PRODUCE, PRICES AND TRADE, 
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Chickens choice broilers, lb.. 
1!rollers, common to good 
Boasters . 
Fowls. 
Capons, best. 
Small and slips.. . 
Ducks. Spring. 
Squabs, doz. 
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HAV AND STRAW. 
The advance reported last week has 
been lost, receipts being large and de¬ 
mand only moderate, especially on low 
grades. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 20 00 @25 00 
No 2.19 00 @1950 
No. 3.It 50 @18 50 
Clover mixed.18 00 @10 00 
8traw, Rye,.13 00 @15 00 
GRAIN 
Wheat speculation continues heavy, 
though export sales not equal to last 
week. Corn is four to five cents higher, 
partly because of rumors that it is to be 
increasingly used as a substitute for 
wheat in Europe while the war lasts. 
Our wheat exports during December 
amounted to 2S.875.217 bushels; corn, 4,- 
5S2,006; oats. 5,203.431. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 54t£@ 
No. 2. Bed . 1 544s@ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 83 @ 84 
Oats, as to weight, hush . 59 @ till 
Rye, free from onion. 1 2S @ 1 29 
LI VIC STOCK. 
Native Steers. 7 00 @8 50 
Bulls.. 5 00 @7 15 
Cows. 3 50 @ 0 50 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 8 50 @12 75 
Culls. 5 00 @7 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 50 @ 6 00 
Lambs . 7 50 @8 25 
Hogs. 6 50 @ 7 50 
HOPS. 
Prime to choice. 21 @ 20 
Common to good. 15 @ 20 
Pacific Coast . 13 @ 14 
Old stock. 7 @ 8 
BETA IL PBICKS AT NEW YOBK. 
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 pop¬ 
ulation. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
Ordinary grades. 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 
Tub. choice. 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 
Broilers, common to good. lb. 
Fricassee, lb. 
Fowls . 
Turkeys. 
Leg of lamb. 
Lamb chops. 
Boasting beef . 
Stewing beef . 
Pork chops.? 
Loin of Pork . 
Bound 8teak . 
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Figuring Egg Prices. 
I WANT to sell eggs to customers in 
New York the year around and would 
like to know what would be a fair 
price for Winter and Summer schedule. 
What is your opinion about contracts for 
the year? F- E. 
New York. 
There is no general basis for figuring 
egg prices in New York, because of the 
wide variation in prices of the same 
quality, even on the same day. The num¬ 
ber of people who will pay high prices 
for eggs is limited, and when these are 
supplied the price must be cut or the 
eggs held. This is a question that deal¬ 
ers in eggs, or other farm products, have 
to meet many times a day, and, with 
honest intentions, often make the mis 
take of selling too low or refusing to cut 
a price. There are many ways to dodge 
the effects of contracts when the seller 
appears to have the better end of the 
bargain. Complaints of small size, break¬ 
age or quality are frequent, and made in 
such a way that the seller finds it hard 
to controvert them. 
In recent years hotels and other large 
users have been tending more to the cus¬ 
tom of buying through dealers instead of 
direct from producers, as they get just 
the quality they want, on short notice, 
and candled before delivery, so that they 
know what every egg is. The price 
charged by dealers and commission men 
under such conditions is highly variable, 
all the way from 10 cents to $1.50 per 
ease. Some men when business is dull 
will cut their profit margin almost to 
nothing in order to keep something going. 
Our imports during December amount¬ 
ed to $66,241,361; for the entire year, 
$973,989,289. Exports. December, $94,- 
326.192; whole year. $869,154,130. This 
is a decline of $36,398,470 in imports, 
and $38,342,253 less exports than in 
1913. 
* 
The law requires that all packages of 
oleomargarine shall bear the name “ole- 
margarine” in letters not less than one 
fourth inch square. It has been cus¬ 
tomary to put on other brands with 
large letters, which overshadowed the 
lawful one. The Internal Revenue De¬ 
partment has now ruled that the word 
“oleomargarine” shall be in letters at 
least two-thirds as large as any trade 
mark or other brand appearing on the 
package. 
The following announcement conclud¬ 
ed an account of a wedding in a small 
Massachusetts town : “The bridegroom’s 
gift to the bride was a handsome diamond 
brooch, besides many other beautiful 
tT. iiin cut-glass.”—Credit Lost. 
—» The New York State — 
Department of 
Foods and 
Markets 
71 West 23rd St., New York City 
HIS Department is created to 
reduce the high cost of living 
and give a square deal to 
both producers and consumers. 
Public-spirited men and women 
who desire to take an interest in 
the organization of a co-operative 
company for the distribution of 
food in the City of New York, on 
scientific and economic principles, 
will please communicate with the 
Department at the above address. 
Vegetable Growers’ Buffalo Meeting. 
A PLAN whereby the Batavia Canning 
Company and bean growers in that 
locality mutually benefited was told 
by R. M. Decker, president of that com¬ 
pany, at the meeting of the Western 
New York Gardeners held at Buffalo, 
January 14. “The prices,” Mr. Decker 
said: “had been very satisfactory, and 
were comparable to those of city markets, 
and yet by a well-planned scheme of 
grading the cannery was able to handle 
the goods at a profit. The arrangement 
was possible because the growers and 
canners viewed the business of each from 
the other’s viewpoint.” Another speaker 
was L. P. Williams. At this Buffalo 
meeting, growers were present from a 
radius of 50 miles, and deep interest was 
evident in all discussions. It is not to 
be expected that a considerable number 
of the 17,000 commercial vegetable grow¬ 
ers of New York State will visit any one 
meeting. The success of the Buffalo 
meeting is an evidence of the wisdom in 
planning local one-day meetings of the 
New York State Vegetable Growers’ As¬ 
sociation. 
Jan. 14. Cattle, live, 7 to 7% ; hogs, 
dressed, 9; chickens, live, 10; butter 30; 
eggs 30; wheat $1.15; oats 50; corn SO; 
apples $1.50 to $2 per barrel; potatoes 
50. w. g. s. 
Jackson Center, Pa. 
Jan. 10. At auction sales in Novem¬ 
ber, black and white cows sold for from 
$60 to $85. Pork, live, nine and 10 cents, 
12 to 14 cents dressed. Eggs are now 35, 
butter 33. Milk is sold at the Borden 
price. There are four companies oper¬ 
ating within possible shipping distance 
from here. Apples largely rotted on the 
ground, no sale at any price. No other 
crops produced here. h. a. g. 
Lakewood, Pa. 
Jan. 16. This has been a Winter of 
the old-fashioned kind. We have had 
sleighing almost continually since Thanks¬ 
giving, although the snow has not been 
very deep at any time. We had 12 be¬ 
low zero several times. With scarcity 
of water, it was no snap to haul water 
for stock for a mile or two. There is 
very little beef stock sold here, as most 
farmers are in the dairy or truck busi¬ 
ness. Good large fresh cows bring from 
$90 to $120; common medium $70 to $80. 
Beef by the quarter 10 and 12c per lb.; 
young pigs from six to eight weeks old 
$6 to $7 per pair. Butter delivered to 
regular city customers 40c per lb.; eggs 
45; poultry, live, 14; dressed 20; rather 
dull. Apples 60 to $1 per bu., according 
to kind and quality. Potatoes 90. Hay, 
No. 1 Timothy, $16 per ton ; mixed $14, 
straw $9; corn $1.10; oats 65; wheat 
very little sold; milk retail, 8c per qt.; 
wholesale $1 for five gallon can. 
Johnstown, Pa. j. m. y. 
We hear various parts of the country 
named as headquarters for various things, 
but few people realize that the country 
around Roanoke, Va., may be called head¬ 
quarters for turkeys. The turkey busi¬ 
ness in that section is immense. The 
average car holds about 1.500 turkeys, 
and for the Thanksgiving trade alone, 
about 41 solid cars of these birds were 
shipped. In smaller lots there were near¬ 
ly 25 cars more, so that for the Thanks¬ 
giving trade alone about 100.000 turkeys 
passed through Roanoke on their way to 
that destination which it is the ambition 
of every turkey to reach. Roanoke is 
the outlet for a great poultry section for 
Southwest Virginia. Western North Car¬ 
olina and Eastern Tennessee, and all the 
mountain sections of that region are alive 
with turkeys, which pass on to the 
North through Roanoke. Few people 
have realized what a tremendous turkey 
business has been built up in that sec¬ 
tion. 
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 be accepted for this column. 
AMERICAN YOUNG MAN seeks position on 
poultry plant. II. ,T. S., care B. N.-Y. 
WANTED—By lady, position as housekeeper or 
nurse; best references. Box 20. care It. N.-Y. 
WANTED—-Bright boy, work on farm year 
round for board, clothes, winter schooling; 
good home. Box 07. Dunellen, N. J. 
WANTED—Position ns manager of commercial 
poultry farm; experienced and a worker; ref¬ 
erences. MANAGER, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED as working farm manager. 
understand all crops in rotation: good dairy 
man; can go at once. B. GEISI5ERT. Ocean 
City, Md. 
WANTED—Working homos for several boys; 
also places for experienced farm bands. Ap¬ 
ply StIPT., Colored' Orphan Asylum, Itiverdnle- 
on-Hudson, N. Y. 
TEAMSTERS wanted to work on institution 
farm; salary. $32 a month and maintenance. 
Address SUPERINTENDENT, Letchworth Vil¬ 
lage, Thiells, N. Y. 
WANTED—Position as superintendent of State, 
head gardener or farm manager, practical ex¬ 
perienced man, agricultural college training. 
I'.ox 18, care It. N.-Y. 
YOUNG MAN, ambitious, with some experience 
in farm work, good milker, wants place on 
farm. New York State preferred. It. D. L., 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARMER, married, wants position as working 
foreman of gentleman’s estate; und'erstands 
all farm and garden work; first class reference. 
G. F., Oaktree, N. ,7., Box 35. 
YOUNG MAN with recent experience desires po¬ 
sition on stock farm. Write particulars, sal¬ 
ary offered, etc. Address II. GLUCKSMAN, 
No. 927 Fox street, Bronx, N. Y. City. 
WANTED—A young single man. trained dry 
milker, experienced in care of purebred dairy 
cattle; permanent employment. $35 per month 
and board. WOODCUEST FARM, Rifton, N. Y. 
AN EXPERIENCED. incTustrious, sober farmer. 
and Ids sister, would like to care for gentle¬ 
man’s farm and home: man to work the farm, 
sister experienced housekeeper, to care for the 
house; best references. II. B., care B. N.-Y. 
YOUNG MAN. single, no farm experience, wants 
work on farm; small wages expected: pre¬ 
vious work forestry in West: used to hard work 
and long hours: good education: good references. 
LEROY M. RICHARDSON, Winchester. Mass. 
DISENGAGED March 1, position as foreman. life 
experience on large farms, good' plowman, 
first class raiser of young stock, well up in cer¬ 
tified work, truck garden work ami poultry, 
single, aged 39. Apply Box 10, Rural New- 
Yorker. 
AMERICAN AND WIFE, middle aged, thor¬ 
oughly competent and experienced in all kind 
of farm and garden work, desires position as 
farm superintendent; can furnish best of refer¬ 
ences. Address H. L. A., care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
OUR GRADUATES will be ready to accept posi¬ 
tions as Dairymen, Poultrynien. Horticultur¬ 
ists and General Farm Help on March 1. 1915. 
Applications will lie considered in the order re¬ 
ceived. Address BARON DE HIRSCIT AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL SCHOOL, Woodbine, N. J., Dept. R. 
WANTED—-Position as dairy farm manager by 
n Wed man. understands ail modern farm 
ma< .iery, raising of all crops, vegetables, 
stock, calves, feeding, testing, buttermaking, 20 
years’ practical experience: temperate; refer¬ 
ences; $00 a month, modern cottage and the 
usual privileges; only first class proposition con¬ 
sidered. L. E. D., Agri. Bank P.ldg, Room —, 
Pittsfield, Mass. 
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 if ttie farmer proves satisfactory; 
must be sober, industrious, frugal: no theorist 
or gentleman of leisure need apply; only thor¬ 
ough-going, earnest, capable worker wanted; 
state age. married or single, and wages re¬ 
quired. Address FARMER, 231 Burgess Street, 
Northside, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
WANTED—Blizzard ensilage cutter. ROBERT 
HAGERTY, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—About thirty tons Otiio grown Al¬ 
falfa hay. ROBINSON BROS., Plain City, O. 
,NEW MANURE SPREADER, exchange for good 
quality seed oats. A. A. BARNS, Ithaca, 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Light Bobsleigh, seven foot box, 
two seats: good' condition. F. STEVENS, 
Wilson, N. Y. 
NEW WHITE HONEY in sixty-pound' cans and 
five and ten-pound pails. C. A. HATCH, 
Richland Center, Wls. 
15 TONS MIXED HAY. price $22 cash f. o. b. 
Washington, N. J.: also oat straw, $15. NA¬ 
THAN ALLEN, Oxford, N. J. 
WANTED—Carload of clover or clover mixed 
hay; quote bottom price for cash. JACOBS 
EGG FACTORY. West Hartford, Conn. 
FOR SALE—Stndobaker handy wagon, oak 
natural finish, cut-under, rubber tires, brake, 
top complete: used few times; Caffrey sta¬ 
tion wagon, rubber tires, fine condition; shafts 
and pole with each. EDWARD MORGAN, U. 
D. 1, Plainfield', N. J. 
KEROSENE TRACTOR FOR SALE—Mogul. Jr. 
25 h. p. made bv I. II. Co., little used account 
of fields too small, pulls 4 plows, disc harrows 
and smoother; runs rock crusher, ensilage cut¬ 
ter, etc.; new price, $1,800; my price $1,080. 
C. H. BAKER, Moliegan Lake, N. Y. 
GRAPEFRUIT—Fancy bright, $1.75 per box: 
quarter box, 75 cents: Golden Russets. $1.50 
per box; quarter box, 50 cents. F. O. B. Miami, 
Fla.: Russets are the same in all respects as 
Brights, except in outside appearance. Price 
delivered by Express quoted on request. GEO. 
B. CELLON, Tropical Grove, Miami, Fla. 
l.OtO TONS OF ALFALFA FOR SALE, 1,000. 
Fayetteville Grange is right in the center of 
ttie 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. 010. 
JOHN McLIONNAN, Chairman Committee. 
NEW CREAMERY APPARATUS. 25 per cent. 
off; I bought the following new apparatus 
which lias not been used at all, account change 
of plan: will sell 25 per cent, less than cost: 
brand new. Davis Bottle Filler, 0 bottles; (5 
h. p. Horizontal Economy type, self contained 
firebox, creamery boiler; Burrell tubular milk 
cooler. Will accept in exchange for any of 
above Holstein females witli A. R. O. backing. 
C. II. BAKER, Moliegan Lake, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—125 acres good land, buildings, wa¬ 
ter, etc. For particulars write C. Z., care 
R. N.-Y. 
WILL sacrifice improved 52 *A -acre farm to 
quick buyer. WALTER MILES, Upper Marl¬ 
boro, Md. 
FOR SALE—80-aere farm; ample buildings; 
everything best condition. L. LEE, Broadal- 
bin, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—100-acres. Central Ohio, good land, 
good roads and schools. R. T. LAIRD. 
Marysville, O. 
CALIFORNIA RANCH. 25 acres, sandy loam; 
finest peach land: implements. II. I). WOR¬ 
DEN, Yuba City, Cal. 
FARM FOR SALE—83 'A acres, good buildings. 
fertile soil: bargain. $3,500. MRS. ELLIE 
IIIGBY, Montgomery, N. Y. 
WANTED—To rent or work on shares, farm 89 
or 100 acres of tillable land by practical far¬ 
mer. Box 15, South Wareham, Mass. 
FARM FOR SALE—50 bead cattle. 4 horses, 
running water, house and barn: write for par¬ 
ticulars. JASPER CARTWRIGHT, Bloomville, 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE—00 acre farm, heavy sandy loam. 1> 
acres asparagus, 1,100 peach trees in bearing. 
For further information write Box 114, Lake- 
hurst, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Part or all. 120 acres, 70 cleared. 
very productive; 3 miles to station; 10 mile! 
to Hendersonville; easy terms. P. J. WOOD- 
KIN, Rlantyre, N. C. 
WANTED—To rent 5 or 10-nere poultry farm 
witli option to buy, located near village i i 
Central New York State. Address E. I'. LE 
MASURIER, Hallock. Minn. 
FOR SALE—Part of a large apple and' peae'i 
orchard in Piedmont section of Virginia, at a 
sacrifice; just coining into bearing. Address 
P. O. Box 78, Staunton, Va. 
$1,800—130 ACRES, good buildings, in the 
most beautiful section of the lower Berk- 
shires; also many other d'esirable farms for sale. 
J. L. MINER. Cornwall, Conn. 
DAIRY FARM—Excellent opportunity and fine 
opening for a clean, up-to-date dairy; tl"e 
location and land, 10 acres, house, barn, fruit 
trees, etc. WM. FOTH, Sayville, N. Y. 
212 ACRES for $3,900: excellent buildings, 
large orchard, good stock and dairy farm; 
one-quarter cash, balance on long time; fine lo¬ 
cation. W. CROSS, Eultonville, N. Y., owner. 
WANTED—A Holstein dairy farm to manage 
for cash, rent or shares, by an agricultural 
college graduate witli three years’ experience 
with Holsteins; references exchanged. Care 
Box 17. Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Dairy and fruit farm, 100 acres, 
3,500 trees, peach, apple, pear, plum, cherry, 
five acres strawberries; 10 minutes to R. it. 
station, good buildings; a bargain for a quick 
taker, $7,500. E. I). HUFFMAN, Marshalls 
Creek, Pa. 
17 MILES FROM NEW YORK. 17-aere farm in 
high state of cultivation; attractive old-fash¬ 
ioned six-room dwelling, large barn, hot bed. 
out buildings, 1% acres asparagus, 1 acre red 
raspberries and blackberries, 'A acre straw¬ 
berries all in full bearing; apples, grapes, 
peaches, pears, currants for family use: price. 
$9,000. E. C. JACOBS, Harrington Park, New 
Jersey. 
JERSEY FARM FOR RENT—50 acres. 5-room 
house. 3 barns, buildings for 1.000 laying 
hens, brooder house, incubators, feed house, 
fruit trees, 3 acres rye. 2 acres wheat, one 
hour from New York; good hay fields: owner 
lives on place in separate house, and arrange¬ 
ments can lie made to use his horses and farm 
machinery: grand’ chance for the right party. 
Address Box 19, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—171-aere dairy farm at Augusta, 
Sussex Co., N. J., on which barn has just 
burned; new bouse, eleven rooms and bath; hot 
water heat, % mile from Augusta on Lacka¬ 
wanna and L. A- N. E. R. R.; also new macad¬ 
am road to N. Y., CO miles, 5 trains daily to 
N. Y., two hours away; farm lias carried 00 to 
80 cattle for 20 years, guaranteeing fertility; 
buyer can build barn to suit himself ami have 
cheapest farm in neighborhood, and none better 
producers. R. O. BALE, Cavuta, N. Y. 
Standard Fruit Books 
Successful Fruit Culture. Maynard 
_ $1.00 
The Nursery Book. Bailey. 
The Pruning Book. Bailey. 
American Fruit Culturist. Thomas 
_ 2.50 
Citrus Fruits. Hume. 
California Fruits. Wickson. 
Dwarf Fruit Trees. Waugh. 
Plums and Plum Culture. Waugh. 
_ 1.50 
Fruit Ranching: in British Columbia. 
Bealbv . l.Rft 
Farm and Garden Rule Book . 
_ 2.00 
Live Stock - Poi 
iiltry 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals. 
Plumb .. so no 
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 
ture. Robinson. 
Cul- 
Hens for Profit. Valentine. 
- 1.50 
Diseases of Poultry. Salmon. 
FOR SALE BY 
Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., 
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