1914. 
THE} RURAL, I ^SW-YORKER 
1143 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Sept. 19, 1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Marketing the Timber Crop.1121, 1122 
When to Spread Manure.1122 
Shall We Use Potash?.1122 
The Government Crop Service.1122 
The Fight With Quack Grass. Part II.1123 
Burning Bones .1124 
Prices for Grimm Alfalfa Seed.1124 
Vetch or Crimson Clover With Rye.1124 
What to Do With Young Clover.1125 
Crop Reports .1126 
Hope Farm Notes.1130 
A Successful Farmers’ Co-operation. Part 11.1133 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Entering the Poultry Contest.1123 
A Hampshire Hog...1136 
Hampshire Swine . 1136 
Treatment of Hog Cholera.1136 
Statement From, the Dairymen’s League.... 1137 
Milk Yield of Goats.1137 
Sheep at N. Y. State Fair......1137 
Sweet Clover for Hog Pasture.1138 
Soy Beans and Corn.1138 
Cribbing .1138 
As to Rye for Horses.1138 
Hard Milking Cow.,.1138 
Roaring .1138 
The Dairy Cow Situation....1139 
What Crops for the Silo.1139 
Live Stock Notes and Prices.1139 
Colds and Roup in Fowls.1140 
Feeding Milk to Hens.1140 
Guinea Pigs and Rats.1140 
The Egg-Laying Contest.1141 
Chicks Shedding Feathers.1141 
Laying House .1141 
Breeding for Eggs.1141 
Questions About Pigeons . 1142 
HORTICULTURE. 
Pole Attachment for Spraying.1124 
Cover Crops in Garden.1124 
Western New York Horticultural Happen¬ 
ings .1125 
Dying Apple Trees.1129 
Walnut Blight . 1129 
Fall Pruning of Peaches .1129 
Barren Plum Trees . 1129 
The War and Seeds and Bulbs .1129 
Garden Notes From Northern Ohio.1131 
White Fly; Potting Hydrangea .1131 
Pruning Cane Fruits .1131 
Preparing Catnip for Market .1131 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day.1134 
Home Canning .1134 
Green Tomato Preserves . 1134 
Canning Meat .1134 
Tomato Figs .1134 
Concerning Preserving Powders .1135 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Storekeeper’s Side .1123 
Events of the Week .1126 
New York State Fair Notes.1128 
Private Water Supply .1128 
Payment of Taxes .1128 
Damages for Change of Grade of Roadway.. 1128 
Editorials .1132 
New York State News .1133 
The Land Bank .1133 
New York Open Markets .1133 
War Taxes .1133 
Publisher’s Desk .1142 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices sit New York, 
Week End ini; Sept. 11, 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 20 and 32-cent zones the 
schedule is 10 cents less for all months: 
April ... 
May 
J une 
July .... 
August .. 
September 
1014. 
1913. 
$1.50 
1.25 
_ 1.10 
1.10 
1.35 
_ 1.40 
1.45 
1.55 
Figuring S6 pounds to the 40-quart can 
the per quart price is as follows: April, 
3.10 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 O. Hotels and restaurants using 
two to three cans per day are paying five 
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. 
Some improvement in quality of the 
current make is noted. There lias been 
an advance of one-half cent on the high¬ 
est grades, but business is not active at 
this figure. Receipts of seconds and low¬ 
er grades are large and selling slowly. 
There is some call for storage creamery 
at nearly the top price for fresh goods. 
Creamery, extra, lb. 32 @ 3 ‘>J^ 
Good to Choice . 26 @ 29 
Lower Grades. 22 @ 25 
State Dairy, beat. 29 @ SO 
Common to Good. 20 @ 23 
Factory. 21 @ 23 
Packing Stock. 19 @ 22 
Elgin, 111., butter market 30 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 32 cents. 
CHEESE. 
The market is one-half cent lower and 
generally unsettled, especially on the low¬ 
er grades of whole milk. 
Whole IMillc, fresh, specials. 
Averago fancy. 
Prime..... 
159:1® 
15!4s@ 
15 @ 
11 @ 
16 
01) 
l.M ; 
149f 
Under grades .... 
Skims, specials. 
Good to choice .. 
Poor to fair. 
. 
13 @ 
n«® 
7 @ 
lid 4 
11 
ni4 
n 
KGGS. 
There is a g 
white, which in 
three cents above 
rent, scarcity of fancy 
some cases are selling 
last week. Medium and 
mixed lots of fresh gathered are as a 
rule held too high for prompt sale and 
going much more slowly than lower 
grades used in cooking, for which there 
is a good demand at 25 cents and un¬ 
der. Closer grading would be profitable 
to a great many shippers, as it is useless 
to expect a few choice eggs to bring up 
tlie price of lower grades mixed with 
them. It works just the other way. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 38 @ 40 
Common to good . 30 @ 35 
Mixed colors, best. 33 ® 37 
Common to good. 22 @ 25 
Western fresh, white. 26 ® 32 
Lower grades. 18 ® 20 
Storage, best . 26 @ 27 
Lower grades. 19 @ 24 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The market is less burdened with in¬ 
ferior apples and the general tone of busi¬ 
ness better. Choice Fall varieties sell¬ 
ing up to $3. Bartlett and Clapp’s Fav¬ 
orite pears in good demand, though the 
latter have to be examined closely for 
core rot. Beaches selling in a very wide 
range of prices from 50 cents to $2 per 
carrier. There has been a heavy surplus 
of small and medium grade. Plum mar¬ 
ket firm, up to $1.50 per bushel. Musk- 
melons running largely poor. 
Apples—Alexander, bill. 1 50 @3 00 
Yellow Transparent . 150 @2 76 
Duchess. ] 50 @ 2 50 
Wealthy . 1 50 @ 2 50 
Fall Pippin. 1 50 @ 2 75 
McIntosh. 2 00 @ 3 00 
Pears. Anjou, bbt. 2 00 @ 3 00 
Clapp’s Favorite . 2 50 @ 4 50 
Bartlett. 3 50 @4 50 
Peaches. Del. and Md., crate. 50 @ 1 75 
W. Va., crate. 75 @175 
Nearby, bkt. 30 @ 90 
Grapes, 181b ease. 50 @ 60 
Plums. 6-bkt. carrier. 50 @100 
Muskmclons. Md., bu. 25 @100 
Jersey, bu. 40 @ 1 00 
Watermelons, 100. 6 00 @15 00 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice." ,55 @ 40 
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. 7 00 @ 7 15 
Medium .5 10 @ 5 15 
Pea . 4 75 @ 4 90 
Red Kidney. 5 95 @ 6 65 
White Kidney. 6 60 @ 6 65 
Lima, California. 7 90 @8 00 
VEGETABLES. 
The potato market has been dull dur¬ 
ing the week, but slightly improved at 
the close, with advances of 15 to 25 
cents per barrel. Onion outlook some¬ 
what better, though prices unimproved. 
Cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes low. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 1 85 @ 2 00 
Long Island, bbl,. 1 75 @ 2 25 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1 75 @2 50 
Beets. 1UU bunches. 50 @ 1 00 
Cariots. bbl. 75 S 1 00 
Cucumbers, bu. 40 @ 75 
Corn. Jersey, 100. 50 @ 1 50 
Cabbage, bbl. 50 @ 75 
Lettuce, hatt'-bbl. basket . 50 @100 
Onions—Orange Co . bag . 75 112 
Conn. Yellow. 100 lbs. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Okra, bu . 1 00 @ 1 50 
Peppers. Jersey, bbl. 75 @ 1 50 
Peas, bu. 25 @ 1 25 
Radishes. 10(1 bunches . 75 @ 1 00 
String Beans, bu. 25 @ 1 25 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl. 75 @100 
Crook Neck . 50 @ 75 
Egg Plants, bu. 25 @ 50 
Tomatoes, Jersey, box. 15 @ 50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 16 @ 17 
Fowls . 17^o@ 18 
Roosters... 13 @ 13^ 
Ducks. 14 @ 17>4 
Geese. 14 @ 15J4 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 23 @ 25 
Squab broilers, pair .. 50 @ 65 
Broilers, common to good . 20 @ 22 
Fowls. 17 @ 19 
Ducks, Spring. 15 @ 15>^ 
Squabs, doz. 1 25 @3 50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay market very dull, with consider¬ 
able accumulation at receiving points. 
Best demand is for clover mixed. Straw 
selling slowly. 
Hay. Timothy, new. No. 1. ton. 20 50 @21 00 
No. 2.18 50 @19 50 
No. 3. 17 50 @18 6 q 
Clover mixed.18 00 @19 00 
Straw. Rye. choice.16 50 @17 00 
Short and tangled .11 00 @14 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers.7 90 
Bulls. 5 5o 
Cows. 3 50 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 9 00 
Culls ... . 6 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs.3 10 
Lambs . 7 00 
Hogs... 8 50 
@ 9 60 
@ 7 25 
@ 7 00 
@13 50 
@ 8 00 
@ 5 00 
@ 8 75 
@950 
GRAIN. 
Wheat and oats which advanced heavi¬ 
ly early in the week had a decided drop 
at the close, though prices are now above 
last week’s figures. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 19 @ 
No. 2. Red ... 1 25 @ 
No. 2. Hard Winter . 116 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 85 @ 87 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 54 @ 56 
Rye.I 00 @ 1 01 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 40 @ 45 
Mixed colors, new laid...... 38 @ 40 
Ordinary grades. 20 @ 25 
Butter, fancy prints, ib. 36 @ 38 
Tub. choice. 2S @ 32 
Chickens, roasting. Ib. 28 @ 30 
Squab broilers, pair .1 (10 @ 1 50 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 30 @ 35 
Fricassee, lb. 23 @ 25 
Fowls. 24 @ 26 
Leg of lamb... 16 @ IS 
Lamb chops. 18 @ 20 
Roasting beef . IS @ 20 
Stewing beef . 12 @ 14 
Pork Chops. 16 @ 18 
Loin of Pork . 15 @ 16 
Round Steak . IS @ 20 
All our crops look well except peaches, 
which will not be five per cent, of a crop 
in Niagara County. Apples about an 
average crop, and plums 50 per cent. It 
has been so wet and cold it is almost im¬ 
possible to get our oats dry even by un¬ 
binding and spreading out a load or two 
at a time. 11 . M. j. 
Lock port, N. Y. 
Miss Fluff: “Mr. Deeptliought, do 
you think marriage is a failure?” Mr. 
Deeptliought: “WelL, the bride never 
gets the best man.”—Judge. 
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. 
IIE Bureau of Statistics gives the 
following estimated yields of staple 
crops. The two first columns of 
figures refer to acreage yields this year 
and the average of five years previous, 
and the third to the total production in 
bushels, pounds, etc., for 1914. 
,-yield-. 
CROP 
1914 
1909- 
1913 
Aver»,°;o 
1914 
Forecast 
Wheat — 
Winter .. 
10.1 
15.6 
675,000.000 
Spring ... 
12.2 
13.3 
221.000,000 
All . 
16.8 
14.7 
896,000,000 
Corn . 
24.9 
25.9 
2,598,000.000 
Oats . 
29.1 
30.6 
1.116,000,000 
Harley . 
26.3 
24.3 
200,000,000 
Rye . 
16.8 
16.1 
43,000,000 
Buckwheat.. 
21.5 
20.5 
17,000,000 
Potatoes — 
White . .. 
98.0 
97.1 
371.000,000 
Sweet ... 
93.0 
92.7 
55.000,000 
Tobacco, lbs. 
729.0 
815.1 
862.000.000 
Flax . 
8.0 
7.8 
15,000,000 
Rice . 
34.5 
33.3 
24,000,000 
llay- 
Tame, ton 
1.42 
1.34 
69.000.000 
Apples . 
.... 
.... 
220,000.000 
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Subscribers’ Exchange 
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MARRIED COUPLE—Want position on farm; 
can do any work; two children, long experi¬ 
ence; best reference; state salary. NESNADNY, 
Care Dr. Kueher, Riveroale, N. J. 
WANTED—Married man for general farm work 
and to assist with poultry on commercial 
poultry farm; house, fuel, vegetables and milk 
supplied 1 ; state age. nationality, experience and 
wages expected. Box 243, St. James, L. I. 
Hog Cholera. 
M Y hogs were infected with cholera last 
February. It was in a very mild 
form. Some had sore eyes, very lit¬ 
tle appetite, and gradually wasted away. 
They were so different from any cholera 
that I had seen that I got a veterinarian. 
After about two weeks of observation and 
two post mortem examinations he decided 
it was cholera, so I got rid of every one 
in May and started in afresh, putting 
them in a big lot over in pasture, have 
had no troulile since. When Winter 
comes I shall have to bring them up to 
their old quarters. Will the germs still 
be there? Can I inoculate them with 
eholera serum and do it myself? Is the 
serum expensive? L. P. B. 
Massachusets. 
It will be necessary to immunize the 
hogs with serum, as the infection will be 
likely to remain in the infected area and 
contaminate hogs that have not already 
had the disease. The dose of immuniz- 
ing serum, where virus is not to be used 
ana ..aero the disease is not present at 
the time of vaccination, runs from 10 
cubic centimeters for litHe pigs to 50 or 
60 eub ! c centimeters for a hog weighing 
over 300 pounds. Hogs weighing 150- 
200 pounds require 30 cubic centimeters 
of serum. Where serum is made at the 
State experiment station and sold at a 
cost not to exceed that of production it 
costs about one and one-half cents per 
cubic centimeters. The writer is not in¬ 
formed as to the cost in your State. 
Take the matter up at once with the 
veterinarian of the State experiment sta¬ 
tion. or with the State veterinarian. The 
vaccination should be done by a qualified 
and authorized graduate veterinarian. 
A. S. A. 
Nailprick. 
M Y family cow ran a small roofing nail 
in foot about a month ago which 
was extracted with a pair of pliers. 
Nothing further was done for it at the 
time. The cow has been more or less 
lame ever since, but there is no swelling 
and very little sensitiveness on pressing 
and no indication of point of entrance. 
What is the proper treatment in such a 
case? o. F. c. 
District of Columbia. 
The wound in the horn has closed and 
probably retained pus which should be 
liberated by cutting; or deep tissues have 
been injured by the foreign body. Open 
up the wound and apply a wet dressing 
of 1-500 solution of bichloride of mercury 
and absorbent cotton to be renewed daily. 
There is danger of tetanus in such cases 
and the opening up of the wound may 
obviate the attack. A. s. A. 
WANTED—-Young, experienced man on 50-acre 
farm. Western N. Y.: mostly poultry: l'ew 
cows; must be good milker and handle team; 
steady job year round for right one; S25 per 
month; give references. 1’. S. L., Care R. N.-vf. 
INDUSTRIOUS, competent, married farmer, 
with grown son, to work on shares, nice 
Maryland farm. 125 miles of Philadelphia: pos¬ 
session given at early date. Also two smaller 
places to rent. DR. BELL, Salisbury, Maryland. 
WANTED—Position as farm or estate superin¬ 
tendent: practical experience in fanning, 
fruit growin", dairying, poultry, incubators, 
farm machinery and building construction; ex¬ 
perienced carpenter, plumber, etc.; married; 
best references. N. K., care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED—By practical American, 
aged 30: married and strictly temperate; un¬ 
derstands fruit, poultry and dairy farming; also 
concrete and wood' construction. Can handle 
men without friction. Best of references. Pres¬ 
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Park, N. J. 
A METHODICAL, practical, scientific and suc¬ 
cessful general farm and dairy manager cov¬ 
ering years of extensive and varied experience 
in exacting operations, will be open for engage¬ 
ment Sept. 1. Eminent credentials will be fur¬ 
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sible and remunerative position will be consid¬ 
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sition of lease of entire property. Address T. J. 
A., care Rural New-Yorker. 
ALFALFA HAY—F. P. ERKENBECK, Fayette¬ 
ville. ~N. v 
WANTED—One carload of Alfilfa. ARTHUR 
CHENEY, Castleton, N. Y. 
M ILL have a nice bunch of Winter apples t"f 
sale, mostly Baldwins. J. S. MILLER, Grants- 
ville, Md. 
WANTED—Quantity of high bush cranberry 
seed. E. A. MORGAN, City National Bank 
Bldg., Dayton, Ohio. 
NEW HONEY—Basswood or clover in sixty- 
pound 1 cans. Write for prices. C. A. HATCH. 
Richland Center, Wis. 
APPLES, APPLES, APPLES—Choice 
Fall and Winter Apples. Please order 
C. J. YODER. Grantsville, Aid. 
sprayed 
to-day. 
FOR SALE—20 acres, 2 grapes, 4 strawberries, 
balance corn, peanuts anil young pine. W. W. 
ARTHUR, N. Emporia, Va. 
FOR SALE—Truck farm, 25 acres; all tools; 8- 
room house; good markets at seashore; soil 
light loam. Price !?3,750. Write. I. B. HAL¬ 
STEAD, Belmar, N. J., Route 1. 
I WANT to buy or rent, with option of buying, 
a farm, 20 to 30 acres, in New Jersey, with¬ 
in 100 miles of New York City. What have 
you to offer? F. S. W., Care R. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—109 acres in Central Ohio; good 
grain or stock farm; would take live slock 
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. 
“I have read every book on agriculture 
that I cau find,” said the amateur farmer, 
“and still I don’t manage to get crops.” 
“There’s the trouble,” replied Farmer 
Corntossel. “You’re putting all the cul¬ 
tivation on yourself instead of on the 
land.”—Washington Star. 
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Farm Bargain i>f 12 rooms in line condition, would 
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Price, $3,850. E. E. SLOCUM, Farm Specialist, 141 Broadway, N. T. City 
Do You Want Alfalfa and Big Grain 
r* _ 7 Here is the farm. 323-acres; 6 large barns: 
LlOps. fio cow stalls: lien houses; silo; running, 
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HALL’S FAKM AGENCY, Oweoo. Tioga Co., N. Y 
FOR SALE—Dairy farm 170 acres; good build¬ 
ings, good water; under good cultivation; 
keeps 40 head; four miles from village; three 
from two creameries. JAMES M. BONTON, 
Uoxbury, Del. Co., 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, macadamized roads, mile 
and half to Freehold. ARCHER CROOKS, Free¬ 
hold', N. J. 
NOTICE—A fine farm of 100 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. 20th. A. D. 1914. 
30 acres of tine timber. MERRITT HICKS. Ad¬ 
ministrator. Business address, Dansville, Mich. 
SPLENDID Commercial Apple Orchard, located 
in the famous Apple and Tomato Belt. Morgan 
County. West Va., consists of ten thousand 
trees, ten years old; tomatoes will maintain 
property. Best of management now on prop¬ 
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ulars write immediately, R. It., care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
NEW ENGLAND FARM FOR SALE—To Close 
Estate—Forty acres cultivated land; eighty 
acres of pasturage and good apple orchard; high 
ground: good view; four miles from Atlantic 
Ocean, in the town of North Stonington, Conn. 
Modern thirteen-room house and' small barn; 
good water: one and one-luilf miles from trolley, 
find near State Road. Address ALLYN L. 
BROWN. Admr., Norwich, Conn. 
AA ANTED BIG DAIRY FARM—Farm manager. 
42 years old. with 2 full grown sons, all wide 
experience: Dutch nationality: wants dairy farm 
of at least 30 or more cows, on shares or to 
rent for cash; also will rent farm and buy stock: 
must be near big town; opportunity to produce 
certified milk and build up a retail milk route 
very best private and bank references. B. L 
Care Rural New-Yorker. 
