CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Dec, 12, 1014. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Headquarters For Eastern Alfalfa;..... 1435, 1436 
Practical Agricultural College. Men Needed.. 1436 
Potash From Slag ..'. 1... 1436 
The Farm Manager Question....1437 
Seedsman Responsible . 1437 
Muck or Mud . 1438 
Value of Mangels .. 1438 
Lime and Cover Crops ..1438 
Which System Best . 1438 
Sudan Grass .1439 
Chances in Pennsylvania .1439 
Corning Farmers’ Meetings ..1440 
Hope Farm Notes ;..’.1442 
Dynamite Drainage .1442 
New York State Agricultural Society.1445 
Grain Notes By Experts ..1445 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Am I a “Retail Milk Dealer!”.1436 
A 286-Egg Hen .1437 
A Model Dairy Barn .1450 
Breeders Have Greater Weight Than Breed. 1450 
Ration for Heifers .1450 
Ration for Butter-Making .1450 
Ration for Dairy .1450 
Large Guernsey Record .1451 
The Lady Hog .1451 
Never Use a Scrub Boar .1451 
Hot Water and Dressed Hogs .1451 
Potatoes for Hogs. 1451 
Sheep and Belgian Hares .1451 
The "Hot-Air Artist” Talks .1452 
Cistern for Barn . 1452 
Lameness .1452 
Garget .1452 
Stocked Legs .. .1452 
Fistula . 1452 
Pin Worms .1452 
Feeding a Foal .1452 
Colic .1452 
Depraved Appetite .1453 
Stumbling Horse .1453 
Weak Calf .1453 
Open Front Henhouse .1453 
Poultry Questions .1453 
Running Qualities of Bulls ..1455 
The Inheritance of Color in Horses...1455 
Truth About Belgian Hares.1455 
Advantages of Thick Cream .1455 
Selling Cockerels as Roasters .1456 
Standard Poultry Rations .1456 
White Eggs; Selecting Pullets .1456 
Ventilation for Henhouse^.1456 
Picking Ducks . 1456 
Another Hen Record .1456 
The Egg-Laying Contest .1457 
Poultry and Foot-and-Mouth Disease.1457 
Hens With Colds .1457 
The Hen’s Fireless Cooker .1457 
HORTICULTURE. 
Fertilizer for Melons .1438 
Grafting the Hickory .1439 
The Texas Bell Tomato .1443 
Crooked Asparagus; Yellow Eggplants.1443 
Transplanting Clove Pinks and Peonies.1443 
Treatment of House Plants .1443 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day .1448 
The Rural Patterns .1448 
Seen in Now York Shops ..1448 
Molasses Candy .1448 
In the Warm Heart of the West. Part II... 1449 
To Keep Cider Sweet .1449 
Chutney Sauce . 1449 
Everton Toffee .1449 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
New York State News .1438 
Filter in Cistern .1438 
Gunning for Woodchucks .1438 
Reeding a Raccoon .1439 
Markets in Boston .1439 
Events of the Week . 1440 
Birch for Rustic Work .1441 
How to Lay Roofing .1441 
Cistern Construction .1441 
Repairing a Leaky Cistern .1441 
The Iron-Pan Ice-Makers .1441 
Saving Wastes in California .1441 
Developing a Market Day .1441 
Forest Planting .1442 
Editorials .1444 
The Food and Markets Department. Part 1.1445 
Handling Fish . 1445 
Meeting of Co-operative Associations .1445 
A New Scheme in Trading Stamps.1445 
Publisher’s Desk .1458 
Thanksgiving Prices in Boston Market.1458 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending; Dec.»4, 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-cont 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. 
1914. 
October .$2.00 
November .2.10 
December . 2.10 
January . 2.05 
February . 1.95 
March .:. 1.90 
Wholesale prices paid by New York 
dealers are running $2.01 and $1.91 for 
B and C. Hotel 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, nin» to 10 
cents. 
BUTTER. 
Prices are running about one cent be¬ 
low last week’s figures. On lower grades 
the decline has been still more. 
Creamery, extra.above 92 score, lb... 33)«@ 31 
Extra, 92 score . 32 33 
Good to Choice . 23 @ 32 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 25 
Storage . 26 ® 32 
State Dairy, best. 31 @ 32 
Common to Good. 23 @ 28 
Ladles . 20 ® 22 
Packing Stock. 19 @ 21 
Process . 22 @ 26 
Elgin, Ill., butter market 32 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 34 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 33. 
Chicago creamery, 24@32. 
CHEESE, 
The market is rather weak, although 
prices on top grades are held firmly. 
Stocks in local storages are more than 
50.000 boxes in excess of last year. 
Whole Milk, fresh, specials. 16 @ 
Average fancy. 15)£@ 15^ 
Under grades . 12 @ 14 
Daisies. Wisconsin. 14^® 15)4 
Skims, specials. 13 ® 13)4 
Good to choice . 11 ® 12 
Poor to fair. 7 ® io 
, EGGS 
Nearby white eggs continue scarce, oc¬ 
casional sales above 60 cents being noted. 
In medium and under grades the market 
is extremely weak. Fresh gathered stock 
sells from 25 to 40 cents, and storage 
mainly 25 to 27 cents. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 58 @ 62 
Medium to good. 42 @ 52 
Mixed colors, best. 43 @ 46 
Common to good... 25 @ 20 
Storage, best . . 28 @ 30 
Lower grades. 18 ® 20 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The apple market is well supplied with 
fruit running medium and above. Grapes 
largely in bad condition and selling low. 
Cranberry trade dull. 
Apples—BenDavis, bbl. 125 @175 
York Imperial .1 76 @2 50 
McIntosh. 2 50 @ 4 00 
Jonathan. 2 50 @ 3 75 
Twenty-ounce . 1 50 @ 2 75 
Spitz. 1 75' @ 3 00 
Baldwin. 1 75 @ 2 26 
King . 2 OO’ @ 3-25 
Greening . 2 00, @ 4 00 
Pears. Anjou, bbl. 3 00 @4 50 
Seckel . 3 SO @ 5 00 
Bose . 3 00 @ 5 50 
Sheldon. 3 00 @ 5 50 
Kiefifer . 1 00 @2 75 
Grapes, Catawba, 41b bkt . 5 @ 7 
Black,41b. bkt . 8 @ 10 
Black, 201b. bkt. 30 @ 45 
Bulk, ton.30 00 @40 00 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 2 00 (<a 5 00 
Jersey, bbl. 3 50 @4 00 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 26 @ 28 
Common to good. 22 @ 25 
Pacific Coast . 10 @ 14 
Old stock. 7 @ 8 
HONEY. 
Clover, comb, lb. 12 © 16 
Extracted, gallon. 50 @ 90 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 6 55 @ 6 60 
Medium . 4 65 @ 4 70 
Pea . 4 55 @ 4 60 
Red Kidney. .... 4 50 @ 5 75 
Lima, California. 5 90 @6 00 
VEGETARLES. 
Potato prices remain as for several 
weeks, mainly 50 to 60 cents per bushel 
wholesale. The quarantine on imports 
of Canadian potatoes to this country, 
established a year ago, because of dis¬ 
ease, has been removed. For the pres¬ 
ent the Canadian stock will be admitted 
at only two points. New York and Bos¬ 
ton, where Federal inspectors will ex¬ 
amine all receipts. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 1 25 @ 1 50 
Long Island, bbl,. 1 75 @ 2 00 
State. ISO lbs.1 25 @ 1 60 
Maine. ISO lbs. 1 50 @ 1 90 
Bermuda, bbl. 4 00 @6 50 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2 00 @3 25 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 3 @ 9 
Beets, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Carrots, bbl. 75 @ 1 00 
Chicory, southern, bbl. 1 50 @ 2 00 
Celery, doz. 10 @ 50 
Cauliflower, bbl. 1 75 @ 4 00 
Cabbage, bbl. 75 @ 1 00 
Ton .S00 @15 00 
Kale, bbl. 75 @ 85 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 25 @ 1 00 
Onions—Red, bag . 1 00 @ 1 25 
Yellow. 1 25 @ 1 40 
Peppers, bu.1 00 ® 2 00 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 25 @ 50 
Spinach, bbl. 50 @ 1 25 
String Beans, bu..150 @3 50 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl. 75 @100 
Marrow . 50 @ 75 
New, bu. 100 @ 150 
Egg Plants, bn, . 1 50 @ 2 50 
Chickens, lb 
Fowls .. 
Roosters .... 
Ducks. 
Geese. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
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DRESSED POULTRY. 
The warm, damp weather has put the 
poultry market in bad condition, supplies 
that ordinarily would have come through 
all right, arriving more or less damaged. 
Demand Is light, and whatever is suit¬ 
able goes to the storage places, and other 
grades sold at cut prices. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 24 @ 25 
Common to good . 15 @ 22 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 23 @ 25 
Squab broilers, pair. 50 @ 60 
Broilers, common to good . 19 @ 20 
Roasters . 23 @ 24 
Fowls. 14 @ 17 
Ducks, Spring. 10 @ 17 
Squabs, doz.... . 125 @5 00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Demand for hay is so light that the 
market is overstocked and weak. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1 . ton . 
... 20 00 
@21 
00 
No. 2 . 
@19 
00 
No. 3 . 
@17 
00 
Clover mixed . 
@19 
00 
Straw, Uye, . 
@13 
50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers . 
@ 9 
00 
Bulls . 
.. . 5 25 
@ 7 
25 
Cows . 
@ 6 
50 
Caives. prime veal, 100 lb . 
...10 09 
@13 
00 
Culls ... . 
@ 8 
00 
Sheep. U)0 lbs . 
@ 5 
75 
Lambs . 
@ 1 U 
00 
Hogs . 
@ S 
00 
GRAIN. 
No special change in grain prices, ex¬ 
cept rye, which is unusually high. This 
of course applies only to rye free from 
onion. Nature has given the wild onion 
a strong grip on the rye crop, as the lit- | 
tie sets on the top dry down to the | 
size, appearance and nearly the weight ' 
of rye kernels. They readily go through | 
any ordinary rye screen in the fanning 
mill, and very few are enough to spoil 
a batch of rye flour. Hence buyers are 
always on the lookout for onion in rye. 
The only way to get rid of this pest* is 
to dig it out of the growing crop and 
burn it—not a serious job where there I 
are only scattering bunches in the field. 
Wheat. No. 1, Northern Spring. 1 29 @ 
No. 2, Red . l 26 @ .. 
No. 2. Hard Winter. 126 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. . 71 @ 73 I 
Oas, as to weight, bush. .. &s @ 55 
Rye.1 16 @ 117 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, but represent produce ! 
of good quality aud the buying opportuni- I 
ties of at least half of New York’s pop¬ 
ulation. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 65 @ 70 
Mixed colors, new laid .. 55 @ 60 
Ordinary grades .. 30 @ 45 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 40 @ 43 
Tub. choice. 34 @ 38 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 24 @ 23 
Squab broilers, pair ...100 @125 
Broilers, common to good, lb. .... 23 © 25 
Fricassee, lb. 18 @ 20 
Fowis . 18 @ 23 
Turkeys’. 24 @ 28 
Leg of lamb. 18 @ 20 
Lamb chops. 2<» @ 22 
Roasting beef ... 18 @ 22 
Stewing beef . 12 @ 16 
Pork Chops 18 @ 20 
Loin of Pork . 17 @ 20 
Round Steak . 18 @ 22 
For the 11 months ending with No¬ 
vember, incorporations of $1,000,000, or 
upwards, each, totaled $789,497,500. 
We have now 7,584 National banks, 
with capital of $1,074,074,675. and out¬ 
standing circulation of $1,111,999,076. 
* 
Savings banks were first opened in 
this country 9S years ago. There are 
now 10,766,936 depositors with a total 
of $4,727,403,950. 
- * 
Wheat and flour exports from United 
States and Canada since July 1 amount¬ 
ed to 160.000.000 bushels ; oats. 32,000,- 
000, the latter being 26.000,000 more 
than for the same time last year. 
* 
A New York concern recently sent a 
load of furniture by motor truck to Al¬ 
bany, the total expense being $18 less 
than by rail shipment, and the goods de¬ 
livered without scratches or damage or¬ 
dinarily received in transportation. The 
running time for the round trip of 348 
miles was 30 hours. 
* 
About three-fourths of the commercial 
unions in this country are grown in 16 
States. The crop this year is figured at 
21.600 cars, about one-third being put in 
storage. 
This year’s grain yields of the prairie 
provinces of Canada are: 
Wheat . 
1 fats •••••••■■ 
Barley . 
Flax . 
ACREAGE 
11.125.975 
6.226.571 
1.967.791 
1,004.513 
YIELD 
140.261.000 
144.437.000 
35.763.000 
5.738.000 
Reports from 10 of the largest cabbage- 
producing States show a crop of 20.000 
carloads, one-fourth being stored for 
Winter sale. This year's yield is about 
2,000 carloads above last. 
It is a great cr., t at all farm produce 
is low, and to a great extent it is. Ap¬ 
ples are from 60 to 75 cents per bar¬ 
rel. Potatoes about $1 per barrel; fine 
veals are bringing 10 cents per pound; 
pork about 12: butter 36 to 33; turkeys 
from 22 to 25 live weight. Milk is about 
$2. Good grade cows run from $70 to 
$90. Horses are rather quiet. E. F. 
Cambridge, N. Y. 
Nov. 30. This is not much of a cow 
section ; everything here is tobacco. How¬ 
ever, there are some cows kept, selling 
from $75 to $100. At a recent auction 
held about five miles from here, cows 
sold from $80 to $118. Milk for the 
Hartford market is bringing the farmers 
4 Vo cents per quart for the Winter. 
Everyone seems to have plenty of feed, j 
especially hay and corn fodder. The ! 
foot-and-mouth disease is causing a lot 
of trouble and worry, but I think our 
Commissioner of Domestic Animals is do¬ 
ing all he can to stamp it out. There 
seem to be one or ‘wo new cases that 
are giving the commissioner and his dep¬ 
uties some worry in not being able 10 
trace the source of infection. However, 
most of the cases have been traced to one 
carload of cows shipped to Hartford from 
Brighton, Mass., then sold out among 
the farmers. w. B. w. 
Warehouse Point. Conn. 
If You Want The Best Cow Feed 
Ask Your Dealer For 
DlSTl LLHR S 
THE DEWEY BROS. CO., Box 544, Blanchester, Ohio 
CAD mi C DC ■ 1' rite me for details and 
1 HixlllBIivI ■ pictures of the most pro¬ 
ductive 80 acre Farm in Northern New Jersey for §3,800 
] have seen in twenty years : live stock and implements 
will also be sold at private sale or at auction ; owner ill 
and must sell. E. E. SLOCUM, 141 Broadway, New York. 
Vv All I PM 4 ‘-'-ou.r iu mAcuDtw^u ui uu: 
ness in each county. New Automatic Ooi 
Dination Tool, combined wire-fence stretcher, po 
jpulier, lifting jack, etc. Lifts or pulls 3 tons, weigl 
14 pounds. Sells to farmers, shops, teamsters, et 
catalogue ami terms upon reaues 
HARRAH MANUFACTURING CO., Box M, Bloomfield, In 
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, Eggs and other live stock 
advertisements will go under proper headings on 
other pages. Seed and Nursery advertisements 
will not he accepted for this column. 
EXPERIENCED YOUNG MAN wants work on 
fruit farm. Address A. T. K., Care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN—Capable, reliable, temperate. 
quick, willing, good penman, desires position 
in store. References. Box 593, Ticonderoga, 
YOUNG MAN (23), desires position January 1 
on dairy or stock farm; experienced thorough¬ 
bred Ilolsteins. NORMAN DIECKS, Chatham, 
New Jersey. 
COMMON SENSE experienced manager wishes 
position: salary or shares; married: Cornell 
training: references. LESTER HAYES, St. 
Jobnsville, N. Y. 
SCOTCHMAN—Experienced in all branches of 
poultry work, single, honest and strictly tem¬ 
perate. desires position either as poultryman or 
assistant. A. G.. Care Rural New-Yorker. 
ALFALFA HAY—F. P. ERKENBECK, Fayette¬ 
ville. 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. 
CHRISTMAS ORANGES, Orange Marmalade, di¬ 
rect to consumer. Sample. 25 cents. H. C. 
TILLSON, Leesburg, Fla. 
CAPONS FOR SALE—Milk fattened, alive. 20 
cents a pound; dressed. 28 per pound. ANNA 
M. JONES. Hillsdale, N. Y. 
7-INCH PAPER KNIVES, hand-made; oak, hick¬ 
ory. barberry, huckleberry, apple, red cedar, 
on hand’-painted cards. 25c. KNAPP, Caryville, 
Mass. 
28 INCUBATORS FOR SALE—All models. 200 
and 300 eggs, in first-class condition; reasons 
for selling, am installing a Mammoth machine; 
write for prices. CHAS. R. STONE. Staatsburg. 
IF YOU WANT the best farm in Oxford. Conn¬ 
ecticut. 120 acres, come and see it. Owner, 
CYRUS J. HULL, Southbury, Conn. 
FOR SALE—70-acre oretiard farm, 12 acres now 
in trees; one mile to every tiling. For further 
particulars address A. B. LORCOM, W. Farm¬ 
ington. Maine. 
WANTED—To rent or work on shares, farm 15 
to 20 cows, farmer, aged 49; have team, tools, 
gasoline engine; good references. FRANK FOW¬ 
LER. Afton, N. Y. 
200 FERTILE ACRES—Bordering beautiful lit¬ 
tle lake in famous lake region of Central New 
York, can be bought for cost of improvements. 
E. W. ALLEN, Auburn, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Virginia farm, 20 acres. 4 acres 
strawberries. 2 acres of grapes, nice chicken 
range, grow peanuts, cotton, tobacco. R. T. 
ARTHUR, Slingerland's, N. Y. 
WANTED TO LEASE—Small poultry truck 
farm, some fruit, near manufacturing town, 
where man can find steady work year around; 
rent reasonable. H. B. F., care R. N.-Y. 
21 ACRE, level, productive farm: nice buildings, 
only 500 feet from city line of Towanda; finest 
location in Bradford Co.. Pa.; would make a 
desirable gentleman’s place. J. A. JOCOY, To¬ 
wanda, Pa. 
MONTGOMERY COUNTY FARM FOR SALE— 
$ 6,000 property of over 200 acres, for only 
$3,900; excellent buildings, plenty of wood, some 
timber, large orchard; $ 1,000 cash, balance easy 
terms. W. CROSS. Fultonvilie. N. Y. 
FARM 147 acres, productive soil; well watered; 
good wood lot. handsome 15-room bouse; pros¬ 
perous community; best of neighbors: near It. 
R.. churches, schools and stores, $4,000. I. F. 
GEROW, New Paltz, Ulster Co., R. D. 1, N. Y. 
Standard Fruit Books 
Successful Fruit Culture. Maynard... .§1.00 
The Nursery Book. Bailey. 1.50 
The Pruning Book. Bailey. 1.50 
American Fruit Culturist. Thomas.... 2.50 
Citrus Fruits. Hume. 2.50 
California Fruits. Wickson. 3.00 
Dwarf Fruit Trees. Waugh.50 
Plums and Plum Culture. Waugh. 1.50 
Fruit Ranching in British Columbia. 
Bealby . 1,50 
Farm and Garden Rule Book . 2.00 
Live Stock - Poultry 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals. 
Plumb .§2.00 
Principles of Breeding. Davenport.2.50 
Swine in America. Coburn. 2.50 
Diseases of Animals. Mayo. 1.50 
Farmers’ Veterinary Adviser. Law.... 3.00 
Principles and Practice of Poultry Cul¬ 
ture. Robinson.2.50 
Hens for Profit. Valentine. 1.50 
Diseases of Poultry. Salmon.50 
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