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THE RURA.T, NEW-YORKEH 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, Jan. 18, 1913. 
FARM TOFICS. 
A Discussion of Lime . 58 
“Building Up” Soil Without Manure. . 58 
The Land Sharks and Credits . 59 
“Rural Credits” in Virginia . 59 
Cheap Lands in New York . 59 
Leather Scraps as Fertilizer . 60 
Selling Manure . 60 
Lime Before Oats . 60 
Bone and lien Manure . 61 
Truck in Louisiana . 63 
Sulphur Pyrites . 63 
Building a Hay Barracks .. 63 
Crops .62, 64 
New Marsh Rind for Onions . 65 
Permanent Improvements in Concrete.. 65 
Chemicals With Hen Manure . 65 
What Are Your Profits? . 65 
Sour Soil; Rockweed . 67 
A Great Cactus Scheme . 67 
A Farmer’s Notes . 68 
Care of a Potato Crop . 68 
Fertilizer for Potatoes . 68 
Inoculation for Alfalfa, Peas and Beans 69 
The Use of Land Plaster. 69 
“Inoculation" for the Soil . 69 
Hope Farm Notes . 70 
New Education for Farmers . 73 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings . 83 
Seeding Oats and Peas . 83 
Seeding Alfalfa With Rye . 83 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
That Horse Company .57. 58 
Treatment of Brood Mares . 76 
Alfalfa Hay for Hogs . 76 
Hen Lice; Salt for Stock and Poultry 76 
The Highland Breed of Cattle .’. 77 
Butter Fails to Come .77 
Information About Soy Beans . 78 
Concentrates With Home Feeds . 78 
Unthrifty Horses . 78 
Lame Horse . 78 
Knuckling . 7S 
Catarrh . 78 
Tongue Lolling . 78 
Milk . 79 
Another Side of Milk Inspectors. 79 
The English Milk Bill . 79 
Millet for Horses . 80 
Soaking Hard Cornstalks . SO 
Hungarian Grass for Horses . 80 
Balancing a Ration . 80 
Treatment of Poor Cows . 80 
Milk-Making Ration . 80 
The Egg-laying Contest . 80 
Raw Potatoes for Ilogs . 80 
Hogs Fed on Hay . 81 
Soapy Water for Hogs . 81 
Dry Corn Silage . 81 
Ration for Jersey Cows . 81 
Increasing Milk Flow . 81 
Rye for Stock . 81 
Balanced Dairy Ration . 81 
Dogs and Sheep . 81 
Starting in Poultry . 82 
Henhouse Plan . 82 
Fattening Turkeys for Market . 82 
Wooden or Hollow Block Silos . 82 
Running Separator With Engine. 82 
Animal Pests . 82 
Those Egg laying Contests . S4 
Do November Eggs Pay? . 84 
Leaky Henhouse Roof . 84 
Guinea Pigs . 84 
Cross Breeding and Egg Production.... 84 
Barred Plymouth Rocks for Utility ... 84 
Analysis of an Egg . 85 
Ailing Poultry . 85 
Meat Scraps for Poultry . 85 
Diarrhoea in Fowls . 8; 
Fowls in Small Run . 85 
Concrete Poultry House . 85 
Dry Mash Formula . 85 
Trouble With Barred Rock Pullets .... 85 
Late Pullets; Care of Manure; Frosted 
Combs . 85 
HORTICULTURE. 
Hardy English Walnuts . 60 
Fruit Farm in Central Indiana . 62 
Fertilizer for Strawberries . 63 
Pecans or Walnuts . 65 
Muzzle for Orchard Pasturing . 66 
Apples on the Market .71 
Advertising the Apple Trade . 73 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day . 74 
A New Idea in Doughnuts . 74 
Old New England Hasty Pudding. 74 
House-garden Oddities . 74 
Seasoning Sausage . 74 
Crackling Fruit Cake .74 
The Rural Patterns . 75 
Two Virginia Recipes . 75 
Oregon Walnut Bread . 75 
Bacon; Keeping Fresh Pork . 75 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Game Law and Long Island . 58 
Nature’s Fireless Cooker . 58 
The Village Factory . 58 
Money in the U. S. Treasury . 61 
The Skunk at Law . 61 
More About Poison Ivy . 61 
Tanning a Deer's Hide . 63 
A Cheap Icehouse . 63 
That Stump Boring Fake . 66 
Cement Tank Bottom . 66 
Worry and Insanity . 66 
The Watch Dog . 66 
Clearing Cistern Water . 67 
Bee Notes . 69 
Editorials . 72 
Farm Credits in the United States, 
No 3 . 73 
Events of the Week . 73 
The Illinois Commission Bill . 73 
Keeping Ice . 83 
Waste from Sink: Iron Water Pipe.... S3 
The Source of a Good Market . 83 
Publisher’s Desk . 86 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Jan. 11, 1913. 
BUTTKlt 
Western, best.32 © .35 
Under grades.22 @ .26 
Checks and dirties.13 @ .19 
Storage.14 @ .22 
CHKKSB 
Full Cream, best. 17 @ ,u 
Common to Good. 14 @ .16 
Skims.04 © .IS 
BEANS 
Marrow. 5.00 ® 5.45 
Medium. 4.25 ® 4.30 
Pea. 3.95 @ 4.20 
Bed Kidney.4.15 ® 4 25 
White Kidney . 5,70 « 5.80 
Lima, California. 6.20 @ 6.30 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.29 © .31 
Common to Good.23 © .26 
Pacific Coast.16 © .23 
Old Stock. .05 ® .12 
Qerman Crop. 46 @ .48 
nitI1CI) FltClTS 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911. 
.07 
.06 
.03 
Common to good 
Sun dried 
Chops, 100 lbs. 1.65 
Raspberries...17 
Cherries. li 
Blackberries...14 
Huckle be rries. 14 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 1.50 
Hubbardston. 1.75 
Twenty-ounce. 2.U0 
King. 2.00 
Spy . 2.00 
Spitzenburg. 2.50 
Winesap. 2 50 
Bellflower. 1.75 
Greening. 2.00 
Baldwin . 2 00 
Western, choice varieties, box... 1.50 
Common to good, box..t>o 
Pears—Kleffer. bbi. . 2 .00 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 6,00 
Long Island, bbl. 8.00 
Jersey, bbl . 7.00 
Strawberries, Florida, qt. 35 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—I,ong Island, bbi. 2.25 
Southern, new. bbl.2,00 
State. 180 lbs. 1.75 
Maine, 168 lb. bag. 1.90 
Bermuda, new, bbl. 4.00 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1.50 
Beets, new, bbl. 2.00 
Brussels Sprouts, qt.03 
Carrots, bbl.90 
Cauliflowers. Southern, crate. 1.50 
Celery, doz. bunches.15 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton. 6.00 
Domestic seed. 3.00 
Red, ton. 15.00 
Kale, bbl. 35 
Lettuce . 1 q bbi. bkt. 75 
Onions, State & W’n., HKi lb. bag.75 
Orange Co.. 100 lb bag.40 
Conn., red and yellow. 1001b. bag. .50 
Conn, Valley, white, bbl. 3,00 
Peppers, Fla. carrier . l.ou 
Peas. Southern, bu. 1.6U 
String Beans, bu. ].25 
Squash, bbl. to 
Egg Plants, Fla., box. 1 00 
Spinach, bbl. .40 
Tomatoes—Southern carrier . 1.25 
Turnips, white, bbl.50 
Rutabaga.50 
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HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS 
NO. 
box. 
LIVE POULTRY 
r, Fowls. 
Geese..., 
Turkeys. 
Chickens, choice broilers, !b. 
Squab, broilers, pair. 
Broilers, common to good. 
Ducks, spring, lb 
Geese. 
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2.50 
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2.50 
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HAY AND STRAW 
Hay. Timothy No. i, ton.20.00 ® 
No. 2. ..17.00© 
No. 3.14 .00 ® 
Clover Mixed.16 IK) ® 
8traw, Rye.18.50 ® 
MILLFEKD. 
Wheat bran, ton. 23.00 
Middlings.24.00 
Red ]H>g.30.00 
Corn Meal.26 00 
Linseed meal.32.50 
Hominy chop.21.00 
LIVE 8TOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs. 4.75 
Bails.4.25 
Cows. 3 00 
Calves, Prime Veal, IUU lbs. 9.00 
Culls. 5.00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 4.00 
Lambs. 8 ou 
Hogs.7 50 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, good to prime. 14 ® .15 
Commou.08 ® .10 
Pork, light weights..11 
Mediums and heavy.07J$@ .10 
Hothouse lambs, head. 5.00 '© 9.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring.99 
21 00 
19.00 
16.00 
19 00 
19.00 
@24.00 
@28.00 
® 31.00 
@27.00 
@33.00 
@22 A0 
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.40 
.70 
Creamery, fancy, lb. 
A 
.36 
Good to Choice. 
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Lower Grades . 
© 
.30 
Storage. 
© 
.34 
State Dairy, best. 
.34 
Common to Good. 
© 
.80 
Factory. 
© 
.24 
Packing Stock. . 
.18 
© 
.22 
No. 2. Red.1.07 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.02 
Corn, as to quality, bush.55 @ 
Oats, as to weight, bush.37 © 
Rye. .65 @ 
COTTON. 
New Tork Middling Upland. 1300 
Middling Gulf. 13,25 
New Orleans. Low Middling. 12 25 
Good Middling. 13.70 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES. 
Butter, nearby creamery. 34 !^© 
Western Creamery. 33 © 
Eggs, nearby hennery.32 @ 
Gathered, fresh .25 
Apples, dessert varieties, bbl..2.60 
Common kinds . ],50 
Cranberries, bbl. 7.00 
Potatoes. 2 bu. bag . l.so 
Dressed meats—Veal .ll 
Pork.0951© 
Elgin, ill., butter market, flint at 34 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 36cents. 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 15 
Roasters .20 
Turkeys.20 
Hay—No. 1 .21.00 
No. 2 . 19.00 
White.choice to faucy 
EGGS 
Mixed Colon 
Common 
to Good. 
.35 
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Straw Kye. 
Millfeed —Bran, tou. 
.30 
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.34 
Middlings. 
30 
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.32 
Mixed feed. 
.24 
.28 
Gluten. 
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© 2.00 
@ 9.00 
@ 1 40 
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.19 
.22 
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