1914. 
THIS RURAt NEW-YORKER 
103 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, January 17, 1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Fitting Southern Soil for Grass.65, 63 
Farming for Furs..66 
What Kind of Lime. 66 
A Faithful Hired Man.67 
The City Boy and Agricultural Colleges.67 
New York State Agricultural Society.68 
Sunflower Growing in Maryland.69 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.74 
Hope Farm Notes.76 
Constructive Grange Work.94 
Blasting for Drainage.94 
Maine Potato Shipments. 94 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Tho World's Champion Hen.67 
The Scrub Cow Problem.91 
Age for Breeding Mare.92 
Breed for Retail Milk.92 
Big Horses Popular.93 
Registry Questions.93 
Material for Bard.93 
Keeping a Pure Strain.96 
Chickens With Colds. 96 
The Poultry “Systems”.96 
Laying Type of Pullets. 96 
Black Minorcas. ,.96 
“Miracle Mary”.97 
Root Crops and Legume Silage.98 
Dairy Ration. 98 
Feeding a Heifer.98 
Ration for Dry Cows.98 
Buckwheat for Milch Cows.98 
Business Cows.100 
Symptoms of Tuberculosis...100 
Slimy Milk Vessels.100 
The “Cast” Horse. 101 
Experience With Dairy Breeds.101 
HORTICULTURE. 
Preparing Land for Garden.68 
Orcharding in West Virginia...69 
Tomatoes in South Carolina...!.69 
Laying Out a Place. Part 1.70 
Peas and Radishes.72 
Trouble with Lindens.72 
Use of Wood Ashes.72 
Asparagus for Home Market.73 
Catawba-Concord Grape.74 
New York State Fruit Growers.74 
The Shallot.75 
A Philippine Breadfruit.77 
Chinese Winter Cabbage.77 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
My Most Useful Meal.79 
Possibilities of the Farm.79 
Editorials . 80 
"Votes for. Women”...... 81 
Reflections of a Ruralist.81 
The Land of Fulfillment. Chapter II.82, 83 
Water System in a Virginia Farmhouse.83 
Home-made Water Fixtures.83 
A Western New York Water Supply.83, 84 
. Ferns for the House.84 
Patterns .84 
Married Women’s Property Rights in Penn¬ 
sylvania . 86 
Wife’s Right to Husband’s Personal Property.86 
Property of Incompetent Wife...86 
Wife’s Claim Against Husband.86 
The Adopted Child. Part 1.86 
The Study Hour. 86 
Haunted Houses.....86 
Rapid Fire Kitchen Work.87 
Fewer Kitchen Miles.87 
Maple Sugar a Desirable Sweet.87, 89 
Transformation Garnitures.88 
A Song in Exile.88 
Pin Money from Flowers. 89 
In Bookland.90 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Principles of Icehouse Building.66 
Handy Disinfectants.73 
Removing Large Stump.74 
Winter in the Country.75 
White Oil Cloth in the Kitchen.75 
Editorials .78 
Feeding Young Fish. 94 
Events of the Week...95 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
BUTTER. 
There has been a drop of two or three 
cents 4 >n the higher grades of creamery. 
Business has been dull and receipts in¬ 
creasing. Very few sales of best cream¬ 
ery are noted above 35 cents, 30 to 33 
cents covering a large amount of trade. 
State dairy is practically unchanged, 
mainly because of light, receipts. The top 
price tjuoted, 32 to 33 cents, is extreme. 
Trade in factory and packing stock but¬ 
ter is quite active at 18 to 21 cents. 
Storage creamery is selling at 25 to 30 
cents, exceptional qualities one cent 
higher. 
MILK. 
A considerable surplus has been report¬ 
ed at New York for the past two or three 
weeks. Dealers usually magnify this sur¬ 
plus and make it a strong argument to- 
ward lower prices—for the farmers. It 
seems doubtful, however, whether recent 
contract prices will be cut unless weather 
conditions in January prove specially 
favorable for a heavy milk flow. The 
probabilities are against this as January 
usually runs. Prices during December, 
and now prevailing to a large extent, are 
3% to 4 cents for B, and 3^4 to 3*4 cents 
for C. These figures in the 26-cent zone 
make a gross of $1.81 to $1.91 for B, and 
$1.(51 to $1.71 for C. Retail prices to 
restaurants and hotels run from (5 to 6*4 
cents for users of two to three cans per 
day. 
EGGS. 
The advance in price of fancy eggs at 
New York two weeks ago was apparently 
unwarranted, as trade at once slackened, 
and although there has been a drop of six 
to eight cents on other grades, business 
still remains quiet. From 38 to 42 cents 
covers a large range of this trade now. 
Holders of both fresh and storage stock 
are making urgent efforts to move their 
surplus, cutting prices when sales seem a 
probable result. Usable storage eggs can 
bo had at 28 to 30 cents. Western fresh 
gathered are selling from 33 to 35 cents. 
Fresh eggs from China are reaching the 
Pacific Coast in commercial quantities. 
They are better than average grades of 
storage in spite of their 4,500-mile trip. 
Fair to choice eggs along the Coast are 
selling at 35 to 45 cents. 
POULTRY. 
The market is very dull on both live 
and dressed stock. The demand for tur¬ 
keys is extremely light, so that dealers 
with supplies held from the holidays are 
having a hard job to get rid of them at 
anything over 18 cents. The only item in 
the whole list that shows any activity is 
roasting chickens, which sell at 23 cents 
or a trifle more if fancy. Choice fowls 
go mainly at 15 to 17 cents, and under 
grades 12 to 14 cents. 
APPLES. 
Prices remain about the same as for 
several weeks. An occasional lot of choice 
Baldwins brings $5, but $4.50 is the top 
for most varieties, and under grades go 
from 75 cents to $1 less. Western bushel 
boxes bring $1.50 to $2.50; exceptionally 
fine $3, which is well toward four cents 
each. 
POTATOES. 
An advance of 15 to 25 cents per barrel 
is noted in the better grades. Consider¬ 
able of the foreign stock on hand is poor, 
rarely exceeding one cent per pound. 
Holders at country points are not anxious 
to sell, believing that a primary price of 
at least $1 per bushel may be had without 
materially lessening consumptive trade. 
There is considerable indication that this 
price, or even more, may prevail for best 
stock. The crop for the entire country 
is considered to be above the 10-year 
average, but this is not a safe basis on 
which to figure prices unless the great in¬ 
crease in population is taken into ac¬ 
count. 
Foreign beef to the amount of 9.000 
tons arrived in this country during Octo¬ 
ber and November. Canada sent nearly 
one-half, 4.000 tons, the remainder com¬ 
ing from South America and Australia. 
Argentina supplied 3,000 tons. The large 
concerns have quite thorough control of 
these importations, but in December there 
were independent shipments of about 
1,700 tons from Argentina. These may 
increase sufficiently to make some price 
reduction. There is more hope of lower 
prices on foreign mutton than beef.,how¬ 
ever. as mutton is not so profitable for 
long storage, and there is less expensive 
hotel demand for mutton than beef. Every 
hotel that amounts to anything must have 
its choice cuts of beef for steaks and 
roasts, and its “spring” lamb; but mutton 
is in a different class, and the only thing 
necessary to increase home production of 
this excellent but cheaper meat is a cur¬ 
tailment of tho dog crop. 
A cargo of Australian wool, the largest 
ever received at San Francisco, arrived 
January 4. There were 1,800 bales, val¬ 
ued at $100,000. 
New York harbor received 9,654 ves¬ 
sels^ from foreign countries last year, 
2,664 being sailing craft. From our own 
coast there were 2.693 steamers and 
2,195 sail, mainly schooners. 
_ There were 16.000 failures in commer¬ 
cial business reported in this country dur¬ 
ing 1913. totaling $272,500,000. which is 
considerably above a normal year. New 
York State made the most disastrous 
showing. 2.728 failures, with liabilities 
of $72,800,000, or $22,000,000 in excess 
of 1912. Illinois came next, with 1,081 
failures for $20,500,000. 
Fall River, Mass., textile concerns 
have had an unusually prosperous year, 
dividends totaling $2,075,452 having been 
paid by 32 corporations reporting. This 
js an interest rate of 7.1 per cent on the 
capital, and 2.85 per cent more than in 
1912. An increase-of nearly 40,000 spin¬ 
dles is noted in these mills. w. w. II. 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Jan. 9, 1914. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, extra, lb. 34 a 35 
Good to Choice . 2S a 32 
Lower Grades. 22 @ 26 
Storage . 22 @ 33 
State Dairy, best. 31 @ 33 
Common to Good. 22 @ 30 
Factory . IS @ & 
Packing Stock. 17 @ 30 
Elgin, Ill., butter market firm at 35 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 36 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Wholfc Milk, best. 
Common to Good . 
<2 16 
(7k in 
Skims. 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy, large. 
Common to good .. 
Mixed colors, best. 
Common to good. 
Storage, best... 
... 34 
@ 40 
@ 37 
@ 55 
@ 33 
@ 30 
@ 26 
@ 29 
Medium and low grades . 
European, fresh. 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Spitzenburg, bbl. 
Spy. 
@ 4 50 
@ 4 50 
@ 5 00 
King. 
Hubbardston. 
Greening ... 
York Imperial. 
@ 4 75 
@ 5 00 
Western, box. 
Pears—KietTer, bbl. 
@ 5 25 
@2 75 
@ 3 75 
@14 00 
@13 00 
Cranberries. Cape Cod, bbl. 
Long Island, bbl. 
Jersey, bbl. 
... 900 
Jersey, crate . 
Strawberries. Fla., qt. 
... 2 50 
. . 35 
@300 
@050 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium . 
... 4 75 
@ 5 30 
Red Kidney. 
White Kidney. 
... 5 15 
@ 5 25 
@ 5 S5 
@4 70 
@6 00 
@ 4* 
Yellow Eye . 
Lima, California. 
... 4 65 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 
Common to good. 
Pacific Coast . 
@ 44 
@ 37 
@ IS 
Old stock.. 
German crop. 
@ 72 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 
Maine, 180 lbs. 
@3 00 
@2 60 
@2 50 
« 1 90 
@ 4 75 
State, bulk. ISO lbs. 
European, 168 lb. bag. 
Bermuda, bbl, . 
... 225 
... 1 65 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Artichokes, doz. 2 00 @3 50 
Beets, bbl. 1 50 @ 1 75 
Brussel sprouts, qt. 4 @ 14 
Carrots, bbl. 2 00 @2 25 
Cucumbers, bu. 2 00 @ 3 50 
Cabbage. Danish seed, ton.27 00 @30 00 
Red ..27 00 @31 00 
Imported .23 00 @26 00 
Celery, doz. 25 @ 75 
Cauliflower, bbl. 2 00 @5 00 
Kale, bbl. 50 @ 60 
Lettuce, balf-bbl. basket. 75 @ 1 50 
Onions—White bu. . . 1 50 @2 35 
Red. 100 lb bag ... 1 75 @ 2 15 
Okra, bu. 2 00 @ 2 50 
Peppers. Southern, bu. 1 25 @3 50 
Peas.Southern, bn. 2 00 @610 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 1 00 @ 1 50 
Shallots, bbl. 2 00 @ 4 00 
Salsify. 100 bunches . 5 00 @6 00 
Spinach, bbl. 75 @ 1 00 
8tring Beans, bu. 1 50 @ 4 50 
Squash. Marrow, bbl. 2 00 @2 25 
Hubbard, bbl. 2 00 @ 2 50 
New, bu. 100 @ 2 00 
Egg Plants. Southern, bu. 2 50 @ 3 75 
Tomatoes. Southern, 6 bkt. crate .... 2 00 @2 75 
Turnips, white, bbl. 1 25 @ 1 50 
Rutabaga . 75 @ 1 15 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Cucumbers. No. 1, doz. 1 00 @ 1 25 
No. 2. box. 4 00 @ 4 50 
Mushrooms, lb. 10 @ 25 
Radishes. 100 bunches. 2 00 @ 3 00 
Tomatoes, lb. 20 @ 25 
.LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, Droners lb. 15 @ 16 
Fowls . 15 @ 1514 
Roosters. 11 @ 12 
Ducks. 16 @ 18 
Geese. 13 @ 15 
Guineas, pair. 60 @ 65 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 23 @ 24 
Common to good. 16 © 20 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 26 @ 28 
Broilers, common to good . 21 @ 24 
Roasters, fancv. 23 @ 24 
Fowls. 14 @ 18 
Ducks. 10 @ 17 
Geese . 14 @ 17 
Squabs, doz...! 100 @5 50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton .20 oO @21 00 
Standard.19 50 @20 00 
No. 2.18 00 @19 00 
No. 3 .15 00 @17 00 
Clover mixed.13 00 @18 50 
Straw. Rye .15 00 @17 U0 
Oat.10 00 @11 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 6 25 @ 6 35 
Bulls. 5 00 @ 7 40 
Cows. 3 00 @ 6 60 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 9 00 @13 00 
Culls.. 4 00 @ 8 00 
Sbeep, 100 lbs. 3 50 @ 5 35 
Lambs . 7 00 @ 8 50 
Hogs. 8 00 @ S 80 
U/IAI/M Send for 1911 samples to the wall-papkiUs, 
riUR-VVIlsIY WELLER BROS . Scotch Plains, N. J 
Farm Hands and Laborers Supplied Free 
Wa haTe many men anxious to learn farm work. 
C. K. Blatchly, United Charities Bldg , 105 E.22d St , N.Y. City 
in a Sprayer is a machine that will Spray Fruit 
Trees, Shade Trees, Potatoes. Vegetables. Any- 
thing. Everything. EVENLY. REGULARLY, THOR¬ 
OUGHLY and at MINIMUM TOTAL EXPENSE. 
That is just exactly what the 
Deyo Power Sprayer 
is, and we would like very much to send you 
right now a “DEYO” SPRAYER G00K which is fully 
illustrated and tells all about the famous 
Deyo Power Sprayer and Engines. 
DEYO-MACEY ENGINE COMPANY 
22 Washiugton St., Bl.NGHAMTOJi, X. Y. 
Riahanlsoi] Mfg. Co., Worcester, Mass. 
Kendall & Whitn.y, Portland, Slain* 
REAL SPRAYING MEANS 
MORE & BETTER FRUIT 
EVERY FARMER AND FRUIT GROWER 
Knows that he must spray to make money. That’s 
been proved often. It is a settled FACT. But the 
sprayer to buy? That is the question. We have 
been selling our engines and spray pumps to others 
who put them together, add a tank and then sell 
them under their name. Now we are coming direct 
to you with the EXCELSIOR. To buy the EXCELSIOR 
MEANS BUYING THE BEST. Send your address for proof. 
State size farm you have or what you are going to 
spray. Power for the farm or factory 1*2 to 600 H. 
P. Ask for the kind you are interested in. 
R. CONSOLIDATED GASOLINE ENGINE CO. 
202 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK CITY 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complying with several suggestions received 
recently, we open a department here to enable 
RURAL NEW-YORKER readers to supply each 
other’s wants. If you want to buy or sell or 
exchange, make it known here. This Rate will 
be 5 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
name and address must be counted as part of 
the advertisement. Copy must reach us not 
later than Friday to appear in the following 
week. No display type used, and only Farm 
Products, Help and Positions Wanted admitted. 
For subscribers only. Dealers, jobbers and gen¬ 
eral manufacturers’ announcements not admitted 
here. Poultry, Eggs and other live stock adver¬ 
tisements will go under proper headings on other 
pages. 
WANTED—Position as manger of farm: Ameri¬ 
can: married, age 28: temperate: references 
furnished. Address WM. BAIRD, Silver Creek, 
N. Y. 
WANTED—A position on farm, care of horses 
preferred: understands painting; or would 
take a position in country store. BOX 197. 
Wald wick, N. J. 
AMERICAN, 21. desires position on Single Comb 
White Leghorn farm as manager or assistant 
manager: former experience on large farm. 
Address A. B. C., Danbury, Conn. 
YOUNG AMERICAN—Married, one child; strong. 
intelligent, wishes position on up-to-date farm 
or estate; some experience. Address A., care of 
It. N. Y., 333 West 30th St., New York. 
COMPETENT FARMER—Married, desires pos ; - 
tion as manger: understanding all about fruit 
culture, also poultry business; reference. Ad¬ 
dress W. FARMER, Catskill, N. Y. 
WANTED—A position on poultry and fruit farm 
by young man: strictly temperate: agricul 
tural college training and experienced; best of 
references. Apply RAYMOND G. PAINE, Delhi, 
N. Y. 
POULTRY—Single man desires position of trust 
on poultry plant; 10 years’ practical experi¬ 
ence: agricultural college training; knowledge 
of apple growdng; references: state wages. Ad¬ 
dress BOX M, care R. N.- 333 West 30th St., 
New York. 
POSITION WANTED as superintendent private 
estate: married: 35 years; sober, industrious; 
understands horses, game, etc.: well educated, 
versatile and good executive ability; highly 
recommended. Apply CAVANAGH, 270 West 
43rd St., New York City. 
WANTED—Position as farm manager, superin¬ 
tendent: married; 38 years; practical life ex¬ 
perience; all branches of farming, gardening, 
fruit growing, dairying: first-class executive 
ability: strictly sober, honest, reliable; refer¬ 
ences: state salary. Address RELIABLE, care 
U. N. Y., 333 West 30th St., New York. 
OT'R GRADUATES will be ready to accept posi¬ 
tions as dairymen, ponltr.vmen. horticulturists 
and general farm help on March 1st, 1914. Ap¬ 
plications will be considered in the order re¬ 
ceived. Address BARON DE HIUSCH AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL SCHOOL. Woodbine, N. J., Dept. B. 
WANTED—Working manager for 100-acre farm, 
Dutchess County; fruit, vegetables, poultry: 
must be experienced; state terms expected; 
single man preferred. Address C. M., care of 
R. N. Y., 333 West 30th St.. New York. 
FRUIT TREES trimmed by practical fruit grow¬ 
er and largest peach producer of Bergen 
County, N. J.: special rates for winter con¬ 
tracts. H. W. COBB, Gleti Rock Fruit Farms, 
Ridgewood, N. J. 
WANTED—Two good milch goats. Address 
A. S. TILMAN, 128 S. Cass St., Wabash, Ind. 
WANTED—Responsible customers for strictly 
fresh white eggs. Write WILLIAM H. 
CRAFT, Northport, L. I. 
HANDSOME STRING HANDMADE BEADS— 
Lavender, red, pink and buff; $1.50. MARY 
A. FELTHOUSE, Elkhart. Ind. 
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID for Low’s 
Champion Bush Bean Seed by F. H. HAYES, 
Dexter. Me. 
OYSTERS IN THE SHELL—Fresh from the 
beds; will exchange for apples, early seed 
potatoes or beans, or sell at reasonable price; 
will treat you right. WILLIAM LORD, East 
New Market, Md. 
FOR SALE—25-acre farm, good buildings, fer¬ 
tile Alfalfa soil, young fruit trees. Near 
railway town. JULIUS MILLS, Fillmore, N. Y. 
PEANUTS—From producer, delivered; peck, 40 
cents: sample quart, 6 cents; extra selected 
seed 15 cents quart. GEORGE E. WELLS, 
Roseland, N. C. 
FARM FOR SALE—225 Acres. Apply to owner, 
BOX 337, Emporia, Virginia. 
FOR SALE-—SO-Acre Farm, good buildings, large 
orchard, telephone, home markets. 80 miles 
from New York. FRANK FAULKNER, Mount 
Bethel, I’a. 
WANTED FARM—About 25 acres; Connecticut; 
small house, barn; near town; good neighbor¬ 
hood; about $2,000. BOX 66 , Millington, New 
Jersey. 
WANTED—Small farm, adapted to fruit and 
poultry near good markets; state full particu¬ 
lars with lowest price. J. II. G., care R. N.-Y.. 
333 West 30tb St.. New York. 
FARM FOR SALE—89 76/100 acres; good build¬ 
ings; fruit of all kinds; situated within six 
miles of the great manufacturing city of Canton. 
Ohio. A. J. KEEHN, R. F. D. No. 6 , Canton, 
Ohio. 
FOR SALE— 68 -Acre fruit farm. 3,000 pear 
trees of many varieties, from 2 to 10 years 
old. Yielded the last year over 2,400 baskets. 
Good farm borne and out-l>uildings. Call on or 
address REV. B. F. REAVE, East Quogue P. 
O., Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
CERTILE EflRMS— near Philadelphia—Mild climate, ex- 
• cellent markets, catalog. W. M. Stevens, Perkasie, Ra. 
$11,765BUYS 131 ACRES 
30 milo 8 from Buffalo, l a 4 from village: rolling, 
loam soil: no stones: 12 acres timber: abundance 
fruit: bldgs, worth $5,000. Including 27 choice Hol- 
steius, 3 horses, 2 sows, 70 hens, all fodder, sugaring 
tools, farming tools, latest milking machine Easy 
terms. Freelist. C. J. El. LIS, Springville. New York 
Best terms known to the nursery world.*Steady pay; 
cash weekly, exclusive territory , commission on mail 
orders. Big money made every day selling our exclusive 
specialty and all oar other hardy fruit trees, vines, etc. 
Satisfaction and profit from every tree. All the year 
around profitable and pleasant work. We pay freight 
deliver, collect. You can be our FRFF -rnpre FftR 
county manager if vou write today. _ rncc ,nccs run 
Let us fully explain our New Idea. TRAVELING EXPENSES 
MISSOURI NURSERY CO., Box 72, LOUISIANA. MGb 
