rnNTFNTS ducts have a representative in the West 
who keeps in close touch with the East 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, February 6 , 1915. p v w j re and knows just what to do. Ill 
FARM TOPICS some cases a member of the firm spends 
The Potato Crop-A Serious Matter.163 a large part of liis time in the field work- 
S'.eep and Cow Manure on Potatoes.164 mg on melons in < olorado, Arizona or 
Substitutes for Manure .164 (California and asparagus and other crops 
Dlying Out Hen Manure...............in California. Such concerns usually 
The* Value of Ve^ Mud .have branches in Chicago and Pittsburgh 
Barley, Rye and Vetch .164 so that the stuff can be shipped to best 
A Lancaster Country Industry. Part 1.165 advantage. 
A Crop of Mangels ..168 - 
Sowing Oats and Peas .J 6 » 
Vetch With Buckwheat . The Marketing Problem. 
Hairy Vetch With Oats .l^j 
Spring-sown Oat Crop .X/’OUR article “Possibilities of Produc- 
Asparagus for Buffalo. .... ' Y tion,” page 01. issue of January 
New York fI™ Bureau Work!!!!!!!!'.!!! AtS 16, is all right, blit your editorial oil 
Storing Winter Beets.h® the “Market Problem hits the real mark, 
Good Corn in New Jersey.tlie market. It is the little fellow and 
The Soil ^° r votes a . i'.'.!!!*.!!" i 1 i il'l the beginner trying the old “safe” slow 
U°*y. State Agricultural Society.11 way of workking into a business, who 
Farm and Live-stock News.13 11P0( 1 help ill way of a Certain kind of 
Breezy Notes From Oklahoma. » information. IIow can lie find out names 
5525r r fo?%SSV:::::::::::::::::::::::: and addresses of reliable dt y firms? you 
Hardwood Ashes for Grain.1"2 may “advertise. Yes—but he has too 
Green Manure for Garden.192 ]( 0 n iake that pay and he does not 
SjaXi/Sfei:::::::::::::® •■<>«;”. f> ??. v , crti !i „ A f 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 111 au ^ ere 0 iai . se< \ last jeai -0 hlMiels f 
„ „ „ t, t mi three to 3^4-inch white onions. He sold 
Grain for Small Poultry Farm. fow 'ill nov buslipl S 6 l 6 Ct 6 (l 
Keeping One Cow to the Acre.1|6 a tOW at PCI Still CK Dllbliei, seitcttu. 
Winter Feeding of Dairy Cattle.1^6 He culled out all below three inches, lie 
Slippery Barn Floor ...JS7 them to a dealer who had just "‘got 
Farmers Start Cheese Factory.f rom New York” . r >() bushels at 60 cents 
With r ^y and SB’-agi:-190 per bushel, little measly stuff throe- 
■^eedirg Fall Pigs .160 f our th inches ill diameter, which he was 
Corn for the Silo... . ge ]j ing at 75 cents per bushel. This man 
SX^aki^ s i^stm has five bushels left of the three- 
Tlie Dairy Summer Vacation.1*5 inch. He would raise 100 next year it 
Worms in Poultry.*93 ] le ]- new J le could be sure to sell them 
Ailing Cats and Hens.at $1 per bushel net here at railroad 
Unthrifty Hens .station, but he does not know who would 
“The Making of an Egg’’.’"7 take them. 
Poultry and Apples ..is! A f ar mer, Swedish, rented a farm near 
SSs E fft i.« « lot of good 
Squab Guineas .*69 produce. He took a load to New London. 
Rooster With Frozen Comb . 1"6 jj- s ] 10 llld have sold wholesale for $40 to 
Outdoor Brooder . .....$50 (New York prices). lie reported 
H ”‘■ l t™!™ . the stores all lmd rag,liar people’from 
HORTICULTURE. whom tliov bought, but most offered him 
Iron and Fruit Trees.l->3. M about $}() “for the lot.” He finally sold 
Lamps fo^r D^troyin ! 8 Mithi!!! 11!!!! 1! i ! i J* I think for $12 rather than cart it home 
Water-cored Apples .367 12 miles to food tit the pigs! \\ lmt S 
winter Pears .]’7 the answer? He had 110 time to go in 
Pruning Clapp Pears .; - • •;;;;;;;;; and find customers, has not knowledge 
f.praving for Frost Damage.]-7 or ability, but lie can grow the ciops. 
Starting a Peach Orchard. . who can and will give such men a lielp- 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Association.! 0 j r „ ], anf p j. s. b. 
Notes and Comments ... ] 'r'rmnnc’ticiit 
P'anting Hazel and Walnuts.J 1 ' olllltCtlCUt. _ 
Unfermented Grape Juice .- * 
Mice and Fruit Trees. 11 Jan. 14. Wheat, $1.25; rye, SO; oats, 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 5 . 8 ; buckwheat, 70; corn, ear, 38; pota- 
From Day to Day.3A ( <)( » s< 60; lmy, t , >>12; str sv, $ 8 ; ap- 
The Rural Patterns .J g | p i es , Baldwin. 50; blitter, 30; eggs, 35; 
i r f. «>w. io= wk. ii t,*™ isi 
Pumpkin Recipes .385 chickens. 10; fresh milch cows, $50 to 
Sweet Pickles .385 $ 75 ; steers and heifers, fat, 8 ; veal 
MISCELLANEOUS. calves, 9 1/ 2 - J. H. C. 
Defending Property .■ • • • J 6 | Kittanilillg, Pa. 
n'he Pictures .165, 166 
Late Winter Hints to Beekeepers.16 - 
-Veil-digging Experience .369 Colony Brooder House 8 . 
vents of the Week . J 
closing a Road . ..Jig T HAVE been using homemade remov- 
Road-making Material: Fence Off Line.M5 ners with a heating outfit ot my own 
Line Fence Trouble . M5 fl e8 > n something Oil the Style of the 
JSmJoS 0 ™ Worti Ra ‘! , ; 0ad :::::::::::m Cornell colony house heater, which ac- 
The Horned Owl .177 comodates about 200 or more chicks. The 
Some Recent Bulletins .378 outfit has given me good satisfaction. I 
Editorials ..382 w - gh to ra i se more chickens, and have 
The V problem of e Marketing'1!!!'.‘.183 been thinking of installing some brooder 
Electricity on the Farm. 193 stoves. Ilow do they handle so many 
Sawmill Questions .J94 chickens all bunched together? It is 
^ UI ?n P r ki w^er b Si^niv. 194 very well while they are small. A flock 
Rain-water^Sifppy Tank ‘I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.!!!201 , f 200 chickens in one of our colony 
Publisher’s Desk .202 houses, gets to be a big flock before one 
__ _ is able to shift off some of the males 
“ as broilers, and before they adapt them¬ 
selves to roosting, also a certain amount 
of temperature has to ho given them the 
larger part of the Summer. During the 
Spring months, the weather necessitates 
feeding the chicks mostly indoors, and 
the flocks increases by 50 more every day, 
so you can’t seem to get standing room. 
This is the problem I want to solve, how 
they manage to get through the door at 
feeding time, and the general attention 
to the stove, with a flock of 500 to 1000 
or more chicks. L. L. 
Connecticut. 
L. 
Winter Use of Hen Manure. 
E. W.. Patehogue, N. Y\, asks if it 
is advisable to put chicken manure 
directly on the land. My experience 
shows this can be done in quite liberal 
quantities during the Winter. I took 
mine directly from the house to a piece of 
land seeded to clover, and the result was 
a very heavy crop, but this cannot be 
done with safety after early Spring. It 
can also be put upon lawns in the same 
way during the Winter. We over¬ 
worked poultry keepers must save work 
wherever possible, and the treatment ad¬ 
vised in the answer given while theoretic¬ 
ally correct, involves a great deal of 
work. M. E. c. 
Red Hook, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—No doubt poultry manure 
will show its effect anywhere you put 
it. The plan we have suggested of dry¬ 
ing and crushing it makes it more effect¬ 
ive as you can spread it more evenly. 
Mixing with the chemicals certainly adds 
to its effect—but all this takes time. 
hnys 150 envelopes nnd letter¬ 
heads. Cards, tnes, labels, either, 
125, 50c.: ;;00, ni <\; 500, $M0: 1 , 000 , $2.40. We prepay 
express. Chatham Courier Co., Chatham, N.Y. 
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 
he 5 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
name and address must he counted as part of 
the advertisement. Copy must reach us not 
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week. No display type used, and only Farm 
Products, Help and Positions Wanted admitted. 
For subscribers only. Dealers, jobbers and gen¬ 
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Subscribers’ Exchange 
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. 
WANTED—Working foreman who understands 
the values of feeds, to take charge of Poul¬ 
try. Dairy and Hogs on a 300-acre Western 
Pennsylvania farm: must be good milker, hut- 
termaker and' calf raiser; understands P.abcock 
test nnd records; married college man with prac¬ 
tical experience preferred; farm located on trol¬ 
ley line: wages governed by results: state ref¬ 
erence. wages expected in first letter. HOTEL 
OAKLAND. Conneaut Lake, Pa. 
MAPLE COVE FARM—Products direct to Con¬ 
sumers. ROUTE 24, Athens, Pa. 
ONE DOLLAR 
NEW WHITE HONEY in sixty-pound' cans and 
five and ten-pound pails. C. A. HATCH, 
Richland Center, Wls. 
APPLES, APPLES, APPLES—For choice spray¬ 
ed Winter Apples. Please order to-day. C. J. 
YODER. Grantsville. Md. 
FOR SALE—3 incubators. Edison Phonograph, 
5x7 folding camera, and 40-liglit acetylene gas 
machine. HARRY W. NICKERSON, East Har¬ 
wich, Mass. 
FOR SALE—One twenty-flve-dollar Newton Col¬ 
ony Brooder: used one season: perfect condi¬ 
tion: price, fifteen dollars. JOHN A. LOSEE, 
Richfield' Springs, N. Y. 
YOUNG MAN, 19. 
experience. Box 
wishes position on 
27, care R. N.-Y. 
farm; no 
GOOD HOME for middle aged man that will ex¬ 
change light work for small wages on up- 
to-date farm. C. ABELL, Esperanee, N. Y. 
WORKING FOREMAN—Wants position; single, 
25; practical. Cornell Winter course; reliable, 
educated. B. K.. 134 Linden Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. 
PARTNER WANTED—Florida Livestock propo¬ 
sition. with capital: 500-acre rich clay land 
near Tallahassee. L. ITEIMBURGER, Tallahas¬ 
see, Fla. 
YOUNG MAN (married), wishes position at any¬ 
thing after Feb. 1; experienced poultryman, 
understanding incubators, brooders, etc. Box 
24, care R. N.-Y. 
PRODUCE, PRICES AND TRADE, 
(Continued from page 200.) 
has no serious competitor in the Chinese 
eg ”' * 
The output of gold from the Rhodesian 
WANTED—First-class, single, sober, indus¬ 
trious Gardener, also capable of taking care 
of bees. Address, GARDENER-BEES, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE—Desires 
work on up-to-date farm; understands farm- 
work; ready for the job. MARTIN GROEPLER, 
14 Overlook Terrace, Yonkers, N. Y. 
YOUNG FARMER of good habits (25), wishes 
position as foreman or manager of gentle¬ 
man’s estate; life experience all branches farm¬ 
ing. J. F., care Rural New-Yorker. 
mines of South Africa during 
amounted to 858.538 ounces, worth 
$15,000,000. 
1914 
about 
Egg Prices in 1914. 
C AN you furnish me with the wholesale 
prices for nearby white eggs for each 
month of the past year? n. e. 
New Jersey. 
Wholesale prices for choice white eggs 
at New York the first part of each month 
in 1914 were: January, 40 to 42; Feb¬ 
ruary, 37 to 39; March. 30 to 32; April, 
24 to 25; Mav, 21 to 22; June, 22 to 23; 
July, 25 to 27; August. 28 to 29; Sep¬ 
tember, 34 to 35; October. 35 to 38; No¬ 
vember, 52 to 55: December, 56 to 60. 
There were some sales above these figures, 
both on contract and in general business, 
but the prices mentioned cover the bulk 
of trade. 
Sprouts From the West. 
A RE California Brussels sprouts more 
plentiful in New York this year than 
usual, and what is the probability as 
to their future supply? i>. w. 
New York. 
Since the first week of this month Cnl- 
:f ornia Brussels sprouts have arrived here 
: n larger quantities than usual. At first 
they brought $5 per drum—about one 
bushel—and since then have jumped to 
812. They come at a time when our na¬ 
tive crop is about gone, and appeal to a 
e’nss of hotel trade which will pay high 
ii'ioes, if necessary to get what they 
want. Fast freights and comparatively 
V>w rates from the Far Wept have made 
California vegetables nearly as accessible 
to New York as those from the South. 
New York concerns handling such pro- 
Brooder stoves designed to care for 
from 500 to 1000 chicks need larger build¬ 
ings than eight by nine feet colony 
houses; the makers of a well-known stove 
recommend 240 square feet of floor space 
for 500 chicks and 392 square feet for 
from 1000 to 1500 chicks. They are 
usually installed in one end of a poul¬ 
try building or some independent building 
of considerable size. The writer has 
never used one, but from his observation 
of them in the hands of others would not 
anticipate any serious trouble from 
crowding if perches were provided for 
the chicks as soon as they began to man¬ 
ifest a disposition to use them. A neigh¬ 
bor who installed a brooder stove in one 
end of his poultry house last year placed 
1000 chicks in its care on June 1, and 
allowed the fire to go out July 1. He 
had no trouble with the large flock of 
youngsters during the month that, they 
had artificial heat, or afterwards^ He 
had previously brooded 400 chicks in the 
same place, also successfully. I have 
never found it necessary to use a little 
artificial heat for the greater part of the 
Summer; in fact have raised a number of 
flocks of from 100 to 200 chicks without 
any artificial heat whatever after they 
were from two to three weeks old. Large 
flocks of small chicks need plenty of 
room, as they double in area of floor 
space needed very rapidly; you may b? 
able to solve your problem by installing 
a brooder stove in a larger building and 
removing the chicks to your colony houses 
as soon as they begin to crowd their orig¬ 
inal quarters. M. B. D. 
WANTED—Protestant woman; some means; 
Rood health; join woman raisinfc poultry anil 
strawberries in Massachusetts; reliable only. D. 
S., 94 Ackerman street, Rochester, N. Y. 
WANTED—Position as farm manager by ex¬ 
perienced man with college course, married, 
best references: do not use tobacco or liquor. 
Address J. II. CLUTE, North Chatham, N. Y. 
POSITION WANTED—As manager or assistant 
of large poultry plant by an expert poultry- 
man: single man. eleven years’ experience: open 
to engagement Feb. 15th. M. A. F., Seneca, 
N. Y. 
EXPERIENCED FARM MANAGER desires po¬ 
sition on private or state place; experienced 
in both: best of references furnished: position 
as herdsman also considered. Box 2G, care R. 
N.-Y. 
WANTED—Woman ns housekeeper on farm; 
full charge of 0-room cottage and cook for 
3 people; permanent position for dean, capable 
woman; state wages expected. Box 243, St. 
James, Long Island. 
YOUNG MAN, single, wishes responsible posi¬ 
tion on a poultry farm; agricultural school 
training nnd years of experience with incubat¬ 
ing and brooding; can build up a good trade. B. 
FRIEDMAN, Morrisville, Pa. 
SHEPHERD WANTED—Thoroughly capable to 
care for flock in every particular: married 
man preferred; strictly temperate and reliable; 
permanent employment if satisfactory. L. M. 
BOWERS, Binghamton, N. Y. 
SITUATION WANTED ns “Farm Superinten¬ 
dent” on gentleman’s estate: life experience 
in all branches fn-ming. dairying, successful 
handling help, familiar farm machinery; best of 
reference; particulars in correspondence. Box 
21, care R. N.-Y. 
SITUATION WANTED—By single man. Swede, 
as foreman or manager of large farm or es¬ 
tate: understands Alfalfa growing, engineering 
of all kinds, incubation and' all round work; 8 
years experience on last farm; best of refer 
enees. Box 23, care It. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—Philadelphia butter worker, Ken¬ 
wood Feed Cooker (new), Meyer’s Spray 
Pump. Standard Earth Auger. Address CLOV- 
ERI.EAF DAIRY. No. Attleboro. Mass. 
FOR SALE—Sixty-foot steel tower supporting 
tank of 30.000 gallon capacity, windmill with 
wheel twenty feet in diameter for sale. Ad¬ 
dress CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL COL¬ 
LEGE, Storrs, Conn. 
FOR SALE—Two Newtown Giant Brooders (coal 
burning). 500 chick capacity: in good condition, 
used only one season; selling to buy larger 
brooders; price, $15 each. PHILIP DAWSON, 
R. F. I). No. 3, Alexandria. Va. 
IS YOUR FARM TILED?—We have for sale. A 
No. 1 condition. Buckeye Traction Ditcher, 
12 II. 1*., fully equipped for all soil conditions, 
can be used for operating eliop mills, corn shred¬ 
der, etc. Write for particulars. HEILSDORF 
ORCHARDS, Palmyra, Lebanon Co., Pa. 
GRAPEFRUIT—I’an.cy 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 
Brights, except in outside 
delivered by Express quoted 
B. CELLON, Tropical Grove, 
in all respects ns 
appearance. Price 
on request. GEO. 
Miami, Fla. 
1,000 TONS OF ALFALFA FOR SALE, 1,000. 
Fayetteville 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. 010. 
JOHN McLennan, Chairman Committee. 
100 ACRES 
low Pine, 
good 
Ala. 
land, $1,200. M. RIGEL, Yel- 
FOIt SALE- 
of 9 acres. 
-Valuable 
MOORE 
fruit and poultry farm 
& SON, Nazareth, Pa. 
FOR SALE—80-acre farm; 
everything best condition, 
bin, N. Y. 
ample buildings; 
L. LEE, Broadal- 
OUTt GRADUATES will be ready to nceept posi¬ 
tions as Dairymen. Poultrymen. Horticultur¬ 
ists and General Farm Help on March 1. 1915. 
Applications will be considered in the order re¬ 
ceived. Address BARON DE IIIRSCn AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL SCHOOL, Woodbine, N. J., Dept. B. 
ORCHARD FOREMAN—Desires steady position 
with promising future, single, age 27; three 
years practical and theoretical training under 
Eastern and Western conditions: two years short 
courses; sober, industrious and energetic: ref¬ 
erences furnished as to my executive ability 
S. W. K., care It. N.-Y. 
WANTED—Manager position of gentleman’s es¬ 
tate or large commercial farm. Agricultural 
College Graduate; expert farmer, live stock and 
poultryman, 18 years management; constructor 
Accountant, dairyman, Executive, honest and 
sober; highest references from previous employ¬ 
ers: salary $75 and perquisites, or $50 and per¬ 
centage. Address Box 22, care Rural New 
Yorker. 
FOR SALE—125 acres good land, buildings, wa¬ 
ter. etc. For particulars write C. Z., care R. 
New-Yorker, 
FOR SALE—100-acres, Central Ohio, good land, 
good roads and schools. R. T. LAIRD, 
Marysville, O. 
TO LET—In Bergen Co., farm of 105 acres, half 
of it tillable, with or without stock. M. N., 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR RENT—47-acre farm, Westchester Co.. 
fully equipped. For particulars address JOHN 
RUSSELL, 100 Flushing St., Long Island City, 
N. Y. 
OTSEGO COUNTY FARM FOR SALE—$50 per 
acre; 90 acres; limestone, natural Alfalfa 
land: good buildings. Box 34, East Springfield, 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE—598 acres, 93 miles upstate; 2 res¬ 
idences, 0 barns: near railroad; $30 acre; 
would divide. FERTILE, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
VIRGINIAN APPLE and General Farm For Sale 
—Charlottesville, two miles, street car one 
mile; large house; 83 acres. Box 28, Rural 
New-Yorker office. 
FOR SALE—Part of a large apple and peach 
orchard in Piedmont section of Virginia, at a 
sacrifice; just coming into bearing. Address 
P. O. Box 78, Staunton. Va. 
WANTED—Fruit. poultry 
warm: 10-100 aeres. in or 
apple orchard; on main road; 
house no object. A. M. LEWIS 
farm. must lav 
near village; good 
water supply, 
Knox, N. Y. 
212 ACRES for 
large orchard, 
one-quarter cash. 
$3,900; excellent buildings, 
good stock and dairy farm; 
balance on long time; fine lo¬ 
cation. W. CROSS, Fultonvllle, N. Y., owner. 
150-ACRE productive Farm: good buildings, wa¬ 
ter and timber, near State Road. town, rail¬ 
road. Price. $5,000. Easy terms. BENJ. 
LEHMAN, Sharon Springs, Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Berkshire Hills: farm of 50 acres, 
Washington, on B. & A. It. It.; good house, 
water in house, near school, church; 1.000 cords 
of wood. Price, $1,000. Inquire E. POMEROY, 
Dalton, Mass. 
FINE COUNTRY HOME AND FARM—210 
aeres. large 10-room brick house, water works, 
gas lights, furnace; plenty of buildings, or¬ 
chard land in good state of cultivation; good 
water, near railroad, good schools and churches. 
FRED TOFF, R. 1. Farmville, Va. 
FARM FOR SALE—50 acres, with splendid 
buildings, in Columbia Countv. N. Y. Adapted 
to poultry raising and fruit culture. Property is 
worth ten thousand dollars, will sell for $0,000. 
A beautiful summer home, amf a paving invest¬ 
ment. Apply to Box 25, care 
333 West 30th St, New York 
Rural 
City 
New-Yorker. 
HANDSOME COUNTRY HOME—Fruit and poul¬ 
try combined. 10 rooms, bath, gas, electric 
lights, city water, all in excellent condition; 
large poultry house, new and' up-to-date cement 
floors, light nnd water; capacity, 1,500 bens: 
large pigeon house stocked with about 000 pair: 
extra fine birds; other outhouses; garage and 
barn, 550 peach trees, apples and plums, grapes, 
strawberries, large shaded lawn on best resi¬ 
dence avenue in Vineland, N. J.; trolley by 
door 10 minutes’ walk to depot. Trice, terms 
and particulars with photograph. JOHN EM- 
MELUTH, Vineland', N. J. 
