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THE KUKAL NEW-VORKER 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, January 30, 1915, 
FARM TOPICS. 
Building a Small Barn .125 
Alfalfa as Green Manure .124 
Big Statements About Lime .124 
Farm Managers Assuming Risks .124 
A New “Farm Manager” Scheme .124 
New York State Horticultural Society.128 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .130 
The Price of Hen Manure .131 
The Hired Man’s Side .131 
College-Trained Hired Mon .131 
Wire Fences and Trees .131 
A Straw-fence Windbreak .150 
Chances Right Where You Are .152 
Asparagus Fertilizer .152 
Canadian Fox Breeding .153 
Bundle Corn in Silo .153 
Truck Farm Notes .154 
Buying Manures .154 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
America’s Popular Fowl .125 
Breeding for Laying .129 
Inbreeding Swine .146 
Wallkill Cow-testing Association .146 
Boosting the Milk Trade .146 
Steraky Butter .146 
A Creamery in Alabama .147 
Soy Beans for Pork Making .147 
Feeding Good Pigs .147 
Importance of Corn Silage and Alfalfa. Part 
II.148 
Molasses for Milch Cows .151 
Hard Milker .151 
Balking Horse .151 
The Favorite Hens .155, 157 
Eggs and Parcel Post . ...156 
Identifying Pigeons .156 
Laying Average .156 
Frozen Mangels; Coccidiosis; Excess Oxygen 156 
Eggs With Blood Clots; Poultry Wanted ....156 
The Egg-laying Contest .157 
Poultry Regulators .157 
Standard Poultry Rations .157 
HORTICULTURE. 
Don’t Prune Young Apple Trees .124 
Starting a Vineyard .125 
Blistered Celery; Fertilizer for Muskmelons 126 
Wholesomeness of Mushrooms .126 
Leviticus and Horticulture .126 
Apples in New Jersey .127 
Cactus Water for Spraying ..129 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Association. 
Part II.129 
Grafting Walnuts .133 
Pe-tsai or Chinese Cabbage .133 
Quince Rust . 133 
August Giant and Muscatine Grapes .133 
Lime-sulphur for Tree Wash .133 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
The Woman Farmer .135 
The Woman and the Wandering Hen.135 
The Snowstorm .136 
Compensation ..136 
Mcadowtation .136 
To You on New Year’s Day .136 
Selling Human Blood . 137 
“Songs That Live” .137 
A Box of Garden Greens .138 
Raising an Herb Garden .138 
A Girl Raises Pigs .138 
Puppies That Bring Money .138 
Women as Goat Breeders .138 
A Trade in Cottage Cheese .138 
Pin-money Puzzles for Women .138 
As Others See Us .139 
Good Words .139 
The Home Dressmaker .140 
The Possibilities of Feather Stitch .140 
The Children . 141 
A Girl and Her Horse .142 
An Ohio Girl Prize Apple Grower .142 
The Child and Its Work. Part 1.142 
The Land of Fulfillment (Concluded).... 143, 145 
New Year’s Household Resolutions .144 
A New Storm Door.144 
Height of Table . 144 
Easy Asparagus Canning .144 
Improving a Tenant House .145 
Women as Rural Mail Carriers .145 
Women on the Police Force .145 
Two Back-to-the-Landers .145 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Water Power From Faucet .123 
Harnessing a Small Stream .123 
Power From Four-inch Stream .123, 124 
Events of the Week .130 
Editorials . 134 
What Is Horse Power? .. ..'!!l50 
Now York State News .!l51 
Buffalo Markets .. 
Boston Markets . . 153 
Publisher’s Desk ..’' ’ 158 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending Jan. 22, 1915. 
MILK. 
The Borden milk schedule to producers 
for tin; six months beginning with Oc¬ 
tober is as follows: This is per 10<) 
pounds in the 26-cent zone. This is 
what is known as the “maximum” for 
milk testing 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 fire running $2.01 and $1.91 for 
B and C. Hotels and restaurants using 
two to three 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. 
BUTTKR. 
Prices are one cent lower, with consid¬ 
erable accumulation of grades just below 
tup. The better grades of storage are 
being held for higher prices, other quali¬ 
ties cleaning out as rapidly as possible. 
Some trade in ladles for export, at about 
22 cents. 
Creamery, extra.above 92 score, lb... 33 
Extra. 92 score . 32 
Good to Choice . 23 
Lower tirades. 23 
Storage . 26 
State Dairy, best. 31 
Common to tiooil. . ’ 25 
Ladles . 20 
Packing Stock. .... 18 
Process . 22 
Elgin, Ill., butter market 30 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 32 cents 
Boston, western creamery, 32. 
Chicago creamery, 24@31. 
CHEESE. 
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There has been a one-fourth cent 
vance, and the market is very firm, 
account of extensive export inquiry. 
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Whole Milk, fresh, specials. 16 @ 16* 
Average fancy. 15*® 
Under grades . 12 @ 14 
Daisies, Wisconsin . 15 @ 15* 
Skims, specials. 13 to 14 
Good to choice . 11 @ 12 
Poor to fair. 7 @ 10 
EGGS 
Trices are five cents lower. Market 
has been weak but closes in better con¬ 
dition because of cold weather reports in 
the western producing sections. Among 
the receipts are large quantities of stor¬ 
age, the holders, especially of under 
grades, being anxious to close out. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 41 @ 43 
Medium to good. 37 @ 40 
Mixed colors, best. 38 @ 39 
Common to good. 25 @ 35 
Storage, best . 26 @ 28 
Lower grades. 20 @ 23 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Tlie apple market is only moderately 
active, the bulk of receipts going under 
$3, some ordinary Baldwin as low as 
$1.50. Business in cranberries dull and 
prices continue low. 
Apples— BenDnvis, bbl. 1 62 @ 1 75 
York Imperial . 2 00 @2 75 
Twenty-ounce . 175 @2 50 
Spitz. 1 75 @3 00 
Baldwin. 150 @2 60 
King . . 2 00 @2 75 
Greening . 1 75 @ 3 00 
Box, as to variety, . 1 50 @ 2 25 
Pears. Kieffer. bbl.1 00 @ 2 50 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl. 2 00 @ 5 00 
Jersey, bbl. 3 00 @4 00 
Strawberries, Fla. qt. 30 ® 40 
BEANS. 
Prices advanced 10 to 
hundred pounds on all 
White Kidney and Yellow 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium . 
Pea . 
Red Kidney. . 
White Kidney . 
Yellow Kyo. 
Lima, California. 
15 cents per 
varieties but 
Eye. 
.... 6 85 @6 90 
....5 25 @535 
.... 520 @ 5 25 
.... 5 90 @ 6 00 
.... 7 20 @ 7 25 
....515 @ 5 25 
. .. 5 90 @ 0 00 
VEGETA BLISS. 
Potatoes are in surplus, with a larger 
percentage going under $1.75 per 180 
pounds here. Old cabbage $3 per ton 
lower; new from the South in quite free 
supply at $1.50 to $2 per barrel. Onions 
slightly lower. Good lettuce scarce; 
potatoes, eggplants and peppers, from the 
South running very poor. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. 1 25 @ 1 50 
Long Island, bbl,. 1 75 @ 2 00 
State, 180 lbs.1 25 @ 1 50 
Maine, 180 lbs. 1 50 @ 1 75 
Bermuda, bbl. .... 4 00 @5 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2 00 @ 2 75 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 5 @ 12 
Beets. 100 bunches. 2 50 @ 3 00 
Carrots, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Chicory, southern, bbl. 1 50 @2 50 
Cabbage, ton.12 00 @15 00 
Horseradish, bbl . 5 00 @ 5 50 
Kale, bbl. 75 @ 90 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 2 00 @ 4 50 
Onions—Red. bag . 1 00 @ 1 40 
Yellow, . 1 00 @ 1 60 
White . I 25 @ 1 75 
Peppers, bu.1 60 © 2 50 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 2 00 @ 3 00 
Spinach, bbl. 1 00 @1 75 
String Beans, bu. 1 00 @ 4 00 
Squash. Hubbard, bbl.1 00 @1 25 
Marrow. 75 @ 1 00 
New, bu. 1 00 @ 3 00 
Egg Plants, bu. 1 50 @ 2 75 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt. crate. 1 00 @ 3 00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, lb. 12*@ 13* 
Fowls . 15 @ 10 
Roosters. 1U*@ 11 
Ducks. 16 @ 17 
Geese. 13 @ 14 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 21 @ 22 
Common to good . 12 @ 18 
(Continued on page 150) 
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High Boots, 4.00 
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The New GREENWOOD LIME 
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_ Even though our 
prices were hplf what 
dealers ask (and below 
what other mail order houses 
. ask), our 1914-1915 catalog 
is now a dead one. We took 
advantage of the WA R. Our 
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facturers personally. He found them 
Bo thirsty for business, they gave prices 
never before thought of. And all on 
good, new material, too. So, zip!— 
our 1914-1915 catalog has been 
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features. Our three new separate 
catalogs show prices that make 
old ones look sick. Wc landed 
these prices because (1) the factor- 
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because (2) we contracted forgreat 
big quantities. We may lose a lot 
of money as a result. But, the 
recent crops have given the farmer 
enough money to buy and, surely, 
all intelligent farmers will at least 
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On the left is dtae of the pages 
from the roofing part of our cat¬ 
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that is guaranteed 12 
and 15 years — Along 
w ith rubber roofing at 
(per roll). 
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deizcotet (ftotOLA, 
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c. 
In the 1914-1915 catalog there 
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equal to any. In our new Fence 
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many styles, at prices which are 
lowest yet. For in-, 
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galvanized, at prices 
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new prices, we wonder people 
could have been so enthusiastic 
about our former 
value. Now, the 
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