THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
999 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending July,20, 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. 
Live Stock and Dairy Markets. 
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 60 cents per 100 pounds be¬ 
tween 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 .. 
.. $1.31 
$1.46 
$1.61 
$1.76 
$1.91 
Mav . . . 
.. 1.06 
1.21 
1.36 
1.51 
1.66 
.Tuno . . 
. . 1.00 
1.15 
1.30 
1.45 
1.60 
.T uly . . 
.. 1.16 
1.31 
1.46 
1.61 
1.76 
Aug. .. 
.. 1.32 
1.47 
1.62 
1.77 
1.92 
Sept. .. 
.. 1.41 
1.56 
1.71 
1.86 
2.01 
hutt'ick. 
Business is dull. Receipts are only 
moderate, but speculative buying light, 
and the local demand is cut considerably 
by the absence of vacationers and others 
who do not have to spend the Summer in 
the city. Part of this loss is discounted 
by the increased demand from seashore 
and mountain resorts, much of this trade 
being supplied by the New York dealers. 
Creamery, best, above 92 score, lb. 2H%® 27 
Extra, 92 score . 25t*i@ 26 
Good to Choice . 23 @ 25 
Lower Grades. 20 @ 22 
8tate Dairy, best. 25 @ 25^ 
Common to Good. 21 @ 24 
Ladles . 20 @ 21 
Packing Stock... i8 @ 20 
Process .... 20 @ 24 
Elgin, III., butter market 25 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 27 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 27. 
Chicago creamery. 22@25h<. 
Kansas City, 23@25. 
CHIC ICS K. 
The market is about one cent lower, 
except on some of the fancy sizes of State 
make. This decline has improved busi¬ 
ness somewhat, though it is still dull. In 
the Utica and Little Falls markets cheese 
has brought 13 cents, and at Watertown 
13% for upwards of 10,000 boxes. 
Whole Milk. State specials. 13jJ4@ 14 
Average fancy . 13 @ 13% 
Under grades. 11 @ 13 
Daisies, best. 15 @ 16 
Young Americas. 15^@ 16 
Skims, special... 11 @ U% 
Fair to good. 7 @ 10 
KGGS 
Receipts are large and range of quality 
widening, owing to heat defects. Of gath¬ 
ered stock there is but little good enough 
to go above 22 cents, and 26 to 28 cents 
covers most of the business in fancy hen¬ 
nery. 
W hite. choice to fancy, large . 28 @ 29 
Medium to good. 18 @ 25 
Mixed colors, best. 25 @ 26 
Common to good. 18 @ 22 
Duck Eggs . 24 @ 26 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Broilers, lb. 21 @ 22 
Fowls . 16 @ 17 
Boosters. 10 @ 11 
Ducks.. 14 ® 18 
Geese. 11 @ 12 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, lb . 20 @ 21 
Common to good. 14 @ 18 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 27 @ 28 
Broilers, common to good . 24 @ 26 
Squab broilers, pair. 50 @ 60 
Roasters . 22 @ 24 
Fowls. 14 @ 18 
Spring Ducks. 16 @ 17 
Squabs, doz. 125 @3 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 7 00 @ 9 50 
Bulls. 5 00 @ 6 110 
Cows. 3 00 ® 5 50 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb . 8 50 @1100 
Culls. ... 6 00 @6 50 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 4 00 @7 00 
Lambs . 8 60 @ 9 50 
Hogs. 7 50 @ 9 00 
WOOL 
Values at Boston on both foreign and 
domestic wools have remained at last 
week’s general level, but the tone of the 
market is firm. The probability that the 
war will extend over another Winter at 
least indicates a heavy manufacturing de¬ 
mand throughout the Fall. Ohio un¬ 
washed Delaine has brought 29 cents at 
Boston in considerable quantity, and half 
to three-eighths blood, 36 to 38. Michi¬ 
gan quarter blood has sold at 37, and 
Wisconsin quarter combing. 37. Offered 
prices in the producing sections of Ohio 
and Pennsylvania are 27 to 28 for fiue, 
with 30 asked by many farmers. Aus¬ 
tralian wool production is expected to be 
at least 300,000 bales less than last year. 
Montana wools are selling at 28 to 30 
cents for half blood, which is about 70 
cents on scoured basis. 
(General Markets on page 1003,) 
Feeding Questions. 
Raising Calves in Warm Weather. 
Some say always raise calves in the 
Fall or Winter. I say raise the calf 
when you have one from a cow that you 
want to keep her from, whether Winter 
or Summer. I have a heifer calf seven 
months old as nice as any that I ever 
raised and she was born July 10 last 
year. She has always been kept in a box 
stall in a basement barn, and never saw 
outdoors until Fall when the young stock 
was brought in for Winter stabling. Then 
she was let out in the yard every day with 
the young stock. A young calf will do 
better in a cool basement during hot 
weather than tied outdoors for the flies to 
pester. It is no more trouble to take 
care of a calf in the barn in warm weath¬ 
er, than a horse, if you make up your 
mind to do it. jesse e. mapes. 
New York. 
Indigestion. 
I have been using a worm powder for 
horse with white worms, probably stom¬ 
ach worms, with no good effect; have 
given him olive oil, bran mashes and 
glauber salts, but he is still constipated, 
lie drinks quantities of water and urin¬ 
ates frequently, a little at a time. I am 
feeding mixed hay and 12 quarts daily of 
a mixture of brewers’ grains, hominy and 
bran. I have been feeding molasses in 
feed, but not for the last six weeks. Can 
you tell me whether molasses has a ten¬ 
dency to favor the growth of worms? If 
it has I don’t care to feed it again. 
Horse is in poor flesh, hide tight. I am 
working him about three days a week 
as he seems to tire easily. H. e. 
New York. 
The horse is improperly fed and used. 
Work or exercise him every day. Have 
his teeth attended to by a veterinarian 
and then feed whole oats and one-ninth 
part of wheat bran by weight, allowing 
one and one-fifth pounds of the mixture 
for each one hundred pounds of body 
weight, and also feed one pound of good 
hay per hundred pounds of body weight, 
as a day’s ration. A quart of blackstrap 
molasses diluted with hot water and 
mixed in feed twice a day is good feed for 
a thin horse, but unpleasant to use in fly 
time. It does not necessarily encourage 
worms. For worms give in the feed twice 
daily a tablespoon ful of a mixture of 
equal parts of salt, sulphur and dried 
sulphate of iron. Continue for a week: 
then skip ten days and reneat. A. S. A. 
Stale Bread and Table Refuse. 
I have the opportunity of securing 
from one of the large hotels a consider¬ 
able quantity of stale bread at the _cost 
of the freight, amounting to about 25 or 
30 cents per barrel. Sometimes this bread 
comes in somewhat moldy. Is it unsafe 
to feed this moldy bread to pigs, other 
live stock, or hens? If unsafe, can any 
means be taken to make it safe? I also 
can get from this same hotel a consider¬ 
able quantity of table refuse comprising 
about everything that is left over from 
a first class table—meat scraps, bones, 
vegetables, etc. This material would cost 
me, where used, from one cent to 1% 
cent per pound; arrangements can be 
made so that it will be delivered perfectly 
fresh and the main fact therefore would 
be the cost. Is it worth while to secure 
it at the * ice named? c. D. G. 
New York. 
Stale bread at 25 to 30 cents per bar¬ 
rel is a reasonably cheap feed for hens 
and pigs if it can be obtained while it 
is in a wholesome condition. While a 
little mold on the bread would not spoil 
it for pigs it would not be safe to feed 
to hens or chickens in this condition, and 
I know of no method by which it can be 
restored to its former condition. It is 
possible, however, that a thorough steam¬ 
ing may kill the mold and make it safe 
to feed hens. If this suggestion is tried 
it should be on a very small scale at 
first until its worth is demonstrated. In 
regard to table refuse at from one cent 
to 1% cent per pound, I would consider 
this price too high to allow any profit 
from its use. This refuse usually con¬ 
tains so much moisture and waste mate¬ 
rial that it must be purchased at a very 
low price to admit of its profitable use as 
a pig feed. A. s. G. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
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