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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
THE RITUAL NEW-YORKER, Sept. 20, 1913. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Testing Fertilizer Chemicals for Grass.1038 
Kharkov Wheat for Iowa.1038 
A Simple Way to Start Alfalfa.1039 
What to Do with Muck.1039 
Farm Labor Scenes.1040 
Crops .1040 
Pennsylvania Crop Reports.1042 
Coining Farmers’ Meetings.1042 
Hired Man Talks—“Mixing”.1043 
Crops .1043 
Hope Farm Notes.1044 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Queens of the Milky Way.1037, 1038 
Dual Purpose Short-horn Cattle.1050 
"Dutch Jersey” Cow.1050 
Bull Clubs .1050 
Kansas Silo Train.1050 
National Milk Commission.1051 
Milking Records .1051 
The Making of Hornless Races.1052 
The Egg-laying Contest.1053 
California Egg Contest.1053 
Eggs in Water-Glass.1053 
Commercial Squab Raising.1053 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. new Timothy No. 1. ton.21 00 
Standard.20 00 
No. 2.17 00 
No. 3.14 00 
Clover mixed.17 00 
Straw, new Rye .15 00 
Oat. 8 00 
MILLFEED. 
Wheat Bran, ton.25 00 
Middlings .28 00 
Red Dog.30 00 
Corn Meal.3i ‘10 
Linseed Meal.30 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers.6 00 
Bulls.4 30 
Cows.3 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs.9 00 
Culls ... . 4 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs.3 00 
Lambs. 6 00 
Hogs.9 50 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern Spring. 93 
No. 2, Red . 9S 
No. 2, Hard Winter. 99 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 84 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 45 
Rye . 73 
@22 00 
@20 50 
@19 00 
@17 00 
@20 00 
@17 00 
@ 9 00 
@28 00 
@30 00 
@31 00 
@32 00 
@31 00 
@ 8 80 
@610 
@6 00 
@13 00 
@7 00 
@ 4 50 
@ 7 75 
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HORTICULTURE. 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
Good Old Sweet-Apple Days.1039 
A Fruit Distributing System. Part II.1041 
Trouble with Cherries.1041 
Commercial Lettuce Growing.1045 
Squash Borer; Apple Buds.1045 
Fruits for Georgia.1045 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.1048 
Florida Experience in Canning Fish.1048 
Diluting Vinegar; Washing Portieres.1048 
The Rural Patterns.1049 
Two Cleansing Problems.1049 
Two Good Cakes.1049 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Events of the week.1042 
Trespass .1043 
Editorials . 1046, 1047 
The Strout Case Again. 1047 
Crops .1047 
The Boston Market.1051 
Buffalo Markets .1053 
Publisher’s Desk .1054 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Sept. 12, 1913. 
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. 
45 
@ 
50 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
40 
@ 
42 
Ordinary grades. 
25 
@ 
30 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 
38 
@ 
42 
Tub, choice. . 
oO 
@ 
35 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 
25 
@ 
28 
Fowls. 
20 
@ 
24 
BOSTON WHOLESALE 
PRICES, 
Butter, nearby creamery. 
32 
@ 
33 
Western creamery . 
29 
@ 
30 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 
40 
@ 
42 
Gatiiered fresh. 
33 
@ 
35 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 
19 
@ 
20 
Boasters. 
25 
@ 
28 
Hay—No. 1. 
...22 
00 
@22 50 
No. 2. 
..20 
50 
@21 U0 
No. 3. 
...15 
00 
@16 00 
Stock Hay. 
...12 
50 
@14 00 
Straw—Bye . 
...18 
00 
@19 00 
Millfeed—Bran, ton.. 
...26 
00 
@2S 00 
00 
@31 00 
00 
@80 00 
Live Stock Milch Cows. 
...50 
00 @100 00 
Beef Cows, 100 lbs . 
5U 
@ 
1 00 
Steers . 
25 
@ 
9 00 
Calves. 100 lbs. 
00 
@11 00 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 
50 
@ 
9 35 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, extra, lb. 31 @ 32 
Good to Choice . 24 @ 30 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 26 
State Dairy, best. 29 @ 30 
Common to Good. 26 @ 23 
Factory. 20 @ 24 
Packing Stock. 19 @ 23 
Elgin, Ill., butter market firm at 30 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 33 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 15 @ 
Common to Good . 12 @ 14 
Skims. 05 ® 11 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 38 @ 40 
Goodtoprime. 30 © 35 
Mixed colors, best. 33 @ 35 
Common to good. 23 @ 30 
Storage, best. 24 @ 26 
Western, best.. 29 @ 31 
Checks and dirties. 10 @ 19 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Wealthy, bbl. 2 25 @ 3 50 
Alexander . 2 50 @ 4 25 
Malden Blush . 2 25 ® 3 51) 
Greening . 2 00 @ 4 00 
Wolf River. 2 50 @ 4 25 
Duchess. 2 25 @ 3 75 
Fall Pippin. 2 00 @ 4 00 
Graveustein. 2 26 @3 00 
Windfalls, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Pears-Bartlett, bbl. 2 00 @ 400 
Clapp’s, bbl. 2 00 @4 50 
Seokel, bbl. 3 00 @ 4 00 
Flemish Beauty, bbl. 1 50 @2 50 
Blackberries, qt. 09 @ 15 
Huckleberries, qt. OS @ 14 
Raspberries, red, pint . 05 @ 07 
Peaches, Western N. Y., bkt. 25 @ 85 
Jersey, bkt. 35 @ 80 
Up-River, bkt. 30 @ 80 
Pine Island, bkt. 30 @ 75 
West Va„ carrier. 1 50 @ 2 00 
Connecticut, carrier. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Plums. 81b, bkt. 12 @ 20 
Grapes—Concord, 18 lb. case, . 50 @ 60 
Niagara, case . 50 @ 75 
Delaware, case . 60 @ 65 
Black, 41b. bkt. 08 @ 09 
Muskmelons. Del. and Md., crate .... 75 @150 
New Mexico, crate . 1 25 @ 2 25 
Colorado, orate. 1 25 @ 2 75 
Watermelons, carload .150 00 @275 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 5 50 @ 6.40 
Medium .3 8 U @ 3 S5 
Pea . 3 40 @ 3 80 
Red Kidney. 3 40 @ 4 05 
Lima, California. 6 20 @6 25 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 34 
Common to good. 30 
Pacific Coast . 23 
Old stock. 12 
German crop. 60 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes-Long Island, bbl. 2 00 
Jersey, bbl. 1 75 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2 00 
Beets, bbl. 1 50 
Cariols. bbl. 1 50 
Cucumbers, bu. 75 
Pickles, bbl. 1 00 
Cabbage, 100. 7 U0 
Sweet Corn. 100. 25 
Canli(lower, bbl. 100 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 25 
Lima Beans, bu. 25 
Okra, bu. 50 
Onions—State and W’n, 100 lb. bag.... 1 40 
Jersey, bn. 75 
Orange Co.. 100 lb bag . 1 00 
Peppers, Jersev. bbl. 50 
Peas, bu. 1 00 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 50 
String Beans, bu. 40 
Squash, marrow, bbl. 60 
Egg Plants, Jersey.box. 20 
lomatoes, Jersey, box. 25 
lurnips, white, bbl. 1 00 
Rutabaga . 1 00 
, live poultry. 
Chickens, broilers lb. 
Fowls . 
Roosters. 
Ducks." j Hi 
Geese.. 
Turkeys. 
Guineas, pair. 
16 
15 
10 
14 
11 
14 
65 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 19 
Common to good. 16 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 25 
Broilers, common to good . 21 
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BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
The Peninsula has this year shipped 
700,000 crates of muskmelons and 550 
cars of watermelons. 
A cargo of 2,294 seal skins and sev¬ 
eral thousands of fox skins has arrived at 
San Francisco from Alaska. 
The salmon catch in Puget Sound and 
British Columbia waters is valued at 
.$15,000,000. The open season for fishing 
is only one month. 
Galveston. Texas, has handled 4,035,- 
114 bales of cotton during the current 
year. New Orleans, the next largest 
cotton port, received 1.436,959 bales. 
A large Chicago cheese concern is 
working for the establishment of a chain 
of 20 cheese factories in the Ozark sec¬ 
tion of Missouri. 
A heavy season in wheat handling is 
expected in Minneapolis. One of the 
largest elevator companies there is add¬ 
ing 600.000 bushels capacity to its plant, 
which will then hold 3,300,000 bushels. 
During August grain receipts at 
Omaha, Neb., amounted to about 9,000,- 
000 bushels. Total arrivals for the 
eight months of 1913 were 42,116.700 
bushels. 
The Government will spend $11,000,- 
000 during the next year and a half on 
reclamation work in Oregon, Washing¬ 
ton, Idaho and Montana. The work will 
consist of building dams, reservoirs, and 
the diverting of water from its present 
channels. 
An Indiana court has ruled a strike for 
the purpose of compelling the establish¬ 
ment of a closed shop is illegal, and 
judgment for $6,000 was rendered 
against the defendant labor union. In 
addition to prohibiting “threats, intimi¬ 
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entered specifically restrained “picketing” 
in any manner, “directly or indirectly, 
by any means, peaceably or otherwise,” 
for the purpose of “coercing or putting 
in duress the plaintiffs, to compel the 
plaintiffs to discharge from their em¬ 
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or “to agree to henceforth employ only 
union workmen,” or “to establish a closed 
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