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prices arc down with them also, for we can i 
now buy fine Oregon Spitzenburgs at two or 
even three for a nickel. It is to be hoped 
that the raisers of apples, potatoes, cabbage 
and onions will not neglect these crops now, 
because they have brought so little profit 
lately. I must confess to some uncertainty 
as to butter. Here is a quotation at 40 
cents to retailers for best creamery and yet 
it is easy to buy what purports to be the 
same thing for about 35 cents at retail. 
Some people have been trying this miscel¬ 
laneous stuff, but they very soon went back 
to their supply direct from the farm. 
Buffalo's new principal retail market is 
to be ready for occupancy on May 1, so it 
appears that the dealers in everything but 
meats who have always frozen in Winter 
In shanties or stood right out in the open, 
are to be relieved. They have earned the 
better place. johx w. cha.mbeklix. 
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_ 176 Second Ave., A/ . V. City 
MAN to work on share 
, icu or wages. Farm of 170 acres in Bergen 
County, N. J. J. K., care Rural New-Yorker 
CINGLE MAN WANTED by April 15. to work 
w on a dairy farm. Must be honest, sober and a 
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UOR.SE TEAMSTER WANTED—To do farm 
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COR SALE—40-aere village dairy farm. Fine house, 
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road, line lawn and shade. Buildings worth $6,000. Only $4,200, 
part cash. Fine for truck and Summer boarders. Photo No. 57 . 
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2011 in catalogue. Ask for copy. 
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On State load. 2miles station. 12-room house, 
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young fruit trees. Owner retiring. C. R. 0 , c. R. N.-Y. 
Old Homestead Must be Sold to Settle Estate 
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house, basement barn 44 by ?8, nearly new; water 
at house and barn; all kinds of fruit; 15-acre tim* 
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it ".l* 1 hay you to see this place at once. 
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THE RURAL 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, April 19, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Danes on New York Farms.501, 563 
The Rush to Educate Farmers.503 
The Future of Farmers’ Institutes.563 
Draining Springy Places. 505 
Corn Ear-worm . 505 
The Variety Test of Corn. 505 
A Woman’s Corn Tester. 5(58 
Okl-time Wheat Culture . 571 
“Permanent Pastures” . 571 
Hope Farm Notes.574 
Improving Old Pasture...575 
Fertilizer for New England Field Corn.. 573 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 575 
Winter Grain Conditions . 575 
“Back to the Land”. 58” 
The Iowa Silo for Eastern Farms.585 
One Man Who Paid Out.585 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Ponies by the Hundreds. 502 
Planning the Horse Stable.580 
Clover and Sweet Apples for Hogs.580 
Urinary Trouble . 580 
Calf Cholera . 580 
The Farmer’s Mule Type. 581 
Hog Pasture for Middle West. 581 
Staggers; Dishorning Bull. 581 
Canadian Black Fox Farming. Part (?) 584 
Lump Jaw .. 584 
The Egg-laying Contest . 580 
Male and Female Guinea. 580 
Feed for Young Chicks. 580 
Blue Ribbon Eggs . 580 
Trouble With Chicks . 586 
Frozen Comb . 586 
Keeping Eggs and Butter. 5S6 
Laying Records .580 
Milk . 587 
Differences in Cows’ Milk. 587 
Greenish Butter . 5S7 
Slobbering . 587 
Shrink in Milk. 587 
Cowpox . 5S7 
A Prolific Ewe .588 
Draft-Horse Breeding .588 
Horses as Boarders.5S8 
Breeding for Egg Production.589 
What Some Ohio Hens Did.589 
HORTICULTURE. 
Wanted a Hand-power Sprayer.562 
A Case of “Lawn Exhaustion”.502 
The Japanese Walnut . 563 
Dewberries in North- Carolina.504 
Fitting a Lawn Soil . 500 
Draining a Garden .500 
“Tlie Drone Tree.” Part IV.508 
The Grape Leaf-hopper. 509 
Mazzard Cherry Stock. 509 
Some Spraying Notes. 570 
The Culture of Currants. Part 1. 572 
The Simmonds Papaya. 575 
Attar of Roses.575 
Soy Beans in Young Orchard.575 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 578 
The Wise Woman Says. 57S 
The Back Porch . 578 
The Rural Patterns. 579 
Feet and Footwear. 579 
Shall She Pierce Her Ears?. 579 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Alaska Game Laws. 503 
Horsehair Snares; Taming Snakes.504 
Profits in the Canning Business. 505 
Dr. Friedmann’s Consumption Cure. 500 
A Town With Wet Feet. 570 
Concreted Block House Successful.573 
Editorials . 575 
Letter from J. S. Woodward. 575 
Brief Albany Notes. 575 
Events of the Week. 575 
New Jersey College Visitors’ Names. 575 
Business Conditions in the Flood Districts. 575 
Experience With a Dry Closet.582 
Publisher’s Desk . 590 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending April 11, 1913. 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1 50 
Asparagus. Southern, doz .2 00 
California, doz.... 2 00 
Beets, new. bbl. 150 
Oanots, bbl. 75 
Cucumbers. Southern, bn. 1 50 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton.. 6 t'O 
New. Sontbern. bbl. crate .. IjO 
Bed, ton. 7 00 
Kale, bbl. 25 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket.1 to 
Onions. luO lb. bag . 20 
Southern, new. bu. . 1 20 
Peppers. Florida carrier . 1 00 
Peas, Southern, bu. 1.00 
String Beans, bu. 1 01 
Squash, bbl. 1 50 
Egg Plants. Fla., box. 125 
Spinach, bbl ... 50 
Tomatoes—Southern carrier. 1 (X) 
Turnips, white, bbl. 40 
Rutabaga. 50 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, doz. 50 
@2 50 
@ 4 00 
@ 4 25 
@ 2 50 
@ 1 UO 
@ 3 50 
® 9 00 
« 1 25 
@10 00 
@ 50 
® 3 00 
@ 1 00 
@ 1 59 
@ 200 
@ 2 00 
@ 2 25 
@ 2 U0 
@2 50 
@ 1 25 
@ 3 00 
@ 75 
@ 88 
@ 1 12 
Mushrooms, lb. 
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50 
Tomatoes, lb. 
. 10 
@ 
20 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 
. 2 no 
@ 
250 
Lettuce, doz.. 
. 25 
@ 
50 
Rhubarb, doz. bunches. 
. 30 
@ 
60 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb. 
. 18 
@ 
19 
Fowls. 
. 22 
@ 
23 
Roosters. 
. 12 
@ 
14 
. 21 
22 
Geese. 
. u 
@ 
12 
Turkevs ... 
. 20 
@ 
22 
Guineas, pair.. 
. 65 
@ 
70 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, best. 
23 
@ 
24 
Common to good. 
. 18 
@ 
22 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 
. 45 
@ 
50 
Broilers, common to good . 
, 20 
@ 
30 
Roasters. 
, 2U 
@ 
22 
Fowls. 
. 14 
@ 
18— 
Ducks. 
15 
@ 
20 
Squabs, doz. 
. 50 
@ 
4.50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton. 
,20 00 
@2100 
No. 2. 
.17 00 
la IS 00 
No. 3. 
12 00 
@16 00 
Clover mixed. 
11 00 
@1 
7 00 
MILLFLED. 
Wheat Bran, ton.19 00 
Middlings .22 00 
Red Dog.28 00 
Corn Meal.25 00 
Linseed Meal.27 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers.8 GO 
Bulls. .5 50 
Cows. 3 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 8 00 
Culls... G 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 4 50 
Lambs. 8 00 
Hogs. 9 00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, good to prime. 14 
Common. 09 
Pork, light weights .a.. 12 
Medium and heavy... 09 
Hothouse Lambs, head.5 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 110 
No. 2, Red . 1 13 
No. 2, Hard Winter. 1 03 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 55 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 37 
Rye . 65 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest current 
prices, but are fairly representative of what the 
majority of New York consumers pay; 
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'a 25 00 
(.< 29 00 
<a 2G 00 
@28 00 
@ 9 20 
@ 8 00 
@ 6 85 
@11 50 
@ 7 00 
@ 7 00 
@ 9 6 5 
@ 9 85 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 
@ 
35 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
.. 24 
@ 
28 
Ordinary grades. 
@ 
20 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 
@ 
44 
Tub, choice. 
@ 
38 
Apples, table sorts, bbi. 
Id) 
6 00 
Potatoes, bushei . 
.. 75 
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1 00 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 
@ 
26 
Fowls. 
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BUTTER. 
Creamery, best, lb... 35 
Good to Choico. 32 
Lower Grades. 28 
State Dairy, best. 34 
Common to Good. 27 
Factory. 22 
Packing Stock. 20 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 36 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 36 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 17 
Common to Good . 14 
Skims. 03 
EGG’S. 
White, choice to fancy. 
Good to prime. 18 
Mixed colors, best. 18 
Common to good. 15 
Western, best. ]<j 
Checks and dirties. 14 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evapv, choice, 1911.. 
Common to good . 00 
Sun dried . 03 
Chops. 100 lbs. 1 30 
Raspberries. 
Cherries . ,, 
Huckleberries. 14 
FRESH ERUPTS. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 
Newton Pippin. 
Ring. 
spy.. 
Spitzenburg.2 50 
Winesap. . 
Greening . 2 50 
Baldwin . . 
Western, choice varieties, box... 
Common to good, box. 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 8 L, 
Long Island, bbl. 7 00 
Jersey, bbl. 7 00 
Strawberries, Florida, qt....I‘“ 
„ BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. , 75 
Medium. . 
Pea ... 
Red Kidney....« L, 
White Kidney.. j, igj 
Yeii 0 w Eye. 
Lima, California.*.**“|“ gj 
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Primo to choice. ’ *>i 
Common togood...!!’.!!!!.!!!*** it; 
Old stock. . 
German crop. 43 
VEGETABLES. 
bag .i 85 
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BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 36 @ 
Western creamery . 35 @ 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 22 @ 
Gathered fresh. . 18 @ 
Apples, dessert varieties, bbl.2 50 
Common kinds . 150 
Cranberries, bbl. 8 00 
Potatoes. 2 bu. bag. 1 25 
Dressed Meats—Veal. II 
Pork. 11 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 19 
Roasters. 20 
Turkeys. 22 
Hay—No. 1.21 00 
No. 2.19 00 
No. 3. 16 00 
Straw—Rye.22 00 
Millfeed—Bran, ton.20 00 
Middlings.22 00 
Mixed Feed.22 00 
Gluten.24 00 
Live Stock—Milch Cows.30 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 3 50 
Bulls, 100 lbs. 4 00 
Calves, 100 lbs.5 00 
Hogs, !00 lbs. 8 50 
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BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Spring opens with a much better show¬ 
ing of all green foods in the markets than 
usual, although the strictly southern sup¬ 
plies are not in very much yet. There are 
beaus, spinach and asparagus, but they sell 
so much higher than the less perishable 
home products that the sale of them is not 
great. The spectacle of ouions of fair grade 
retailiug at two cents a quart and potatoes 
steadily declining in price, with apples very 
plenty and fairly cheap, makes it hard to 
sell high-priced stuff to most people^ Farm¬ 
ers report that potatoes are dowTT^mother 
10 cents a bushel and they are not quoted 
to the retailer at more than 00 cents a 
bushel. The flexibility of the poultry mar¬ 
ket, as compared with meats is shown by 
eggs not selling to retailers at more than 
22 cents for best grades and storage eggs 
fairly knocked out by the low price of new- 
laid stock. Here is meat, though, as high 
as the highest yet. An Erie County farmer 
states that he has just been offered 10 cents 
a pound dressed for a bull he wanted to 
turn off. Such beef has often sold as low 
as three cents and sometimes nobody would 
buy it unless it might be some sausage 
concern. When will the eastern farmer go 
to raising calves and making money again 
on beef? 
There seems to be no show for the apple 
supply. Too many apples were put into cold 
storage last Fall, on account of the low 
price. They must now sell at about last 
Fall’s prices. One difficulty with them has 
been that the quality was not so high as it 
should be. The consumer does not care to 
buy low grades of them as a rule. Tlu 
western supply has done what it could to 
improve the appearance of apples, but 
