CONTENT 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Nov. 14, 1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Clovers in New York. 1335 
Dynamite or Tile for Drainage.1336 
Remarkabe Farming in Tennessee.1336 
Preserving Fence Posts.1337 
Late Cover Crop .1338 
Killing Weed Seeds in Manure.1338 
Concrete for Barn Cellar. 1341 
Hope Farm Notes .1342 
A Green Raspberry..] 1343 
More About Brassington Cherry.“.1343 
New Plant Introductions .1343 
Digging and Storing Potatoes.1345 
Lyle’s Grain Figures . 1345 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .1351 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Dairy Cow Saves the Ohio Corn Belt, 
„ 1335, 1336 
The French-Canadian Cattle .1336 
Do Old Hens Pay? . 1337 
Mutton and Hare for Meat . 1338 
The Law About Glandered Horses.1345 
Farm Stock Breeding. Part V.1348, 1349 
What s Wrong With the Pigs?.1349 
Pining Cow .. 
Wart On Mule ..1350 
Dog With Eczema . ] . 1350 
? !?at . 'I- H350 
Certified Dairying in South Carolina!l351 
Live Stock and Dairy Prices.1351 
Cattaraugus County, N. Y. 1351 
The National Dairy Show .1352, 1CE3 
The Egg-Laying Contest..1353 
Hens in Poor Condition . 1353 
Preventing Soiled Eggs.1353 
Hens With Bronchitis . .1353 
Double-Yolked Eggs Will Hatch—Sometimes. 1353 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Most Profitable Apple. 
Battling With Peach Borer . 
Notes From a Maryland Garden. . 
Preparing Celery for Winter. 
Tile for Sub-Irrigation . 
The Apple Grading Law ... 
.1336 
.1338 
.1339 
.1339 
.1341 
.1345 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Dav. 
The Rural Patterns . 
Apple Sirup—A New Product . 
Seen in New York Shops. 
Canned Chard; Quince and Sw'eet 
Ground Cherrv. 
.1346 
Apple; 
Souse . 
A Window Cooler. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Trapping Rabbits .1338 
Sour Honey .. 
Events of the Week .1340 
Water Flows Both Ways .1341 
Septic Tank .. 
Editorials .11.1344 
New York State News .!.!!.’.,!! 1345 
Publisher’s Desk . 1354 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Nov. 6 , 1914. 
MILK. 
The Borden milk schedule to producers 
for the six months beginning with Octo¬ 
ber is as follows. This is per 100 pounds 
in the 26-cent zone. This is what is 
known as the “maximum” for milk test¬ 
ing 3.8 to 4.2 per cent, fat, and is 20 
cents per 100 pounds above the “flat” 
rate. 
October 
November 
1 >ecember 
January 
February 
March . . 
1014. 
$2.00 
2.10 
2.10 
2.05 
1.05 
1.00 
Wholesale prices paid by New York 
dealers are running $2.01 and $1.01 for 
y and ('. Hotels and restaurants using 
Two to three cans per day are paying five 
to six cents per quart, single quart prices 
from bakeries and grocery stores, six to 
seven cents; delivered milk, nine to 10 
cents. 
BUTTER. 
A scarcity of choice creamery has 
forced the price up one-half cent on this 
grade, and some slight improvement in 
market tone is noted in medium grades. 
Creamery, extra.above 92 score, lb... 34 }£@ 35 
Extra. 92 score . 33**® 34^ 
Good to Choice . 26 @ 28 
Lower Grades. 22 @ 24 
Storage . 27 ® 32 
State Dairy, best. 32 @ 33 
Common to Good. 22 @ 28 
Ladles . 19 @ 23 
Packing Stock. 13 @ 22 
Process . 22 ® 26 
Elgin, Ill., butter market 32 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 34 cents. 
Chicago creamery, 26@32. 
CHEESE. 
Buyers are very critical, and with re¬ 
ceipts large the tone of trade is toward 
lower prices. The slack demand for milk 
at many shipping stations in the Utica, 
N. Y., section has caused many factories 
to keep open longer than usual. 
Whole Milk, fresh, specials. 15 @ 1514 
Average fancy. 149£@ 15 
Under grades . n @ J 4 
Daisies. Wisconsin. hi 4 © HH 
Skims, specials.. L 3 @ 13}4 
Good to choice . Ji © 12 
Poor to fair. 7 © 10 
EGGS. 
Storage stocks in this section Novem¬ 
ber 1 were about 3,800.000 dozen in ex¬ 
cess of last year. Uniform cases of new- 
laid white eggs are very scarce, occa¬ 
sional lots bringing up to 55 cents. The 
general run of gathered stock from good 
to choice sells from 30 to 36 cents, and 
storage 24 to 20. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 52 @ 55 
Medium to good. 40 @ 45 
Mixed colors, best. 3 s @ 40 
Common to good. 25 @ 30 
Western fresh, white. 35 @ 40 
Lower grades ... ]5 @ 25 
8 torage. best . 24 @ 26 
Lower grades. 13 @ 20 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The surplus of cull apples has been 
reduced so that the market is in better 
condition, with advanced prices of 25 to 
50 cents on some varieties. Grapes are 
in rather light supply, but many show¬ 
ing poor quality and prices irregular; 
cranberries still very low, as the holiday 
demand has not begun. 
Apples—BenDavis, bbl. 150 @2 25 
Fall Pippin. 1 50 @3 25 
McIntosh. 2 00 @ 4 00 
Jonathan. 2 00 @3 50 
Twenty-ounce . 1 50 @ 2 75 
Spitz. 1 5U @ 2 75 
Baldwin. . 1 50 @ 2 50 
King . 156 . @300 
Greening . 2 00 @3 75 
Pears. Anjou, bbl. 3 00 @ 4 50 
Seckel . 3 00 @ 5 00 
Pose ...3 00 @6 00 
Clairgeau. 3 00 @ 4 50 
Sheldon. 3 00 @ 5 50 
„ Ki offer . . 1 50 @2 25 
Grapes, 181b case. .... 50 @100 
Niagara. 41b. bkt. 8 @ 10 
Black,41b. bkt . 8 @ 10 
Black. 201b. bkt. 35 @ 40 
Bulk, ton. 3000 @3S 00 
Cranberries. Cape Cod. bbl. 2 50 @ 5 50 
Jersey, Standard crate. 4 00 @ 4 75 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 30 @ 32 
Common to good. 26 @ 29 
Pacific Coast . 12 @ 15 
Old stock. 09 @ 10 
HONEY. 
Clover, comb, lb. 12 @ 16 
Extracted, gallon. 50 @ 90 
NUTS. 
Chestnut market about over. Hickory 
nuts very scarce. 
Chestnuts. Northern, bu. 3 00 @ 4 50 
Southern . 50 ©2 00 
Hickory Nuts, bu. 3 00 @3 50 
BEANS. 
Medium and Pea are 15 cents per hun¬ 
dred higher. Red Kidney 25 to 50 cents 
lower, as export demand is light. Many 
People are prejudiced against this bean 
because of the dark color, but it is of 
high quality and especially good in com¬ 
bination with fried or boiled bacon. 
Growers of Red Kidney should make an 
effort to interest local restaurants in this 
bean, rather than depending so largely 
on export trade. 
Marrow. 100 lbs. 
Medium . 
Pea . 
Red Kidney. 
Lima, California. 
5 80 @ 6 00 
4 40 @ 4 50 
4 30 @ 4 45 
5 OO @ 5 60 
5 90 @ 6 00 
VEGETABLES. 
THE DAIRY SHOW. 
(Continued from page 1352.) 
tends to he judging for utility alone, and 
most of us are raising cattle for the 
money. The pretense is that the points 
on the score card are looking toward a 
utility animal. Obviously they are not, 
and if portions of the score card are for 
beauty and others are for utility, why 
not be perfectly frank and say so? Why 
not say we want a face dished just so 
for beauty, instead of pretending that the 
dish has anything to do with the ability 
nf the animal to produce milk and butter- 
fat economically? The tortuousness of 
the milk veins and their size varies with 
the period of lactation. This is probably 
due to the gradual decrease in blood pres¬ 
sure to the udder as the lactation period 
progresses. Then, why should a cow 
that is nearly dry be relegated to fifth or 
txth place because her milk veins are 
not as large or as winding as the cow 
that came in two weeks ago? 
Spring Of Rib.— Quite a hit of stress 
is laid upon spring of rib. What makes 
-pring of rib? Is it an inherited quali¬ 
fy or does it vary with the condition of 
the animal? It may be inherited to some 
degree, but I have a hunch that it varies 
’vith the conditioning of the animal. 
5 hen a slat hammock is empty, it 
doesn’t have much spring of ribs, and 
hey are close together but the moment 
:"'o or three fat men get into it, the slats 
nave a great bulge and they are farther 
apart. It looks to me as though this ap- 
plied to a certain degree with the animal. 
- ili her up and the spring of rib is in¬ 
creased. Is this reasonable and right? 
i f not, the one who can prove that it 
isn t has the floor. xr 
I he potato market is still burdened 
with low quality stock. Prices remain 
on the same basis as last week, though 
there are occasional sales a trifle higher. 
Sweet potatoes lower, especially south¬ 
ern. Onions in excessive supply and 
market very weak. Cabbage lower. Cel¬ 
ery low. Lettuce running very poor. 
Peppers from the South scarcely bringing 
charges. Spinach and squashes selling 
slowly. 
Potatoes-Jersey, bbl. 
Long Island, bbl. 
State, 181) lbs. 
Maine, ISO ibs. 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl.... 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 
Beets, bbi. 
Carrots, bbl.. 
Celery, doz.. 
Cauliflower, bbl. 
C u e u ra b e rs. b u. 
Cabbage, bbl. 
Lettuce, balf-bbl. basket. 
Onions— Red. bag ... 
Yellow. .. 
Peppers, bbl. 
Peas, bu.’.’ 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 
Spinach, bbl. 
8tring Beans, bu. 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl. 
Marrow. 
Egg Plants, bn. 
Tomatoes, box. 
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Chickens, lb . 
Fowls . 
Roosters. 
Ducks. 
Geese. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
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DRESSED POULTRY. 
For two weeks the market has been 
overstocked with considerable poultry 
not good enough for profitable cold stor¬ 
age. TV ell fattened stock has been put 
quite largely into freezers to await holi¬ 
day demand, which will be a fairly safe 
investment unless fresh stock for Thanks¬ 
giving is in large surplus. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 18 @ 22 
Common to good . 15 © 17 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 23 @ 25 
Squab broilers, pair ... 50 @ 60 
Broilers, common to good . 19 @ 20 
Fowls. 14 @ 17 
Ducks, Spring. 16 © 18 
8 quabs. doz.125 @3 75 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay declined 50 cents per ton early 
in the week, but advanced later because 
of the embargo on shipments of hay from 
sections where foot and mouth d'sease is 
prevalent. Alfalfa has been sold here 
this year, but the demand is only for the 
high qualities. Badly cured or otherwise 
inferior grades are not wanted merely 
because they are Alfalfa. Straw is $1 
lower. 
Hay. Timothy,'new, No. 1. ton_ 
No. 2. . . 
... 20 00 
@20 50 
No. 3. f. . 
@17 03 
@18 50 
@14 00 
@11 00 
Clover mixed. 
Straw. Rye. choice. 
Short and tangled . 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 6 00 @ 9 75 
Blllis. ^ 95 /a r 
Cows. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 
Culls. 
. 8 50 
@12 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
@ 5 50 
© 8 75 
@810 
Lambs . 
HogS... 
GRAIN. 
Wheat advanced two to three cents 
during the week, partly because of the 
extension of the European War zone. 
Corn two cents higher and export busi¬ 
ness active. Oats also higher with heavy 
sales to Europe. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 18 O 
No. 2. Red . 1 21 @ 
No. 2. Hard Winter. 117 © 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 83 @ 84 
Oats, as to weight, bush. .. 49 @ 53 
R ye.1 00 © 1 05 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
figures noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying opportuni¬ 
ties of at least half of New York’s popu¬ 
lation. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 55 @ 60 
Mixed colors, new laid. 45 © 50 
Ordinary grades. 25 © 35 
Butter, fancy prints, )b. 38 @ 40 
Tub. choice. 30 @ 34 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 25 @ 27 
Squab broilers, pair . 1 00 @ 1 25 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 23 © 25 
Fricassee, lb. is @ 20 
Fowis . IS @ 20 
Leg of lamb. 16 @ 18 
Lamb chops. ]8 © 20 
Roasting beef . 18 © 20 
Stewing beef . 12 @ 16 
Pork Chops . is @ 20 
Loin of Pork . 17 @ 20 
Round Steak . is © 22 
* 
Our cotton exports during the week 
amounted to 65,000.000 pounds. 
* 
Norway buyers are said to be arrang¬ 
ing for imports of 25.000 barrels of 
American apples, the home crop being 
short. 
* 
Business failures in this country for the 
10 months ending November 1 numbered 
12,969. with assets of $155,934,132 and 
$271,665,747. 
^ There are now in this country 7.578 
National banks, with authorized capital 
of $1,072,492,175, and total circulations 
of $1,121,468,911. 
The total amount of incorporations in 
this country during the 10 months ending 
October 31 was $707,847,000. or about 
half the amount for same period of the 
two previous years. 
* 
Galveston, Texas, has received a cargo 
of California fruits via Panama Canal. 
The distance is 2,500 miles greater than 
by rail. Regular shipments are expected 
by this longer, yet cheaper, route. 
In October we coined 8.565.859 pieces, 
valued at $6,672-,051. There were 181,- 
259 $20 gold pieces; 138.500 $10: 5.000 
$5; 358,000 $2.50; 62.000 silver halves; 
35S.000 quarters; 6,400,000 dimes; 1.- 
421,000 nickels, and 100 pennies. 
❖ 
As a provisional embargo has been 
placed on wool shipment from Australia, 
with the probability of similar action in 
New Zealand and South Africa, this 
country faces a shortage for many lines 
of manufacture. The domestic market is 
firm and in some cases higher. Recent 
sales at Boston have been at 23 to 24 
cents for unwashed delaine, and 27 for 
quarter blood combing. There seems a 
fair probability that some of the embar¬ 
goed Australian wool will reach our fac¬ 
tories as raw material for orders from 
Great Britain. 
Oct. 30. We have had a very fine 
month in which to do Fall work ;* some 
of it was too hot for the time of year. 
Frosts have been felt very little as yet. 
Oct. 27 the ground was white with snow; 
today has been rainy, we need a heavy 
rain fall for Fall plowing. Apples are 
a heavy crop in this section and are 
hardly worth handling; most of them are 
sold in bulk at 40 cents per ewt. or 20 
per bu. A few are barrelling at $1.40 
per barrel. Senator Wilsons apple-pack¬ 
ing law does not take here as there is 
too much discrepancy between the price 
received per barrel and the labor con¬ 
sumed in packing. We believe in an 
honest pack but we cannot do it for 
nothing. Potatoes are yielding very 
heavily from 200 to 300 bushels per acre 
the price is from 25 to 30. Cabbage has 
dropped to $5 per ton. Wheat $1: oats 
40; corn 90; barley 65: hay $15 ; Fowls 
12; poultry 14; veal 10; hogs 8: lambs 
7 ; butter 28; eggs 30. e. t. B. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The It. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick 
reply and a • square deal.” See guaran¬ 
tee editorial page. : : : : 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Comply..ig with several suggestions received 
recently, we open a department here to enable 
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name and address must be counted as part of 
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week. No display type used, and only Farm 
Products, Help and Positions Wanted admitted. 
For subscribers only. Dealers, jobbers and gen¬ 
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advertisements will go under proper headings 0:1 
other pages. Seed and Nursery advertisements 
will not be accepted for this column. 
YOUNG MAN. 17. studying farming, desires po¬ 
sition on well-conducted farm: no experience; 
willing to learn. D. G., care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—March 1. capable married man ( j 
v.ork on farm by the year-; wife to board help, 
experienced; references required. C. A. J., care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position assistant poultryinan. would 
assist with books, or anything on farm; good 
bookkeeper; strictly tenmerate; non-smoker. R. 
H. O., care Rural New-Yorker. 
NOTICE—-On or about Jan. 1. 1915, a first class 
farm manager or superintendent will be o; on 
for engagement; American, age 30, qualified fa¬ 
nny proposition. For particulars address Box 73, 
Silver Creek. N. Y. 
RESPONSIBLE position -wanted. Dec. 1; wide 
experience in farm management and full col¬ 
lege training; ability and character attested t) 
by responsible persons; married; 35. Address L.. 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED—By an agricultural school 
graduate as superintendent of a farm; under¬ 
stands farm crops, stock, dairying, poultry, farm 
management; single; best of references. ‘Box Z. 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as farm manager, dairy and 
grain farm, understand all modern methods of 
farming, butter making, testing, feeding and' 
ha -dliug men to best advantage; best refer¬ 
ence. Box 218. Stockbridge, Mass. 
POSITION WANTED—-By an agricultural school 
graduate as poultryman; understands the care 
and feeding of chicks and layers in large num¬ 
bers, mammoth incubators and brooders; live 
years' experience: single; best of references. 
Box -74, North Chatham N. Y. 
WANTED—Partner, worker to put SI.000 ad¬ 
ditional working capital in high-class poultry, 
truck and fruit farm: 25 acres in wealthy sub¬ 
urb of New York City; home market for every¬ 
thing; high prices; big opportunity for exj cri- 
enced hustler take full charge and half profits. 
N. A. F., care R. N.-Y. 
POSITION WANTED—By working farm fore¬ 
man. not afraid of hard work, who under¬ 
stands farm, garden, poultry, cattle, with ability 
to make good: at present employed; would like 
a change; Scotch, aged 39 years, married, no 
children. SCOTCHMAN, care A. E. Wheeler, 
100 West 23d St.. N. Y. C. 
ALFALFA HAY—F. P. ERKENBECK, Fayette¬ 
ville, N. Y. 
NEW HONEY—Basswood or clover in sixtv- 
pound cans; write for prices. C. A. HATCH, 
Richland Center. Wis. 
APPLES. APPLES, APPLES—For choice spray¬ 
ed Winter Apples. Please order to-day. C. J. 
YODER, Grantsville, Md. 
ALFALFA FOR SALE—Fifty tons first cutting, 
thirty tons of second cutting, all cut early, 
well cured, bright and pea green; have sold 
farm and must dispose of Alfalfa. JOHN MC¬ 
LENNAN, Fayetteville, N. Y. 
LIVE OYSTERS in the shell. 82.75 barrel: nice 
yellow sweet potatoes, .$2.50 barrel. Thanks¬ 
giving is coming: order now: would exchange 
few for fancy apples, such as Kings, etc. W.M. 
LORD. East New Market, Md. 
GRAPEFRUIT AND ORANGES by express in 
half or whole boxes, F. O. B. Miami. Fla. ; 
fancy briglits at $1.75. Golden Russets at $l.:o 
per box, with order; delivered prices quoted on 
request. GEO. B. CELLON, Tropical Grove, 
Miami. Fla. 
FOR SALE—Fully equipped poultry plant in 
San Joaquin Valley, Calif.; particulars free. 
O. C.. care R. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—Farm 85 acres, 65 wide, eultixa- 
tion apple and peach orchards, one-half mile 
of depot and town of 1.000 inhabitants; bargain 
to quick purchaser. HANSON S. PHILLIPS, 
Ilebron, Md. 
IMPROVED small farm in two-crop Virginia re¬ 
gion for sale, account husband's death; suit¬ 
able for peanuts, hogs, truck, grain; New York 
I markets; mild winters. MRS. ELEANOR 
j i HURTLEFF, Claremont, Va. 
| FOR SALE—200 acres dairy, fruit and vegeta¬ 
ble farm, one mile from City Hall, sidewalk 
and electric light to the farm; a good paying 
proposition or would make an ideal summer re¬ 
sort for city people: full description and price. 
Address OWNER. Box 277, Montpelier, Vt. 
LONG ISLAND FARM FOR SALE—-75 acres; 
one-third cleared, one-third young growth, bal¬ 
ance big oak timber; fair buildings, small or¬ 
chard : adjoins the country home of Chief Jus¬ 
tice Bartlett, N. Y. Court of Appeals; 60 mile* 
from N. Y. O. B. ACKERLY, Yonkers, N. Y. 
$80 PER ACRE—Productive, highly cultivated 
82-acre farm, located at city line. Corrv, Erie 
County, Pa.; good house, fine bank barn, two 
silos; right at splendid city, market, schools, 
churches, roads, etc., finest water; produces im¬ 
mense hay. ensilace. pasture and other crops 
JOHN I. COLEG ROVE, Sheffield, Pa. 
FINE RIVER FARM FOR SALE—The George 
Stratton farm, located at South Oxford, Che¬ 
nango County, New York: situate one mile from 
Coventry station on the Lackawanna Railroad 
and six miles south of Oxford, will be sold at 
public auction on Thursday. Nov. 12, to close 
an estate; farm comprises 375 acres, is well wa¬ 
tered from springs and has fine buildings ail in 
good condition. The residence cost $6,000 to 
build, and the cow barn $4,000. Will be sold in 
two ways, in parcels or as a whole, whichever 
will bring the greater price. Farm contains 50 
acres of timber, consisting of pine, oak aud 
chestnut. Four years will be given for removal 
of same. Lake Warn is located on the farm 
Possession given March 1. For further informa- 
tion address CHARLES W. BROWN, Oxford, 
