THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, July 31, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Measure of Soil Fertility . .954 
A Ninety-Ton Silo for Ninety Dollars. Part 
II... . . •.954 955 
Preparing’ for Aifalfa .. 1.956 
Land Measurement Question ,.956 
Fitting Land for Fall Wheat .•.957 
Alfalfa in Maryland .957 
Handling Sweet Clover Seed .957 
Identifying Sweet Clover .•.957 
Ure of Old Grain Bags .957 
Government Crop Report ...959 
Foreign Crop Outlook .959 
The Maine Potato Crop .959 
Hope Farm Notes .960 
Crows and Corn .961 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Notes on Cutting Silage Corn .974 
Where Milking Machines Pay .974 
Ration for Heifers ... 974 
Sheep and Dogs . 974 
New York Milk Law . 974 
Feeding Colts on Skim-milk .974 
Breeders’ Association and Pedigrees .974 
Ration for Pigs . 974 
Forging . "978 
Cough .. 
Depraved Appetite .978 
Founder ... 978 
Stiff Calf ....Ill 2978 
Clipping a Mare .”.978 
Grazing Cure for Founder .978 
Nervous Disorder .978 
Lameness .. 
Mammitis . .....978 
THE HENYARD. 
The Egg-laying Contest .977 
Obstructed Breathing . 977 
Dried Milk for Chicks .977 
Picking Out Layers . 977 
Division of Profits . 977 
Trouble With Chicks . 977 
HORTICULTURE. 
Summer Pruning; Theory and Practice. .953, 954 
The Selection of Budsticks in Budding . 954 
Apples in Farm Storage. Part II. 955 
Fitting Soil for Strawberries . 955 
Apples for the Hudson Valiev .. .. .956 
Mulching Everbearing Strawberries .956 
Cementing Hole in Tree . 956 
Second Crop Graces . 957 
The Old Strawberry Bed ..961 
Damage I rom Snails . 961 
Middlings for Cabbage Worms .-’.961 
The “June Drop" .961 
Soapsuds and Cabbage Worms .! . . -961 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
The Regeneration of Sarah .963, 970 
A Few Old Timers . 964 
Suffrage ... 2 2 2 2 . 2 2 . 2 2 964 
A Wind-jigger for Company ..964 
Woman and the School Vote. 964 
A Veteran on Votes for Women . 965 
Physician Heal Thyself—from a Woman’s 
Point of View . 965 
A Talk on Cancer .22. "2.2 * 965 
Viavi; Crotalin ... 2 2 . 2 2 2 2 2 . 2 2 965 
Neighbors on the Lonely Road . 2 2 2 2 2 2.966 
Good Words . 2966 
“Contest" Entertainment at the Grange.967 
Origin of the Strawberry .967 
Iceless Icebox ...2967 
Value of Latin . 2 2 2 2 2 2 967 
The Home Dressmaker .2968 
Magazine Money . 2 . 2 2 2 2 2 969 
The Profession of Apple Packing .......... 969 
The Business of Training Dogs ..969 
Mushroom Raising . , 969 
The Business of Meat Canning 2.2.22 2 2222222969 
Uncooked Grape Juice . 969 
Machines for Saving Sleep . 2 2 2 2 . 2.969 
Bottle-fed Pigs . 969 
Naming a Farm . 2 .. 2 2.969 
The Milking of Jersey .. 2 2 2 - 970 
Meats for Summer Use . 971 
Canning Vegetables at Home .2... 2 971 
Fresh Meat for Summer Boarders .971 
Canning Peas and Beans .971 
Bringing Back a Worn-out Farm .972 
The Wife Drives the Car ..972 
Consent to Mortgage .972 
Annulment of Marriage of Young Girl.972 
Assessment; Mortgagee’s Claim .972 
Distribution of Property ..972 
Payment by Note .2.972 
Divorce ..•.972 
A Well-preserved Pumpkin .973 
Two Housekeeping Notes . 973 
Preparing Tripe . .....973 
Guiding the Boy . 973 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
New York State News .956 
Changes in Railroad Time . 956 
Small Purchases at Auction Markets .957 
Alg® in Well Water ..957 
Admission of Aliens . 957 
Events of the Week .958 
Buffalo Markets ......959 
Earthworms .961 
Editorials ..962 
Publisher’s Desk ..978 
Humorous .980 
BUTTER. 
There has been a decline of one-half to 
one cent on most grades of creamery. 
There is some surplus of grades below 
medium, though demand for these quali¬ 
ties is fairly good. Packing stock and 
city made are going slowly. The efl'ect 
of recent hot weather is clearly shown 
in current receipts. A little lack of care 
somewhere on the route from the cow to 
the creamery churn will discount the 
best efforts of the buttermaker. no mat¬ 
ter how skillful he may be. The result 
is that the butter sells one or two cents, 
or perhaps more, below what it otherwise 
would. 
Creamery, best, above 92 score, lb. 
Extra. 92 score . 
Good to Choice . 
Lower Grades. 
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Ladles . 
Packing Stock. 
Process . 
Elgin, Ill., butter market 25 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 27 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 27. 
Chicago creamery. 22c«25J4. 
Kansas City, 23@25. 
CIIK1CS E. 
The market is very slow, both export 
and local buyers being inactive. Holders 
anxious to make sales are cutting prices 
on the lower grades of whole milk. The 
stocks of fancy are not excessive and held 
with some confidence. Sales in the Utica 
market have run at 13% to 14 cents. 
Whole Milk. State specials. 149 $ 
Average fancy . 14 14)4 
Under grades.... 12 @ 13 
Dasies. best. 15 @ u;i^ 
Young Ameriens. 16 @ 1614 
Skims, special. \\ & 12 
Fair to good. 7 @ u) 
EGGS 
The price range has widened one cent, 
as strictly fancy, both white and brown, 
are scarce. Medium and lower grades 
arc in larger supply, and active efforts 
are made to clear out current arrivals as 
soon as posible. 
White, choice to iancy. large . 
... 28 
29 
Medium to good. 
... 18 
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Mixed colors, best. . 
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Common to good. 
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FRESH FRUITS. 
The quality of new apples offered is 
still averaging low. Some Transparent 
and other choice varieties have sold 
slightly above quoted prices, but compar¬ 
atively few are good enough to bring $1 
per bushel. Peaches continue low, ex¬ 
cept some southern Elberta, which have 
sold up to $2 per crate. Small fruits 
running low in quality and price; cur¬ 
rants going at $1 per 32-quart crate to the 
preservers. There is a large supply of 
muskmelons from the south and west, 
and the usual wide range of prices, from 
To cents to $3.25 per crate holding 45 
medium-sized melons. A good many of 
fairly good quality would bring higher 
prices in the smaller markets near home 
than they do at New York, where they 
compete with the best. Restaurants and 
hotel people find that there is no profit 
in any but the best grades of musk- 
meJons. uniform in quality throughout 
tin 1 crate, as more than half of ordinary 
kinds may be discarded by their patrons. 
A pples—New, bu. 
Raspberries, red.'pint. 
Black caps, pint .. 
Cherries. 71b bkt . 
Currants, qr. 2 2 2 2 .. 
Blackberries, qr. 
Huckleberries, ar. 
Plums, carrier... 
Goosberrios. qt. " 2*22 
Peaches, Del. and Md. bkt .......2 
Del and Md., carrier. 
Jersey, bkt. 
Georgia. 6 -bkt.. carrier. 
Mnskmeions, bu . 
Watermelons, carl oad _.... 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Receipts of hay are larger than last 
week, but demand good enough to hold 
the previous advance in price. 
Uay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 26 50 @27 00 
No. 2.24 50 @25 00 
No. 3 .23 00 @24 00 
Clover mixed.23 00 @25 50 
Straw, Rye,.13 00 @14 00 
GRAIN 
Wheat is much lower on favorable 
crop reports. The Spring wheat outlook 
promises an exceptional crop unless black 
rust develops disastrously. Corn and 
oats are practically unchanged. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring, new.. 1 17 
No. 2. Red, new .. 1 19 
Corn, as to quality, bush. . S9 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 60 
Rye, free from onion. 1 00 @ 1 06 
MILLFEKD. 
Bran, car lots.24 00 @25 50 
Middlings.27 50 @32 00 
Bed Dog .34 50 @35 00 
Cornmeal.32 00 @33 00 
WOOL 
Recent prices at the London sales 
have been lower, so that buyers here are 
less active. At Boston prices on medium 
grades are tending upward. Recent fig¬ 
ures on Michigan and New York fleeces 
are: Unwashed Delaine. 26 to 27: half 
blood, unwashed, 32 to 33; three-eighths 
blood, 3< to 38. On Ohio and Pennsyl¬ 
vania fleeces prices are: Unwashed De¬ 
laine, 20 to 30; half blood combing, 35" 
three-eighths blood, 37 to 38. 
THE 
WILLIAMS ORCHARDS 
191.66 acres at Barry, III. 
WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION 
on Sept. 8, 1915 
In three parcels and as a whole 
Illustrated descriptive pamphlet on request. 
JNO. R. WILLIAMS,409 Globe Democrat Bldg.,St. Louis,Mo. 
Do you need Farm Help? 
W •• have many able-bnilleii minis men. hnth with and without 
m, 2 'l i, who svish " nrk «> hirms. ir.vou need a 
i n i., m 1 ? , r m . a "’ wril " r " r «" " r ' ,er blank. Onra la 
a philanthropic organization and , ve make no charge to em- 
plover or employee. 
Om-ol.Joct is t" encourage fanning among .lews. 
. * JEWISH ACKH'l LTUBAI, SOCIETY 
l.f. Second Avenue_ New York (lit. 
Subscribers Exchange 
979" 
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. Tho 
name and address must be counted as part of 
the advertisement. Copy must roach us not 
later than Friday to appear in tho 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. 
LIME REQUIREMENTS determined. Write for 
l.or^°X 1La j HARRIS T ’ KIR LE, Swedes 
HYDRAULIC CIDER PRESS. 28x28, used 3 sea¬ 
sons, 30 to 40 barrel capacity; outfit is in 
good condition, and will be sold at a bargain to 
Newark. ta Nr e ; J H> KABKl <i7S Mt Prospect Ave.® 
I’OR s A r.E-- H yd r a n, ie Cider Press in good con¬ 
ic'/ 1 ! 011 ' oO to 7:>-harrol capacity; will sell cheap 
riven ^ 4 P 0the / work; *<»’'' references 
given. Also Engine and Boiler. For full nnr- 
Deniars ad'dress JAMES FERGUS. West Yew- 
SAVE YOUR VETCH SEED by using a fanning 
mill screen of speeial size mesh that will re- 
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NULL'S Famous Melilotus Clover Honey io ih 
pail. $l.o0; express prepaid. W I> NTT r 
Demopolis, Ala. ^ uuu. 
COI.T ACETYLENE GENERATOR, up to r.O 
light capacity. 24 C. P. burners, 50 lb car¬ 
bide rapacity; used. but_in good condition Will 
50. Address 
accept any reasonable offer: cost S!l r 
UNIQUE CLUB, Pearl River, N Y 
FOR SALE—14 H. P. Foos Gasoline Engine on 
trucks: friction clutch pulley; fine conditio,i. 
. I. SKINNER, Chepachet, N. Y. 
Cash $300. 
\VANTED—i;u.v..r for peach crop, 4,000 bushels. 
ft. ivON rZAHN. Biglerville, Pa. 
lar ~° far , m ln Western Massa 
rhusetts to lease on shares for a term 
years. Has over one thousand 
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trees, mostly Baldwins, just coming into bear- 
7’.,.™ £MOjer information write BRINTON 
r. IIALL. Bol ding. Mich. 
122-ACRE Alfalfa Farm for sale. Central New 
„ \° r ,, located'; good buildings, $ 8 , 000 . 
I’. H. RI\LNBURGII, Munnsville, N. Y. 
W ;™ N J, E ^fT° Ve “ bcr 1- com Petent married man, 
■in/ t° manage commercial garden 
.ind poultry plant near Baltimore, Md Must 
be experienced along botn lines, and a hustler 
R 1 < N , °Y Pr0dUCe results ’ A(i, lress Box 151, care 
■ IDPLL-A OLD AMERICAN wants situation 
«ith middle-aged American widow on farm; 
good home, not high wages. Address Box 152, 
“ I care Rural New-Yorker. 
WIDOW (38), refined, intelligent, capable man¬ 
ager and housekeeper; $10 week; highest ivf- 
erences. SHAN. No. 604 Wyauoke, Baltimore 
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WANTED—Permanent position with opportunity 
linn =r <I J r i ' I ‘ c r ll ‘ e "f )’>' young married man. sober, 
honest and industrious; Rood refer* * * 
I’.OX 150. care Rural New-Yorker. 
erence. Address 
BEAT TIFTTL blue grass farm for sale in fa- 
mous Shenandoah Valley, fronts on Shenan- 
doali River, 5 minutes’ walk to town; a farm of 
nwM k ™ s ®D 0, n c°mes on th(1 maH - et Address 
OWNER, Box 164 Rroarlivay, Va. 
DAIRY p ARM of 152 acres for salo, one-half 
null 1 from town, good buildings, fine view 
price $4,000; $2,500 down. Further information 
write ; owner, (\ JENSEN, Laurens, 
Otsego 
EXPERIENCED HERDSMAN—Young. single 
wants position; references. MORGAN - 
162, Milford, Conn. 
Box 
1 ^TION WANTED—Two young men wish 
positions in iarm or cowboy range out West 
Address !•.. Sparkill, N. Y.. Box 8 . ' r ' 
WANTED—30-60-aere farm. no agents M 
BERNHARDT, 31 Curtis place, New Brighton, 
New York City. 
WANTED—Boarders; Ideal quiet farm house, 
Heidelberg Mountains. Write for circular 
ELMWOOD FARM, Dormnnsville, Albany Coun¬ 
ty, New York. 
FOR SALE—244-acre improved farm, including 
20 acres crop; $4,000 cash. J. F. TORRENCE 
R. No. 4, Louisa, Va. 
FOR SALE—260 acres, ideal stock or grain farm, 
23 miles from Cleveland Ohio; good soil, line 
buildings, two good houses, considerable timber, 
sugar bush: priced low for quick sale. Owner, 
J’. W. RANSOM. Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 
i " O 7 Of XG MEN desire positions on poultry 
or fruit farm, ages 21 and 25; will go any¬ 
where. F. EBERCBACII, Storrow Street, Law¬ 
rence, Mass. 
Products, Prices and Trade 
V KG KTA BLISS. 
Early in the week potatoes struck a 
iiew low mark, some fairly good stock go¬ 
ing under 75 cents per barrel. Conditions i 
improved later, though $1.25 per barrel 
was the top for most receipts. Breen peas 
arriving in bad quality, especially those ,. - 
shipped in hags, which get heated on the far,u stock; can p 
way if piled for any length of time. Bas- l‘ t ve SSf A 
kets are safer for shipment. Cabbage **'’ ‘ e " Rkle> - 1 a - 
continues in very heavy supply, large 
quantities selling at less than one cent 
WANTED—First-class farm superintendency, 
covering both field and dairy branches, by man 
ol 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, 
ote., ready for hustling work; eminent creden¬ 
tials. AddTess “BUSINESS,” care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
Wholesale Prices at New York, 
Week Ending July 23. 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 
flifierence of 60 cents per 100 pounds be¬ 
tween three and five per cent. fat. The 
price increases uniformly three cents per 
1,10 pounds for every tenth of one per 
cent, fat increase. 
A pril 
per head. Choice tomatoes are scarce, a R()X ir ’ 4 - care R - N--Y. 
few having brought $2 per three-peck 
crate; common run is hardly salable 
Potatoes-Long Island, bbl. 
Del. and Md. 
@ 1 50 
Beets. 100 bunches. 
Carrots. 100 bunches. 
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Cucumbers, bu. 
Cabbage. 100 . 
.. 50 
@ 75 
Lettuce, lialf-bbl. basket ... 
Onions, nearby, bu. 
Peppers, bbl. 
. 1 00 
@ 75 
@ 1 00 
Peas, bu. 
String Beans, bu. 1 . 
Squash, bbl. 
.. 2 :> 
@ 1 ou 
Sweet Corn, 100. 
Egg Plants bu. 
. 1 00 
Tomatoes, 6 -blct. crate. 
@ 1 25 
Jersey, box. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 
Fowls . 
K"Osters 
Ducks 
Geese 
POSITION. WANTED—-As working foreman on 
large d'airy farm. American, married, 40 years 
old. no booze or tobacco, small family, life ex¬ 
perience with all farm crops, machinery and all 
produce results; hard' worker; 
Address FARMER, 327 Beaver 
POULTRYMAN—Experienced, single, desires re¬ 
sponsible position, commercial or private. 
FOREMAN—Practical, experienced, has posi¬ 
tion. three years with extensive corporation, 
thorough with trees, wants position of trust 
with large progressive orehardist. For infoi- 
mation reply BOX 148, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—10-acre poultry farm, equipped; 
about 1.000 hens; good' buildings; no repairs 
needed, abundance fruit, strawberries, currants, 
cherries, raspberries, plums, pears, grapes, 
apples, cow, pigs; separator, gasoline engine, 
bone cutter, ice; $6,000. JOHN COLGROVE, 
Otego. N. Y. 
A CLEAN, UP-TO-DATE DAIRY is needed here. 
I have the farm; would sell or lease. If you 
understand the business here is your oppor¬ 
tunity. WM. FOTII, Sayville, L. I. 
WANTED—General utility man to take care of 
garden, lawn and automobile; wages thirty-five 
d'ollars; cottage free; will not consider more 
than three in family. Address ASCO, 18 Broad¬ 
way. New York. 
WANTED—Experienced farm hand wants posi¬ 
tion immediately. E. RITTER, Berkshire. 
N. Y. 
WANTED—Single man to handle 600 hens; will 
enlarge plant. J. C. GREENE, St. .Johns, 
Mich. 
WANTED—Married man. with family, good milk¬ 
ers, on large up-to-date dairy farm in Northern 
New York; must be competent to handle dairy 
for profit; no smokers; temperate and indus¬ 
trious. BOX 153, care It. N.-Y. 
IF THE GROWERS OF APPLES AND ! 
PEARS wish to receive the highest market } 
price in the City of New York for their J 
fruit during the season of 1915-1916, i 
and be sure of a SQUARE DEAL and 1 
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$1.31 $1.46 
$1.61 
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DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb . 20 @ 
Common to good. 14 @ 
Chickens choice broilers, lb.. 27 
Broilers, common to good. 24 
Squab broilers, pair. 50 
Roasters . ” <>■> 
Fowls. I 4 
Spring Ducks.. i« 
Squabs, doz.1 25 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 700 
Rul,s . 5 00 
Cows... 3 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb . 8 50 
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Sheep. 100 lbs 
Lambs . 
Hogs. 
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6 75 
7 60 
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@ 5 50 
@ 8 75 
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J prompt and full returns, they must do their part by pledging 
* a reasonable amount of their fruit to be sold by the State 
Department of Foods and Markets, at auction, daily. We 
must have assurances of 800 carloads at least. 
Will you fill in, sign and mail the attached coupon at once? 
DEPARTMENT OF FOODS AND MARKETS 
71 West 23d Street, New York City 
/ will ship . barrels of apples or pears 
to be sold at public auction, in New York City, under the Direction of the 
New York State Department of Foods and Markets. 
Name. 
Address 
