1914. 
THEC R UKAt» NEW-YORKER 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Sept. 12, 1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Fight With Quack Grass.1097, 1098 
A Long Island Corn Forest.1098 
The Potash Situation.1098, 1099 
Plowing Under Green Crops.1099 
Sweet Clover in Maryland.1099 
Michigan Grows Vetch Seed.1100 
Crops .1102 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.1102 
Farm Management . 1104 
Plowing Under Soy Beans .1104 
A Thrashing Flail and Sweet Clover.1105 
Hope Farm Notes . 1106 
The Soil Under Trees . 1106 
Rye in Silage ......1106 
A Successful Fanners’ Co-operation. Part I 1109 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Dairy Awards at N. Y. State Fair.1109 
Some Breeding Myths Exploded.1112, 1113 
Justice to the Razorback.1113 
Eastern Beef Making.1113 
The Molting Hen ....1114 
The Missouri Egg-laying Contest.1114 
Pullets or Hons .1114 
Carbolic Acid for Abortion.1115 
Land Plaster for Heaves.1115 
Malt Sprouts for Pigs.1115 
Maine Law on Straying Cattle.1115 
Removing Garlic Flavor from Milk.1115 
Purchase of Cows.1115 
Millet Hay .1115 
Working Over Stale Butter.1116 
A Concrete Block Silo.1116 
Live Stock on Grain Stubble.1116 
Live Stock on Fruit Farm.1116 
Wart on Goat .1116 
Cat with Worms.1116 
Navicular Disease .1116 
Goitre .. .. 1116 
Indigestion . 1116 
The Egg-Laying Contest. ..1117 
Training for the Contest .1117 
Wyandottes as Layers . 1117 
July Record at Egg Contest.1117 
HORTICULTURE. 
Peaches for Massachusetts.1100 
A Simple Apple-Picking Ladder.1100 
Tomato John Baer .1100 
Dwarf Peach and Pear Trees.1100 
Fall-Plowing Peach Orchards .1104 
Propagating the Grape.1107 
Varieties of Rhubarb . 1107 
Drone Trees in Orchards. 1107 
Tomatoes Dropping Fruit .1107 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.1101 
Runners from Non-Bearing Strawberries... .1101 
Winter Onions . 1101 
Irrigating Strawberries .1101 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day . 1110 
The Rural Patterns . 1110 
Granes Without Sugar .1110 
Drying Mushrooms .. 1110 
Tomato ReJsh ..1111 
Canning Corn ......1111 
Seen in New York Shops.1111 
Cheese as a Moat Substitute.1111 
Honey Drop Cookies ...1111 
Swiss Chard .. ...1111 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Conorete Boxes . 1098 
Events of the Week.1102 
Avoiding Surface Water .1104 
Construction of Cesspool .1105 
Trapping Moles . 1107 
Editorials .1108 
New York State News .1109 
New York’s New Retail Markets.1109 
The War and Commerce.1109 
Publisher’s Desk .1118 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Sept. 4, 1914. 
MILK. 
The Bordeu milk schedule to producers 
for the six mouths beginning with April 
is as follows, compared with last year. 
This is per 100 pounds in the 26-cent 
zone. For the 20 and 32-eent zones the 
schedule is 10 cents less for all months: 
1914. 
1913. 
April •••#•#•#•••••< 
.. .$1.40 
$1.50 
May . 
... 1.50 
1.25 
June .. 
... 1.10 
1.10 
July . 
.. 1.25 
1.35 
August . 
. . . 1.40 
1.45 
September.. 
... 1.50 
1.55 
Figuring SC> pounds to the 40-quart can 
the per quart price is as follows: April. 
.'1.10 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 $1.61 and $1.51 for 
B and C. Hotels and restaurants using 
two to throe cans per day are paying live 
to 5*4 cents per quart, single quart prices 
from bakeries and grocery stores, six to 
seven cents; delivered milk, nine to 10 
cents. 
BUTTER. 
There have been no material price 
changes during the week, but the market 
is dull and weak, there being few sales 
at the top figures. Packing stock is com¬ 
paratively scarce, with a fair demand 
for grades worth 21 to 22 cents. 
Creamery, extra, lb. 31 @ 32 
Good to Choice . 26 © ;;u 
Lower Grades........... 20 @ 23 
State Dairy, be*t. 29 @ 30 
Common to Good. IS @ 25 
Factory. 19 @ 23 
Packing Stock ... 19 © 22 
Elgin. 111., butter market 30^ cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 32 cents. 
CHEESE. 
The local market is dull and one-fourth 
to one-half cent lower. Reports from 
interior markets are rather more favor¬ 
able, which may check further declines 
here. 
Whole Mitts, fresh, specials. 16*4® ]6*»j 
Average fancy. It! % 00 
Prime. 15)4® l&9f 
Under grades . 11 ® 15 
Daisies. 10!^@ 1694 
Skims, specials. .. 13 @ It 
Good to choice . 1114® 12)4 
Poor to lair. 7 ® U 
EGGS. 
Qualities running choice to fancy tire 
very scarce, and prices are one to two 
cents higher on these grades. Medium 
qualities are selliug slowly at previous 
prices or lower. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 35 ® 37 
Common to good .. 25 ® 32 
Mixed colors, best. 30 © 32 
Common to good. 22 ® 26 
Western fresh, white. 25 © 30 
Lower grades. 18 ® 20 
Storage, best . 26 @ 27 
Lower grades. 19 ® 21 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The apple market Is still overloaded 
with windfalls and inferior Fall varie¬ 
ties. Choice McIntosh and Transparent 
sell up to $3 per barrel. Pears in rather 
heavy supply, except choice Bartlett. 
Peaches in great surplus, practically 
nothing going above $1.50 per crate. 
Grapes lower, good Moore’s Early selling 
at 3% to four cents per pound. 
Apples—Alexander, bbl. 
Yellow Transparent. 
Duchess.. 
Wealthy . 
Fall Pippin. 
McIntosh. 
Pears. Anjou, bbl. 
Clapp's Favorite . 
Bartlett. 
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Poaches. Del. and Md., crate 
W. Va., crate. 
Nearby, bkt. 
Grapes, 181b case. 
Plums. 6-bkt. carrier. 
Muskmelons. Md., bu. 
Jersey, bu.. 
. 35 
Watermelons, 100. 
© 3 00 
® 3 00 
© 2 75 
© 2 25 
© 2 75 
@ 3 00 
© 2 50 
© 4 50 
© 5 00 
© 1 50 
© 1 or, 
@ 65 
© 65 
@ 1 00 
® 1 00 
© 75 
@15 00 
HOP3. 
Prime to choice. 35 ® 37 
Common to good. 30 @ 34 
Pacific Coast . 20 © 21 
Old stock. 10 @ 15 
HONEY. 
Clover, comb, lb. 12 © 16 
Extracted, gallon. 60 @ 90 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.. 
Medium . 
Pea . 
Red Kidney. 
White Kidney... 
Lima, California 
7 00 © 7 20 
5 15 © 5 25 
4 30 © 4 90 
5 95 © 6 70 
6 75 © 7 00 
8 00 <» S 15 
VEGETABLES. 
Potato prices remain as before, but the 
market has a stronger tone. Onions in 
considerable surplus, selling mainly at 
one cent per pound or lower. Peppers 
very low, except for red. Some extra fine 
Cauliflowers are arriving from up the 
State. Parts of Delaware County, about 
ivTargaretville, grow this crop to perfec¬ 
tion very large, snow-white heads, pro¬ 
tected with paper and packed so that 
they arrive undamaged. Flowers of this 
type have brought $4 per barrel, or four 
times the price of ordinary. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 1 50 
Long Island, bbl. 1 75 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2 50 
Beets. 100 bnnehes. 50 
Cartots. bb!. 75 
Cucumbers, bu. to 
Corn. Jersey. 11)0. 35 
Cabbage, bbl. 40 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 50 
Onions—Orange Co., bag . 75 
Conn. Yellow. 1U0 lbs. 1 00 
Okra, bn . 1 U0 
Peppers. Jersey, bbl. 35 
Peas, bu.'.. 25 
Radishes. 160 bunches . 75 
String Beans, bu. 25 
Squasb.JHubburd, bbl. 75 
Crook Neck . 50 
Egg Plants, bu. 25 
Tomatoes, Jersey, box. 25 
or 
four 
© 1 85 
© 200 
© 300 
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1 00 
© 
1 00 
© 
75 
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1 50 
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75 
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LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 
Fowls ...... 
Roosters 
17 © 
17*4® 
12f4@ 
Ducks. U @ 
Geese 
13 ® 
15) 4 
18 
13 
16) 4 
ua 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
23 
za 
65 
22 
15)4 
3 50 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 
Squab broilers, pair. 50 
Broilers, common to good . 20 
Fowls. 1" 
Ducks. Spring. 15 
Sqnabs. do*.1 25 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay market is weak, though prices are 
unchanged. Straw is rather scarce, the 
new arriving averaging poor. 
Hay. Timothy, new. No. 1. ton.21 50 
No. 2. 19 00 
No. 3. 17 50 
Clover mixed. 17 00 
Straw. Rye. choice.16 0U 
Short and tangled .1300 
@22 00 
@20 00 
@18 5q 
@19 00 
@17 00 
@15 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 7 90 @ 9 50 
Bulls. 550 @7 25 
Cows. 3 50 @700 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 9 00 @13 50 
Culls. 6 00 © 8 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 00 @ 5 00 
Lambs . 7 00 © 8 50 
Hogs... 8 50 @10 00 
GRAIN. 
The past week’s market has been the 
quietest of any since the war began. 
Wheat and corn have dropped two cents. 
Oats are a trifle higher because of heavy 
export demand. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 121 @ 
No. 2. Red . 115 @ 
No. 2. Hard Winter . lu @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. . S 7 @ SW 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 54 @ 56 
Rye ... 1 00 @1 02 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These figures are not the top or low¬ 
est prices, hut fairly represent a large 
number of sales where the goods are not 
delivered. Fruits and vegetables continue 
low. 
Kggs. fancy white, doz.. 
40 
© 
45 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
38 
© 
Ml 
Ordinary grades.. 
20 
@ 
25 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 
36 
@ 
38 
Tub. choice. 
28 
(<« 
32 
Chickens, roasting, lb. .. 
30 
(s4 
32 
Squab broilers, pair . 
1 00 
@ i 
50 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 
30 
© 
40 
Fricassee, lb. 
25 
@ 
•2S 
Fowls. 
24 
© 
26 
Leg of lamb. 
16 
© 
IS 
Lamb chops. 
IS 
© 
20 
Roasting beef . 
IS 
c<a 
■20 
Stewing beef . 
13 
(tO 
14 
Pork Chops. 
10 
IS 
Loiu of Pork . 
15 
<£> 
10 
Round Steak . 
IS 
•20 
Tomatoes, qt. 
3 
@ 
5 
Oucumbers, each . 
1 
3 
Lettuce, each. 
1 
@ 
3 
Corn, doz. . 
12 
•>o 
Potatoes, peck . 
30 
@ 
35 
Lima Beans, in pod, qt.. 
5 
@ 
OO 
Peaches, 16 qt. bkt. 
50 
@ i 
•25 
COMMERCIAL APPLES. 
I N issue of August 15. under heading 
of “New York State Crops, ” yoti state: 
“apples for commercial purposes will 
be far below last year’s crop, but the local 
crop will be made larger.” Can you tell 
me just what this means? What is the 
government report on potatoes in the 
United States? a. k. 
New York. 
The intended meaning in N. Y. State 
apple report is that the proportion good 
enough for commercial use, will be much 
less than the entire crop, many of which 
will go to evaporators and vinegar fac¬ 
tories or be sold at a low price locally. 
The apple branding law in effect in N. Y. 
State this year will probably lessen the 
amount of commercial apples, as many 
that would previously have been sold as 
good or unbramled will have to be labelled 
“unclassified,” a term that will discount 
their value in market. The Government 
report puts potatoes at 76 per cent, one 
per cent, above last year and 4.1 per cent, 
below the 10-year average. w. w. H. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
BOUGHT last week for 40 cents half 
a dozen ears of corn (eight cents), a 
head of lettuce (two cents), two 
muskmelons (10 cents), a quart of toma¬ 
toes (five cents), three cucumbers (five 
cents), a bunch of beets (five cents), and 
two quarts of string beans (five cents), 
though I had to pay $1 for a bushel of 
potatoes. Some of this produce is still 
cheaper now. The big rains have helped 
the potato crop, and the wholesale price 
is not above 00 cents. About the only 
leading crop that is higher than usual is 
peaches, which are above $2 a bushel 
wholesale for fancy, the few home-grown 
ones offering being of mostly low qual¬ 
ity, wholesaling at 75 cents to $1 a third- 
bushel basket. Apples are going down, 
being very plenty and quoted at from 20 
to 75 cents a bushel for poor to fancy. 
The quality is better than usual. Pears 
are becoming plenty at $1 a bushel for 
Clapp’s Favorite and Flemish Beauty, 
and $1 to $1.50 for Bartletts. Plums are 
plenty at 10 to 18 eeuts for six-pound 
basket. Huckleberries retail for 12 cents 
a quart; elderberries, 75 cents a bushel. 
Cabbage is plenty at five cents for large 
heads. Eggplant is five cents for small 
and 10 cents for large. Celery continues 
to be plenty, ranging from 10 to 35 cents 
a dozen. Cucumbers are 25 to 40 cents a 
bushel; green peas, $1 per bag; shelled 
lima beans. 20 cents per quart; string 
beans. 40 to 00 cents per bushel; toma¬ 
toes, 40 cents per bushel. The melon 
crop is large, watermelons wholesaling at 
15 to 35 cents, according to size, and 
muskmelons, home grown, at 25 to .'10 
cents per basket. The Western New 
York field bean crop promises to be very 
light, from drought, and prices are up to 
$4.25 for marrow and $3 for medium and 
pea. Onions are dull at (X) cents to $1.15 
per bushel for home grown. Sweet pota¬ 
toes are fine appearing and at about last 
season’s prices, $1.50 per hamper to $4.50 
per barrel. Butter is about four cents 
up from a month ago. but reported quiet, 
at 34 cents for extra, to 27 cents for fair 
crock butter. Retailers are not asking 
over 35 cents at the city markets. The 
oh(‘eso» trade is steady at 15 to 18 cents, 
fair to extra. Eggs are also up to 33 
cents for white fancy and 26 cents for 
Western candled. j. \v. c. 
T IOGA CO., N. Y., which ill common 
with many other sections of the State 
has suffered from a series of droughts 
in the past few years that have made 
seedtime a hope hut harvest a disappoint¬ 
ment. has apparently entered upon a new 
era of abundance. Copious rains have 
fallen all Summer, and the hillsides of 
late August are as green as those of 
June. More rain has fallen in the third 
week of August than the entire month has 
averaged in the past. But little lmy was 
stored without having been the recipient 
of at least a shower, though tlo crop was 
large and the quality of th 1 best. Oat 
harvest is extremely difiic It, and some 
will be spoiled before th*' most strenuous 
efforts can get it under shelter. Potatoes 
have not as yet beta blighted though 
conditions for the fungus have been ideal; 
no rot is reported and the fields are a 
solid mass of green, many of them pre¬ 
senting the unusual appearance of full 
bloom. Buckwheat growth is rank and 
corn is the wonder of the natives. Moist¬ 
ure in excess and continued hot weather 
have furnished this semi-tropical plant 
with just the conditions it needed for its 
full development and many fields look 
as if they would have to be out with an 
axe. Ordinary “State” corn is frequently 
seen with stalks over 15 feet in height 
and a forest-like density of foliage. Silos 
will not hold the corn intended for them 
this year and much will be fed dry. Pas¬ 
tures have remained lush all Summer and 
the hillside springs have not failed. 
M. B. D. 
Cattle 11: veal 11; hogs 10: butter 
32%: eggs 25: wheat 80: oats 32: po¬ 
tatoes 1% cent per pound; onions two 
cents per pound: tomatoes five cents per 
pound; beans 2% cents per pound: cu¬ 
cumbers 30 cents per dozen: cabbage 
three cents per pound; rhubarb 1% cents 
per pound. Strawberries four cents per 
quart box: raspberries, blackberries and 
Loganberries the same: peaches 50-60’s, 
45 cents per box; 80-00's, 30 cents. 
Gooseberries five cents per pound; cur¬ 
rants six ; cherries four ceuts. j. H. j. 
Forest Grove, Ore. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
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recently, we open a department, here to enable 
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WANTED—Job picking an<T packing apples on 
modern fruit farm. Address GEORGE DOWD. 
Madison, Conn. 
HERDSMAN wanted; registered Jerseys: mar¬ 
ried man preferred; state experience, age. etc. 
CUPOLA FARM, West Claremont, N. II. 
FARM PARTNER WANTED to work with own¬ 
er on shares: New York State; married man 
preferred; particulars exchanged. OWNER, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Working manager or foreman on 
small farm, general farming, fruit a special¬ 
ty; must be experienced; single preferred: state 
wages expected; answer Box K. care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—Married man, strictly temperate; 
understands poultry breeding and production 
of fancy eggs; market poultry; also take charge 
of piggery; wife to assist In housework: good 
cook, no children. Box 15, Stevensville, Sulli¬ 
van Co. 
WANTED—Boy or young man for barn work 
and help in creamery, modern equipment 
throughout, run small route, experience not nec¬ 
essary: ability to learn and willingness to work 
only required; also man. for cow barn. Box 80, 
Elmhurst, Pa. 
WANTED—Position as farm or estate superin¬ 
tendent; practical experience in farming, 
fruit growing, dairying, poultry, incubators, 
farm machinery and building construction: ex¬ 
perienced carpenter, plumber, ete.: married; 
best references. N. K., care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM MANAGER—Married: must be able t > 
raise truck, chickens and) fruit, and be able 
to dispose of same at market prices; to a man 
of this standing I am willing to pay one-half 
of the profits. Farm Is located at North Water 
Gap. Pa. Address all correspondence to F. A. 
MARON. 94 Chambers St.. New York city. 
A PRACTICAL HERDSMAN seeks position: am 
Scotch, married, 1 child, age 2S years; have 
been in this country several years and have 
held positions as herdsman and dairyman on 
some of the largest estates in the East: am 
well qualified and can give highest credentials. 
Address A. D. STEVENSON, Griffin Farm, Port- 
ehester, N. Y. 
WANTED—Herdsman, unmarried, well recom¬ 
mended. for 200 cows; well experienced with 
feeding, breeding, accustomed to handle bulls; 
must be a sober, strong, energetic man. capable 
to handle twenty milkers and keep upright strict 
order; good wages, steady position. Send full 
particulars and references in your first letter. 
Address L. F., Care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARMER WANTED—Exceptional chance: on 
shares or percentage of profits; married: small 
family: on 20-acre Jersey farm. 6-room house, 
near Philadelphia; lorries; 4.000 peach trees, 
grapes and early garden truck; must furnish 
horses, harness and wagons; no barn; all else; 
give age, size and age of family; references, ex 
perienee and all details in first letter or no at¬ 
tention will be given. JAMES R. GWIT.LIAM. 
Mereliantville. N. J. 
ALFALFA HAY—F. P. ERKENBECK. Fayette¬ 
ville. N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Farmers’ cement drain tile ma¬ 
chine: nearly new. W. VANDERVEER, Port 
Ewen, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—A 1)5 horse power steam boiler, 
steam turbine bottle washer, wash trays, etc., 
for a bottling milk plant: also a Rowsher feed 
grinder. CHARLES II. EVANS. Gavlordsville, 
Conn. 
250-ACRE stock and potato farm near Buffalo; 
$50 an acre. ALBERT D. JAMIESON. 844 
Ellicott Square Building. Buffalo. X. Y. 
M ANT TO RENT, option purchase, truck, fruit. 
poultry farm; Pennsylvania preferred: desir¬ 
able marketing facilities. GERALD STANLEY, 
South West Harbor. Maine. 
FOR SALE—100 acres in Central Ohio; good 
grain or stock farm; would take live stock 
as part payment; registered preferred: for de¬ 
scription write It. T. LAIRD. Marysville, O. 
FOR SALE—85-acre farm near maead’am road: 
five minutes’ walk to trolley; good land: good 
buildings, good orchard: plenty water: price rea¬ 
sonable. H. FREDERICK. Brunswick, Maine. 
FOR SALE—Dairy farm 170 acres; good build¬ 
ings, good water: under good cultivation: 
keeps 40 bead; four miles from village: three 
from two creameries. JAMES M. BONTON, 
Roxbury, Del. Co., N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Ideal farm of one lmmVred acres: 
the land is deep, rich soil, capable of pro¬ 
ducing anything; good fourteen-room house: good 
barns; has been in family forty years; owner 
must sell. Address Box 105, Cazenovia. N. Y. 
FOR SALE OR LEASE—Ten acres good land, 
story and half bungalow; new: In at and water, 
barn, chicken houses for seven hundred layers. 
Excellent neighbors, macadamised roads, "mile 
and half to Freehold. ARCHER CROOKS. Free 
hold'. X. J. 
NOTICE—A fine farm of 160 acres in Ingham 
County. Michigan. 5 miles east of the City of 
Mason, will be sold at public sale on said prem¬ 
ises by administrator, pursuant to order of Pro¬ 
bate Court of said county Sept. 26th. A. D. 1914 
30 acres of fine timber. MERRITT HICKS. Ad 
nduistrator. Business address, Dausville. Mich. 
FOR SALE—1.621 acres, farming, grazing and 
timber land in Allegheny Co.. Md.. 11 miles 
from Cumberland, on North Branch River. 0 & 
O. Canal, and West Maryland U. R. run; 
through property; near churches and school. 
Will sell in one parcel or diride in sections 
Liberal terms. R. M. W., care R. X.-Y. 
NEW ENGLAND FARM FOR SALE—To Close 
Estate—Forty acres cultivated land: eight - 
acres of pasturage and good apple orchard; high 
ground; good view; four miles from Atlanti ■ 
Ocean, in the town of North Stonlngton. Cone 
Modern thirteen-room house and* small hart, 
good water; one and one-half miles from trolleo 
and near state Road. Address ALLYN i.'. 
BROWN. Admr., Norwich, Conn. 
