THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
911 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. July 10, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Some Common Potato Diseases.889, 890 
Soy Beans in New Jersey.890 
More About Hay Loaders .890 
Advice to Farm Buyers .891 
Killing Quack Grass by Cultivation ....891, 892 
Destroying Mustard .892 
Rotting Meadow Hay for Manure .893 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .893 
Cover Crop in Corn .894 
Street Sweepings and Oil .894 
Gasoline Power for Unloading Hay .894 
Hope Farm Notes .896 
A Marvelous Powder .896 
Killing Burdocks .896 
The Three-horse Evener .896 
Removing Suckers from Sweet Corn.897 
Here Is the Full Dollar .899 
Government Cabbage and Onion Report.899 
Crops and Farm Notes .907 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Fat Test for Condensing Milk.890 
Market for Canadian Cheese .899 
Pigs in Oats and Peas .904 
The Value of Skim-milk .904 
Clearing Out Hog Lice .904 
Health Board Dairy Inspection .904 
Self-sucking Cow .907 
Feeding a Draft Filly .907 
Diseased Horse .907 
Windgall .907 
Loss of Lambs .■.907 
Hygroma .907 
A Great Holstein Cow.905 
Destroying Hog-Cholera Carcasses.905 
Silage for Alfalfa Country .905 
Payment for Diseased Animals .905 
Concrete Silos .905 
Brewers’ Grains for Pigs .905 
Ration for Farm Team .908 
Feeding Shetland Pony .908 
Farrowing Trouble .908 
Scurfy Skin .908 
Thin Horses .908 
Paralyzed Hog .908 
Blood Worms .908 
THE HENYARD. 
Chickens and Potato Beetles .893 
Feeding Game Birds .896 
Poultry and Maggot Trap .896 
Leg Weakness in Fowls .906 
Moping Chicks .906 
Loss of Hens .!.!.906 
Poisoned Chicks .]g06 
Fish Waste for Poultry .906 
Diseased Growth .906 
Summer Ration .[.906 
Feeding Young Ducks .906 
Poultry Questions .906 
Loss of Feathers .906 
Egg-laying Contest .I!. I! 909 
Style of Roost .909 
Dried Milk for Chicks .909 
A Good Dry Mash .909 
Pip .909 
Blue Ointment .909 
White Leghorns with Black Feathers.910 
Ailing Chicks .910 
Feeding Young Chicks .910 
Improving Coal-heated Brooder .910 
Curing Roup .910 
Aspergillosis .910 
Trouble With Turkeys .[...910 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Value of an Apple Tree.892 
Blackberry Rust .892 
Sowing Tree Seeds .^892 
Making Syrup from Apples .892 
Tropical Fruit Notes .897 
Chinese Trumpet Vine .897 
Clairgeau Pear in New Jersey.! 1 ! 1897 
An Unknown Apple .897 
Farm Storage for Apples .897 
Selling N. Y. State Apples .899 
Peach Trees and Arsenate of Lead.899 
Danger in Some Forms of Spraying.899 
Kick at the 35-Cent Dollar .899 
Working Into a Flower Business .894 
Notes from a Maryland Garden .895 
Persimmons in Pennsylvania .895 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .902 
The Ideal Baby .902 
Seen in New York Shops .902 
Notes from Colorado .902 
The Rural Patterns .902 
Asparagus Recipes .903 
Baked Fish .903 
Blackberries, Plums and Cherries .903 
Embroideries .903 
Canning Corn and Sweet Potatoes .903 
Hearty Luncheon Dishes .903 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A Farmers’ Excursion .908 
Dried Food Products .908 
A Chance for Excitement .908 
Oil-mixed Concrete .892 
A Government Fishing Outfit .892 
Cement for Posts .893 
Events of the Week .893 
Freezing of Water Wheel .894 
Destroying Snakes .894 
Renovating Lard .896 
Concrete Chimneys .896 
Steam Canning Outfits .896 
Editorials .898 
Contract Between Father and Daughter.906 
Naturalization . 906 
Right to Crops .906 
Contract of infant .906 
Surface Waters .906 
Publisher’s Desk . 910 
Humorous .912 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week Ending July 2, 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. 
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 be¬ 
tween three and five per cent fat. The 
price increases uniformly three cents per 
K)0 pounds for every tenth of one per 
cent, fat increase. 
3% 
3.5% 
4% 
4.5% 
5% 
April .... 
$1.31 
$1.40 
$1.61 
$1.76 
$1.01 
May. 
1.0G 
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. 
A decline of one-half cent has improved 
business slightly, but it is still dull, par¬ 
ticularly on medium and inferior grades 
of creamery. Factory and packing stock 
are unchanged. Speculators are working 
a little on grades promising profitable 
storage. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, best, above 93 score, lb. 28J^@ 29 
Extra, 93 score . 27)i@ 28 
Good to Choice . 24 ® 26 
Lower Grades. 21 @ 23 
State Dairy, best. 27 @ 27J^ 
Common to Good. 22 @ 25 
Ladles . 20 @ 22 
Packing Stock. 18 @ 21 
Process . 20 ® 24 
Elgin, Ill., butter market 27 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 28J^ cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 28 }£• 
Chicago creamery. 22®27. 
Kansas City, 23@27 
CHEESE. 
Local business is lighter than last 
week, and very little doing in export 
trade. 
Whole Milk. State specials. 15 \i& 
Average fancy . 14 @ 15 
Under grades. 12^@ 13 
Skims, special. 12 ® 13 
Fair to good. 7 @ 11 
EGGS 
The range in price is widening as the 
proportion of fancy quality lessens. The 
top prices noted on white and brown rep¬ 
resent but a small volume of the current 
business. Gathered eggs are selling main¬ 
ly from 18 to 22 cents. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 25 @ 26 
Medium togood. 18 @ 22 
Mixed colors, best. 24 @ 25 
Common to good. 14 @ 19 
Duck Eggs . 24 @ 25 
FRESH FRUITS. 
New apples from Delaware and Mary¬ 
land are arriving in small quantities, av¬ 
eraging about $1 per bushel. Peaches 
selling well, some up to $4 per crate. 
Most sales, however, are under $3. Cher¬ 
ries in good demand. Strawberries in 
heavy supply and going mainly under 10 
cents, except some Western N. Y. and 
up-river. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 2 00 @3 00 
Russet . 2 00 ® .3 25 
Baldwin. 2 50 @ 5 00 
Box, as to variety, . 1 26 @ 2 50 
New. bu. 75 @ 1 50 
Strawberries, nearby, qt. 5 @ 12 
Western N. Y. 8 @ 18 
Cherries, qt. 6 @ 15 
Currants, qr. 4 ® 7 
Blackberries, qr. C @ 12 
Huckleberries, ar. 8 @ 15 
Goosberries. qt. 4 @ 11 
Peaches, carrier . ] 50 @ 3 25 
Muskmelons, bu . 1 60 @ 3 50 
Watermelons, 100.30 00 @65 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.. 
Medium .. 
Pea . 
Bed Kidney. 
White Kidney . 
Yellow Eye. 
Lima, California 
7 00 @ 7 50 
5 75 @ 5 85 
5 35 @5 40 
6)5 @6 20 
7 00 @ 7 25 
4 95 @ 5 00 
5 15 @ 5 20 
VEGETABLES. 
The receipts of new potatoes have 
been smaller than last week, but the mar¬ 
ket is still so well supplied that prices 
remain low. About $1.50 per barrel has 
been the top for good stock, and small or 
slightly defective has run down to $1. 
Old potatoes are offered at 50 cents to $1 
per barrel, thus closing (he most disas¬ 
trous season for potato farmers in many 
year. Onions from the South continue 
low. New in baskets from nearby mainly 
green, seldom bringing more than 50 
cents per bushel. Peas and string beans 
are plentiful, but in good demand. Some 
peas have arrived from Western New 
York, hut so immature that they sire little 
but pods. Cucumbers are still very low, 
too many culls being shipped. There are 
a few tomatoes from South Jersey, aver¬ 
aging $1 per box, supplies from the South 
showing good quality, but too plentiful to 
sell other than low. 
Potatoes—Southern, new, bbl. 50 @ 1 60 
Old, 180 lbs. 50 @ 1 00 
Asparagus, fancy., doz. 1 00 @2 00 
Culls. 40 @ 65 
Beets. 100 bunches. 1 00 @ 2 00 
Carrots, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Cucumbers, bu. 50 @2 50 
Cabbage, bbl. crate . 25 @ 75 
Horseradish, bbl . 3 00 @ 3 50 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 35 @ 75 
Onions, nearby, bu. 35 @ 75 
Peppers, bu. 75 © 1 50 
Peas, bu. 35 @ 1 25 
Radishes, barrel . 50 @ 1 00 
Rhubarb, 100 bunches . 75 @ x oo 
Spinach, bbl. 40 @ 65 
8tringBeaiis.hu. 25 @100 
Squash, new. bu. 25 @ 75 
Sweet Corn, bbl. 3 00 @35o 
Egg Plants, bu. 1 00 & 2 00 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt. crate. 75 @125 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 23 @ 26 
Fowls . 16 @ ]7 
Roosters. io @ li 
Ducks. 15 @ 18 
Geese. 9 @ io 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 20 @ 21 
Common to good. u @ is 
Chickens choice broilers, lb..... 30 @ 32 
Broilers, common to good . 24 @ 27 
Squab broilers, pair. 50 @ 60 
Roasters .. . 22 @ 24 
Fowls....... 14 @ ig 
Spring Ducks. ig @ 17 
Squabs, doz... 1 50 @3 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 
Bulls. 
Cows. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 
Culls. 
@11 50 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
Lambs . 
@ 6 00 
@11 00 
@ 8 25 
Hogs. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
There has been an advance of 50 cents 
on most of the better grades of Timothy 
and light clover, which are in only mod¬ 
erate supply. P. W. Snow’s estimate 
puts the hay crop at 72,000,000 tons, 
which would be one of the largest on rec¬ 
ord. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 23 50 @24 00 
No. 2.21 50 @22 50 
No. 3 .18 50 @20 50 
Clover mixed.20 00 @22 50 
Straw, Rye,.13 00 @15 00 
GRAIN 
Wheat is five to seven cents higher, 
though crop and harvesting conditions are 
reported favorable. The surplus for ex¬ 
port from India is now estimated at 24,- 
000,000 bushels less than formerly. Corn 
remains on about the same price basis. 
There is complaint of excessive rains, 
which hinders cultivation and may bring 
maturity near the frost line in some sec¬ 
tions. The oat harvest is working along 
satisfactorily and the market weakest of 
any grain. 
W heat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 46 @ 
No. 2. Red . 1 36 @ .. 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 84 @ 85 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 53 @ 55 
Rye, free from onion. 1 2a @ 1 27 
MILLFEED. 
Bran, car lots.24 00 @25 50 
Middlings.27 50 @34 00 
lied Dog .34 50 @35 (JO 
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 opportuni¬ 
ties of at least half of New York’s popu¬ 
lation. All fruits and vegetables continue 
low. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 30 @ 32 
Mixed colors, new laid. 25 @ 26 
Ordinary grades. 20 @ 24 
Butter, fancy prints, lb. 33 @ 35 
Tub. choice. 30 @ 32 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 28 @ 30 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 35 ®> 38 
Squab Broilers, pair. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Fricassee, lb. is @ 20 
Fowls ... . . 20 @ 22 
Leg of lamb. 20 @ 22 
Lamb chops. 20 @ 22 
Roasting beef . 16 @ 20 
Stewing beef . 12 @ 15 
Pork chops.?.... is @ 20 
Loin of Pork . 17 @ 20 
Strawberries, qt . 12 @ 18 
Asparagus, bunch . 15 @ 20 
Lettuce, head. 3 @ 5 
Radishes, bunch . 2 @ 3 
Cucumbers, each. 1 @ 5 
Sweet Corn, doz. 50 @ 60 
Cabbage, head . 5 @ 7 
Muskmelons. each. 4 @ 6 
Potatoes, peck. 20 © 25 
Pineapples, each.. 10 @ 15 
Huckleberries, qt. 15 @ 17 
WOOL, 
Delaine unwashed. 27 @ 29 
Fine unwashed . 24 ® 26 
Throe-eights blood combing . 35 @ 37 
Western tine scoured. 65 @ 67 
Skin Eruption. 
We have a horse with eczema. It be¬ 
gan last Fall with pimples on neck, 
which broke. It now has a crust all over 
the body. We read in the paper about 
someone who had a horse in a similar 
condition, and you told them to give the 
horse Fowler’s solution of arsenic, 
which we have been doing for some time, 
but he does not get over it. Is there any¬ 
thing else can be done? c. av. A. 
Ohio. 
Have the horse clipped at once and 
then wash affected parts of skin with a 
1-100 solution of coal tar dip made 
creamy with flowers of sulphur. Repeat 
the treatment as often as seem to be ne¬ 
cessary. Reduce the grain ration and in 
the feed twice daily mix an ounce of 
granular hyposulphite of soda. A quali¬ 
fied veterinarian should make sure that 
farcy, the skin form of glanders, is not 
present. a. s. A. 
Ringworm. 
I have a two-year-old heifer that has 
calved about a week. The calf is doing 
well, but the heifer did not act well. 
She has round spots on her neck about 
as large as a quarter; was no doubt 
lousy, but have greased her twice lately 
for that and she acts livilier. She does 
not take hold of grain as she ought. She 
has one big wart near her horn. Can 
you help me out? c. A. R. 
New York. 
The spots on the skin are no doubt 
due to ringworm, but they would not 
cause weakness. Scrub them clean and 
rub in iodine ointment every other day 
until well. Carefully wet the wart with 
dilute nitric acid twice a week, after 
smearing lard on the sound skin. The 
heifer no doubt will improve if turned on 
grass and offered other nourishing feed, 
provided she is not affected with tuber¬ 
culosis. If she does not pick up have 
her tested with tuberculin. a. s. a. 
Heaves. 
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R. N.-Y. 
My mare about 12 years old has a 
hitching or a jerking movement in lower 
abdomen. It has continued for two 
months or more, and grows gradually 
worse. She had at first a cough which 
has grown gradually worse. It is now so 
bad that she pretty nearly falls some¬ 
times. She eats well. I give her corn, 
oats seems too dusty. She runs on pas¬ 
ture at night with another horse, and in 
daytime, too. She keeps fat. When I 
work her she stops once in a while to 
cough. g. F. M. 
Feed grass in Summer and wet oat 
straw in Winter in place of hay. Wet 
all feed. Do not feed any bulky feed at 
noon and do not work her soon after a 
meal. Give the drinking water before 
feeding. Give her half an ounce of Fow¬ 
ler’s solution of arsenic night and morn¬ 
ing until much relieved, then gradually 
discontinue the medicine taking at least 
a week to the work. This treatment 
should lessen the distress. A. S. A. 
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