacking Stock.. 
.... 20 
@ 
.24 
Elgin, 111., butter market Him at 39 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 31 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 3116 cents. 
EGGS 
vyhite.choice to fancy.48 @ .52 
Good to prime.13 @ .47 
Mixed Colors, best ...38 @ .40 
Common to Good.30 @ 35 
Western, best.36 @ .38 
Under grades.25 @ .28 
Checks and dirties. .12 @ .21 
Storage.18 © .24 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best.17 @ .18 
Common to Good . .14 @ .16 
8 kims.04 @ .12 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4.70 @ 5.80 
Medium. 4.30 © 6.00 
Pea. 4.20 @ 5.25 
Yellow Eye. 4.05 © 4.10 
Bed Kidney..3.75 © 4.75 
White Kidney. 5.25 @ 6.50 
Lima, California. v — 6.40 © 6.50 
HOPS 
Primo to Choice.31 @ .33 
Common to Good.*.27 @ .30 
Pacific Coast.20 @ .23 
Old Stock.08 @ .13 
German Crop. 44 @ .46 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911.0!) ® .0916 
Common to good.07 @ .08 
Sun dried.0416® .0516 
Chops. 100 lbs. I .50 © 1.60 ' 
Raspberries.18 @ ,J3 
Cherries.ll @ .13 
Blackberries.12 @ .14 
Huckleberries.13 © .15 
FIU?SH FRUITS 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 1.75 @ 2.50 
Hubbardston. 1.76 © 2.25 
Pound sweet . 2.00 @ 2.50 
York Imperial. 2.00 @ 2.75 
Twenty-ounce. 2.00 ® 3.00 
King. 2.00 © 2.50 
McIntosh. 2.50 © 3.75 
Greening. 1.75 © 2.75 
Baldwin . 1.75 © 2.25 
Western box.75 © 2.50 
Common and drops.50 @1.25 
Crabapples, bbl. 1.50 @ 6.00 
Peaches, Western N. Y., bkt.15 © .40 
Pears-Kleffer, bbl. 1.00 © 2.00 
Bartlett, bbl. 3.00 @ 6.00 
Seckel.. 6.00 @10 00 
Bose, bbl.4.00 © 6.00 
Anjou .3.00 © 4.00 
Clairgeau. 3.50 @ 4.50 
Duchess. 2.50 @ 3.50 
Shel.ion . 4.00 © 6.50 
Common. 1.00 @ 2.00 
Quinces, bbl. 2.00 @ 5.00 
Grapes. Niagara, 20-lb. bkt.30 © .35 
Delaware, 41b. bkt.08 @ .10 
Concord, 41b. bkt.08 © .09 
Bulk, ton.33.00 @50,00 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 5,00 @ 7.00 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl.2.00 @ 2.50 
Jersey, bbl. 1 50 @ 1,65 
Maine, 168 lb. bag. 1.65 @ 1.70 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1.25 @ 2.00 
Beets, bbl.50 @ .75 
Brussels Sprouts .05 @ .08 
Carrots, bbl.75 @1.00 
Cauliflowers, bbl . 75 @ 2.00 
Celery, doz. bunches..15 @- .35 
Cucumbers, nearby, bu .3.50 @4.00 
Cabbage, bbl. 50 © .75 
Ton....-. :.. 5 . ill) @10.00 
Lettuce,!sbbl. bkt.. . .25 @1.25 
Mushrooms.lb. .15 © .35 
Sweet corn, 100..7.. .75. @ 1.25 
Lima beans, bu.50 © 1:00 
Onions, State & VV’n., 10U lb. bag.10 @ .85 
Orange Co., 100 lb bag .....:.50 @ .75 
Peppers, bbl . .:. .76 @ 1.25 
Peas. Southern,bu. 1.50 @ 2.00 
Radishes, 100 bunches.75 @ 1.00 
String BeaDS, bu.40 @ 1.35 
Squash, bbl....'. .60 @ 1.00 
Egg Plants, Jersey, bkt.30 @ .50 
Tomatoes, Jersey, box.... 55 @ .75 
Turnips, white, bbl.75 @ 1.00 
Rutabaga.50 @ .90 
NUIS. 
Chestnuts. Northern, bu. 5.00 © 7.00 
Southern. 3.50 @ 4.00 
Cultivated... 1.00 @4.00 
Hickory nuts. 2.50 @ 3.00 
Bull nuts. 1.00 @ 1.50 
Black walnuts... LOO 
Butternuts. . 1.00 
HONEY. 
Clover, combi lb. 12 @ .16 
Buckwheat, lb....10 © .12 
Extracted, lb.07 © .09J6 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, lb.13 © .14 
Fowls.. .. 13 @ .1316 
Roosters.09 @ .10 
Ducks.13 @ .14 
Geese.12 © .14 
Turkeys...*.. .14 @ .16 
Guineas, pair..60 @ .75 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.23 © .25 
Common to Good.16 @ .20 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.25 © .27 
Squab, broilers, pair.65 @ .70 
Broilers, comuioti to good.20 ® .22 
Fryers .18 @ .20 
Fowls.15 @ .18 
Ducks, Spring, lb .18 @ .18)6 
Squabs, doz.60 @ 4.50 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay, Timothy No. I, ton.22 1)0 @ 23.00 
No. 2.20.00 @ 21.00 
No. 3.17.00 © 18.00 
Clover Mixed.14 00 © 20 00 
Clover.12.00 @13.00 
Straw, Rye.16.00© 17.00 
Oat and Wheat.11.00 © 12.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs..5.15 @ 8 90 
Bulls.4.50 © 5.40 
Cows .. 2.50 @ 5.25 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs. 7.50 @11.50 
Culls. 5.00 © 7.00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 2.50 (9 4.25 
Lambs.5.60 © 7.25 
Hogs.8.00 @ 9.00 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, good to prime.12 @ .14)6 
Common.08 @ ,10 
Pork, light-weights.12)6@ -13 
Mediums and heavy.II @ .12 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spriug.J9 %'d ... 
No. 2, Red.1.06 © ... 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.1)2 @ ... 
Corn, as to quality, bush.70 @ .73 
Oats, as to weight, bush.38 @ .41 
COTTON 
New York Middling Upland. . ... 11.05 
Middling Gulf . 11.03 
New Orleans. Low Middling . 10.20 
Good Middling. 11.30 
WOOL 
NewYork Fleeces, Fine, unwashed.22 @ .23 
Ohio half blood combing .29 @ .30 
Kentucky, throe eighths blood.32 @ .33 
Michigan, half blood.27 @ .28 
MARKET SKETCHES, NO. 5. 
The last sketch told of the wind-up of 
a journey to Maryland. Next I got on a 
Long Island Sound steamer, bound for New 
England points. At 6 p. m. about 100 were 
eating, so the kitchen on the upper deck 
was a busy place. For some time I watched 
a husky young negro broiling steaks and 
chops. His gridiron, which slid back and 
forth over the coals, contained 10 pounds 
or more of meat in various stages of done¬ 
ness. He would haul out the gridirou aud 
with a young pitchfork remove a chunk 
of meat. He looked at it, sometimes gave 
it a quick pinch with his fingers, and 
then put it on a platter or back on the 
fire, according to whether in his judgment 
it conformed to the customer’s order. Oc¬ 
casionally he threw a handful of water on 
the fire as it got too hot. The demand for 
meat orders was large that evening, and 
lie was truly a busy man during the hour 
of heaviest trade. Some of his methods 
seemed a trifle crude, but the finished 
product looked good as it landed on the 
platters, so he was evidently an expert. 
As the evening was damp and chilly, I 
turned in early, and got as much sleep as 
could be had iu a room directly under the 
whistle, which, through the worst of the 
fog. tooted twice a minute, seemingly for 
hours at a time. At 5 a. m. we landed at 
Fall River, Mass., a city of 120,000, with 50 
textile mills and 4,000,000 spindles. 
There is a fair-sized market square for 
farmers’ wagons, and in the busiest part of 
the year as many as 100 wagons on hand 
in the morning. The farmers do some re¬ 
tailing, aud the remainder of the produce 
is sold to peddlers, grocers and through 
private markets. The old idea of a public 
retail market with stalls has died out in 
many of these factory towns. In some 
places the old market building still stands, 
but is occupied solely by butchers or used 
for other purposes. Some reasons for these 
changes will be discussed in notes on other 
places later. I found that oatmeal was 
largely used in lunch wagons and restau¬ 
rants, the breakfast of many workingmen 
being a large bowl of oatmeal and milk, 
with one roll, costing 10 cents. Political 
orators of the species “silver tongue” var., 
“stand pat,” hand out the sophistry that 
workingmen here use meat freely. This is 
one of the stock sayings so often repeated 
that perhaps, like a fish or bear story, 
some of the sayers actually get to believe 
it. But a little unbiased observation soon 
shows the fallacy. 
The present cost of food is felt keenly 
in these factory towns. One philosopher 
running a cigar store said that if people 
used less liquor there would be more mon¬ 
ey to buy food. He did not refer to his 
special line of trade. Possibly there may 
be ground for a difference of opinion re¬ 
garding tobacco, but few thinking people 
will dispute the fact that beer and whis¬ 
key are pantry thieves., w. w. ri. 
Pnnneriiciif Farm near 3 cities, 2 mi 
, ° „" eCUCUI , arm trolley and 
lage, 97 acres, more than half tillable; 9-room hou 
basement barn, lot of wood and timber; barn full 
hay. Bargain for a quick sale. G. H. CARRIk 
Real Estate Broker, 66 State St., Hartford, Coi 
Takes All the Drudgery Out of 
the Dairying Business 
Here is welcome relief from the drudgery of hand milking—freedom from worry 
—and independence from unreliable, shiftless workmen and high-cost hand 
labor. This wonderful machine does easily five times the work of human 
hands,_ besides doing it more gently, more carefully and with better effect on 
the animal. We prove all this at our risk in your own dairy. 
THE SHARPLES MILKER 
is a big dividend - paying investment for dairymen having twenty cows or 
more—a steady profit producer that quickly pays back 
its cost. It insures you more milk from your cows, cleaner milk 
and a clear saving of from $300 to $1000 a year in labor and 
expense, to say nothing of the opportunity it gives you to 
doublethe sizeof yourherd. Mr. Henry Fleldeu,Superintendent 
ol Branford Farms, Groton, Conn., writes; 
“The cows take the machine readily and seem to be 
very much more contented than when milked by hand. 
It is one of the most profitable investments ever made 
on this farm.” 
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White African Guineas^': 0 / 
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A NEWYORK STATE FARMS. &S2Z2. 
ingin farms throughout New York State. Reference 
on request. Catalog sent to prospective nuruhasors. 
r ^ C. fi. YAGEIt & CO., 736 Prem Rid*., Binghamton, N. Y. 
10.000FERRETS FOR SALEliS'S 
it’s free. DeKleine Bros., Jamestown, Midi. Box 50 
OUR CENTRAL NEW YORK FARMS 
Grow fine crops with large profits. And they aro 
low-priced now. Como and see them, or send for 
bargain list. B. F. McBURNEY & CO., 309 
Bastable Block, 8yractise, NewYork. 
IT#1D C/lf fT-Coon, skunk, opossum, fox 
" and ra i}bit Dogs—pups. Send 
stamp. J. VV . DEARTH, Zanesville, Ohio 
D 6 A| BT— Nice lot of healthy Ferrets. 
■ ■■ ^ “ Don’t wait too long. 
GEORGE JOHNSON, Bridgewater, Conn. 
SOUTHERN VIRGINIA FARMSforSale 
PRICE $12 TO $35 PER ACRE 
On Capital highway from Washington to Florida, 
that is now being built. River farms that will pro¬ 
duce 60 bushels of corn and 3 to 5 tons of clover or Al¬ 
falfa per acre. All sizes. Colonial brown stone man¬ 
sion; one mile of river front; finest home incounty ; 
775 acres. For sale by L. H. YANCEY, Clarksville, Va. 
WANTED—By young married man — Position on 
” chicken farm to learn business. Board for him¬ 
self and wife. Small salary. Address C. S., c. R. N.-Y. 
Practical Poultryman "1&3,* 
brooders. E. S. HALL, Hillside, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Thi* Farm Must G«— The Stock, Tools, Hay and 
Straw Thrown in to Quick Buyer 
140 acres; 12-room 2-story house; two barns, 40x45, 
36x40; granary, hen house, hog house, milk house, 
fruit. Four miles from good town; half-mile to 
school. R. F. D., phone. Will include to quick 
buyer 1 pair horses. 8 cows, two-year-old colt, heavy 
wagon, mower, rake, reaper, grain drill, sulkev 
plow, harrow, 100 hens, 25 tons hay, four tons 
straw. $3,500. $2,000 cash. 
HALL’S FARM AGENCY. 1300 Lake St.. Elmira. N. Y. 
Uf A IITPIl - 'Calves, Poultry. Fancy Eggs, Chest 
viMll 1 LU nuts. Black Walnuts, Butternuts, 
Shellbarks, WM. H. COHEN & CO., Commis¬ 
sion Merchants, 229 Washington St., New York. 
Honest Man or Woman Wanted 
A LARGE well-known company about to spend $100,000 
- cv on a tremendous advertising campaign, requires the 
services of a bright man or woman in each town and city. 
The work is easy, pleasant and highly respectable, and 
no previous experience is necessary. We will pay a good 
salary and offer an unusual opportunity for advance¬ 
ment to the person who can furnish good references. In 
addition to this salary we offer a Maxwell Automobile, a 
Ford Automobile and over $3,000 in prizes to tiie repre¬ 
sentatives doing the best work up to December 31. In 
your letter give age and references. Address, 
IRA B. ROBINSON, 
Advertising Manager, 102 Doty Bldg., Boston, Mass, 
A BIG COUNTRY STORE 
A Bio Business Established 1858 A Big Stock 
A real country store that issues six big free catalogues 
of tested Garden Seeds, Farm and Garden Implements 
Poultry Supplies, Timothy, Clover and Field Seeds, Sheep 
Fertilizer, Fall Bulbs. Write today for one of these 
free catalogues. Gordinier's Gilt Edge Timothy, average 
purity test 9S.70 per cent.; Gordiniers Oak Brand 
Scratching Feed, $2.00 per cwt.. a quality poultry fend. 
Wizard Brand Sheep Fertilizer, $25.00 per ton; Blateh- 
ford’s Calf Meal; Pedigreed Seed Corn. Write for prices 
and samples. Everything for the farm, garden aud 
poultry yard. Grange orders our specialty. 
Gordinier's Big Country Store, Troy, N. Y. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited 
COR QAI P— On account of departure; an entire 
run uHLC Stock Farm in Port Washington, L. 
I. March and April Pullets, all kinds, $1.25 apiece. 
Cocks 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, Hv year old, registered, $15 apiece. A fine 
driving Horse, 16 hands,'$200. Wagon and carriages. 
4,000 Kgg Cyphers Incubator, $275. Small Cyphers 
150 egg incubator,$10 each.Nine and a half acres land 
with pond and spring. Cottage. Garage for 4 autos. 
Candee brooder; house and poultry houses; $25,000. 
At small distance from Port Washington. Large 
tract for garden'and fine orchard. A nice place for 
poultry raising and gardening. 
CH. P. HATCH, Plunibeach Farm, Port Washington, L. 1. 
APPLES AND PEARS 
Live Poultry, Fancy Eggs, Hothouse 
Products, Fruits, Vegetables. 
Top Prices Secured for Choice Goods. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St, NewYork. 
hl/E SELL GOOD FARMS in Oceana, greatest fruit Co. 
" in U. S.; also grain, potatoes, alfalfa, dairying. 
Write for list, etc. HANSON & SON, Hart, Mich. 
