CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, May 15, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
BlfiA NS. 
Marrow. 100 lbs. 7 ho @ 7 35 
Medium . 5 00 @595 
Pea .... 5 40 @5 45 
Red Kidney.*.0 40 @ 0 45 
White Kidney . 0 90 @7 00 
Yellow Eye. 5 50 @5 00 
Lima, California. 5 50 @ 5 00 
A New Chemical Test for Acid Soils.699 
Homemade Marker ......700 
Auto Trucks on the Farm .700 
Double Use of the Manure Spreader.700 
The Use of Swill as Manure. 700 
Who is the Scientific Farmer? .701 
Work of the Clover-root Borer.701 
Making Tough Soil Over .702 
Lawn Graded With Coal Ashes .702 
Making Muck Compost .702 
The Limestone Business .702 
Hope Farm Notes . 706 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Alfalfa as Hog Food .701 
Stable Ventilation .712 
Mountain Mutton . 712 
The Sheep-killing Dog . 712 
Sour Milk and Hog Cholera .713 
Questions About Goats .713 
Guernsey Sires in Advanced Registry.713 
Lead Poisoning .714 
Lameness . 714 
Diseased Cow .. 714 
Scar . ’714 
Canker of the Ear . 714 
Arrangement of Stable . ....715 
Building a Milk House . ^715 
THE HENYARD. 
Rotation for the Poultry Yard .700 
Two Big Egg Producers . [ 7 I 6 
Distinguishing Fertile Eggs . .. . [716 
Selling Our Grain in an Egg Crate _ ..... .716 
Feeding Young Turkeys . 7 ig 
Chicken Pox .!.'.!!718 
Infectious Colds .. •. .718 
Systems for Judging Layers . .718 
HORTICULTURE. 
Alfalfa for Michigan Orchards .700 
The Home Acre . ...703 
Killing the Ground Mole .703 
Johnny Appleseed and His Work .704 
The Hardy Flower Garden .707 
Flies in Mushroom Bed .... .. .707 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .710 
The Rural Patterns . !......710 
Seen in New York Shops ..710, 711 
Letters From a Cousin .".'....’.711 
Cottage Cheese . 711 
Removing Whitewash . ....[.711 
Graham Bread . 711 
Poor Man’s Rice Pudding . '. '.. '. '.711 
Rolled Gold Pancakes . 711 
Shaker Codfish . ...711 
Chili Sauce, Oregon Style .711 
Creamed Parsnips . 711 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Preventing House Flies .. 704 
Events of the Week .704 
Editorials .708 
Henry E. Van Deman .709 
The New York Live Poultry Business.709 
The Rural Savings and Loan Association.709 
New York State News ..709 
Publisher’s Desk .718 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending May 7, 1915. 
MILK. 
The Borden contract prices for the six 
months beginning with April are based 
<>n the fat content of the milk, there be¬ 
ing a difference of 60 cents per 100 
pounds between three and five per cent, 
fat. The price increases uniformly three 
"»nts per 100 pounds for every tenth of 
ne per cent, fat increase. 
3% 
3.5% 
4% 
4.5% 
5% 
April . 
... $1.31 
$1.46 
$1.61 
$1.76 
$1.01 
May . . 
... 1.06 
1.21 
1.36 
1.51 
1.66 
June .. 
. . . 1.00 
1.15 
1.30 
1.45 
1.60 
July ., 
. . . 1.16 
1.31 
1.46 
1.61 
1.76 
Aug. . , 
. . . 1.32 
1.47 
1.62 
1.77 
1.02 
Sept. ., 
. .. 1.41 
1.56 
1.71 
1.86 
2.01 
BUTTER, 
Receipts continue moderate, and busi¬ 
ness good enough to keep the current 
-toek fairly cleared up. 
and ladles very scarce. 
Packing stock 
reamery, extra.above 92 
score, 
lb... 
3B£@ 
32 
Good to Choice . 
Lower Grades. 
25 @ 
22 @ 
22 @ 
28 @ 
22 @ 
39 
21 
27 
30 
25 
Storage . 
Suite Dairy, best. 
. 
. 
Common to Good. 
L aides . 
. 
. 
Flicking Stock. 
Process... 
. 
. 
18 ® 
19 @ 
20 
24 
Elgin, Ill., butter market 2S cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 31 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 33. 
Chicago creamery, 22@28. 
CHEESE. 
The week lias shown a brisk trade, 
both for export and local use, with one- 
fourth cent higher prices on fancy grades. 
Whole Milk, new specials . 16 ! 4 @ 16 J^ 
New. average fancy . 16 @ ]6>| 
New. under grades . 15!4@ 15% 
Did. as to grade. 14*4® 17 
>kiins, special. 12 @ 13 
Pair to good. 7 <* 10 
EGGS 
VEGETABLES. 
Prices on old potatoes remain as last 
reported, 40 to 45 cents per bushel cov¬ 
ering most wholesale business. Aspara¬ 
gus in very heavy supply and lower ex¬ 
cept for best. New cabbage selling well; 
old mainly poor. Onion market in bet¬ 
ter condition. 
Potatoes—Jersey, bbl. .. 
State. 180 lbs. . 
Maine. ISO ibs.. 
Bermuda, bbl. 
Southern, new. bbls 
Asparagus. Cal., do/.. 
Southern. 
Nearby . 
Beets. 10(1 bunches. 
Carrots, bbl. 
Chicory, southern, bbl_ 
Cabbage, old. ton . 
New. bbl. crate. 
Horseradish, bbl .. 
Leeks, 100 bunches. 
Lettuce, half-bbi. basket 
Onions—Red. bag . 
Yellow, . 
White ... 
Texas, crate. 
Peppers, bu. 
Radishes. 100 bunches ... 
Spinach, bbl. 
String Beaus, bu. 
Squash Hubbard, bbl_ 
Marrow. 
New. bu. 
Egg Plants, bu. 
Tomatoes, ti-bkt. crate ... 
.. 1 25 @ 1 35 
.. 1 25 @ 1 40 
.. 1 25 @1 50 
.. 4 UO @ 5 00 
.. 2 00 @ 5 00 
. 1 00 @ 1 75 
. 1 00 @ 1 75 
.. 2 00 @2 75 
. 1 00 @ 2 00 
.. 1 00 @ 1 75 
.. 50 @ 1 50 
. .20 00 @25 00 
.. 1 00 @ 2 75 
:. 3 00 @ 5 00 
. 75 @ 1 00 
.. 75 @ 2 00 
. 75 @ 1 25 
. 1 00 @ I 75 
. 1 40 @1 65 
. 75 @ 1 35 
. 2 00 ® 3 25 
. 1 00 @ 1 50 
. 50 @ 1 00 
. 1 50 @ 3 50 
.. 1 50 @ 2 50 
- 1 50 @2 25 
. 1 50 @ 2 50 
. 2 00 @ 3 50 
. I 00 @ o 00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 35 @ 43 
Is . 17 @ 18 
Roosters. 10 @ ij 
Lucks. 13 @ 14 
Geese. 8 @ 9 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb . 
Common to good. 
Chickens choice broilers, lb...'.. 
Broilers, common to good . 
Squab broilers, pair. 
Roasters . 
Fowls. 
Spring Ducks. " 
Squabs, doz. 
20 @ 21 
14 @ 18 
25 @ 27 
21 @ 22 
75 @115 
23 @ 24 
14 @ 17 
23 @ 24 
1 50 @ 4 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 
Bulls.' 
Cows. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb ........ 
Culls.'. 
Sheep. 100 ibs. .... 
Lambs . ’ \ 
Hogs. . 
7 00 @ 8 35 
5 25 @ 6 75 
3 50 @ 6 40 
7 50 @10 25 
5 00 @ 7 00 
5 00 @7 00 
8 75 @ 9 40 
7 50 @8 20 
COUNTR Y-l)lt ESS ED M EATS. 
Calves, prime. I2^@ 13 
Common to good. y @ n 
Lambs, hothouse, head . 5 00 @8 00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Supplies are temporarily scarce and all 
grades of hay .$1 to $2 per ton higher, 
with best Timothy $3 advanced. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 24 50 @24 50 
No. 2.22 00 @23 00 
No. 3 .20 00 @2100 
Clover mixed.20 00 @24 00 
8traw, Rye,.13 00 @14 00 
GRAIN 
Lessened export demand and good crop 
outlook have kept wheat prices below 
Inst week’s figures. It. W. Snow puts 
the Winter wheat condition at 1)0.1 per 
cent, with acreage of 40,431,000, and 
crop outlook of (575,000,000 bushels, 
(’orn and oats both lower. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 173 @ 
No. 2. Red ..'. 1 70 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 86 @ 87 
Oats, as to weight, bush. ..... 61 @ 62 
Rye, free from onion. 1 26 @129 
MILLFEED. 
Nhw York— 
Bran, car lots.24 00 @26 00 
Middlings.26 50 @3100 
Red Dog .33 00 @34 00 
Cornmeal.32 00 @34 00 
Buffalo— 
Bran, car lots.25 00 @ 26 00 
Middlings, as to quality .25 00 @28 00 
Gluten feed.23 50 @29 00 
Hominy feed . 30 00 @31 0U 
Oil Meal, ton lots. 31 00 @32 00 
St. Louis— 
Bran, car lots.22 00 @24 00 
Hominy feed .26 00 @27 00 
Middlings.28 00 @29 OU 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
figures noted here, hut represent produce 
of good quality and the buying opportuni¬ 
ties of at Last half of New York’s pop¬ 
ulation. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 28 @ 30 
Mixed colors, new laid. 25 @ 27 
Ordinary grades. 20 @ 23 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 34 @ 36 
Tub. choice. 32 @ 33 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 26 @ 28 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 25 ® 28 
Squab Broilers, pair. 1 25 @ 1 50 
Fricassee, lb. is @ 20 
Fowls ... .. 18 @ 21 
Leg of lamb. 20 @ 22 
Lamb chops. 22 @ 24 
Roasting beef . 16 @ 20 
Stewing beef . 12 @ 15 
Pork chops.?_ 18 @ 20 
Loin of Pork . 17 @ 20 
Receipts are smaller than last week 
'ml the market in slightly better condi- 
[ ion. but there is still a surplus of all 
grades and storage space filling rapidly 
with qualities suitable to hold. 
" Lite, choice to fancy, large 
Medium to good. 
Mixed colors, best. 
Common to good. ......... 
23 @ 
19 @ 
22 @ 
17 @ 
23 ^ 
21 
23 
19 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apple supply not heavy this week, an< 
occasional sales of choice varieties abov 
quotations. Strawberries plentiful anc 
much lower, wholesaling at 10 to 11 
cents. 
ApP Uu\^o enl)avis ' bbl . 175 ® 2 75 
. 2 50 @4 00 
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Louisiana . 20 @ 27 
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A Sale for Apple Wood. 
We have found it necessary to uproot 
a good many apple trees, and have been 
given to understand that there is a de¬ 
mand for apple wood. Can you advise 
11 s where we can sell same, and the mar¬ 
ket price for such wood? m. j. 
Virginia. 
We have dozens of such letters. At 
one time there was some demand for ap¬ 
ple wood in making tobacco pipes, but 
manufacturers tell us that other woods 
have largely taken its place. Makers of 
tool handles use some apple. The demand 
is not large, and generally supplied from 
reasonably near the factory. Now and 
then an apple tree will turn out lumber 
suitable for cabinet work. Our advice 
is to look up local wood-turning factories 
and cabinet shops, as the wood is likely 
to net more than if shipped to lumber 
dealers in large cities. 
Packing Asparagus for New York Market. 
Having more green (unbleached) as¬ 
paragus than I can profitably market at 
home, would you tell ine how to prepare 
for shipment for the New York markets? 
The following questions answered will 
give me the information most wanted: 
1. Weight of bunch. 2. Size of package, 
if there is a special size. 3. How packed 
to remain in the best marketable condi¬ 
tion. 4. Is “moss” used to retain moist¬ 
ure? If so is the moss packed between 
them or are the bunches merely set with 
butts upon the moss? "a. s. H. 
Lititz, Pa. 
There is considerable variation in 
methods of packing asparagus, as well as 
size of comercial bunches. A size cover¬ 
ing perhaps more than a majority of 
shipments is a bunch 10 inches long" and 
four to 4 y 2 inches in diameter at bot¬ 
tom, weighing from 2^4 to 2% pounds. 
Nearby growers formerly packed in cases 
holding several dozen bunches, laid flat, 
and these boxes are still used to some ex¬ 
tent. Others put the asparagus crosswise 
in the common strawberry crate with 
tillers removed. Unless sold very soon it 
dries out badly in this way. Probably 
the best method is setting" the bunches 
upright on wet moss, in crates of either 
one or two dozens. The bunches are tied 
near top and bottom with red tape or 
raffia. If set bottom down in water a 
few hours before shipment, they reach 
market in better condition. Prices in 
New York have been low this Spring, 
large bunches retailing at 20 to 25 cents, 
or about 10 cents per pound, and $1.50 
to $2.50 per dozen, wholesale, for fair 
to good. 
Tanning Small Hides. 
The following metli^d of tanning with 
its fur on has been used with satisfactory 
results. Remove all fatty matter from 
the inside. Soak the skin an hour in 
warm water; coat the inside with the 
following mixture: Borax, saltpetre and 
glauber salts, each one ounce; water to 
make a thin paste. Double the skin, 
coated side inwards and put in a cool 
place 24 hours. Then apply coating of: 
Sal soda, one ounce; borax, one-half 
ounce; hard white soap, two ounces. 
Melt these together slowly without allow¬ 
ing mixture to boil. After coating the 
skin, fold as before and put in a warm 
place 24 hours. Then take four ounces 
alum, eight of salt and two of saleratus, 
dissolve in hot water sufficient in quan¬ 
tity to saturate the skin. When cool 
enough not to scald the hands soak the 
skin 12 hours. Then wring out and dry. 
Repeat the soaking and drying two or 
three times until skin is soft. Smooth 
the inside with fine sandpaper and pumice 
stone. 
Starting a Poultry Plant. 
I want to engage in poultry farming, 
and have had a short course at Cornell. 
I wish to bring up the plant to about 
2.000 laying hens. I have been around at 
different places but am at a total loss 
what to do. What place do you think 
best to start, north. Rose in Wayne 
County, or round Hudson, N. Y., Colum¬ 
bia, County, or round Dover, Delaware, 
or in the Shennnndoah Valley, Virginia. 
Please tc.ko in consideration soil, climate, 
produce grown, as I want to raise corn, 
distance to market, and whether wheat is 
raised, or that it has to be imported. I 
notice that the distance from North Rose 
to New York City is about the same as 
the distance from the Shennandoah Val¬ 
ley. I wish to plant fruit trees on the 
same land that is used for poultry. 
Where can poultry most successfully and 
cheapest be raised? In which State are 
the most failures in the poultry business 
and for what reason? h. g. 
New York. 
I am afraid that there are no statistics 
to show which State boasts of the most 
failures in the poultry business, and, cer¬ 
tainly, no one reason could account for 
those found in every State. Lack of cap¬ 
ital, lack of skill, lack of business tact, 
energy, horse sense, adaptability, and 
sand in the gizzard, will account for 
more failures than location will; and the 
possession of a reasonable amount of 
these will make location a matter of sec¬ 
ondary importance. 
The New England States and those 
near the Eastern Seaboard are usually 
considered best adapted to the poultry 
business, because of their great consum¬ 
ing markets, and, of these, your own 
State and county offer advantages prob¬ 
ably equal to those of any other location. 
You are within easy shipping distance of 
New York, have a large and growing city, 
Syracuse, at hand, and the advantage of 
good markets both for the sale of produce 
and the purchase of supplies. My advice 
would be not to hunt too long for some 
presumably highly advantageous location, 
but to secure some small place on a rail¬ 
road, the t rice or rental of which will be 
within l-each of your poeketbook, and 
buckle down to your job. Poultry raising 
does not require high priced land and you 
should take advantage of that fact. The 
amount of grain that you alone will be 
able to raise, in addition to caring for 
2,000 hens, will be an entirely neglible 
quantity; so the fertility of the soil or 
its adaptation to fruit need not concei’n 
you greatly. If you wish to make the 
poultry business only one of the features 
of general farming, that, of course, is an¬ 
other matter. Convenience requires that 
you be within easy driving distance of a 
shipping station, the nearer the better, 
hut it is doubtful if the advantages of 
Close proximity to a city more than out¬ 
weigh the disadvantages; poultry pro¬ 
ducts are easily shipped, and a private 
city trade, personally supplied, is a tre¬ 
mendous consumer of time and labor, 
there are probably few towns in Central 
or Southern New York that could not of- 
ter you suitable locations for the poul¬ 
try business, and in many of them you 
will find ready equipped plants for sale 
01 rent. If you wish to move from your 
present location at alh'you will probably 
do well to move toward the Atlantic 
lather than away from it, but if you have 
the financial and, business ability to make 
successful application of the principles 
learned 111 your poultry course, you will 
not need to leave your own countv in or¬ 
der to demonstrate them. m.' b d 
“Your condition is serious,” confide! 
the near-sighted physician ; “your flesh is 
clammy, and your pulse ticks.” “Don’t 
be hasty doctor,” said the fair patient 
“You have hold of my wrist-watch.”— 
Melbourne Leader. 
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We have many able-bodied young men, both with and without 
farming experience, who wish to work on farms. If von need a 
good, intelligent, sober man, write for an order blank Ours is 
a philanthropic organization and wo make no charge to em¬ 
ployer or employee. 
Our object is to encourage farming among Jews 
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FARM HELP*,, 
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FOR SALE: 
farm. $2,201) down. 
290 ACRES ; GOOD RI D,DINGS. KOIR 
Horses, Four Cows, all marhino'rr for 
ANDRKW KVA UTS, Waverly, N.Y. 
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W ffre<^ E Bo7 » 4 ar n °p fa , n v for ° rna " family. Ad- 
oress B ox 94, c. Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN wants work on general farm 
some experience. Box 95, care It. N.-Y ’ 
Y m\8TPIM 1 o’ir Vi ?' IOS l W n°o rk 0,1 fann - LOUIS 
Clty LINSTKIN ’ 215 East 98th St ” Npw York 
f ARPENTER WORK and' painting wanted bv 
a single man, strictly temperate and a good 
worker. WALTER SHERWOOD, Violet Ave 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
AMERICAN MAN, wife and two sons desire fo 
,_ tn , of gentleman’s farm; boys age 
li and - 0 ; lifetime experience; understands un¬ 
derclass; best references. Box 93, care R. 
POULTRYMAN desires position on poultry 
farm, Cornell miin, experienced in operating 
Mammoth and small incubators; a good all¬ 
round poultryman. Communicate BOX 84 Ran- 
somville, N. Y. 
WAMEI)—Situation on dairy farm as working 
housekeeper and cook, good breadmaker, poul¬ 
try raiser, butter maker; best of references 
Address MRS. E. ACKERMAN, 13 Newell St" 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
WANTED—Compotent, experienced party to as¬ 
sist in refined boarding house, transient and 
permanent; beautiful up-to-date home, 5 minutes 
from station and town; only trustworthy parties 
apply. E. K. H., Montgomery, N. Y. 
WAN’l’ED—As partner in small poultry plant. 
uve miles from Washington, an experienced 
single white man; no capital required; electric 
lighted, hot water heated home; state age ex¬ 
perience. references. H. HAYMAKER, Hyatts- 
ville, Maryland". 
POSITION WANTED—As working foreman or 
manager; not afraid of hard 1 work; would ac¬ 
cept position as herdsman, where cows are to be 
tested as in testing association; best refer¬ 
ences; good wages. Box 100, It. F. D. 41 
Georgetown, Cotin. 
WHO WANTS reliable superintendent, farm, 
orchard, or estate? Always thoroughly inter¬ 
ested; American, 33, married; brought up on 
farm: graduate Agricultural College, short 
courses; experienced in all branches, including 
breeding; good accountant; good habits; refer¬ 
ences. It. ALBERT NEWTON, West Brattle- 
boro, Vt. 
POTATOES in carload lots. ALBERT D. 
JAMIESON, 1090 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Custom grist mill: 40 horsepower; 
full control of water; one mile from station. 
E. B. PALEN, Rockland, N. Y. 
WANTED—To contract with the grower for 150 
pounds Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage seed. 
OAKDALE FARM, Marshville, N. C. 
GUARANTEED PURE MAPLE SYRUP; finest 
quality, new crop, $1 per gal.; sample free. 
RANSOM FARM, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 
WANTED—Small commuter’s farm; purchase or 
rent. Box 92, care R. N.-Y. 
585 ACRES—Dutchess County; choice dairy 
farm; two sets buildings; lake. Inquire F. R. 
KEATOR, Attorney at Law, 22 Exchange Place, 
New York. 
400 ACRES—Choice farm land, 40 acres culti¬ 
vated, abundance spring water, near school, 
state road, quick sale; $15 per acre; particulars. 
Write A. B. LaVALLEY, Fish’s Eddy, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—20 acre poultry farm, ti-rooin house 
(new), 7 large poultry houses, large brooder 
house, with incubator cellar, 15x30, 300 hens, 
700 chicks of various ages, cow, horse, wagons, 
etc; good will and’ trade with property. JOHN 
P.ACKUS, N. Bennington, Yt. 
