1912. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
117-1 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, Nov. 16, 1912. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Agriculture at a High School... 1153, 1154 
That Champion Corn Yield.1154 
The Philosophy of Drainage.1155 
New Jersey Farm News.1156 
The Co-operation Problem.1156 
Crops .1156 
Soy Beans at the New Jersey Station. 1157 
Rat-proof Corncrib.1157 
Lime and Potato Scab.1158 
Killing Wild Onion or Garlic.1159 
Agricultural Credits in Europe. No. 3.1163 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.1163 
Prices of Agricultural Products.1167 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Cat of Quality.1159 
More About Airedales.1159 
The Kinks in a Dairy Farm. Part 11.1166 
Making Your Own Pork.1166 
Guernseys for Butter Fat.1166 
Milk .1167 
Keeping Milk Sweet.1167 
The Two Gi’eat Milk Companies.1167 
The Orange Countv Poultry House. 
Part III.1168 
Infected Udder .1168 
Swelling on Heifer’s Jaw.1168 
Boils .1168 
The Egg-laying Contest.1169 
Dry Mash Without Beef Scrap.1169 
Henhouse Curtains; Soy Beans.1169 
Poultry for the Holidays.1169 
HORTICULTURE. 
Apple Diseases in Maryland.1154 
Culture of Mushrooms.'..1155 
The Fall Grafting Fad.1155 
Potato Grafted on Tomato.1156 
New Jersey Cranberry Report.1156 
Building a Hotbed.1158 
Pruning High-headed Trees.1158 
Peach Orchards and Cultivation.1159 
Insect Plagues on House Plants.1161 
Destroying Snails.1161 
Leaves for Compost.1161 
Grape Varieties.1161 
Apples in Central New York.1161 
Quarantine of Christmas Greens.1163 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.1164 
The Rural Patterns.1164 
Dyeing a Cotton Sweater.1164 
Heels and Happiness.1164 
Thuringian Sauerkraut.1164 
One-two-three Conserve.1164 
The Thanksgiving Dinner.1165 
Catering for Hired Men.1165 
How tlie Women Helped.1165 
Gourd Cups and Bowls.1165 
Prune Roll.1165 
Rice Pudding Without Milk.1165 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“Misapplied Guff”. 
Remedy for Poison Ivy.115 
A Small Icehouse.1157 
Air-pressure Tank.1157 
A Bridge of Wire and Concrete.1158 
When Oil Foams.1159 
Editorials .1162 
Events of the Week.1163 
Market Prices for Honey.1167 
Buffalo Market .1169 
Publisher’s Desk .1170 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Nov. 9, 1912. 
BDTTEU 
Creamery, fancy, lb.32 @ .33 
Good to Choice.28 @ .31 
Lower Grades .24 @ .27 
Storage.27 @ .32 
State Dairy, best.30 © .31 
Common to Good.24 @ .28 
Factory. 21 ® .25 
Packing Slock.20 @ .24 
Elgin. 111 ., butter market firm at 31 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 33 cents. 
ISGGS 
White.choice to fancy.50 @ .55 
Good to prime.43 @ .48 
Mixed Colors, best .40 ® .42 
Common to Good.30 ® S 8 
Western, best.38 @ .40 
Under grades.25 ® .28 
Checks and dirties. .15 ® .22 
Storage.18 ® .24 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best.17 @ .18 
Common to Good.14 ® .16 
Skims. .04 @ .12 
BEANS 
Medium.4.90 © 5.00 
Pea. 4.35 @5.00 
Vellow Eye. 4.25 ® 4.50 
Red Kidney. 3.75 ® 4.75 
White Kidney.5.25 @ 6.50 
Lima. California. 6.30 @ 6.40 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.31 @ .33 
Common to Good.27 ® .30 
Pacific Coast.21 ® .24 
Old'Stock.OS ® .13 
German Crop. 44 @ .46 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 1.75 
Hubbarriston. 1.75 
Pound sweet . 2.00 
York Imperial. 2.00 
Twenty-ounce.2.00 
King. 2.00 
Spy .2.00 
Spitzenburg. 2.25 
Winesap. 2 00 
Bellflower. 2 25 
McIntosh. 2.50 
Greening. 1.75 
Baldwin . 1.75 
Western, choice varieties, box... 1.75 
Common to good, box.75 
Pears—Kleffer, bbl. 1.25 
Seckel . 5.90 
Bose, bbl. 4.00 
Anjou .3.00 
Clairgeau.3.50 
Duchess. 2.50 
Common. 1.00 
Quinces, bbl. 1.50 
Grapes Niagara. 20-11). bkt.35 
Delaware, 41b. bkt.10 
Concord. 41b. bkt.09 
Bulk, ton.35.00 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl.5,00 
@ 2.50 
® 2.25 
@ 2.50 
® 2.75 
® 3.00 
® 2.75 
® 3.00 
® 3.00 
® 3.50 
® 2,50 
® 3.75 
® 3.00 
@ 2.25 
© 2.25 
® 1.50 
@ 2.25 
@10 00 
® 6.00 
® 3.50 
@ 4.50 
@ 3.50 
@ 2.00 
@ 4.50 
® .45 
@ .11 
® .11 
®75.00 
@ 8.00 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl.2.00 ® 2.50 
Jersey, bbl. 1 50 ® 1.75 
Maine, 168 lb. bag. 1.85 @ 1.90 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1.00 ® 2.00 
Beets, bbl.75 @1.00 
Brussels Sprouts .05 @ .08 
Carrots, bbl.75 ® 1.00 
Cauliflowers, bbl .50 @ 2.50 
Celery, doz. bunches.15 ® .35 
Cabbage, bbl. 50 @ .75 
Ton. 3.00 @10.00 
Kale, bbl. 20 ® .30 
Lettuce. ,^bbl. bkt.50 @1.25 
Lima beans, bu. 1.00 @ 2.25 
Onions, State & W’n., 100 lb. bag. -50 @1.00 
Orange Co., 100 1b. bag.50 @ 1.00 
Peppers, bbl .75 @1.50 
Peas. Southern,bu.75 @ 3.00 
Radishes, 100 bunches.75 ffl 1.00 
String Beans, bu. 1,00 @ 2.50 
Squash, bbl.60 @ 1.00 
Egg Plants, Fla., box. 1.00 @ 3.00 
Tomatoes. Jersey, box.50 @ 1.25 
Turnips, white, bbl.75 @ 1.00 
Rutabaga.50 @ .90 
NUTS. 
Chestnuts. Northern, bu.5.00 ® 7.00 
Southern. 4.1)0 @ 5.00 
Cultivated. 1.00 ® 4.50 
Hickory nuts. 1.60 @ 2.00 
Bull nuts.75 @ 1.00 
Black walnuts . 1.00 
Butternuts. 1.00 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
Cucumbers, No. 1, doz.75 ® 1.00 
No. 2, box.2.50 ® 3.25 
Mushrooms, lb.15 @ .40 
Tomatoes, lb.06 @ .12 
HONEY. 
Clover, comb, lb.12 @ .16 
Buckwheat, lb.. 11 @ .13 
Extracted, lb. . .07 @ .09j$ 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, lb..13 <& .14 
Fowls.13 @ .14 
Boosters.10 ® .10$$ 
Ducks. 14 @ .16 
Geese.13 @ .14 
Turkeys.17 @ .18 
Guineas, pair.60 @ .75 
ORESSKD POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.22 @ .23 
Common to Good.16 @ .20 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb.25 @ .27 
Squab, broilers, pair.65 © .70 
Broilers, common to good. .20 @ .22 
Roasters .18 ® .19 
Fowls.15 @ .l7Jjj 
Ducks, .spring, lb .10 @ .14 
8 quabs, doz. 50 @ 4.50 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay. Timothy No. 1, ton.22 00 @ 24.00 
No. 2.20.00 @ 21.00 
No. 3.17.00 @ 19.00 
Clover Mixed.14.00 @ 20 00 
Clover.12.00 @18.00 
Straw, Rye.16.00® 17.00 
Oat aud 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.8.00 @11.00 
Culls. 5 00 @ 7.00 
8 heep, 100 lbs.2.50 @ 4.00 
Lambs. 5.50 © 7.25 
Hogs.7.75 @ 8.50 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, good to prime. 12 @ .15 
Common.08 @ ,0916 
Pork, light-weights.11J6@ .12 
Mediums and heavy.I0J6® .11 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring..l"b>@ ... 
No. 2, Bed.1.07 @ ... 
No. 2 Hard Winter.9S*&@ ... 
Corn, as to quality, bush.70 @ .73 
Oats, as to weight, bush.38 @ .41 
COTTON 
New York Middling Upland. . .. . 12.00 
Middling Gulf. 12.25 
New Orleans. Low Middling .. 10.60 
Good Middling .. 11.75 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Butter, nearby creamery.33 @ .33)6 
Western Creamery. .32 @ -3216 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 48 @ .49 
Gathered, fresh .36 @ .42 
Apples, dessert varieties, bbl.3.00 @ 4.50 
Common kinds . 1.50 @ 2.50 
Cranberries, bbl. 5.00 @ 6.00 
Grapes,41b bkt.... .09 @ .11 
Potatoes. 1681b. bag . 1.25 @ 1 75 
Dressed meats—Veal .10 @ .15 
Lambs. .10 @ .12 
Pork...10J6@ -1094 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls.15 @ .19 
Roasters .16 @ .22 
Hay—No. 1 .23.00 @24.00 
No.2 . 20.00 @22.00 
No. 3 .18.00 @19.00 
Straw—Kye.18.00 @19.50 
MARKET SKETCHES, NO. 7. 
Within thirty miles of Boston there is a 
great amount of truck gardening, both 
under glass and out of doors. As the 
roads are usually good, the market place 
for farmers’ wagons, south of Quincy Mar¬ 
ket Building, is well filled, and during the 
heaviest part of the season the wagons 
overflow into other streets. The market 
superintendent has full charge of the situ¬ 
ation. lie keeps business moving along in 
an orderly manner, and settles disputes 
when necessary. There is, however, little 
occasion for the use of forcible measures, 
for the town and country people, as well 
as the city authorities, look on the mar¬ 
ket as a useful institution, worthy of the 
respect and support of all good citizens. 
In New York many dealers in farm prod¬ 
ucts complain of a prevalent nagging of¬ 
ficiousness, making it difficult aud ex¬ 
pensive to do business—a procession of in¬ 
spectors, investigators and incumbrance of¬ 
ficers, ready to seize some of his goods, 
make him clear the sidewalk, etc. Of 
course, the sidewalks should not be blocked 
with farm produce, but neither should they 
be with dry goods boxes. 
I seldom have to take to the road be¬ 
cause of the blocking of a walk with farm 
produce, but this is a common experience 
in Worth street, where the walk is filled 
with dry goods cases. New Yorkers are 
notoriously intolerant of anything that 
checks them in their furious rush, yet both 
the farm produce and dry goods trades 
require some use of the sidewalk to do 
business with reasonable economy. It is 
economy for me to go around a barrel of 
apples or case of cloth rather than pay 
five per cent more for what I use of either 
product. So far as T could see or learn. 
Boston citizens are not disposed to nag the 
produce trade. They are interested in it 
and feel its importance. 
Peddlers aud retailers take most of the 
produce sold by the farmers themselves. 
Some farmers do no selling, merely 
delivering their loads to commission 
men who handle them in the same 
way as rail receipts. Consumers have 
a fair opportunity to get at the farmers’ 
wagons, and some direct trade is done— 
much more than in New York. This direct 
trade has its drawbacks. The consumer 
often wants to buy in quantities that seem 
small to a man with a big load to dispose 
of, and on the other hand, most consumers 
prefer to buy from the retail stalls, which 
are more accessible and where the goods 
can be spread out better than on the 
farmers’ wagons. w. w. H. 
The Rochester, N. Y., Market 
I visited the Public Market oue morn¬ 
ing last week looking for potatoes. There 
were about 400 loads of all kinds of prod¬ 
uce, one-tenth of which were tubers. I 
looked over a good many loads and all 
showed more or less rot, and every owner 
admitted they had some. They told of 
big fields that would not pay to dig; one 
of 35 acres, where owner could not dig 
enough good ones to pay for expense of 
digging; others said one-fourth, one-half 
or one-fifth were bad. Best stock sold at 
65 cents. One man was asking 70; much 
stock was below 65. 
Winter squash, 1 cent per pound ; celery, 
40 cents per dozen bunches; onions, 60 
cents for nice ones. Apples in good sup¬ 
ply, best ones, 35 to 40 cents per market 
basket, holding one-half bushel; from that 
down to 25 cents. Saw one man with 25 
dozen eggs which were offered at 30 cents 
if taking the entire lot. They looked clean 
and nice. Very few pears were seen. 
A car load of potatoes in the Erie Rail¬ 
road yards was condemned by the city last 
week; said they were so badly decayed 
it was dangerous to allow them to be sold 
until very carefully sorted. c. x. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
NEW MARKET AT CLEVELAND, O. 
I send account of the opening of our 
new market house in Cleveland. Cleveland 
is well supplied with market houses. On 
the east side we have the city market, be¬ 
sides a large market privately owned. The 
farmers within a radius of twenty-five miles 
around Cleveland get from 90 to 105 per 
cent, of the dollar, as I have known farm¬ 
ers getting two cents a dozen more for 
eggs than the same could be bought for 
on the same day in one of the best stores 
in my neighborhood. I put in twenty 
bushels of the best potatoes raised on clay 
soil, which is the best for potatoes, at 65 
cents per bushel. The same are selling out 
of the stores at 75 cents. 
The size of the new market is 245x120 
feet. It has 101 stalls; 56 for meat, 18 
for butter and eggs, 9 for fish, and 18 
miscellaneous. 
The butter and egg stalls have cold 
stox-age space in the counters. All the 
stalls ai'e built of white enameled brick 
with carrara glass counter tops. The floor 
is of six-inch by nine-inch red quarry tile. 
The side walls are white enameled brick 
and terra cotta and the ceiling construc¬ 
tion is of tile with white raised joints. 
In the basement is a cold storage plant 
with about 130.000 cubic feet of storage; 
also a boiler room and space for the 
necessary refrigerating machinery. This 
includes a five-ton ice-making plant and 
sufficient additional space for triple that 
capacity. 
In the southwest corner of the base¬ 
ment there are public toilet stations for 
both men and women. These are the finest 
in town and will be kept open till mid¬ 
night each night, as will the cigar and 
news stand. 
The tower at the southwest corner is 138 
feet high to top of dome and 162 feet to 
top of pole. An observation balcony is 
located about 106 feet above the sidewalk. 
Inside the tower there is a nine-foot in 
diameter steel water tank with a capacity 
of 16,000 gallons. 
On the north side of the building ex¬ 
tending from West Twenty-fifth street to 
the east and turning at a right angle along 
east end into Lorain avenue, there is a 
twenty-foot sidewalk between the two 
twenty-five-foot roadways for the accommo¬ 
dation of the farmers and hucksters. This 
sidewalk will be covered. c;. o. c. 
WANTFfl_ CREflM F0R CHURNING—Delivered twice 
” 1 weekly at some point on West Shore 
or Erie R.R. Higher than usual creamery priees 
paid for butter fat. N. Y. INDUS. HOME, Tamian, N. Y. 
WANTED-Young Poultryman, 
forrod), who has had practical experience, and not 
?f *L i? fr, w i?V.K’ .I? manage commercial plant. 
HEART S DELIGHT FARM, Chazy, New York 
- ■ W ANTED - - 
Single or manned man to work an up-to-date dairy 
farm, beginning April 1st. 1913, on halves. Farm 
carries 60 head of stock, one mile from factory, 80 
miles from New York, in Dutchess County. Man 
must have sufficient capital to furnish ks stock. 
Address, B. B., c Rural New-Yorker, New York 
"W ante d- 
General Manager for one of the most extensive 
Chicken Farms in the country. Must have thor^ 
ough technical and practical knowledge of the 
business. Libei-al salary and interest in profits 
will be paid to one who has made a success of 
the business. Address, giving full particulars, 
P. 0. Box 372, Madison Square, New York City 
The BoyCan Do 
aMan'sWork 
than half the time and labor 
to feed your stock and keep 
your barn sanitary with Louden’s Feed 
and Litter Carriers. 
A one pound pull will hoist 40 pounds in the 
box—twice as much as any other Carrier. Quickly 
and safely raised and lowered; stands at any point, 
no hit or miss ratchet; no dangerous crank to fly 
back and hurt the operator. Runs easily on sharp 
xurves or switches, in either direction. 
BOX OF HEAVY GALVANIZED IRON. 
Litter Carrier may be damped in wagon 
or Spreader or out in yard. 
Full line of HAY TOOLS. BARN DOOR HANGERS. 
STALLS AND STANCHIONS. 4c. 4c. 
Special plans and expert advice for building or 
remodel in g your barn sent FREE. Write our Arch- j 
itectural Department. Let us know the kind of a 
barn you wish to build. 
See your dealer. Write for Illustrated Catalog. 
Louden Machinery Co., 
601 Broadway, - • FAIRFIELD. IOWA. 
"W anted. 
-C a lv e s , Fancy 
Eggs, Nuts ami 
Poultry for Thanksgiving. WM. H. COHEN A CO., Com¬ 
mission Merchants, 229 Washington St., New York 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, 
284 Washington St., New York 
Produce. Shipments Solicited 
Poultry for Thanksgiving 
Apples, Pears and all Fruits and Vegetables, 
Fancy Eggs, Hothouse Products 
Top Prices Secured for Choice (ioods—Correspondence Solicited 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St., NewYmrk 
F OR SALE—New Jersey Frait, Truck, Potato 
farm. List l'eady. A. W. DRESSER, Burlington. N. J. 
PsiKlYtC—1° t0 350 acres. Catalogue freo. 
■ lllo E. Burroughs, 147 East State, Trenton.N. J. 
WE SELL GOOD FARMS in Oceana, greatest fruit Co. 
in U. S.; also grain, potatoes, alfalfa, dairying. 
Write for list, etc. HANSON & SON, Hart, Mich 
NEW YORK STATE FARMS. ASKS 
iiiff In farms throughout New York State. Reference 
on requeue Catalog sent to prospective purchaser*. 
t\ L. YAGER Sc CO., 73« Press Hid;:., Hinghumton, 2!. Y. 
OUR CENTRAL NEW YORK FARMS 
Grow fine crops with large profits. And they are 
low-priced now. Come and see them, or send for 
bargain list. B. F. McBllliNEY & CO., 309 
Bastable Block, Syracuse, New York. 
IF YOU WANT 217 ACRES BEST 
NEW YORK LAKE COUNTRY LAND 
Oats, 72 bushel acre; early Cabbage. $115 aero; Al¬ 
falfa; brick house; concrete barn; silo; 10 # net-last 
year. $100 per acre. (’ash. Arrange with 
JOHN T. BRYAN, Box 302, Auburn, N. Y. 
STOCK-TOOLS-CROPS LOCATION 
60 acres of the finest kind of soil, 1 mile from High- 
scliool, Church. Stores. Railroad town and all con¬ 
veniences. Good Buildings, abundance of Fruit, 
and a Good Piece of Timber. Circumstances neces¬ 
sitate an immediate sale. If interested in a good 
farm at the right figure, investigate at once. 
BILLINGS FARM AGENCY, Apalachin, N. Y. 
AODCC —Eight-room house, plastered and 
papered Two barns. 30x40, 36x40. 
Hen-house, 12x20; hog-house. Plenty fruit. Two 
miles to railroad town; Q mile to school. If bought 
at. once will include 12 cows, 1 bull, 1 heifer, mower, 
rake, roller, harrow, cultivator, heavy wagon, light 
wagon, top buggy, other small tools. $2,300. Part 
cash. First here gets this bargain. 
HALL’S FARM AGENCY, Owego. Tioga Co., New York 
WILL EXCHANGE 
BEAUTIFUL SUBURBAN RESIDENCE 
Every improvement; up-to-date commuters’ town; 
near New York; Erie main line; 36 mile station; 
large grounds, fruit and garden; high school; 
children can go to college in New York and live at 
home. Equity, $10,500. Prefer fruit farm. Must 
be stocked and good buildings. Will meet smaller 
equity if farm is what I want. 
189 Heights Road - Ridgewood, N. J. 
ABSOLUTE CLOSING-OUT AUCTION SALE 
OF ALL THE 
AYRSHIRE CATTLE, HORSES AND SHROPSHIRE SHEEP 
ON THE 
USTE’WTOlXr PiLRlVCS, A-slilotu-iiliam, Mass. 
MR. A. D. WATSON, PROPRIETOR 
Sale to be held at the New England Fair Grounds, Worcester, Mass., on Monday, November 25,1912 
100 REGISTERED AYRSHIRE CATTLE 10 REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE SHEEP 
5 VER Y SUPERIOR HORSES, including a team weighing 3,100 or 3,200 lbs., 7 years old and fully acclimated 
The cattle are just home from the Fall circuit of Fairs where they won a large number of prizes. 
They are of choice breeding and prize-winning form and have recently been tuberculin tested. 
Send for Catalogue 
LEANDER F. HERRICK, AUCTIONEER WORCESTER, MASS. 
