1913. 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
767 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, June 14, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Getting Ri<l of Crawfish.750 
'Pile Law of Trespass. 750 
The Great Farm Problem. 751 
Ground Limestone vs. Land Plaster. 751 
Alfalfa Soil for Inoculating. 752 
Nitrate of Soda and Tomatoes. 752 
The Soil Under a Barn. 752 
Fertilising Rye . 752 
Lime on Potatoes. 752 
Crops . 753 
Ohio Crop Outlook. 754 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 754 
Labor in Hop and Grape Sections. 755 
Alfalfa a Long-lived Crop. 755 
The Labor Problem. 755 
Barnyard Water Works. 755 
Hope Farm Notes. 756 
Producing New Potato Varieties. 757 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Making Pigs Pay.749, 750 
Feeding Calves for Beef. 7(52 
Cattle Beets for Sale. 702 
Guinea Pigs and Rheumatism. 762 
A “Bob Veal” Case. 702 
Fits . 762 
Milk . 7(53 
Paying for Private Inspection. 763 
Saving Labor Lifting Grain. 764 
Leghorn Brown Eggs. 764 
Why the Ox Yoke. 764 
The Egg-Laying Contest. 765 
Ailing Chicks; Hatching Pheasants. 765 
Blood for Fowls. 765 
Rape and Shade Trees for Poultry. 705 
Treatment for Turkeys. 765 
Gapes in Chickens. 765 
Poor Hatches . 765 
Chicken Runs and Litter. 766 
HORTICULTURE. 
Hand or Power Sprayer. 750 
Grease on Apple Trees. 751 
Orchard Plowing .,.752 
Fertilizers for Strawberries. 752 
Laying in a Supply of Fruit Packages.754 
Dissolving Copper Sulphate. 755 
One Day’s Work. 756 
Missouri Notes . 757 
A Spraying Combination. 757 
Apple Sauce . 757 
Michigan Fruit Outlook. 759 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 760 
Womau’s Work at Home. 760 
The Rural Patterns. 760 
Canned Fish and Chicken; Nova Scotia 
Bacon . 760 
Rhubarb Recipes . 760 
Chicken Feather Pillows. 760 
Some Possibilities of Rose Petals. Part II. 761 
Oatmeal Cookies . 761 
Three Good Things. 761 
Purifying Bacon Fat. 761 
Boston Chowder . 761 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Building a Concrete Bridge.755 
Power for Hydraulic Pressure. 755 
Frostproof Storehouse. 755 
Volume of Water Flow. 755 
Editorials . 758 
The Cole Commission Man’s Bill. 759 
Events of the Week. 759 
The "Good” Physician. 764 
Building Cesspool; Improving Milk. 764 
Publisher’s Desk. 766 
Humorous . \ 768 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending June 6 , 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best, lb. 28 @ 2SJ6 
Good to Choice . 26 @ 27 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 25 
State Dairy, best. 26 @ 27 
Common to Good. 24 @ 25 
Factory. 22 @ 23 
Packing Stock. 20 @ 22 
Elgin. 111., batter market firm at 28 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 28 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 13 @ 14 
Common to Good . 10 @ 12 
Skims. 03 @ 09 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy. 24 ® 25 
Good to prime. 18 @ 23 
Mixed colors, best. 22 ® 23 
Common to good. 15 @ is 
Western, best. 21 @ 22 
Checks and dirties. 10 ® 16 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap., choice, . 07 @ 08 
Common to good . 06 ® 06W 
Sun dried . 03 @ 03}$ 
Chops, 100 lbs. 1 40 @ 1 50 
Raspberries. 16 @ 17 
Cherries. ]1 @ 44 
Huckleberries. 14 ® ig 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 4 00 @ 4 50 
Newton Pippin. 5 00 ®G50 
spy . 4 00 @ 5 50 
Greening . 3 00 @ 500 
. 2 50 @ 4 00 
Baldwin . OO @ 5 00 
Straw berries, up-river, qt. 10 @ 13 
Maryland . 05 @ 12 
Jersey. 07 @ 13 
Cherries, qt. 10 @ 15 
Blackberries, Carolina, qt.. 03 @ 12 
Huckleberries. Carolina, qt. 15 @ 20 
Peaches, Southern, crate. 2 50 @ 5 00 
Muskmolons, Fla., crate. 150 @825 
Watermelons, Fla.2000 @50 00 
.. BEAN 8 . 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 5 25 @6.00 
Medium. 4 00 & 4 05 
. 3 50 @3 95 
n e m» * • • • .. 4 40 @ 4 50 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 19 21 
Common to good. 15 @ is 
Pacific Coast. 15 (A 14 
German crop. 48 @ 50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Old. 168 1 b. bag . 2 00 @250 
Southern, new, bbl. 175 @ 8 00 
Bermuda, new. bbl .... 3 00 (<£ 4 ro 
^weet Potatoes, bbl.. 2 00 @ 8 50 
Asparagus, choice, green, do/. . 2 25 @ 3 50 
White, choice. 175 @ 2 00 
Beptsiinw ’ ’kkJ. 76 ® 1 25 
canots,bbi. , b !:;;;;;;;”;;;•.IS liSS 
Cucumbers, Southern, bu......!.. 100 @ 2 (X) 
bt}1 - crate . 0 50 @100 
Lettuce, halt-bbl. basket. 50 @100 
Omous—Southern, new', bu . 75 @ 2 50 
Peax^m,’ Florida carrier. 1 00 @ 1 75 
UMlitai it. buekM 7.7 7 ..™ 
IS fig 
quash, new, bu. 75 @ 3 00 
Egg Plants. Fla., box. 1 00 
Spinach, bbl. 50 
Tomatoes—Southern carrier. 50 
Turnips, white, bbl. 50 
Rutabaga . 50 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers, do/. 30 @ 
Mushrooms, lb. 15 @ 
Tomatoes, lb. 06 @ 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 18 @ 
Common to good. 16 © 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 35 
Broilers, common to good . 25 
Roasters. 20 
Fowls. 14 
Squabs, do/. 50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 28 
Fowls. 17 
Roosters. 11 
Ducks. 14 
Geese. 09 4f 
Turkeys. 12 
Guineas, pair. 65 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton.19 00 
No. 2.17 00 
No. 3.11 00 
Clover mixed.10 00 
Straw, Rye .25 00 
Oat.11 00 
MILLFKKD. 
Wheat Bran, ton.20 50 
Middlings .22 00 
Red Dog.28 00 
Corn Meal.26 00 
Linseed Meal.28 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 6 10 
Bulls. 5 75 
Cows. 3 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 9 50 
Culls. 7 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs.3 75 
Lambs. 7 00 
Hogs. 8 50 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 1 00 
No. 2, Red . 1 09 
No. 2, Hard Winter. 1 02 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 65 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 43 
Rye . 66 
@200 
@ 1 00 
@ 1 50 
@ 100 
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RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest current 
prices, but are fairly representative of what the 
imajority of New York consumers pay; 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 34 @ 35 
Mixed colors, new laid. 28 @ 32 
Ordinary grades. 18 @ 20 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 33 @ 35 
Tub, choice. 28 @ 30 
Apples, table sorts, bbl. 7 00 @ 9 00 
Potatoes, bnshei .125 @150 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 25 @ 26 
Fowls..... .. 18 @ 23 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 
. 29 
@ 
29« 
Western creamery . 
@ 
28 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 
@ 
26 
Gathered fresh. 
. 20 
@ *22 
Apples, dessert varieties, bbl... 
@ 6,00 
Common kinds. 
. 250 
@ 3 50 
Potatoes, 2 bu. bag. 
. 1 65 
@ 1 75 | 
Dressed Meats—Veal. 
. 11 
@ 
15 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 
@ 
21 
Roasters. 
. 20 
& 
22 
Hay—No. 1. 
. 22 01 ) 
@22 50 
No. 2. 
.21 U0 
@20 20 
No. 3. 
@15 00 
Straw—Rye. 
@27 00 
Mill feed—Bran, ton. 
. 21 00 
@22 50 
Middlings. 
@26 50 
Mixed Feed. 
. 22 00 
@26 00 
Gluten. 
.25 00 
@26 00 
Live Stock—Milch Cows.50 00 @100 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 4 25 @ 6 08 
Bulls, 100 lbs. 4 00 @ 6 25 
Calves, 100 lbs. 7 50 @ 9 00 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 8 50 ® 9*00 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
The amount of money in circulation 
in this country June 2 was $3,357,376,- 
000, amounting to $34.54 per capita for 
the whole population. 
In May 104,205 immigrants were laud¬ 
ed at New York, about 20.000 in excess 
of same month last year. 
The Imperial Valley, California, will 
market 3.000 carloads of cantaloupes this 
year. They run about 16,000 to the car. 
Pig iron production in May amounted 
to 2,815,330 tons, the largest month’s 
output known. During 1912 our pro¬ 
duction of tin plate was 1,965,659,000 
pounds. 
The Wenatchee and Yakima sections 
of Washington this year expect to have 
about 9,000 cars of apples; peaches, 
2,000; pears, 500; prunes, 165; cherries, 
60; grapes, 50. 
Egyptian long staple cotton, used ex¬ 
tensively in thread making, is being 
grown successfully in Arizona. This 
year there are 5,000 acres of this cotton 
in the Salt River Valley, under irriga¬ 
tion from the Roosevelt Dam. 
GOVERNMENT FARM INVESTIGATION. 
The “rural organization service,” a 
new branch of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, which includes a division of 
markets, began actual operation June 2 
with the arrival of Dr. Thomas N. Car¬ 
ver, of Harvard University, head of the 
service. Two of Dr. Carver’s assistants 
will be Dr. Carl W. Thompson, of Min¬ 
nesota, who has been making studies in 
that State of rural, social and economic 
conditions, and L. H. Goddard, who has 
been studying farm management in Ohio. 
There will be “surveys” to get at the 
basic facts regarding organized rural 
agencies that already have been tided, to 
discover how and why they have failed 
or why they are succeeding. There will 
be investigations in certain regional units 
and among certain kinds of agricultural 
interests, to discover the reasons for ex¬ 
isting rural conditions, and then certain 
units of territory will be selected in which 
to make demonstrations and experiments 
with schemes designed to improve the 
fanner’s financial, physical and social 
condition. 
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ANNIVERSARY AT OHIO STATION. 
Director C’lias. E. Thorne has com¬ 
pleted a quarter of a century of suc¬ 
cessful work as Director of the Ohio 
Agricultural Experiment Station. This 
fact will be appropriately celebrated at 
an anniversary banquet which will be 
given at Wooster, Ohio, in connection 
with the Annual Field Day, June 20. 
All who wish to participate in this an¬ 
niversary celebration are invited to at¬ 
tend the banquet as well as the Field 
Day program. Those who desire tickets 
for the banquet are requested to reserve 
them as soon as possible through Mr. 
W. H. Kramer, Wooster, Ohio, in order 
that arrangements may be made for all 
who attend. 
GOVERNMENT COTTON REPORT. 
The Crop Reporting Board of the 
Bureau of Statistics estimates that the 
condition of the cotton crop on May 25 
was 79.1 per cent, of a normal, as com¬ 
pared with 78.9 on May 25, 1912, 87.8 
on May 25. 1911, 82.0 on May 25, 1910, 
and 79.9, the average of the past ten 
years on May 25. 
Comparisons of conditions, by States, 
follow: 
States. 
Virginia .83 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Georgia . 
Florida . 83 
Alabama. 75 
Mississippi . 81 
Louisiana . 81 
Texas . 84 
Arkansas .S5 
Tennessee .87 
Missouri . 90 
Oklahoma . 87 
California .96 
United States 
May 25. 
10-year 
1913. 
1912. 
average. 
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89 
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. 76 
87 
82 
. 68 
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. 69 
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78 
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. 96 
96 
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79.9 
Zinc to Clean Flues. 
Under heading “Salt to Clean Chim¬ 
ney” the advice is given, “a handful of 
salt on your fire once a week and the 
chimney will never burn out.” I believe 
this is good, also as a precaution when 
a chimney is burning out. I would like 
to add a little to the subject. An ex¬ 
perienced electrical worker told me that 
every week or so, or whenever one 
thought their stoves or chimneys were 
filling with soot, etc., to place a small 
piece of zinc in the fire and leave it till 
it disappeared; the fumes generated, 
which would cause the deposits to scale 
off and go up the flue or settle into the 
receptacle in the stove where it could 
easily be cleaned out. I have personally I 
tried this on wood-burning kitchen steel 
range, and found it worked out well as 
a preventative. A chunk of old zinc, 
about one-half pound from discarded elec¬ 
tric batteries or off an old washboard 
was used. j. c. B. 
New York. 
The burning of zinc in a fire when 
soft coal is used has been found to loosen 
the sooty deposit. During the coal 
famine in Canada a few years ago, when 
soft coal was used altogether, the prac¬ 
tice of burning zinc was universal. 
R. P. C. 
FOR SALE—OR WILL TRADE 
for Heifer Calves, Cows or Berkshire Piss 
(sows) one A No. 1 Manure Spreader, ami one 
10 -horse power Church Engine, in A No. 1 order, 
and one Sulky Plow, or will trade for poultry. 
RICHARD WAGANER, Brookfield Centre. Conn, 
F OU SALE—-ISO ACRES, Kent Co., Mil., 2 miles from County 
seal. Pally boat; 3 Trams dally. 12-room new dwelling, new 
out buildings and fencing. Apples, Grapes, Gooseberries, Ka-p- 
berries, Asparagus and Strawberries. For price, etc., address, 
W. S. TREW, - Chestertoum, Maryland 
If Ynn Want 10 S et l b e most money out of your 
ii iou nam dressed and live poul¬ 
try CALVES. PIGS. BUTTER AND EGGS, 
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WANTED 
BERRIES, FANCY EGGS. HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 6REEN 
PEAS AND ALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
Top Prices for Choice Goods 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100-IWurray St. , New Y«rk 
Our simple ye t perfect-fitting doors, 
forming air-tight silo, entirely pre¬ 
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Quick, easy adjustment without 
hammer or wrench. Free access. 
Every silo easy to erect. Seasoned 
white pine or cypress staves. Refined 
iron hoops form easy ladder. 
Write for free catalogue with proof 
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ECONOMY SILO & MFC. CO., 
Box 38-J Frederick, Md. 
To Ma.rried" ,|| HI 
Farmers! 
WHO HAVE 
$ 1500 - 
in Cash or in 
Farm Machinery and Stock. 
Buy a farm from the CANAL IAN 
PACIFIC RAILWAY and the Com¬ 
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provements, giving you TWENTY 
YEARS time to pay for the land and 
loan. WE ALSO WANT AGENTS. 
Write at once for full particulars to 
DR. PAUL FABER, General A~jenf, 
Canadian Pacific Railway 
Land Department, 
458 Broadway - . New York. 
Do You Need Farm Help ? 
We have many able-bodied young men, both 
with and without farm experience, who wish to 
work on farms. If yon need a good, steady, sober 
man, write for an order blank. Ours it a phil¬ 
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employer or employee. Our object it the encour¬ 
agement of farming among Jews. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
7 76 Second Ave., IY. Y. City 
Farmers Wanted -In Minnesota, where big 
r drillers TV dllieu C! . ops are produced. Homes 
for thousands. Improved Farms for corn, small 
grains and live stock. Dairy Farms with pure water, 
clover, timothy and alfalfa. Maps anil literature 
telling all about Minnesota sent free npon applica¬ 
tion to FRED D. SHERMAN. Commissioner Im¬ 
migration. Room 202, State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn. 
POULTRY MANAGER WANTS CHAHGE-Management of 
* plant or estate, with poultry plant developing. 
Mammoth incubators and brooder systems, eggs, 
broilers, roasters in quantities. Used to handling 
first-class private trade. Knowledge of farm crops, 
soils, forestry, stock, etc. Life experience. Well re¬ 
commended. Married. H. Churchsmith, Cleveland, N. Y. 
-Having had quite some expert¬ 
ly ence on the farm, would like to 
be placed with private familv: 
about two hours from city. 
Good home preferred to high wages. 
ARTHUR RIEHL, 500 W. 135th Street, New York City 
111 ANTED—A SINGLE MAN AS HERDSMAN. Good milker 
■■ and to care for pigs, on a private farm. Address 
E. C. PRICE, Supt , Quaker Ridge Road, New Rochelle. N. Y. 
Farmhand Wnnfprl to work with feeble-minded 
rarmnana vy anted boys salary, $30 a month. 
Apply, C. S. LITTLE, Supt., Lelchworth Village, Thiells, N Y. 
U|| If Tl P If CTC—Express Prepaid. Samples Free. 
ITIILn I IUIVL ! O Travers Brothers, tiariluer, Hass. 
FOR *sAI C-HALI.OCK POTATO DIGGER. 
1 uii ilnLL \ ery little used. Sold because we have 
stopped growing potatoes. $50. Easy payments. 
TWIN TREE FARM. - Penllyn , l’a. 
JERSEY FARMS— I to sr.oacres in Jersey's best soli. Catalonia 
W free. El). BURROUGHS, 147 E. State St.. Trenton. Ji.J. 
QUR NEW Y0RX IMPROVED FARMS are great bur- 
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IdU I 0 1 1 ’ 10 good railroad am] trolley facilities. New cata¬ 
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WE SELL GOOD FARMS in Oceana, greatest fruit Co. 
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Write for list. etc. HANSON & SON, Hart, Mich. 
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OLI1U 0 I HIYi r State Farms, located in St. Law- 
reneeCounty. the LendingDairyConnty in the United 
States THE RUSSELL REAL ESTATE --* 
: CO.. Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
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ILL RENT HOUSE AND 34 ACRES —Suitable for farm¬ 
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grounds in good condition. References required. Ad¬ 
dress, Mr. FERDINAND HARTOG, Bethel, Conn. 
New York State Farms 
WRITE ME YOUR WANTS. FREE LIST. 
OGDEN’S AGENCY.Walton. Delaware Co., N.Y. 
F AUX BAKliA l.VS —io acres with buil»tiupr*,only $l.OoO,h4.1f cImt; 
new 8-room house, barn an<! chick un-bo use ; owner most sell 
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Wanted-Farm of 25 Acres New ark 
or New Jersey, not more than 50 miles from New 
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