1914 , 
THIS RUKAI> NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, January 3, 1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Crops for Acid Soils.1, 2 
Farming; on Shares. 2 
Tho Use of Raw Rock Phosphate...2 
Fitting an Abandoned Old Meadow.. 3 
Questions About Asparagus.4 
More About Cover Crops. 4 
Handling the Sunflower Crop. 5 
Practical Methods of Draining. Part III.5 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 6 
Crops . 6 
Spring-sown Vetch and Oats...8 
An Experience with Sulphur.10 
Top-dressing with Limestone. 11 
Hope Farm Notes. 12 
Potatoes Running Out.13 
Pollenization of Corn. 13 
An Agricultural Expedition to Brazil.13 
Sulphur as a Fertilizer.15 
Foreign Crops. 15 
Canadian Crops.15 
A Round Barn. 23 
HORTICULTURE. 
Packing Boxed Apples. 3 
Crops for a Young Orchard. 3 
Piping a Greenhouse. 4 
Railroad Worm in Apples...... 5 
Propagating Shade Trees. 8 
American Pomological Society. Part III.9 
Filberts in Montana. 10 
Wayne Co., N. Y,, Fruit Matters.10 
Water Sprouts; Cherry Fruit Buds.11 
Globe Artichoke.11 
Use of Tobacco Stems.11 
Fruit Trees in Garden.11 
Dormant Spraying.11 
Remedy for Apple Canker.11 
Making a New Soil.11 
The Giant Amaryllis.13 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Getting Started with Mutton Sheep.20 
A Breeder’s Experience.20 
Slimy Milk Vessels.20 
Points for Tamworth Swine.21 
Record of Six Purebreds.21 
Why I Keep Jerseys.21 
Live Stock and Dairy Prices.21 
Selecting Hens as Breeders.22 
Criticizing a Henhouse.22 
Concrete Poultry House Floor.22 
Wyandottcs and White Eggs.22 
Large White-egg Fowls.22 
Rheumatism in Fowls.22 
Grade or Purebred Cattle.23 
Why Wc Keep Holsteins.24 
Ohio Holstein Breeders Meet...24 
Talks About Cows.24 
Garget . 24 
The Shepherd Dog.24 
Chicken Man’s Arithmetic. 25 
Mating Breeding Pens.25 
Hens with Intestinal Troubles.25 
Concentrates with Corn and Oats.26 
Milk Ration.26 
Ration for Cows and Heifers.26 
Stale Bread for Stock.26 
Cow Rations.26 
Live Stock Notes.T....26 
Gloucester Spotted Pigs.26 
Death of Sows.28 
Enteritis .28 
Stiffness . 28 
Cow Pox.23 
Loss of Calf.28 
Staggers .28 
Itching Skin.28 
Stringy Milk.28 
Feeding Old Horse.28 
Nasal Gleet.28 
The Egg-laying Contest.29 
Doves and Pea. Fowl. 29 
A Case of Limberneck. 29 
Vermin on Hens.29 
Heating a Brooding House.30 
Poultry Ration.30 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.18 
Heating Upstairs Room.18 
Lard Does Not Keep.18 
Trying Out Leaf Lard.!.. 18 
Old-fashioned Apple Dumpling.18 
The Rural Patterns.18 
Who Can Dress on $15 a Year.18 
A Candy Suggestion.’.18 
The Farm Well.[l 9 
Windows and Draperies.’i9 
Cream Recipes for Cakes and Icing. ’.19 
Pickled Carrots and Carrot Pie.19 
Candy Fondant the Children Can Make.19 
Keeping Cider Sweet.19 
Baked Apples.. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Events of the Week. 6 
Specific Performance of Contract.!'.!!!'. 8 
Cost of Heating Fixtures.10 
Editorials .14 15 
Publishers’ Desk... 30 
MARKETS 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week Ending Dec. 26, 1913. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, extra, lb. 36 @ 3T 
Good to Choice . 30 @ 34 
Lower Grades... 24 ® 27 
8 torage . 22 @ 32 
8 tate Dairy, best. 31 ® 33 
Common to Good. 22 @ 30 
Faotory. IS & 22 
Packing Stock. 17 jp 
Elgin. 111., butter market firm at 34 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 36 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Whole Milk, best. 16'^a 17 
Common to Good . 14 ® 15 
Skims. 05 d 10 
EGGS. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 40 @ 42 
Common to good .. 33 @ 37 
Mixed colors, best. 34 @ 35 
Common to good. 31 a 33 
Storage, best. 29 a 30 
Medium and low grades . 20 a 25 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Spitzenburg, bbl. 2 50 @ 4 00 
Jonathan. 2 50 a 6 00 
-'Spy. 2 50 @ 5 U0 
King. 3 00 @ 5 00 
Hubbardston. 200 @ 450 
—Greening . 2 00 a 4 50 
York Imperial. 3 50 ® 4 50 
Ben Davis. 2 25 @3 75 
-"Baldwin. 2 50 @4 50 
Western, box. 1 50 @2 85 
Pears—KielTer, bbl. 2 00 @3 50 
Seokel. bbl. 4 50 @ 6 50 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 8 60 @10 00 
Long Island, bbl. 7 00 @10 00 
Jersey, bbl. 7 00 @ 9 00 
Jersey, crate . 1 75 @ 2 00 
Strawberries, Fla., qt. 50 @ 0 75 
BEAN8. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4 80 @ 5 35 
Medium . 3 60 ® 3 65 
P ea . 3 35 @ 365 
Red Kidney. 5 10 @ 5 25 
White Kidney. 5 80 @5 85 
Yellow Eye . 4 70 @ 4 75 
Lima, California. 5 95 @6 00 
HONEY. 
Clover, comb, lb.13 @ 16 
Buokwhcat, lb... 12 @ .13 
Extracted, gallon. . 75 @ 1 00 
NUTS. 
Bhellbarks, bu. of 50 lbs. 1 75 @ 2 25 
Butternuts, bu. 50 @ 75 
Black walnuts, bu. 1 00 @ 1 25 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 45 @ 48 
Common to good. 40 @ 44 
Pacific Coast. 23 @ 27 
Old stock...... 15 @ 18 
German crop... 68 @ 72 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 2 25 @ 2 75 
Jersey, bbl. 1 75 @ 2 00 
Maine, 180 lbs. 2 00 @ 2 25 
State, bulk, 180 lbs. 2 00 @ 2 12 
European, 168 lb. bag. 1 08 @ 1 60 
Bermuda, bbl, . 3 00 @ 5 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Beets, bbl.1 25 @ 1 50 
Brussel sprouts, qt. 08 @ 15 
Carrots, bbl. ... 1 25 @150 
Cucumbers, bu... 2 00 @3 50 
Cabbage, Danish seed, ton.2.j 00 @26 00 
Red .30 ()0 @35 00 
Imported .22 00 @25 00 
Celery, doz. 25 @ 75 
Cauliflower, bbl. 150 @10 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 100 @2 00 
Onions—White bu. 1 50 @ 2 15 
Red. 100 lb bag . 1 50 @ 1 75 
Peppers. Southern, bu. 2 00 @ 4 50 
Peas. Southern, bu. 1 50 @5(0 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 75 @ 1 00 
Spinach, bbl. 50 @150 
String Beans, bu..•. 1 50 @ 4 50 
Squash. Marrow, bbl . 1 50 @ 1 75 
Hubbard, bbl. 1 75 @ 2 25 
New, bu. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Egg Plants. Southern, bu. 4 00 @ 5 00 
Tomatoes. Southern, 6 bkt. crate .... 2 00 @ 3 00 
Turnips, white, bbl. 1 25 @150 
Rutabaga . 75 @ 1 15 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. 
Mushrooms, lb. 
Tomatoes, lb. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
1 50 
@ 1 
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1 60 
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Roosters. 
Ducks. 
Geese. 
Guineas, pair. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fresh killed, best . 
Common to good. 16 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 
Broilers, common to good . 21 
Roasters, fancy. 
Geese .„ 
Squabs, doz.1 00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton . 19 50 @20 50 
Standard.18 50 @19 00 
No. 2.17 00 @13 00 
No. 3 .13 00 @16 00 
Clover mixed.13 00 @18 50 
Straw. Rye .17 00 @18 00 
Oat.1100 @12 00 
MILLFEED. 
Wheat Bran, ton.23 00 @25 50 
Middlings .26 00 @28 00 
Red Dog.29 00 @30 00 
Corn Meal.29 00 @30 00 
Linseed Meal.31 00 @31 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 7 40 @ 9 00 
Bulls. . 5 00 @7 25 
Cows. 3 00 @ 6 6' 
Calves, prime veal. 100 lbs. 8 00 @12 50 
Culls. 4 00 @ 7 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 50 @ 4 75 
Lambs . 7 25 @ 8 40 
Hogs. 7 00 @ 8 15 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, best. 16® 16J4 
Fair to good. 14@ 14 
Buttermilks. 0S@ 09 
Lambs, Hothouse, each . 6 00@ 7 00 
Heavy 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 
No. 2. Red . 
No. 2. Hard Winter.... 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 
Rye 
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RETAIL PRICKS AT NEW YORK. 
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. 50 @ 
Mixed colors, new laid. 40 @ 
Ordinary grades. 30 @ 
Butter, fancy prints, lb... 42 @ 
Tub, choice. 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 
Fowls 
32 @ 
30 
22 
Turkeys. 26 @ 
BOSTON WHOLESALE PRICES, 
52 
45 
35 
44 
36 
32 
25 
31 
Butter, nearby creamery. 36 
Western creamery . 34 
Eggs, nearby hennery. 45 
Gathered fresh. 40 
Dressed Poultry—Fowls. 19 
Roasters. 22 
Turkeys. 25 
Potatoes. 2 bu. bag.. 1 30 
Apples—Baldwin, bbl. 3 50 
Greening .2 00 
Spy . 3 00 
Hay-No. 1.21 00 
No. 2. 19 50 
No. 3.12 00 
Stock Hay.15 00 
Straw—Rye .18 50 
Millfeed—Bran, ton.25 75 
Middlings.26 00 
Mixed Feed.27 00 
Gluten .30 00 
Live Stock—Milch Cows.60 00 
Beof Cows, 100 lbs . 3 50 
Steers. 7 25 
v. alves. 100 lbs.5 00 
Hogs, 100 lbs. 8 00 
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Stocked Leg. 
About two months ago my horse got 
a small cut just above the hind hoof. 
The leg became badly swolleu to the 
body, and though the cut healed with 
proper treatment. The leg remains 
large, or in other terms it has resulted 
in a stocked leg. What can you advise. 
New York. j. l. l. 
Three times a day give the swollen leg 
a good hand rubbing; then wrap it in 
cotton batting and bandage snugly. At 
night rub with druggists’ soap liniment 
and bandage when dry. Make the horse 
take plenty of exercise every day and 
occupy a box stall when in the stable. 
A. S. A. 
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FULL COLONIES of Italian Bees for sale. 
CEDARIIURST FARM, Pomona, N. Y. 
$950 DOWN BUYS 110-ACRE FARM—Balance, 
$2,050; easy terms. BOX 91, Carmel, N. Y. 
WANTED—No. 7 or 9 Mann Bone Cutter; good 
condition; state price. HEDGES, Greenville, 
N. Y. 
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID for Low's 
Champion Bush Bean Seed by F. H. HAYES, 
Dexter, Me. 
WANTED-—Married man to work fruit farm on 
shares. Owner will furnish equipment. I. M. 
.PHILLIPS, Newark. Ohio. 
14 TONS ALFALFA, one-third orchard grass and 
Timothy for sale; $18.50 per ton. ERNEST 
V. BEACH, Orlskany Falls, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Fruit farm, 90 acres: a paying 
proposition and beautiful iiome. For particu¬ 
lars address BOX 03, It. R. No. 3, LaPlata, Mo. 
VIRGINIA FARM of 110 acres, 40 cleared but 
well timbered, 2Vk miles to depot. Apply for 
fuller particulars to OWNER, Lock Box 249, 
Louisa, Va. 
WANTED—Small farm, adapted to fruit and 
poultry near good markets; state full particu¬ 
lars with lowest price. J. H. G., care R. N.-Y., 
333 West 30th St., New York. 
WORKING FARMER. N. Y. STATE—General 
farming; beef cattle: no liquors; $45 per 
month; cottage, wood, garden. E. C. W., care 
K. N.-Y., 333 West 30th St.. New York. 
FOR SALE—10 tons hay, one-half or two-thirds 
Alfalfa, balance mostly orchard grass; all cut 
before June 20: large bales of good color and 
free from weeds. P. A. EDIC, Oriskany Falls, 
N. Y. 
WANT—at farmer’s price, good smooth farm on 
main road, within 100 miles of New York 
City. Must have bearing apple orchard of at 
least 10 acres. FLANAGAN, 82 Hull St., 
Brooklyn. 
MAPLE COVE FARM—Products to Consumers. 
5 lbs. butter, 6 lbs. chickens, 1 lb. honey. 2 lbs. 
carrots. 15 lbs. potatoes, 2 dozen eggs. Box $0. 
Shipped Thursdays, postpaid covering third zone. 
ROUTE 24, Athens, Pa. 
FOR SALE—70-aere farm in potato belt, all 
clear; ten-room house, both hot and cold 
water, steam heat; 214 miles to depot; church; 
V. mile to school. OWNER, R. F. D. No. 5, 
Box 454, Freehold, N. J. 
FOR SALE—One Simplex Colony Oil Brooder 
for want of further use. at half price. $14.50: 
practically new: in use only two months; also 
some line breeding cockerel. Young’s strain, $1 
each. WILLIAM LERCH, Scobeyville, N. J. 
POULTRY—Single man desires position of trust 
on poultry plant: 10 years’ practical experi¬ 
ence; agricultural college training: knowledge 
of apple growing: references: state wages. Ad¬ 
dress. BOX M, It. N.-Y., 333 West 30th St., 
New York. 
100 ACRES—Suitably divided, machine mowing, 
clear tillage; keep 30 head; sightly 10-mile 
view; maple shade, orchard, running water; 
house, barns, silo; near station: exceptional op¬ 
portunity. M. C. MULLANE, Hawleyville, 
Connecticut. 
WANTED—Farm adapted for fruit and truck¬ 
ing. 15 to 30 acres, some woodland and brook, 
on highway about 3 miles from a depot, within 
easy distance of good market; Connecticut pre¬ 
ferred. Address, II. J. SMITH, Rosemary Farm, 
Huntington, N. Y. 
200-ACRE FARM—Keep 35 cows, good cultiva¬ 
tion, near village: sugar bush, 1.500; pine, 
hemlock, timber; good buildings; never-failing 
spring water to buildings; variety fruit: con¬ 
sider exchange for smaller place. M. E. ELLS¬ 
WORTH, Bellows Falls. Yt. 
OUR GRADUATES will he ready to accept posi¬ 
tions as dairymen, poultrymen, horticulturists 
and general farm help on March 1st, 1914. Ap¬ 
plications will be considered in the order re¬ 
ceived. Address BARON DIO HlltSClI AC.RI 
CULTURAL SCHOOL. Woodbine. N. ,T.. Dept. B . 
WANTED HERDSMAN—Must be single, indus¬ 
trious, business-like, courteous, neat in per¬ 
son and about his work, and of good personal 
habits. Applicants give experience, references 
and full details concerning themselves, and state 
compensation expected, including board, lodging, 
etc. GEO. O. SEDGWICK. Superintendent Man¬ 
sion Farm, Foxburg I’a. 
FOR SALE—Two first-class homes and money¬ 
making Warren County Ohio farms. "Settle 
Down,” 51 1-5 acres level productive clay soil at 
$90. “Hill Dale View.” 148 acres bottom, up¬ 
land and blue-grass hills: opposite village sta¬ 
tion. For stock or dairy unsurpassed; finest 
location, at $75; easy terms. JOE S. KERSEY, 
Owner, R. F. D. 1, Oregonia, Ohio. 
WANTED—Position as superintendent on gent¬ 
leman's private estate: married; age 3(1; 
thoroughly experienced in all branches of in¬ 
tensified farming, gardening and dairying: land¬ 
scape and construction work: breeding and rais¬ 
ing of all registered stock ror show or dairy re¬ 
sults: have first-class executive ability; loca¬ 
tion immaterial. Address, with particulars, to 
SUPERINTENDENT, Belmont Farm. Perrys- 
burg, Ohio. 
117%-ACRE YORK STATE DAIRY FARM— 
$5,400; $1,900 cash, balance easy terms; brand 
new 10-room house, finished oak and cherry; 
natural water and sink in kitchen: new cement 
basement; barn stanchion. 20 cows; hay track: 
plenty other good buildings; enough split wood 
for two years: $500 worth new heavy oak furni¬ 
ture; all tools, machinery, etc: 3(7 miles to 
city and railroad. Address N. L. H., care R. 
N.-Y.. 333 West 30th St., New York._ 
FARM—One of the best grain and stock farms 
in Central New York, <>r 121 acres; 11-room 
house: 3 large barns and a number of out¬ 
buildings. Buildings alone worth price asked 
for farm. Has a large number of fruit trees; 
accommodates 25 cows; soil adapted to all 
crops; running water from springs, and an 
artesian well. Throe miles from Dryden; three 
miles from two railroads; six miles from Cort¬ 
land, county seat of Cortland County; school 
half a mile distant. Price, $6,000; terms half 
cash; balance on mortgage at 5 per cent. Ad¬ 
dress, FRANK GIVENS. Dryden, N. T 
SPRAYER 
for Gardens. 
Estate s. Pa rks.etc. 
20 gallon, one man outfit, mounted, 100 lbs. pressure. 
Brass pump, easily taken out of the barrel. No corrosion. 
Ball valves, wick packing, easily got at. One of 70 
M /V FT Bucket, Knapsack, Bar- 
IRON AGE 
Something suitable for each man — 
from poultry house and small g; 
den, or a few home bushes, to 
the big or¬ 
chard and 
field crops. 
Unit Sprayers 
that can be built up 
to your growingnee 
Ask your dealer to show 
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Farm aDd Garden News. 
BATEMAN ^’F’G CO. 
Box 10JIB 
Grenloch, N. J. 
THE NEW HANDY FARMER’S 
KNIFE AND TOOL KIT 
It Carries Four Distinct Blades: 
A large regular cutting blade; a Lock- 
Screw-driver Blade; a Belt Punch Blade 
that can be used for boring holes in leath¬ 
er, any size to one-half inch in diameter; 
the Hook Blade for cleaning horses’ 
hoofs, and to clean out borers from fruit 
trees or removing Cotter pins from auto¬ 
mobiles and other machinery. The little 
wrench fits the nut on a Prest-o-Lite auto¬ 
mobile light or any small nut. 
In fact this handy article can he used 
for hundreds of purposes. The blades are 
of S. & G. Wardlow’s nighest grade bar 
steel, hand forged and hand ground; 
tempered by an expert process. Every 
blade is thoroughly tested. The lining is 
of brass and holsters of highly polished 
steel. The handle is neat and attractive. 
The whole is just the size of a good jack¬ 
knife (exact size of picture), and so con¬ 
structed that when the blades are closed 
the knife will not catch and tear the 
pocket. 
One of Our Friends Writes: 
“This is a great farm knife. We have 
carried one for months. Not long ago the 
horse began to limp. We found a small 
stone wedged in against the shoe. No 
pulling or pounding could release it. but 
a quick jerk with the little hook and the 
stone was out. Who has not been caught 
far away from a screw-driver with a 
screw working loose? What do you care 
when right in your pocket you have the 
strong little short blade here shown? We 
will guarantee you have had a strap 
break on the road and had to cut a new 
hole with your knife. The grooved blade 
permits you to make just the hole you 
want without damage to the leather or 
to cold fingers. Then the short strong 
cutting blade will do anything which a 
pocket edge should do. The Roman sol¬ 
diers conquered the world with their short 
swords because these blades brought them 
right up to business. It is just the same 
with this short blade. There is power 
and edge to it. In fact this is a perfect 
workshop good for any farmer.” 
It is a whole Tool Kit embodied in, 
and taking up. the size of a jackknife. 
Bear in mind that these blades are fast¬ 
ened to and are a part of the knife. You 
cannot lose the blades as is the case with 
similar tool kits. 
Would Make a Splendid Present. 
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These articles are not given with a 
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of cash, for extending the subscription 
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