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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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TREES 
(.ESTABLISHED 1869) 
GEO. A. SWEET NURSERY CO. 
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25 MAPLE STREET, DANSVILLE, 
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STONE S SOYBEANS to* California as * the 
Best. The great protein, grain, hay, and ensilage 
crop. It fills the long-felt want of all progressive 
stock feeders. It makes the soil richer. Have you 
read our free catalogue about this wonderful crop ? 
It will pay you to read it. 
CCCI1 nnnw A dozen or more of the very best 
wllU u Ulm varieties for grain and ensilage. 
WM. McD. STONE, Soybean and Corn Specialist, Atwater, 0. 
WEEDLESS FIELD SEEDS 
.Are what we are trying harder than over to furnish our cus¬ 
tomers. FREE SAMPLES will show that we come pretty near 
doing it. In many varieties we 1)0 IT. Ked, Mammoth, Alsike. 
Alfalfa, Timothy, Orchard Grass, Sweet Clover and nil others, 
0. M. SCOTT & SON, 50 Main Street, MARYSVILLE, OHIO 
SOY BEANS AND VETCH 
McQueen’s original inoculated soil for Soy Beans 
and Vetch makes land rich. 50c. per 100 lbs. Big 
stock Soy Beans and Dahlias. Circular free. 
JACOB McQUKEN - Baltic, Ohio 
Ct7l7r\ PODM Six Varieties, Heavy 
iJILEjL/ V/VrKlY Yielders, $2 per bu 
You want our White Cap Yellow Dent. Our stocks 
were grown by the winner of first prize at the recent 
Penn'a State and the South Carolina National 
Corn Shows. 
Clover at $11.00 per bu. Tim¬ 
othy—Red Top—Orchard— 
Ky. Blue—Millets, Alfalfa, 
Vetchbs and 30 other grasses. 
SPRING RYE and BARLEY—BUCK¬ 
WHEAT—FIELD PEAS and BEANS 
COW PEAS 
We have them in nice 
You should plant North¬ 
ern Grown Cow Peas of 
the earliest varieties, 
qualities at moderate prices. 
Maine Grown Seed Potatoes, Clean, Sound 
Cobblers—Ea. Ohios—Ea. Rose—Carmans—Mountains— 
Giants—Raleighs—State of Maines—Gold Coins. 
Everything For the Farm, Moderate Prices 
You want our 32 page catalog. It is free. A sk for it 
A. H. HOFFMAN, LANDISVILLE, LANCASTER CO. PENN'A. 
— FULL STOCKS — 
DIBBLE’S FARM SEEDS 
STILL ON HAND. 
SEED POTATOES. 30 varieties, best early, 
medium and late kinds grown. 
SEED OATS. Splendid quality, heavy and 
thoroughly recleaned. 
SEED CORN. Beth Flint and Dent adapted 
for either crop or the silo. 
Germination tests averagingj)0-100i 
D. 8. BRAND ALFALFA. CLOVER, arid TIMOTHY 
SEED. 99.50# pure or better, the highest grade 
Obtainable. 
Send for Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog and 
samples of Corn, Oats and Grass seeds Free. 
Then mail us your orders and we will give 
you Immediate shipment. Our seeds are 
sold on a money-back-if-you-want-it guar¬ 
antee. 1,600 acres in our own Seed Farms. 
We sre HenilquurlcrH far Farm Seede an,I our prices 
are riKlit as we ship from our farms to yours. 
Address EDWARD F. DIBBLE. Seedprower 
saa H0NE0YE FALLS, N. Y. Box B Hi 
STRAWBERRjY PLANTS 
We have selected eight out of a hundred kinds, so 
we have eight of the very best. Get our 1913 cata¬ 
logue of all kinds of plants anti seed. ROMANCE SEED 
PLANT AND TRUCK FARM. Caleb Boggs 8 Son, Cheswold, Del, 
VFRV CHflirF King, Cuthbert, Kansas and 
V£iil UHUIUL Grcjjo Raspberry plants, $7.00 
1,000. Luc retin Dewberries, $0.00 per 1,000. 
HILL FRUIT FARM, Toboso, Licking County, Ohio 
AHTQ—Reg. Swedish Select ami Trap. American, 
UH I O Two best yielders. Also SEED CORN, Seed Po¬ 
tatoes, Clover, Timothy and GARDEN SEEDS. Samples 
and Catalog free. THE0. BURT 8 SONS, Melrose, Ohio 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS ££*& 
over 30 years. New' and standard sorts at reasonable 
prices. Catalog free. SLAYMAKER 8 SON, Wyoming, Del. 
Cf M ,„k(,rrv Plante -33 varieties. Low prices 
Strawberry riants , or Northern grown. Cata¬ 
logue free. H. K. BENNING, R. F. D. No. 8, Clyde. N. Y. 
Strawberry Plants^'” 
eriptive catalog t ree. BASIL PERRY, Cool Spring, Delaware 
Champion BeardlessBarlerXVT“fS p £; 
bushel. Sacks free. J. N. MacPherson, Scottsville, N. Y. 
BEST CORN for SILAGE 
Early type of Learning. $2.5(1 per bushel in ear. Also 
Soy Iteaiis, Cow peas and Field Peas. All $2.50 per 
bushel. Timothy Seed, $2 per bushel. 
L. C. BROWN, - LA GRANGE, ILLINOIS 
—► SOY BEANS<— 
Choice Ito San seed grown on the College Farm. 
Special price on lots of fifty bushels or more. 
Address HIVING L. OWEN, Manager 
College Farm, New Brunswick, N. J. 
COO C Al F Seed Potatoes, New 
■ W —— York State growth. 
Large, white and mealy. Sir Walter Raleigh’s, 
uniform in size, free from defects. $1.50 per 
bushel in sacks. Address Mrs. C. R. CASKEY, 
No. 9 Bursley Place, White Plains, N. Y. 
Best Seed P«latoM-™BE“g,SSSSS 
A. G. ALDRIDGE, Fishers, Ontario Co., N. Y. 
SEED POTATOES 
Best of the leading main crop varieties. Thirteen 
years’ experience growing healthy Potatoes, espe¬ 
cially for seed. Prices reasonable. Send for list. 
HOMER B. HOWE - Wei.i.sboro, Pa. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
AT 
HALF PRICE 
Kxcelftlor.. .$1.50 per 1,000 
Klondike ,,..1.50 w 
Missionary ... 2.00 iC 
lIofTmun.1.50 u 
Climax.2.00 “ 
Gandy.2.00 “ 
The above varieties are strictly A, No. 1 and 
Guaranteed to please you. 
E. W. TOWNSEND, SALISBURY, MD. 
St. Louis.. ..$3.00 per 1,000 
SureesK.3.50 “ 
Trim Pro 1 ..2.50 “ 
Wni. Hr 11_8.00 « 
bong Krlloiv. .2.50 « 
llrlrn Diets. .2.50 « 
MANURE AND POTATO SCAB. 
Seeing that there is some difference 
of opinion among potato growers as to 
the effect of stable manure with relation 
to scab I will give my experience. My 
father used to use any kind of barn¬ 
yard manure and the potatoes were 
generally scabby. Later we kept sheep, 
and when I took the place I used sheep 
manure and horse manure exclusively 
on the potato ground, and was troubled 
very little with scab except one year 
when I used commercial fertilizer— 
then they were very bad. Another year 
I did not have quite enough manure to 
cover the ground and bought a little 
from a neighbor. It was horse manure 
and cow manure mixed. Just so far as 
that manure went I. had scab. I have 
tried it at times, since, and had the 
same experience. With me, cozv ma¬ 
nure will induce scab and also grubs— 
horse manure and sheep manure will 
do neither. I now use horse manure 
alone and get good results. B. c. 
Red Hook, N. Y. 
R. N. Y.—We have yet to find any 
kind of manure applied direct to po¬ 
tatoes which will not increase scab. 
Manure spread on a soil in Fall and 
plowed in Spring after the grass has 
well started has least bad effect because 
the plowed green sod seems to give an 
acid effect to the soil. 
A FARM SALESMAN’S ROUNDS. 
I give my experiences of one trip to 
town to market produce direct to the 
consumer. My load was not heavy 
yesterday, as I was going after feed 
as well as to sell produce, so I only 
had \9 x / 2 pounds of butter, four dozen 
fresh eggs, two bushels of potatoes and 
one-half bushel of nice white turnips. 
One five-pound jar of the butter is sold, 
but ao price fixed, the rest must be 
peddled, as we have not been making 
butter much through the Winter. 
The first customer owed me for one 
bushel of potatoes but would like 
another. The man of the house, who 
worked in a pulp mill in Winter, and 
is a carpenter at $3 per day during 
Summer season, has been sick, and of 
course no money. I considered the ac¬ 
count good and left the potatoes at 65 
cents (20 cents per peck retail at the 
store). The next customer owes a 
small bill, but gets the other bushel 
of potatoes and orders three pounds 
of butter for the next trip, and agrees 
to pay considerable at that time; ac¬ 
count called good. This woman’s hus¬ 
band is a flagman at a railroad cross¬ 
ing at $12.50 per week. The son 
works in the chocolate works, gets fair 
pay, but I mistrust his mother pays for 
his clothes. 
The next customer is the one who 
ordered the butter; she takes the five- 
pound jar at 36 cents (10 cents below 
retail) and also two dozen eggs at 24, 
which is about retail price. The head 
of the house is the office manager in 
a paper mill and is well-to-do, owns 
his house. These are pleasant people 
to deal with, and generally cash. The 
next customer takes a jar of butter, 
but the half bushel of turnips we sold 
them last week do not suit. The 
turnips have sold all right and given 
satisfaction heretofore, but this cus¬ 
tomer is cash every time, so we carry 
in the half-bushel of turnips we have 
with us and tell the lady of the house 
to see if she cannot get one-half bushel 
of turnips from the bushel. These 
people are well-to-do and by nice fresh 
eggs at the store for 22 cents, so we 
pass on. The next place the people are 
rich in this world’s goods, with a fine 
house. The lady has a caller, but comes 
to the porch door and says that if I 
will come back in an hour she will take 
the jar of butter. I tell her I shall he 
back in an hour, but will leave the but¬ 
ter now. After putt-in or t>-ir.se in out 
of the rain which lias been coming all 
the while, when we have sold out we 
walk half a mile and find the reason 
the woman could not pay at first was 
that she had a caller and did not want 
to bother. She orders eggs for the next 
trip. The next and last place are peo¬ 
ple who were born and lived on a 
farm excepting the last three years. 
These people know the lips and downs 
and always want a lot of our eggs. 
This time she takes the remaining jar 
of butter and two dozen eggs and 
orders four dozen eggs for the next 
trip. These people own a farm hut rent 
it, and are good cash customers. I 
have good luck and consider that I 
have had a successful trip. c. b. m. 
PRODUCER CLOSE TO CONSUMER. 
For years many farmers have looked 
somewhat askance at the State agri¬ 
cultural colleges, contending, with some 
show of reason, that the “book farmers” 
were not in full sympathy with the 
pressing needs of the real soil tillers. 
One of the most just criticisms of these 
institutions has been that they devote 
all their energy to the increasing of 
production without paying any attention 
whatever to the problem of profitably 
disposing of farm crops. Every year 
thousands of tons of agricultural 
products are allowed to rot in the 
fields for want of a remunerative mar¬ 
ket, and in the face of this condition 
farmers have very reasonably contended 
that their most pressing need was not 
to know “how to produce more”—im¬ 
portant as that is—so much as it was 
“how to sell more.” While farm 
products are rotting in the fields and 
orchards many people are actually suf¬ 
fering for want of these very same 
products; thus we see that this market¬ 
ing problem is simply a question of 
bringing producer and consumer to¬ 
gether. To do this in the most economi¬ 
cal way possible and at the same time 
demonstrate clearly to the taxpayers 
that at least one agricultural college was 
alive to the most vital problems of 
country life the Kansas State Agricul¬ 
tural College a few years ago organized 
an exchange through which buyers and 
sellers might easily get in touch with 
each other. At first only corn and hay 
were handled, but the idea proved so 
popular that during the first season ap¬ 
ples were added to the list and more 
than 350 carloads have been sold 
through the college exchange. 
To demonstrate clearly how the plan 
works let us take the case of a feeder 
with a bunch of fattening steers in the 
pen near Topeka. It is of prime im¬ 
portance of course, for him to secure 
his feed as cheaply as possible, for 
right on this point hinges his possible 
profit or loss. So instead of securing 
his feed from a dealer in the city this 
feeder communicates with the Agricul¬ 
tural College, stating exactly the kind 
and quality of feed he wants. When 
this inquiry reaches the college Mr. J. 
H. Miller, director of the Extension 
Department, who has charge of this 
work just at present, turns to his files 
and quickly ascertains what farmers in 
the feeder’s territory have the kind of 
feed stuff called for, and places the 
feeder . in communication with them. 
Thereafter the business is transacted 
directly between buyer and seller. The 
college makes no charge for its service 
and very naturally, as the middleman is. 
entirely eliminated, the buyer gets his 
feed at a very satisfactory figure while 
the farmer receives more than he could 
have secured on his local market. This 
work so far has been carried on by the 
college without any appropriation to pay 
for same, consequently the work has 
been done by a few of the willing offi¬ 
cials without extra pay; but in the near 
future a competent man will be placed 
in charge of the work and allowed to 
give his whole time and attention to it. 
It is then the intention to handle pro¬ 
duce of all kinds and organize local 
cooperative exchanges throughout the 
State and through these and the central 
exchange at the college a vast volume 
of business can be handled. Then it 
can no longer be said that the Kansas 
State Agricultural College is not alive 
to the pressing need of better marketing 
methods. 
April 12, 
How anxious the buyers and sellers 
are to get together has has been demon¬ 
strated by the success of this exchange; 
and of all the plans for bringing pro¬ 
ducer and consumer together this is 
probably the most promising because it 
can be started with such little trouble 
and expense. Every State agricultural 
college in the Union might well follow 
Kansas’ excellent example. 
Texas. m. floyd. 
Hero is an advertisement carried by 
the Ohio State Journal: 
STEAM BAKED APPLES 
are the last word in apple cooking. We 
cook them every day in our front window, 
under glass, and serve them to you either 
hot or cold. Come in and try them. They 
are exclusive with us. Mills’, 165 No. High 
St., “The Restaurant of Quality.” 
That’s good—it gives us all a line on the 
way to roach the consumer. Offer what 
they like and offer it so it will catch their 
eye. 
State Entomologist E. P. Felt has issued 
a warning to orchardists on the early ap¬ 
pearance of tree pests. He says: “The 
mild Winter, and the abnormally warm 
weather of the present time favor the early 
appearance of the apple tent caterpillar, 
the hud moth, the canker worms and the 
ease hearers—all pests which habitually be¬ 
gin feeding as soon as the young leaves 
commence to push out of the bud. The 
obvious remedy is to watch for signs! of 
these pests gnawing at buds or feeding on 
the young leaves, and whenever they ar- 
numerous, spray at once with a poison 
such as arsenate of lead, using at least 
two pounds to fifty gallons of water, and, 
in case caterpillars are excessively abund 
ant, repeating the treatment a few days to 
a week later.” 
March 28. Every farmer here sells 
cream; one cent higher than Elgin prices. 
Cut-over lands from $10 to $20 per acre, 
according to location and maple left. Four- 
foot dry maple on the ear brings $4.50 per 
cord, shipped South. Very little wood cut. 
and dry four-foot maple must bring over 
$5 per cord next Winter on account of the 
high wages paid by loggers up North for 
men, $55 to $50 per month and board; man 
and team $75 to $100 per month and board. 
Oats shipped in 42 cents, cornmeal and 
bran $1.20 per 100 pounds; home-grown 
dressed pork 10; beef, dressed, nine; eggs 
in Winter 25 cents, and now down to 15 
cents. At this price hens eat their heads 
off. Best Timothy delivered $12. Good 
heavy teams $500 to $600. Nearly all 
horses are shipped in here, very few raised. 
Only two auctions in a year, and cattle 
sold extremely high, as on the cut-over 
lands there is an abundance of pasture. 
Farmers’ long distance telephones are nu 
merous at $1 per month. Creamery but¬ 
ter 36 cents and good dairy 30 cents. 
Aniwa, Shanwano Co., Wis. l. a k. 
March 28. The past month has been a 
very changeable one; the first of the month 
was very warm and Spring-like, but since 
then we have had some very cold weather 
and some snow. At present we have had 
lots of rain, four inches in three days. 
Farmers are busy working up wood, and 
trimming apple orchards; some have their 
lime and sulphur for spraying. Wheat has 
come through the Winter looking very fine. 
Clover seeding is thick on the ground and 
looks good, well-rooted. Alfalfa is begin¬ 
ning to green up. Clover seed is very 
high, $14 per bushel. Stock of all kinds 
Is doing well; fodder will be well used up 
by time of grass. Stock is very high in 
price. Cows are $i)0 and better just for the 
ordinary. Little pigs bring $5 apiece. 
Wheat $1; oats 35; barley 55; rye 65; 
corn 70; potatoes 45; apples $1 a bushel. 
Butter 28; eggs 16; maple syrup $1.25; 
Red Marrow beans $2; hay $14 per ton; 
cabbage $3 per ton. Many arc feeding it 
to stock. Ilogs, live, 8; veal 9%; mutton, 
8; chickens, 13; beef per hundred $6.50 
to $8. E. T. n. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
On account of the rainy weather and 
bad roads, the Syracuse market has been 
very dull for the past few days. Follow¬ 
ing are the prices offered on the city mar 
ket: Beets, per bushel, 50; beans, $2.50; 
cabbage, ton, $5; carrots, bushel, 50; 
onions, 40 to 50; potatoes, 55 to 60; apples 
25 to 70; hay, Timothy, per ton, $14 to 
$16; Alfalfa. $14 to $15. Butter, 30 to 
34 ; eggs, dozen, 21 to 28; pork, pound, 11 
to 11%; hoof, eight to nine; veal, 13. 
Syracuse, N. Y, E. N. c. 
The roads here are practically impass¬ 
able. Three bridges near this .town were 
carried away by high water. Following 
are some of the changes in prices being 
paid for various products by local buyers: 
Hay, loose, was $17, now $14; barley, 80. 
now 75; oats. 38, now 39; coal (delivered). 
$7.50 ton, now $7.80. Other products are: 
corn. 65; buckwheat, 90; wheat, $1.10: 
potatoes, 75; wood, $5 a cord; straw, 13. 
No cheese made in this vicinity. No cheese 
factories in surrounding country as at 
Little Falls and Herkimer. Horses sell 
high. 
“Enthusiastic” dairymen here are scarce. 
A good many are taking up poultry raising 
on a (more or less) large scale. The re¬ 
cent Extension School from Cornell caused 
unusual Interest here along agricultural 
lines. °* 
Johnstown, N. Y. 
Good dairy cows are selling in this lo¬ 
cality for about $65 to $85. Shippers want 
about a 50 cent margin on hogs; Chicago 
markets are quoted here: Oats dropped ~ 
eents last week, 28 cents now ; corn is 
worth 62 cents per hundred; potatoes about 
40 cents per bushel: onions are very cheap, 
about 50 cents. Good sound 1,400-1,500 
pound horses from $200 to $275. M heat in 
this section looks fine. The acreage, how¬ 
ever. is small. Most of the farmers sowed 
rye instead. Wi D - 
Kewauna, ill. 
