1913 . 
THE BLUKA.L NEW-YORKER 
72 7 
CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, May 31, 1013. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Harvesting the Wheat. TOO 
Harvesting Hay in No. Colorado. 
Part II. 710 
Future Farmers’ Institutes. 711 
A Concrete Roller and Packer.711 
Rye for the Silo. 711 
Thrashing Vetch . 712 
A Dugout for Potatoes. 712 
Leveling and Grading Ditches. 714 
Crimson Clover with Wheat. 714 
The Culture of Soy Beans. 714 
Hope Farm Notes. 710 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 719 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Growing Hothouse Lambs. 
Feeding Moldy Ear Corn. 
Milk .. 
Conditions in Southern New York.. 
Live Stock in Nebraska. 
A Delaware Brood Mare. 
Horse Manure and Flies. 
Chorea ... 
Paralysis . 
Balking . 
Weak Mare . 
Cow Stands Abnormally. 
The Egg-laying Contest. 
Trouble with Fowls. 
Toe-marking Fowls . 
Removing Poultry Droppings. 
Cleaning Henhouse . 
Price of Non-Fertile Eggs.... 
722 
790 
l S. , 
724 
724 
724 
724 
724 
724 
725 
725 
725 
725 
725 
725 
HORTICULTURE 
Fighting the Crawling Insects. 710 
Persian Walnuts in the U. S. 713 
The Bethlehemite Apple. 717 
Sod Mulch on Hillsides. 717 
The Pea Aphis; when Lilacs Bloom. 717 
Green Lice on Lettuce. 717 
Whitewash on Fruit Trees. 717 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 720 
Some Memorial Day Reflections.... 720 
The Rural Patterns. 721 
That Fruit Salad. 721 
Rice Made Attractive. 721 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“Not Educaton But False Ideals”.. 711 
Facts About Commercial Canning. . 712 
Who Owns the Fence?. 714 
Size of Acre; Value of Ilay. 714 
Editorials .'. 71,s 
Strout Libel Suit. 71!) 
Stamp This Politician. 71!) 
New Jersey Liability Law. 710 
Events of the Week. 710 
Publisher’s Desk . 720 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending May 23, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best, lb.. 
. 23 
@ 
2S)6 
Good to Choice . 
@ 
27 
Lower Grades. 
@ 
25 
Stato Dairy, best. 
. 27 
@ 
28 
Common to Good. 
@ 
26 
Factory. 
. 24 
@ 
26 
Packing Stock. 
. 21 
@ 
23 
Elgin. 11!.. butter market firm at 
2-Pf cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 
, 29 cents. 
CHEESE. 
Whole Milk, best. 
@ 13)6 
12 
@ 09 
Common to Good .. 
Skims. 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy. 
Good to prime.,. 
Mixed colors, best. 
Common to good. 
Western, best. 
Checks and dirties. 
.. 23 
.. 18 
.. 15 
.. 20 
® 24 
@ 22 
@ 22 
@ 17 
® 21 
@ 16 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap,. choice, 1911 . 
Common to good . 
Sun dried . 
.. 07 
® 08 
@ 06)6 
@ 03)6 
@ 1 45 
Chops, 1011 lbs. 
Raspberries.... 
.. 135 
Cherries. . 
Huckleberries. 
.. ii 
@ 14 
@ 10 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 
Neivton Pippin. 
Spy . 
Greening . 
Russet . 
.. 4 00 
.. 4 50 
.. 4 00 
.. 3 00 
@ 4 50 
@ 6 00 
@ 600 
<■' 5 00 
Baldwin . 
Strawberries. Carolina, qt.. . 
Virginia. 
..4 50 
.. 04 
@ 5 50 
® 09 
@ 07 
tit 
Maryland. 
Jersey. 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium . 
Pea .. 
Red Kidney.!!!.'!!!!'.'*. 
White Kidney | 
Yellow Eye .' 
Lima, California. 
.. 5 25 
,. 3 90 
. 3 50 
. 3 50 
. 5 60 
. 585 
@ 6.00 
W -1 05 
® 3 95 
(i i 06 
@ 5 SO 
® 4 05 
@595 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 
Common to good... 
. 20 
® 22 
@ 20 
@ 20 
Pact tic Coast,. 
Old stock. . 
. 16 
Gorman crop.... 
($ 50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes-Western 168 lh. bag. 
btate, ISO lbs. .. 
Maine. 168 lb. bag 
.. 225 
. 2 26 
@ 2 40 
@ 2 50 
Southern, new. bbl 
_ Bermuda, new! bbl. 
sweet Potatoes, bbl 
. a oj 
@ 5 00 
® 3 00 
@4 00 
@ 3 00 
® 1 00 
@ 3 00 
Aap.iiagn 8 , choice, green, doz __ 
White, choice. 
Culls.. . . 
Beets, new. bbl. 
Cariots, bbb. . 
.. 2 50 
.. 2 50 
. 50 
. 2 00 
Cucumbers. Southern, bu... 
Cabbage new. bbl. crate.. 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket... 
Onions, 100 lb. bag 
Southern, new, bu ... ” 
Pon‘- ,0 o S ’ i ] orul11 carrier . 
{^'Southern, bu.. 
. 1 60 
. 75 
. 50 
. 75 
. 60 
. 1 00 
@ 2 50 
® 1 25 
<•' 1 0(1 
(3 i 25 
@ 75 
@ 1 50 
rs ‘h he . s- 100 bunches . 
U ’f'bkrb, 100 bunshes .. . 
string Beans, bu . 
new. im.. . 
. 0 75 
. 50 
. 1 00 
<3 1 25 
® 1 00 
@ 2 00 
Fla., box .... . 
Spinach, bbl ... . 
Tunnnc CS ~t?'' ,u bV‘rn Vatrier!!!!!!!!! 
runups, white, bbl 
Rutabaga ... . 
. 1 50 
. 75 
. 1 00 
. 50 
@ 2 25 
@ 1 25 
2 50 
@ 1 25 
@ 1 00 
Cucumbers, doz. 
, 
50 
@ 1 00 
Mushrooms, lb. 
15 
@ 35 
Tomatoes, lb. 
10 
@ 20 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 
19 
® 20 
Common to good. 
16 
© 18 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 
30 
@ 35 
Broilers, common to good . 
25 
@ 28 
Roasters. 
20 
@ 22 
Fowls. 
11 
@ 19 
Squabs, doz. 
50 
@ 4.25 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton. 
.20 
00 
00 
@21 00 
@18 50 
No. 3. 
00 
@16 Utl 
Clover mixed. 
.1(1 
00 
@18 00 
Straw, Rye . 
00 
@26 00 
Oat. 
100 
@12 00 
MILLFEKD. 
Wheat Bran, ton. 
,20 
50 
@21 00 
Middlings . 
.22 
00 
@27 00 
Red Dog . 
.28 
00 
@29 U0 
Corn Meal. 
26 
90 
@27 00 
Linseed Meal.. 
.28 
50 
@28 5U 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 
, 7 
50 
@ 8 75 
Bulls. 
00 
@ 7 75 
Cows. 
00 
@ 6 65 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 
. 8 
00 
fe 10 75 
Culls. 
00 
@ 7 50 
Sheep, 1U0 lbs. 
, 4 
00 
@6 00 
Lambs. 
. 7 
00 
@ 7 75 
Hogs. 
. 8 
50 
@ 9 00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, good to prime. 14 @ 15 
Common. 11 @ 13 
Hothouse Lambs, Mead. 5 UO @ 6 5U 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1 01 @ 
No. 2, Red . 1 10 @ .. 
No. 2, Hard Winter. 1 02 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 63 ® 65 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 40 @ 45 
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 Yorlc consumers pay: 
Eggs, fancy white, do/.. 34 @ 35 
Mixed colors, new laid. 28 @ 32 
Ordinary grades. 18 @ 20 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 35 @ 37 
Tub, choice. 28 @ 32 
Apples, table sorts, bbl. 7 00 @ 9 00 
Potatoes, bnshei. 1 25 @ 1 50 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 25 @ 26 
Fowls. 18 ® 22 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 30 @ 31 
Western creamery . 28 @ 29 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 25 @ 27 
Gathered fresh. 20 @ 22 
Apples, dessert varieties, bbl. 4 00 @ 6 5(J 
Common kinds . 2 50 @ 3 00 
Potatoes. 2 bu. bag. I 5a @ 1 65 
Dressed Meats—Veal. 09 ® 15 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 19 @ 21 
Roasters. 20 ® 22 
Hay—No. 1.22 0(1 ®22 50 
No. 2 .19 00 @19 50 
No. 3.15 00 @!6 00 
Straw—Rye.22 00 @23 00 
Mill feed—Bran, ton...21 nO @22 50 
Middlings.22 50 @25 50 
Mixed Feed.22 00 @26 00 
Gluten.25 00 @26 00 
Live Stock-Milch Cows.50 00 @100 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 3 50 @ 6 00 
Bulls, 100 lbs. 4 00 @6 00 
Calves, loo lbs. 7 00 <g S75 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 8 50 @9 CO 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
The April output of the great oleomar¬ 
garine factories of Chicago was 8.03S.- 
210 pounds. 
The Canadian budget for the year is 
$202,022,500, exclusive of railway sub¬ 
sidies to be voted later of probably about 
$25,000,000. 
In the nine months ending March 31, 
1913, the following imports of luxuries 
were made: Precious stones, $30,000,- 
000; laces and embroideries, $36,000,000; 
wines, $7.500,000; feathers, $9,250,000. 
The frost of May 11-12 did great dam¬ 
age to the growing peas in parts of Dela¬ 
ware and Maryland. Some packers report 
that their output will uot be more than 
35 i>or cent, of normal. The outlook in 
the Michigan and Wisconsin pea fields is 
promising; Ohio and Indiana report dam¬ 
age from drought. 
The Argentine frozen meat business is 
in a flourishing condition. During the 
first three months of this year there were 
exported 1,080,000 quarters of beef anti 
1,260,000 carcasses of sheep. 
Pig iron to the amount of 29,726.937 
tons was produced in this country during 
1912; 15.63S.115 kegs of nails were 
made. 1,738.921 being exported. Canada 
produced 912,878 gross tons of pig iron 
of all classes. 
For several years it has been the prac¬ 
tice of many speculators to stuff live poul¬ 
try with sand and gravel to increase the 
weight before selling. In some cases a 
thin gruel made hot with red pepper is 
fed at night. This makes the birds hun¬ 
gry and thirsty, so that in the morning 
they are ready to eat great quantities of 
soft food heavily mixed with sand and 
gravel. They often gain upwards of one- 
half pound each, making an extra profit 
on a carload of from $300 to $500. The 
jobbers who buy this poultry of the 
wholesalers in New York have been on a 
strike, refusing to buy except on the basis 
of empty crops. This stuffing with saud 
is not only dishonest but cruel, the birds 
sometimes dying as the result of the 
treatment. 
During March the revenues from 
222,000 miles of railroad in this country 
were $241,048,818. Operating expenses 
were $178,234,167, leaving a net operat¬ 
ing revenue of $62,814,651. 
. Beginning July 1, 1913. railroads haul¬ 
ing cotton from the South Atlantic and 
Gulf States will make higher rates for 
poorly baled shipmens than for cotton 
properly put up. The purpose of this is 
to effect improvement in baling, which 
has been very defective. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Practically all other early vegetables 
are fairly low, though new Bermuda 
onions are quite high. There is too much 
of the old crop on hand yet, however, at 
40 cents a bushel to retailers to make the 
trade brisk. It appears that the cool 
Spring has favored asparagus, which is 
very plenty, at varying prices, the home¬ 
grown selling a trifle higher than the 
southern. 
Strawberries again retail at 10 cunts a 
quart for fair quality. It is reported that 
the home crop is injured some by frost. 
As a rule it is now just in blossom. It 
often happens that we pay more for home¬ 
grown berries than we do for the later 
southern ones. This section needs irriga¬ 
tion for them, for they suffer quickly 
from the dry spell that almost always 
strikes them before the crop matures. Of 
southern crops the grape fruit is most 
conspicuous. The size is excessive and 
the price, three for 25 cents, is high. They 
should be only about half the present size, 
when the price would not appear to lie 
large. Pineapples are plenty enough to 
make up in a way for the scarcity of 
oranges and especially lemons. They sell 
for eight cents up. I do not understand 
why the plant inventor does not make an 
effort to save green peas from the ruinous 
competition of green beans. The two are 
selling side by side at 15 cents a quart, 
with most of the peas to be thrown away 
as pods. We used to get peas with edi¬ 
ble pods, but none now. A quart of 
green beans will go as far again as a 
quart of peas, value as well as quantity, 
on account of the edibility of the pods. 
Butter is firm with good demand, but 
is not quoted above 30 cents to the re¬ 
tailer, cheese 18 cents maximum and eggs 
23 cents. joiin w. Chamberlin. 
CROPS 
Dairying seems to be the mainstay 
here. Cows are selling at from $50 to 
$75 a head. The creamery at Aitkin is 
now paying 29 cents a pound for butter 
fat. They have paid as high as 37 cents 
this last Winter. Dressed veal is worth 
10 cents a pound: pork 7^4 to eight live 
weight. Some potatoes are raised here. 
The crop last year was very poor and 
the price_ was low. They were selling as 
low as 15 cents a bushel during the Win¬ 
ter. but are now worth 25. Oats were 
selling here last Fall for 30 cents. They 
are now about 40 cents. The only fruits 
raised here for market are small fruits, 
such as strawberries and raspberries. 
Most farmers have a few to sell and then 
there are some that have as much as live 
or six acres. The berries are sold 
through an association. Very little gar¬ 
den truck is raised here for market. We 
are too far north to get the early crops. 
Aitkin, Minn. e. l. n. 
The middle of May finds farm work 
behind from one causeor another; so far 
this has been an unusually cold month, 
several frosts, also ice at least a quarter 
of an inch thick over still water. Some 
are still sowing oats but a good many 
are about ready for corn and early 
potato planting. Most of the wheat 
fields in this section are looking fine, 
especially where the soil was thoroughly 
prepared before sowing. Mostly clay 
soil here and you can readily see where 
the most care was taken in the fitting 
of the ground. Clover fields are looking 
fine and other meadows are as far ad¬ 
vanced as sometimes the last of May or 
1st of June. Fruit trees were well 
loaded with blossoms but I fear the hard 
frosts have injured some kinds. Grapes, 
cherries and some early apples show its 
effect but our pear trees seem to be 
loaded with small fruit. Prices are as 
follows: Wheat, $1.07; oats, 40; hay, 
$14 to $15 a ton ; poultry is high for this I 
time of year, hens, IS, and broilers, 35 to 
38 a pound. Horses, $150 to $200; good 
grade cows, $60 to $90, and purebred IIol- 
steius almost any price you might ask. 
Young pigs are bringing $4 and $5 apiece. 
We have just had a nice rain which 
we very much needed. r. m. s. 
Geauga Co., Ohio. 
May 19 the market here is as follows 
at present: Wheat. No. 1, 81; No. 2. 
79; corn. 40; oats, 30: flax, $1.13; po¬ 
tatoes, 30; eggs, per dozen, 16: butter, 
creamery, 34; butter, dairy, 25; hogs. 
$7.50; cows, $4; calves, $6. There is no 
fruit nor garden truck to market here at 
present. o. c. u. 
Nicollet, Minn. 
May 16.—At this date we get 22 cents 
per dozen for eggs, highest price 50. low¬ 
est 20, at store in village. Milk is five 
cents per quart in the village and de¬ 
mand exceeds supply. Three-day-old 
calves bring $4.25; a fat cow just sold to 
butcher for $55. Cornstalks in the field 
bring four cents per bundle, and yellow 
field corn one cent per pound in the field 
as it is husked, nubbins included. High¬ 
est gross price for apples on commission 
in New York in 3912 was $2.62 for Sum¬ 
mer apples and $2 for Winter. Kioffer 
pears $1.25 all in open-head barrels. 
Freight, cartage and commission about 
30 cents per barrel off these prices. Com¬ 
mission man furnishes barrels at our sta¬ 
tion free of charge. b. d. r. 
Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 
May 13.—We have had several hard 
freezes lately, badly injuring apples, 
pears, plums, cherries, berries of all 
kinds. The blossoms all turned brown, 
and leaves are falling off some forest 
trees. Some cows are turned out to 
rather poor grass pasture. Oats are all 
sown; a few are up and are yellow. 
Only a few potatoes and corn planted as 
yet. Potatoes slow at 50 cents a bushed ; 
eggs 38 at local store; butter 30; nearly 
all dairymen selling milk or patronizing 
cheese factories. v. S. c. 
Elk Creek, N. Y. 
May 18.—The following prices are 
about what the farmers in this section 
get for their farm produce: Butter, 32 
to 35; apples, barrel, $1.50 and $2 ; po¬ 
tatoes. bushel, 50 and 60; pork, whole 
hog dressed, 1034 cents a pound; beef, 
100 pounds, $9 to $12; veal, live weight, 
eight and nine; lamb, live weight, five 
and six; mutton live weight, three to 
four; fowls, live weight, 15; eggs, 22; 
lard, 16. Wood, per cord, $5 to $7. Good 
milch cows are rather scarce and bring 
from $50 to $100. * n. a. 
Adamsville, Mass. 
Wheat and rye are looking well, with a 
prospect of a normal crop the coming liar- 
vest. Wheat $1.10, no rye for sale. Oats 
looking good, last year’s crop about con¬ 
sumed. Corn is about all planted; some 
early-planted corn was up and was badly 
cut down with the hard freezes May 9-10- 
11-12. Fruit seems to be badly hurt; 
meadows are turning yellow from the ef¬ 
fects of the late freezes. Pastures seem 
very backward; some have not turned 
their stock to pasture on account of its 
being short. The foliage on forest trees 
is very late putting out. People seem 
very much interested in good roads, but 
are opposed to bonding the State to build 
them. Stores pay 18 cents for eggs. But¬ 
ter from the farms sells to private cus¬ 
tomers for 38 cents per pound. Veal 
calves, dressed, are 14 to 16 cents per 
pound. , T . G . h. 
Uniontown, Pa. 
For Sale 
very cheap. 
— RIDER EIIICS80N 8” Hot 
Air Engine and Deep Well Pump 
Stewart Johnston, Box 228 Pittsburgh Pa 
run dflLc HAY. 
HARRY XWEDDLE, 
large bales. 
Montgomery, >. Y. 
” 0111 DRESSED AND LIVE POUL- 
TRY, FALYES PIGS, BUTTER AND EGGS. 
4 0LS. One of GREATER NEW YORK’S 
LARGEST WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS 
CONUON BROS. CD., 
131st St. and 12th Ave., New York City, N T . Y 
Wanted—Hothouse Lambs 
£*Ve l ?' F ?" t ;y ?;F S ; Poultry. WM. H. COHUN 
& CO., Washington Street, New York 
io You Need Farm Help? 
We have many aiile-.bodied young men, both 
with and without farm experience, who wish to 
work on farms. If you need a good, steady, sol.er 
man, write for an order blank. Ours is a phil¬ 
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employer or employee. Our object is the encour¬ 
agement of farming among Jews. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SGCIETV 
178 Second Ave., /V. Y. City 
POSITION WANTED 
.U-rirultural student finishing second year at Cornell, wishes em¬ 
ployment durinr vacation oil an up-to-date farm which is being 
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W 0 ntp fl fl,r sma " I'mt registered Jersey ; 
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UlrlS IT anieu m ,] 10 OatskilI -Mountains. Ad¬ 
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Y Ol'NG MAX i 191. entering Agricultural Collette next fall, de¬ 
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” aiiitu strong, reliable, intelligent, good worker- 
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VEGETABLE FARMERS 
Why spend a large part of your profits for fertil¬ 
izer and fighting insects when you can buy the rich¬ 
est land ou earth that will produce the finest vege¬ 
tables and small fruits grown, near a market who- o 
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New York City, and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 
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IJU I 011110 good railroad and trolley facilities. New cata¬ 
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UUE SELL GOOD FARMS in Oceana, greatest fruit Co 
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Farm Rarcraina - 1 10 ai-nfs " ,th t>uildin.-s ; only 
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KOSK FARM AGENCY, State anil barren Sts., Treutou. N. J. 
NEWYORK STATE FARMS, 
i»S in farms throughout New York State. Reference 
on renuest. Cntaloff sent to prospective purchasers. 
C. L T AGEK Si CO., 7I1G Cress Rldg., Hingliumton. N. Y 
New York State Farms 
WRITE ME YOUR WANTS. FREE LIST. 
OGDEN’S AGENCY,Walton, Delaware Co., N.Y. 
QUR NEW YORK IMPROVED FARMS are great bat- 
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McBURNEY & CO., 309 Bastable Block, - Syracuse, N. y! 
ROOD STOCK FARM. 200 acres, for sale cheap—100 acres 
cleared. Near Battle Creek, Mich. For particu¬ 
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CFNn ^TAMP lor Illustrated Catalogue of New York 
OLIYU OIHIYII State Farms, located in St. I.asv- 
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FARMS FOR SALE 
Alt, Kinds of Farms eor all Kinds of Pkoplk 
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