1913, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8-4,7 
CONTENTS 
jHE RURAL NEW-YORKER, July 12, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Tbc Business of Potato Spraying.829. 830 
Qnlkr I Mow for Cover Crops.830 
The Bo/ Beats Father's Corn Crop. 831 
An Old Soldier on Education. 831 
conservative Father and Progressive Son.. 831 
Cover Crops in Corn and Orchard. 832 
Squash Vine Borer. 832 
Indiana Farm Notes. 83-* 
New York State Crops. 834 
A Serious Drainage Question. 83o 
Sorrel and Acid Soils. 83o 
An Alfalfa Farmer . 83o 
Preparing for Potatoes . S3o 
Hope Farm Notes. .. 8»> 
Implied Warranty of Seed Corn. 837 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Selling Ducks; Lavender. 
Can You Beat This?. 
Fancv Stock and Performance. 
Bntter Test; Alfalfa With Wheat. 
Records of Short-horn Cows. 
Sweeny . 
Wind Puffs . 
Rooting ... 
Lameness .-. 
Two Cood Creamery Bulletins 
Ropy Milk . 
Cats With Irritated Ears. 
Spavin . 
Heifer With Tumor. 
Buying Debilitated Calf. 
Cancer . 
Hogs on Old Pasture. 
A Lawn Pullet Knn. 
The Ayrshire Cattle.. 
Thin Horse . 
Pig With Coagh . 
An Cnprofitable Stallion--- 
Hygroma . 
Lameness . 
Distemper . 
The Egg-laying Contest. 
Marking Chicks . 
A Hen Epidemic. 
Care of Eggs on the Farm... 
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Peppers, Florida carrier. 1 00 @ 2 00 
Nearby, box. 100 @ 125 
Peas, bu. so @ 1 25 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 50 @ 75 
String Beans, bn. 20 @100 
Squash, new, bu. 50 @ 1 00 
Egg Plants. Fla. box .. 75 @ i 00 
Spinach, bbl. 50 @ 1 00 
Tomatoes—Southern carrier. 75 @2 00 
Jersey, box . 2 U0 ® 2 50 
Turnips, white, bbl. I 00 @2 00 
Rutabaga . 75 @ 1 25 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . IS @ 19 
Common to good. 16 ® 17 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 26 @ 27 
Squab broilers, pair . 40 @ 60 
Broilers, common to good . 25 @ 27 
Roasters. 20 @ 22 
Fowls. 14 @ 19 
Squabs, doz. 50 @ 400 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 25 @ 26 
Fowls . 15 @ 16 
Roosters. 10 @ 11 
Ducks. 15 @ IS 
Geese. IU @ It 
Turkeys. 15 @ 16 
Guineas, pair... 65 @ 70 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton.18 00 @19 00 
No. 2.15 00 @16 00 
No. 3 .10 00 @13 00 
Clover mixed.1000 @16 50 
Straw, Rye .20 00 @21 00 
Oat.1100 @12 00 
MILLFEED. 
Wheat Bran, ton.21 00 @22 00 
Middlings .22 00 @25 U0 
Red Dog.28 00 @29 110 
Corn Meal.27'Ml @2.-! 00 
Linseed Mead.2800 @2S 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 6 50 9 9 20 
Bulls. 575 @650 
Cows. 3 00 @ 6 60 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 800 @1100 
Culls. 4 00 @ 7 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 00 @4 50 
Lambs. 800 @8 50 
Hogs. 8 50 @900 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Doings of a Proxy Fruit Farmer. 830 
On a New York Fruit Farm. 831 
Treatment for Brawn Itot. 832 
Notes on Strawberry Culture. 832 
Wayne Countv Fruit Notes. 834 
Mixing of Melons and Squashes.837 
Keeping Cut Flowers.837 
Missouri Notes .- -. 837 
Remedies for Aster Pests.837 
Dishorning Peach Trees .837 
Protecting Trees Against Rabbits. 837 
“Soft and Rotten" Peaches. 837 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day... S40 
Rose Beads as a Home Industry. 840 
The Rural Patterns. 840 
Pickled Beets . 840 
Polishing Brass . 840 
More About Rose Beads. 840 
Fresh Air iu Sleeping Rooms. 841 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Looking After Legislation.830 
Trouble With Icehouse.... 836 
Editorial . 838 
The Stront Company Loses. 839 
Events of the Week. 839 
The Buffalo Markets. S43 
Cut Prices . 846 
Formic Acid . 846 
Publisher's Desk . 846 
Humorous . 848 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending July 3, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Creamory, best. Ib. 27 @ 27>s 
Good to Choice . 2526J$ 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 25 
State Dairy, best. 26 @ 27 
Common to Good... 24 @ 25 
Factory. 29 @ 23 
Packing Stock... 19 @ 21 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 26!-s cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 26 cents. 
CHEESE. 
Whole Milk, best... 14 @ 14*4 
Common to Good .. 10 @ 13 
Skims. 03 @ 09 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy. 27 @ 28 
Good to prime. 20 @ 25 
Mixed colors, best. 25 @ 26 
Common to good.. 15 @ 18 
Western, best. 22 @ 23 
Checks and dirties. 05 @ 15 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap.. ehoice. 07 @ 08 
Common to good . 06 @ U6t£ 
Sun dried.. . 03 @ U3W 
Chops. 100 lbs. 1 50 @ 1 75 
Raspberries. 17 ® 18 
Cherries . 16 ® is 
Huckleberries. 17 ® 19 
FRESH FRUIT’S. 
Apples—Old. bbl. 
New. bushel. 
Strawberries, np-river, qt. 
Western N. Y. 
Jersey. 
Cherries, qt. 
Currants, qt. 
Blackberries, qt. ..I!..".”!!."” 
Huckleberries, qt. 
Gooseberries . . 
Raspberries, red. pint .".1!!""! 
Black, pint. 
reaehes. Southern, crate...... 
Muskmeions. Sontbern, crate . 
ateruieions, FTa., 100. 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium. 
Pea .. 
Red Kidney.. 
White Kidney. 
Yellow Rye. ..*. 
Lima, California .."I"!!""”!’.”!”. 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 
Common to good.. 
Pacitie Coast. . 
Old stock.-•••-..... 
German crop!’..".’".'. 
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5 70 
4 40 
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@200 
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@ 16 
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@ 1 75 
@25 00 
@ G.40 
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@3 96 
@ 3 90 
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@ 16 
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VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes-Old. 168 lb. bag 
g-o ."ii 11 *™- ®«w, bbl. 
I'wect Potatoes, bb!. 
Asparagus, choice, green! doi’ 
" into, choice .... 
Culls. . 
Beets, new, biii. 
Cariots, bbl...’. 
Cucumhers. Southern, bu.’. 
Cabbage,bbl. crate..... 
fee. hair-bbi basket.:::::::: 
Unions—Southern, bu. 
Nearby, bu.. . 
50 ® 1 50 
1 25 @ I 75 
2 OO @ 3 50 
1 50 @ 2 75 
1 25 @2 26 
75 @ 1 00 
15 @ 2 50 
1 00 @2 00 
25 @ 1 00 
50 @ 1 25 
50 @ 75 
50 @ 1 00 ; 
50 @ 1 50 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 01 @ 
No. 2, Red . 98 @ .. 
No. 2, Hard Winter. 1 01 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 6b @ 7d 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 45 @ 4S 
Rye . 65 @ 67 
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, do*. 36 @ 38 
Mixed colors, new laid. 28 @ 33 
Ordinary grades. 18 @ 20 
Butter, fancy prints, lb... 33 @ 36 
Tub. ehoice. 28 @ 30 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 25 @ 26 
Fowls. IS @ 23 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 30 @ 31 
Western creamery . 26 @ 27 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 30 @ 31 
Gathered fresh. 22 @ 24 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 29 @ 21 
Roasters. 21) @ 22 
Hay—No. 1.21 Oh @21 59 
No, 2.1900 @2000 
No. 3.14 00 @15 00 
Straw—Rye.22 60 @23 00 
Millfeed— Bran, ton.22 00 @23 00 
Middlings.23 59 @26 00 
Mixed Feed.24 09 @27 U0 
Gluten.,...25i>0 @26 00 
Live Stock—Milch Cows.56 OO @120 OO 
Beef Cows, 109 lbs . 4 25 @550 
Bulls, 100 lbs. 5 90 @ 7 00 
Calves, 100 lbs. 650 @ S 50 
Hogs, 100 lbs.S 50 @9U0 
BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Resources of 192 State banks of New 
York show au increase of $14,63-4,685 
since March 7. 
Dividends on Canadian securities June 
30 were $56,935,818. 
The Russian government gets $50,- 
000.000 per year revenue from its oil in¬ 
dustry. 
The Hudson Bay Co. dividend is 50 
per cent, this year. For the past three 
years 40 per cent, was paid. This com¬ 
pany was chartered by Charles II 243 
years ago. 
Failures for the past six months were 
8,103. covering $132,909,001 indebtedness. 
This is 144 less than for the same period 
of 1912. 
Five issues of postal savings bonds have 
been made since the system went into 
effect, July 1. 1911. The total for all 
issues is $3,500,000, representing the 
amount the people have deposited in 
postal savings banks. 
Imports of merchandise at New York 
for year ending June 30 were valued at 
$1,045,364,643. an increase of $50,232,597 
over the previous vear. Duty amounting 
to $203,340,253.32 was collected. Kx- 
ports for the same period were $928,- 
617,050. an increase of $115,721,743. 
Coinage for the year ending June 30 
amounted to: Double eagles, $9,241,820; 
eagles, $8,090,500; half eagles. $10,700.- 
495; quarter eagles. $2,025,412.50; half 
dollars. $1,991,117.50; quarters. $1,036.- 
058.75; dimes, $421,023.50: nickels, $2.- 
861,768.55; pennies, $1,128,333.90; total, 
$37,496,529.70. 
During 1912 there were 1.728.000 per¬ 
sons employed on railroads iu this coun¬ 
try. The wages amounted to $1,268,- 
977.272. 
The potato market continues very low. 
Old stock is scarcely salable, new going 
largely at $1.25 to $1.50 per barrel. 
A Boston concern has bought 1.500.000 
pounds of wool iu Montana at 15*4 to 
16% cents. Montana producers are not 
consigning their wool this year, but sell¬ 
ing outright when possible. 
The 1912 cotton crop amounted to 
14,313,015 bales, the second largest on 
record. There were 73,777 bales of Sea 
Island. Seed production was 6.104.000 
tons. 4,579,508 tons being taken by oil 
mills. 
At Bangor Maine, 50.000,000 feet of 
logs have reached the Penobscot boom. 
Four-fifths were from the East Branch 
the remainder being Mattawamkeag and 
Piscataquis logs. 
Weather has been .abnormally hot in 
all sections west of the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains. In the Winter wheat States west 
of the Mississippi conditions have been 
favorable for harvesting. The northern 
part of the corn belt has had fairly 
good rains; southern section continues too 
dry. Texas and the Southern Atlantic 
Coast States have had good rains. From 
Virginia north rain is needed. 
New York egg receivers are seeking 
to have the railroads enjoined from en¬ 
forcing their egg inspection rule which 
compels receivers to give receipt in good 
order for all cases that do not show 
leakage or outward damage. They com¬ 
plain that the aggregate damage from 
cracked eggs is large and does not show 
outside. 
The N. Y. City Board of Health rule, 
in effect July 1, that no country dressed 
meats could be sold in N. Y. City unless 
bearing inspection mark of the city, State 
or Federal authorities, has been rescinded. 
Under this rule farm dressed meats would 
have been shut out of this city, as few 
farmers are so situated as to get official 
inspection of small jobs of slaughtering. 
First quality wheat. $1; ear com. per 
100 pounds, 83; shelled, bushel, 59; oats, 
bushel, 39; hay. per ton, $10; good com¬ 
mon milch cows. $50; butter, 22; milk, 
per quart, 7; chickens, 12; eggs, 18; 
strawberries, quart, 10; cherries, quart, 
seven. E. w. K. 
Bellevue. O. 
Eggs, 17, 20 retail; butter, 18-20; 
25-30 retail; strawberries, 12 to 15. 
Cream shipped 26*4 cents for butter fat. 
Ilogs. $8.25 for 100 pounds. Cattle, all 
depends on quality, from $S per 100 
down. Wheat. 98; com sold at eleva¬ 
tor. 5S; retailed 65. Hay. best Timothy, 
$8.75 per ton in barn. $10.50 delivered on 
track already baled. w. l. w. 
Radnor. (>. 
Since writing last the apple outlook 
has undergone a great change. The early 
frosts seem to have weakened the buds 
so that the apples set. but only to wither 
in 10 days’ time. Then on top of that 
despite a great increase of spraying the 
spot seems to be extra bad. Graven- 
steins will not likely be 100.000 barrels 
as compared with an average of 300-400,- I 
000 barrels. King, Gravenstein and 
Stark are all spotted; many orchards did 
not bloom for 10 days after being 
sprayed and maybe that had something 
to do with the spot. j. b. 
Berwick, Nova Scotia. 
We are very dry in these parts at 
present: have hardly had three inches of 
rain in over two months. Corn in many 
cases will be a total failure; hay crop 
very short; oats Fall sown were pretty 
good. Cotton as yet looks all right. This 
makes the fifth dry year for us in suc¬ 
cession. As a result crab-grass has en¬ 
tirely disappeared from many a farm, 
even Johnson and Bermuda meadows 
have died out for the want of moisture. 
This gets us into a deplorable condition ; 
feed somewhat difficult to produce, people j 
do away with live stock, cattle and hogs 
mostly. Our tax assessor tells me that 
we have fully one-third of our farmers 
who have neither a cow nor a pig on j 
their places, (’an anyone imagine even a 
half decent living without plenty of milk 
and butter on a farm? It appears all j 
the majority of onr people study is cot¬ 
ton. We have plenty of farmers who 
have not even a hill of corn planted; 
others have three or four acres of corn 
and perhaps 100 acres of cotton. Is it 
here a wonder that lands are getting 
poor? J. W. STUBENRAUCH. 
Limestone Co., Texas. 
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The apple crop will not be more than 
one-half what it was last year, owing to 
the scarcity of Baldwins. Fall apples 
are pretty full, especially Duchess and 
Twenty Ounce, and there is a pretty 
good crop of Greenings. Pears are 
heavy ; also plums and sour cherries. The 
peach crop between the Genesee an-J Ni¬ 
agara Rivers will be about one-half 
what it was last year, when it was ex¬ 
tremely heavy. St. John, Frawford and 
Niagara arc very shy. The principal 
crop will be Elberta. ?he bulk of the 
crop will be along the lake, as much 
damage was done a few miles south, and 
many orchards have no peaches at all. 
The peach crop at Williamson and vicin¬ 
ity is quite heavy. The indications are 
that the quality of all fruit will be good 
this year; better than last. In some 
sections the “leaf-roller” has done great 
damage to the apple crop; from one- 
third to one-half the crop being ruined 
in some large orchards. We are having 
no trouble from this source in this imme¬ 
diate vicinity. Most of the growers are 
about through with the fourth and last 
spraying. It is hoped that the quality of 
fruit packed the coming season will be 
much better, owing to the new law which 
will be in effect. Unless there is a de¬ 
cided change and nothing but good fruit 
put into barrels, and the remainder of 
the crop taken to the evaporator and 
cider mill where it belongs, the outlook 
for New York State will be mighty slim. 
Unfortunately there are a lot of people 
who have been "smart” so long (and in 
a measure got away with it) that they 
never will be honest in the matter of 
packing fruit until they are compelled 
to be. S. J. T. B. 
Orleans Co.. N. Y. 
“For the T.and's Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers: they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
COMPETENT MARRIED MAN 
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SIZE KETTLE 
This tea kettle is made entirely of 
extra refined Lake copper; nickel-plated. 
It is plated on the inside with the highest 
grade tin. The handle is strongly con¬ 
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kettle. The ear to which the handle of the 
kettte is fastened is securely fastened to 
the body of the kettle by rivets which arc 
soldered on the inside, thereby preventing 
the rivets becoming loose, which would 
mean a leakage of water. 
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