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THE RURAL 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, August 16, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Fitting Rand for Wheat. 030 
•‘doming Through tile Ityc”.030 
Fighting Witch Grass. 930 
Tiie Farm Labor Problem. Part 11. 031 
Women at. Field Work.031 
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance. 031 
Storing Potatoes .032 
Now Jersey Hoard of Agriculture. 032 
The Hay Press Has Como. 933 
Progress in the Garden State. 033 
Coming Farmers' Meetings. 034 
Crops . 
European Hop Crop Prospects. 03-> 
Hope Farm Notes. 9311 
Killing Wild Garlic. 930 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Work Horses During llot Weather.929, 
The Foes of Poultry. 
Non-payment for Tuberculous Cattle. 
Hog Wallows . 
More Cow Records. 
A New Hampshire Dairy Herd. 
Liability for-Dog Tax. 
French Conch and Morgan Horses. 
Arrangement of Dairy Barn. 
Mares for Raising Mules. 
Tobacco Dip for Scabies. 
Motherless Colt . 
Milk . 
Records of Guernsey Cows. 
The Price of Cows. 
Horse With Cough. 
Mare With Cough. 
Indigestion . 
Indigestion In Hogs. 
rigs With Cough. 
Joint Disease . 
Lame Cow . 
The Egg-Laying Contest. 
Connecticut State Poultry Association. 
Gapes .... 
Trap-nesting . 
A Summer Henhouse. 
Ailing Chicks . 
Poor Results With Chicks. 
Tumor .-.... 
Scours iu Calf ..... 
Catarrh ... 
Rope-burn . 
Weak Filly . 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Thinning Tomatoes . 932 
Western New York Fruit Notes. 934 
Peninsula Horticultural Society. 934 
The Bing and Lambert Cherries in the East. 937 
Missouri Notes . 937 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day . 
A Homemade Shower Bath. 
The Lavender Crop. 
Hints for the Laundry. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A Country Reception. 
Sugar Finger Chocolates. 
Tested Sweet Pickles. 
Three Savory Salads. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
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941 
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941 
Events of the Week. 934 
Editorials .93S, 939 
Publisher’s Desk . 940 
Humorous . 048 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending August 9, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Oreamory, extra, lb. 2G ® 27 
Good to Choice . 21 © 26% 
Lower Crudes. 22 © 23% 
State Dairy, best. 26 © 26 
Common to Good. 23 @ 24 
Factory. 20 © 23 
Packing Stock. 19 © 21 
Elgin, 111., butter market Arm at 25% cents. 
Phil- lelpliia, western creamery, 27% cent*. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, boat. 14 © %% 
Common to Good . 10 © 13 
Sklnis. 05 @ 10 
EGGS. 
White, oliolce to* fancy. 30 © 34 
Good to prime. 24 © 23 
Mixed colors, best. 28 © 30 
Common to good. 18 © 24 
Storage, best. 23 © 24 
Western, best. 25 © 27 
Checks and dirties. 09 © 15 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Hand-picked, bbl. ..2 00 
Windfalls, bbl. 1 UU 
Pears—Bartlett, bu. 1 25 
Clapp's, bbl. 3 50 
Kieiler, bbl. .. 3 00 
Currants, qt. OS 
Black berries, qt. 09 
Huckleberries, qt. 07 
Raspberries, red, pint . 07 
Black, pint. 00 
Peaches, Southern, crate. 2 00 
Del. and Md., bkt. 00 
Del. ami Md., crate.1 60 
Connecticut, bkt. 00 
Jersey, bkt. r.0 
Up-River, bkt. 60 
Pine Island, bkt. 76 
Arkansas, bu. bkt. 2 UU 
Plums, 81b, bkt. 25 
Muskmeious, Southern, crate . 30 
Del. and Md., crate. 75 
New Mexico, crate . 1 50 
Watermelons, Soutlioru, carload ....12500 
@ 4 00 
@ 1 50 
<■>. 1 5(1 
© 4 00 
© 3 60 
© 11 
© 18 
© 18 
W IS 
@ 08 
... 3 (id 
© 1 25 
® 225 
© i 110 
W 1 2.. 
@ 1 25 
© 1 25 
© 2 50 
® 30 
® 75 
<". 1 75 
® 3 00 
©oOU 00 
Marrow, 100 lbs.. 
Medium. 
Pea .. 
lied Kidney. 
White Kidney ,. 
Yellow Eye. 
Lima, California 
BEANS. 
5 60 © 6.60 
4 00 © 4 10 
3 40 © 3 90 
3 20 © 3 75 
6 20 © 6 45 
4 10 © 4 60 
6 35 © 6 45 
Prime to choice. 
Common to good 
Pacific Coast ... 
Old stock. 
German crop.... 
HOPS. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes-Long Island, bbl. 
Southern, bbl . 
Jersey, bb). 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl..'.'.'.". ”! 
Beets, bbl. * .* 
Canots, bbl.’ ’. 
Cucumbers, bu. 
PI cities’ bbl . 
cabbage, 100 .....;. I: T!!!;; I! |;. 
Cauliflower, bbl... 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket’ 
Ouious—7 j0 ng Island, bbl.. 
Jersey, bu. 
Orange Co., 100 lb bag 
1 uppers. Jersey, bbl 
Nearby,box.””. 
Peas, bu. . 
Radishes, 100 buuclms . 
String Beans, bu. 
Squash, new. bu..l 
l*-gg Plauts, Jersey .'box,.!.!.!!! 
19 & 20 
14 © 18 
19 © 23 
10 © 14 
50 © 53 
2 00 @2 37 
1 00 @ 2 00 
2 00 ©2 25 
2 00 © 3 50 
1 25 © I 75 
1 50 © 2 00 
25 © 60 
1 00 © 2 00 
4 00 © 7 00 
2 00 © 7 00 
26 © 75 
3 00 © 3 50 
1 00 ® 1 35 
1 25 © 1 37 
60 © 1 00 
20 © 30 
30 © 1 00 
1 00 © 1 50 
15 © 100 
26 © 75 
30 © 60 
Tomatoes—Del. and Md. carrier. 50 
Jersey, box . 40 
Turnips, white, bbl. 1 00 
Rutabaga . 1 00 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 18 
Common to good. 16 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 24 
Broilers, common to good . 21 
Roasters. 20 
Fowls. 14 
Squabs, doz. 50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 20 
Fowls. 15 
Roosters. n 
Ducks. ]6 
Geese. n 
Turkeys. 13 
Guineas, pair.’ 65 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton 
Standard. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Clover mixed. 
Straw, now Rye . 
Now Hay, as to grade 
Oat. 
.20 00 
..19 00 
.17 00 
. 13 00 
.14 00 
.15 00 
. 15 00 
..8 00 
MILLFEKD. 
Wheat Bran, ton. 
Middlings . 
Red Dog. 
Corn Meal. 
Linseed Meal. 
Natlvo Steors 
Bulls. 
Cows. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Calves, primo veal, 100 lbs 
Culls..... 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 
Lambs. 
Hogs.. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring 
No. 2, Red . 
No. 2, Hard Winter_ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 
Rye.. 
21 00 
23 00 
28 00 
27 00 
,29 00 
0 25 
4 00 
2 50 
9 00 
4 00 
3 00 
6 00 
8 50 
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RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
Those 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. 38 © 40 
Mixed colors, new laid. 30 © 35 
Ordinary grades. 18 @ 20 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 35 @ 40 
Tub, choice. 28 © 33 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 25 @ 28 
Fowls.. is © 23 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 
Western creamery . 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 
Gathered fresli. 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 
Roasters. 
Hay—No. 1. 
.. 19 
© 30% 
© 27% 
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@ 30 
© 21 
@ 23 
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No. 2. 
<&20 5(J 
No. 3. 
Straw—Rye. 
@24 00 
Millteed—Bran, ton. 
@23 00 
Middlings. 
@ 2 .S 00 
Mixed Feed. 
@26 00 
Live Stock—Milch Cows. 
.65 00 
@100 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 
@609 
Calves. ICO lbs. 
. 5 00 
@8 50 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 
. 8 50 
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BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
On August 1 the total mimber of na¬ 
tional bank notes outstanding was 
$759,293,191. 
The United States Assay Office has 
sold during the past seven months 
$19,178,7S8 worth of gold bars. 
The Wurtembergisehe Kredit-Verein, 
of Stuttgart, an outgrowth of an asso¬ 
ciation of real estate owners is putting 
out 13,440,000 marks four per cent de¬ 
bentures, redeemable In 1923, and the 
Credit Foncier of South -Germany will 
soon issue 15.000.000 marks four per 
cent mortgage bonds, to run 10 years/ 
Building and loan associations in 
Pennsylvania were unusually prosperous 
in 1912, the year ending with assets of 
$213,825,547, an increase of $16,448,789 
over the previous year. There were 
475.494 shareholders; 17.SS5 horses were 
bought through the various associations. 
About 55,000,000 tons of coal are used 
on steamships in international commerce, 
costi ng $180,000, (>00. 
The National Association of Brick 
Paving Manufacturers will be held iu 
Cleveland, O., September 17-18. Cleveland 
and Cuyahoga County have a large 
amount of brick road construction, which 
will be examined critically. 
A Wisconsin concern has a contract 
for what is said to be the largest hoist¬ 
ing apparatus in the world, to be used in 
an English coal mine. Each drum will 
have a capacity of 10.000 feet 1^4-inch 
rope. The load of each rope will be 12 
cars of 2,200 pounds capacity each. 
A trainload of 95 cars of muskmeious 
was recently hauled out of Northern 
Texas. < >no engine pulled the train 
which made a trip of 111 miles in live 
hours. There were 1.277,060 melons in 
the load. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission 
reports that a large number of railroad 
scales throughout the country are incor¬ 
rect and should he rebuilt. The custom 
of weighing cars iu motion when coupled 
is condemned. 
During 1912 cotton to the amount of 
21,817,000 bales of 500 pounds each was 
produced. The quantities grown in the 
principal countries were as follows: 
1 nited States, 13.096.000 bales; India, 
3,518,000; Egypt, 1.523,000; China. 1,- 
074,000: Russia, 950.000; Brazil. 320- 
000; Mexico. 140.000; Peru. 128,000; 
Persia, 118,000; Turkey, 115.000. 
The Government recently sold 52.600,- 
000 feet of pine and fir from the national 
forest reserves in Arizona, and is offer¬ 
ing 70,000.000 feet of hemlock, fir and 
cedar in the Olympic National forest. 
The buyers will have five years iu which 
to refiiove the timber. 
The quantity of sugar received from 
foreign countries and our own islands 
during the year ending June 30, 1913, 
was 6,500,000,000 pounds, exceeding 1912 
by 500.000,000 pounds. Cuba sent 4,- 
333.333,333 pounds; Hawaii, 1,000,000,- 
000; Porto Rico, 750,000,000; Philip¬ 
pines, 250,000,000; Java, 13,000,000; Eu¬ 
rope, 182,000,000; and the remainder 
from South America. 
The Ohio Dairy and Food Commis¬ 
sioner is taking active measures for en¬ 
forcement of the new law requiring the 
sale of fruit and vegetables by weight in¬ 
stead of measure. In cities and villages 
in which local authorities neglect or re¬ 
fuse to enforce the law to the letter he 
will enforce it himself, he says. 
Milch cows, $30 to $80; horses from 
$175 to $250; veal calves, $8 to $9.50. 
Hay, $16 to $20; straw, $12; butter, 
30-32; eggs, 30; potatoes, 50. The wheat 
and rye crop good, oats in bad condition 
on account of rainy weather at time of 
sowing, then dry spells later on. Corn 
in good growing condition, but needs 
rain. The hay crop will be very small. 
Very few apples, pears or peaches; 
plums plentiful, also very few cherries. 
Cherries sell at from eight to 10 cents 
a box. Outlook for peas and beans good. 
Auburn, Pa. A. B. L. 
The outlook in this territory for 
grapes, peaches, pears and apples is 
about a 40 per cent crop. The quality 
promises to be good. The frosts of May 
were very destructive, killing nearly all 
berries and injuring other fruits. Some 
peach orchards are bearing well, while 
others have little or no fruit, those near 
the lake being the most promising due to 
the frosts having been lighter in that lo¬ 
cality. The same is true of grapes, ap¬ 
ples and pears. Conditions augur for 
good prices and the growers hopeful. 
The bulk of the grape and pear crop will 
be disposed of through the St. Joseph- 
Michigan Fruit Association, of which 
most of the growers ai’e members. Spray¬ 
ing in this locality being very general 
there is little disease and vines and trees 
are in excellent condition. The corn 
crop will be large, acreage considered. 
Oats and wheat light. But little grain 
is raised iu this vicinity, the land being 
devoted almost entirely to fruits. 
St. Joseph, Mich. c. B. w. 
August 4. Apple crop a failure, pears 
also; peaches full crop in spots, gener¬ 
ally on a hill where there is clear air 
drainage; berries good crop, especially 
blackberries; garden crops fine. Splen¬ 
did growing weather for everything; fine 
rains every week and quite warm be¬ 
tween showers. Corn promises best for 
years. Wheat a fair crop, oats good, well 
headed hut short straw; hay a much bet¬ 
ter crop than Spring prospects. Every¬ 
thing we have to buy high iu price, most 
farm produce low. Horses, any price 
one asks, from $100 to $400; cows, even 
common, are bringing $50 up; pigs, six 
to eight weeks, $3 to $5 each; sheep low, 
$2.50 to $4. Selling prices, wheat, 90; 
corn, 50; oats, 35; potatoes, new, 90; 
butter, 25; eggs, 22; lniy, old, $10. 
Selling price of produce after parting 
with producei', wheat, $1.15; corn, 70; 
oats, 65: potatoes, $1.40; bran, $1.25. 
Flour (50-pound sack), $1.80; cornmeal, 
$1.60 per 100; midtilings, $1.45; mixed 
feeds, $1.45 to $1.60. c. E. s. 
Columbiana Co., O. 
July 25. I went to the market place 
and found 15 wagons backed to the curb 
and the following prices prevailing: 
Beans, 10 cents quarter peck; peaches, 
25 cents quarter peck; sweet corn, 25 
cents per dozen; blackberries, two boxes 
25; butter, 30; eggs, 22. Tomatoes, 20 
cents quarter peck; now potatoes, 20 
cents peck; beets, five cents per bunch; 
huckleberries, two boxes 25 cents. The 
dairymen are delivering milk at seven 
cents a quart; cream, just within the re¬ 
quirements of the law, 10 cents quart; 
“double” cream, 20 cents quart. Old 
hay, $14; new hay out of field, $12. At 
the Spring auction sales cows were sold 
at from $40 to $75, and it was a poor 
cow indeed that did not go over $40. In 
April I was looking for a good horse, and 
attended a couple of horse sales, at which 
I saw approximately 150 horses sold; 
well-broken horses, 950 pounds and un¬ 
der. sold at $145 to $175; 1,100 to 1,200 
pounds, $225 to $275. Not seeing what 
I wanted I went to an old established 
stock farm and bought a five-year-old, 16 
hands, 1.200 pounds, thoroughly broken 
road-horse, for $500, and a friend with me 
bought a six-year-old, 16 hands, 1,100 
pounds, general purpose horse, now work¬ 
ing on his farm, for $400. and we both 
feel that we made money by so doing. On 
the 23d there was a sale of 60 Western 
horses here, the kind that farmers should 
not buy, but did, which averaged about 
as follows: One-year and two-years old, 
$90 to $100; three years old, unbroken, 
$130; one four years old, broken double 
only, $100. Very few of the lot will 
make over 900-pound horses. j. l. h. 
Bloomsbnrg, Pa. 
|Cn Cornic Kill 81 l,r—near Fhll.i. am! Trenton markets ; 
IJU I 01 III O mmti railroad mid trolley facilities. Now oaia- 
loKiie. KatablDlKMl -■> years. Horace (■. Iteeder, .Newtown, 1‘euua. 
COR SALE-FARM FRONTING 2000 FEET ON FINE LAKE. Ex- 
1 cellent chance for any one desiring to eater to 
auto, Ashing and camping parties. Good location for 
tent and bungalow colonies Write for full particu¬ 
lars to owner. C. H., Salt Point, Duchess Co.. New York 
M/AMT Cn—Sept. 1st, a strong, active young man, 
fiftn i ku for general farm work, witii good 
chance to learn modern methods Some experience 
preferred. MEADOW FARM, HARTSOALE, NEW YORK 
D ft III TRY MAN— vun ng man <•. ro.nl habits, 
rUUt I II I 1*1 H li experience and ttpeclnlizetl education 
at Cornell, for poKitiou on a com. farm. Can drive or milk If 
required. Ketvreuces. g. M. E., care of K. N.-Y. 
GasolineEngines 
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We give you an engine that keeps going all the time. 
You stay on the Job feeding Corn Stalks,the engine 
takes care of itself. We have the easiest running 
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on your own place and give you a special combina¬ 
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202 Fniton Street New York City 
Do You Need Farm Help? 
We have many able-bodied yonng men, both 
with and without farm experience, who wish to 
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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 aGRICVLTLR/XL SOCIETY 
176 Second Are., /V. V. City 
I Want a Farmer 
A practical, intelligent, experienced man to 
manage a 200-acre farm in Western Massachu¬ 
setts, on very liberal terms. Good 10-room 
house and other buildings; 60 acres tillage; 60 
pasture; 80 woods; 1,000 sugar maples; very 
high and sightly; abundant water; % mile to 
village; good beef cattle proposition. 
F. 0. WELLS, - Greenfield, Mass. 
Wflnlflf|- MAN flND WIFE FOR garden and 
nalllOU GENERAL WOKK—woman, general 
housework. Family, two adults. City conveniences. 
LINFIELD GARDENS, Quinton, N. J. 
W-'-N TED—BY MARRIED MAN familiar with ail 
** blanches of farming and gardening, situation 
ox responsibility after Oct. 1. L. H., care R. N -Y 
POSITION WANTED I’o manage farm, by yonn^man- 
* Scientific training and practical experience. Dairv 
mg, Poultry, general farming. Scientific, care R. I-T. 
F OR SALE, EXCHANGE OB LEASE—Hydraulic Cider Prr.«,. 
Capacity, 75 bbla. ye r Uay. F. R. Lawrence, Sterling too, K.T. 
BEST BALE TIES—delivered quickly at lowest 
** prices. Tudor & Jones, W’eedsport, N. Y. 
FOR SAI p—CIDER aud VINEGAR PLANT 
iuii uHLL Fully equipped; located in the heart of 
the apple growing section of Orange Co., at low 
figure to settle estate. BARNES BROS.. Mountainville. N.Y. 
FOR SALE 
FARM OF 6134 ACRES 
two miles from railroad and 
live from Colgate University. 
A good little farm with good buildings and good 
crops growing. 12,000.00, with ouly *500.00 down. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. V. 
When You Can Buy a 
Home on Easy Terms 
in St. Lawrence County, New York, the Lead¬ 
ing Dairy County of the United States. 
f£i Farms already stocked from $30 to $75 per acre, 
comfortable buildings, good water, schools, 
ohnrchee, mail, telephone. New Illustrated 
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Bax 6 Ogdon&burg, New York 
Level, fertile, paying farms in the racst 
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Bargains. Square deal always 
Fred C. McCarty, Aaburn, N. Y. 
Rafoainc” 1 ' 1 15 Staten ; 50 acrea ; practi- 
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pay for it; h < 2 n »He tu store, school, and charchea ; mail de¬ 
li vered; good 5-room frame house, barn 30x40. Only $800—pvt 
cash. Full descriptions ami traveling directions. Dept. 16 
C. IX ROSE FARM AGENCY . Trenton, Nett) Jersey 
“m Poultry and Truck Farms 
with nice homes, near Richmond. Fend for onr 
list—we have just what you want. Address 
CASSE1MAN 8 CO.. 1018 East Main St.. Richmond, fa. 
Farm Wanted-?™ 1 !; 
abandoned or rundown 
place, within 150 miles of NewYork. 
Must have buildings and be a bargain. D. M„ c.R.N.-Y. 
IERSEY FARMS - l to 350 ai-tvs In Jersey’s best soil. Cataiogus 
tl live. ED. lilKHOltiHS, 147 E. State St., Iron ten,!». J. 
F ARM FOR SALE— 24 acres. % mile to Hosted Station. 
Reference. J. F. WESTC0TT, R. D. 5. Elmer, N. J. 
F arm fur Knle—25 acres, homo ntu! ham, hleal for fruit and poul¬ 
try. Investigate. Price, ©IIO. F. (4. Spur-i, W. CuoiutlngCn,Bur 
Small Fruits 
WANTED 
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SEO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. OOPWIM 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in allkindsoi 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches, Bev 
ries Butter, Eggs. Cheese. Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot house Products a Specialty. Consignment* 
Solicited. 34 & 36 Little 13tli .St.. Netv York 
Highest prices guaranteed for White or Brown 
Leghorns or mixed eggs. Also high grade butter. 
Write us for information. A trial will convince you 
of oui ability to obtain extreme prices. Addtess 
JOHNSTONE 6 COUGHLAN, 
164 Duane Street ... New York 
