19l0. 
THE RURA.lv NEW-YORKER 
687 
CONTENTS 
The Rural Nbw-Yobker, June 25, 1910. 
FAIiM TOPICS. 
So mi* Experience With Alfalfa.... 673, 674 
Education of the Buyer. 674 
Value of a Day's Work. 674 
Building a Bound Silo. 6)75 
Humus in a Canadian Soil. 676 
Killing Out Wild Onions... 676 
Killing White Grubs. 677 
Weevils in Peas....'.. 677 
Alfalfa and Drain Tile. 677 
Hope Farm Notes. 678 
Commercial Asparagus Culture. 679 
Crop Notes . tiSl 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Oxford Down Sheep. 673 
Chickens and Pears. 674 
A Four-IIorse Team. 674 
Henhouse With Cement Floor. 677 
Poultry Facts and Weather. 681 
Ration for l’igs. 684 
Cow Holding Up Milk. 684 
A Constant Supply of Eggs. 684 
Rat and Sparrow Clubs. 6S4 
Self-Sucking Cow. 684 
Ropy Milk . 684 
Care of Cream. 684 
Another Lazy Man’s Method. 085 
A Sucking Cow.. 685 
Rental of Separators. 685 
Ration for Profit. 685 
HORTICULTURE. 
Building of an Apple House. 674 
•Propagating Tulips . 676 
Summer Pruning Apple Trees. 677 
Rose Bugs . 67 3 
Failure With Chrysanthemums. 679 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 682 
Potato Pie . 682 
Berry Desserts . 682 
The Rural Patterns. 683 
Cherry Desserts . 6,83 
My Neighbor and 1. 683 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
'file Rural Education Question. Part II. 675 
Trout in a Michigan Brook. 676 
Mint Mark on Coins. 676 
Water-tight Cement . 676 
"Essays on Peat and Muck”. 676 
Editorials . 680 
Events of the Week. 681 
Plain Farming for Agricultural Stu¬ 
dents . 681 
Taxes in Washington. 681 
The Truth of Land Booms. 681 
A Sop for Parcels .Post. 681 
Publisher’s Desk .’. 686 
Products, Prices and Trade. 687 
MARKETS 
Prices current at, New York during weekending 
June 17 I'.Utl, wholesale except where other¬ 
wise Indicated. The retail prices given do not, as 
a rule, cover either the highest or lowest sales, blit 
show what the hulk of consumers of moderate 
means pay for small Quantities of produce bought 
in Fulton, Washington, Jefferson Markets, etc., 
and uietown grocery stores. "Retail” Is rather 
an indefinite word, but in this column it means 
less than barrel or other original package lots of 
fruits and vegetables, less than tubs of butter, 
cases of eggs. etc. The trade of commission mer¬ 
chants is strictly wholesale. The retail prices 
given are those secured by grocers and small deal¬ 
ers who receive no direct shipments. 
BUTTER 
Wholesale 
Retail 
Creamery, fancy, lb. 
.. .27 
la) 
.28 
.30® 
.33 
Good to Choice.... 
... .25 
® 
.26 
27 
.29 
Lower Grades _ 
... .23 
(" 
.24 
24® 
.27 
State Dairy, best_ 
... .26 
at 
.27 
.28® 
.30 
Common to Good. 
... .23 
@ 
.25 
.25® 
.26 
Factory. 
... .22 
® 
.23 
•24(a) 
.25 
Paoki ng Stock. . 
... .20 
@ 
.21 
MILK 
New York Exchange price $1.51 per 
40-quart can. netting 3 cents to 
shippers In the26-cent freight zone 
who have no additional station 
charges. 
. qt. 
.09® 
12 
CH EESE 
Full Cream, best... 
... .14 
.15 
.16® 
.18 
Common to Good. 
... .12 
® 
.13 
.14® 
.16 
Skims. 
... .05 
@ 
.08 
.10® 
.12 
EGGS 
Kancv White, doz... 
® 
.26 
.28® 
.33 
White, good to choice. .22 
00 
.23 
.26® 
.27 
Mixed Colors, best . 
.22 
® 
.23 
.26 
.27 
Common to Good. 
... .18 
® 
.20 
.23® 
.24 
BEANS 
•Marrow, bu.. 
... 2.85 
® 
3.00 
qt 
.15 
Medium. 
ai 
2.35 
Pea. 
<•• 
2.35 
qt 
.15 
•ted Kidney. 
.. 4.7o 
(d 
4.90 
White Kidney. 
.. 2.90 
® 
3.00 
Yellow Eye. 
... 3.10 
® 
3.15 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.... 
® 
.26 
Common to Good... 
... .20 
@ 
.22 
German. New Crop. 
... .60 
@ 
CIDER VINEGAR 
Prices charged in N.Y. 
by wholesale dealers 
for single barrel lots: 
Extra Choice Old, gal. .22 ® .24 
Standard Grade.14 @ .16 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap. fancy... .09 @ 1URj .14 
Evap., com. to good. .06 ® .08 .09® .12 
Kuo Dried.Of @ .06^ 
Chops. 100 lbs. 1.80 fa) 2.00 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples. Newtown, bbl. 3.50 ® 6.00 
oen Davis. 3.00 ® 4.60 
Spy. 4.00 (it 6.50 
Baldwin.3.50 ® 5.00 
Rubset.2.00 ® 4.00 
Western, box. 1.50 at 3.00 
Strawberties. Md.. qt.. .04 @ .08 
Delaware . 04 ® .08 
New Jersey.05 @ .09 
Up River.06 ® .11 
Staten Island.07 ® .11 
llllton & Irvington.. .08 ® .10 
Iluekleberiies N C-.qt. .10 @ .12 
Blackberries, N. C., qt. .07 @ .10 
Raspberries, pint.07 ® .10 
Cherries, Va.. qt.08 .12 
Peaches. 8’n.. crate... TOO ® 2.00 
Muskmelons,Fla. crate 1 5(1 ® 2 00 
Watermelons,Fla , IDO 30.00 ®50.00 
VEG ETABLK8 
Potatoes. 
Southern, bbl. 1.50 @ 2.50 
State and Wost’n, bbl TOO ® 1.25 
Asparagus, doz. TOO ® 3.25 
Carrots, bbl.2.00 ® 2.60 
t'abbage, new, bbl. etc. .50 ffi .65 
Lettuce, %-bbi. bkt.40 © 100 
Peas, bbl. bkt.75 © 1.25 
Peppers, 
Fla Carrier.TOO ® 1.75 
each .03® 05 
Onions. Bermuda, hu.. 
1.12 
® 
1.75 
Southern, new. bu.. 
1 0.1 
(w 
2.00 
Radishes, 100 buncoes. 
.60 
(d 
.75 
Salsify. 100 bunches... 
2.00 
'd 
3.00 
St rim.- Beans, bu. 
.;)0 
® 
•JO 
Spinach, bbl. 
® 
.60 
Squiisn, new, bbl. 
.76 
® 
1.60 
Tomatoes. 
F.a., 20-qt. carrier... 
.75 
® 
2.00 
Turnips, Rutabaga, bbl 
1.50 
Cd 
2.00 
LIVE 
POULT 
UY 
Broilers. Jb. 
.23 
at 
.28 
FlWls . .... 
.1/ 
.18 
Roosters. 
.12 
@ 
.12)4 
Ducks. 
.12 
® 
.14 
Geese. 
Gt 
.11 
Turkeys.. .,r.. 
.12 
® 
.14 
DR ESSE 
D POULTRY 
Turkeys. Fey. 
.18 
® 
■ I8« 
.20® 
.22 
( onininii to Good_ 
.16 
(<u 
.17 
.18® 
.20 
Chickens, roast, ng .... 
.22 
(nt 
.23 
.23® 
.26 
Good to Choice. 
.18 
® 
.21 
.19® 
«>‘> 
Common Run. 
.14 
<3 
.16 
.16® 
.18 
F..ncy broilers, lb... 
.80 
(a) 
.35 
Fowls. 
.16 
to 
.19 
18® 
.21 
Ducks, Spring. 
.18 
® 
.19 
Sqnabs, doz. 
4.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Nat ive Steers. I on lbs.. 7.1(1 ® 8.55 
Bulls.4.40 ® 5.90 
Cows.2.1,0 ® 5.75 
Calves, 
Prime Veal, 100 lb... 8.0(1 ® 9.75 
Culls..v. .6.00 at O.fU 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 4.00 at 5.50 
Lambs.7.00 ®IO.OO 
Hog.9.75 ® 10.15 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. I. North'n 
Spring, bu. 
no 
No. 2. Red. 
1.03 
Corn, as to quality, 
bu. 
.67 
® 
.68 
Oats, as to weight, 
bu. 
.44 
(d) 
.46 
Rye. 
.76 
at> 
78 
HAY AND STRAW 
Quotations for large bales. 
Small bales sell 50 cents to $1.00 
per ton less. 
Hay, No. I. ton.21.00 ® 22.50 
No. 2. 14 00 ® 20.50 
No. 3.17.00 ® 18.00 
Clover Mixed.16.00 ® 2010 
Clover.12.00 ® 17.00 
Wild Hay.9.00 ® 10.00 
Straw, Rye.11.00 ® 12.00 
Oat ami Wheat. 9.0U at 10.00 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Butter has dropped one cent, with pros¬ 
pect of further declines. 
Eggs. —All grades but nearby receipts are 
lower, the decline being greatest in western 
stock which shows heat damage. 
Strawberries have been selling very low. 
The best are coming from Staten Island 
and the Newark section, but the top price 
at present is only 11 cents, and from this 
down to five cents. Fairly good berries are 
retailing at three alleged quarts for a quar¬ 
ter. Much of the nearby stock is soft on 
account of the heavy rains. 
Produce Wanted. —"Will you furnish me 
with tlie address of some firm, agency, or 
clearing house in New York City from 
whom the small wholesale fruit and pro¬ 
duce merchant may purchase provisions at 
a price which will permit him to sell to 
retail dealers with a small margin of 
profit?” A. a. H. 
Stamford, Conn. 
•The address desired has been furnished, 
but it would seem that here is an oppor¬ 
tunity to do business direct with farmers 
and thus save the expense of hauling the 
goods to New York, bundling and carting 
out again. There must he at least 100 
farmers in western Connecticut who could 
supply this inquirer with all the northern 
grown produce he wants. 
Boarding House Supplies. —“I keep a 
first-class boarding house and have been 
advised to lay in eggs for Winter' use; I 
use an average of 24 per day. What would 
be your advice, as to time of saving them 
and whether with lime or do you know of 
anything better? I would also like some 
advice about butter.” M. c. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. * 
Probably the best home method for the 
preservation of eggs is the water glass plan 
often mentioned. Use one part water glass 
to nine parts water. But this in a wood 
or stone, not metal, vessel, add the eggs, as 
fresh as possible, and set in a cool cellar. 
It is very doubtful, however, whether this 
would be at all satisfactory for eggs that 
can be bought at any reasonable price in 
New York. They are too old to be pre¬ 
served in this way, and the proportion of 
spoiled eggs in the pack would be large. 
Water glass seals up the pores in the shell 
so that no further germs can enter, but 
eggs that have been exposed to the air for 
two weeks are likely to have already ac¬ 
cumulated numerous germs of decay that 
would develop after storage in water glass. 
City dwellers who cannot afford to pay 
new-laid egg prices the year around will 
find the best substitute in cold storage 
eggs. If properly bandied in dry storage 
they are nearly as good when six months 
stored as when put away. They are kept 
so near the freezing point that decay germs 
have little chance to work. 
Home storage of creamery butter is not 
feasible, but for those who like dairy but¬ 
ter made of sour cream some saving may 
be made by getting a Winter’s supply of 
early Summer or Fall make and holding 
it in a reasonably cool cellar, thus saving 
several cents per pound. If the butter is 
well made, packed in firkins or stone jars 
and kept covered with brine it will keep 
for a year in a good cellar. But as with 
eggs, there is no use storing anything but 
good dairy butter. w. w. n. 
THE POPULARITY OF THE j 
GUERNSEY 
has increased more than Ten Fold in last 
fifteen years and the work of the Guernsey 
Herd Register shows a growth of 
80% during 1909 
*1 Full particulars regarding this remarkable breed by 
addressing 
THE AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB, 
Box R, Peterboro, N. H. 
“New Modern” 
Sanitary Steel Stalls 
Wood or Steel Stanchions (chain or 
swivel hung), Litter and Feed 
Carriers, Watering Basins, etc. 
Glor Bros. & Willis IVIfg. Co. 
5 ) Main Street, Attica, N. Y. 
”EVERYTHING FOR TUE EARN” 
Excelsior Swing Stanchion. 
1909-1910 MODEL 
44 The Best Ever." 
THE WASSON STANCHION COMPANY 
Box 60. Cuba, N. Y. 
DAIRY SUPPLIES 
We are headquarters forMilk Bottles, 
Cans, Caps, Carriers, Churns, Drain¬ 
ers, Pasteurizers, (Separators, Ice 
Crushers, etc., and every utensil used 
by handlers of milk, cream, butter, 
eggs, iee cream or cheese. Best goods, 
fair prices, prompt shipments. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Send us today 
your list of needs. No order too smalT. 
WISNER MFG. CO . 230 A Greenwich St.,N.Y. 
Everything For Dalrymon Always In Stock 
F OR SALE— Registered Jersey Cows, Heifers & Bulls. 
Herd averages 1 lb butter from 12 qts. milk. 
Write for pile s, or, better, come and see them. 
Rumsoiihill Farm, Rums nil, N. J. David Wallace, Supt. 
H UNN LAKE POULTRY FflRM-R. C. Rhode Island Red 
chicks, $12 per bundled : White Wyandotte 
chicks $10 per hundred. HANG A LL, NEW YORK. 
WANTED — 590 APRIL OR MAY HATCHED 
WHITE WYANDOTTE or WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS. 
crkin FOR FREE TRIAL HALF* 
vJAvll 1> popup PACKAGE OF KOVAL 
STOCK FOOD NOW SO YOU WILL 
KNOW WHAT FOOD IS BEST TO USE 
IN T1IE I ALL. STRICTLY FOR HORSES 
AND COWS. NOT PADDED WITH A 
FILLER. THE BEST ON THE MARKET. 
10c. THE POUND. SEND NOW. 
ROYAL CHEMICAL CO., Williamsport, Pn. 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston. 
BERRIES—PEACHES 
and all Fruits and Vegetables, Poultry, Fancy 
Eggs, Hothouse Products. Top prices secured 
for choice goods. Correspondence solicited. 
Archdeacon 6 Co., 100 Murray Street, N. Y. 
Eggs, Poultry, Meats, Produce. 
Shipments solicited. JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & CO., Com¬ 
mission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York. 
GKO. P. HAMMOND. KST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & GO., 
Commission More hunts and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches, Ber 
ries Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot house Products a Specialty. Consignments 
solicited. 34 & 36 Little 1 2th St.. New York- 
THE LEVIN PRUNER 
The best pruner. Cuts j^-inch dry 
branch. Quick, clean, easy cut. We 
will send it post paid for club of two 
new yearly subscriptions at SI each, 
or for club of 7 ten weeks trials at 10 
cents each. 
BOX 114 BERLIN, CONN. 
LET ME START YOU IN BUSINESS ! 
I will furnish the advertising matter and the plans. I 
want one sincere, earnest man in every town and town¬ 
ship. Farmers, Mechanics, Builders, Small Business man. 
Anyone anxious to improve his condition. Address 
COMMERCIAL DEMOCRACY, Dept. 0-35, Elyria, Ohio. 
WANTFn- Si "*' l ° nl!Ul capable of handling one 
II Hll I LU hundred head of registered Jersey cat¬ 
tle, Permanent position with good salary to right 
man. Give age. experience, and salary expected. 
L. 11. TURNER, P. & L, E. R.R., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
THE TIME TO BUY A FARM 
IS WHEN THE CROPS ARE GROWING. Don’t wait until 
next winter. Nice farm of 61 acres two miles from 
railroad (D. L. & W.) for $2000. 
J. GRANT MORSE, Hamilton, N. Y. 
WANTED 
J—TO RENT OR BUY on long time, general 
farm. New York or New England 
preferred. JORDAN, Box56, Sta. A, Houston. Tex. 
jCfk FOR SALE CHEAP, in fertile 
IvJU i dI 111O Delaware Valley. New catalogue 
and map free. Horace G. Reeder, Newtown, Pa. 
IQfl ACRES. Id-room House; Bam with 24 cow 
IOU stalls, llfen house, granary. Fruit. $2,400 to 
quick buyer, will include mower, lake,corn planter, 
all tools and crops. 
HALL'S FARM AGENCY, Owego, Tioga Co., N.Y. 
On account of death of owner, 300 acre farm in 
town of Springfield, Vt., Iks miles from R. R. sta¬ 
tion at Bartonsville, two story stone house, 5 barns, 
sugar and apple orchards, plenty wooil and lumber. 
Price $3,500. M. B. BARROW. Middlebury, Vt. 
DELAWARE IS THE STATE 
OF HAPPY HOMES 
IS n j o y- 
m e n t , 
comfort- 
■UHHMHMMHiHHHHDHHH able 
. iog, gon¬ 
ial climate, warm and sunny m winter, cool 
most of tlie summer. Famous for fruit; good 
for general farming. Land values are increas¬ 
ing, but are still low for the advantages 
enjoyed. For information address 
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Dover, Delaware. 
W ANTED AGENTS TO SELL FARMERS' ACCOUNT BOOK. 
Quick Seller. Big Inducements. Exclusive Terri¬ 
tory. Address L. L. SYPHERS, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
AGENTS—$33.30 A WEEK 
Jack \Vood did it! He writes— “ Hurry up 
100 more — sold 
first lot in 2 days 
— best seller I 
ever saw.” Hun¬ 
dreds of agent, 
coining money— 
$5.60 worth of 
tools for the 
B rice of one. 
rop forged from 
finest steel. Nickel Plated all over. A.tonl.hlng low 
price to agent.— 1,200 ordered by one man. Write at once. 
Don't delay. Experience unnecessary. Sample free. 
THOMAS MFQ. CO., 2265 Wayne St., DAYTON, OHIO 
You Can SECURE A LIST of the 
RELIABLE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 
In 28 PRODUCE MARKETS by writing to 
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 
Dept. E, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Dl.KASK semi a trial shipment to tlie Oldest Coin* 
* mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Buttor, 
Eggs. Poultry. Pork, Halves, Hay, Grain, Beans, 
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The Rural New-Yorker, New York 
BOOKS WORTH BUYING. 
Bush Fruits, Card.$1.50 
Successful Fruit Culture, Maynard... LOO 
Fruit Growing, Bailey. 1.50 
Dwarf Fruit Trees, Waugh.50 
Plums and Plum Culture, Waugh. 1.50 
American Fruit Culturist, Thomas... 2.50 
Fruit Harvesting, Storing, Marketing, 
Waugh . i.oo 
Pruning Book, Bailey. 1.50 
Nursery Book, Bailey. 1.50 
Spraying of Blunts, Lodemau. 1.25 
Vinegar and Acetates, Brannt. 5.00 
Economic Entomology, Smith. 2.50 
Our Insect Friends and Enemies, Smith 1.50 
Ginseng, Kains .50 
Vegetable Garden, Burnett. 1.27 
Mushrooms, Falconer . 1,00 
Bean Culture, Sevey.50 
Celery Culture, Beattie.50 
Tomato Culture, Tracy.50 
The Potato, Fraser.75 
Asparagus, Hexamer . 50 
Vegetable Gardening, Bailey. 1.50 
A B C of Bee Culture, Root. 1.50 
Greenhouse Construction, Taft. 1.50 
Greenhouse Management, Taft. 1.50 
Chrysanthemum Culture, Herrington.. .50 
House Plants, Barnes. 1.17 
Lawns, Barron . 1.17 
1 rower Garden, Bennett. 1.27 
Landscape Gardening. Waugh.50 
Ilow to Plan the Home Grounds, Par¬ 
sons. 1.00 
Horticulturists Rule Book, Bailey.75 
Forcing Book, Bailey. 1.25 
Plant Breeding, Bailey. 1.25 
Plant Culture, Oliver. 1.50 
The Rose. Kingsley. 2.00 
Forage aud Fiber Crops iu America, 
Hunt. 1.75 
Book of Alfalfa, Coburn. 1.75 
Soiling Crops and The Silo, Shaw.... 1.50 
Farm Grasess of the United States, 
Spillman. l.n 
Fertilizers, Voorhees . 1.25 
Forage Crops, Voorhees. 1.50 
Principles of Agriculture, Bailey. 1.25 
Bacteria in Relation to Country Life, 
Lipman. l .50 
Practical Farming, John McLennan... 1.50 
Soils, Ililgard .,. 4.00 
Soil, King . 1.50 
Irrigation and Drainage, King. 1.50 
The Study of Corn, Shoesmitii.50 
Farmers Veterinary Adviser, Law.... 3.00 
Principles of Breeding, Davenport. . . . 2.50 
The Study of Breeds, Shaw. 1.50 
Animal Breeding, Shaw. 1.50 
Tynes and Breeds of Farm Animals, 
Plumb . 2.50 
Feeding Farm Animals, Shaw. 2.00 
Feeds and Feeding, Henry. 2.00 
Farm Poultry, Watson. 1.25 
Diseases of Animals, Mayo. 1.50 
Feeding of Animals, Jordan. 1.50 
The Horse, Roberts. 1.25 
Milk and Its Products, Wing. 1.50 
Questions nnd Answers on Buttermak- 
ing, Publow .50 
Questions and Answers on Milk Test¬ 
ing. Publow and Troy.50 
Ilow To Keep Hens for Profit, Valen¬ 
tine . 1.50 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
409 Pearl Street, New York. 
NICORN DAIRY RATION SAVES 
One pound makes four pounds milk. Cost cent or less per quart of milk. UNI¬ 
CORN RATION wins Wisconsin Competition, March. Cow Jewel Star, makes 89 lbs. 
butter. Send for sample, records, etc. CIIAPIN <fc CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. 
