THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
887 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, July 3, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Sweet Clover in New York State.870 
Dig Your Own Humus .870 
The Value of an Auto Truck .870 
Short Talk on Alfalfa .871 
The Pictures .871 
Late Hay or Fodder Crops .871 
Those Siberian Alfalfa Varieties.872 
Onion Sets Go to Seed .872 
Nitrate of Soda on Beans .872 
Early Sowing of Crimson Clover .872 
Crops ar.d Prices ..872 
“Stone Meal” .873 
Feeding an Old Pasture .873 
Growing Onion Sets .873 
Late-sown Fodder .873 
Hay-making on Shares .873 
Wood Ashes on Potatoes .873 
Grain With Cow Peas .873 
Killing Brush .873 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .874 
Hope Farm Notes .876 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Fat Test for Condensery Milk.869, 870 
Live-stock Breeding Crate .882 
Connecticut Dairymen and Milk Scoring.882 
Butter Fat and “Total Solids” .882 
Sheep Raising in New England .882 
Milk Bottles and Garbage .882 
Acid Curd Whey .882 
New Jersey Dairy Farmers .883 
Poor Milk .883 
Sheep and Dogs .... ' 883 
Small Silo . 8 g 3 
Dairy Ration ...!!..!!.'!!. 884 
Ration for Pigs; Tumor .! .884 
Ration for Cows . 884 
Feeding Pigs for Growth . ^884 
Fattening Fall Pigs .884 
Diabetes .884 
Indigestion; Tumor .884 
Ringbone . 884 
Weak Eyes ...!.'!!!!!!!!.'.'.'!!884 
Thriftless Horse . !!!!!!!!.' 884 
Paralysis ..!...!!!!!!".'. 884 
HENYARD. 
Hen Contest .. 
Squab Broilers .1. 111111885 
Separating Pullets from Cockerels .885 
Raising Young Ducks . 885 
Cockerel Losing Feathers . 886 
Fowls Picking Others; Dead Chicks . ...]886 
HORTICULTURE. 
Pruning Dewberries .872 
Auto Truck for Fruit Farm .872 
Cover Crop in Orchard .873 
Strawberries in Cornfield .873 
Field Meeting N. J. Horticultural Society_874 
Sutton Beauty Apple .875 
The Moonseed .877' 
Planting the Gladiolus . 877 
Strawberries Under Glass.877 
Culture of Drug and Dye Plants .877 
Fungus Growth in Mines .877 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .880 
The Rural Patterns .! 1.880 
Seen in New York Shops . 880 
Seasonable Preserves .880 
Doilies and Table Runners . 880 
“Easy Money” .880 
Spinach in Various Ways .880, 881 
A Meringue Problem .881 
Cream Puffs .I.! 1881 
Quinces and Ground Cherries . ...,!!!!".! 881 
Pickled Grapes .881 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Study of Water Wheels .873 
Well as Cesspool .873 
Events of the Week .!!874 
Tenant on Shares .875 
Chattel Mortgage . !!..875 
Damage by Dogs . !.!875 
Warranty Deed; Payment of Mortgage.875 
Phosphoric Acid in Human Diet .875 
Painting a Roof .875 
Selling N. Y. State Apples .879 
New Jersey Farmers Speak .879 
Some Grange Matters .879 
Publisher’s Desk . ,]886 
Humorous . !!.!!!!'888 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending June 25, 1915. 
The commercial values of farm pro¬ 
ducts are. what they sell for—not neces¬ 
sarily their food value, or what some one 
thinks or wishes they were worth. Hence 
representative sales, rather than opinions, 
even though unbiased, are the correct ba¬ 
sis for quotations. 
MILK. 
Whole Milk, State specials. 15M® 15bS 
Average fancy . 14 @ 15 
Under grades. 12}^® 13 
Skims, special. 12 @ 13 
Fair to good. 7 ® 11 
lCGGS 
Prices.are one cent higher in best qual¬ 
ities, which are decidedly in the minority 
at present. Medium and low grades iii 
surplus. Much of this falling off in qual¬ 
ity could be avoided by a little additional 
care where eggs are held a week or more 
before selling. Frequent gathering is de¬ 
sirable—twice a day when possible— 
otherwise some will be partially incu¬ 
bated by hens that are getting broody. 
Some nests are in hot places where the 
afternoon sun causes a hatching temper¬ 
ature for several hours, and if in the 
haste of gathering such nests are skipped 
for a day or two, the eggs might about as 
well be given to the hogs. After gather¬ 
ing keep them in the coolest reasonably 
dry place at hand. A damp cellar is not 
satisfactory, and they must be kept away 
from strong odors. 
White, choice to fancy, large. 24 ® 25 
Medium to good. 18 @ 22 
Mixed colors, best. 23 @ 2-4 
Common to good. 14 @ 19 
Duck Eggs . 24 ® 25 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Peach receipts are increasing with a 
decided improvement in quality, some 
fairly good, Carman and Mountain Rose 
being seen; $2.50 per crate is about the 
top for Carman and $2 for Greensboro. 
Strawberries have been running soft and 
poor, so that the bulk of supplies has 
had to sell under 10 cents, and some down 
to three. A few from the Hudson River 
section and Long Island brought 17 to 18 
cents. Cherries in considerably larger 
supply and lower, though selling close to 
10 cents per pound when sound. Cur¬ 
rants. raspberries and blackberries in fair 
supply and selling well, especially red 
raspberries. Muskmelons are opening bet¬ 
ter in quality than usual and used freely, 
prices being within reach of nearly every¬ 
one. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 2 00 ® 3 00 
Russet . 2 00 ® 3 25 
Baldwin. 2 50 @ 4 75 
Box. as to variety, . 1 25 @ 2 50 
Strawberries, nearby, qt. 5 ® 18 
Maryland. 3 @ 8 
Cherries, qt. 6 @ 12 
Blackberries, qr. 5 @ 10 
Huckleberries, qr. 9 @ 15 
Goosberries. qt. 4 ® fi 
Peaches, carrier . 1 25 ® 2 75 
Muskmelons, bu . 1 50 @ 2 75 
Watermelons, 100.25 00 fa 50 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 7 00 ® 7 40 
Medium . 5 75 ® 5 85 
Pea . 5 35 a 5 50 
Red Kidney.6 15 @ (i 20 
White Kidney . 7 00 @7 25 
Yellow Eye. 5 05 @ 5 10 
Lima, California.. 5 25 @5 30 
VEGETABLES. 
Receipts of new potatoes are heavy, 
about 450 cars having arrived at New 
York in two recent days. Prices are low, 
fancy stock from the Eastern Shore going 
at 50 cents per bushel or under and lower 
grades down to 50 cents per barrel. Old 
potatoes are in large supply, and nothing 
bringing over $1 per barrel. I 11 the same 
two days there were 20 cars of tomatoes, 
55 of cucumbers. 15 of poppers, 20 of 
cabbages, 15 of peas and string beans, and 
three of eggplants, besides numerous cars 
of mixed vegetables and smaller lots by 
express. Most of this is stuff that must 
be disposed of at once, so that the pre¬ 
vailing low prices are the natural result 
of the overload. New York ami three or 
four other large cities get rid of produce 
so quickly that the shippers are likely to 
neglect the smaller towns of 25,000 to 
75.000. It is of course easy to overload 
these smaller places, but by keeping in 
touch with conditions many cars could be 
diverted that so far as profits from sales 
at New Y T ork are concerned, might as 
well rot on the fields. The writer has 
found Delaware produce selling higher in 
its own city of Wilmington than in New 
York, and the same is true of many cities 
between the producers’ fields and New 
York, Boston and Philadelphia. 
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 60 cents per 100 pounds be¬ 
tween three and five per cent. fat. The 
price increases uniformly three cents per 
300 pounds for every tenth of one per 
cent, fat increase. 
3% 
3.5% 
4% 
4.5% 
5% 
April .. 
.. $1.31 
$1.46 
$1.61 
$1.76 
$1.91, 
May ... 
.. 1.06 
1.21 
1.36 
1.51 
1.66 
June .. 
.. 1.00 
1.15 
1.30 
1.45 
1.60 
J nly .. 
.. 1.16 
1.31. 
1.46 
1.61 
1.76 
Aug. .. 
. . 1.32 
1.47 
1.62 
1.77 
1.92 
8ept. .. 
.. 1.41 
1.56 
1.71 
1.S6 
2.01 
BUTTER. 
Sales are only moderate and the market 
barely sustained at the present figures. 
The lower grades, including packing 
stock, are especially dull. Speculative 
trade for storage continues quite active. 
Creamery, best, above 93 score, lb.... 
. 29 
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Extra, 93 score . 
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Good to Choice . 
. 24 
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Lower Grades. 
. 21 
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State Dairy, best. 
. 27bj@ 
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Common to Good. 
. 22 
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Ladles . 
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Hacking Stock. 
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Process. 
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Elgin, 111., butter market 26bj cents. 
Philadelphia. western creamery. 28% cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 2Sj£. 
Chicago creamery. 23®27. 
Kansas City, 23@27. 
CHEESE. 
Prices on whole milk grades have ad¬ 
vanced one cent, owing to good demand, 
including some export business. 
Potatoes—Southern, new. bbl. 50 
Old, 180 lbs. 75 
Asparagus, fancy., doz. 1 00 
Culls. 25 
Beets. 100 bunches. 1 00 
Carrots, bbl. 1 00 
Cucumbers, bu. 50 
Cabbage, bbl. crate . 25 
Horseradish, bbl . 3 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 25 
Onions, nearby, bu. 35 
Peppers, bu. 75 
Peas, bu. 20 
Radishes, barrel . 50 
Rhubarb. 100 bundles . 75 
Spinach, bbl. 25 
String Beans, bu. 25 
Squash, new. bn. 50 
Sweet Corn, bbl. 3 00 
Egg Plants, bu. 1 00 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt. crate. 75 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 22 
Fowls . 17 
Roosters .. 10 
Ducks. 13 
Geese. 10 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 20 
Common to good. 14 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 2S 
Broilers, common to good. 24 
Squab broilers, pair. 50 
Roasters . 21 
Fowls.. 14 
Spring Ducks. 16 
Squabs, doz. 150 
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I,1VE STOCK. 
Native Steers. ... .. 
Bulls.... 
Cows... . 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 
Culls.... 
Sheep. 100 lbs.. 
Lambs . 
Hogs .. 
6 76 @9 40 
4 75 @ 7 00 
3 00 @ 7 00 
9 60 @1) 25 
5 50 @ (5 50 
3 50 @ 6 75 
8 50 @10 50 
1 50 @ 8 25 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Sales have been better than last week, 
so that there is less surplus, especially of 
the higher grades. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 23 00 @23 50 
No. 2.2150 @22 50 
No. 3 .18 50 @20 50 
Clover mixed.20 00 @22 00 
8traw, Rye.13 00 @15 00 
GRAIN 
There has been some reaction from the 
recent wheat decline, partly because of 
unfavorable harvesting weather. Thus 
far there has not been enough thrashing 
to judge of yield. Cold wet weather has 
delayed corn, so that its present condition 
is below the 10-year average. 
Wheat.'No. 1. Northern Spring. 139 @ 
No. 2. Red . 129 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. SI @ 85 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 53 @ 54 
Rye, free from onion. 1 25 @ 1 27 
MILLFEED. 
Bran, car lots.24 00 @25 50 
Middlings.27 50 @33 00 
Red Dog . 34 00 @35 00 
Cornmeal.32 00 @34 00 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest fig¬ 
ures noted here but represent produce of 
good quality and the buying opportunity 
of at least half of New York’s population. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 2S @ 30 
Mixed colors, new laid. 25 @ 20 
Ordinary grades. 20 @ 24 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 33 @ 35 
Tub, choice.. 30 @ 32 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 20 @ 28 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 30 <0) 30 
Squab Broilers, pair. 1 CO @ 1 25 
Fricassee, lb. 17 @ is 
Fowis . 17 @ 19 
Leg of lamb. 20 @ 22 
Lamb chops. 20 @ 22 
Roasting beef . it; @ 20 
Stowing beef . 12 @ 15 
Pork chops.?.... is @ 20 
Loin of Pork . 17 @ 20 
Strawberries, qt. JO @ 18 
A paragtis. bunch . 15 tat 20 
Lettuce, heatl. 3 @ 5 
Radishes, bunch . 2 @ 3 
Cucumbers, each. 1 @ 5 
S veet Corn, doz. 50 @ (;o 
C ibhage, head . 5 @ 7 
Mirkmelons. each. 4 @ r, 
Potatoes, peck. 20 @. 25 , 
Pineapples, each. 10 on 17 
Huckleberries, qt. 15 @ is 
Boston Market Review. 
The few apples left bring big prices; 
native Baldwins $8.50 per barrel, others 
$6 and $1 ; Russets $5, Ben Davis about 
$4. Box fruit, both near by and Western 
$•> and better. Best native strawberries 
in trays have sold up to 60c. per box; 
now average about 40c. per box. Crate 
stock brings only 10c. and i2%c. for 
near by and 5c. to 8c. for others." Blue¬ 
berries and blackberries not plenty and 
not very good with prices to match, 10c. 
to 12c. per box. Cantaloupe more plenty 
and lower, $2 to $3 per crate. Grape- 
frnit and oranges a little short and prices 
pretty stiff, the former up to $5 per box, 
the latter $2.75 to $4.50 per crate, qual¬ 
ity excellent. Lemons, $3 per box. Pine¬ 
apples plenty but run small, selling at $2 
to $3 per crate, with quite a premium 
above this for the large size. Water¬ 
melons about 00c. each. Native aspara¬ 
gus sells well up to $4 per box, Jersey, $2 
per dozen. Southern string beans about 
$1 per basket; new cabbage $1 per crate. 
California celery $1.50 per dozen: good 
cucumbers, $3 per box, others $1.50 to 
$2.50. Lettuce plenty and cheap, 25c. to 
35c. per box of 1^4 dozen heads. Toma¬ 
toes plenty from various sections. South 
make prices easier, $1 to $2 per crate. 
Native hothouse down to 12%c. per pound. 
Native squash 2c. per pound; Sum¬ 
mer, $1 per basket; Southern marrow, $3 
per crate. Old rutabaga turnips, $2.50 
per bag. New white per dozen bunches, 
65c. and 75c. Old beets. $1 per bushel, 
now, 60c. per dozen bunches; new carrots, 
75c. per dozen bunches; parsnips, $2 per 
box ; native rhubarb, 50c. per box. Green 
peas from Connecticut about $1.50 per 
basket. _ Frosli natives. $2 and $3 per box. 
Old onions low at $1 per bag: Texas 
stock. $1 to $1.30 per erdte. Old pota¬ 
toes down to 60 and 75c. per 120 pound 
bag or two bushels; new stock from 
Southern sections, $2 to $2.75 per barrel. 
Sweets, $5 per crate and $3 per basket. 
Live poultry a little slow, hens 16c. per 
pound, broilers about 22c. per pound; 
dressed stock plenty and demand slow; 
broilers 27c., others 18e. and 20c: storage 
turkeys, 15c. and 16c. per pound. 
Veal calves plenty and demand good: 
live from 6 to 9c. per pound ; dressed. 11 
to 15c.; live hogs about Sc. per pound; 
dressed, 10c. per pound. Beef on hoof, 
$4.75 to $8.50 per cwt.; supply ample for 
demand at present. 
Butter holds about the same. 27 to 
31c.; sales are slow at these prices, and 
storage stocks are being increaed as the 
result. Some opinions are that a drop 
will come soon. Cheese has declined and 
sales are now made at 14c. to 16c. per 
pound. 
Hay about holds its own, best $24 per 
ton. other grades $22. $20. and $18. Best 
grades corn, 85c.; cornmeal from poorer 
grades of corn, $1.62 per bag; oats. 55c. 
to 58c.; cottonseed meal per ton. $31.50; 
gluten, $28; linseed, $34; stock feed. 
$31.50. Horse sales slow as demand is 
not very good, partly owing to business 
conditions and high prices asked added to 
high cost of feed. a. e. p. 
“Johnnie !” “Yes’m.” “Why are you 
sitting on that boy?” “Why, T—” “Did 
I not tel] you always to count one hun¬ 
dred before you gave way to passion and 
struck another boy?” “Yes’m. and I’m 
just sitfin’ on him so he’ll be here when 
I’m done countin’ one hundred.”—Sacred 
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Otir object is to encourage farming among Jews. 
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RIS T. KILLE?''.S^desbor g: ^ f ^ mation ' «A K- 
GAS ENGINE, Backus, fifteen horse, fine order- 
reasonable. °- T - HAMILTON, Huntington! 
N nnn rn 1 ous M, ‘ !ilohls Clover Honey, 10 ll> 
Demopolis; Aia. eXPreS3 Prepaic1 ' W ' »■ NULL. 
1 *1,11,1,^ LE —-Auburn team wagon, front wheel 
CAI { KYL. n Whltehon P se fi StJ.. n N!°j: httpne "-- 
R kets S °i T n R No Hl i R q n IK i S 7 5c ' ,h ” 1,1 bas- 
sets, in .No. J Sanitary Enamelled Cans in 
degree syrup with pits *1.25 per d’ozen . C win,oJ? 
pus St.oU, I- . O. B. Waterloo. N. Y. Cans- 
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PATO TMO ordered. WEAVER F’RI'iT 
Werloo! N."Y ° ee8S0r t0 S<>neea Frait 
A PRACTICAL Ponltryman is open for engnge- 
ment: experience in all lines of poultry work 
Rural"New-Yorker. GPCIM ' able ’ AddVyss ,!<)X 
WANTED—A Northern New York State farmer 
wnH-*' 1 '' haying 0110 son to help along in the 
voik immediate position on a gentleman’s 
farm in the Catskills; must be sober, industrious 
-dining; reference required. BOX 127, care 
ni! T r RD — Positiori as superintendent or work- 
„_ lag A f • lan 0,1 gentleman’s farm liv middlc- 
M d Rox isa Ca v chil( Jr e ": best of references. 
. 11 ., Box 183 , Yorktown Heights, N. Y. 
BOR KIN G FOR EM A N wants position ;li fe cv- 
j. Perience; best references. BOX 125. care r. 
V '^Z Kn ~ e M, '! TU ‘ , } “ an ns working farm fore- 
man wife to do housework, boarding help; 
must be strictly temperate, energetic, well ex- 
porionood in all branches of farming, furnish 
fnnL t V eren S 0S: P* rn,anent position with Oppo" 
R nf N a -Y ement t0 rlght ' ,:,rtios - BOX 
WANTED—Married man as farm teamster, tlior- 
onghly proficient in handling horses or mules 
and farm machines: strictly temperate willin'-- 
and energetic. THEO. A. STANLEY, New Brit" 
ain. Conn. 
PRACTICAL POULTRYMAN, experienced with 
almost all utility varieties of fowls and Pekin 
ducks will be open for engagement about \u- 
gust 1; will accept position either as poultrv- 
man or manager of large plant where results are 
required; excellent references. Address Box 
124, Rural N.-Y. ” w ' v 
lor LI.HYMAN Wanted at once on commercial 
plant; must be a first-class practical man; 
one that lias made good and can produce re¬ 
sults; send references and state wages in first 
letter. JACOBS EGG FACTORY, West Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. 
WANTED—By man and wife position in coun¬ 
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self useful, woman, good’ housekeeper; neat a d 
economical; moderate wages; highest referenc > 
as to character, etc.; Americans. Address 
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FINEST LOCATION in State for sale; 3 valua¬ 
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County; No. 1, 264 acres. No. 2. 166 acres. No. 
3. 101 acres. For other information address 
OWNER, Selbyville, Delaware, Post Box 36. 
WANTED—First-class fa rm superintendency, 
covering both field and dairy branches, by man 
of years of successful experience along modern 
lines; no small proposition will be entertained; 
or would consider leasing for term of years large 
dairy farm, cash rental if all stocked, tooled, 
etc., ready for bustling work; eminent creden¬ 
tials. Address “BUSINESS,” care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
SALE OR LEASE—Poultry farm. Long Island, 
commuting distance, 4 acres, 0 room and’ bath. 
BOX 105, c. R. N.-Y. 
THIliTY-TH REE-ACRE FA RM—Water power, 
wheat, corn, and sawmill; one-third cash: de¬ 
sirable: ask for particulars. THOS. H. HARRIS, 
Fredericksburg, Virginia. 
THE GASOLINE ENGINE ON THE 
FARM. Its operation, repair and uses. 
By Xeno W. Putnam. 
This is the kind 
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farmer will appre¬ 
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farm home ought 
to have. Includes 
selecting the most 
suitable engine for 
far m work, its 
most convenient 
and efficient in¬ 
stallation. w i t li 
chapters on trou¬ 
bles. their reme¬ 
dies. and bow to 
avoid them. The 
care and manage¬ 
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tractor in plowing, 
barrow i 
vesting 
grading 
covei-ed: 
directi 
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