1914, 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
870 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, June 27, 1914. 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
FARM TOPICS. 
This Soil Needs Lime. 
Cleaning Out the Flies. 
Reducing Lumpy Fertilzer. 
City Unemployed and Farm Help. 
Know What It Costs. 
Hope Farm Notes.. 
Crop Growing for Young People. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Dairy Cattle in Kansas. 
Ohio Holstein Meeting.... 
The Ayrshire Cow. 
Zebu Cattle in Brazil. 
Work-Horse Parade in Boston. 
Dairying in Florida. 
Fat Milk from Fat Cows. 
Cover Crops for Pasturing. 
A Boy and a Cow. 
Indigestion ... 
A Trade in Small Cheese. 
Portable Pig Pens. 
Octagonal Silo . 
Ropy and Stringy Cream. 
Carbolic Acid as a Disinfectant....... 
Raising Orphan Foal. 
Goats and Poison Ivy. 
Trapping Troublesome Pigeons. 
Trouble With Chicks.... 
Deficient Vigor... 
Hen Lice . 
Possible Limberneck . 
Tramp Hens . 
Infertile Turkey Eggs. 
More About Line Breeding. 
Depluming Mites . 
The Egg-Laying Contest. 
Hen Lice . 
Interfering with Pigeons. 
Leghorns Untrue to Type. 
Hens Lay Stale Eggs. 
Value of Poultry Manure. 
Suspected Lumpy Jaw. 
Training a Collie Dog. 
Horse Eats Bedding. 
Scours . 
Rickets . 
Feeding a Brood Mare. 
New England Milk. 
The Value of a Good Dog. 
Training a Dog. 
Poor Milking Sow.. 
Knuckling ...... 
Ailing Goat .. 
Collar Tumors .. 
Swelling on Neck. 
Indigestion . 
Cough .. 
Paralysis . 
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HORTICULTURE. 
Rye in a Young Orchard.850 
Scientific Production of Fine Apples. Part II. .851 
Building a Root Cellar.852 
Pruning Tomatoes .852 
Job’s Tears .857 
Tire Flavor of Muskmelons.857 
The Rose-chafer Poisons Chickens.857 
Asters and Sweet Peas for the Flower Market.857 
A Fruit-Growers’ Outing.857 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Keeping Summer Boarders.855 
The Patent Churn....859, 867 
Dr. Eliot’s Three Poems.860 
To a Waterfowl.860 
Very Valuable Property.860 
The Old Man.860 
Water Supply for Church.861 
Next to Godliness.861 
Use for Soapweed.861 
Storing Winter Clothes.861 
Fire Extinguishers .861 
Grammatical Mistakes .861 
Care of Canary.861 
City Help .861 
Keeping Ham .861 
Beeswax .. 861 
Poor Pork .861 
Biscuit Without Waiting.861 
Brown Sugar and Hard Tack.862 
The Professor’s Best Meal.862 
Baked Beans in Nebraska.862 
What a Veteran Would Use........862 
A Truck Grower’s Feast.862 
A Good Farm Breakfast.862 
Saved by Process Canning.862 
The Wild Flower Collector. Part II.863 
Pictures in the Home.863 
Selecting a Hat.864 
A Girl’s Summer Clothes.864 
The Land of Fulfillment (Continued).865 
The Last Half of the Dishes.866 
Housekeeper and Housekepeing.866 
The Lame Housekeeper.866 
Destroying Black Ants...866 
Winter and Summer Screens.866 
Thinning Peanut Butter.866 
June Meals . ....866 
No Place Like Home. 866 
What They Say About It.866 
Markets in Suburban Towns...,...867 
Shipping Eggs by Parcel Post.867 
Rompers by Parcel Post.867 
Mailing Packages for Eggs. 867 
Making Ice Cream.868 
The Bright Side of Life.868 
Indian Bead Work.....868 
A Prisoner as Farm Hand.869 
The Right Man Wanted.869 
Schoolboys Want Work.869 
A Home with Childless People.869 
Let Women Vote. .....869 
Belle of the Ball.869 
Selling Property Without Wife's Consent.... 869 
Will as to Joint Property.869 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Where Boys Mako Good. Part 1.849, 850 
Protecting River Banks...853 
Clarifying Maple Syrup..853 
Acetylene Waste .853 
Events of the Week.. 852 
Letter from Mexico.852 
Sea Crystals .852 
Mint Marks on Coins.852 
Highway Laws . 852 
Editorials .858 
Now York State News.873 
Publisher’s Desk . 878 
Cleaning a Cistern.878 
Canada has made the following pure 
advertising amendment to the Criminal 
Code: 
“Every person who knowingly pub¬ 
lishes or causes to be published any ad¬ 
vertisement for either directly or in¬ 
directly promoting the sale or disposal 
of any real or personable movable or im¬ 
movable property or any interest therein, 
containing any false statement which is 
of a character likely to or is intended to 
enhance the price or value of such prop¬ 
erty or any interest therein or to promote 
the sale or disposal thereof, shall be liable 
upon summary conviction to a fine not 
exceeding two hundred dollars or to six 
months’ imprisonment, or to both fine and 
imprisonment.” 
Week Ending June 19, 1914. 
MILK. 
The Borden milk schedule to producers 
for the six months beginning with April 
is as follows, compared with last year. 
This is per 100 pounds in the 26-cent 
zone. For the 29 and 32-cent zones the 
schedule is 10 cents less for all months: 
April ... 
May .... 
June .... 
July .... 
August .. 
September 
1914 
1913 
$1.40 
$1.50 
1.15 
1.25 
1.10 
1.10 
1.25 
1.35 
1.40 
1.45 
1.50 
1.55 
Figuring 86 pounds to the 40-quart can 
the per quart price is as follows: April, 
3.01 cents; May, 2.47; June, 2.36; July, 
2.68; August, 3.01, September. 3.22. 
Wholesale prices paid by New York 
dealers are running $1.41 and $1.31 for 
B and C. Hotels and restaurants using 
two to three cans per day are paying 4^4 
to five cents per quart 
BUTTER. 
An advance of one cent in top grades 
was made and held during the week. The 
lower grades are in very large supply and 
offered at cut prices to clear out the ex¬ 
cess. 
Creamery, extra, lb. 27 @ 23 
Good to Choice . 23 @ 26 
Lower Grades. 20 @ 22 
State Dairy, best. 25 @ 251^ 
Common to Good. 13 @ 23 
Factory. 16 @ 20 
Packing Stock. 15 @ 
Elgin, III., butter market 27cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 28 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Prices are unchanged from last week, 
though but a small amount of business 
has passed at the highest figures. Home 
exceptional prices have been paid for 
picnic and small sizes for special pur¬ 
poses in a few cases up to 16*4. 
Whole Milk, new, best. 15 @ 151 ^ 
Common to good . ll @ 13 
Skims. 5 @ 10 
EGGS. 
The range of prices is widening, as 
is usually the case in hot weather. 
Fancy nearby eggs are two cents higher 
than last week, a few reaching 27 cents. 
Ungraded stock goes at irregular prices 
and hard to sell. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 25 @ 27 
Common to good . 20 @ 23 
Mixed colors, best. 23 @ 24 
Common to good. 17 @ 20 
Western fresh, white. 20 @ 21 
Lower grades. 15 © 18 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apple trade is very dull, except for 
special qualities. Very few desirable 
peaches are arriving. Most of them are 
small and hard, going at $1.50 or a tri¬ 
fle more, per crate. Red June plums 
from Georgia are bringing $2 to $2.50 
per crate. This is a desirable commercial 
variety. The choicest of nearby and up¬ 
river strawberries are on hand. 18 cents 
being the top price noted for Gandy and 
fancy varieties. The general run of fair 
quality sells between 10 and 12, and 
lower grades down to five. Cherries sell 
at a very wide range of price, from 30 
cents to $1 per eight-pound basket. 
Apples—Russet, bbl.2 25 
Spy. 3 OU 
Ben Davis. 2 50 
Newtown. 5 00 
Baldwin.2 50 
Western, box. 1 00 
Strawberries, Up-river, qt. 7 
Jersey . 6 
Maryland. 5 
Cherries, 81b. bkt. 35 
Currants, qt. 12 
Peaches. 6-basket crate . 1 50 
Blackberries. Carolina, qt. 7 
Huckleberries, qt. 5 
Gooseberries, qt. 5 
Muskmelons. crate. 1 50 
Watermelons, 100.25 W 
@325 
@5 00 
@ 3 00 
@ 6 00 
@3 76 
@225 
@ IS 
@ 12 
@ 10 
@ 50 
@ 14 
@250 
@ 11 
@ 14 
@ 9 
@ 100 
@50 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4 25 @ 5 10 
Medium . 3 70 @3 75 
Pea . 3 10 @3 65 
Bed Kidney. 4 50 @ 575 
White Kidney.. 5 65 @5 75 
Yellow Eye . 5 25 @ 5 50 
Lima, California. 7 30 @7 35 
HOPS. 
Prime to ohoice. 36 @ 33 
Common to good. 32 @ 35 
Pacific Coast . 17 @ 20 
Old stock. 15 @ 18 
German crop. 60 @ 64 
VEGETABLES. 
A few old potatoes have sold up to $3, 
with a quite active demand. Consider¬ 
able of the new southern stock is run¬ 
ning inferior in size or quality, some lots 
going as low as $1 to $1.50 per barrel. 
Onion market very firm and higher. Cab¬ 
bage running small and inferior; good 
heads wanted at 50 cents per barrel more 
than last week. 
Potatoes-Old, 180 lbs. 3 00 @3 25 
Bermuda, bbl, . 2 00 @ 3 25 
Southern, new . 1 75 @ 1 50 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 40 @ 1 25 
Beets. 100 bunches.1 00 @ 2 50 
Carrots, bbl. .. 2 00 @3 50 
Cucumbers, bu. 50 @ 1 50 
Corn, Southern, 100. 50 @ 150 
Asparagus, Green, doz.1 25 @ 2 25 
White, doz. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Cabbage, bbl. crate. 50 @ 1 50 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 25 @ 50' 
Onions—Southern, Now, bu. 3 00 @ 3 50 
Okra, bu. 2 00 @ 3 00 
Peppers, Southern, bu.1 00 @ 1 75 
Peas, bu. 50 @1 00 j 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 50 @ 75 
Spinach, bbl. 50 @ 75 
8tring Beans, bu. 50 @ 2 25 
Squash. New. bu. 50 @100 
Egg Plants. Southern, bu, . 1 00 @ 1 75 
Tomatoes, Southern, 6 bkt. crate .... 75 @2 25 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Going to war is a sedentary job com¬ 
pared with handling live poultry iu New 
York. In the last few weeks there have 
been numerous riots and personal en¬ 
counters in the railroad yards, auction 
rooms and other places where live poultry 
trade is carried on. In one case a high 
bid at an auction started a row resulting 
in more or less broken heads. But most 
of the trouble comes from the grafters 
and gangs that hang around the yards. 
There were three fights in one day, sev¬ 
eral men landing in the hospitals with 
wounds from coop slats and flying hatch¬ 
ets and scale weights. One man lost two 
teeth and had his head cut open. His 
offense was refusing to present fowls to 
several of the unloaders who expect a 
hand-out of this sort. In some cases they 
cripple or kill some of the birds when 
handling, throw them in the dead heap 
and get their graft in this way. 
Broilers, lb. 32 @ 33 
Fowls . 15 @ 16 
Roosters. 11 @ 12 
Ducks. 13 @ 14 
Geese. 10 @ II 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Chicken schoice broilers, lb. 36 @ 38 
Squab broilers, pair. 60 @ 80 
Broilers, common to good . 30 @ 35 
Fowls. 15 @ 13 
Ducks, Spring. 15 @ 16 
Geese ....,. 9 @ 14 
8quabs, doz.... .1 50 @ 3 75 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Receipts are heavy and most grades of 
hay are $1 per ton lower, demand being 
dull. Straw prices are unchanged but 
market easy. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton . 20 00 @21 00 
No. 2.18 00 @19 00 
No. 3 .16 00 @17 00 
Clover mixed.15 00 @19 50 
Straw, Rye .15 00 @16 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 7 25 @9 20 
Bulls. 5 50 @7 35 
Cows. 3 50 @ 6 75 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 8 50 @11 25 
Culls. 6 00 @ 8 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 4 00 @5 25 
Lambs . 9 00 @ 975 
Hogs. 8 50 @ 8 65 
GRAIN. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 01 O .. 
No. 2, Red . 01 @ 
No. 2. Hard Winter. 99 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 70 @ 78 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 43 @ 47 
Rye . 70 @ 72 
RETAIL PRICES 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. 35 @ 40 
Mixed colors, new laid. 25 ® 32 
Ordinary grades. 20 @ 22 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 32 @ 34 
Tub, choice. 27 @ 29 
Chickens, roasting, lb,. 30 @ 32 
Fowls. 25 @ 23 
The Georgia peach crop is expected to 
exceed 5,000 carloads. 
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The Montana wool crop will be about 
26.000.000 pounds, or four-fifths that of 
the previous year. 
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Interest and . dividend payments July 
1, will amount to about $268,400,000. 
Of this amount $91,000,000 will be from 
industrials, and the bulk of the remainder 
from railroads. 
Canadian Crops. 
Winter wheat in Ontario is rather 
spotted owing to damage from heaving. 
Clover also suffered from the trying 
weather of April and Alfalfa has come 
out worse than clover. Peaches in the 
Niagara district are practically all frozen. 
In Essex. Kent and Lambton the injury 
has been less. Apples, pears, cherries 
and plums and small fruits are promis¬ 
ing. There was a bad infestation of tent 
caterpillars in York and counties to the 
east. 
June 9. Hay $17; straw $11; wheat 
90; rye 65; corn 75; oats 50; butter 28; 
eggs 20. S. B. 
Harlingen, N. J. 
June 15. Cows from $50 to $80; milk 
2% cents per quart; hogs high, 10 and 11 
cents; wheat 95; rye 75; corn $1.50 per 
cwt., shelled; eggs 22; butter 30: chick¬ 
ens 30 cents per pound; potatoes $1.25. 
Flanders, N. J. J. S. Y. 
June 11. Frost has shortened the ap¬ 
ple crop considerably in Nova Scotia. 
Along the river the whole crop seems 
blasted. On the side hills a fine crop will 
be obtained. Gravensteins will be short. 
Crop looked like 2.000.000 barrels, like¬ 
ly will be reduced to 1.250,000 barrels 
aud perhaps less. J. b. 
Berwick, N. S. 
June 12. Good fat steers, 1,200 pounds 
and up, from seven to eight cents live 
weight; then a chuck roast from such 
cattle costs 17 cents a pound. Veals run 
from 13 to 15 and were 16 more than a 
mouth ago. Butter 16 to 25 according 
to quality. Eggs 20; heus 18; hay, loose, 
$10 to $13, baled $16.50; wheat $1. The 
fruit and garden crops iu this locality 
are used on the farm. Our distance, and 
roads to market, prevent farmers from 
gardening. l. H. w. 
Farmington, Pa. 
June 15. Grass and oats are looking 
well, although rain is very much needed. 
Some farmers have just finished planting 
their silage corn. A good many are now 
planting potatoes. Some pieces of Or¬ 
chard grass and clover will have to be 
cut soou, but the main hay crop will 
not be ready to harvest until after the 
first week in July. There will be consid¬ 
erable buckwheat sown this season. But¬ 
ter brings 23 cents; eggs 20; veal, live, 
eight cents. P. s. s. 
Maryville, N. Y, 
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 admit¬ 
ted here. Poultry, Eggs and other live stock 
advertisements wiil go under proper headings on 
other pages. Seed and Nursery advertisements 
will not be accepted for this column. 
POULTRYMAN seeks responsible position, pri 
vate or commercial; experience. LEWIS, 300 
Ninth Ave., New York. 
YOUNG MAN, 18, two Summers’ experience 
general farming, wishes position. E. MARD- 
FIN, 125 Fifth Ave., New York City. 
WANTED—Married man to work farm; fruit, 
hogs, cows, hens; state salary and references. 
“A. B. C..” care R. N.-Y., 333 West 30th St., 
New York. 
WANTED—Elderly woman for housework; one 
who would appreciate good home with mod¬ 
erate wages: small family. Chemung Countv. 
•HOME." care R. N.-Y., 333 West 30th St.. 
New York. 
A SOBER AND ENERGETIC YOUNG MAN. 
age 27'. wishes a position as farm foreman. 
Have practical experience in any line of farm 
ing and am a New Jersey State Agricultural 
College graduate in general and dairy farming. 
H. MAURER, Box 15, R. F. D. No. 2, Paterson. 
N. J. 
EXPERT ORCHARDIST DESIRES POSITION 
with connneroial proposition; eight years’ ex¬ 
perience raising and handling fruit in the North¬ 
west: apples a specialty; now managing larg« 
orchard but desires to change; reasons and ref¬ 
erences given upon application. Address N. W. 
VAN CLEVE, Grand Isle, Vermont. 
ALFALFA HAY. F. P. ERKENBECK, Fayette¬ 
ville. N. Y. 
WANTED—Young pigs. FRED H. TUTTLE, 
Manlius, N. Y. 
SEVERAL CYPHERS 400-F.GG INCUBATORS 
to sell for want of use. C. T. HAMILTON. 
Greelilawn, N. Y. 
WANTED—Four International Hovers. State 
condition and lowest price. JOHN H. GAS¬ 
SER, Bethel. Conn. 
HORSES THOROUGHLY AND CAREFULLY 
broken to saddle for the road or field; distance 
no object. L. HOWARTH, Mt. Freedom. N. J. 
WANTED—Winter Vetch; mammoth, medium 
and alsike clover; also barley; state quantity, 
price, and enclose sample. W. A. HENRY & 
SON, Wallingford, Conn. 
HOME HAMPERS OF FRESH VEGETABLES 
and fruits, shipped direct to the consumer once 
or twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, for 
$1.50 each: express paid; further information on 
request. THE KENNADAY FARM, Mendham. 
N. J. 
TEN ACRES—All improved, good land; $650. 
M. RIGEL. Yellow Pine, Ala. 
FINE VILLAGE AND RIVER FARM FOR SALE 
—Fine house, water, fruit; good barn; keep 23 
cows; 1^3 miles to depot. BOX 24, Rockland. 
N. Y. 
GOOD FARM, GOOD BUILDINGS; four miles 
from good market; fruit; running water; 90 
acres. Price. $2,800. Write ANDREW EVA RTS. 
Waverly, N. Y. 
HAVE THE IDEAL LOCATION FOR CRAN- 
berry farm, south side of Long Island, with 
five-room house, near station. Will sell or rent; 
a money-maker. W. C. HEIDELBERGEU, 134 
Kent St., Brooklyn. N. Y. 
WANTED—Small farm; not exceed thirty miles 
from New York; must be exceptional bargain; 
give description and cash price in first letter, 
otherwise no attention paid. E. J. BONDY. 
Conesus, N. Y. S. R. D. 
FRUIT, TRUCK. POULTRY FARM FOR SALE 
—36 acres, excellent location and market: good 
buildings; all kinds fruit: strong soil; with or 
without stock, etc.; buy direct, saving commis¬ 
sion. HOMER TWEED. Quakertown, Pa. 
SHENANDOAH VALLEY FRUIT AND TRUOIC 
Farm adjoining city with churches, high 
school, military academy, female college, public 
library, opera houses, etc.; 3.000 fruit trees. 
Address PRIVATE BOX, N. Kent St., Winches¬ 
ter, Va. 
FOR SALE—Farm, 55 acres; nice, light land; 
1.000 fruit trees; apple, peach, pear, cherry; 
new seven-room house; fine poultry aud truck 
farm: large hen-house; good stables; close to 
school aud town; will sell on easy terms if sold 
quick. CALEB BOGGS & SON. Cheswold, Del. 
FOR SALE—Boarding house, established fifteen 
years: accommodates fifty guests; with 128-acre 
dairy farm; will keep forty cows; milk statiou 
on farm; everything in first-class shape. Price. 
Including growing crops, $11,000. Immediate 
possession; easy terms; photos and particulars 
on application. Address WILLOW' BROOK COT¬ 
TAGE. W'allkill, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—The highly developed stock farm. 
Idle Hour Place, formerly owned by T. H. 
Russell; 275 acres, near Geneva, Ohio; impres¬ 
sive modern buildings; mansion house complete¬ 
ly furnished; combination gentleman’s estate 
and farm: up-to-date equipment; devoted for 
years to the breeding of Holstein-Friesian cat¬ 
tle. The property stands me over $75,000, but 
for business reasons must be sold aud will take 
a loss. C. J. SCHEFFREEN, Owner, 1010 Old 
South Bldg., Boston, Mass. 
FARMERS’ SF.CURn? BUREAU. NEW YORK 
Agency Famous for Reliable Farm Help. No 
Branch. SIDNEY SULLIVAN. Expert. 99 Nassau Street 
The FARMERS’ BUREAU 
agricultural help. Only first class farm help and positions solic¬ 
ited. References investigated. Scientific advice on farm prob¬ 
lems. Dept. K, 150 Nassau St., N. Y. Phone, 5565 Beckman 
DO YOU NEED FARM HELP 
We have many able-bodied young men both with 
and without farming experience, who wish to work 
on farms. If you need a good, steady, sober man. 
write for an order blank. Ours is a philanthropic 
organization and we make no charge to employer 
or employee. Our object is the encouragement of 
farming among Jews. THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 176 Second Avenue. New York City. 
