1910. 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, Dec. 24, 1910. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Best Tools for a Stony Farm.1177 
Notes on Grain and Fodder.1177 
Suuilowers and Corn.1177 
Alfalfa in Alabama.1177 
Eastern “Lean Pickings".1177,1178 
Damages for Impure Seed.1278 
Leaning Up Against Ilis Land.1178 
Advice About Potato Growing.1180 
Sowing Rye and Clover.1180 
Crushed Limestone .1180 
Shavings in Manure.1180 
More Corn Harvester Talk.1180 
A Farm Exhibit .1180 
IIome-Grown or Northern Potato Seed. 1183 
Treatment of Leachy Soil.1183 
Hope Farm Notes.1184 
Making Good Loss of Plant Food.... 1184 
LITE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Woman and Baby Chicks.1181 
“Cost of a Quart of Milk".1187 
Frosting Horses’ Bits.1190 
A “Five” Gold-Brick Cow.1190 
Why Not Use Pure-Bred Stock.1190 
Weak Colt .1190 
New Plan for Renting Pigs.1191 
The Connecticut Sheep Breeders' Meet¬ 
ing .1191 
Feeding a Family Cow.1182 
Balancing Home-Grown Food .1192 
Corn as a Foundation.1192 
Damage From Vicious Animals.1192 
Coal Ashes in Henhouse.Ilp4 
Milk .1195 
HORTICULTURE. 
Caring for Old Apple Trees.1177 
Green Sawdust Around Trees.1180 
Another Seedless Apple.1180 
Encouraging Apple Trees.1180 
Canada Thistle in Mulch.1180 
Twenty-Ounce Apple in Kansas.1180 
What Is “Guff?".1181 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association.. 1182 
The l'epino (Solanum Muricatumt .... 1185 
Pecans in Pennsylvania.1185 
Pruning Hydrangeas .1185 
Commercial Carnations .1185 
Brown Seedling Grape.1185 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.1188 
Cleaning a Feather Bed.1188 
Winter Sports Along the St. Lawrence. 1188 
The Rural Patterns.1189 
Brown Tilings That Are Good to Eat. 1189 
Tomato Fricassee .1189 
Baked Sweet Potatoes.1189 
Savory Rice .....1189 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Improving New England Social Life...1178 
Whiting, the Nurseryman, Again.1180 
Dot Sweet Potato Union.1181 
A Cape Cod Drilled Well.1182 
Double Express Charges.1183 
Editorials .1180 
Events of the Week.1187 
Another for Parcels Post.1187 
Markets . 1193 
Various Notes .1193 
Publisher’s Desk .1194 
Humorous .1196 
In effect December 1, the New York Ex¬ 
change price was advanced to $2.01 per 40- 
quart can, netting 4*4 cents per quart to 
shippers in the 2G-cent freight zone who 
have no additional station charges. 
Charles L. Pack, of Lakewood, N. .T., 
has sent to Williams College, Pittsfield, 
Mass., $10,000 in bonds to establish a fund 
the income of -which is to be devoted to the 
improvement of dairy products used at the 
commons in Currier Hall. Mr. Pack also 
sent a check for $500 available at once 
for starting the work. 
Not much milk sold here; it is most sep¬ 
arated and the cream shipped to Chicago 
for creamery butter, and the price is gov¬ 
erned by the Elgin butter market, which 
ranges in price from 24 to 32 cents per 
pound of butter fat. Corn is 38 cents per 
bushel; oats, 29 cents. Ilay is scarce and 
ranges in price from $15 to $20 per ton, 
according to quality. J. w. 
Buckley, Ill. 
The wholesale price of milk here is us¬ 
ually 15 cents per gallon in Summer and 
20 in Winter; retail 25. The creamery is 
paying now 27% cents for butter fat. 
Good country butter is worth 30 cents. 
Not much attention is paid to dairying, 
though this is a good dairy country. Our 
town of five or six thousand has no regular 
dairyman. J. M. T 
Saline Co., Mo. 
Wholesale rate of milk at Bellaire United 
Dairy Co., $2.12 per 100 pounds; costs 1 % 
cents per gallon for hauling; weight per 
gallon, 8% pounds. Effort is made to 
have milk test as near 4 per cent butter 
fat as possible, although at this time no 
actual test is required. Retail or peddlers 
charge eight cents per quart or 32 cents 
per gallon. About one-half of the farmers 
wholesale and one-half retail their milk. 
Bridgeport, O. P. A. W. 
What milk is sold here is by persons 
having a small number of cows, and they 
get now six cents per quart delivered. 
There are a few farmers who sell their 
cream, getting 31 cents per pound whole¬ 
sale for the butter fat, sending it to In¬ 
dianapolis, freight charges being 12 cents 
for five-gallon can. Farmers get 25 cents 
per pound for their surplus butter. Corn 
is now selling in a small way at about 40 
cents per bushel. Timothy hay is worth 
$12 to $14 per ton. w. s. E. 
Casey, Ill. 
When I left Shelbina, Mo., on November 
1 there was no milk being shipped out of 
the town. One man was running a small 
dairy and delivering milk in Shelbina at 
five cents per quart. A good many of 
the residents of the town owned their own 
cows. The farmers were getting 25 cents 
per pound for butter, but were not taking 
enough in to supply the local market. One 
groceryman told me in October that he was 
selling about 100 pounds of creamery butter 
per week at 40 cents per pound. At my 
sale on October 18, 1910, at Shelbina. Mo., 
I sold corn at 40 cents per bushel, oats at 
20% cents per bushel, Timothy hay at _$7 
per ton, and cows from $65 to $77.50. 
When I came to Fayetteville, Ark., on 
November 15 I bought corn at 40 cents. 
THE RURAIv NEW-YORKER 
oats at 25 cents, hay at $10 per ton, cows 
from $38 to $47; have sold since I have 
been here some butter at 25 cents per 
pound, and eggs at 27 cents per dozen. 
Hens are worth eight cents, turkeys 16 
cents live weight. As to the milk question 
here I am not very well posted at this time, 
but I understand that a good many of the 
farmers deliver cream to the State Univer¬ 
sity and are getting 28 cents per pound 
for butter fat. «• w - c - 
Fayetteville, Ark. 
Milk is not peddled, as the farmers 
produce their own milk. Some of the small 
towns ship milk to St. Louis. Union. Mo., 
has a small dairy which supplies milk to 
the town, but most farmers have only milk 
for their own use. Corn sells in local mar¬ 
ket for 50 cents per bushel delivered; 
wheat, 75 cents per bushel; good Timothy 
hay, baled, local. $10 per ton ; milch cows, 
840 to $75; hogs at present. $6 to $6.50 
per 100 pounds. Eggs, 27 cents ; old hens, 
eight cents per pound; potatoes, 50 cents 
per bushel; apples, five cents per pound; 
bacon, 13 cents per pound. o. F. 
St. Clair, Mo. 
Milk is mostly retailed from the farms 
in our section by farmers to Summer resort 
hotels at 20 cents per gallon; cream, 80 
cents per gallon. What is not disposed of 
in this way is made into butter and sold at 
25 cents per pound. A few farmers sell 
milk in Winter at 24 cents per gallon. A 
creamery will be built in Oakland next 
Spring, mostly by farmers, but I am not 
informed as to the price to be paid for 
milk. Eggs, 25 cents a dozen; corn, bo 
cents per bushel; oats, 45 cents ; buckwheat, 
75 cents; hay, $18 per ton. Lambs sold 
in October 'O cents per 100 pounds 
gross. The price for grain and hay 
is regulated by the \\ estern market, as 
farmers have to sell at the price of tac 
Western product delivered here. E. w. K. 
Deer Park, Md. 
The creamery here pays $1.60 per 100 
for milk, and 30 cents a pound for butter 
fat. At the feed mill they sell bran at 
81.25 per 100 pounds, larger quantities 
cheaper; sucrene, $1.45 per 100. These 
products are shipped here. The elevatoi 
men are paying 36 cents a bushel lor ear 
corn and 30 for white oats. Most fann¬ 
ers here have cream separators and keep 
the milk for their hogs. For rough feed 
the farmers have oat straw and shredded 
corn fodder. Tame hay is scarce owing to 
the drought during the Summer, making 
it necessary to feed the stock nearly the 
year around. The farmers living near 
Dixon Ill., sell milk to the Borden con¬ 
densed milk factory at that place. 
Amboy, Ill. M * A ’ 
There are in liar ford County, Maryland, 
about six creameries and a goodly number 
of farmers who supply milk to the former 
in large quantities. Farmers are at pres¬ 
ent receiving 18% cents per gallon toi 
milk; though the price is unsatisfactory, 
and they are contending for 20 cents. Most 
of the creameries instead of making butter, 
ship the butter fat to Baltimore., During 
eight months of the year they receive theie- 
for 35 cents per pound and during the 
other four warmer months 25 cents per 
pound for as much of it as equals their 
average shipments during the eight months 
and for the excess they receive a lower 
price. To illustrate: If the average de¬ 
livery of the shipper during the eight 
months is 500 pounds daily, he will during 
the warmer months realize 25 cents per 
pound daily on as much as 500 pounds 
and on the quantity exceeding ;>00 pounds 
less than 25 cents. Heavy cream or 
“double cream” is delivered to hotels and 
restaurants and other large consumers at 
one dollar per gallon. E- M. T. 
Aberdeen, Md. 
The milk producers in this part of the 
country nearly all send their milk to some 
creamerv, and the price paid per hundred 
delivered at the creamery is $l.o0. A 
portion of them are situated so they can 
ship their milk to Cleveland to some 
dealer, and they realize 16 cents per gal¬ 
lon (8% pounds), after all expenses of 
shipping are paid. A few of them sepaiat, 
the milk and ship the cream to Cleveland, 
either sweet or sour as the case may do, 
and get. 1 am told, about as much per 
gallon for the milk as they would to ship 
it whole, and have the skim-milk for their 
trouble, and by feeding it to pigs it brings 
them quite a little more. Some think it is 
worth 25 cents per hundred to feed to pigs. 
Burton is a town of about 700 or 800 peo¬ 
ple, and one of our milk producers keeps a 
herd of Jerseys and supplies the town witn 
milk at five cents per quart in Summer 
and six cents in the Winter. As to the 
prices of feed, bran is selling by the ton 
for $25; gluten, $27; hominy, $2o; oil 
meal,' $38; cotton-seed meal, $34. Corn 
in the ear is selling for 60 cents per 100 
pounds; oats are selling for 33 to 34 cents 
per bushel. E - H - 
Burton, O. 
About 50 per cent of the milk is sold by 
the producer, and he buys from other farm¬ 
ers to supply his customers. Some pro¬ 
ducers haul to town and sell to the re¬ 
tailer. Our valley towns draw their supply 
from a radius of four or five miles of the 
center of Beaver County, and there is some 
shipped in from the eastern edge of Ohio. 
The producer here gets 16 to 20 cents per 
gallon, some sold to wagon at road, others 
deliver to town. Retail prices in Beaver 
and Rochester are nine cents per quartj 
in New Brighton and Beaver Falls, eight 
cents per quart. These are Winter prices ; 
Summer prices are about two to four cents 
lower per gallon, and retail one to two 
cents per quart less. D. J. E. 
Beaver Co., Pa. 
Why do not more farmers invest in pure¬ 
bred stock? I think the chief reason is 
that they are not willing to pay the dif¬ 
ference in price between a purebred and a 
mongrel. I do not think thev realize its 
importance as they should. This was for¬ 
merly a butter-making section; now it is 
milk selling, and farmers buying their but¬ 
ter and meat. There are more tenant farm¬ 
ers than in former years, and do not seem 
to take the interest in improving the dairies 
that they did when the farms were worked 
by their owners. There is a less number 
of calves raised, and the chief use of a bull 
is to have the cows freshen once a year. 
Hence anything that is of fair size and 
black and white fills the bill. Another rea¬ 
son I think is that they like to change bulls 
often, fearing they will become vicious with 
age. Of course dairies cannot improve un¬ 
der such management. The above is the 
situation in live stock matters as they ap¬ 
pear to me. EDGAR DOOLITTLE. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
The State Department of Agriculture has 
won another case in New York City against 
a shipper of unclean milk cans, and the de¬ 
fendant has settled by the payment of $150. 
The enforcement of the milk can law has 
made an enormous difference in the con¬ 
dition of milk cans returned from cities to 
country districts. Formerly the condition 
of these cans was sometimes indescribable. 
As a rule now the cans are well cleaned 
before being returned to the country, or at 
least well rinsed, and given a thorough 
cleaning after arrival at the country ship¬ 
ping stations. It is now seldom that seri¬ 
ous offences are discovered. 
Keep hold of 
YOUR MONEY 
Do not pay freight^ bills. 
Do not deal with 
strangers. Take 
risks of no kind. 
Do not be deceived by cata¬ 
logues or advertisements. You 
can always have for free trial, 
right at home, without investing 
one cent, the "World’s Best’ 
cream separator, the universally 
satisfactory 
Sharpies 
Tubular 
Cream 
Separator 
The latest product of the 
oldest cream separator fac¬ 
tory in America and the 
largest in the world. When 
you buy a cream separator 
buy the best; buy one that 
you will be proud to 
have your neighbor see. 
You know who builds the\. 
Tubular and who guar¬ 
antees it. Write for 1911 
Catalogue No 153. 
Dairy Tubu¬ 
lars are self- 
oiling. No oil 
holes, tubes 
or oups. Use 
same oil over 
and over. No 
waste. 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WEST CHESTER, I*A. 
Chicago. Ill., Son Francisco, Cal., Portland, Ore, 
Toronto, Can. Winnipeg, Can. 
30 
yrs 
EXTRAORDINARY VALUE IN 
INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS 
Ladies'medium weight, 3 patterns, assorted; Ladies’ 
Sheer, 3 patterns, assorted. All Handsomely Em¬ 
broidered. Price Sl.Slk; per box of half dozen. 
GENTS’ FINE INITIAL—Price SI .37 '-2 per box of half dozen. 
All Absolutely Pure Linen. Order to-day. 
Stato Initial wanted. Postage, 4c. per box, 
WM. A. MAUGER HANDKERCHIEF AGENCY, 
Rutherford, New Jersey. 
Bronchial Troches 
for coughs and voice have been used for over 
half a century by prominent singers, clergymen, 
and all public speakers. Universally recognized 
as the best on the market. Absolutely harmless. 
Price, 25c, 50c and $1.00. Sample free 
John I. Brown & Son Boston, Mass. 
Morgan Colts and Fillies ISSKSS; 
Rams and Ewes. L. L. DORSE Y, Anchorage, Ky. 
Pnilltrumpn I Will supply Fresh Steamed 
A UU11I y llltll and Ground Beef Scraps at 
$2 per 100. JAMES A. ANDERSON, City Mills, Mass. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKLINGS-Irom 2G0-egg strain-Jl & 
I $2 each. Light Brahtnas. C. Gordon, Sprakers, N.Y. 
Forty Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
2 Registered Hereford Bull Calves 
FOR SALE at HILLCKEST FARM. 
B. F. MANN, Fort 8pring, W. Va. 
M ammoth bronze turkeys for 
SALE—Satisfaction guaranteed. Address 
MRS. FRANK ELLIOTT, Moravia, New York. 
FOR SALE-MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS 
One-quarter wild blood. Toms weighing from 20 
to 24 lbs.. Hens from 12 to 14. Toms $7.00, Hens $5.00. 
MRS. JOHN H. JANNEY, Brookeville, Maryland. 
Wantort— A capable farmer to raise truck on 
11 alllCU shares. Lock Box 98, Bordentown, N. J. 
WANTFD~ A FIRST CLASS experienced poultryman 
if Mil I bU as manager on egg farm. Must be 
able to lay out plant and do considerable carpentry 
work at first. Write fully as to experience, age and 
references, stating whether married or single and 
salary expected. L. WALTON, Mulga, Ala. 
WANTED—YOUNG MARRIED MAN 
to irmnage farm of 100 acres in Central 
New York. Must be competent to care for small 
herd of Ayrshires and do dairy work. State 
wages expected with references. 
CHARLES H. DRISSEN, Coalburg, Ohio. 
Poultry for Christmas ESg-aSSf-ggr** 
Ship to W. H. COHEN & CO., 229 Washington St.. New York. 
pi.EASE send atrial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
r mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter, 
Eggs. Poultry. Pork, Calves, Hay, Grain, Beans, 
Apples, etc. E. It. WOOIMYAUIt, 80S tireeunicU St., N. V. 
Eggs, Poultry, Meats, Produce. 
Shipments solicited. JELLIFFE, WRIGHT S CO., Com¬ 
mission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York, 
d all you can r„ rQ | 
for your raw* ut o\ 
Experienced trappers and fur collectors are 
never in doubt as to where to ship their furs. 
They all know that St. Louis, being the Great- 
eat Fur Market in the world, is the place the 
best returns come from. 
F. C. Taylor & Co., who own and control 
the Great Fur Exchange Building, have 
more money invested in building and 
equipment than all other St. Louis 
fur houses combined. They have 
better facilities, enjoy a greater de- 
£ mand and handle more furs than any 
iother concern in America. 
} F. C. Taylor & Co. arc therefore in 
^ position to send you Quicker and 
better net results for furs than 
you can get anywhere else. 
Trapper's Guide, Market Reporta 
and other valuable information 
mailed FREE. Write at once for 
Latest Price List and shipping tags. 
You need no introduction— just ship 
F. C. TAYLOR & CO. 
Greatest Fur House In the World 
765 FUR EXCHANGE BLOG. ST. LOUIS. MO. 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Cattle or Horso hide. Calf, Dog, Deer, 
or any kind of skin with hair or fur on. 
We make them soft, light, odorless, 
wind, moth and water proof, and make 
them into coats (for men or women) 
robes, rugs or gloves when so ordered. 
Your fur goods will cost you less than 
to buy them, and be worth more. Send 
three or more cow or horse hides in one 
shipment from anywhere east of Den¬ 
ver and we pay the freight both ways. 
Get our illustrated catalog which 
gives prices of tanning, taxidermy and 
head mounting. Also prices of fur 
goods, and big mounted game heads 
we sell. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
OUR TRAPPERS 
GUIDE FREE 
FUR SHIPPER. SEND FOR. IT. Infor¬ 
mation worth a fortune to you — DROP THE 
MIDDLEMAN—Try the SQUARE DEAL FUR 
HOUSE, theHouse that's DIFFERENT, thisyear. 
Write for Price List A. Y. Valuable information 
as to PRIZES OFFERED, FREE. Write 
WEIL BROS. & CO., Est. 1871, Box 76 Fort Wayne, Ind. 
Capital $500,000.00 Paid 
NEW YORK PRICES FOR 
m m mm ■■■■■»«* are the highest in 
D A Ul k II w V thocountry. Wewiil 
O am WW ■ U il U pay the highest New 
York cash prices for 
your Muskrat, Skunk. Mink, Coon, Opossum, 
Fox and all other standard furs in large or small 
lots. We hold shipments separate on request. 
We charge no commission and pay all express 
charges. Send us your name and address at once 
and we will keep you fully posted. 
STRUCK-CHAITIN CO., Dept. A, 8 East 12th St„ New York 
TRAPPERS AND HUNTERS. 
Furs are high. A fact which you are all probably ac¬ 
quainted with. But the question is, Are you getting 
highest market value for yours i Remember we do nut 
charge any commission; pay all express charges; will 
hold your goods separate for approval of our valuation, 
when requested, and if not satisfactory will return and 
pay all charges. Don’t you think we are entitled to a 
trial shipment on the strength of the foregoing ? For 
further infoi'mation write for our free price list and 
Trappers’ Guide. Make us a trial shipment today. 
Abrohams Fur & Wool Co., Fur Merchants, Seymour, Wis. 
Raw Fur Prices 
are going to he up and down this winter. Some 
heavy stocks carried over will probably affect the 
market. We keep our shippers posted by special 
bulletins all through the winter. We give you the 
top price because we post you about the rises ami 
falls. Send your name to get on our bulletin list. 
Shipments to us at the right time bring best money 
and quickest returns. KANN & COMPANY, 
41 K. lOtli Street, New York City. 
RAW FURS 
WANTED. 
Free price list and best posting possible for 
the asking. 
LOWELL LAMB & GO., 
^SSEastlOthStreet^lev^York^J^^.^ 
R 
HIGHEST I’RICES FOR 
AW FUR 
Let’s get acquainted. Write for price list 
LOI IS «T. KAHN 
3 and 5 W. 19th 8t„ New York 
S 
We buy Skunk, Mink, Muskrat 
and all other raw furs at high¬ 
est market prices, and give 
liberal assortments and "A 
square deal ” to everyone. 
. — Price-List Free. 
M. J. JEWETT & SONS. Dept. 29, Redwood, New York. 
SKUNK 
Ship Your Dressed Turkeys, Ducks 
and Geese for Christmas to 
GEO. OLIVER & COMPANY 
Established 1SSO COMMISSION MERCHANTS 
WEST WASHINGTON MARKET, NEW YORK. N. Y. 
PROMPT RETURNS 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., 
Boston. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND. EST. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & GO., 
Commission Merchants 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 Hi 36 Little l'Jtli St.. New York- 
