Contents. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, January 23, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Every Farm an Experiment Station. Part 11..92 
A New Jersey Onion Crop .92 
Hope Farm Notes . ^2 
Most Profitable Truck Crops in South Jersey..95 
Value of Hen Manure .93 
How They Fought Quack Grass..99 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .100 
Big Questions for Farmers.105 
Potatoes in Place of Grain.105 
Farm News ••••••••:; . 
Hen Manure and Alfalfa .lio 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Fruit Grower’s Cows. 91 
Another Egg-food Fake . 92 
Interest in Hen Contests . 92 
White Eggs in New York .105 
Milk of a Heifer .108 
nrvimr Off Cow; Paralyzed Chickens.108 
Enlarging a Barn 108 
flilage Corn for Short Season .108 
Cheep and Dogs . 109 
Color of Guernsey Milk .109 
Massachusetts Milk Farmers .109 
Frothy Cream . .109 
Digester Tankage for Sow .110 
Early Maturing Pigs; Fattening Ration.110 
Cholera . HO 
Milk Check and Grain Check.110 
Feeding Value of Potatoes.Ill 
Lameness .112 
Horse With Worms .112 
Indigestion . 112 
lameness . 112 
Fracture . ..112 
Itching Skin .112 
Fistula . 112 
Scratches . 112 
Corn Silage and Alfalfa .113 
Silage for Pigs . 113 
Ration for Dairy Cows .114 
Cheap Ration for Swine .114 
Ration for Shotes .114 
Cottonseed for Milch Cows .114 
The Egg-laying Contest .115 
Hens With Colds .115 
Poor Laying .115 
Hens With Catarrh .115 
Hens With Worms .116 
Swollen Wattles; Care of Breeders .116 
Mixing Breeds ..116 
Virtues of Brown Leghorns .116 
Lame Rooster .116 
Fat Hens and Eggs .117 
Chicks With Worms .117 
Hens With Colds .117 
Winter Molt .117 
Picking Ducks .117 
Beef Scrap for Poultry .117 
HORTICULTURE. 
Planting Asparagus . 94 
Lawn Grass Under Trees . 94 
Pecans in Florida . 94 
Growing Peaches on Shares . 96 
Chinese Peaches . 96 
Cabbage Maggot . 96 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Association. 
Part I ..100 
An Odd Chinese Nut . 103 
Golden Seal Under Cultivation .103 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .106 
The Rural Patterns .106 
Seen in New York Shops .106 
About Foundlings .107 
New England Fried Pies .107 
A Little Girl’s Cooking. Part II.107 
Invalid Diet .107 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
That Electric Light Plant” . 93 
Fraudulent Seed Agent . 93 
Protecting Bees From Moth .. 94 
Events of the Week . 98 
Smoke Cure for Skunks . 99 
Water Supply System .101 
Torpedo Guards . 96 
Anti-freezing Mixture for Gas Engine. 96 
Nurse Your Gas Engine . 96 
Making Syrup . S6 
Preserving Poplar Posts . 96 
The Land Bank .105 
Pub’isher's Desk ..118 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Jan. 15, 1915, 
BUTTER. 
Trices are one-half cent lower. Sup¬ 
plies are increasing and business so dull 
that a further decline is possible. The. 
lower grades of storage and fresh cream¬ 
ery are moving slowly. 
Creamery, extra.above 92 score, lb... 34 @ 344£ 
Extra. 92 score . 33 @ 33% 
Good to Ciioice . 23 @ 31 
Lower Grades. 23 @ 25 
Storage . 26 @ 32% 
State Dairy, best. 32 @ 33 
Common to Good.. 25 © 30 
Ladles . 20 @ 24 
Packing Stock. 19 @ 22 
Process . 22 ® 26 
Elgin. 111., butter market 33 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 34 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 34. 
Chicago creamery, 24031. 
CHIC MSB. 
Export demand has picked up a little, 
so that there is a firmer feeling on most 
whole milk grades. The quality taken for 
export goes mainly under 15 cents. 
Whole Milk, fresh, specials. lt>%@ 16 
Average fancy. 15 @ 15J4 
Under grades . 12 @ 14 
Daisies. Wisconsin . M%® V>% 
Skims, specials .. .. 13 @ 13>4 
Good to choice . 11 O 12 
Poor to fair. 7 © 10 
EGGS 
A temporary scarcity of high grades 
has forced prices up two cents. Storage 
are selling well, the better grades mainly 
at 27 to 28 cents. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 47 @ 49 
Medium to good. 4U @ 45 
Mixed colors, best. 44 @ 46 
Common to good... 25 @ 35 
Storage, best... 26 ® 28 
Lower grades.. 18 @ 23 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The apple market is quite dull, with a 
smaller proportion bringing the top 
quoted prices. Kieffer pears from stor¬ 
age have brought up to $1.50 per barrel, 
these being of good size and well ripened. 
The smaller woody stock scarcely brings 
charges. Strawberries from the south 
are scarce and only medium quality, 42 
cents being the top wholesale price noted. 
Cranberry trade slack. 
Apples—BenDavis, bbl.162 @2 00 
York Imperial . 1 75 © 2 75 
Twenty-ounce . 175 @3 00 
Spitz. 1 75 @ 3 00 
Baldwin. 175 @ 2 25. 
King . 2 00 ,@ 2 75 
Greening . 175.@ 300 
Box, as to variety, . 1 50 * @ 2 25 
— The New York State — 
Department of 
Foods and 
Markets 
71 West 23rd St., New York City 
T HIS Department is created to 
reduce the high cost of living 
and give a square deal to 
both producers and 
consumers. 
women 
and 
an interest in 
a co-operative 
Public-spirited men 
who desire to take 
the organization of 
company for the distribution of 
food in the City cf New York, on 
scientific and economic principles, 
will please communicate with the 
Department at the above address. 
. 
Pears. Kieffer. bbl.100 ® 150 
Cranberries. Cape Cod, bbl.2 (10 ® 5 00 
Jersey, bbl. 3 00 @ 4 00 
Strawberries, Fla. qt. 30 ® 42 
BEANS. 
Medium and Pea are 15 to 25 cents 
per pound higher, export business in 
these varieties having increased. No 
change in Marrow, or Red or White 
Kidney. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 6 70 @ 6 75 
Medium . 5 15 ® 5 25 
pea . 5 00 @5 10 
Red Kidney. 5 80 @5 90 
White Kidney . 7 15 ® 7 25 
Y el low Eye. 5 15 @ 5 25 
Lima, California. 5 90 ® 6 00 
VEGETABLES. 
Potato receipts are heavy and prices 
tending lower except on top grades. Con¬ 
siderable rot and frost damage noted. 
Cabbage is higher, some choice bringing 
$18 for white, and up to $80 for red. 
Onions in surplus and prices cut when 
necessary to make sales. There is at 
times a little export trade, but this is 
of uncertain volume and cannot be de¬ 
pended on as an outlet. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 
,. 1 25 
@ 1 50 
Long island, bbl, .. 
@ 2 00 
State. 180 lbs. 
.. 1 25 
@ 1 05 
Maine. 180 ibs. 
. 1 50 
@ 1 85 
Bermuda, bbl. 
@5 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl.... 
@ 3 00 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. .. 
. 
. 
6 
@ 12 
Beets. 1 Oi) bunches. 
. 2 50 
@ 3 00 
Carrots, bbl. 
....... 
. 1 OU 
@ ! 25 
Chicory, southern, bbl. 
. 1 50 
® 2 25 
10 
(ai 40 
Cabbage, ton. 
. . • . . 
.14 00 
@18 00 
Horseradish, bbl . 
. 
.. 5 00 
@ 5 75 
Kale, bbl. 
. 
. 
. 50 
<Si 05 
Lettuce, half-bill, basket .. 
. 2 00 
@ 4 10 
Onions—Red. bag _ 
@ 1 60 
Yellow. 
. - . - 
. 1 00 
@ 1 60 
Wtiite . 
.. . . 
. 1 25 
fdi 1 75 
Peppers, bu . 
. 1 75 
© 2 60 
® 3 00 
Radishes, 100 bunches 
. 2 00 
Spinach, bbl. 
@ 1 75 
String Beans, bu . 
.. 1 00 
@ 3 50 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl. 
. . 1 00 
@ 1 25 
SI arrow . 
@ 1 00 
New, bu. 
. 1 00 
@ 3 00 
Egg Plants, bu. 
..... 
.. . . 
. 1 20 
@2 25 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt. crate 
. 
. 
. 1 00 
@ 3 00 
LI V K 
POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb . 
@ 15 
Fowls . 
@ 164s 
Roosters. 11 %® 
Ducks . 
Geese . 
16 
14 
@ 
124a 
17 
15 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 
Common to good . 12 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 
Broilers, common to good 
Roasters . 23 @ 
Fowls. 
Capons, best . 
Small and slips.. 
Ducks,.Spring.. 
20 ® 
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23 @ 
19 @ 
23 
14 @ 
27 ® 
18 @ 
12 ® 
@22 50 
@20 50 
@19 00 
@19 00 
@16 00 
21 
16 
25 
20 
24 
18 
28 
22 
16 
Squabs, doz. 1 25 @ 4 50 
HAY AND STRAW. 
The market is 50 cents to $3 higher 
on the better grades of Timothy and 
rye straw. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton .21 50 
No. 2.19 50 
No. 3.18 00 
Clover mixed.18 90 
Straw, Rye,.14 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat speculation has brought heavy 
price advances and declines during the 
week. One man is said to have “cleaned 
up” 20 cents per bushel on 1,000,000 
bushels, and another killed himself be¬ 
cause his end of the speculation went the 
other way. The varying tide of war is 
watched closely by grain speculators, 
even though many of the reports are un¬ 
confirmed rumors. The probable dura¬ 
tion of the war, and the possible open¬ 
ing of the waterway from the Black Sea, 
which would put Russia’s grain in West¬ 
ern European markets are matters of 
great importance to the grain trade, as 
the life and death of grain corners de¬ 
pend on such things. It is. however, a 
poor compliment to our heavily manned 
regulation of public utilities and econ¬ 
omies that corners, with their pernicious 
effects on business life, should be per¬ 
mitted. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 54 
No. 2. Red . 1 56 
No. 2. Hard Winter . 1 56 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 78 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 53 
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will not be accepted for this column. 
WANTED—Single man for farm work. WM. 
BROWN. Belvidere, N. Y„ R. F. D. 1. 
WANTED—All-around farmer, about 30; good 
character, industrious, Protestant. J. FIX, 
Moutvale, N. J. 
YOUNG MAN, 10, wishes position at anything, 
with board. GEO. HEIN. 1400 Leland Are.. 
Bronx, N. Y.. care Diehls. 
UNMARRIED MAN wants work on dairy farm; 
not able to milk. J. S., Rural New-Yorker, 
330 W. 30th St.. N. Y. City. 
WANTED—Position by married American work¬ 
ing foreman on farm, with house and etc., 
furnished. It. W., care R. N.-Y. 
FARMER’S SON (23) wishes position on modern 
fruit farm, some experience; no bad habits; 
references. Box 11, care R. N.-Y. 
WANTED—Orchard or fruit work for months of 
February and March bv expert horticulturist. 
W. HINDS DARROW, Putney, Vt. 
WANTED—Young man to work for 8 weeks 
and learn garage business and driving. Ad¬ 
dress GARAGE, care of Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED- Position as manager of commercial 
poultry farm: experienced and a worker; ref¬ 
erences. MANAGER, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED on farm; understands 
management of stallions and brood' mares, 
also breaking colts. 267 Main St.. Plymouth, 
N. II. 
WANTED—-Position as herdsman or dairy fore¬ 
man by young man with certified experience; 
best of references. Box 10, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED—On poultry farm: single; 
has worked on large commercial plant. RE¬ 
LIABLE. Rural New-Yorker. 330 W. 30th St., 
N. Y. City. 
POSITION WANTED—Estate superintendent, 
experienced farm, garden, forestry, landscape, 
road building; references and bond given. P. J. 
P., care R. N.-Y. 
WANTED—Working homes for several boys; 
also places for experienced farm hands. Ap¬ 
ply SUPT., Colored' Orphan Asylum, Rlverdale- 
on-Hudson, N. Y. 
POSITION WANTED—On private farm or es¬ 
tate by carpenter, married. 3V> years in last 
position. A-l reference. Address I’. O. Box 
654 Suffern. N. Y. 
WANTED—Experienced Agricultural College 
graduate to run dairy farm: for particulars, 
address EDSON S. SMITH. North Kent, Conn¬ 
ecticut; give references. 
WANTED—At once, a cheerful, competent and 
respectable housekeeper on a farm by an 
elderly gentleman and son; reference required. 
L. J. IIILE, Kemnoor, Pa. 
WANTED—Dairy farmer, to work small farm 
near Pittsburgh on shares; stock and imple¬ 
ments furnished by ownc - . Address N. P. 
DAVIS. 1407 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
RET,TABLE MAN. married: competent farmer 
and' gardener, desires position as manager of 
country place: 4 years in last place. Address 
Box 15, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED to work on shares or to rent with 
option of buying small general farm, within 
100 miles of New York city, give full particu¬ 
lars. E. J. BACKENSTOS, 348 W. 44th St.. 
New York City. 
WANTED—From April 1 up to date general 
farm to work on shares from 50 to 100 acres. 
New York or New Jersey preferred; best recom¬ 
mendations. AUG. ANDERSON, New Bruns¬ 
wick, N. J. R. No. 2; 
WANTED—Position as second man by reliable. 
intelligent man, married, 25, experienced in 
purebred stock, fruit, truck and poultry: or 
foreman smaller place; open March 1. Refer¬ 
ences. F. K., care R. N.-Y'. 
POSITION WANTED on private place or milk 
business by single American, taken dairy 
short course, long experience in (fairy work; 
understands machinery, bnttermaking, bottling 
milk. 06 Rugar St.. Plattsburg, N. Y.' 
WANTED—On poultry farm, to learn business, 
country boy, strong and willing, 17 to 20 
years, wanting technical training and good 
home; state wages and particulars. BRIGHT- 
WATERS FARM, L. I., Brightwater, N. Y. 
SINGLE MAN, 25, short course stud’ent. wishes 
position, experienced dairyman, herdsman, ex¬ 
pert Imttennaker, Babcock test, etc.: good 
knowledge of poultry; consider position with 
poultry or dairying. A. E. H., care R. N.-Y. 
WANTED—A competent Protestant working 
housekeeper on a farm in village of East 
Avon: family consists of 2 adults, 2 children, 10 
and 12 years old: only those that want a per¬ 
manent place, good home and wages with ref¬ 
erences. need apply. A. D. WILBUR,, East 
Avon, Livingston County, N. Y r . 
WANTED—Sales manager, by farmers’ co-op¬ 
erative association selling to local wholesale 
trade; knowledge of commission business, pack¬ 
ing and’ grading farm products essential; expe¬ 
rience as producer an advantage: give refer¬ 
ences. experience and salary required. A. W. 
MANCHESTER, Bristol, Conn. 
79 
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Rye, free from onion. 123 © 1 24 
FARMER WANTED—Young, enterprising, mar¬ 
ried, small family, with some stock and tools, 
to work good 100-acre farm in North Central 
New Jersey, on shares or rental: owner (single) 
to reside on premises and give personal atten¬ 
tion to orchards; only those of good character 
and offering best references need apply; good, 
permanent opportunity for right parties. Ad¬ 
dress OPPORTUNITY. Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED as manager or superin¬ 
tendent of farm or estate by practical farmer 
with 10 years’ experience; sober, reliable, in¬ 
dustrious. careful and well educated; small fam¬ 
ily; southeastern Pennsylvania preferred J. 
HOWARD BROOMELL, Kennett Square, Pa. 
WANTED—Practical working farmer on a West¬ 
ern Pennsylvania farm who understands rais¬ 
ing of farm crops, as hay, grain, potatoes, corn, 
etc., and thoroughly understands raising and 
care of horses, cattle, sheep, etc. The enter¬ 
prise to be handled in a small way at first and 
expanded 1 if the farmer proves satisfactory; 
must be sober, industrious, frugal; no theorist 
or gentleman of leisure need apply; only thor¬ 
ough-going, earnest, capable worker wanted; 
stiite age, married or single, and wages re¬ 
quired. Address FARMER, 231 Burgess Street, 
Northslde, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
FOR SALE—Pure maple syrup at $1.10 rer gal¬ 
lon. JAY BROWN. West Edmestou, N. Y'. 
\ A( i T M CLEANER—-Perfect condition, sell or 
exchange; write ARTHUR LOPER, Port Jef¬ 
ferson, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Empire Separator, first-class condi¬ 
tion, $25: bargain. REID BROS., East Long- 
meadow, Mass. 
NEW WHITE ITONEY in sixty-pound' cans and 
"E? am > ten-pound pails. C. A. HATCH, 
Richland Center. Wis. 
POWER SPRAYER WANTED—Give fully 
,, < ' 0,u Ii ti ° n ' l ,rice - etc - IIARVALE 
FARM, Madison, N. J. 
APPLES APPLES. APPLES—For choice spray- 
- W ln ? r Apples. Please order to-day. C. J. 
i ODER, Grantsville, Md. 
VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP. $1.10 per gal.: su- 
gar, a and 10-lb. pails, 15c. per lb.; small 
l'ort'y Vt eS ’ C ' PCr lb ' JAY T ’ SMI TH, Ku- 
A S 1 S V V,e',‘ V t I ,! A r T ~ T n V0 . < ’ arS ? f first cu ttingr at 
ini ton K o. b. here: also a oar of second 
FayetfevUle? N. P Y. tOI “ hCre ' W ’ R ’ DUNLOp . 
BROODERS MANTED—Coal burning stove 
brooders. ..00 capacity, automatic regulator 
also 240-egg incubators; first-class only; make 
Miss ° W ' HIGHLAND FARM, Ilousatonic, 
AUTOMOBILE TRUCK—To carry 1,500 lbs.; 
suitable for farmer or delivery any kind, sim¬ 
ple; powerful; hard tires; good running ord'er; 
investigate. LOPER BROS., Port Jefferson! 
GRAPEFRUIT—Fancy bright, $1.75 per box; 
quarter box, i5 cents; Golden Russets $1 50 
per box; quarter box, 50 cents, F. O. B. Miami, 
I hi.; Russets are tile same in all respects as 
Brights, except in outside appearance. Price 
V, Express quoted on request. GEO. 
B. L ELLON, Tropical Grove, Miami Fla 
1,000 TON'S OF ALFALFA FOR SALE 1 000 
1 ayettevilie Grange is right in the center of 
the Alfalfa district; owing to the quarantine 
embargo its members have on hand one thou¬ 
sand tons of Alfalfa, first, second and third 
cuttings. We can fill all orders with prompt 
shipments. FAYETTEVILLE GRANGE. No. CIO. 
JOHN McLENNAN, Chairman Committee. 
WILL sacrifice improved 52’4-acre farm to 
quick buyer. WALTER MILES, Upper Marl¬ 
boro, Md. 
FOR SALE—85-acre farm, stock and' tools, good 
buildings. 5 miles from Plainfield, N. J. Box 
No. 13. care R. N.-Y. 
FARM FOR SALE—83*4 acres, good buildings, 
fertile soil; bargain. $3,500. MRS. BLUE 
IIIGBY, Montgomery, N. Y. 
130 ACRES dairy and' fruit farm. % mile from 
depot, creamery and little town near a city of 
good market. Box 73, Laurens, N. Y\ 
FOR RENT—Two-acre farm near depot, at $17; 
new house, particularly suitable for fruit and 
poultry. LOPER BROS., Port Jefferson, N. Y. 
TO LET—New Jersey farm, 75 acres; stock and 
tools, to bright man who wishes to go into the 
retail milk business. Box No. 14. care R. N.-Y'. 
FOR RENT OR SALE—Stock farm near Buffalo. 
great potato soil; near State road and rail¬ 
road. ALBERT D. JAMIESON, Ellicott Square, 
Buffalo. 
WANTED—To rent with or without option to 
buy, farm with seven or more room house, 
New Y'ork State preferred; give details; terms. 
Box 12. care R. N.-Y'. 
WANTED—To rent 5 or 10-acre poultry farm 
with option to buy, located near village in 
Central New York State. Address E. P. LE 
MASURIEK, Ilallock, Minn. 
85-ACRE FRUIT FARM. Wayne County—Ap¬ 
ples, peaches, cherries, pears, raspberries; 
good barn; tine house, near school, church, 
stores, creamery; price, $7,600. EDWARD D. 
CHAPMAN, Court House. Syracuse, N. Y. 
ABOUT 10 TO 15 ACRES to rent with option 
to buy; suitable for raising of vegetables, 
within 20 or 25 miles of New York or nearer; 
preferably Long Island, but would consider farm 
in New Jersey. Address Box No. 9, care It. 
N.-Y’. 
WHO WANTS one of the finest farms in Cen¬ 
tra^ New Y’ork? 160 acres; clay loam soil, 
level, free from stone, running water in house 
and barn; exceptionally good buildings; price, 
$7,500; part down. SUNRISE FARM, It. D. 4, 
Bainbridge, N. Y'. 
100-ACRE-—Pleasant, productive farm, good 8- 
rooni. slated house; large barn, sheds, etc.; 
all spring watered; good orchard, also pasture, 
wood and timber lands; one mile to town; 4 to 
It. R. Station. W. A. HOWARD, Charlemont, 
ft. D. No. 1, Franklin Co., Mass. 
FOR SALE—Two farms in Wayne Co., New 
York: one farm 100 acres, one mile from vil¬ 
lage of 3.000; high school, five churches, two 
railroads, trolley and canal; beautiful lawn with 
trees, fine orchard, productive land; buildings 
cost $10,000. in good condition; one farm of 
155 acres, about fifty of marsh land’, will cut 
hay, upland productive, good buildings, will 
sell one or both farms cheap to close out es¬ 
tate. Address Box 273, Clyde. New Y'ork. 
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