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THC RURAL NEW-VORKER 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
The Winter has been very changeable 
iu this section, temperature as high as 
75 degrees and down to four below zero. 
There are many sales of farm stock. 
Farmers are still well supplied with 
corn and hay. Not many of the best 
breeds of cows are kept. What they call 
good cows bring from $50 to $75. Hay, 
Timothy, $15 to $17 per ton; potatoes, 
70; dressed chickens, 17; live. 14; eggs, 
30; milk, $1.80 per 100 pounds; calves, 
10; hogs, 11. This is quite a tobacco 
country, and the acreage is nearly that of 
wheat. Prices good, 8% cents. Many 
silos; some are raising good stock of 
calves. Good farm horses, $95 to $225. 
Not many raising Alfalfa, but are talk¬ 
ing and inquiring about it; beginning 
to use lime, and are asking about the 
burned lime and the ground limestone. 
Some very good roads, but many very 
bad. Not many farms for sale. Farmers 
are talking and seem vO be interested in 
up-to-date agricultural matters. 
FARM ENGINEERING. 
Kinks in a Rope 
Will someone tell me how to treat 
a new hay-carrier rope so it will not kink 
and will give the best service? c. m. w. 
Winterton, N. Y. 
This was discussed two years ago at 
some length iu The It. N.-Y. Several 
persons advised boiling the rope hard for 
half an hour, which they said would pre¬ 
vent the kinking. Others suggested coil¬ 
ing the rope to the left, then putting the 
end down through the coil and coiling 
again to the right. In other cases the 
advice was to pull the rope out first on 
the carrier with the horses turning to 
the left, and then to change them a few 
times with a turn to the right. In this 
way it is said the kinks will be straight¬ 
ened out. 
. the 
pipes 
Can 
s. 
II oney Brook, Pa. 
T. II. G. 
At a sale recently, young horses 
brought $150 to $193, western horses 
$150 to $250 or more. Fresh cows bring 
$60_to $125; pigs $7 a pair. Corn G5 
to 71; oats 45 to 57 for 32 pounds; 
wheat 95; potatoes 80; butter 31 cents 
wholesale. 34 retail; eggs 35. Chickens, 
live, wholesale. 14 to 10%, wholesale 
dressed 10 to 18; retail 20 to 22 dressed. 
Hogs dressed $11 cwt; fat good cows. $0 ; 
bulls $7; steers $8 cwt. Loose hay $10 
to $15, bale $12 to $17. Bran' $29, 
gluten $32; wheat middlings $31: oil 
meal $30. Apples have been nearly a 
failure the last two years. w. n. h. s. 
Doylestown, Pa. 
Butter 32; milk 10 cents per gallon. 
Milk seven cents to family trade. Cows 
from $00 to $120; calves 10% cents per 
pound live weight; heifers $40 to $50, 
yearlings; fat beef 8 to 8% cents, 
live weight; grade stock bulls, yearl¬ 
ings. from $25 to $40. Pork 10 
cents dressed. Good draft horses 
from $250 to $275. Apples 50 cents per 
basket; cranberries 20 cents a quart; 
celery three to eight cents a stalk. Cel- 
irts 25 cents a bunch. White po- 
80; eggs 34, strictly fresh. Onions 
per bushel; lettuce 10 cents per 
cabbage five to seven cents per 
sweet peppers two for five cents; 
carrots five cents per box; turnips 00 
cents per peck: chickens 18 cents, live 
90 to 93; rye 75; corn 
per ton $17; oats 45: 
$1.35 per cwt.; middlings 
rye middlings $1.30; mixed 
$1.40 to $1.70; corn chop 
Dissolving Pitch ; Freezing Pipes 
1 . 
I have two barrels of pine pitch; 
I would like to use it as a shingle dip. 
Can you tell me of anything that would 
make it in a liquid form, so that it. would 
not get hard when cold? I tried coal 
tar. I could not keep it mixed, the pitch 
would get hard in a few minutes and 
sink to the bottom. 2. I have cold and 
hot water in my house. In a verv cold 
night the hot water pipes freeze 
cold water never freezes. Both 
are protected from the cold alike, 
you explain the reason? a. 
Nova Scotia. 
1. Spirits of turpentine, coal tar 
naphtha or benzine should act as a sol¬ 
vent for pitch. I would recommend try¬ 
ing the benzine. 2. We have never seen 
this explained. There may be several 
explanations. In the first place the hot 
water is under less direct pressure than 
the cold, as will be seen by comparing 
the force of the streams when the taps 
are opened. This would allow it to freeze 
sooner. Secondly, the hot water is con¬ 
stantly in gentle motion due to convec¬ 
tion currents, while the cold water is 
practically quiet. Hence the hot water 
would freeze sooner. Thirdly, much of 
the air in the hot water has escaped, 
thus facilitating the freezing process. 
R. P. C. 
Preventing Frost on Glass. 
What can I put on glass in a covered 
wagon to keep the frost off? On cold 
mornings the frost gets so thick that it 
is almost impossible to see out. I scrape 
it off and then it freezes over again. I 
carry a lantern inside, but it does not 
help much. c. P. 
Geneva, Ohio. 
Heat inside will not help much un¬ 
less it is sufficient to keep the glass dry. 
February 2N, 
Ventilation below tin* window, allowing' 
cold air from the outside to rise over 
the surface of the window on the inside, 
will help, but better than that, a mix¬ 
ture made in the proportion of one ounce 
of glycerine to one pint of alcohol when 
smeared over the glass will prevent both 
steaming and freezing or sweating either. 
If desired, a little oil of amber can be 
added to improve the odor. it. p. c. 
Pumping Problems. 
I have a couple of problems to solve, 
and would like a little help with them. 
I. IIow large should I make an open V- 
shaped trough to convey water to my 
garden, at the maximum rate of 90 gal¬ 
lons per minute on a grade of three- 
sixteenths-inch to the 
is it practicable to 
pitcher pump, at this 
of water in well is 3,' 
level, according to U. 
vey. 
Helena, Mont 
1. If the angle between the boards 
forming the Y-shaped trough is a right 
angle, a trough with inside length of 
each side of the V equal to 10% inches 
will supply 90 gallons per minute when 
running full under the conditions you 
mention, provided plank is used for the 
trough. If planed wood is used, the sides 
need be but 10 inches. 2. A pitcher 
pump in good condition ought to lift 
water 20 feet up there. r. p. c. 
rod? 2. flow high 
lift water with a 
altitude? Surface 
.049 feet above sea 
S. Geological Sur- 
C. II. j. 
ery he 
tatoes 
$1.25 
head ; 
head; 
weight. Wheat 
70; corn ears, 
bran 
$1.50; 
feed 
$1.40; gluten feed $1.55; oil meal $1.90; 
cottonseed meal $1.80; flour, best pat¬ 
ent. $2.00 per cwt.; pastry flour $2.30 
per cwt. Hay, (Timothy and clover), 
mixed $18 per ton. The prospects for 
the coming harvest are not very good, 
as the ground is bare and the tempera¬ 
ture some days is very warm and then 
cold again. The ground had all 
frost out a few days ago, but at 
writing it is frozen all over again, 
had very little snow this Winter so 
Northampton Co., Pa. E. j. 
Horses will range from $150 to $225 
as to quality; cows $80 to $100; veal 
calves 9% cents per pound; fat cattle 
seven cents; heifer 800 to 1000 pounds, 
about 0%; hogs from seven to 8%. as 
to size; sheep. Spring lambs, $0.85 per 
hundred; western, about $5; ewes, about 
$4.50. Wheat 92; oats, about 36; corn 
65; rye 80: Timothy seed $2.50 per 
bushel; clover $7.50; hay, No. 1 Timothy 
$13 No. 2, $11 ; No. 2, clover. $1—50; rye 
straw $7; wheat straw $6; butter 20; 
eggs 25; chickens 14 ; gees 13; turkeys 
18. Potatoes SO; apples $1.25; onions 
$2 to $2.25. E. c. B. 
Danville, O. 
The peach and apple buds are quite 
some size, another week as moderate as 
the past two weeks and lots of the buds 
would have opened. But at this writ¬ 
ing, February 8, the thermometer regis¬ 
ters 32 and last night 24. The cold snap 
started February 0, with a cold 
rain and snowed through the night and 
part of the morning, then rained and 
cleared off cold. There is quite a lot of 
speculation regarding the crop of peaches 
and apples among the growers, j. w. K. 
Magnolia, Del. 
New corn has sold as high as 03 cents 
here, and as low as 53 cents since husk¬ 
ing. Oats, 33 to 37 since thrashing. We 
in Iowa are short of an average crop, 
of corn ; 30% oats ; about an average crop. 
Winter wheat better than average, but 
not as large as 1912, when some wheat 
went higher than 50 bushels per acre. 
Land here sells from $175 to $225 per 
acre, so you see we have to raise some 
crop to pay any dividends on investments. 
Waukee, Iowa. u. s. s. 
We have had genuine Winter weather 
for the week past; mercury has been at 
zero most of the time, but reached 20 
deg. below' one night. Snow is about six- 
inches in depth where the wind has not 
moved it. A few' are hauling logs and 
wood to town. Considerable hay re¬ 
mains unsold. Stack hay brings $8 and 
barn hay $10 per ton at the farm. Cows 
coming fresh bring $50 to $75 each. The 
ice companies around Chautauqua Lake 
are conducting the ice harvesting at the 
full limit. p. s. s. 
Mayville, N. Y. 
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