1913, 
‘T'HEj NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, May 10, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Fitting Sod Ground for Seeding. 
Mangels in the Silo... 
A Tractor in Pennsylvania. 
“Conservative Father and Progressive 
Son” . 
New England Farmers Institutes. 
Lima Beans on Wires..... 
Treatment of Smut and Scab. 
Green Crops and Manure. 
Planting Asparagus Roots. 
Cow-horn Turnips Alive. 
Preparing Ground for Onions. 
Crops .•. 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Spraying Potatoes . 
The Framers’ Institute Problem. 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Testing with Tuberculin. 
Butter Cows in Vermont... 
Indigestion ... 
Ringworm . 
Heifer with Cough. 
Pigs with Cough. 
Chorea . 
Spavin . 
Milk .. 
The Fat Test for Milk. 
“Dipped” Milk Regulations.. 
The Egg-laying Contest. 
The Prize English Leghorns. 
Indian Runners with Mixed 
Leg Weakness in Chicks.... 
Lame Goslings . 
Hatching Eggs by Mail. 
Roup . 
The “Unit” Hen System.... 
The Fowl Tick in Texas.... 
Disinfecting Land . 
Diseased Hens . 
Eggs 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Fertilization of Apple Orchards.649, 650 
The Drone Tree .651 
Horticultural Notes .655 
Narcissus Notes . 657 
Wormy Quinces ...657 
Troubles with Apples and Cherries.657 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.660 
Visiting on the Plains of Colorado.660 
The Rural Patterns.661 
Marking Wedding Gifts.661 
Easter Rabbits and Eggs.661 
Wild Plants and Birds as Neighbors.661 
Grape Pulp .661 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Danger from Electric Wires.650 
Editorials .658 
Get After These Men.659 
Ohio Flood Notes.659 
Events of the Week. 659 
Publisher’s Desk . 666 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending May 2, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best, lb. 30 © 31 
(jood to Choice. 27 © 29 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 26 
State Dairy, best. 29 @ 30 
Common to Good. 26 © 28 
Factory. 24 @ 27 
Packing Stock. 21 @ 24 
Elgin, Ill., butter market tlrm at 30 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 31 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 13 @ 13hS 
Common to Good . 10 © 12 
Skims. 03 © 07 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy. 21 © 22 
Good to prime. 18 @ 20 I 
Mixed eolors. best. 20 © 21 j 
Common to good. 15 @ 17 
Western, best. 20 @ 21 
Checks and dirties. 14 © 15 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., choice, 1911. 07 © 08 
Common to good . 06 © 064£ 
Sun dried . 03 @ 03J6 
Chops, 100 lbs. 1 30 © 1 40 
Raspberries. 15 © 16 
Cherries. 11 © 14 
Huckleborries. 14 © 16 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 2 00 @3 00 
Newton Pippin. 3 50 © 5 00 
King. 2 00 © 8 75 
Spy . 2 50 @ 5 00 
SpiUenburg. 2 50 © 5 50 
Wlnesap. 2 50 @ 4 50 
Greening . 2 50 @4 00 
Baldwin . 2 00 © 3 50 
Strawberries, Carolina, qt. 10 @ 15 
1 irginia. 10 © 16 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 5 20 © 6.00 
Medium. 3 90 © 4 00 
Pea . 3 50 © 3 95 
Red Kidney. 3 50 @4 30 
White Kidney. 5 60 @ 5 70 
Yellow Eye. 3 90 ® 4 00 
Lima, California. 5 90 © 6 00 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 21 @ 23 
Common to good. 16 © 20 
Pacific Coast,. 16 @ 20 
Old stock. 07 © 09 
German crop. 48 © 50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Western, 168 lb. bag.... 
State, 180 lbs. 
Maine, 168 lb. bag . 
Southern, new, bbl. 
Bermuda, new. bbl . 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 
Asparagus, choice, green, doz .... 
White, choice. 
Culls. 
Beets, new, bbl..7.7.'."... .7 
Cariots, bbl. 
Cueu tubers. Southern,' bu.'.’.’.’ * ‘.**' 
Cabbage, old, ton. 
New, Sou them, bbl. crato .... 
Lettuce, balf-bbl. basket. 
Onions. 1U0 lb. ban . 
Southern, new, bu. 
Poppers, Florida carrier. 
Peas, Southern, bu. 
String Beans, bu. .’’’****'* 
Squash, new, bu. 
Egg Plants. Fla., box. . 
Spinach, bbl. 
7omatocs—Sout.hern carrier. 
lurnips, white, bbl. 
Rutabaga . 
. 1 75 
.. 185 
.. 1 90 
. 2 50 
, 3 25 
. 1 25 
.. 2 75 
.. 176 
.. 1 00 
. 300 
.. 1 00 
. 2 00 
. 9 00 
. 125 
. 75 
. 20 
. 1 UO 
. 1 00 
. 1.00 
. 1 00 
. 75 
. 1 25 
. 1 00 
. 1 00 
1 75 
. 60 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, doz. 60 
Mushrooms, lb. 15 
Tomatoes, lb.....'7'.!!!!!!!!! 10 
Radishes, 100 bunches .7 150 
Lettuce, doz. 05 
Rhubarb, doz. bunches 7.7.77 20 
© 1 90 
© 2 00 
© 2 05 
@ 4 00 
@ 5 50 
© 2 50 
@ 3 50 
@250 
© 1 5U 
© 2 50 
© 1 50 
@ 3 50 
@14 00 
@2 00 
@ 1 75 
@ 75 
@ 2 50 
© 2 00 
@ 2 50 
@ 4 50 
@ 2 00 
© 2 50 
© 1 75 
@ 3 75 
@ 2 00 
@ 1 00 
@ 1 00 
@ 40 
@ 20 
@ 3 00 
© 50 
© 35 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 28 © 32 
Fowls.. 17 @ 18 
Roosters. 10 © 11 
Ducks. 15 @ 16 
Geese. 11 © 12 
Turkeys. 14 © 15 
Guineas, pair. 65 @ 70 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, best. 23 @ 24 
Common to good. 18 © 22 
Chickens, choice broilers, ib. 45 @ 50 
Broilers, common to good . 20 @ 30 
Roasters. 20 @ 22 
Fowls. H @ 19 
Ducks. 14 © IS 
Squabs, doz. 50 @ 4.25 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton.20 00 @21 00 
No. 2.17 00 @19 00 
No. 3 .12 00 ©If, U0 
Clover mixed.1100 @17 U0 
Straw, Rye .22 00 @23 00 
Oat.10 00 @12 00 
MILLFEED. 
Wheat Bran, ton.20 00 @20 75 
Middlings .22 00 @26 00 
Red Dog.28 00 @29 00 
Corn Meal.25 'H) @26 00 
Linseed Meal...27 50 @28 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 7 60 © 8 50 
Bulls. . 5 50 © 7 50 
Cows. 3 00 @ 6 50 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 8 00 @10 50 
„ Culls. 6 00 © 7 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 4 50 @ 6 75 
Lambs. 7 00 @ 8 UO 
Hogs. 8 50 @ 9 75 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, good to prime. 13 @ 15 
Common. 09 @ 11 
Hothouse Lambs, head. 5 00 © 7 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1 01 @ 
No. 2, Red . 1 15 © 
No. 2, Hard Winter.1 03 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 55 © 58 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 37 @ 41 
Rye . 65 © 69 
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; 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 34 @ 38 
Mixed colors, new laid. 26 @ 30 
Ordinary grades. 18 @ 20 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 35 @ 48 
Tub, choice. 28 @ 34 
Apples, table sorts, bbl. 5 00 © 3 00 
Potatoes, bushei. 75 ® 1 00 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 25 © 26 
Fowls. is @ 22 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 32 @ 34 
Western creamery. 31 @ 32 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 22 @ 23 
Gathered fresh. 18 @ 19 
Apples, dessert varieties, bbl. 2 50 @3 50 
Common kinds . 150 @200 
Cranberries, bbl. 8 UO @10 50 
Potatoes, 2 bu. bag. 125 @130 
Dressed Meats—Veal. 13 @ 16 
Pork. 11 © 12 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 19 © 21 
Roasters. 20 © 25 
Turkeys. 22 @ 25 
Hay—No. 1.22 0U @23 00 
No. 2.1‘JOO @2100 
No. 3.16 00 @18 00 
Straw—Rye.22 00 @23 00 
MilUeed—Bran, ton.21 U0 @22 00 
Middlings.22 00 @24 00 
Mixed Feed.22 00 @26 00 
Gluten.24 00 @25 00 
Live Stock-Milch Cows.30 00 @100 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 3 50 @ 6 00 
Bulls, 100 lbs. 4 00 @ 5 00 
Calves, 100 lbs. 600 @S0U 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 8 50 @950 
DIRECT DEALING WITH CONSUMERS. 
lliere is so much attention being 
given at the present time to the retail 
end of farming that I have thought it 
possible my experience in trying to get 
the consumer’s dollar might interest 
some of your readers. About one year 
ago I began to look for customers for 
the extra butter from our family cow, 
after having made a considerable study 
of butter making and reading every¬ 
thing you printed. It was not long be¬ 
fore I had to have a second cow, and 
another, and so on till I had my nine 
stalls in the barn filled with milk pro¬ 
ducers. After the butter trade came a 
demand for buttermilk, which led to 
cottage cheese making, and during the 
time mentioned we have made and sold 
nearly 1,500 pounds of cheese; on an 
average of 30 quarts of buttermilk each 
week. One thing led to another, and 
at present we find it easy to dispose of 
all our poultry, eggs, fruit, vegetables 
and dairy products to a line of custom¬ 
ers who seem to appreciate good things, 
fair prices and square treatment. When 
we killed the hogs last Winter, two at 
a time, it was an easy matter to dis¬ 
pose of the spare ribs, tenderloins and 
roasts, also the sausage and scrapple, 
while at present the lard, bacon and 
hams are going out at top prices. 
With reference to the latter point 
it has been our aim to charge about 
as much for everything sold as our 
local grocers charge, but to give a 
little more in weight or measure, or 
have things looking cleaner and more 
attractive if possible. Our butter is 
made up in pound prints and packed in 
regular butter cartons with our adver¬ 
tisement on top. Cottage cheese in 
prints and put in cream boxes which 
hold one pound and bring seven cents. 
Eggs are put up in one dozen folding 
boxes, most of which are returned by 
customers on following trip. 
While it is tjje universal rule around 
here that “farmers’ butter” sells in the 
stores for six to 10 cents per pound 
less than creamery butter, we have been 
able from the start to command the top 
price, at present 45 cents, and have a 
waiting list of customers for not less 
than 15 to 20 pounds more weekly than 
we can make. Up to the present time 
we have not lost a single dollar in bad 
debts, as nearly all trades are a cash 
transaction. Apart from the satisfac¬ 
tion of feeling that we are getting 100 
cents of each dollar, there is the per¬ 
sonal equation that comes with dealing 
direct and the mutual benefit side of 
each transaction. 
We make a regular trip each Wednes¬ 
day and Saturday, trying to have some¬ 
thing different from the staple line each 
time. It is an exception to miss a sale 
it each and every stopping place. The 
motto determined on at the start of 
this undertaking is, “Nothing considered 
a trouble that pleases a customer,” 
which I feel is in a large measure re¬ 
sponsible for our success. We try to 
carry with us a smile and good word 
for all, present a clean, fresh shaven 
face, and do not wear our working 
clothes on our market rounds. It was a 
little hard to look the most cheerful 
last Wednesday, after the frost had 
killed our peaches, 350 trees full of 
blossoms that promised a good crop, 
but our case is not near as hard as the 
farmer in the “flood districts” out West, 
so we try to make the best of things, 
hoping the apples and berry crop may 
come to our rescue later on. 
The following are some of the prices 
we are getting. Butter, 45; eggs, 20; 
buttermilk, five cents a quart; poultry, 
dressed, 22; potatoes, 70; ham, 30 cents, 
sliced, 40 cents boiled; bacon, 26; lard, 
15; cabbage, five and eight cents ac¬ 
cording to size; parsnips, about $1 per 
bushel; apples, while they last, $1.25. 
Our fresh pork averages 18 cents per 
pound, sausage, 20, scrapple, 10. There 
is a lot of work connected with the 
undertaking, but that goes in the day’s 
work, and we are keeping at it as 
hard as we know how, hoping that a 
nice little auto delivery car will take 
the place of “Dolly” and the express 
wagon before long. B. M. v. 
Pennsylvania. 
NATURAL AND SULPHURATED OATS. 
We are having 1 great difficulty in finding 
natural oats. The dealers will not keep 
any which have not been sulphured, and 
our birds and horses simply will not eat 
them. The complaint is general, but the 
dealers ignore it and tell us their custom¬ 
ers demand the bleached oats. I thought 
possibly you might have had this question 
submitted to you before, and might offer 
some solution. Would the sulphuring come 
under the pure food act? f. c. c. 
Maine. 
We can buy either, as there are always 
both grades on the market for sale. Of 
course if you want a good colored natural 
oats, unbleached, you would have to pay 
more for them than the sulphurated oats, 
which are possibly just as good in color. 
These good colored unbleached oats bring 
about 1 % cent a bushel more than the sul¬ 
phurated oats. L. F. MILLER A SONS. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
No. 4 white, few cars grading standard, 
and several so musty that they are sold 
by sample. The demand here is for natural 
oats ; the sulphured will not be used when 
the others are obtainable. Our receipts for 
last three weeks has been very light, and 
a few cars of sulphured oats have arrived 
here from Chicago, and Milwaukee, but 
they are not liked, as Government regula¬ 
tion is such that even in retail way, these 
oats must be branded just what they are. 
By treating No. 4 white and sample oats 
with sulphur dioxide, they are made a 
nice bright color, and are sold on par 
with standard and No. 3 white natural 
oats. _ Nearly all Michigan oats are grad¬ 
ing No. 4 white, but we are getting some 
very good natural standard and No. 3 
white from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. 
Detroit, Mich. c. r. huston. 
Agents Wanted 
EITHER SEX 
Big money for hustlers. 
We return your postage 
with particulars of the 
Best Vacuum Cleaner and the 
Eclipse Vacuum Washer 
Demonstration with sam¬ 
ples costs you nothing. 
We deliver the goods. 
Cash Bu u ers Mfg, Co. 
MIDW.EB0RY, INDIANA 
Box 4 
Do You Need Farm Help? 
We have many aide-bodied young men, both 
with and without farm experience, who wish to 
work on farms. If you need a good, steady, sober 
man, write for an order blank. Ours ii a phil¬ 
anthropic organization and we make no ehargo to 
employer or employee. Our object is the encour¬ 
agement of farming among Jews. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
176 Second Ave., /V. City 
WONTED-FARMER’S SON FOR GENERAL FARMING. 
vv J. O. HALE. - P. O. Byfield, Mass. 
ITOR SALE-STEEL DISC CULTIVATOR- 
x Cost $25 new. Going away. Price, $15 delivered 
See page A 14, J. S- Woodhonse catalogue. 
JOS. C. CASKEY, 1133 Broadway, N. Y. 
WANTFD A COMPETENT 
▼ “ l a-lL-' orchardist 
to look after land planted to young trees. Also can 
use a man in PACKING HOUSE AND FARM WORK who has 
executive ability and who has had experience in nur¬ 
sery work. Must hnvefirst-classeredeutials. Address 
J. G. HARRISON & SONS, Nurserymen. BERLIN. MD. 
AGENTS WANTED- m \- nt 4mth 
high-class references, on commission basis only, 
no advances made, to sell Canadian Railway Farm 
lands on 20 -year-payment plan. Loan of $2,000 will 
be made for improvements to desirable settlers who 
must have minimum capital of $1.20U. Apply by let¬ 
ter only to FABER & COMPANY, 458 Broadway, New York 
Wanted-farmer's daughter for housework. 
” EMILY A. HALE, Hale’s Farms, Rowley,Mass. 
W ANTPn — MARRIED MAN under 35, 011 dairy farm— 
" Jerseys. Chiefly as herdsman. Must be 
first-class milker. Fifty dollars a month and free 
house. No whiskey. Not a snap for indolentg. bnt 
advancement for honest efforts- GLENFREW FARM, Se- 
wickley. Pa. R- F. Shannon [Ten miles from Pittsburg.] 
WANTED —A few single men for farm work. None bnt 
™ competent men that do not drink will be em¬ 
ployed. White Harse Farms, A. K. Heath, Mgr., Paeli, Peso. 
Unsulphurated oats we carry in stock and 
can give you any amount. Natural oats, 
not sulphurated, will cost 43 cents per 
bushel; natural oats, sulphured, 41 cents 
per bushel; strictly A No. 1 not sulphured, 
44 cents per bushel. The unsulphured oats 
are not as bright as the sulphured. To 
make the oats very bright and to look good 
to the eye they are then put through a 
process which then gives them a nice 
bright color. We have had a big demand 
for unsulphured oats aud some of the trade 
does not care whether they are sulphured or 
not as long as they have a good bright 
color. CARSCALLEN & CASSIDY. 
Jersey City, N. J. 
It is really difficult buying natural oats 
here in the East. The trade are demand¬ 
ing more and more clipped oats and oats 
that are of nice color and in view of the 
fact that almost all the oats of last year's 
crop were stained .the elevators are bleach¬ 
ing them pretty generally to give them a 
nice appearance and make them more read¬ 
ily salable. There is some trouble about 
horses eating these bleached oats, espe¬ 
cially when they are excessively bleached. 
Yet the trade are so educated up to nice- 
looking oats formerly put through the 
bleaching preess .that it is difficult selling 
the natural stained oats this year. We get 
some natural oats through New York State 
and through Michigan. 
Boston, Mass. loud & webster co. 
Practically all the oats coming to this 
market are natural oats, grading No. 3 and 
POSITION ON FRUIT FARM WANTED-By boy 15H years 
• old: strong and willing and in perfect health. 
ANDERSON, 187 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
C;_ 1 _ 1 V/T_ _—Desires position as manager of 
man fruit farm. 7 years’ practical 
experience. Reference. E H S , care Rural New-Yorker 
H/ANTED-Good, decent, married or single men- 
'' References required. Good wages to good 
help. VVEKWAJPPO 1'AKM, Midvale, N. J. 
Wo«*«d-™UNG MARRIED MAN for Fruit and 
o-nieu Truck Farm. Box 266, Doylestown, Ohio 
If V/*.. Won! to Ret the most money out of your 
u i ou vy ant dressed and live poul¬ 
try, (’ALVES, PIGS. BUTTER AND EGGS. 
SHII’ TO US. One of GREATER NEW YORK’S 
LARGEST WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS. 
CONRON BROS. CO.. 
131st St. and 12th Ave., New York City, N. Y. 
GKO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. PRANK W. GODW1S 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY FRODUCE, Apples, Peaches. Ber 
ties Butter. Eggs. Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot-house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. ” 34 Jfc 3G Little 13tl» St.. New York- 
WANTED 
BERRIES, FANCY EGGS. MTH0USE PRODUCTS, GREEN 
PEAS AND ALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
Top Pricks tor Choice Goods 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St., New York 
will occur the second in a series of semi-annual consignment sales, known as 
Todd’s Interstate Consignment Sale 
This event will occur on the Interstate Fair Ground at Trenton, N. J.. 
on the above date, and every person interested in the Holstein-Friesian cow is hereby invited to 
attend. About 75 head, mostly females, will be sold at this time. All over six months of age will 
have the tuberculin test applied. Among the consignors are : 
A. A. Cortelyou, Somerville, N. J. I L. E. Opie, Skillman, N. J- 
Bernhard Meyer, Finderne, N. J. I M. De Witt Terhune, Belle Mead, N. J. 
Willis E. Stryker. Belle Mead, N. J. IE. B. Bergen. Harlingen, N. J. 
Alvin Hill. Ringoes, N. J. I and others. 
The above cattle are pledged to absolute sale, and we leave it all with the breeding publie 
to help make this event a success. 
You ought to know us—to get acquainted, address 
JACOB TODD, JR., Sale Manager, Somerville, N. J. 
H'e hope catalog will be ready to mail about May isth. 
