CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Nov. 21, 1914. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Selling a Carload of Potatoes. 
What Form of Lime. 
Kainit and White Grubs. 
Seeding Over a Potato Field. 
Why Is This Soil Cheap?. 
English Farmers and War Prices. 
Turning Under Corn Fodder . 
Notes and Comments . 
Hope Farm Notes . 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Local Milk Contests. 
Waste Nothing at Butchering Time... 
Training an Airedale Dog . 
Farm Stock Breeding. Part V. 
Live Stock and Dairy Prices . 
Hindrances to Raising Purebreds .... 
Cost of a Heifer . 
Ayrshires Come Back .. 
Otsego County Dairy Conditions. 
Testing Cream . 
Dairy Ration With Alfalfa. 
Feeding a Work Team . 
Ration for Milch Cow .... 
Feeding Sheaf Oats ... 
Oats for the Calf . 
Indigestion . 
Suppurating Corn .. 
Mare With Heaves .. 
Obstructed Teat . 
Lame Calves . 
Horse With Worms . 
Contagious Foot and Mouth Disease .. 
New England Milk Conditions . 
Controlling Breachy Cattle . 
“The Favorite Hens’’ . 
A Barn Henhouse . 
Peanuts for Poultry . 
Cleaning Soiled Eggs . 
HORTICULTURE. 
Double the Busy Bee’s Business . 
Adventures With Plant Lice. 
The Rose Mango . 
Fruits for Home Use . 
Starting a Nut Industry . 
Immune Chestnuts; Filbert Cuttings.. 
Care of Apple Trees . 
Protecting Your Seeds . 
The Black Walnut .. 
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WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Keeping Strained Honey .1365 
"Teachers” for Farm Women .1365 
Take the Wife’s Advice .1365 
Disposing of Property by Will ...1365 
Requirements of Sanitary Code .1365 
Right to Property .1365 
Trespass . 1365 
“According to Jimmy” .1369, 1374 
The Deaf Mute .1370 
The Corn Song .1370 
The Wife as Bookkeeper ...1371 
The Housewives’ League and Prices .1371 
Pin Money Puzzles . 1371 
Better Babies Contest . 1372 
"Rich Milk” .1372 
Things to Think About .1372 
How to Make Tatting .1373 
Removing Nitrate of Silver Stains .........1373 
Good Words . 1373 
"Twisty-Toe” .1374 
On Seflshness and Hobbies .1375 
Kitchen Tools; Household Conveniences.. ..1375 
Dresses for the Girls .1376 
The Cat and the Door Bell.1376 
Getting a Pretty Yard .1377 
Southern Outdoor Flowers for the New York 
Trade . 1377 
The Stuttering Child .1377 
Grasshoppers as Food ...1377 
An Old-Fashioned New England Dinner.1378 
Honey as a Substitute for Sugar.1378 
The Land of Fulfillment (Continued).1379 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Facts About the Land Bank. 
Growing Electric Light and Power... 
Two Pictures . 
Well for Cesspool . 
Roots in a Well . 
Sparrow Nuisance . 
N. Y. State News . 
Sewage Disposal . 
Events of the Week . 
Boston Markets . 
Buffalo Markets . 
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Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week Ending Nov. 13, 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” 
ra te. 
1014. 
October .. 
November 
December 
January . 
February 
March .. 
82.00 
2.10 
2.10 
2.0.1 
1.95 
1.90 
Wholesale prices paid by New York 
dealers are running $2.01 and $1.91 for 
B and C. Hotels and restaurants using 
two to three cans per day are paying five 
to six cents per quart, single quart prices 
from bakeries and grocery stores, six to 
seven cents; delivered milk, nine to 10 
cents. 
BUTTER. 
A shortage in receipts and irregular 
quality in much of the current make 
have caused an advance of one to two 
cents on the better grades, fancy lots 
having wholesaled at 36% cents. The 
high prices have called out storage stock, 
the best bringing 32 to 33 cents. 
Creamery, extra.above 92 score, lb... 36 @ 36)s 
Extra. S*2 seore . 35 (it 35)$ 
Good to Choice . 23 @ 32 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 25 1 
Storage . 27 @ 33 3 
State Dairy, best. 33 @ 34 
Common to Good..... 23 @ 29 
Ladles . 20 @ 23 
Packing Stock. 19 @ 23 
Process . 22 @ 26 
Elgin. 111., butter market 33 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 35 cents. 
Chicago creamery, 26@33. 
CHEESE. 
Business is dull, and dealers ready to 
cut prices where necessary to make sales. 
But few sales at the top figure arc noted, 
15 cents covering most high grade trade. 
Whole Milk, fresh, specials.. 
. 15 
@ 
15M 
Average fancy. 
. 14-M@ 
1 s 
til 
1 nder grades . 
@ 
14 
Daisies. Wisconsin . 
14»i 
Skims, specials. 
. .. 13 
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13 W 
Good to choice . 
. 11 
@ 
12 
Poor to fair.. 
@ 
10 
EGGS. 
Prices are on the same basis as last 
week, high qualities being scarce, but 
medium and under grades moving slowly. 
A few sales of storage eggs for export 
are reported. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 52 @ 54 
Medium to good. 40 @ 50 
Mixed colors, best. 40 @ 43 
Common to good. 25 @ 35 
Western fresh, white... 45 @ 48 
Lower grades. 20 @ 30 
Storage, best . 24 @ 26 
Lower grades. 18 @ 20 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The apple market is somewhat im¬ 
proved, as demand is good and receipts 
not large. Grapes scarce, but of poor 
quality and selling slowly. 
Apples—BenDavis, bbl. 175 @2 25 
Fall Pippin. 1 75 @ 3 25 
McIntosh. 2 50 @ 4 00 
Jonathan. 2 50 @ 3 50 
Twenty-ounce . 1 60 @ 2 75 
Spitz. 1 50. @2 75 
Baldwin. 1 50. @ 2 50' 
King . 2 00* @ 2 7a 
Greening .2 017 @ 3 7a. 
Pears. Anjou, bbl. 3 00 @ 4 50 
Seckel . 5 39 @ 5 00 
Bose . 3 00 @ 6 00 
Clalrgeau. 3 00 @ 4 50 
Sheldon. 3 Oo @ 5 50 
Kioffer . 1 00 @ 2 25 
Grapes, 181b case. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Niagara. 41b. bkt. 8 <& 10 
Black.41b.bkt. 8 @ 10 
Black.201b. bkt. 35 @ 40 
Bulk, ton.30 00 @38 00 
Cranberries. Cape Cod. bbl.2 i 0 r-c 6 00 
Jersey, bbl. 4 00 @4 75 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 28 @ 30 
Common to good. 24 @ 27 
Pacific Coast . 11 @ 14 
Old stock. 7 @ 9 
HONEY. 
Clover, comb, lb. 12 @ 16 
Extracted, gallon. 50 @ 90 
NUTS. 
Chestnuts. Northern, bu.•. 2 00 @ 4 00 
Southern . 100 @2 50 
Hickory Nuts, bu. 2 50 @3 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow. 100 lbs.6 10 @ 6 50 
Medium . 4 40 @ 4 50 
Pea . 4 40 @ I 50 
Red Kidney. . .... 4 50 @ 5 75 
Lima, California. 5 90 @6 00 
VEGETABLES. 
Potato supply is still very large and 
prices unimproved. Cabbage $1 per ton 
lower. Onions and cauliflower low. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 1 50 @ 1 75 
Long Island, bbl. 1 50 @ 2 00 
State. ISO lbs.150 @175 
Maine. 180 lbs. 1 00 @ 1 75 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2 00 @ 2 25 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 05 @ 12 
Beets, bbl. 100 @150 
Carrots, bbl. 75 @ 1 00 
Chicory, southern, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Celery, doz. 10 @ 25 
Cauliflower, bbl. 50 @2 00 
Cucumbers, bu. 1 00 @390 
Cabbage, bbl. 75 @ 1 00 
Ton . 5 00 @ 9 00 
Kale, bbl. 5) @ 75 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 25 @ 1 50 
Onions—Red. bag . 60 @ 85 
Yellow. 60 @ 90 
Peppers, bu.1 00 @ 1 50 
Peas, bu. 75 @ 3 (X) 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 75 @ 1 00 
Spinach, bbl. 50 @100 
String Beans, bu. 1 00 @ 2 00 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl. 60 @ 75 
Marrow. 60 @ 75 
New, bn. 75 @ 1 00 
Egg Plants, bu, . 50 @ 75 
Tomatoes, box. 75 @ 1 50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb. 14 @ 16 
Fowls . 14 @ 16)6 
Roosters. 10 @ 11 
Ducks. 15 @ 20 
Geese. 14 & 15 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
The present outlook is that Thanks¬ 
giving turkeys will have to be good to 
bring 20 cents or more at wholesale, 
though much depends on the weather 
and the quantity producers hold back 
for later holiday trade. This early holi¬ 
day is always a critical time, because of 
weather uncertainty. A warm, sticky 
spell raises havoc with dressed poultry. 
The hulk of the Thanksgiving market de¬ 
mands good quality, so that thin birds 
would better be held back and put in 
bettor condition. Be sure that the ani¬ 
mal heat is all out of the birds before 
packing, otherwise there 
loss. 
will 
be 
serious 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 
20 
@ 22 
Common to good . 
15 
@ is 
Chickens choice broilers, lb_ 
23 
@ 
25 
Squab broilers, pair. 
...... 
50 
@ 60 
Broilers, common to good .. 
19 
@ 
20 
Roasters . 
23 
@ 
24 
Fowls. 
14 
@ 
IS 
Ducks. Spring. 
16 
@ IS 
Squabs, doz. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
1 25 
@ 3 75 
Hay is scarce because 
of 
the 
restrie- 
tions on shipment caused by the cattle 
quarantine, and prices $2 to $3 per ton 
above last week. 
Hay. Timothy, new. No. 1. ton... 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Clover mixed. 
Straw. Rye. choice. 
Short and tangled . 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 
Bulls. 
Cows. 
Calves, prime veal. 100 lb. 
Culls. 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
Lambs .... 
Hogs. 
23 00 
,21 00 
19 00 
19 00 
,14 00 
,10 00 
6 00 
5 25 
. 3 25 
10 00 
6 00 
, 4 00 
7 25 
, 7 75 
@24 00 
@22 0U 
@20 00 
@22 00 
@15 00 
@11 00 
@10 20 
@ 7 50 
@ 6 85 
@12 00 
@ 8 00 
@ 5 50 
@ 8 75 
@8 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat exports are large, and prices on 
some grades five cents higher. Corn ex¬ 
ports light and prices unchanged. 
Wheat. No. 1, Northern Spring. 126 @ 
No. 2, Red . 122 @ .. 
No. 2. Hard Winter. 1 21 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. S3 @ 84 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 49 @ 53 
Rye.1 05 @ 111 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying oppor¬ 
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, Egtrs and other live stock 
advertisements wiil go under proper headings on 
other pages. Seed and Nursery advertisements 
will not be accepted for this column. 
WANTED—Single man to farm 50 acres on 
shares; fruit extra. M. S. VAN DER VEER, 
R. F. D. 1, Hlghtstown, New Jersey. 
WANTED—Work driving or handling horses or 
in cow barn, single, American. 23; life expe¬ 
rience. Address H. B., care Rural New-Yorker. 
I POSITION WANTED—Practical farmer; butter 
and cottage cheese maker for fancy trade; 
married, references. C. L. GIVEANS, Vernon, 
N. J. 
tunities of at least half of New York’s 
population. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 55 @ 60 
Mixed colors, new laid. 45 @ 50 
Ordinary grades. 25 @ 35 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 40 @ 42 
Tub. choice. 32 @ 36 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 25 @ 27 
Squab broilers, pair . 1 00 @ 1 25 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 23 @ 25 
Fricassee, lb. 18 @ 20 
Fowis . 18 @ 22 
Leg of lamb. 18 @ 20 
Lamb chops.... 20 @ 22 
Roasting beef . 18 @ 22 
Stewing beef . 12 @ 16 
Pork Chops . 18 @ 20 
Loin of Pork . 17 @ 20 
Round Steak . 18 @ 22 
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The Government of Holland has de¬ 
cided to take charge, for the time, of all 
imports of flour, grains and cattle food. 
Steamers reaching Holland will refuse 
shipments consigned to private parties 
there. 
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The citrus orchards of California have 
13,000 orange and 3.000.000 lemon trees. 
Two-thirds of the orange and a trifle 
more than half the lemon trees are in 
bearing. The past season 46,267 cars 
of citrus fruit were shipped from Cali¬ 
fornia. 
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In some parts of the west apples are 
being marketed in bushel sacks. They 
get somewhat bruised in handling but 
are satisfactory for quick use. and the 
lessened packing and shipping expense 
makes possible a price that offsets the 
damage. 
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The railroads entering New York are 
about to rut the free storage of flour 
from 10 days to five, making storage 
charges one cent per hundred pounds for 
each 10 days after the free storage per¬ 
iod. The flour men state that as the 
profit made by the flour wholesaler is 
small, the added cost of storage will in¬ 
crease the price to the consumer. The 
argument favoring the new ruling is that 
the storage privilege is abused but on 
the other hand it is claimed that a 10- 
day latitude is necessary to handle the 
large flour distribution at New York and 
guard against shortage by storm delay to 
arrivals. 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
No. 10. Dairy cows are a drug on the 
market. I have two nice young Holstein 
heifers giving good milk : I must sell for 
beef at seven cents per pound ; cannot find 
a market for milk cows. I usually keep 
six milch cows, but owing to short crop 
of hay must sell my two good heifers. 
Every farmer T know is more or less short 
of feed, especially hay. Farms are all 
small, only two in town over a hundred 
acres. There are two farms for sale, 
which have been on the market for years. 
Eastport, Me. J. A. D. 
Nov. 9. Cattle raisers are much con¬ 
cerned over the foot and mouth disease 
which has invaded the upper part of the 
State near the Pennsylvania line, the dis¬ 
ease being discovered among a herd of 
cattle shipped to farmers from Lancaster, 
Pa. The State is now quarantined. 
Sweet potatoes were a large crop and 
large quantities are still being shipped to 
the city markets. They are bringing 25 
cents per basket at stations. Total ship¬ 
ments of apples over the Delaware railroad 
to date for the season 659.085 baskets; 
pears, 357,591 baskets; tomatoes. 835,- 
945 baskets; sweet potatoes. 78.910 bar¬ 
rels ; white potatoes. 195.507 barrels. An 
agricultural agent has been appointed for 
Kent County. Farmers are very much 
interested in this new movement for their 
benefit, and will soon take hold of the 
work as soon as they find our me mission 
of the agent. Plans are under way for 
holding a Kent County corn show some 
time in the early Winter. Every farmer 
is being requested to save out a sample 
of his corn to enter in this show, as there 
will be premiums for classes and colors 
of corn. The yield of corn is larger than 
for five or six years. New corn on cob 
bring 56 cents, old corn 80 cents, wheat 
$1.10; white potatoes "r> cents per bas¬ 
ket. butter 30 cents: eggs 28 cents, chick¬ 
ens 13 cents, pork $10. bay 817. Finer 
Fall weather was never known, there was 
no killing frost until about the last of 
October. Early sown wheat is making a 
luxuriant growth. Several new silos 
were filled and more will be built next 
year. Some hogs are dying with cholera 
Dover, Del. c. H. 
Nov. 9. Milk is running a little higher 
than heretofore at this time of the rear. 
Most of our milk is going to the Pitts¬ 
burg milk dealers, and one company is 
paying $1.65, skim-milk back: another is 
paying $1.45 for the whole milk. Most 
of our farmers appear fairly well satis¬ 
fied with the prospects, and the general 
tendency seems to be to carry more rather 
than less cows. We are getting more silos 
in the community every year, and usually 
a man who builds a silo winds up by 
stocking heavier. Without actual figures 
at hand. I think that there are more cows 
being shipped into this section this Fall 
than for some time past, and fewer being 
shipped out. Our farmers are well pro¬ 
vided with feed this Fall, but the general 
rule is to buy a lot of mill feeds to make 
up the protein to balance a corn and Tim¬ 
othy ration. We do not raise enough of 
our own feed, and then we always have a 
kick on the price of mill feeds. At the 
sales around us cows are going at lower 
prices than for several seasons past. A 
good grade Holstein that would have sold 
at $110 to $125 last Fall or the year be¬ 
fore will go this Fall at about $80 to $85. 
Orwell, O. w. H. P. 
WANTED—A woman who for a gooc? home is 
wiling to help with housework in a small fam¬ 
ily in a beautiful country. M. B. M., care R. 
N.-Y. 
POULTRY EXPERT—Desires position as man¬ 
ager commercial chicken farm; practical ex¬ 
perience combined with theoretical knowledge; 
references furnished. L. A., care R. N.-Y. 
PRACTICAL POULTRY MAN. experienced in all 
branches of poultry work, single, desires posi¬ 
tion. either as poultryman or assistant: small 
wages for winter months. POULTRYMAN, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED—About Jan. 1 as farm 
manager or working foreman, by single Amer¬ 
ican of 25: not a college graduate, bnt a close 
student of agriculture, ancf have a thorough prac¬ 
tical knowledge of modern up-to-date farming in 
all branches: if you want results try me; refer¬ 
ences exchanged. V. N. E., care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—By first-class manager, at present 
employed managing a large private estate, a 
position of similar capacity, private or commer¬ 
cial, thoroughly versed in up-to-date farming 
and thorough-bred stock raising. Capable of 
managing any large proposition. Highest ref¬ 
erences. Satisfactorv reasons for leaving. Ad¬ 
dress “SHELDONCROFT,” Silver Lake, Pa. 
YOUNG MAN, 27. single, wants position as su¬ 
perintendent or head dairyman on private es¬ 
tate: life experience in farming, handling and 
feeding purebred stock, can do own doctoring, 
tuberculin and Babcock testing; excellent butter- 
maker, thoroughly understands certified dairy¬ 
ing. raising rotation crops, vegetables and man¬ 
agement of heln: first-class references. Box B. 
K.. Rural New-Yorker. 
ALFALFA HAY—F. P. ERKEXBECK, Fayette¬ 
ville, X. Y. 
WANTED—Car cheap Clover Hay. A. S. BELL, 
Ashley. Pa. 
CHOICE WINTER APPLES; two dollars per 
barrel. BENJ. WILLIAMS. Rushford. N. Y. 
NEW HONEY—Basswood or clover in sixty- 
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. 
2S IXXCUBATORS FOR SALE—All models, 260 
and 360 eggs, in first-class condition; reasons 
for selling, ain installing a Mammoth machine; 
write for prices. CHAS. R. STONE, Staatsburg, 
N. Y. 
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. 
GRAPEFRUIT AND ORANGES by express in 
half or whole boxes, F. O. B. Miami. Fla.: 
fancy brights at $1.75. Gold’en Russets at $1.50 
per box. with order; delivered prices quoted on 
request. GEO. B. C ELLON, Tropical Grove, 
Miami, Fla. 
FOR SALE—320 acres nnirrigated land, fenced, 
near Lamar. Colorado, $10 per acre, half cash. 
ALBERT A. COBB, Guilford. Conn. 
WANTED TO LEASE—With option to buy, a; 
place about eight acres, bordering pond or 
stream, near New York City. S. R. E., care 
R. N.-Y. 
AUCTION—Fruit and dairy farm ISO acres: ex¬ 
cellent buildings and water; partners selling 
out Nov. 30. Write WM. W. HALLE, Crary- 
ville, N. Y. 
SALE of creamery, real property and water priv¬ 
ilege: also personal property, in parts. TOWN 
HALL. Livingston, X. Y. Dee. 4, 1914, at 1 
o’clock P. M. 
WANTED—To trade 12-apartment brick block 
in Dorchester. Mass.: yearly rental of $3,200; 
for good, well-equipped farm. JOHN KING, 
Stafford Springs, Coun. 
FOR SALE—Farm S5 acres, 65 under cultiva¬ 
tion apple and peach orchards, one-half mile 
of depot and town of 1.000 inhabitants; bargain 
to quick purchaser. HANSON S. PHILLIPS, 
Hebron, Md. 
$80 PER ACRE—Productive, highly cultivated 
82-acre farm, located at city line. Corry, Erie 
County. Pa.; good house, fine bank barn, two 
silos: right at splendid city. market, schools, 
churches, roads, etc., finest water: produces im- 
mccso hav. ensilage, pasture and other crops. 
JOHN I. COLEGROVE. Sheffield. Pa. 
FOR SALE—-S5 acres: 9 timber. 26 black gravel 
soil, no stones. 8-room house, barn, sheds, 
poultry houses, all good as new; land in condi¬ 
tion for gardening, trucking, macadam road; tel¬ 
ephone line, schools, churches, stores and depot 
within one mile; price. $4,500. HENRY C. 
MEYER. It. D. Flanders, Morris Co., New Jer¬ 
sey. 
117*, ACRE ONEIDA COUNTY DAIRY FARM. 
$4,900; $2,500 cash; balance easy terms; brand 
new 10-room house, finished oak and cherry, 
natural: water and’ sink in kitchen; new cement 
basement barn, stanchion 20 cows; hay track; 
plenty other good buildings: $500 worth new. 
heavy oak furniture: all tools, machinery, etc.: 
3<5 miles to city and railroad; on crushed stone 
road. Wish to hear onlv from those interested. 
Address owner, NORMAN HOOVER. R. 5, Cam¬ 
den. N. Y. 
