1913. 
the RURAL, IMRW-YORKRR 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, May 24, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Business Side of It.689, 690 
The Spirit of Progress. 690 
Wells in Drainage System. 690 
Harvesting Ilay in No. Colorado. 690 
Coming Farmers' Meetings. 692 
Questions About Lime. 692 
Government Crop Reports. 692 
Foreign Crops. 692 
Salt Fish for Fertilizing. 693 
The Value of Night Soil. 693 
Wheat for Hay... 693 
Understand tlie Plows. 693 
American Potash Supplies. 693 
Flax on Winter-Killed Wheat. 693 
Ohio Crop Reports. 694 
The Potato Crop. 694 
Hope Farm Notes. 696 
Selecting Seed Corn.. 697 
Farm Legislation in New Y’ork. 699 
Farm Legislation in Indiana. 
Notes from Southern Ohio. 699 
Farming on the Jersey Coast. 699 
Value of Alfalfa. 704 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Grade Guernsey’s Performance. . . 689 
How to Grow the Root Crop. Part II. . 691 
Concrete Separator Base. 702 
Guinea Pigs. 702 
Starting Young Pigs. 702 
Glanders Not Curable. 702 
Milk .). 703 
The New England Situation. 702 
Stories of Milk Inspectors. 702 
Grain With Rye and Pasture. 704 
Ration for Butter Cows. 704 
Rations for Cows and Pigs. 704 
Blue Milk ...704 
Dog With Eczema. 704 
Frightened Horse . 704 
Rupture . 704 
The Egg-Laying Contest. 705 
“The Pedigree I-Ien". 705 
Ailing Pullets . 705 
Worms for Chicks. 705 
Ration for Breeding Fowls. 705 
Chicks with Bacterial Disease. 705 
Crockery for Fowls. 705 
HORTICULTURE. 
Lima Beans on Wire. 692 
The Power Sprayer. 692 
Green Sawdust for Mulch. 693 
Fertilizer for Peach Orchard. 693 
Low-Grade Orchards . 693 
A Day’s Work. 694 
Culture of Golden Seal. 697 
Renovating Old Vineyard . 697 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 700 
Home Instruction . 700 
Meat Recipes for the Fireless Cooker.. 700 
The Rural Patterns . 701 
Sour Milk Layer Cake. 701 
The Wise Woman Says..-. 701 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Acquiring Private Roads in New York 690 
Dr. Jabez Fisher. 691 
Flooded Cellars . 695 
Fire Extinguishing Materials. 695 
Use of Small Ram. 695 
Engine and Pump for Irrigation. 695 
Frost Protection for Filter . 695 
Trouble with Telephone . 695 
Editorials . 698 
Events of the Week. 699 
Publisher’s Desk . 706 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending May 16, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best, lb. 23 @ 
Good to Choice . 26 @ 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 
State Dairy, best. 27 @ 
Common to Good. 24 @ 
Factory . ..,. 25 @ 
Packing Stock. 21 
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;ry, 29 cents. 
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CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 12 
Common to Good . 
Skims. 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy.. 
Good to prime. 18 
Mixed colors, best. 
Common to good. 
Western, best. 
Checks and dirties. 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap„ choice, 1911. 07 
Common to good . 06 @ 0616 
Sun dried . 03 @ 03U 
Chops, 100 lbs... 1 30 @ 1 40 
Raspberries. 15 @ pj 
Cherries. 11 @ 14 
Huckleberries.i. 14 @ 16 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 3 00 @ 4 00 
Newton Pippin. 4 50 @ 6 00 
Spy . 3 00 @ 6 00 
Spitzenburg. 3 50 @ 6 50 
Greening . 2 50 @ 4 50 
Baldwin . 3 50 @ 4 75 
Strawberries, Carolina, qt. 06 @ 12 
Virginia. 05 @ 10 
Maryland . 06 @ 08 
BEAN8. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 5 25 @ 6.05 
Medium . 3 90 @ 4 05 
Pea . 3 50 @ 3 95 
Red Kidney. 3 50 @ 5 10 
White Kidney. 5 60 @ 5 75 
Yellow Eye. 3 90 @ 4 00 
Lima, California. 5 85 @ 5 95 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 21 @ 23 
Common to good. 16 @ 20 
Pacific Coast*. 16 @ 20 
Old stock. 07 @ 10 
German orop. 48 @ 50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Western 1681b. bag. 175 @2 12 
State, 180 lbs. 1 85 @ 2 12 
Maine, 168 lb. bag . 2 00 @ 2 15 
Southern, new, bbl. 2 50 @ 4 75 
Bermuda, new. bbl . 3 00 @ 5 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1 25 @ 2 50 
Asparagus, choice, green, doz . 3 00 @ 3 50 
White, choice. 1 75 @ 2 25 
Culls. 50 @100 
Beets, new, bbl. 2 00 @ 2 50 
Carrots, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Cucumbers, Southern, bu. 150 @2 50 
Cabbage, new. bbl. crate. 100 @2 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 60 @150 
Onions, 100 lb. bag . 7s @ 1 00 
Southern, new, bu. 60 @ 90 
Peppers, Florida carrier. 1 00 @ 1 60 
Peas, Southern, bu. 1.00 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 0 75 
Rhubarb, 100 bunshes . 50 
String Beans, bu. 1 00 
Squash, new, bu. 75 
Egg Plants, Fla., box.. 1 50 
Spinach, bbl. 75 
Tomatoes—Southern carrier......_ loo 
Turnips, white, bbl. 75 
Rutabaga . 50 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, doz. 50 
Mushrooms, lb. 20 
Tomatoes, lb. 15 
Lettuce, doz. 25 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 32 
Fowls . jo 
Roosters.. 10 
Ducks. 14 
Geese.* ” * 09 
Turkeys. 12 
Guineas, pair.. .’.'.V65 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, best. 23 
Common to good.18 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 30 
Broi lers, common to good . 20 
Roasters. 20 
Fowls.’ 14 
Squabs, doz.50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton.21 00 
No. 2.18 00 
No. 3. 12 00 
Clover mixed. 11 00 
Straw, Rye .23 00 
Oat. 10 00 
MILLFEED. 
Wheat Bran, ton.20 50 @21 00 
Middlings .22 00 @27 00 
Red Dog.28 00 @29 00 
Corn Meal.26 90 @27 00 
Linseed Meal.28 50 @28 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 6 60 @8 76 
Balls. 5 50 @760 
Cows. 3 00 ® 7 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 8 00 @10 00 
Culls. o 00 @ 7 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 4 00 @ 5 90 
Lambs. 7 00 @8 25 
Hogs. 8 50 @ 9 00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, good to prime. 12 © 13 
Common. 09 @ 10 
Hothouse Lambs, head. 5 00 @ 6 50 
GRAIN.' 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1 00 @ . 
No, 2, Red . 1 12 @ .. 
No. 2, Hard Winter. 1 00 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 63 @ 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 38 @ 
@ 2 00 
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@ 1 00 
@ 1 75 
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Ryd... 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; 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 34 @ 36 
Mixed colors, new laid. 28 @ 32 
Ordinary grades. 18 @ 20 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 35 © 40 
Tub, choice. 28 @ 32 
Apples, table sorts, bbl. 5 00 @ 8 50 
Potatoes, bushei . 1 00 ® 125 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 25 @ 26 
Fowls.. 18 @ 22 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 30 
Western creamery . 28 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 23 
Gathered fresh. 20 
Apples, dessert varieties, bbl. 4 00 
Common kinds . 2 50 
Potatoes, 2 bu. bag. 1 40 
Dressed Meats—Veal. 09 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 19 
Roasters. .. 20 
Turkeys. 22 
Hay—No. 1.22 00 
No. 2.19 00 
No. 3. 15 U0 
Straw—Rye.22 00 
Millfeed—Bran, ton.21 (JO 
Middlings.22 0U 
Mixed Feed.22 00 
Gluten.24 00 
Live Stock—Milch Cows.30 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 3 50 
Bulls, 10U lbs. 4 00 
Calves, 100 lbs. 6 00 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 8 50 
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BUSINESS NOTES. 
About S5,000,000 feet of timber Is worked 
up into excelsior yearly iu tbis country. 
This industry was started 50 years ago. 
On the Pacific Coast the fruit outlook is 
as follows; Apricots, 50 per cent of last 
year; pears and peaches, 70 per cent; 
prunes, 60 per cent, with considerably less 
stock carried over than last year. 
The brick business in 1912 was espe¬ 
cially good, New York City alone using 
about 1,000,000,000. The price for common 
brick was $7 per 1,000, or $2.75 higher 
than in 1911. 
For the nine months ending March 31 
imports of manufacturers’ materials were 
as follows: Cotton, 100,000,000 pounds; 
wool, 126,000,000; silk. 20,000,000; tin, 
91,000,000; copper, 234,000,000; rubber, 
87,000,000; hides, 453,000.000. 
Consul Jewett, at Kehl, Germany, reports 
that in the Baden and Alsace-Lorraine dis¬ 
trict a severe snowstorm April 12, followed 
by hail and freezing weather, has seriously 
damaged fruits aud other crops. The same 
storm did great injury to vineyards near 
Reims, France. 
In April the State of Washington sold 
13,392 acres of land, about one-half being 
suitable for general farming. It brought 
$219,160. This is what is known as 
“logged off" land, which under the present 
law the State holds title to while the buy¬ 
ers of the timber are removing it, having 
five years for this purpose. 
Although a late Spring was predicted by 
the weather prophets, fruit trees came out 
very quickly, pastures are green, and many 
fields of oats are coming through. The 
hard frosts of late make it look like a 
poor fruit year. Cherries, plums and pears 
blossom full as did Greening apples, but 
Baldwin trees show hardly a blossom. Most 
farmers are planning to plant a goodly 
acreage of beans. c. m. 11 . 
Rushville, N. Y. 
The following prices were obtained for 
fruit in Covent Garden market, London, 
April 23, reckoning a shilling at 24 cents : 
Apples, English cooking, per bushel, 96 
cents to $1.70; French Russets, per box, 
$2.52 to $2.74 ; Canadian, barrels, $3.84 to 
$6; Wenatchee, per case, $1.80 to $2.52; 
American, barrels, $5.28 to $7.68; Ameri¬ 
can Newtowns, per barrel, $7.68 ; Nova Sco¬ 
tia, per barrel, $3.60 to $3.84 ; Australian, 
case, $1.92 to $2.88; Tasmanian, $1.68 to 
$2.40; Australian Cox's, $2.40 to $2.88. 
Cranberries, per case, $2.16 to $2.28 ; grape 
fruit, per dozen, 96 cents to $1.44. Musk- 
melons, Cape of Good Hope, each, 24 to 
48; English (greenhouse), 36 to $1.20. 
Peaches, English (greenhouse), dozen, $2.88 
to $11.52; Belgian, dozen, $4.32 to $5.76; 
Cape of Good Hope, ,box, $2.40 to $3.60. 
Pears, Cape of Good Hope, box, 96 to 
$1.44; Tasmanian, case, $1.72 to $2.40. 
Strawberries (greenhouse), per pound, 60 to 
$ 1 . 20 . _ 
SPRAYING NOTES. 
I see that one or two have wondered how 
far along fruit trees could be when spraying 
for San Jose scale with lime and sulphur. 
I would say from my own experience of 
about five years on my own place and on 
outside orchards that one could spray 
around here at any time up to when the 
leaves are half out. I have never found 
that it burned them, though of course it did 
not cover quite so well as when they were 
fully dormant. I use a hand pump with 
two nozzles and aim to carry 140 pounds 
pressure. h. a. k. 
Patrick, Mass. 
The same condition as in other places 
prevailed in this section, being too wet to 
draw sprayer, but all intend to spray with 
1-40 or 1-50 lime-sulphur, with three to 
four pounds of lead, for the Codling moth. 
Monroe County, N. Y. w, d. auchter. 
There has been but a very small percen. 
tage of the trees sprayed in this neighbor¬ 
hood. Some who formerly sprayed 
thorougly have made no attempt to do so 
this Spring, and so far as I can learn no 
Summer spraying will be done. l. e. b. 
East Pembroke, N. Y. 
On page 574 you want to know of a 
wash or spray that will keep trees and 
plants free from insect pests, and not in¬ 
jure tlie trees. On this coast where we 
are obliged to spray all the time we have 
found that a pound of washing powder 
dissolved in five gallons of water is effec¬ 
tive. If for tender foliage a gallon or 
two more water is necessary to prevent 
burning. It is the cheapest and most 
effective thing that we have tried. 
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