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RURAL NEW-YORKER, January 2, 
FARM TOPICS. 
New York 
1915. 
going at $1.50. Very 
arriving. Cranberries 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 
few strawberries 
continue low. 
Baldwin. 
King ... 
Seed. 
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Box. as to v 
Pears. Kietler. 
Cranberries. Cape Cod. 
Jersey, bbl 
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South.. ... 13 
Old stock. 
Clover, comb. lb.. 
Extracted, gallon 
The Bine Grasses in New xoru State . 1, 2 
Improving Potatoes by Selection...2 
Value of Mushroom Manure.2 
\ Machine for Burning Soil.. ..* 
Ifasv Farm Blacksmithmg..£ 
fertilizer Questions; Spring-seeded Red-tops..5 
Potatoes on Sod; Manure for Onions.5 
Wood Ashes and Hen Manure. 
Hen Manure in Winter. " 
Different Kinds,offline...j> 
Rotation to Kill Quack.. Strawberries Fla 
Uas Tar and Fence Posts..Strawberries, i id. 
Hope Farm Notes.. 10 
Improving the Potato 
Cover Crop and Sou 
Cotton in the 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Feeding Value of Potatoes .3 
Lime in Henhouse..ijj 
A Talk About Sheep...... 
Common Sense Cow Feeding. 1» 
Making the Hog Cholera Serum. .. 
Breeders and Dairymen Meet. Part 1.19 
A Slaughter of “Show Birds .20 
White Crested Ducks .. • 
Hens With Catarrh t ... “JJ 
Dry or Moisture 
Cleaning Soiled Eggs 
Dogs and Hens ... • • - 
The Egg-laying Contest^ . 
Limberneck and Loss of Feathers. 
The Hen’s Fireless Cooker. ■ 
HORTICULTURE. 
What About “Pedigreed” Trees 
Wine Grapes in New 
Growing Mushrooms «...-- 
Hot Water and Peach Borers. * _ 
Lime-sulphur Wash on Trees... grades, 
Ben Davis at Home.. 
■'’ear Varieties .• • * • ’ ' Q 
31ight Resistance of Kieffer Pear.jj 
Apples Untrue to Name. 
Seedling Peaches ... 
Seedling Walnuts; Planting Peach Trees, 
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Something over 4,000,000 bushels 
wheat were shipped from New York dur¬ 
ing the past week. For several weeks 
wheat exports from all parts of the 
United States have averaged nearly 1,- 
000,000 per day. 
BEANS. 
Marrow are five cents lower and Pea 
and Red Kidney 10 cents per hundred 
rh ....pounds higher. 
Incubators. . 20 ^now, 100 lbs .6 45 ® 6 50 
Medium .4 *>0 @ 4 70 
Pea . 4 55 @ 4 65 
Red Kidney.5 36 @ 5 50 
White Kidney .7 15 @ 7 2o 
Yellow Eye.5 15 @5 25 
Lima, California. 5 00 @6 00 
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Cakes.. • • ■ ■ }{> 
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Walnuts; Planting 
Brand for Packing^ 
Gladiolus Bulblets; 
Green Muscatine ... 
Strong-growing Grafts . 
New York Tree Law. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 
The Rural Patterns .. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
A Convenient Fish Carrier. 
The Talent in a Napkin .. 
Raspberry Vinegar; Fried Pies. - - 
Old-fashioned Buckwheat 
A Bit of Farm Life. 
Chocolate Fudge ....... 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Recent Bulletins . | 
The Bookshelf . 2 
Events of the Week... 
Editorials . -.o 
New York State News... 10 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Dec. 26, 1914. 
MILK. 
The Borden milk schedule to producers 
for the 
tober 
No improvement 
demand is a trifle 
Cabbage 
top prices quoted 
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to 4.2 per cent, fat, and 
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November . 
December . 2.05 Chickens choice broilers 
October 
January 
February 
March . . 
VEGETABLES. 
in potato prices, hut 
improved for the top 
market steady, with 
rather extreme. Cel- 
Lettuce in surplus 
very low. Southern peppers 50 cents 
crate higher. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 
Long Island, bbl,... 115 
State,180 lbs. .. 
Maine, ISO lbs. 
Bermuda, bbl. . 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2 00 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 
Beets, bbl. 
Carrots, bbl. 
Chicory, southern, bbl. 
Celery, doz. 
Cauliflower, bbl. 
Cabbage. Danish seed, ton. 
Domestic seed. 
Horseradish, bbl .4 00 
Kale, bbl. 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 
Onions—Red. bag . 
Yellow, .125 
White . 
Peppers, bu. 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 
Spinach, bbl. 
String Beans, bu. 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl. 
Marrow. 
New, bu. 
Egg Plants, bu. 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt. crate. 1 50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb. 12 
Fowls . 13 
Roosters. 
Ducks.... ••• 
Geese. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
The weather was very favorable for 
the Christmas trade, dry packed arriving 
mainly in good condition. Turkeys from 
Maryland and Pennsylvania were held 
above 22 cents as a rule, in some cases 
going into storage on shippers’ orders. 
Chickens and fowls were in 
ply and lower, except for fancy. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 22 
Common to good . 15 
lb.... 
Cabbage Outlook. 
Can you give me any information in 
regard to the cabbage market? What 
are the prospects for further advance¬ 
ment and would it he better to sell at 
present price or hold for a time? They 
are paying $7 per ton here at present. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. R. M. s. 
Cabbage will probably advance later, 
though high prices are not expected, as 
the crop is quite large, and now cabbage 
from the south comes early in commer¬ 
cial quantities. Against the possible pro¬ 
fit in holding must be put tiie shrinkage 
and waste. In loading cabbage that has 
been stored it is well to cut open an oc¬ 
casional head, to make sure that they are 
running sound all through. Frosted cab¬ 
bage may appear all right outside but be 
rotteu at the heart, and a small amount 
of this defect may cut the price of a car 
in half, as only cheap buyers, commonly 
known as “snakes” will handle it. Prices 
at New York now run from $(> to $13 per 
ton, the latter being for best Danish seed. 
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Wholesale prices paid by New York 
dealers are running $2.01 and $1.91 for 
B and C. Hotel and restaurants using 
two to throe cans per day are paying 
live to six cents per quart, single quart 
prices from bakeries and grocery stores, 
six to seven cents; delivered milk, nine 
to 10 cents. 
BUTTER. ‘ 
High grade fresh creamery is scarce 
and V/> cent higher. The general re¬ 
ceipts are running irregular in quality, 
27 to 30 cents, wholesale, covering a 
large quantity of business in creamery 
and best dairy. 
Creamery, extra.above 92 score, lb... 35J^@ 36 
Extra, 92 score . 34 @ 35 
Good to Choice . 28 @ 
Lower Grades. 2o @ 
Storage . 26 @ 
State Dairy, best.' 32 
Squab broilers, pair. 
Broilers, common to good ... 
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Squabs, doz... 
HAY AND STRAW. 
The demand <>n Timothy and rye straw 
is improved, and some sales at higher 
prices noted. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton .21 50 
No. 2.H 50 
No. 3.16 50 
Clover mixed.IS UO 
Straw, Rye,.13 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers."50 
Bulls.4 60 
Cows. 4 50 
Calves, prime veal. 100 lb. 10 00 
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j! Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complyi.,g with several suggestions received 
recently, we open a department here to enable 
RURAL NEW-YORKER readers to supply each 
other's want3. 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 be accepted for this column. 
Common to Good. 23 @ 
Ladles . 20 @ 
“aeking Stock. 19 @ 
Process . 22 @ 
Elgin. 111., butter market 33 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 34 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 33. 
Chicago creamery, 24@33. 
CHEESE. 
Business is very slow in both State 
and western make. Exporters arc doing 
but little, partly because of the increase 
in ocean freight rates. 
Whole Milk, fresh, specials. 16k 4 '@ 16 
Average fancy.. 15J4® 155® 
Under grades . 12 @' 14 
Daisies, Wisconsin . 14 
Skims, specials. 13 @ 13^ 
Good to choice . 11 @ 12 
Poor to fair. 7 & 10 
EGGS 
There has been a further decline in 
fancy white. There is no surplus of this 
grade, but prices have been so high that 
retailers were unable to move their stocks 
with any freedom. Some damage from 
frost is noted in present arrivals of me¬ 
dium grades, so that prices all along 
list are tending lower. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 47 @ 
Medium to good. 42 @ 
Mixed colors, best. 41 @ 
Common to good. 25 ® 
Storage, best . 25 @ 
Lower grades. 18 @ 
FRL3II FRUITS. 
Business in apples has been slow 
past week, $2 to $3 covering most whole¬ 
sale trade in barrelled fruit and some 
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this meeting, 
popular banquet at 
be held at Keeler’s 
N. Y. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
T HE seventy-fifth annual convention of 
the New York State Agricultural 
Society will be held in the Assembly par¬ 
lor in the Capitol at Albany on Wednes¬ 
day and Thursday, January 20tli and 
21st, 1915. 
On Wednesday night a mass meeting 
will be held in the Assembly parlor. 
Lieutenant-Governor Schoeneck has been 
invited to preside at 
Thursday night a 
a dollar a plate will 
Hotel. 
Ladies and members of the women’s 
organizations are expected to attend all 
the sessions including the banquet. 
Distinguished speakers will address the 
convention. They will include Hon. 
Charles S. Whitman, Governor of New 
York State; Myron T. Herrick, our dis¬ 
tinguished recent Ambassador to France; 
John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New 
York City; Hon. B. T. Galloway, Dean 
of N. Y. State Agricultural College; 
Dean II. E. Cook, of the Canton Agricul¬ 
tural School; Hon. It. A. Pearson, Presi- 
College; Gilbert Ray 
WANTED—Experienced gardener to work 10 
acres of truck land on shares; house and 
team furnished. E. S. IIAMBLEN, 27 Washing¬ 
ton St., E. Orange, N. J. 
WANTED—Position as farm manager; sold 
farm; understands stock, breeding and raising 
of all farm crops; married, no children; tem¬ 
perate. Box 4. care It. N.-Y. 
EXPERIENCED ORCHARDIST—Married, de¬ 
sires position ns working manager of modern 
fruit farm, thoroughly familiar and capable: 
American, references. SANFORD, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
PRACTICAL POULTRY MAN desires position as 
working manager of large commercial farm: 
eight years’ experience handling large flocks: 
Cornell short-course Poultry Husbandry; best 
of references. J. R.. care R. N.-Y. 
FIRST-CLASS HERDSMAN and dairyman open 
for engagement at once. American, single, ago 
42. lifetime experience, best of references; gen 
tlemnn’s place preferred. Address HERDSMAN, 
Westbury, Long Island. N. Y., care Box 248. 
WANTED—Married 1 man as tenant, on 20'> 
acres, comparatively level, run down mow: 
tain farm, with view to recovering fertility: 8) 
acres cultivated, balance wood land. 3 mile: 
I from Bellefoute, Pa.: large house and barn. 
1 outbuildings, spring water and telephone. WM. 
BURNSIDE, Bellefonte, Pa. 
: YOUNG MAN (32), single, of excellent char 
actor, fairly good milker, wishes position o:i 
! a modern dairy or general stock farm, tind’cr 
1 stands the feeding of balanced rations, the use 
of the Babcock test anil a good butter maker: 
salary a second consideration. C. B., care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Married farmer, no more than ono 
child, for 25 acres, small orchard, cow and’ 
few pigs; good teamster, understanding farm 
machinery and field work; steady place; house 
hot water, usual privileges, percentage on sale: 
and salary: give all particulars; lowest wage; 
wanted; references. Box 6, care R. N.-Y. 
ALFALFA 
ville, N. 
HAY—F. 
Y. 
P. ERKENBECK. Fayette 
HICKORY 
town, N. 
PLANK- 
Y. 
-I. C. HAWKINS, Middle 
MAPLE COVE FARM—Products direct to Con 
sinners. ROUTE 24, Athens, Pa. 
WANTED—MacKay Colony 
particulars. Address J. G. 
Brooder; give full 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Brown, Albert E. 
Sessions, Alfred C. 
M. C. Burritt and 
dent of Iowa State 
Hawes, James R. 
Manning, Fred \V. 
Weed, S. J. Cook, 
Dr. Thomas E. Finegan. 
Subjects to be discussed by these dis¬ 
tinguished authorities include: The Mar¬ 
keting of Farm Products; Farm Finance; 
Torrens System of Land Titles; Cooper¬ 
ation in Agriculture; How to Clarify the 
Milk Troubles; A Debate for and Against 
the Single Tax on Land; Problems of 
the Dairymen’s League; Accomplish¬ 
ments of Practical Cooperation; The 
Township School System, and a broad 
line of general discussion. 
The banquet at Keeler’s Hotel on 
Thursday evening is to be held at 7 P. 
M. Business suits will predominate and 
ladies will have choice .of best seats. 
JOHN J. DILLON, 
President. 
FANCY ORANGES. Orange 
to consumer; sample, 15c. 
Leesburg, Fla. 
Marmalade, direct 
H. C. TILLSON, 
APPLES, APPLES, APPLES—For choice spray¬ 
ed Winter Apples. Please order to-day. C. J. 
YODER. GrantsviUe-, Md. 
FOR SALE—No. !> Man bone cutter, nearly new. 
$12; 100 Oondee Brooders; catalogue. (J. 
ROUTZAHN, Biglerville, Ta. 
Lambs . 7M ® 8 00 
Hogs. ‘ 3 ° @ 7 <5 
GRAIN. 
Wheat prices are five to seven cents 
above last week, on heavy export buying. 
Corn one cent higher. Rye is extremely 
high, 40 cents above last year, but these 
high figures apply solely to clean rye, fit 
for flouring. Grain containing onion will 
bring nowhere near this price, even a 
small amount being sufficient to spoil it. 
It will pay rye farmers to exterminate 
wild onion, or keep rye from infested 
fields. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 187 
No. 2. Red . 1 36 
No. 2. Hard Winter . 1 36 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 74 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 53 
Rye, free from ouion. 1 14 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices 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. 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
Ordinary grades. 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 40 
Tub. choice. 34 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 
Squab broilers, pair . 
Broilers, common to good, lb 
Fricassee, lb. . 
Fowls . 18 
Turkeys!. 25 
Leg of lamb. 18 
Lamb chops. 20 
Roasting beef . }8 
Stewing beef.. 
Pork chops. 
Loin of Pork . 
Round Steak . 13 
Dec. 20. Southern Vermont has had 
a very peculiar Winter up to Christ¬ 
mas; little rain or snow, springs and 
brooks low, roads smooth and good. All 
marble business is shut down, little lum¬ 
bering being done. Farming is the main 
business here. Milk goes to Boston 3^4 
cents per quart. Hay $20; potatoes 50; 
feed $1.75; pork 15; beef 11 by the side. 
Carloads of Christmas trees are being 
cut and shipped to New York City. They 
give on the stump four to five cents each. 
Apples were an immense crop and thou¬ 
sands of bushels are rotting on the 
ground, being eaten by the wild deer. 
Crops last season were good, but Ver¬ 
mont imports much more produce than 
.she raises, yet Vermont land is good and 
yields, when cultivated, immense crops, 
as the U. S. agricultural reports show. 
South Dorset, Vt. A. L. B. 
FOR SALE—12 Cyphers Adaptable Hoovers. $25: 
1 160-egg Trusty Incubator, $6; 1 No. 1 Stan 
darU Bonecuttcr, $5. Address TITOS. J. KELLY. 
Haminonton, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Hall No. 12 Incubator Brooder fur¬ 
nace, new 1914, with 3 manifold’s all in per 
feet condition. G. CHAUNCEY PARSONS. 
Mountainvllle, N. Y. 
I’RESII COUNTRY SAUSAGE—Home-made, of 
superior quality, from specially fattened little 
niilk-and-giain fed pigs; not too highly sea 
soiled; 4 lbs.. $1; 8 lbs.. $2; postpaid within 
Third Zone; also hams anil bacon ready January 
nt 28e. lb. SAN DA NON AII FARM, Windham. 
N. Y. 
16 ACRES, level, three miles from city. CIIAS. 
EG ERICK, It. 8, So. Richmond, Va. 
FOR SALE—Vineland, fully equipped poultry 
plant, trolley, gas, water systems. Box 40, 
Rural 2, Millville, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Farm 65 acres, 
cheap; to It. It. 10 miles. 
West Cummington, Mass. 
good buildings. 
F. G. SEARS. 
First Passenger : “I understand that 
your city has the rottenest political ring 
in the ‘ country.” Second Passenger: 
“That’s right. But how did you know 
where I’m from?” First Passenger: “I 
don’t.”—Toledo Blade. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
I t. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
WANTED—Position on poultry plant, short 
course student (24). X Y Z, Orange, N. J. 
PRACTICAL, intelligent man, married, expe¬ 
rienced, wants responsible position on mod¬ 
ern dairy or poultry farm, references. H. D. F„ 
care R. N.-Y. 
COMFORTABLE modern suburban home, gar 
den, fruits, chickens, canoeing, fishing, skat¬ 
ing. $4,000. COMMUTER, Pompton Lakes, N. J. 
100 ACRE FARM FOR SALE, with or without 
niik route, stock and tools. 3 miles from cit/ 
of 38,000 inhabitants. Particulars inquire P. F.. 
care of R. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—At a Great bargain, two 80-ne: 
farms on good terms; extra well located am’ 
on good roads and near school and railroads. 
F. M. KERN, Springville, Indiana. 
12-ACRE fruit, truck farm for sale; good mar¬ 
kets, spring water, greenhouse, 600 peach 
trees, 100 apple. 2 acres strawberries; other 
fruit. A. W. BRADFORD, Coopersburg, Pa. 
FARM WANTED—From 100 to 300 acres, not 
over three miles from a town of not less than 
2.000 people; prefer one equipped' for dairy; 
must be good buildings and soil. Box 308, 
Groton, N. Y. 
WOULD be interested in equipped poultry an 1 
fruit farm on Long Island or Northern New 
Jersey: Isolated or expensive offerings not con¬ 
sidered. KLENEN, 76 Rutledge Avenue, East 
Orange, N. J. 
FARM FOR SALE, or to let—Large house and 
barns. 175 acres; easy terms; 100 miles from 
New York, one mile from railroad, churches, 
schools, etc. For particulars ad'dress C. P. BY- 
1NGTON, Ossining, N. Y. 
I WANT to dispose of one-third interest of a 
119-acre fruit, poultry and dairy farm to a 
farmer that knows all three branches, fo~ 
$5,000. 
FARM, 
Mail all correspondence 
North Water Gap, Pa. 
to MINISINK 
FOR SALE—Ulster Co., N. Y., near Catski'.l 
mountains, one-eighth mile to villuge. It. It. 
station, 50 acres, new 25-room house, barn, etc., 
fully equipped; have accommodated 40 board¬ 
ers; also suitable gentleman’s country home: 
with or without stock, etc; well watered: lee i 
than cost buildings. Address 6000, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
