CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, May 29, 1915. 
EARM TOPICS. 
Sweet Clover in N. Y. State.745, 746 
"Farm Training” and Other Knowledge.747 
Buckwheat After Rye .748 
Hay Alter Potatoes ......748 
Value of Street Sweepings .748 
Hope Farm Notes .752 
Keeping Nitrate of Soda .752 
Phosphate Rock from Europe 752 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Selling Milk by the Fat Test .745 
Growing the Perfect Farm Horse.746 
Managing Purebred Holsteins .764 
Guernsey Breeders Meet .764 
A One-handed Milker ..764 
The Profitable Colt .765 
Jersey Cattle Club . 765 
Feeding Value of Acid Milk .766 
The Cost of Milk Production.766 
Sore Shoulders . 766 
Staggers . 766 
Thriftless Horses .•.766 
Warts . 766 
Diseased Eyes .766 
Swollen Jaw . 766 
Constipation in Dog . 766 
Wolf Teeth and Black Teeth .766 
THE HENYARD. 
Comparing "Rocks” and "Reds” .746 
Pheasant Raising in Oklahoma .765 
The Favorite Hens .767 
Selling Old Hens..768 
Canker .768 
Hens Jerk Their Heads .768 
Lye as a Medicine . 768 
Yard for 100 Hens; Storage Tank from 
Spring .768 
"Best Breed” for Broilers .768 
White Diarrhoea: Crop-bound Duck.768 
Permanganate of Potash .768 
Dry Oats for Poultry .768 
The Egg-laying Contest .-769 
Formaldehyde for Roup .769 
Caponizing .769 
Diseased Eyes .769 
Raising Geese .770 
Emphysema; Fattening Broilers .770 
HORTICULTURE. 
Testing the Spray Material .747 
Clover in an Orchard ..747 
Vine With a History ..748 
Killing Horseradish .748 
Bones in Orchard .748 
Pasturing Sprayed Orchard . 748 
Tent Caterpillars .748 
Methods of Grafting .749 
Budding Peach Trees .749 
Cultivation of Vegetables .749 
Destroying Purslane .749 
Apples for Northern New York.749 
Lime-Sulphur and Cedar Rust .747 
Lime-Sulphur for Tent-Caterpillars ....749 
Shade Trees; Keeping Apples .749 
Making a Good Lawn Quickly .752 
Quick-growing Shade Trees .753 
Concerning Mushrooms ..753 
The Krull Pear .753 
Pear Varieties and Blight .753 
Flowers Used as Food .753 
Good and Bad Street Trees .•.753 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
Jimmie’s Decoration Day .755, 763 
How Sleep the Brave ....756 
"To Pleasant Dreams” .756 
Women in School Politics .756 
Suggestions in Crochet Work .757 
How to Remove Red Ink .757 
A Few Mushrooms for Pleasure .758 
A Glass-bottle Mother .758 
Women’s Work With Little Lambs.758 
Hired Man With Children . 758 
A Beautiful Yet Inexpensive Wedding.......759 
Pastoral Parson On a Lonely Road .760 
A Breeder of Men .760 
The Woman Who Is Much Alone .760 
Amelia Avery’s Change of Heart .761 
Is Latin a Help? .761 
The Business Side of Water Glass ..762 
Lime in the Household .762 
Twilight Sleep" . ...762 
Dishwashing a Pleasure .762 
Personal Property Tax .763 
Wife’s Separate Business .763 
Contest of Will: Distribution of Property. .. .763 
Married Woman’s Property .763 
Chattel Mortgage; Funeral Expenses.763 
Release of Dower .763 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Process .. ]y @ 24 
Elgin. Ill., butter market 26}«j cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 28 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 28. 
Cbicago creamery. 22@27. 
Kansas City, 22®26. 
CHEESE. 
Aii advance of one-half to one cent is 
noted on practically all grades of whole 
milk. The top price of 18 cents is rather 
exceptional, however. 
Whole Milk, new specials . 17 @ 17J^ 
New, average fancy . 16<4@ 17 
New. under grades . 14 @ 16 
Oid. as to grade. 15 @ 18 
Skims, special. 13 & 14 
Fair to good. 7 @ 10 
EGGS 
Receipts continue large, and as stor¬ 
ages are filling rapidly the market cannot 
be cleared, particularly on medium and 
lower grades. Prices on nearby, both 
white and brown, are oue-lialf cent lower, 
with considerable complaint of small 
sizes. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 22 @ 23 
Medium togood.. 18 @ 21 
Mixed colors, best. 2!^@ 22 
Common to good. 14 @ 19 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples of desirable varieties are run¬ 
ning 25 to 50 cents per barrel higher. 
Strawberries very plentiful, retailing 
freely throughout the city at 10 cents per 
quart. Quality is fairly good, but there 
are too many for present needs. Receipts 
from Maryland and the Eastern Shore 
are best, but these have wholesaled main¬ 
ly between five and seven cents, which 
leaves very little for the grower. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 2 75 ,® :> 5U 
Russet . 2 00* @ 3 25 
Baldwin. 2 50 @ 4 50. 
Winesap . 2 50 @ 3 75 
Spy . 2 6U @ 4 75 
Box, as to variety, . 1 00' @ 2 00 
Strawberries. Carolina, qt. 3 @ 8 
Virginia . 5 to 7 
Maryland.. 6 @ 9 
BEANS. 
Marrow. 100 lbs. 7 25 to 7 30 
Medium . 5 75 @ 5 81) 
Pea . 3 35 @ 5 40 
Red Kidney. 0 30 @ 6 30 
White Kidney . 7 00 @ 7 10 
Tellow Eye. 5 25 ® 5 35 
Lima, California.... 5 40 @5 50 
VEGETABLES. 
Old potatoes continue low, a large pro¬ 
portion wholesaling under 45 cents, new 
from the South arriving in bad order, 
some bringing only 75 cents per bushel. 
Onions in considerable surplus. Cabbage 
mainly lower, fairly good selling at 81 
per barrel. Tomatoes low, the average of 
a large amount of wholesale business be¬ 
ing one cent each. The standard tomato 
crates hold from 100 to 200. depending on 
size. The Southern growers now supply¬ 
ing New York have to choose between 
picking too green or letting them stay too 
long on the vines. In the latter case they 
may reach market soft if delayed or ex¬ 
posed to heat, and if picked when green 
,as grass they never develop much quality. 
Potatoes—Southern, new, bbl. 2 00 @ 5 00 
State and Maine. 180 lbs. 1 25 @ 1 45 
Bermuda, bb!. 2 00 @5 50 
Asparagus, fancy., doz. 2 75 @ 3 00 
Common to good. 2 00 @ 2 50 
Culls. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Beets. 1UU bunches. 1 00 @ 2 50 
Carrots, bbl. 1 DO @ 1 75 
Cucumbers, bu. 1 50 @ 2 50 
Cabbage, bbl. crate . 0 75 @ 1 50 
Horseradish, bbl . 3 00 to 5 00 
Leeks, 100 bunches. 75 @ 1 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 30 @ 75 
Onions—Red. bag . 50 @ 1 25 
Y ellow. 1 00 @ 1 75 
Texas, crate. 60 @ 1 25 
Peppers, bu. 2 00 @ 3 00 
Peas, bu. 50 & 1 00 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 60 @ 90 
Spinach, bbl. 40 @ 50 
String Beans, bu. 150 @3 00 
8quash. new, bu.. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Egg Plants, bu. 2 00 @ 3 50 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt. crate. 1 00 @ 2 25 
Experience With Auto Trucks .746 
Who Got the Money? . 747 
Electric Motor for Wood Sawing.751 
Three-horse Evener .751 
An Automobile at Work .751 
Device for Fencing With Wire .751 
Improving Heating Circulation .751 
Moving a Barn ..751 
Crops and Farm News .750 
Editorial . .. 754 
Publisher’s Desk ..770 
Humorous .772 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending May 21, 1915. 
MILK. 
The Borden contract prices for the six 
months beginning with April are based 
on the fat content of the milk, there being 
a difference of GO cents per 100 pounds 
between three and five per cent fat. The 
price increases uniformly three cents per 
100 pounds for every tenth of one per 
cent fat increase. 
3% 
3.5% 
4% 
4.5% 
5% 
April .. 
. $1.21 
$1.40 
$1.61 
$1.70 
$1.91 
May .. 
. 1.00 
1.21 
1.30 
1.51 
1.66 
June .. 
. 1.00 
1.15 
1.30 
1.45 
1.00 
July .. 
. 1.10 
1.31 
1.46 
1.01 
1.70 
Aug. .. 
. 1.22 
1.47 
1.02 
1.77 
1.92 
Sept. .. 
. 1.41 
1.50 
1.71 
1.80 
2.01 
BUTTER. 
The market improved toward the close 
, too. week, with a better demand for 
both city and out-of-town trade. Prices 
<m the better grades of creamery are one- 
half cent higher. 
Creamery, extra.above 92 score, lb... 
Extra. 92 score . 
Good to Choice . 
Lower Grades. 
8late Dairy, be*t. 
Common to Good.. . 
Ladles . 
Packing Stock 1! 1 V .! 
2S?4@ 
28& 
27?a® 
2S 
24 
to 
26 
21 
@ 
23 
27 
to 
27 
22 
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2a 
19 
@ 
21 
If 
@ 
19 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 24 @ 28 
Fowls . 18 @ 19 
Roosters...... 10 @ ll 
Ducks... 13 @ 14 
Geese. 9 @ 10 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb . ..... 20 @ 21 
Common to good. 14 @ 18 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 30 @ 35 
Broi lers. common to good . 24 @ 26 
Squab broilers, pair. 75 @ 1 85 
Roasters .. . 23 @ 24 
Fowls. 15 to 18 
Spring Ducks. . 18 @ 20 
Squabs, doz. . .2 00 @4 00 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers... 7 00 @8 50 
Bulls..a 25 @ 7 00 
Cows. 3 50 @ 6 40 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 7 50 @ 9 00 
Culls. 5 1)0 @ 7 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 5 00 @ 7 50 
Lambs . 8 75 @10 00 
Hogs. 7 50 @ 8 00 
COUNTRY-DR ESS EI) MEAT’S. 
Calves, prime. II @ 12 
Common to good. 9 @ 10 
Lambs, hothouse, head .5 0U @ 7 00 
IIA V AND STRAW. 
The prices reported last week have 
mainly held for recent business, but sup¬ 
plies are increasing and market on under 
grades decidedly easier. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 23 00 @24 00 
No. 2.21 50 @22 50 
No. 3 .19 50 @20 00 
Clover mixed.20 OU @22 00 
Straw, Rye,.14 00 @16 00 
GRAIN 
Wheat is three to five cents lower, 
mainly because of favorable crop reports, 
corn and oats both lower. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 166 @ 
N o. 2. Red . l 62 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 83 @ 84 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 57 @ 59 
Rye, free from onion. 1 27 @ 129 
MILLFEED. 
New York— 
Bran, car lots.24 00 @26 00 
Middlings.27 50 @32 00 
Red Dog .34 00 @35 00 
Cornmeal.32 00 @34 00 
BUFFALO— 
Bran, car lots. .25 00 @26 00 
Middlings, as to quality .2600 @29 00 
Gluten feed...28 50 @29 00 
Hominy feed ...30 00 @31 00 
Oil Meal, ton lots. 32 00 @33 00 
St. Loitis— 
Bran, car lots.22 00 @24 00 
Hominy feed .26 00 @27 00 
Middlings.28 00 @29 00 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
figures noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying oppor¬ 
tunities of at least half of New York’s 
population. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 27 @ 29 
Mixed colors, new laid. 25 @ 26 
Ordinary grades. 20 @ 23 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 33 @ 35 
Tub. choice. 30 @ 32 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 26 @ 28 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 25 @ 28 
Squab Broilers, pair. 1 25 @ 1 50 
Fricassee, lb. 18 @ 20 
Fowis . 20 @ 22 
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 
Strawberries, qt. 10 @ 12 
Asparagus, bunch . 15 @ 20 
Buffalo Markets. 
The warm April .set. vegetation on the 
jump and now May is holding it up. This 
appears to be favorable to the production 
of market green stuff, as there is a very 
large supply of it on hand. The Winter 
scarcity, which really did not appear last 
Winter, is over and forgotten. No crop 
is more affected in April than the straw¬ 
berry and the dry, hot weather then se¬ 
riously threatened it. hut a cool, wet May 
has saved it and frosts so far have done 
no harm. Strawberries retail at 12 to 15 
cents a quart, but are unusually hard and 
sour yet. The wholesale price is $2.50 to 
$2.75 per 24-quart ease for choice. Ap¬ 
ples wholesale at $2.50 to $4.25 for all 
grades and retail at $1 per bushel for fair 
grades. Potatoes are not quoted above 40 
cents a bushel wholesale. Farmers have 
quite an amount of them on hand and are 
selling them for 25 cents or feeding them 
out. Grass feed is plenty and it is hard 
to get rid of them. The onion market is 
better, fancy yellow, home-grown whole¬ 
saling at $1.40 per bushel. Heavy receipts 
of vegetables have weakened all prices. 
Asparagus was never so plenty, selling at 
$1.25 per dozen bunches; pie plant, 8 to 
10 cents per dozen; spinach, 25 to 25 
cents per bushel; lettuce, $1 for a two- 
dozen box; radishes, 10 to 15 cents per 
dozen hunches ; beets. 50 cents per dozen 
bunches; carrots, 20 to 40 cents. These 
are very low prices so early in the sea¬ 
son. The old crop of cabbage ran out 
early, considering its size and cheapness 
and the new Florida crop sells at $2.50 
to $2 per crate, retailing at fonr to five 
cents a pound. String beans are not so 
plenty as they should he. wholesaling at 
$2 per hamper. Rutter is dull and lower, 
not being quoted above 20 cents whole¬ 
sale. Cheese seldom changes price, being 
17 cents wholesale for daisies. Fggs 
wholesale at 22 cents for fancy and not 
below 20 cents for Western candled, as 
all eggs are supposed to be .good now. 
Poultry is stronger, the supply being 
light.. Dressed turkey leads with a larger 
margin over fowl than usual, wholesaling 
at 25 to 20 cents, with fowl 8 to 10 cents 
lower. Live turkey is 18 to 21 cents; 
fowl, 17 to 18 cents: ducks, 16 to 18 
cents; old roosters. 12 to 12 cents. Geese 
are for the present out of market. 
•T. w. O. 
announced. Many of the older readers of 
this paper will remember him as lecturer 
at farmers’ institutes, but still more by 
his frequent contributions to the agricul¬ 
tural press. He was born at Clinton, N. 
Y„ May 9, 1822, and died at Sorrento, 
Florida, last week. 
Agricultural Conference. — There 
will be a conference at the Ten Eyck 
Hotel, Albany, on May 20, to consider 
what recommendations, if any, should be 
made to the Constitutional Convention, to 
conserve and promote the agricultural in¬ 
terests of the State. j. w. d. 
FARM HELP THAT MAKE 
complaint. I refer to Commissioner of Licenses, 
Lity of Now York. Help on Hand-ail Branches. 
o-l8b Cortlaiult, 115 Nassau St., New York 
Do you need Farm HeSp? 
W<* have many able-bodied young men 7 *both with and without 
farming experience, who wish to work on farms. It vou need a 
good, intelligent, sober man, write for an order blank. Ours is 
a philanthropic organization and we make no charge to em¬ 
ployer or employee. 
Our object is to encourage farming among Jews. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
1.6 Second Avenue flew York Cit. 
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. 
FOR SALE—42 Hover Hall 
season. H. ABBENSETH, 
Brooder, used one 
Hackensack. N. J. 
1 <>K $ALE —Nine-acre bearing young poach or¬ 
chard, Elbertas. famous Palisade district Col¬ 
orado, convenient to market, irrigated imme¬ 
diate profits, unfailing crops, splendid climate 
Write at once to Box 27. Miller School. Virginia^ 
WANTED—Hand Hay Press. THEODORE 
WEBER, 287 Paterson Plank Road, North 
Bergen, N. J. 
WANTED—General farm hand', on poultry, 
dairy and fruit farm: must be experienced, 
temperate, steady and reliable; give age. expe¬ 
rience and references; $30 and board. ORCHARD 
FARM, Peekskill, N. Y. 
EXPERIENCED Poultryman, single, wants posi¬ 
tion; private place, understands all branches; 
references in answering; state wages. BOX 101, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Work on farm, agricultural school 
grad'uate, 1910. single, liest of references 
Care ARTHUR BASSETT, Canton, N. Y. 
YOUNG MAN (30), reliable, having executive 
ability, with practical experience in farming, 
some scientific agricultural training, wishes po¬ 
sition of responsibility on fruit or general farm, 
with reputable land development company or 
farm real estate agency. NEWTON,N. J., Box 
170. 
WANTED—Head guide, married man for Adir¬ 
ondack camp, must be strong and well ac¬ 
quainted with wood life; the property is ex¬ 
tensive and the position a good and permanent 
one: wife must be a good and experienced cook. 
Apply by letter only, stating age, qualifica¬ 
tions, nationality and enclose copies of refer¬ 
ences; none need apply whose references will 
uot bear the strictest investigation. Address 
A. UNDERWOOD, Supt., Purchase, N. Y. 
UNMARRIED MAN wants to learn sanitary 
milk production, understands Babcock testing 
and something about bacteria work; absolutely 
temperate and reliable. SANITARY, c. Rural 
New-Yorker. 
New York State News. 
State Fair Futurity Races. —The 
Attorney-General has advised the State 
Fair Commission that the Commission of 
1912 exceeded its authority in establish¬ 
ing the so-called futurity races, and that 
the moneys collected from horse owners, 
in amount about $8,000. must be returned 
to them. It seems that the decision is 
based on the fact that the commission is 
required to make a report annually, be¬ 
fore January of each year, showing all 
receipts and disbursements for the pre¬ 
ceding year and any balance then on hand 
with the Commission must be turned over 
to the State Treasurer and ceases to be 
under the control of the Commission. The 
plan virtually committed the State to the 
conduct of an unlawful enterprise. 
First Section Barge Canal Opened. 
—Governor Whitman formally opened the 
first section of the barge canal system 
last week. The formal occasion was the 
turning over to the superintendent of 
public works, Gen. Wotherspoon, by the 
State engineer and surveyor, of $3,000.- 
000 of canal work. The Governor chris¬ 
tened the new lake formed at Crescent. 
N. Y.. as Crescent Lake, which was 
formed by the damming of the Mohawk 
at that point. 
^ Farmers’ Week, New Style. —Glens 
Falls proposes to turn its merchants’ 
week into a farmers’ week, for the latter 
part of September next. The whole week 
will tie devoted to the enterprise which, 
in brief, is to show the farmers of the rich 
farming community surrounding Glens 
Falls, that they can get better value for 
their money in trading at the local stores 
than to patronize the mail order houses. 
There will be a big agricultural exhibit 
in the armory, the merchants will decor¬ 
ate their stores appropriately, agricul¬ 
tural lectures will he given each day and 
there will be many entertainment fea¬ 
tures. 
Rev. E. P. Powell. —The death of the 
well-known writer and lecturer on agri¬ 
cultural subjects, Rev. E. P. Powell, is 
SINGLE YOUNG MAN (resires a responsible po¬ 
sition as poultry man; four years’ experience, 
Cornell poultry course: Christian character; 
best references. BOX 99, care R. N.-Y. 
EXPERIENCED Herdsman. Dairyman, Butter 
Maker desires responsible position. short 
course student, age 2(5, references. HORACE 
ARMSTRONG, 113 Tremont Ave., Orange, S’. J. 
OPPORTUA’ITY good farmer or poultryman to 
work our farm on shares, or will rent 30 
acres already plowed ready for planting: all 
tools, wagons, etc., but no live stock; good op¬ 
portunity and big future for reliable man. N. 
TEKULSKY, Yorktown Heights, N. Y. 
WANTED—Position, superintendent or foreman. 
farm, single, 25; Cornell short course, or rent 
equipped farm. B. IvRANTER. Summit, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Large, modern poultry plant, sell¬ 
ing baby chicks and pullets, fancy eggs and 
broilers; ideal location on Long Island, near 
the water; laying houses for 1,500 head; brooder, 
capacity 1.000 chicks; incubator capacity. 11,000 
eggs, stocked! with White Leghorns: well known 
farm with good established trade. For full in¬ 
formation address BOX 100, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
ON MARCH 1, 1915, I let my 15 acre fruit an<r 
poultry farm (near Troy. N. Y.) for $200 per 
year; 10-room house, finely finished, barn, hen 
house, wagons, tools, etc., and on account of 
family troubles the man had to give it up May 
1. I will sell on easy terms or will let it for 
the same amount for the year 1910 and let party 
take possessiou now and have use of bav. fruit, 
etc., this year for nothing. Speak quick. Ad¬ 
dress X. Y. Z., care Rural New-Yorker. 333 W 
30th St., New York City, N. Y. 
SIXTEEN ACRES on State road. MRS. M1LLS- 
PAUGH, Pine Bush, N. Y. 
FARM WANTED—Less than $1,000; give de¬ 
scription. exact location, cash price. JAMES 
CORWIN, 1920 Anthony Ave., New York City. 
NEW 7-ROOM HOUSE, hardwood floors, elec¬ 
trics, running water, 2% acres rich level land, 
more if wanted, markets, schools, $3,500: terms. 
MARCUS M. BROWNE. Marlboro, Mass., Owner. 
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. La VALLEY, Fish’s Eddv, X. Y. 
585 ACRES—Dutchess County; choice dairy 
farm: two sets buildings; lake. Inquire F. It. 
KKA’FOK, Attorney at Law, 22 Exchange Place, 
New York. 
