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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, August 9, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Intensive Culture; Good Season.910 
The Farm Labor Problem__............. 5)11 
A New Potato Pest.... ..812 
Crops - 5U2 
Corn Culture Questions.913 
Coming Farmers' Tvleatings .............. 914 
From the Mail liag._ 9ir> 
Hope Farm Notes....,.......,,-,.-,..,.,,.. 910 
The Crop Outlook........................... 939 
Weed Problems _......._....... 917 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Polled Holstein Cattle.. 909 
The Cost of Milk.909, 810 
“Politician” ami "Common People”..911 
A 80 -eent Milk Dollar. 919 
Making Fine Dairy Butter. 922 
Horses in California. 922 
Fine Grade Guernseys. 922 
Milk Prices in New York..... 923 
Beef or Milk Cattle. 923 
Soft Butter . 923 
Foundation for Rank Barn. 924 
A Little Black "Runt”... 924 
Profitable Sheep . 924 
“Sour Silage” .. — 924 
The Egg-Laying Contest. 925 
Brood! ness of Leghorns. 925 
Large Flock in Fircless Brooders. 925 
Buckwheat for Hens. 925 
A Summer Henhouse . 925 
Rope-burn . 925 
Weak Filly ...... 925 
Distemper . 925 
Turn or . 925 
Mare With Cough . 925 
Scours in Calf . 925 
Tumor iu Sow .. 925 
Catarrh . 025 
Pigs With Cough . 925 
HORTICULTURE. 
Transplanting Shrults .. 912 
Summer Spraying for Scale.... 912 
Treatment of Klaekiierries.... 913 
Cultivation of Tarragon. 913 
Mechanical Peach (traders. 915 
Summer Work on Strawberries....... 917 
How to Pick Peaches. 917 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 920 
Some Ways With Peaches....... 920 
The Rural Patterns. 020 
Entire Wheat Bread. 920 
To Cook an Ox Cheek. 920 
Salad Dressings.. 920 
Cooking in Syria. 921 
Glimpses of Colorado. 921 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“Getting Together” for Protection. 910 
Assigning a Mortgage. 910 
Robber P.ees .. 9J2 
Events of the Week. 914 
Editorials . 918, 919 
Publisher’s Desk .’ 92 c, 
Humorous ...;. 928 
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MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending August 2, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Creamary, extra. I b... 26 @ 
Good to Choice . 24 
Lower Grades..... 
State Dairy, best. _ 
Common to Good. 22 @ 
Factory. 20 @ 
Packing Stock. 19 @ 
Elgin. Ill., butter market firm at 26 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 27j£ cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 14 _ 
Common to Good . 10 @ 
Skims. 05 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy. 30 @ 
Good to prime. 
Mixed colors, best. 
Common to good. 
Western, best. 25 ^ 
Cheeks and dirties..'. 09 @ 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Hand-picked, bbl.. 
Windfalls, bbl.... 1 25 
Pears—Bartlett, bn. .. 150 
Clapp’s, bbl..... 
Kieffer, bbl......... 
Cherries, Hlb. bkt... 
Currants, qt. 
Blackberries, qt. 
Huckleberries, qt. ... 
Gooseberries .. 
Raspberries, red, pint . 
Black, pint.... 
Peaches, Southern, crate...2 00 
Dei. and 11(1., bkt. 60 
Del. and Md, crate.1 00 
Connecticut, bkt. 75 
Jersey, bkt. 
Up-River, bkt.... 
Arkansas, bn. bkt.. 1 50 
Muskraclons. Southern, crate ... 
Del. and Md., crate. 
Arizona, crate ... 1 50 
Watermelons, Southern, carload.. 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. ... 5 60 
Medium. 4 05 
J, 0 *! •;..........350 
Red Kidney...™ ,, ... 345 
White Kidiiey .... 6 15 
» el low Eye... 4 40 
I,ima, California. 6 35 
. HOPS. 
Prnneto choice... 
Common to good... 
Pacific Coast . 
Old stock. 
German crop....._ 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes-Long Island, bbL .... 
Southern, bbl ... 
Jersey, bbl._. 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 
Beets, new. bbl._ 
Carrots, new. bbl... 
Cucumbers, bu.. 
Cabbage. 100 . . 
Lettuce, half-bbi. basket”*'*”.'*'.*.*. 
Onions—Long Island, bbl. 
Jersey, bn. 
Peppers. ,1 orsev. bbl. .* 
Nearby, box.. 
Peas. bu. ..... _ 
Radishes, luu bunches . 
String Beans, bu. 
Squash, new, bu.. 
Rgg Plant*. Jersey'.box,:::::::;.;;.;; 
Spinach, bbl. 
1 omatoes—Del. and Md. carrier . 
Jersey, box . 
Turnips, white, bbl. 
Rutabaga . 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best ...... 
Common to good. 
Ohio,kens, choice broilers, lb_ 
Squab broilers, pair . 
Broilers, common to good 
Roasters. 
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LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb... 
Fowls ...... 
Roosters. 
Ducks.. 
Geese. 
Turkeys...” 
Guineas, pair. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton. 
Standard. 
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W heat Bran, ton. 
Middlings ... 
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Corn Meal. 
Linsoed Meal. ...... '. Y. 
Native Steers 
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Cows. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 
Culls.... 
Sheep. 190 lbs.!... *” 
Lambs. 
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Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 09S @ 
No. 2, Red . ;i 4 @ 
No. 2. Hard Winter. 96 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush.. 72 @ 74 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 45 @ 47 
R ye . 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; 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
Ordinary grades. 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 
Tub. choice. 2 S 
Chickens, roasting, Ib. 25 
Fowls. is 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery..„ 
■Western creamery . 27 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 34 
Gathered fresh.. 28 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls... 19 
Roasters. 20 
Hay—No. 1 . 21 09 
No. 2 . i 8 60 
No. 3. 14 (10 
Straw—Rye... 22 00 
Millfeed—Bran, ton.22 90 
Middlings. 23 59 
Mixed Feed.34 00 „_ 
Live Stock—Milch Cows.65 00 @190 90 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 4 25 @ 5 00 
Bulls, 109 lbs. 5 00 @ 9 50 
Calves. 199 lbs. 5 09 @ 8 59 
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BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
On July 21. an Idaho farmer sold 600 
sacks of new barley at 95 cents per 
bushel. 
Old raisins have advanced one-fourth 
cent on account of poor crop outlook and 
scarcity of old stock. 
Hood River, Oregon, apple growers 
have orders from South Africa and Aus¬ 
tralia, covering 60,000 boxes of their 
fruit. 
The railroad grain movement is the 
heaviest known at this time of vear, the 
quantity on track at the end‘of July 
being about 20.000.000 bushels. 
From latest estimates. 348,006 people 
were killed and wounded in the Balkan 
war, and the money cost was about 
$1,225,000,000. 
A New Orleans lumber concern has 
got the largest order for mahoganv ever 
placed in this country, 75 carloads, for 
shipment to London. 
The mines of Idaho turned out $21,- 
466.521 worth of metal in 1912. The 
largest single item was lead, 2S4.185.657 
pounds. The zinc yield was 113.005.502 
pounds; copper, 7,-102.152 pounds; silver, 
8.294,745 ounces. * 
In the year ending June 30, the Gov¬ 
ernment tea examiners inspected 95.529,- 
067 pounds offered for import, about one 
per cent being rejected because of color 
or quality. 
The Argentine Congress is considering 
a bill similar to our Sherman law for the 
regulation of trusts. There has been con¬ 
siderable agitation over the possibility 
of our meat interests getting control of 
the Argentine industry. 
In 1910 the Government seized 4^4 
fens of frozen eggs stored in a New Jer¬ 
sey warehouse, claiming that they were 
unlit for food. The Government -case 
was not proven to the satisfaction of the 
courts, and after many hearings the eggs 
have been turned loose on the world, the 
only condition being that they be brand¬ 
ed ns four-year-olds when offered for 
sale. 
Issues of capital stock ‘by railroads 
and industrials in this country in July 
amounted to $95,175,900. Total issues 
for the past seven months were $1,222,- 
529,800, a little more than one-half be¬ 
ing for railroad purposes. Rail read and 
industrial paper maturing in August will 
total $23,906,000. 
The Eastern Fruit Exchange was re¬ 
cently organized at Rochester, X. Y.. to 
jiramote better packing and methods of 
selling and distribution. The capital 
stock is $20,000, in 200 shares of $100. 
each. Directors are; Seth J. T. Bush, 
of Morton, N. Y\; Burton G. Bennett. 
Rochester: Charles A. Skitt, Morton; 
M alter It. Kriedler, Horn ell; Harry 
AVellman, Kendall: A. Z. Richman, Mor¬ 
ton ; B. I.. Perkins, Albion. 
June 27. Oats in this vicinity will be 
about an average crop. Wheat' is extra 
good. Corn has a good start. I would 
estimate the apple crop to be about half 
of last year; pears and plums are heav¬ 
ily loaded. Peach crop light. D. M. 
Oakland Co.. Mich. 
THE BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Some farmers say that crops as a 
whole have seldom or never looked better 
than they do now. Still the need of 
rain is common, spite of occasional sharp 
showers. One occurred in Buffalo on 
July 20 that was accompanied by hail 
and the fall of water was sufficient alone 
to flatten hay and grain crops to the 
ground, but it did not extend much out 
of the city. Green corn is beginning to 
arrive, some of it very short-eared, so 
that it sells at 10 cents a dozen to con¬ 
sumers. Long ears are 30 cents a dozen. 
The dry weather is telling on the growth 
of corn and will make it short-stalked 
soon. The market is very full of berries 
and tree fruits, which are cheaper than 
they were last month. For about the 
first time raspberries are cheaper than 
strawberries. The cream berries, which 
are cheapest, retail at 10 cents a quart 
and others are 12 to 15 cents. Huckle¬ 
berries are coming in at about 12 cents. 
There are a few mulberries, which are 
not common, selling at other berry prices. 
The uninformed would call them black¬ 
berries. The berry quality is much better 
than strawberries were and the low 
prices help to make a fast market There 
is a good showing of currants and some 
gooseberries, which latter are seldom 
plenty here. They sell at other berry 
prices. In tree fruits plums still lead 
at 8 cents a quart up. They are much 
more plenty than usual *and better qual¬ 
ity. Most of them come from California. 
The home crop of cherries is not yet 
gone. It is better than usual, but not 
really what it ought to be. The prices 
are about along with plums. Peaches 
are becoming plenty, but come a long 
way and are two cents or more each, for 
rather small sizes. The quality is good. 
The western New York peach crop is 
quite uneven, but is expected to be large 
as a whole. A really full erop turns 
out so many that prices go almost to 
nothing. A few pears are appearing, 
but they do not look at all tempting. 
They sell at about eight cents a quart 
of four or five. Home apples will be 
here soon, but the first arrivals are al¬ 
ways of very poor quality. The pea crop 
seems to go begging. The quality has 
not been very good. The customer knows 
when peas sell badly by the amount of 
them that the market dealer has had 
to shell because the pods have gone drv. 
The podded peas «ell at 15 cents the 
half peck. "We never buy the shelled 
one, much preferring beans, which always 
seem to be the better crop, for both seller 
and buyer. Green beans are down to 
eight cents a quart and of tine quality. 
The great increase of canned corn and 
beans, so much handier to bring to the 
table, has hurt the green vegetable trade 
very much of late. Potatoes are firm 
at $1 retail. Celery is suddenly plenty 
and low, coming from Kalamazoo. 
J. w. c. 
Wheat cutting all done and hauling 
wheat to barns or ricks is well along. 
The frequent heavy rains have held har¬ 
vest work back. Wheat, although not 
thick on the ground, is better filled than 
was expected. I tats and corn are grow¬ 
ing well and promise a good crop. Wheat, 
$1-05; oats, 55; corn. 70. Meadows are 
mostly very light; old hay, $16; new 
hay, $14 to $15. Rye is grown more 
extensively than a few years back, the 
grain selling for about the same as 
wheat and the straw has a good market 
at about $2 per ton more than wheat 
straw. Pastures are good and stock 
are doing well. Wheat fields seeded to 
clover last Spring are showing a fine 
stand. The prospect for a second crop 
of clover is good. Eggs sell for 25 cents 
per dozen; butter, 35 cents per pound. 
Cattle seem to be increasing in price 
and diminishing in number; the demand 
for calves is good. 15 cents per pound 
for hog-dressed veal. No fruit to speak 
of. j. g. H. 
Fayette Co., Pa. 
The hay crop will be much better than 
was anticipated; the last few weeks were 
very beneficial. While the crop will not 
be as large as that of last year, which 
was a “banner” one, still many of our 
farmers are cutting considerable more 
grass than they expected. Oats are 
turning and will be ready for cutting 
right away. The crop bids fair to be 
good, fully as large as last year. Not 
much fruit will be had; the apple crop 
being very light, owing to the destructive 
worms in the Spring. Cherries come 
from Virgil, the crop not being up to 
the standard of former years. Milch 
cows are more plentiful at lower prices. 
This is owing to the scare over the hay 
crop being light this year. Many of 
our dairymen are running stock farms, 
exchanging their herds of graded stock 
for registered. Rain is badly needed in 
different sections of our county for the 
late crops, especially buckwheat. Pota¬ 
toes and buckwheat are the two prin- 
eipal crops raised in the county, Cort¬ 
land County bring largely a dairy county, 
and where the two crops fail it means 
less money for the farmers. Potatoes 
are looking tine for this time of the year, 
and unless something unforseen happens 
the crop will he large. Creamery butter 
is quoted at 28 and eggs at 24. Milk at 
the shipping stations generally at $1.10 
per 40-quart can delivered in New York 
City. Many of the buyers are very 
backward in giving out prices until 
they learn what the other fellow is giv¬ 
ing. There is no reason why a dealer 
who had a regular established trade 
should not know what he is going to 
pay for milk at the commencement of the 
month, so the dairymen can know what 
they are getting for the milk delivered 
and the buyer who does not give out 
his price promptly should be let alone 
until he does know. It is the same old 
game where the dairyman is made the 
goat. f. E. w. 
Cortland Co., 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. 
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