1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
809 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, July 4, 1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The New Dean of the Agricultural College, 
881, 882 
Arranging a Cover Crop.882 
Harvesting Timothy and Clover.882 
Onions . 884 
Rye as a Cover Crop.884 
Buckwheat and Sour Soil.884 
Coming Farmers' Meetings....886 
Cutting and Curing Wheat.886 
The Corn Ear-Worm. 889 
Bunching Vegetables .889 
Conditions in Colorado.889 
Crop Reports . .....887 
Hope Farm Notes. 888 
Plow Cover Crops Early. 888 
Fraud in Vetch Seed.888 
Rye as a Cover Crop.888 
Government Crop Report.891 
Foreign Crops .891 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Enlarged Liver.886 
Poisoning Pigeons .,....886 
Corn for Grain and Silage.894 
Building an Octagonal Silo.894 
Bull Beats the Hired Man.894 
Hand Churning .894 
Bacterial Content of Certified Milk.894 
Dairy Ration .894 
Decreased Milk Flow. 894 
Ration for Freshening Cow...894 
Kerry Cattle as Economical Producers.895 
Azoturia .895 
Abnormal Breathing . 895 
A Chicken Man’s Honor.896 
A Talk About Boston Milk.896 
The Egg-Laying Contest.897 
Possible Limberneck .897 
Bumblefoot . 897 
Feather-Eating Hens .897 
Dysentery .897 
Variation in Feathers.897 
Weak Horse .898 
Indigestion .898 
Quinsy . 898 
HORTICULTURE. 
Scientific Production of Fine Apples..882 
Quinces for Profit.884 
June Budding .885 
Events of the Week.886 
Buffalo Markets . 886 
Rainfall and Sod Mulch.887 
Mullin Foliage for Sale.887 
High Pressure for Spraying.889 
Pennsylvania Fruit Growers Hold Meeting.. .889 
Canadian Fruit Reports.891 
Virginia Fruit Report.891 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Woman and the Home.892 
The Rural Patterns. 892 
Asparagus Recipes .892 
Seen in New York Shops.892 
Jelly Making Simplified.893 
Homemade Yeast .893 
More About Rose Beads.893 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Pure Food Expert.882 
Distribution of Estate.884 
Rights in Exchanged Property....884 
Renewal of Demand Note.884 
June Budding .885 
Feeding and Raising Snapping Turtles.885 
Poison Ivy Again.885 
City Workers .885 
Where Boys Make Good. Part II.883 
Spittle Insects or Frog-hoppers.889 
Editorials .890 
Co-operative Insurance and the New York Law. 891 
New York State News..... 891 
Publisher’s Desk .898 
Humorous .900 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending June 26, 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: 
1914 
1913 
April . 
$1.50 
May . 
. 1.15 
1.25 
June . 
1.10 
July . 
1.35 
August . 
1.45 
September.. 
. 1.50 
1.55 
Figuring S6 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% 
to five cents per quart. 
BUTTER. 
But little speculative business is noted. 
The price asked for grades desirable for 
storage is too high to make a safe risk. 
In lower grades there is considerable ac¬ 
cumulation. Poor butter is harder to sell 
than formerly, when practically all cheap 
restaurants used strong butter. 
Creamery, extra, lb. 27 @ 2754 
Gooil to Choice . 23 @ 26 
Lower Grades. 20 @ 22 
State Dairy, beat. 25 @ 25*6 
Commou to Good. 18 @ 23 
Factory. 16 @ 20 
Paoking Stock. 15 @ ]7*£ 
Elgin, Ill., butter market 27*6 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 27*6 cents. 
CHEESE, 
Prices are one-eighth to one-fourth low¬ 
er, business during the week being some¬ 
what improved at the reduction. 
Whole Milk, fresh, specials 
Average fancy. 
Under grades . 
Daisies. 
Skims, specials. 
Good to choice . 
Poor to fair. 
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EGGS. 
Although receipts have been less, the 
accumulated stock has been sufficient to 
prevent an advance in price. Great com¬ 
plaints have been made about the Trunk 
Line Association’s methods of handling 
egg damage claims. The Lackawanna 
Railroad is withdrawing from the asso¬ 
ciation in this particular, and will make 
its own inspections and adjustments on 
eggs handled over its lines. Other rail¬ 
roads are considering the same move, with 
the purpose of lessening dissatisfaction 
with this branch of their business. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 25 @ 27 
Common to good . 20 @ 23 
Mixed colors, best. 24 @ 25 
Common to good. 17 @ 20 
Western fresh, white. 20 @ 21 
Lower grades. 15 © 18 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The few apples remaining are selling 
slowly. Arrivals of Southern peaches are 
larger and quality much improved. Straw¬ 
berries in excessive supply and prices 
very irregular, the proportion of fancy 
being small. A good many berries have 
dried up instead of ripening naturally, 
and others are very sandy from dashing 
rains in unmulched fields. Cherries are 
in surplus and lower, except on some 
stock shipped in strawberry quarts arriv¬ 
ing in better condition. Supplies of cur¬ 
rants are larger, but prices stay fairly 
high—10 to 13 cents wholesale. Musk- 
melons very plentiful and low. 
Apples—Russet, bbl. 2 25 © 2 50 
Spy. 3 00 ® 5 00 
Ben Davis. 2 50 @ 3 50 
Newtown. 5 00 @ 6 00 
Baldwin. 2 50 @ 4 00 
Western, box. 1 00 @2 25 
Strawberries, Up-river, qt. 6 @ 14 
Jersey . 6 @ 12 
Western N. Y. 8 @ 12 
Cherries, 81b. bkt,. 20 @ 50 
Currants, qt. 9 @ 12 
Plums. 6-bkt. carrier. 1 50 @ 2 00 
Raspberries, red, pint. 7 @ 9 
Black Caps, pint . 6 © 7 
Peaches. 6-basket crate . 125 @325 
Blackberries. Jersey, qt. 15 @ 16 
Huckleberries, qt. 7 @ 15 
Gooseberries, qt. 5 @ 11 
Muskmelons, crate. 1 00 @ 1 75 
Watermelons, 100.20 00 @35 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4 25 @5 10 
Medium . 3 70 @ 3 75 
Pea . 3 10 @ 3 65 
Red Kidney. 4 50 @5 65 
White Kidney. 5 65 © 5 70 
Yellow Eye . 5 25 @5 50 
Lima, California. 7 30 ©7 35 
HOPS. 
The crop outlook on the Western Coast 
is favorable, but growers are holding for 
high prices because of the poor prospect 
in Germany and England. A California 
expert figures that the State will get 
about $3,000,000 from the crop this year. 
Prime to choice. 36 @ 38 
Common to good. 31 @ 35 
Pacific Coast . 18 @ 19 
Old stock. 10 @ 15 
German crop. 60 @ 63 
VEGETABLES. 
Old potatoes are higher, some selling 
up to $3.50, but the advance has come too 
late to help many producers; new stock 
running better in quality and high. Cab¬ 
bage and lettuce in surplus and lower. 
Peas and string beans running better in 
quality and in good demand. Onion trade 
active and prices high except on some 
nearby stock, which is small. The Erie 
Railroad, handling from one-half to three- 
fourths of the domestic onions sold at 
New York, is removing its onion market 
from Piers 19-20, on the New York side, 
to the Pavonia avenue yards in Jersev 
City. 
Potatoes—Old. 180 lbs. 
Bermuda, bbl, . 
Southern, new . 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 
Beets. 100 bunches. 
Carrots, bbl. 
Cucumbers, bu. 
Corn, Southern, 100. 
Asparagus, Green, doz. 
White, doz. 
Cabbage, bbl. crate. 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 
Onions—Southern, New, bu. 
Okra, bu . 
Peppers. Southern, bu. 
Peas, bu. 
Radishes, 100 bunches. 
Spinach, bbl. 
String Beans, bu. 
Squash. New. bu. 
Egg Plants. Southern, bu, . 
Tomatoes, Southern, 6 bkt. crate 
Jersey, box ... 
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LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 
Fowls . 
Roosters. 
Ducks. 
Geese. 
26 
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DRESSED POULTRY. 
Chicken schoice broilers, lb. 36 @ 3S 
Squab broilers, pair. 60 @ SO 
Broilers, common to good . 30 @ 35 
Fowls. 15 @ 17*6 
Ducks, Spring. ]5 @ 16 
Geese . 9 @ 14 
Squabs, doz. 1 50 @ 3 75 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Receipts of medium grade hay are large 
and business very dull. Straw market 
practically unchanged. 
Hay. Timothy No. 1. ton . 19 50 @20 00 
No. 2.17 00 @18 00 
No. 3 .15 00 @16 00 
Clover mixed.14 00 @18 00 
Straw, Rye .14 00 @15 Oo 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 7 25 @ 9 00 1 
Bulls.5 50 @ 7 35 
Cows. 3 50 @ 6 75 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 8 50 @11 25 
Culls .. 6 00 @800 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 50 @ 5 25 
Lambs . 9 50 @ 9 75 
Hogs. 8 60 @ 8 65 
GRAIN. 
This country had in storage the last of 
June: 7,921.000 bushels of corn, 18.933,- 
000 wheat, 7.407,000 oats, rye 492,000, 
and barley 1,386,000 bushels. European 
interests are now buying heavily of Amer¬ 
ican wheat, which is the lowest in eight 
years. Crop conditions in Europe are not 
favorable, and buyers are disposed to take 
the bargains at present available rather 
than risk waiting for further declines, 
which may not come. Steamer space for 
three and one-fourth million bushels has 
already been engaged, and nearly two mil¬ 
lion bushels more have been sold for ship¬ 
ment to England and the Continent. One 
thing made clear by this active foreign 
buying is that our apparent surplus is 
wanted in other parts of the world, and 
that there is no real basis for the “75-cent 
wheat” which newspapers with their “im¬ 
mense crop” stories have prophesied. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 97 @ 
No. 2, Red . 88 @ .. 
No. 2. Hard Winter. 99 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 70 @ 76 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 43 @ 45 
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 @ 28 
* 
The goods in bonded warehouses at the 
Port of New York, June 1, were valued 
at $62,196,139. Tobacco exceeded $25,- 
000.000. Next came cane sugar, $4,278,- 
000; wool manufactures, $3,373,295; and 
linens, $2,518,824. 
Railroad and industrial paper matur¬ 
ing July 1 amounts to $114,370,000. or 
more than $80,000,000 in excess of last 
year. The largest items are the $30,000,- 
000 note issue of Chicago Elevated, and 
$20,000,000 Baltimore & Ohio notes. 
* 
A cargo of dried beet pulp for cattle 
feeding, about 1,000 tons, was shipped 
from Almeria. in Southern Spain, to Bos¬ 
ton the past Spring. This part of Spain 
formerly grew large quantities of beets 
for sugar, until the small mills were 
closed up by the large sugar interests. 
* 
The measurement of ships that intend 
to use the Panama Canal is now being 
done at New York and other domestic and 
foreign ports, having officers authorized to 
do this work and issue the proper certifi¬ 
cates. Ships not thus certified will be 
held at the Canal while the work is done. 
Measuring a ship requires from one to 
two days for two men familiar with the 
work. The canal toll for vessels carrying 
passengers and cargo is $1.20 per 100 
cubic feet of actual earning capacity. 
_ w. w. H. 
We had a wet late Spring followed 
by drought; have had but one shower in 
the last six weeks. Pastures drying up, 
meadows short, oats almost a failure; 
potatoes suffering, all berries and truck 
crops short and outlook discouraging. 
Many factories running on short time; 
quite a lot of unemployed men. 
Blue Ash, Ohio. w. F. K. 
June 16. The set of apples is worse 
than expected; Graveusteins badly cut, 
Starks decimated, and other apples cut 
off. Total crop may be 800,000 barrels 
and of this export may be 500.000 bar¬ 
rels. Every day the reports grow worse. 
Happily there is a hope that the Nova 
Scotian Ben Davis is badly struck from 
frost injury. I detest our prolific Ben. 
Berwick, Nova Scotia. j. b. 
Sore Neck. 
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BOY, 17, WANTS POSITION ON FARM; good 
home preferred to wages. CHARLES HEIN, 
Palisades, N. Y. 
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—By Cornell agricultural student, age 
20, situation as farm hand on well-managed 
farm: one summer’s experience; strong and 
willing. Address H. S. FISHER, 284 Clinton 
Place. Hackensack, N. J. 
WANTED—Position by Cornell graduate as man¬ 
ager of a truck and fruit farm or estate; can 
organize a new up-to-date market garden or 
orchard: advanced theoretical training and con¬ 
siderable experience; permanent position con¬ 
sidered only. Address I. G. M.. care R. N.-Y., 
333 West 30th St., New York. 
ALFALFA HAY. F. P. ERKENBECK, Fayette¬ 
ville. N. Y. 
MAPLE COVE FARM—Products direct to Con¬ 
sumers. ROUTE 24, Athens, Pa. 
SEVERAL CYPHERS 400-EGG INCUBATORS 
to sell for want of use. C. T. HAMILTON. 
Greenlawn, N. Y. 
WANTED—Four International Hovers. State 
condition and lowest price. JOHN H. GAS¬ 
SER. Bethel, Conn. 
FOR SALE—Brand new “New Way” gasoline 
engines: one 1*4. one 2% H. P.; half price. 
D. J. MASON. Lowman, N. Y. 
HORSES THOROUGHLY AND CAREFULLY 
broken to saddle for the road or field; distance 
no object. L. HOWARTH, Mt. Freedom. N. J. 
FOR SALE—Matched pair chestnut geldings, 
weight about 2,800. Also 110-aere farm, fully 
equipped: good sugar place. 1.100 buckets. Price; 
reasonable. CHAS. WESTON, East Fairfield, 
Vermont. 
TIMBER LOTS AND POULTRY FARM for sale. 
M. W.. care R. N.-Y., 333 West 30th St., 
New York. 
FOR SALE—$2,500 new house, on shore of Fore 
River; or exchange for farm. LEWIS T. 
HOWE. Glendale Road, North Weymouth, Mass. 
FINE VILLAGE AND RIVER FARM FOR SALE 
—Fine house, water, fruit; good barn; keep 23 
cows; 1 y 2 miles to depot. BOX 24, Rockland, 
FOR SALE—§4,000 244-acre improved farm for 
stock raising or general farming; good water, 
healthy climate. J. F. TORRENCE, owner, 
Rt. 4. Louisa. Va. 
FOR SALE—Choice farm of 100 acres. Another 
of 50 acres. Near Wolcott, N. Y.; plenty of 
fruit. Come and see, or write to A. H. CREQUE. 
Wolcott. N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Two farms; one up-to-date chicken 
farm, 30 acres; buildings for 1,000 hens. Also 
a sheep and dairy farm of 150 acres. Five camp 
lots on Otsego Lake. K. E. WHITE, Coopers- 
town, N. Y. 
My mare is afflicted with sore neck. 
Just as soon as she commences to work 
in the Spring, her neck gets sore and re¬ 
mains sore all Summer, or as long as she 
is being worked every day. It breaks out 
in pimples or bunches, and if the scab is 
picked off leaves little, noles in her neck 
which sometimes bleed; the top of her 
neck cracks. I have tried healing pow¬ 
ders, salt washes, pads, soft collars, etc., 
without effect. This sore neck causes her 
to kick while at work, and makes it very 
disagreeable for both of us. Could you 
advise a cure or preventive? T. K. K. 
Ohio. 
In such cases one sometimes finds 
patches of dead, horny skin present. 
These are called “sitfasts,” and have 
to be cut out before permanent healing 
will take place. Twice daily wet the 
parts with a lotion composed of two 
ounces of turpentine and six ounces of 
extract of witch hazel. If they do well 
apply a little benzoated oxide of zinc 
ointment twice daily. It is a mistake to 
clip off the mane when the neck becomes 
sore. The short hairs are rorced inward 
and aggravate the condition. Keep the 
collar clean. Adjust the draft' so that 
the neck will not bear so much weight. 
A. S. A. 
Breeding an Old Mare. 
Is a mare of about 14 years too old to 
breed? The mare is in good condition 
and weighs about 1,000 pounds. I believe 
she has had a colt, but do not know when. 
I am told that it might be unsafe to breed 
on account of age. w. G. 
New York. 
FRUIT. TRUCK. POULTRY FARM FOR SALE 
—30 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. 
FOR SALE — Fruit farm; 3.500 trees—apple, 
peach, pear, quince, cherry; 3 acres strawber¬ 
ries: all tillable; 10 minutes’ walk to railroad 
station. Price, 87.500. E. D. HUFFMAN, owner, 
Marshall’s Creek, Monroe County, Pa. 
FOR SALE—Fruit and dairy farm; 140 acres; 
nine-room slate roof house; running water 
house and barns; good sugar orchard; 600 bar¬ 
rels apples last year; prospect as many this year. 
Price §4.000. including two acres corn, 1*4 acres 
potatoes and garden. C. G. ADAMS, Colerain, 
Mass. 
FOR SALE—Poultry, fruit and truck farm; 65 
acres: 1.000 fruit trees: half acre strawber¬ 
ries; new poultry house, for 1,000 layers; fine 
12-room house; large barns, etc.; running water 
throughout; granary, garage, etc.; would make 
a fine gentleman’s place; 1U miles from station. 
BOX 48. Mountaiuville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—130 acres: 110 tillable. 50 suitable 
for gardening; 9-room stone house, remodeled 
with screened porch. 12 by 50 feet: good barn; 
miles from two stations; two miles boa tin- 
and fishing; beautiful scenery. Will be sold with 
40 acres of crops and immediate possession given 
if desired; photographs. W. G. KANE, Kyser- 
ike, Ulster County, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Boarding house, established fifteen 
years; accommodates fifty guests; with 128-aere 
dairy farm; will keep forty cows; milk station 
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, Wallkill. N. Y. 
FARMERS’ SECURITY BUREAU. NEW YORK 
Agency Famous for Reliable Farm Help No 
Branch. SIDNEY SULLIVAN, Expert, 99 Nassau Street 
A mare should be bred when two or 
three years old and then bred yearly. 
While the old mare may breed she may 
have trouble at foaling time; but there 
is nothing certain about either. There 
is some danger in breeding the mare, but 
no one can predict the result. A. s. A. 
Husband: “Is this butter perfectly 
fresh?” Wife: “The dealer told me it 
was just from the creamatory.”—Bir¬ 
mingham Age-Herald. 
The FARMERS’ BUREAU 
agricultural help. Only first claaa farm help and positions solic¬ 
ited. .References investigated. Scientific advice on farm prob¬ 
lems. Dept. R, 150 Nassau St., N. Y. Phone, 5565 Beekman 
DO YOU NEED FARM HELP 
M e 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 
SUCIETY, 176 Second Avenue, New York City. 
