1914. 
TH ED RURAL NEW-YORKER 
823 
INFLUENCE OF SIRE. 
O N page 6S2 in the article on making 
hogs pay, F. C. M. says the male 
decides the number of offspring. 
Science says, the female of all animals 
that bring forth their young alive, decide 
the number of offspring. w. M. P. 
Silver Creek, N. Y. 
W. M. P. has quoted only in part from 
my article relating to the influence of the 
sire. What I did say is as follows: “The 
most exacting care should be exercised in 
choosing the herd boar. He is by far the 
most important and influencing animal in 
the herd, for indirectly he stamps every 
pig farrowed. Upon his potency and 
ability to perpetuate fixed characteristics 
depends the number and type of pigs 
produced.” It is understood, of course, 
that the boar is only one of the individual 
factors that influence prolificacy, but 
since the herd boar is mually mated with 
a large number of sows, he has a great¬ 
er opportunity of exercising his influence, 
not only as regards type, but certainly 
as regards the number of brooded young. 
A further thought that should not be 
overlooked in the article was the point 
in reference to the direct influence of the 
male regarding the vitality and vigor of 
the pigs at farrowing time. While it is 
true that the male function is completed 
as soon as the sow is settled, there is no 
doubt but that inactivity on the part of 
the male during the mating season is 
largely responsible for weak litters lack¬ 
ing in uniformity and vitality. Prolific¬ 
acy depends upon the forces of heredity 
of course, and for this reason not only 
the males but brood sows should be se¬ 
lected from large litters, not only in one 
generation, but in as many generations 
as is possible. It was not my intention 
to give the impression that the number 
of offspring depended entirely upon the 
male, but I do affirm that his influence 
in respect to this characteristic is greater 
than is usually appreciated. It should 
not be the aim of the breeder merely to 
increase in numbers, he should aim to 
increase in type by increasing utility 
value of the individuals. Profits with 
swine depend upon, first prolificacy, sec¬ 
ond, upon type and quality and third, 
upon the amount of home-grown feeds 
fed. It costs no more to grow a sow 
that will produce only three pigs than it 
does to maintain a brood sow that will 
produce 12 pigs, and one of the sure 
ways to get large litters is to select males 
whose ancestor’s were members of large 
families, ones masculine and resolute to 
transmit such prepotency in a marked 
degree. F. c. M. 
BOSTON MARKETS. 
T HE supply and demand for green stuff * 
in Boston market has been quite I 
lively the past few days, and prices | 
have been reasonable to both buyer and i 
seller as the rule. Old potatoes are \ 
lower, as new ones are expected shortly, j 
and many prefer to wait for these and 
buy the others only when obliged to. 
Maine stocks $1.50 to $1.60 per bag, the 
few new ones bring about $0 per barrel; 
sweets $4 per crate. Texas and other I 
onions around $3 per crate. Rutabaga 
turnips $3 per bag for old stocks. New 
white $2 per dozen bunches. Old beets 
$2 per bushel; new 75 cents per dozen 
bunches. Carrots $1.50 per bushel; new 
$1 per dozen bunches; parsnips $1.50 
per bushel; new radish 75 cents per 
bushel. Mushrooms 50 cents per pound; 
rhubarb one to 1V> cents per pound. 
Southern green peas about $3 per bushel; | 
string beans, poor quality, $1.50 to $2 i 
per basket. Cabbage 85 cents to $1.25 1 
per crate. Cucumbers more plentiful and 
best bring only $4 per bushel; seconds 
$2.50 to $3.50 per box. Spinach and : 
kale 60 cents per box. Lettuce still a 
little short, and sells at $1 and better ! 
per box. Celery from California $2 per ; 
dozen bunches. Southern Summer squash 
$1.50 and $1.75 per crate. 
Hothouse tomatoes seem low at 20 
cents per pound, but as the pickings at 
this lab' season are good in some cases, j 
and ou'.y natural heat is required, they 
pay as well, or better, than some other 
things. Floridas about $3 per crate. 1 
Southern strawberries plentiful and 
cheap, hut in most cases not good in 
quality. Maryland stock is now largely 
on the market, with Jerseys promised in 
a few days; 10 to 15 cents per box are 
the average prices; some sell lower. Nice 
pineapples plenty at $2.25 to $3 per 
crate. Oranges reasonable and in fair i 
supply from California at $2.75 to $3.50 | 
for navels and bloods. Foreign stocks i 
range from $2.50 to $3.75, the few [ 
Floridas bring about $4. Lemons in big 
demand and prices range a little -higher, 1 
$5, $G and $7.50 per box being the fig¬ 
ures. Grapefruit from Florida $4 per 
box, others $2.25 and $3. California 
cantaloupes $0 per large crate; cherries 
25 cents per pound. Bananas $3 per 
bunch for best, others $2.50, $2 and 
$1.50 for yellow; reds $4.50, $3.50 and 
$2. The few native apples bring about 
$7 per barrel for Baldwins, and $5 per 
barrel for Itussets. Western box fruit 
$4 for Delicious. Winesaps $3 and a few 
others at $2.50. Butter receipts are 
fairly large, quality and color good and 
prices inclined upward. Packers are re¬ 
ported to be the largest buyers for stor¬ 
age to blend with their artificial produce, 
as a certain percentage so used reduces 
considerable on the government tax they 
pay, and also gives a better product. It 
is reported around 26 cents per pound is 
what is paid by these people, and as this 
price is considered rather high to pay 
by those who would buy for speculation 
only the latter class are in doubt just 
what course to take; that is, whether 
to buy now or take chances later, ('lieese 
buyers are also bolding off for about the 
same reasons, so that sales in that have 
been small. Wholesale butter prices for 
best creamery butter are up to 25 cents by 
tub ; boxes and prints of the same class 2!) 
and 30; good quality butter 25 to 28; 
poor quality as low as 18 in some cases. 
Prices in various cities throughout New 
England range from 25 to 30. Cheese of 
good quality ranges from 14 to IS. Eggs 
also rising and receipts declining, and 
will continue so for reasons of increased 
consumption in the country by city visi¬ 
tors, etc. Best quality fresh about 28, 
other grades 23 to 27. 
Dressed poultry in just fair demand 
with fowls at 21; live fowls 17; live 
ducks about 15; good dressed turkeys 
24 to 25. 
Cattle at Brighton markets in light 
supply in about all classes, and sales as 
the rule satisfactory to sellers. Reef 
cattle cleaned up well; steers of good 
quality brought 7 V> live weight. A few 
good cows brought 7, best bulls 5*4, one 
for 8, cows in fair condition 4, 5 and 
6 cents per pound. Good veals 6 to 10, 
with demand quite lively. Live hogs 
brought about 814- Dressed hogs 11. 
supply short. One milch cow is reported 
to have brought near $140; others varied 
from around $100 down to $50. Horse 
market continues good on all good ani¬ 
mals, especially the big ones, which if 
they suit the purchasers readily bring up 
to $450 each; others of lighter weight 
around $300, other classes $150 to $250. 
Grain prices are held up by large hold¬ 
ers and no hopes of much let-up for a 
few months yet. Meal at wholesale $1.49 
to $1.60 per bag; oats range just under 
50 cents per bushel: bran per ton about 
$27; hay $17 to $24 per ton. a. e. p. 
“I don’t want no rubbish, no fine 
sentiments, if you please,” said the 
widow, when she was asked what kind 
of an epitaph she desired for her late 
husband’s tombstones. “Let it be short 
and simple—something like this: “ ‘Wm. 
Johnston, agged 75 years. The good die 
young.’ ”—Stray stories. 
SWINE 
COR SALE— Purebred Chester White Boar Pit's, sired 
* by prize winning Boar. 110.UO each ; registered 8 
or 9 woeks old. A. J. I.AM, Oriskany. N. Y. 
Yarmouth Farm Chesters 
April farrow, registered, growthynndproli Me. Also Poland 
Chinas. Rollo Young, R. D. 4, Coatesville. Chester Co., Pa. 
DBJROB Pin**-® 1 CPA IK. Writes. A. 
uunui/ riua WEEKS, I)o Graff, O. 
CIIELDON FARM REGISTERKD DUROCS 
Pigs of both sex- Bred Sows. Service Boars. 
Best ot breeding. C. K. ISAUNES. Oxford. X. Y. 
Dui-oc Pips Two Rnart months old, $ 2;>.00 
I/UXOL i igj, l wo Doars onch Spring Pigs six 
and ten weeks old. $8.00. Each with registry miners 
JAMES E. VAN ALSTYNE, SECRETARY, KINDERHOOK. N. Y 
PIGS 
1 —5110 to 1,000 hoad always ready for 
shipment. Large, gvowthy type. 
—Shipment at two months' old. 
NEW ENGLAND LIVE STOCK CO.. - Peabody. Mass. 
Reg. P. Chinas Berkshires, G. Whites. 
Pine, largo strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collie 
Pups.Beagles and Poultry.Writet'or 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co.. Krcildonn, Pa 
FOR SALEInoStebed BERKSHIRE PIGS 
Mastorpiece strain- Call on or address 
E. W. ALLEN, - Erieviile, New York 
Woodiynn Farm Berkshires 
Choice Boars, old enough for sorvice. 
JOHN tV. COOPER. - Piueville, Pa. 
GUARANTEED 
Cholera Immune 
Fancy Bkksding— Aix Auks— Attractivk Pricks. 
OAK WOOD FARM, It. 8. NEH IIl Rdli, N. Y'. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOD 
Selected animals, all ages, for sale. Wo have 
the Large Berkshires with extreme length ami 
our herd is noted for tiie prolificacy of its sows. 
II C. & H It. HAKPE NDING. Dundee, N. Y. 
BERKSHIRES 
Springbank Herd Big Berkshires 
l have for sale 5 Bred Gilts to farrow in March and 
April, and 5 young service Boars, weighing around 
150 lbs. I will hook orders for March and April pigs. 
J. E. WATSON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Ct. 
DOGS 
KENWYN KOAT KURE-£JKTK\ 
and $1.00 sizes by parcel post prepaid. KENWYN 
KETKE KOMPANY, Point Pleasant. New Jersey 
COLLIE PUPS —the intelligent kind 
hounds. NELSON'S, 
Also Blood- 
Grove City, Pa. 
-1 
Filip ffnllio Piine-> I; ffi's.$8: females. $5 up. Kea. 
fine llUllie rU(Jh drivers. Brookside Farm, Prosgect.O 
FOR SALE 
useful. W. A. 
—Three pedigreod female A 
dale pups. 8 weeks old, $1 
each. Believo me, they 
l.OWDEK, Burlington, New Jei 
When you write advertisers mention The 
Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get a quick 
reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee 
editorial page. : : : : : : 
j DAIRY CATTIjE 
|. /V D„„-CATTI,E BY THE CARLOAD 
T? allLCU lO Dliy On© hundred head wanted (due to 
calve) during July to September. Ilolsteins and Ayrshires 
preferred. Address. A. S. EDWAUDS, Stepney Depot, Conn. 
—12 months; bred forprodue- 
AYRSHIRE BULL 
lion; “4 white; beauty; | 
$75. 2 Bull Calves. BELL FARM, Hollis, New Hampshire 
For SaleT^o?sTKRED AYRSHIRE BULLS 
about, a year old. Write or call. BRISTOL COUNTY 
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, Scgreganset, Massachusetts 
UnloFain f qluao —3 to 5 weeks old, 15-16ths pure, 
nUlolGlli lallGo well marked. $20 each, crated for 
shinment, anywhere Eduewood Farm. Whitewater. Wis. 
Holsiein-Friesian Bull Calves r t 0t o \ 
offer, THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM. Chittenanga, N. Y. 
PUREBRED HOLSTEINS AWS 
lin Tested. Hudson Valley Holstein Headquarters. 
MOHEGAN FARM, Peekskill, N.Y. 1 hr. from Grand Cent. Sta- 
FOR SALE-A SPLENDID GRANDDAUGHTER OF 
THE KING OF THE PONTIACS 
Anti a World’s Champion Cow 
CHERRY 15KOOK FARM, K.F.D., Kent.O. 
For Sale Choice Holstein Bull Calves 
from two to four months old; sired by King Pontiac 
Solomon, one of the good sons of King of the Ponti- 
acs. Dams have good official records. ALo a choice 
lot of Berkshire pigs, about tPn weeks old. Prices 
very reasonable. WARNER STOCK FARM, Warner, N Y. 
BARGAIN SALE 
H OLSTEIN B ULL 
ready for; heavy service; son of the Great Milk and 
Butter King; A. R.O. dam. Two choice cows due in 
August. Several male calves. Due fine heifer calf. 
HILLKURST FARM, F. H. Rivenburgh, Prop., Munnsville, N. Y. 
Brown Swiss Cattle-gi'i*„„Tifen£T. 5S» 
mals descended from cows entered in or eligible for 
Registry of Production. GEORGE W. HARRIS, Wethersfield, Conn 
HOLSTEINS FOR SALE 
5 Registered Holstein Bull Calves 1 month old, four- 
fifths white well bred. $35 each;express paid to your 
station with all papers. 4 Registered Holstein 
Heifer Calves for $400. 1 car load of Registered 
Heifers Bred, i car load of Registered Cows due 
to freshen this Fail, and 100 High Grade Holstein 
Cows. Orders for 7 a Holstein Heifer Calves at $15 
each, to he shipped this Fali. Express paid if 
ordered in lots of 5. 1 car load of High Grade 
Yearlings for $40 each. REA6AN BROS , Tully, N. Y. 
HIGH GRADE 
HOLSTEINS 
TI 10 best are the cheapest. Why not have 
that kind? We have 200 large, well bred 
cows that are heavy producers. Some fresh 
and others due within 60 days. Tubercu¬ 
lin tested. Como and see them. 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON, Cortland, N. Y. 
East River Grade Holstein Cows ForSale j 
50 Cows, jn«A fresh. rotllcing 40 to 55 lbs. psr day. 
35 Cows, due to calve tit Is month and next. 
35 Cows, served to enlee this foil. All served to a rep. bnll. 
1 best will snit the man that U looking for Mgh-clasa dairy 
cows. Large producers, goo?} «»ize and well marked. 
' ,s *t Hie East River Holstein* when in need of first-class 
dairy cows. Stay and see them milked. WE TTBERCULINR 
I EST. Registered bull calves and service bulls al ways on hand. 
K'iTT.: JOHN B. WEBSTER, cor.uX l. v. 
Purebred Registered 
HOLSTE 
CATTL 
Tlie Capital, Topeka, Kansas. June IS, said : 
"When Maid Henry, the famous 13-year-old 
Holstein owned by the Kansas Agricultural 
College, yvas working so hard for_ the record 
of 19,600 pounds of milk and $35 pounds of 
butter in a year’s time, dairymen prophesied 
that the Maid would be ruined. But Maid 
Henry returns to show that she is some cow 
even after breaking a record. She has a 114 
pound male calf, born just the other day to 
prove it.” 
Stnd/or FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets 
Holstein-Friesian Asso., F. L. Houghton. See'y 
Box 105 Brattteboro, Vt. 
HORSES 
MAKE MONEY 
Buy a pure bred draft 
stud colt and two 
fillies. Stallion would 
sell in two years for 
enough to pay first 
cost of the three. 
Your fillies should 
drop two colts by 
him; the four matur¬ 
ing at $2,000 and costing you practi¬ 
cally nothing. Or, if you keep stal¬ 
lion. he will mature at fancy price 
and’ breed for you a big and steady 
income. Make money. We will help 
you. Write today. ADIRONDACK FARMS, 
31 Maple Street, Glen Falls, New York 
HIGHLAND VIEW STOCK FARM 
Our last importation of BELGIANS 
and RFRCI1ERONS Is the BEST we 
ever imported. »’o hare sold 
more Stallions and Mares in the last 
sixty days than we ever sold in a year. 
WHY I Because wo sell the good, hip, 
drafty kind at the right price, aud 
over than the other fellow. 
O. N. WILSON, Prop. 
KITTANNING, PA. 
50 STALLIONS 
and MARES, $250 to $1000 each 
Write for my Illustrated 
Circular telling why I can save 
you money on the purchase of a Per- 
cheron or Belgian Stallion or Mare. 
A.W.Green.Middlefield.O. 
R. R. Sta., E. Orwell, on Penna. Ry. 
Midway between Ashtabula & Warrea 
AT STUD“LANDAIS” 
ported Registered 
Perc heron Stallion. Gray, weight 1.900 lbs. Fee. $25 
Walnut Grove Farm, Washingtonville, N Y. 
EEP 
FAR <tfll F—Flock 20 Thoroughbred Shropshire 
“ Sheep, will he sold at a sacrifice to 
sell quick. OWEN NOLAN, Mt. Carmel, Conn. 
AflRQFT R A M—3 years. Bred from Tran- 
uunoc I n H I?1 qnillity Stock. Also Jersey 
Red Hogs, fine stock. M. N. Adams. I.ima, N. Y. 
DAIRY CATTLE 
FOR SALE-Imported Guernsey Bull Calf 
dropped May 19, 1914, by a daughter of tlieGovernor 
of the Chene. THE DAISY FARM. Ballston Lake, New York 
FOR PRODUCTION S^ BLTO 
calves, only, from producing dams and highest type 
sires. R. F. SHANNON. 603 Renshaw Bldg.. Pittsburgh. Pa. 
Fosterfield’s Herd Registered Jerseys 
FOR SALE 
Cows, yearling and two-year-old heifers. Some of 
the heifers served. Also heifer calves. CHARLES G. 
FOSTER, P. 0. Box 173, Morristown, Morris Co , New Jetsey 
Grade 
Up 
Begin by Purchasing a 
Thoroughbred Jersey Bull 
He is the most important factor in 
increasing the producing quality 
of your herd. 
With good grade Jersey cows and ! 
a thoroughbred bull you may short¬ 
ly raise cows that will average 400 
pounds of butter per year. 
The nearer you approach the 
thoroughbred, the greater the pro¬ 
ducing value. A good bull pays big i 
returns on his cost from the first, j 
Let us send you some Jersey facts. 
THE AMERICAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB 
324 West 23d Street, New York City 
THE WORLD'S RECORD DAIRY COW 
THE GUERNSEY COW 
MAY RILMA 
Gives . . . 19673 lbs, milk 
Containing 1073.41 lbs, butter fat 
IN 365 DAYS 
MAKING HER THE CHAMPION DAIRY COW OF ALL BREEDS 
Write for the story of this cow’s work and receive with it 
general literature about the breed 
AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB Bo* "Y,” Peterboro, N, H, 
MAY RILMA 22761; A. R. 1726 
