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THE RUR..A.I> NEW-YORKER 
4-‘3 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Wholesale milk prices are unchanged, 
the storm having held up supplies so 
that the expected one-fourth cent drop 
has not taken place. A large amount of 
business is covered by .$1.81 to $1.71. 
Restaurants using one to two cans pay 
five cents per quart. 
* 
The slight advance noted in butter 
prices is the result of the snow blockade 
rather than brisk trade. Business is dull 
except in the top grades of fresh and 
storage creamery, the latter going mainly 
at 29 to 30 cents, and current receipts 
about two cents more. Very little State 
dairy good enough to bring the top 
price, 31 cents. 
* 
The egg market is very unsettled. 
There are plenty of eggs on the way, 
and it is probable that prices will drop 
too or three cents within a short time, 
settling at 30 to 32 for fair to choice 
white and under 30 for brown. Duck 
eggs are unusually high, whites bringing 
40 to 42 cents. Buyers formerly preju¬ 
diced against duck eggs because of their 
more or less strong, fishy taste, find that 
the eggs produced under present condi¬ 
tions, where the birds are not allowed 
access to ponds and mudholes, have no 
disagreeable flavor. 
* 
The value of the 1913 California grape 
crop was $2G,S75,000, divided as follows: 
Raisins. $4,875,000; table grapes, $7,- 
000,000; wine, $15,000,000. 
* 
The cut of logs in Maine will be one- 
third larger than last year. It is ex¬ 
pected that the cut on Moose River will 
be 58,050,000 feet; Dead River, 30,295,- 
000; East Branch and Main Kennebec, 
40.945,000. 
* 
Last year Arizona produced about 
2,000 bales of long staple cotton. Part 
of it has been sold in London at 23^4 
cents, spinners finding it equal in qual¬ 
ity to the Egyptian cotton of this type. 
* 
Business w T as active at the London 
wool sales, opening March 3, many 
American buyers being present. Some 
of the prices were: New England, 
scoured, 24 to 28; greasy, 10 to 24; 
South and West Australia, greasy, 10 to 
25; Cape of Good Hope, greasy, 15 to 
21. Montana leads all wool-producing 
States in this country, having 4,500,000 
sheep, yielding 31,500,000 pounds, worth 
about $5,477,850. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Butter is again the cheap article. It 
retails at 30 to 35 cents for good grades, 
the highest quotation to the retailer 
being 33 cents. It is crowding oleo¬ 
margarine pretty hard of late, as that 
comes out into the open when it has to 
and retails in packages at 25 cents. Eggs 
are a trifle cheaper than butter, dozen 
for pound, not usually getting up to 35 
cents, the retail price running all the 
way up from 29 cents. The farmer is 
selling potatoes for 00 cents a bushel. 
They are worth about 70 cents when 
they reach the city; the retailer pays 
80 cents for them and the consumer 90 
cents. The city markets are overcrowd¬ 
ed with bananas and the citrus fruits. 
This trade was formerly left almost en¬ 
tirely to the Italians, but they seldom 
deliver their sales, so the buyer had a 
way of turning such fruits over to the 
other dealers to deliver with home prod¬ 
uce bought. At last the home dealer 
grew tired of this plan and put in the 
Southern fruits also. The prices asked 
are generally a little higher than at the 
Italian stands. Bananas continue to go 
down, good sound ones now being offered 
at 8 cents a dozen, with the maximum 
price 12 cents. Grape fruit is a' little 
higher, three for 25 cents, commonly, 
with extra large 10 cents each. There 
is no change in country produce prices, 
so that when Florida stuff gets here in 
volume there may even be a small de¬ 
cline. Beets are plenty at eight cents 
a bunch; carrots and vegetable oyster, 
five cents; parsnips, 10 cents a two- 
quart measure; string beans, 25 cents 
a quart (pound). Spanish onions are 
five cents each; big yellow turnips same. 
Celery is in better condition than dur¬ 
ing the mild weather, and sells at live 
cents a large stalk or 10 cents for three 
small ones. Cabbage is high, 8 to 10 
cents for small heads. Rochester is send¬ 
ing us hothouse tomatoes at 25 cents a 
pound and lettuce at five cents a head. 
Apples are high, running to $0 for best 
red and $5 for green to the retailer, 
who seldom sells any good grade for less 
than $2 a bushel. There are a good 
many Western apples on sale by the 
small measure, but prices are not so 
high accordingly as our own. 
JOHN W. CHAMBERLIN. 
Good horses and mules, from $75 to 
$150; milch cows, $40 to $75; year-old 
steers and heifers, $25 to $30; veal calves, 
$10 to $15; hogs, per ewt., $8 to $9; 
butter 25 to 30; butter fat 30; eggs 25; 
poultry, from 0 to 7 cents; hay, from 
$10 to $25 per ton; ear corn 75c. to $1 
per bushel; wheat 90e. to $1 ; oats 50 
to 00 cents; mill feed $1.50 per hun¬ 
dred. Apples $1.50 per bushel; potatoes 
$1; clover seed $8 to $10 per bushel; 
straw $8 to $10 per ton. Feed getting 
mighty scarce and hard to got, and 
prices still advancing. a. h. 
Dixon, Mo. 
Calves $10 to $15; one-year-old, $15 to 
$20; two-year-old and over, $20 to $30; 
Milch cows (grade) ($50 to $75; butter, 
dairy, 28 to 30 cents; creamery, 32; po¬ 
tatoes, 50; wheat 90; oats 45; rye 70; 
barley 05; hay, loose, $13; baled hay, 
$16; eggs 30. e. k. ii. 
Ellsworth, Mich. 
Snow <ame on a few days before 
Christmas, and it has been good sleigh¬ 
ing ever since; a fine Winter for busi¬ 
ness. There are many portable sawmills 
running in the country towns, the lum¬ 
ber being shipped by rail to Boston 
mostly, although some is used in the 
State. Dairying is booming; a new 
creamery has just been opened at Wis- 
casset, and another receiving station 
will begin operations soon at Freedom 
village. Many cow-testing associations 
are being formed. Price paid by cream¬ 
eries is 38 to 40 cents per pound for 
butter fat, and 45 cents per hundred for 
skim-milk. Most farmers are now sell¬ 
ing their milk. Howard L. Hurd, of 
Thorndike, received $70.99 for the milk of 
three Holstein cows for the month of 
December. Milk was sold to D. -Whit¬ 
ing & Co.’s local creamery. Cows range 
in price from $35 to $125. Potatoes 
00 cents; butter 30; eggs 30; corn 
$1.05; bran $1.40; coctous' -d meal $1.75 
at local stores. Cattle are wintering 
well; the hay is of very nice quality. 
Grass was about two weeks later than 
common years last Summer. Most farm¬ 
ers begun about the same time as ever, 
consequently they secured the hay in a 
greener condition than usual. There are 
complaints that hens are not iaying many 
eggs. Veal calves are in good demand; 
some skim-milk calves 10 weeks old have 
been sold to local dealers at from $12 
to $15. There seems to be a great de¬ 
crease in the number of swine on the 
farms, although pork brings nearly twice 
as much as it did in those years when 
every farmer had hogs to sell. Very 
few cattle aie being raised for beef. 
Farmers are keeping all the cqttle they 
can feed, but they are mostly cows and 
heifers. Beef is very high in price, but 
still farmers think that dairying pays 
best. Large quantities of Western grain 
are being bought and consumed on the 
farms. Porter & Cooper are running a 
portable sawmill in the town of Mont- 
ville. For teaming, hauling logs, sup¬ 
plies, etc., they use oxen, having 10 
pairs of large Whitefaces. They say 
they beat horses in cost of operations. 
Thorndike, Me. R. W. H. 
Live cattle, five to 0 cents per pound; 
choice, seven cents. Dairy cows, choice, 
$50 to $70; live hogs, $8.25 per 100, 
fat; lowest price cost, Fall $7; sheep 
three to six cents per pound. Clover 
seed, $8 per bushel. Apples last Fall 
40 to 00 cents; $2 to $2.50 per barrel; 
pears $2 to $2.50 per barrel; peaches 
$1.50 to $2 and scarce. Average price 
last Summer for butter, about 25; eggs, 
20 cents. J. w. B. 
Eau Claire, Mich. 
MEHRING’S MILKER 
The first practical milker, and still in the lead. 
It milks 20 cows per hour. Write to 
W. H. MEH1UNG, Keymar, Maryland 
The FARMERS’ BUREAU 
agricultural help. Only first class farm help and positions solic¬ 
ited. References investigated. Scientific advice on farm prob¬ 
lems. Dept. R, 150 Nassau St., N. Y. Phono, 5565 Heckman 
DA.IHY CATTLE 
FOR PRODUCTION S^ SSsJTEii 
calves, only, from producing dams and highest type 
sires. R. F. SHANNON, 603 Renshaw Bldg., Pittsburgh. Pa 
Fosterfields Herd Registered Jerseys s F fl ° L E 
Cows, yearlings and two-year-old heifers. Also 
heifer calves, young bulls. Charles <*. Foster, 
F. O. IIox 173, Morristown, Morris Co., N. J 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves f f 0r o , Sa sV^u ' 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Cliittenango. N.Y. 
Holsteins $15 Eaclq«S; , T“^ I i* l 8 r^ 2 S: 
and express paid if ordered in lots of 5 or more. Also 
40 Registered females, 40 high-grade cows, 10 regis¬ 
tered bulls at farmer’s prices- REAGAN BROS., Tully, N.Y. 
Hnrebred Holsteins for nnv Pockcthook—Cows, $200-$l,000, ac 
I cording to blood. 2 bull calves 3 mo .,$80 ami $50. Heifers sold 
out. Mohagun Farm, Hudson Valley Holstein Headquarters, ( bus. 
ll.Baksr, Blohegan Lake, Peokskill, N. Y. 1 hr. from G.C.S.N. Y.C. 
East River Grade Holsteins for Sale 
50 Cows, just fresh, giving 40 to 50 lbs. per day. 
20 Cows, duo to calve this month and next. 
25 Cows, served to come fresh in August ntid September. 
If you are looking for dairy cows and large producers 
with good size and young, see these cows before buying 
elsewhere. WE TURKKCUL1NE TEST. 
Registered and grade bulls always on hand. 
JOHN B. WEBSTER 
Boll Phone 14 V. 5. Dept. Y. COHTLAXD, N. Y. 
n on se s 
Percheron Stallion-i^Cp^ 
tragood colt. J. j. Scarborough & Son, New Comers town, O 
PERCHERON STALLION 
Coming three years old, black, good bone, good act¬ 
ion, registered, for sale. EOGI'INE HAM, 
YERBANfi, Dutchess County, NEW YOKK 
SHETLAND P 0 WES 7 ?.*.V.iV. I .’, , 1 nfS 
Ponies, ten mares and two stallions for sale. Good 
money maker for man with cheap pasture. Address, 
J. H. JOHNSON, 1301 New England Building, Cleveland, Ohio 
Three Stallions for Sale 
One black Percheron coming four years; one gray 
Percheron coming three years; one bay Belgian 
coming four years. All properly recorded, sound 
and clean and guaranteed to be breeders. If 
your neighborhood needs a good stallion ac a rea¬ 
sonable price, write rue for description and prices. 
ALVIN O. TRACY, • Murietta. Ohio 
BERCHEKON STA I.I.IONS-Our hobby isqual- 
■ ity. Come and see them. S. Schoonnmkor, U&rdiu.r, Jt. J. 
40 Percheron Stallions and Mares 
$250 and up One Hambletoniau colt. We pay 
freight. A. A. PALMER, Belding, Michigan 
HEARTS DELIGHT FARM 
Wheat 89; rye 57; oats 37; beans, 
white, $1.00; red, $2.25; barley $1.25 
per cwt.; peas $1 bushe 1 'mckwheat 
$1.25 per cwt.; corn 30 cents basket of 
35 ears, llogs $8.10; cattle $5 to $0. 
Day $10 to $11.50 per ton. Butter, f. 
o. b., 28; milk at cheese factory $1.80. 
Fruit was all shipped out last Fall. Po¬ 
tatoes 45 cents and quite liberal supply 
in storage. E. F. B. 
Evart, Mich. 
Breeding for Egg Laying. 
Last Spring I bought seven hens and 
a male, the result of 32 years breeding 
of barnyard fowls. They are bred to lay 
and remain true to their type. How can 
I breed them and keep them up to their 
standard? L. n. K. 
Connecticut. 
You seem to have a flock of purebred 
mongrels that are making good and fur¬ 
nishing considerable evidence that in- 
breeding is not as destructive of physical 
vigor as most people think. So long as 
these fowls have not been consistently 
bred to any particular type, you can 
hardly claim the honor of a new variety 
for them. They started as mongrels and 
are still mongrels. If you wish to im¬ 
prove them without introducing any new 
blood, you can do so by a process of 
continuous selection, breeding only from 
those that most nearly approach the type 
you have in mind. Breed from the larg¬ 
est to increase size, and from the best lay¬ 
ers to increase egg production. To find 
the best layers you will have to trap- 
nest. Never use a weak, defective, fowl 
of either sex in your breeding pens; by 
so doing you will obtain the deleterious 
effects of inbreeding. Prolificacy is now 
supposed to be transmitted through the 
male sex; so use sons of your best layers 
to head your pens. 
Young Percheron and Belgian 
STALLIONS 
Two to three years old : out of imported mares 
and by imported sires. Guaranteed tu be Sound and 
Sure Breeders. Will sell to two or more farmers 
as company horses. Prices reasonable. 
W. H. MINER. CHAZY, NEW YORK 
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some of your 
leisure time into 
money by taking 
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