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THK KUKAL, NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
The Rural New-Yorker, December 31, 1910 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Struggle for a Farm.1197, 1198 
Alfalfa Notes from Montana.1198 
The Proposed Com Contest.1198 
Echo of Corn Show.1200 
Arguments for Ground Limestone. 
Part 1.1201 
The Litmus Test for Soil.1202 
The Varieties of Buckwheat.1202 
Ditching and Drainage Notes..1203 
A Machine for Sticky Soil.1203 
Hope Farm .Notes.1204 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
West Virginia Colts.1198 
The Entire Consumer's Dollar.1199 
A Dairy Section of California.1199 
The Poultry Systems.1203 
Rape as llog Pasture.1210 
The Heavy Draft Horse.1210 
Preserving Eggs . 1210 
Raising the Dairy Calf.1211 
“A Business lien".1211 
Ration for Milk Making.1212 
Another Milk Ration.1212 
Feeding for Butter.1212 
Ringworms .1212 
Difficult Breathing .1212 
Milking Before Calving.1213 
Milk .1215 
Expressmen and Eggs.1215 
HORTICULTURE. 
Fumigating Scions .1200 
Do Peach Borers Live Over.1200 
Foreign Plants of Interest.1201 
The .lujube Tree.1203 
Kieffer as Grafting Stock.1203 
National Fruit Growers.1207 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.120S 
What Girls Can Do to Earn a Living.. 1208 
Rabbit Recipes .1208 
Water Crackers .-.1209 
The Rural Patterns ..-.1209 
A Little Reading.1209 
German Rabbit .1209 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Our Wonderful Postage System..1201 
Keeping Skunks .1203 
Editorials —....1206 
Events of the Week.1—07 
Crops and Prices ...1207 
Conditions in Oregon.. 1207 
1’repaid Express Charges.1207 
Products, Prices and Trade.1213 
Publisher's Desk .1214 
In effect December 1, the New York Ex¬ 
change price was advanced to $2.01 per 40- 
quart can, netting 4Vi cents per quart to 
shippers in the 26-cent freight zone who 
have no additional station charges. 
Milk here is all hand separated and sold 
at the cream station at Manchester where 
they pay 26 cents for butter fat. Corn is 
worth 38 cents at the elevator; hogs, $6.75 
per 100 pounds; eggs, 27 cents a dozen. 
Manchester, Kan. G. F. T. 
Milk is not sold in our part of the 
countv. There is no market for milk in 
our locality. The farmers here make butter 
and sell mostly to stores iu Hagerstown. 
Butter, 30 cents per pound ; oil meal, $38 
a ton; cotton-seed meal, $34 a ton ; bran, 
$26, aud wheat 93 cents per bushel. 
Beaver Creek, Md. f. l. f. 
The average wholesale price of milk in 
this locality is 20 cents per gallon, and it 
retails for eight and nine cents per quart. 
The hulk of the milk is handled by three 
large concerns iu St. Louis. There are also 
quite a number of local dairies which peddle 
their own milk. v. o. 
Wellston, Mo. 
We are wholesaling our milk at the pres¬ 
ent time; get $2.12 per 100 pounds. The 
United Dairy, Bellaire, O., gets it. There 
are several farmers near the city who re¬ 
tail their own milk. The wholesale price of 
milk ranges from $2 to $2.20 per 100 
pounds; retail, seven to eight cents per 
quart. The retail price of feed at Neffs, O.. 
■where I deal, is : Corn, 60 cents per bushel; 
oats, 45 cents; sucrene dairy feed, $25 per 
ton; wheat bran, $25; wheat middlings, 
$29; oil meal, old process, $40; Timothy 
hay, $20; clover and Timothy mixed, $19; 
dairy feed, $24. R. R. w. 
Bellaire, O. 
This section is supplied with milk, cream 
and butter by farmers, with here and there 
a small dairy. These will average about 10 
miles apart and deliver by wagon to their 
customers in the towns, the price being 
uniformly eight cents a quart, and for 
cream 25 cents per quart. Nearly every 
town has a creamery, and prices range 
from TO cents to $1.20 per 100 pounds, 95 
per cent of their butter going to the cities. 
Wholesale price of milk delivered in the 
towns is six cents per quart by the five- 
galion can. The present price of butter is 
30 cents per pound. Live poultry. 12 cents 
per pound; eggs, 32 cents per dozen; 
wheat, f. o. b. cars or boat, 90 cents 
per bushel: corn. 45 cents per bushel; hay, 
Timothy, $15 per ton ; clover, $12 ; mixed, 
$15. h. v. s. 
Chestertown, Md. 
I live about five miles from the busy 
part of Cleveland, and about one-half mile 
from the limits, so I am not in the im¬ 
mediate dairy country, which is about 10 
to 25 miles from the city. However, I 
will tell what I know about it. Few 
farmers peddle their own milk ; it is mostly 
sold to dealers In the city. Where it is 
not too far to haul, say 10 to 15 miles, 
to the city they have what we call a 
milk truck, with a long box carrying 50 
to 60 cans. A man makes a business of 
hauling the farmers’ milk to the city, go¬ 
ing along the street collecting the cans 
which the farmer puts on a platform about 
three feet high, so he can drive alongside 
and roll the cans in and leave cans for 
the next milking, charging the farmer 10 
cents per can, and brings the empties back 
free. The farmer contracts his own milk 
with the dealer, who pays 18 cents per gal¬ 
lon from October 1 to April 1, and during 
Summer 14 cents per gallon. Farmer must 
of course put tag on each can marked to 
dealer, who must put it up in quart and 
pint bottles before be is allowed to retail 
it. lie gets seven cents per quart in 
Summer and eight cents in Winter, or six 
months at each price, as he buys it, but the 
bulk of milk comes in on the suburban 
or electric lines which bring it farther, even 
50 miles from the city, but it is always 
shipped iu 10-gallon cans to the city, and 
the dealer has a building where he washes 
his bottles and fills them. Some years 
ago before the citv authorities compelled 
bottling the milk, most farmers peddled 
their own milk at six cents in Summer and 
eight cents in Winter, but the bottles 
were too much bother; some tried it out 
gave it up. In Summer milk truck goes 
morning and evening; in Winter in morn¬ 
ing only, taking two milkings. G. L. w. 
Brooklyn Heights, O. 
VARIOUS NOTES. 
Canada mined 10,501,475 tons of coal 
the past year. This was about 380,800 tons 
less than* the previous year. 
Cotton ginning will be completed by 
January 1. The ginners’ reports thus far 
show a total of 10,617,000 bales for the 
whole country. 
Hops. —The market, both on the Pacific 
coast and in Europe, is very firm, and 
prices tending higher. The stock remain¬ 
ing in first hands is light. 
New Stock Yards. —A million dollar 
yard and slaughterhouse is to be built iu 
jersey City on tbe water front, adjacent 
to the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
New Sooth Wales, Australia, has 2,529,- 
200 acres iu wheat this year. The yield is 
expected to be about 23,500,000 bushels, 
which would leave a surplus of 10,000,000 
bushels for export. 
Holiday Mail. —During the first 17 days 
of December the New York Post Office re¬ 
ceived 27,410 sacks of mail from Europe, 
aud sent out 437,389 foreign money orders, 
amounting to $7,025,548. 
Oil Fuel. —The railroads of this coun¬ 
try used 19,939,394 barrels of fuel oil the 
past year. Two of our battleships now use 
oil, and four of those under construction 
will be equipped for oil as well as coaL 
Butter. —Receipts have been too large 
for current needs, aud trade dull, resulting 
in a decline in price on all grades. This 
decline has frightened holders of choice 
storage creamery into urgent efforts to get 
rid of their stock, still further upsetting 
the market. 
British Trade. —During the 11 months 
ending November 30 the United Kingdom's 
imports amounted to $3,046,795,000; ex¬ 
ports, $1,905,825,000. The chief items of 
imports were weat% timber, cotton and 
wool; exports, machinery, chemicals, leather 
goods, cotton aud wool yarns. 
Dressed Poultry. —Christmas trade de¬ 
veloped decidedly lower prices on all kinds 
of poultry except ducks, which were 
scarce. A large number of turkey ship- 
ments from the West had been sent here 
ou a 25-cettt price limit, but this was out 
of the question, as choice turkeys were 
freely offered for 24 cents. Speculative 
trade is usually active where prices of 
high-grade produce drop, but many of these 
speculators had been badly pinched iu the 
Thanksgiving trade, and were more anx¬ 
ious to dispose of their Thanksgiving hold¬ 
ings so that they would not lose more 
than three cents per pound, than to pick 
up new bargains. Some high retail prices 
were noted, but as a rule consumers were 
able to get good turkeys on a basis of 26 
to 30 cents. 
GOOD RETURNS FROM MIDDLEMEN. 
I read many instances, iu your paper es¬ 
pecially, of dishonest commission men, aud 
it seems no more than fair for me to take 
the trouble to tell what good use can -be 
made of an honest city middleman. This 
Fail the local apple and pear market was 
very dull, fancy Pippins briugiug but 50 
vents a bushel, aud early pears 35 cents. 
As prices were not much better from ped¬ 
dling, I made my first try at shipping to 
Detroit. Results gave following figures, 
gross; Snow, $5 barrel; seeouds, $3; Non¬ 
such, $4.75; seconds, $3.25; August Pip¬ 
pin, $3.50; seconds, $2.50; King, $4.50; 
seconds, $3.25; Spy aud Greening, $3.50; 
seconds, $3. 1 managed to get several 
barrels of culls in early and got following 
prices for them, lower prices meaning later 
shipments : 14 barrels at $2.50, 11 barrels 
at $1.75, seven barrels at $1.50, three 
barrels at $1.25, one barrel at $1. The 
freight was about 20 cents a barrel, cart¬ 
age five cents, and of course commission 10 
per cent. 1 bought 40-cent barrels for the 
No. 1, cracker barrels at eight cents to 15 
cents for the seconds, aud sweet potato 
barrels at five cents for the culls, covering 
these last with worn-out feed sacks instead 
of heading. Another time I would use 
cracker barrels for my first as well as 
seconds, as it only means a little more time 
heading. The pears sold at $3 for No. 1 
and $2.50 for seconds, per barrel, netting 
$2.45 aud $2 respectively. As you cau see 
the Pippins netted nearly 85 cents bushel 
(after paying for 40-cent barrel) instead 
of 50 cents offered here ; aud pears, which 
were all shipped in cracker barrels, netted 
over 75 cents a bushel (after paying for 
15-eent barrel) instead of 35 cents offered 
here. . R. p. c. 
Adrian, Mich. 
New Oatti.e Club Secretary.— . 1 . J. 
Hemmingway, for 24 years secretary of the 
American Jersey Cattle Club, has resigned 
on account of ill health. Flis assistant, 
It. M. Govv, has been appointed to the posi¬ 
tion. The address of the club is 8 West 
17th St., New York. 
Fair to choice apples selling here at re¬ 
tail 90 cents a peck. Lowest price for 
apples, the kind I used to throw at the 
barn, 75 cents per peck. Butter, 45 cents 
a pound; potatoes, 50 cents a peck; milk, 
10 cents a quart; pineapples, five cents 
each; oranges, one cent each for drops; 
grapefruit, two cents for drops; pineapples 
by crate of 30, $1.50 returns from com¬ 
mission houses. it. I- G. 
Ft. Pierce, Fla. 
A COW CULTURE CLUB. 
The Cow Culture Club is an organization 
with headquarters at Waterloo, Iowa. This 
club co-operates with the State Dairymen's 
Association and the Iowa State College in 
an effort to develop dairying in Iowa. Iowa 
has been noted as a beef-pioduciag State, 
but if her people ever seriously go into 
dairying there will be g.eat doings. It has 
been said that if the Iowa corn crop was 
put into silos and a few acres on each 
farm put into Alfalfa the State could pro¬ 
duce butter enough nearly to supply the 
entire country. in order to do this there 
must be a good number of high-class cows 
and the object of the Cow Culture Club 
is to find out who owns the best dairy 
cow in Iowa, and having found that out, 
to learn how to produce more like her. 
A test of this kind closed on August 15, 
and the figures will soon be ready for 
the press. Now there is to be another test 
for $1000 or more in cash prizes. The 
contest is to determine the amount of but¬ 
ter fat given iu one year, 305 days, by any 
cow of any breed. It makes uo difference 
who it is owned by in the State of Iowa. 
It will cost tbe owner an entry fee of $5 
and he will have to convey the tester who 
examines the cow once a month to and 
from the railroad station, and he will 
have to take care of him while he is on 
hand. That is all that is expected of the 
cow owner. The Cow Culture Club will do 
the rest. The entries for the next con¬ 
test opens August 15. 1911, and will close 
December 1, 1911. The year’s contest will 
end November 30. 1912. This will give a 
farmer opportunity to have his cow fresh 
at the proper time and get her into shape 
so that she can do her best. The idea is 
a good one, and carried out for a number 
of years will surely result in improving the 
care of the dairy cows in that State. 
Sick Pigs. 
A litter of white Cheshire pigs, farrowed 
September 14, appeared all light till they 
wero ene month old, when their ears be¬ 
came purple at the edges, first pink then 
purple ; some days better, then after a cold 
night were worse. They dried up at the 
edges and sloughed off a portion of the 
edges of ears. They were large, thrifty 
pigs otherwise, the mother being very 
large and healthy and having laid on four 
pigs, she only suckled four that were left, 
and had a large quantity of milk, so they 
grew fast. 1 sold three of these pigs five 
weeks ago; purchaser was well satisfied 
apparently, but now he says that one has 
just died five weeks after he received them 
and the others are sick. The remaining 
one I kept myself and it seems well. Can 
yon inform me what is the matter with 
them, and am I responsible for the pigs I 
sold in good faith ? e. p. 
Connecticut 
Wo are quite unable to say what is 
now the matter with the neighbor's pigs 
or what has caused their death, but we 
are sure that the previous skin trouble 
of five weeks ago would not be likely to 
cause such losses. That condition in white 
pigs often merely indicates scald from run¬ 
ning in wet rape, clover or other rank 
green growths and then exposure to sun 
or to freezing. The ears may also become 
similarly affected if the bods are wot and 
filthy. Hog cholera may be suspected when 
patches of skin become purple in color, 
but had that disease been present five 
weeks ago the pigs would have died. 
A. S. A. 
Expressmen and Eggs.— Under the cap¬ 
tion, "Express Companies and Eggs,” page 
1158, we note White & Rice's difficulty with 
a crate of eggs. We send out to private 
customers crates of eggs in small lots and 
pay 55 cents expressago for each package, 
regardless of size, over the Long Island 
IU It., for a distance of 94 miles. Years 
ago w r e used to pay these charges only to 
have the express companies collect again 
at the delivery end, and uo reimbursement 
yet. While we do not prepay any more, 
the charges are excessive, and the whole 
is another plea for that parcels post. 
THOUNEHAVEN POULTRY FARM. 
Wren you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply rand 
"a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
Common Sense and Plain 
Dealing. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: 
“Nothing astonishes men so much as 
common sense and plain dealing.” The 
more we think about this statement, the 
more we are convinced that Emerson 
was right. Common sense enables us to 
choose wisely, to make correct deduc¬ 
tions, to avoid snares and pitfalls, and 
plain dealing gives us the power to do 
the right thing by our fellow men and to 
avoid misleading statements. The Ameri¬ 
can Seeding-Machine Co., Incorporated, 
Springfield, Ohio, makers of the Buck¬ 
eye^ Grain Drill, have evidently kept this 
saying of Emerson constantly in mind, 
for their warranty on the Buckeye is so 
plain that it would not mislead a child, 
and the common sense displayed in the 
design and manufacture of this world- 
famous grain drill has made it astonish¬ 
ingly simple, accurate, reliable and wear 
resisting. Write to the manufacturers 
for a Buckeye catalogue, read it care¬ 
fully, and then drop in at your nearest 
implement dealer and see what an ex¬ 
ceptional drill the Buckeye is. The feed 
is of the double type—that is, two feeds 
in one—a force feed having great range 
as to quantities, and which will accurate¬ 
ly measure and sow all grains and grass 
seeds, peas, beans, rice, beets, etc. The 
combined Buckeye Grain and Fertilizer 
Drill will sow all commercial fertilizers 
and is the only drill on the market that 
has an absolutely non-corroding glass 
fertilizer feed. The many good features 
will surely interest the careful farmer, 
and we know our readers will be pleased 
to learn more about it by sending for a 
Buckeye catalogue. 
& “New Modern” 
/ SanitarySteelStalls 
Wood or Steel Stanchions (chain or 
swivel hung), Litter and Feed 
Carriers, Watering Basins, etc. 
Glor Bros. & Willis Mfc. Co. 
76 Main Street, Attica, N. T. 
“EVERYTHING FOR THE BARN” 
EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION 
Warranted The Best. 30 Days’ Trial 
Unlike all others. Stationary when open 
Noiseless Simple Sanitary Durable 
The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
Box 60, Cuba, N. Y. 
HIGHEST PRICES FOR 
AW FUR 
Let’s got acquainted. Write for price list. 
LOT IK J. KAHN 
3 and 5 >V. 19th St., New York 
TRAPPERS AND HUNTERS. 
Furs are high. A fact widen you are all probably ac¬ 
quainted with. But the question is. Are you getting 
highest market value tor yours ' Remember we do not 
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 i For 
further information write for our free price list and 
Trappers’ Guide. Make ns a t rial shipment today. 
Abrohams Fur & Wool Co., Far Merchants, Seymour, Whs. 
OTHE INDIAN RUNNER DUCK BOOK.” 
A All about this wonderful breed. Public 200- 
egg recordfwithoutmeat). Stiff paper. 100 pages. 
50 cents. C. S. Valentine,B ox 3, Ridgewood, N. J. 
Hnllriav Pnilltrv Ponltry.Calves,Hothouse 
noiiudj rouiiry Lambs, Fancy Eggs. 
Ship to W. H. COHEN & CO.. 229 Washington St.. New York. 
r RAW FURS "" 
WANTED. 
Free price list and best posting possible for 
the asking. 
P I.ICASE send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
r mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter, 
Kggs. Poultry. Pork. Calves. Hay, Grain. Beaus, 
Appies. etc. li. n. WOOMWAM, *Ui Greenwich St., .\. T. 
V* 
LOWELL LAMB & CO., 
52 East IOth Street, New York, N. Y 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston. 
JELLIFFE, WRIGHT & COMPANY, 
Commission Merchants, 284 Washington St., New York, 
Poultry, Eggs, Meats, Produce. Shipments Solicited. 
WANTED-YOUNG MARRIED MAN 
to manage farm of 100 acres in Central 
New York. Must be competent to care for small 
herd of Ayrshires and do dairy work. Slate 
wages expected with references. 
CHARLES H. DKISSEN, Coalburg, Ohio. 
FARM SALE— 200 acres, 300,000 feet timber; 
I HniTI near school, church, etc. Easy terms. 
CHAS. RITTENHOUbE, K. D. 4, Ithaca, N. Y. 
W A NTFTl~ SO:UC1TOUS or SALESMEN to 
” i—Af obtain signatures to petitions 
asking Congress to enact a Parcels Post law. Ex¬ 
perienced parties furnishing proper references 
make good pay. Address POSTAL PROGRESS 
LEAGUE, No. 125 East 23d Street, New York. 
NEW YORK PRICES FOR 
are the highest in 
the country. We will 
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. 
STRU CK-CHAITIN CO., Dept. A, 8 East 12th Si.. New York 
\A/ A MTP n —>la.rrietl man with two boys from 
fVHIllCU 16 to 20 years old. Must be expe¬ 
rienced at milking and dairy farm work. 
\V. F. SHRCM, R. D. 2, Jeannette, pa. 
Poultry and Stock Farm For Sale. 
119 acres, 40 of this is woods. Spring rnnning water 
and well. 1,200 White Leghorn chickens— up-to-date 
houses to accommodate 5,000. Six Jersey cows, 2 
bulls, 3 common cows, 5 work horses, 25 sheep, 1,3)0 
bushels of corn on the cob, 30 tons of fodder corn 
in silo, 40 tons of bay, 20 tons of straw, 24,000 corn 
stalks, 300 bushels of wheat, 600 bushels of oats. 
Up-to-date farming implements and buildings in 
good oilier. One chicken brooder house, with hot 
water system to accommodate 3,000 baby chicks, 
size 25x100. Stone house with 18-inch walls, Trooms 
and all city improvements. Price, $30,000. Apply to 
OWNER, Mimsink Farm, North Water Gap, Pa. 
HOICE VIRGINIA FARMS 
Along Chesapeake & Ohio Railway as low as $15.00 per acre. Rich 
soil, mild winters, nearby eastern markets. Exceptional Fruit Growing Possi¬ 
bilities. Write for illustrated booklet of farms for sale “COUN¬ 
TRY LIFE IN VIRGINIA” (100 pages) and low excursion rates 
ADDRESS Iv. 
T. (I R AWL1W, Industrial Agt, 
C. 4* O. RY.. Box Z RICHMOND, VA. 
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