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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, August 30, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Alfalfa In Centra) New York. 
Penn. Farmers anti Direct Sale... 
Redeeming Pine Barren Land. 
Transplanting Asparagus .. 
Marly Cabbage . 
Rye a Tough Grain. 
Houie-burned Lime . 
Power on the Mower. 
Hired Man Talks of Co-operation 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Peddling in the Busy Season. 
When to Cut Brush. 
A Back-to-the-Lander’s Notes.... 
Auto for Farm Power. 
Cleaning Swamp . 
Alfalfa Experiment . 
Crops . 
Hope Farm Notes. 
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973 
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970 
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977 
978 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Winter Broilers and Truck. Part 1. 971 
A New Jersey Champion. 984 
T.he Dairy Cow for the Rundown Farm.984 
The Mgg-laying Contest. 985 
Poultry Picnic . 985 
Pasturing Berkshire Swine. 980 
The "Over-run” on Butter. 980 
Selecting a Bull. 980 
Brood Marcs for New York. 988 
A Silo in Maine. 988 
Expense in Selling Milk. 988 
HORTICULTURE. 
Summer Spraying for Scale.970 
A Living from Growing Flowers.970 
Squash Bug on Cucumbers. 975 
Popular Plants and Their Care. 979 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 982 
The Easy Picnic. 982 
The Rural Patterns. 982 
A Cozy Kitchen Annex. 982 
Score Card for Judging Cake. 982 
Modern Conveniences for the Farm Home. 
Part II. 983 
Tea Vinegar . 983 
A Wise Woman Says. 983 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Property Subject to Transfer Tax.970 
Work by Electrical Contractors. 970 
Events of the Week. 974 
A Good Smokehouse. 975 
Testing Concrete Sand. 976 
Editorials .9S0, 981 
Publisher’s Desk . 990 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending August 22, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Oreaniary, extra, lb. 2S @ 2834 
Good to Choice . 26 @ 27 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 25 
State Dairy, best. 26 @ 27 
Common to Good. 23 @ 25 
Factory. 20 @ 24 
Packing Stock. 19 @ 23 
Elgin, Ill., butter market Arm at 27 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 28 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 15 
Common to Good . 10 
Skims. 05 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy. 32 
Good to prime. 25 
Mixed colors, best. 30 
Common to good. 20 
Storage, best. 24 
Western, best. 25 
Checks and dirties. 10 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Wealthy, bbl.2 25 
Astrachan. 2 00 
Duchess. . 2 25 
Nyack... 1 75 
Williams .2 50 
Gravenstein. 2 25 
Yellow Transparent. 2 50 
Windfalls, bbl. 1 00 
Pears—Bartlett, bbl. 2 50 
Clapp’s, bbl. 2 00 
Kieffer, bbl. 2 00 
Blackberries, qt. 08 
Huckleberries, qt. 05 
Raspberries, red, pint . 07 
Black, pint. 06 
Peaches, W’esteru N. Y., bkt. 25 
Del. and Md., bkt. 40 
Del. and Md., crate. 1 00 
Jersey, bkt. 35 
Up-River, bkt. 30 
Pine Island, bkt.. 40 
Pluins. 81b, bkt. 12 
Grapes—Champion, IS lb. case,. 40 
Niagara, case . 75 
Delaware, case. 100 
Muskmelons, Del. and Md., crate .... 50 
New Mexico, crate. 1 25 
Watermelons, Southern, oarload.... 60 00 
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BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. . 
Medium. 
Pea . 
Red Kidney. 
Lima, California. 
5 50 @6.50 
3 SO @ 4 00 
3 40 ® 3 S5 
3 20 @ 3 85 
6 35 @ 6 35 
nops. 
Prime to choice. 19 @ 20 
Common to good. 14 @ 18 
Pacilic Coast . 19 @ 23 
Old stock. 10 @ 14 
German crop. 50 @ 52 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 
Jersey, bbl. 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 
Beets, bbl.'.. 
Carrots, bbl.", 
Cueum bers, bu. 
Pickles, bbl. 
Cabbage, 100... 
Sweet Corn, 100. 
Cauliliower, bbl.. 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 
Lima Beans, flat, bu. 
Potatoes, bu. 
Onions—Long Island, bbl. 
Jersey, bu. .. 
Orange Co., 1U0 lb bag . 
Peppers, Jersey, bbl. 
Peas, bu. __ 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 
String Beans, bu. 
Squash, new, bu. 
Egg Plants, Jersey.box,....!.!. 
lonmtoes, Jersey carrier. 
Jersey, box . 
lurnips, white, bbl. 
Rutabaga .* 
2 00 @237 
1 75 @ 2 25 
2 00 @ 3 50 
1 50 @ 2 00 
1 50 @2 00 
25 @ 1 00 
1 00 @200 
4 00 @7 00 
50 @ 1 75 
1 00 @ 4 00 
25 @ 75 
25 @ 50 
50 @ 75 
3 00 ® 3 25 
1 00 @ 1 50 
1 00 @ 1 75 
50 @ 1 00 
76 @ 1 50 
1 00 @ 1 50 
25 @ 1 00 
15 @ 30 
25 @ 75 
25 @ 75 
25 @ 65 
1 00 @ 1 50 
1 00 @ 1 25 
dressed poultry. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 
Common to good. 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb........’.’. 
Broilers, common to good . 
Boasters. 
Fowls.. 
Squabs, dot.**J... 
19 @ 20 
16 @ IS 
24 @ 25 
21 @ 23 
20 @ 22 
13 @ IS 
50 @ 4 00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 
Fowls . 
@ 19 
Roosters. 
<§> 12 
Bucks . 
Geese. 
@ 12 
@ 15 
@ 70 
Turkeys. 
Guineas, pair. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. new Timothy No. 1. ton 
Standard. 
20 50 
@21 00 
@20 00 
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No. 2. . 
No. 3. . 
1 ? 00 
@16 on 
@20 00 
@17 00 
@9 00 
@24 00 
@27 00 
@30 00 
@29 00 
@31 00 
Clover mixed. 
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Straw, new Rve . 
Oat. 
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Wheat Bran, ton. 
.23 00 
25 no 
Middlings . 
Red Dog . 
.29 00 
.28 00 
Corn Meal. 
Linseed Meal. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 
. 600 
5 no 
@8 75 
@6 25 
Bulls. 
Cows. 
. 300 
. 9 00 
. 4 00 
. 3 00 
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Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 
Culls .. 
@13 00 
@7 00 
@ 4 50 
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Sheep, 100 lbs. 
Lambs. 
Hogs. 
. 9 00 
@ 9 60 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 
No. 2, Red . . . 
No. 2, Hard Winter. 
Corn, as to quality, bush . 
Oats, as to weight, bush... 
Rye . 
. 100 
. 95 
. 98 
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. 45 
. 68 
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BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 30 @ 31 
Western creamery . 27 @ 28 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 35 @ 37 
Gathered fresh. 28 @ 30 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 19 @ 21 
Roasters. 20 @ 23 
Hay—No. 1 . 22 00 @23 00 
No. 2. 20 50 @2100 
„ No. 3. 15 90 @17 00 
Stock Hay. 1350 @1550 
Straw—Rye .18 00 @20 00 
Millfeed—Bran, ton.25 00 @26 00 
Middlings.27 0U @29 00 
Mixed Feed.24 00 @27 00 
Live Stock—Milch Cows.75 00 @100 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 5 50 @ 6 50 
Calves, 100 lbs. 5 00 @ 8 00 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 8 50 @9 50 
BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
In a test case the Shawnee Countv, 
Kansas. District Court has upheld the 
“Blue Sky” law of that State, aimed to 
prevent the flotation of doubtful stocks. 
Under a law passed last Winter, Mis¬ 
souri will begin the payment of pensions 
to Confederate veterans October 1. The 
Legislature appropriated $30,000 for this 
purpose. Thus far 139 applications for 
pensions have been approved. 
Interest rates for loans in New York 
during the past week ran as follows: 
Call money, two to 2% ; 60 days, 3y 2 to 
four; 90 days, 4%; four months, five; 
five months, 54-> to 5%. 
Dividends in this country during Sep¬ 
tember will amount to $58,323,045. In¬ 
dustrial stocks will distribute $35,232,- 
440; railroads, $20,703,564; and street 
railways, $2,387,041. 
A new grain elevator for export trade 
with capacity of 3,000,000 bushels, will 
soou be built by the Montreal harbor 
commissioners. This will make the total 
elevator capacity of Montreal about 
10,732,000 bushels. 
In Switzerland the railroads are owned 
by the government. Figures for the six 
months ending June 30 show that re¬ 
ceipts were about $20,000,000. and ex¬ 
penses $12,500,000. The indebtedness is 
increasing on an average $5,000,000 per 
year, owing to repairs, double tracking, 
etc. 
One index of an improved business out¬ 
look is the large number of buyers for 
out-of-town commercial houses who have 
beeu in New York recently. In 10 days 
about 2,500 were registered. 
The Government has recently imposed 
fines amounting to $1,525 for ‘ violations 
of the Federal law regarding adulteration 
and misbranding of vinegar. It was 
found that the alleged cider vinegar was 
a mixture of commercial acetic acid and 
various adulterants. 
In a report on conditions in India, it 
is noted that during 1912 imports 
amounted to $655,000,000; exports. $790.- 
000,000; savings bank deposits. $29,000,- 
000; expenses for education. $26,000,000. 
There were 6,791,855 pupils on rolls; 
S50,S89,587 letters delivered; and 431,- 
212,000 passengers carried on the 32,839 
miles of railway. 
The Government has given notice that 
in future it will enforce the law requir¬ 
ing all ships of 1,000 tons or over to 
have three licensed mates. The ship¬ 
owners complain that there is a scarcity 
of qualified men for these positions, the 
young men in New England having beeu 
attracted by industrial life ou land, and 
not going fo sea as their ancestors did. 
A LONG ISLAND PICNIC. 
On August 20th the grangers and 
farmers around Southold, L. I„ held a 
picnic at Fleet’s Neck. These Long 
Island farmers are well situated for hold¬ 
ing such outings. T(ie sea. and all it 
stands for, is close at baud: the roads 
are good and it is easy to get together. 
As a result nearly a thousand people 
gathered for a holiday. Many of them 
came across the bay in boats. The rail¬ 
road carried its share, and in addition to 
carriages, nearly 100 automobiles were 
parked in the woods. It was a great il¬ 
lustration of the influence which motor 
cars have had upon farm gatherings. 
These people were not out to learn how 
to raise corn or dig potatoes, but they 
had come for a holiday and they had it. 
both ou laud and sea. For dinner there 
was served an old-fashioned clam chow¬ 
der, cooked in big iron pots over an open 
fire. If you want to know what clam 
chowder really is, go to the east end 
of Long Island and have it served hot 
out of one of these big kettles. There 
may be some places on earth where other 
forms of food are made to perfection, but 
come to the east end of the Island if 
you want clam chowder which will make 
you feel good natured. I 11 the afternoon 
there was music and speaking, but the 
best part of a gathering of this sort is 
the plain coining together or mixing, 
which farmers and their families need so 
badly. The drought has been severe all 
over Long Island. A few local showers 
have wet down strips of land, but as a 
rule there has been uo rain to speak of 
since May. Some of the cornfields are 
sad-looking places and all crops have 
been cut down. These Long Island 
folks, however, are philosophers, and 
when the season comes wrong end to, 
they do not complain, but do the best 
they can, buckle up the strap a little 
tighter and look forward to another year. 
You will have to travel a long distance 
before you can meet a finer or sturdier 
class of farmers than those who live 
around the two eastern horns of Long 
Island. 
A BIG CHICKEN FARM. 
POMPLETE CIDER MILL AT BARGAIN 
w Boomer Press. Capacity, 50 bbls. cider per day. 
Elevator, apple grater. pumps, racks, cloths. Per¬ 
fect order. Address, MOYSES BROS., Oyster Bay, N. Y. 
BEST BALE TIES —delivered quickly at lowest 
** prices. Tudor & Jones, Weedsport, N. Y. 
WANTED—A MARRIED MAN ON DAIRY 
" FARM— Must be strictly sober, an early riser 
and a good milker. Good wages, including House, 
milk, vegetables and other perquisites. Apply to 
F. E. OSBORNE, - - Derby, Conn. 
WANTED-SINGLE MAN-g”S °5£» 
milk wagon, and milk. Thirty dollars a month and 
board. No liquor or profauity. Clean and reliable. 
GLENFREW FARM, - Sewickley, Pa. 
WANTED—POSITION AS WOfiKING FARM MANAGER. Amer- 
" ican, mai-ried, no children, age 36, practical. All 
farm and garden crops,stock and poultry. Give full 
particulars, wages paid, etc. C. J. F., care R. N.-Y. 
POSITION WANTED —To care for gentleman's country 
1 home or farm. Married. Had practical experience in farm¬ 
ing, fruit growing, chicken raising, carpenter work, plumbing, 
painting and remodeling buildings. R. W., care It. N.-Y. 
UIANTED—MARRIED MAN, temperate, strictly honest, 
” skilled in dairying: also handy with machinery, 
and can learn motor trucking. $60 a month: privi¬ 
leges reasonable. DENBIGH FARMS, Greenwich, Conn. 
UfORK WANTED by year—On fruit farm or 
” nursery, by capable married man of experience. 
Strictly temperate. JACKSON, care R. N.-Y. 
WANTED— POSITION ON POULTRY FARM by married man 
with some knowledge of poultry. Wife assist 
witii housework. No children. 0. S., care R. N.-Y. 
On August 16th delegates at the con¬ 
vention of the American Poultry Associa¬ 
tion were entertained at Laurelton Farm, 
Lakewood, N. J. This farm is likely to 
be an object of groat interest to the poul¬ 
try fraternity during the next 10 years. 
It will probably be developed as the larg¬ 
est egg and broiler plant in the world, 
and it has been organized rapidly. Eight 
months ago there was nothing there but 
a bunch of abandoned henhouses on the 
Jersey sand. Since that time the place 
has been reorganized, and some 25.000 
chicks have been hatched and success¬ 
fully brooded. There is. of course, no 
other line of live stock industry which 
could be organized so successfully in this 
short time. White Leghorns are kept ex¬ 
clusively, _and the design is to have, ulti¬ 
mately, 25,000 laying hens on the farm. 
There is nothing fancy about this opera¬ 
tion. A great business firm in New York 
City organized the business as carefully 
as it would a factory which was to sup¬ 
ply it with goods for its trade. The enter¬ 
prise will have abundant capital and the 
most skillful business management back 
of it, and will be run carefully for the 
production of broilers and eggs. The* lo¬ 
cation is admirable, for in that dry, clean 
sand, well-nigh perfect hen health may 
be expected. So far as we know, this is 
the first case in America where a poultry 
plant has been organized just exactly as 
a factory or a profitable business would 
be, and the outcome of this effort, to ap¬ 
ply straight business methods to the 
chicken business, will be watched with 
great interest. Something over 100 peo¬ 
ple attended the meeting. They examined 
the poultry plant in detail and had a gen¬ 
eral good time. The enterprise has cer¬ 
tainly made an excellent start, and by 
eliminating the middleman and running 
the business on close factory principles, 
it would seem as if the enterprise ought 
to succeed as well as any well-conducted 
manufacturing proposition. 
FOR SALE 
FARM OF 6^ ACRES 
two miles from railroad and 
five from Colgate University. 
A good little farm with good buildings and good 
crops growing. $2,000.00, with only $500.00 down. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. Y. 
When You Can Buy a 
Home on Easy Terms 
in Si. Lawrence County, Neiv York, the Lead¬ 
ing Dairy County of the United States. 
| J F arms already stocked from $30 toS75 per acre, 
comfortable buildings, good water, schools, 
churches, mail, telephone. New Illustrated 
Catalogue. 
THE RUSSELL REAL ESTATE CO. 
Box ft Ogdentburg. New York 
A TRACT OF 1,500 ACRES 
in Southern Jersey: lies within three rail¬ 
roads, one-quarter of mile from Whiting’s, 30 
miles from Philadelphia, 60 miles from New 
York; valuable oak, pine and cedar timber. 
Land very fertile. Price, $30.00 per acre. 
E. S. WILLARD & CO., 52 William St., New York 
Level, fertile, paying farms in the most 
desirable locations. Get my list of best 
Bargains. Square deal always 
Fred C. McCarty, Aaburn, N. Y. 
lT™ Poultry and Truck Farms 
with nice homes, near Richmond. Send for oar 
■ list—we have just what you want. Address 
CASSELMAN S CO.. 1018 East Main St.. Richmond, Va. 
UEW JERSEY FARMS—Profitable New Jersey 
•* Farms between Philadelphia and New York. Un¬ 
surpassed Marketing facilities. Desirable Home sur¬ 
roundings. List Free. A. W. Dresser, Burlington, N. J. 
F OR SALE—is acres; 10 tillable; level; stones few and small; 
good for corn, potatoes, dairying, poultry. Seven-room 
house ; good barn, silo, water, fruit. Near railroads. $2,000 : 
about value of buildings. E, P. ROBINSON, Packer, Connecticut 
GKO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
and Hot-house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
Solicited. * 34 & 3G Little 13th .St.. New York- 
JCfi Pormo FOIl SaLF.— near Phila. and Trenton markets ; 
IUU 101 IIIO £04h 1 railroad and trolley facilities. New cata¬ 
logue. Established 25 years. Hornee (J. Reeder, Sew town, Penna. 
df in PER ACRE for 218 acres grazing land in Or 
angeCo., N.Y., on main road 2 miles from R.R. 
Station. Farm bargains. K. E.Slocum. 141 Broadway, N.T. City 
NewYork State Farms 
FREE LIST. 
Ogden's Agency. Walton, N. Y. 
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 our ability to obtain extreme prices. Address 
JOHNSTONE 6 COUGHLAN. 
164 Dunne Street - - - New York 
UUANTED—STRICTLY FRESH EGGS-4 to 6 
■* crates weekly. Cash, 10 days Satisfactory 
references. HORACE ZIMMERMAN, Singac, New Jersey 
Small Fruits 
WANTED 
WM H. COHEN & CO.. 229 Washington Street, New York 
.■ijjr 
JDrew Carriers. 
Dump Anywhere Wiihin a'45-Foof Radius 
Drew Swinging Booms are accurately 
balanced, perfect-hinged, real successes. 
Drew Litter Carriers come in all sizes 
and have the newest improvements. Drew 
Feed Carriers for low-ceiling barns, with 
drop end to make shoveling easy are miles 
ahead in the labor-saving race. 
DREW SECTIONAL BARN EQUIPMENT 
1 7 
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Watering 
Buy What You ISIeed 
now ; more as your herd increases. 
Each stall a complete interchange¬ 
able unit. Can also be removed 
and gates substituted. Other new 
ideas:—Automatic Watering 
Bowls. Combination Manger and 
Feed Box, Double Sure-Stops. 
etc. Remembe r—years of 
square dealing back the Drew 
guarantee. Write for latest 
catalogs. 
DREW CARRIER CO., 
128 Monroe St., Waterloo. Wis. 
. Eastern Branch, Rome, N. V. 
