1913. 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, July 26, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Seeding a Permanent Meadow.809, 870 
A Cheap Limekiln. 870 
Child Labor on the Farm. 870 
Cover Crop for Western New York. 870 
The Yield of Alfalfa. 870 
Conservative Father and Progressive Son... 870 
The Paek-to-the-Lander Game. 871 
Trucking on Muck Land. 872 
Cover Crop in Corn. 872 
Southwestern Farm Notes. 872 
Crops . 874 
Growing Crops Under “Shade” in Alabama. 87.7 
Sowing K.ve in Corn. 873 
Horse Manure and Flies. 873 
Hope Farm Notes. 870 
Farm Urania . 879 
Developing a Farmers’ Market.879 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 879 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Bunch of Poultry Cranks. 871 
Feeding Pigs Prior to Weaning. 882 
Waste Condensed Milk for Pigs. 882 
Stock on Shares. 882 
Milk . 883 
Sew England Milk. 883 
Prices in Chenango Co., N. Y. 883 
Morgan Horses . 884 
Tom llarron—the Leghorn Man. 884 
Danger to Stock from Spraying. 884 
Cows Chew Wood. 884 
Coughing Cats . 884 
Rats in Poultry House. 884 
The Egg-laying Contest. 885 
The California Egg Contest. 883 
Turkey and Pheasant. 883 
Chick Epidemic . 885 
Scaly Leg .885 
Hand Raising an Orphan Foal.88G 
Kopy Milk . 88(5 
Stiffness in Cow. 880 
HORTICULTURE. 
Summer Spraying for Scale. 
Contracts for Catalpa Trees. 
An Old Tree Fake. 
Late Plowing in Orchards. 
Propagating Red Currants. 
Sweet Pea Blight. 
Storehouse for Apples. 
Asparagus Beetles . 
Fertilizing the Cover Crop. 
Orchard Fertilizer Test. 
Pollenizing Tomatoes; Storing Winter Rad¬ 
ishes ... 
Tomato Figs . 
Endive Culture . 
The Chesapeake Strawberry 
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WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 880 
The Secrets of the Guest Room. 880 
China Cement . 880 
"Foundation Cake” . 880 
The Rural Patterns. S80 
Mock Macaroni and Cheese. 880 
Some Savory Salads. 880 
Moat Substitutes . 881 
Summer Drinks . 881 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Editorials . 878 
Events of the Week. 879 
Middlemen and Public Markets. 879 
Publisher's Desk . 88(5 
Humorous . 888 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending July 18, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Good to Choice 
State Dairy, best. 
Common to Good. 
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Philadelphia, western creamery, 27* cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 
Common to Good . 
Skims... 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy. 
Good to prime.. 
Mixed colors, best.. 
Common to good. 
Western, best. 
Checks and dirties.. 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evap,. choice, . 
Common to good . 
Sun dried . 
Chops. 100 lbs. 
Raspberries. 
Cherries . 
Huckleberries. 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Hand-picked, bbl. 
Windfalls, bbl. 
Cherries, qt. 
Currants, qt. 
Blackberries, qt. 
Huckleberries, qt. 
Gooseberries . 
Raspberries, red, pint .!! 
Black, pint.. 
Peaches, Southern, crate. 
Dei. and Md„ bkt.!.!... 
Muskmelons, Southern, crate ..... 
Watermelons, Southern, 10U. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.. 
Medium. 
Pea . 
Red Kidney. 
White If idney .. 
Yellow Eye. 
Lima, California 
BEANS. 
Prime to choice. 
Common to good 
Pacific Coast ... 
Old stock. 
German crop.... 
HOPS. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 
Southern, new, bbl. 
Jersey, bbl. 
Sweet Potatoes, bushel_ 
Beets, new, bbl. 
Cariots. new. bbl.'.'.’'...„"l”|." 
Cucumbers, bu. 
Cabbage, bbl . .. 
Lettuce, half-bbi. basket ‘ 
Onions—Long Island, bbl. 
Jersey, bu. [ 
I epp.-rs. Florida carrier. 
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Peas. bu. .. ' 
Radishes, loi) bunches’ V.V.’.'.V.V.’.V 
String Beans, bu. 
Squash, new, bu. .. 
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spinach, bbl...’ 
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DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 18 @ 19 
Common to good. 16 (3) 17 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 2$ © 30 
Squab broilers, pair . 10 © J30 
Broilers, common to good . 25 © 26 
Boasters. 20 © 22 
Fowls. 16 © 19 
Squabs, doz. 50 © 4 00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 22 @ 23 
Fowls. 17 @ 18 
Roosters. 11 ® 12 
Ducks. 15 @ 15*6 
Geese. 10 ® 11 
Turkeys. 15 © 16 
Guineas, pair. 65 ® 70 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton.18 00 @19 00 
Standard.17 00 @17 50 
No. 2.15 00 @16 00 
No. 3.Ill'll @14 00 
Clover mixed.13 UU ©Is 00 
Straw, live .18 00 @20 0U 
Oat. 8 00 @ 9 00 
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Wheat Bran, ton.20 50 @21 00 
Middlings .23 (10 @26 00 
Bed Dog.28 00 @29 00 
Corn Meal.27 "0 @23 00 
Linseed Meal.29 00 @29 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 6 50 @ 8 75 
Bulls. . 5 75 @6 50 
Cows. 3 00 @ 6 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 9 00 @12 25 
Culls. i on © 7 no 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 4 50 ® 5 50 
Lambs. 8 00 @ 9 00 
Hogs. 9 00 @ 9 75 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 00 ® 
No. 2, Bed . 95 @ .. 
No. 2. Hard Winter. 96 © 
Corn, as to quality, bush. . 68 @ 69 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 43 ® 45 
Rye . 68 @ 70 
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; 
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Butter, fancy prints, lb. 
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Tub. choice. 
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Chickens, roasting, lb. 
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Fowls. 
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Hogs, 100 lbs.. 
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BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
In 1912, profits of corporations in the 
United States amounted to $3,304,000,- 
000. an increase of $400,000,000 over the 
previous year. 
Net earnings of the II. B. Claflin Co. 
for the past six months were $264,941. 
The total, capital stock is $9,000,000. 
The shipping tonnage at t'.e port of 
Liverpool in the past year was 18,433,- 
269, an increase of 1,100.000 tons over 
the year previous. 
The strawberry crop of Bayfield 
County, Northern Wisconsin, is unusually 
large this year, being valued at about 
$ 100 , 000 . 
Oklahoma is producing about 180.000 
barrels of oil daily, the annual value 
being $61,000,000. 
The Oregon wool season has ended. 
Fine wools have brought 11 to 14 cents; 
and medium, 15 to 16. 
The pack of green peas iu Wisconsin 
is especially short, owing to hot weather, 
which ripened the peas before they reach¬ 
ed canning size. 
A 300,000 pound shipment of beef from 
Australia and New Zealand is on its 
way to the upper Yukon district of 
Alaska. 
Six carloads of fat steers from Texas, 
averaging 1.148 pounds each, sold in St. 
Louis July 16, at $8.20 per hundred. 
Meats in New York have advanced 1% 
to 2 cents per pounu, a carcass of beef 
recently wholesaling at 14 cents. 
The Massachusetts Board of Health 
is preparing for a strict enforcement of 
the new State law that all cold storage 
eggs must be plainly marked as such 
when offered for sale. A lawful sign 
must bear the words “cold storage eggs” 
in letters at least two inches high, in 
uncondensed Gothic type, and no other 
marks on the label. Penalty for violation 
is fine of not less than $10 nor more than 
$500, at the court’s discretion. 
Summer resort business in New Eng¬ 
land is said to be the best on record. 
There are about 4,400 hotels and board¬ 
ing houses with capacity of 222.144. As 
many stay but two weeks, accommoda¬ 
tions for the season would be 1,332,846. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Fruits are rather high. Potatoes are 
quite low, retailing at 75 cents to $1, 
though it will be some time before the 
home crop is ready. A good area was 
planted. There is a great supply of cher¬ 
ries, selling at 10 cents a quart. Toma¬ 
toes retail at 15 cents a heaped quart 
basket and peaches are two cents each 
or more. Strawberries are goiug out, 
hut there is a better supply of raspberries 
than usual. Strawberries have been high, 
not retailing at less than 10 cents a quart 
and often 15 or more. They have been 
soft and often very sandy. We have 
seen comparatively few firm, fresh look¬ 
ing berries on the Buffalo market this 
year, those produced nearby being no ex¬ 
ception. The scarcity of oranges and 
lemons creates a better demand for other 
fruits. Lemons are few in market and 
oranges retail as high as 72 cents for 
large Valencias. Grape fruit has about 
disappeared for the season. Muskmelons 
will have to take their place as a dessert 
fruit. They are quite good and plenty, 
retailing as low as two for five cents. But¬ 
ter and eggs remain low, 29 cents being 
the top quotation of butter to the retailer 
and 25 cents for eggs. Many market 
terms seem to be used for the purpose of 
confusing all but the initiated. We have 
box, crate, carrier, bunch, basket, hamper, 
also quart, dozen and bushel. What is 
wanted is weight. The cold June nights 
cut down the length of the Timothy hay, 
but clover, especially Alsike, did well, 
and the hay prices remain weak. 
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THE BOSTON MARKET. 
Pork, live, eight cents per pound; 
calves, four to six cents per pound live 
weight. Eggs, 20. Hay, $12 per ton. 
Oats, 50 cents per bushel; oats, potatoes 
and hay are looking good. Owing to 
late frost there will be scarcely any fruit 
this season. Milk at the milk station 
brings $1.30 per hundred; creamery but¬ 
ter. 35 cents per pound. j. b. 
Altona, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
BINDER 
Attachment with Corn Harvester 
cuts and throws in piles on harves¬ 
ter or winrows. Mail and horse 
cuts and shocks equal with aCorn 
Binder. Sold in every State. Price S20.00. W. H. BUXTON, 
of Johnstown, Ohio, writes : “The Harvesterjias proven 
ail you claim for it; the Harvester saved me over $25 in 
labor last year's corn cutting. I cut over 500 shocks: 
will make 1 bushels corn to a shock.” Testimonials and 
catalog free, showing pictures o£ harvester. Address. 
NEW PROCESS MFG. CO., . SAUNA, KANSAS 
Take the market as a whole stuff is sell¬ 
ing very well. Peas bring from $1.25 to 
$1.75 per box; string beans, $1.50 to 
$1.75; beets, 40 cents dozen bunches; 
carrots, 00 cents dozen bunches; radish, 
50 per box or 20 cents dozen punches; 
spinach, 40 to 50 cents box; lettuce, 25 
to 40 cents box ; cabbage, $1.50 to $1.75 
barrel; tomatoes, 13 to 15 cents pound 
for native hothouse; onions. $1.50 to $2 
per bushel; cucumbers, $3.50 box; pota¬ 
toes, old stock, 75 cents bag; new, $2 
barrel. 
Apples, Baldwin, $2.75 bushel: Rus¬ 
set, $2.50; strawberries* 15 to 25 cents 
box; blackberries. 15 cents box; rasp¬ 
berries, 10 cents pint; currants, 10 cents 
box. 
Best beef holds at about 12 cents for 
sides and 14 cents hind quarter; good 
cow beef, 10 cents pound; best lamb. 15 
cents; good, nine to 13 cents; dressed 
hogs, 11 cents; best veal, 15 cents. At 
the stock yards general prices are easier 
and business a little slow at this season. 
Live hogs, eight to nine cents per pound; 
veal calves, live, four to nine cents; 
live cattle, best, $6.50 to $8.50 per 100 
pounds; others, $3.75 to $5.50; live poul¬ 
try a little off. liens, 15 and 16 cents 
pound; broilers. 22 cents. In Boston 
nearby fowl, dressed, 21 cents pound; 
Western, 18 cents; broilers. 2S cents for 
nearby ; Western, 22 to 24 cents; native 
ducks, about IS cents. 
Best fresh eggs bring 32 cents dozen ; 
other grades 23 to 29 cents, with receipts 
and supply fairly good. Cheese is lower 
and supply plenty, best 16 and 17 cents. 
Butter is plenty and lower, best 30 to 
32 cents pound; good, 28 cents. 
Grain is higher. Bran, $22 ton; 
mixed feed, $24 to $26.50; linseed meal. 
$29 ton. 
Best horse hay, $23 ton: good. $20 to 
$22; other grades, $12 to $18. The 
writer was told by a traveling man who 
has just returned from Maine selling 
mowers and hay tools, that the crop is 
very poor in many sections, and as we 
have noticed that it is not nearly as 
good as usual in the best hay sections 
about here the outlook is high prices next 
Winter. In many parts of Maine pota¬ 
toes were planted light where they usu¬ 
ally plant heavy. Other sections planted 
about the usual amount. Cranberries are 
showing up for a general light crop, fair 
only in spots. a. e. p. 
Potato growers in Northern Michigan 
have formed what they call the Michigan 
Potato Grading Association. The potato 
growers have felt that in order to handle 
their product to the best advantage they 
must have some system of uniform pack¬ 
ing and grading. They now propose to 
have certain fixed screens for sorting the 
potatoes, and will make use of a label 
of the Association so as to guarantee 
uniform grade and condition. This label 
will go with carload lots, or smaller ship¬ 
ments. and at a meeting recently held, it 
was held that if the growers could get 
together iu this way and live fairly up to 
their agreements, that much of the 
trouble arising from inspection would be 
done away with. In taking this course, 
the potato growers are only following a 
clearly marked track, which all co-opera¬ 
tive associations must take, for there can 
be no true co-operatiou until the pro¬ 
ducers themselves can get together, and 
go on the market with uniform and exact 
care in handling their produce. 
Cai 1 Sa|a—Cyclone Tile Ditching Machine 
■ wi »liiv slightly used, good condition. Bargain. 
Quick saie. T. IS. WYANT, Flat Rock, Ohio 
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 you need a good, steady, sober 
man, write for an order blank. Onrs is a phil¬ 
anthropic organization and we make no charge to 
employer or employee. Our object is the encour¬ 
agement of fnrniiug among Jews. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
176 Second Ave., I\l. Y. City 
POSITION WANTEDiL’SpoS*; »n 
try Plant or gentleman’s pnvate place, Man, thor¬ 
ough knowledge chickens and stock, also garden; 
handy with tools. Wife, butter maker or board 
help. Wages, $55.00, cottage and privilege. Full 
particulars to Box 458, A, F., Hover. N. J. 
RESPONSIBLE POSITION WANTED— By man who can 
11 ” make good.” Married, practical, np-to-date, 
eight years’ experience ns farm manager. All-round, 
general experience. Some college training. Would 
like management of large estate or commercial 
plant. Am holding down good job now but seek a 
wider field. Address, K. M., care Rnral New-Yorker 
UCPnQ IU1 A M wnnted at once for a 
"" ■* Iwl M\ IU small herd of Guern¬ 
seys. Choice stock and every convenience to work 
with. Man must be experienced in fitting for shows 
and in adv. Keg. work. Only first-class man need 
apply. State experience, references and wages 
warned iu first letter. Box 96, Peekskill, N. Y. 
WantPfi—50,000 farmers to come to Minnesota and 
ITUIH5U iij 1 our fertile soil, where corn,wheat, rye, 
barley, flax, clover, timothy, fruit and vegetables 
grow in wonderful profusion. Here is your chance. 
Maps and literature telling all about Minnesota sent 
free upon application to Fred 0. Sherman, Commissioner 
of Immigration, Room 202. State Capitol, St. Paul. Minn. 
FAR M W A NTF A practical, scientific 
rAI\m U AH LIL.U and successful farmer 
desires to hire for term of years, on cash basis, large 
dairy farm with established trade. All live stock, im¬ 
plements, etc., to be included in lease. Party is thor¬ 
oughly qualified and eminently recommended in all 
tequisites. Address "BUSINESS,” care Rural New-Yorker 
NEW YORK STATE FARMS. A CSSS. 
lug in farina throughout New YorkState. Referenc. 
on re*[Meat. Catalog sent to prospective purchasers. 
C. L. YAGER A CO.. 7SG Press llldg., Hi ugh am ton. X. Y 
Pn* Col.*—50 acres, improved, mostly level, 16 
4 _ miles from Washington. D. C. Price, 
$2,500. Reason for selling—want larger place. 
Address, H. A. SIEBELS, T. B., Prince Georges Co., Maryland 
Farm RarBoIne -0 "' 1 ®*'”' ““ of the flnest lakes in 
X allll Dai gains state : 11 1 acres ; large, ll-rooni 
house, barn 36x4A, horse barn, corn house, wagon shed, fine old 
shade, H mile to electric cars. Investigate this one. Full 
information and traveling directions in catalogue, Dept. 16. 
C. D. ROSE FARM A GENCY. Trenton. Neu> Jersey 
QUR NEW YORK IMPROVED FARMS ar*e great bav- 
w gains at present low price. Send for free lists, 
McBURNEY & CO., 309 Bastahie Block. - Syracuse, N. Y. 
|Cn Ferine FOIt SAM—near Phila. and Trenton markets ; 
IvJU ICillllo good railroad and trolley facilities. New cata¬ 
logue. Established 25 years. Horace 6. Reeder, Newtown, IVnua. 
UUE SELL GOOD FARMS in Oceana, greatest fruit Co. 
'* in U. S.: also grain, potatoes, Alfalfa, dairying. 
Write for list. etc. HANSON & SON, Hart, Mich. 
J ERSEY FARMS— 1 to 350acres in Jersey’s best soil. Catalogue 
tree. EH. Ill KUOl’(illS, 14J E. State St., Treuton, N.J. 
FOR SALE in Connecticut—900-acre fruit farm; also 
* dairy, about 3,000 peach, apple and pear trees, 
near unlimited markets. Owner, care Rural New-Yorker 
WANTED 
BERRIES, FANCY EGGS. HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. GREEN 
PEAS AND ALL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
Top Pricks for Choice Goods 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray St., New York 
WORTH $6,000.00 
Careful investigation of farming in New York shows that a high-school education 
is worth $6,000.00 in 5 per cent bonds to the farmer. Add to this a course in the study 
of agriculture and one is independent. This is just one reason why yonng people should 
investigate the work of 
THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE j 
At MORRISVILLE, N. Y., which Offers 
TO YOUNG MEN: Two year and short winter courses in AGRICULTURE; 
including general agriculture, dairying, fruit growing, poultry husband- 
dry, etc. 
TO YOUNG WOMEN: Two year and short winter courses in HOME ECON¬ 
OMICS ; inducing cookery, sewing, millinery, home nursing, household 
management, etc. 
School has large well-equipped laboratories, modern 200-acre farm, pure-bred 
stock, well-trained staff. 
TUITION is free to residents of Nsw York State. For Catalogue and informaUon address 
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS are 16 years of age. good F. G. HELYAR, Director 
character and completion of 8th grade school 
work. MORRISVILLE, - . NEW YORK 
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