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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, August 14, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Wheat Growing in New ^York State, 
Keeping Up Grass Lands With Chemicals 1006 
An Ocean Supply of Potash. 1006 
The Hill Farms of New York. 1006 
A Talk About Alfalfa Breeding, Part 
Inoculating for Alfalfa. 1008 
Farming a Ravine. 1008 
Improvement Through Cover Crops. 1008 
Sweet Potatoes; Cover Crops. 1008 
Potatoes Failing to Germinate. 1008 
An Ohio Clover Huller. 1009 
Slings or Harpoon Forks. 1009 
Racks for Drying Bean Vines. 1011 
Hope Farm Notes. 1012 
White Grubs . 1013 
Controlling Corn Ear-Worm. 1013 
Club-root in Turnips. 1013 
Vegetable Cellar . 1013 
Chicks and Potato Bugs. 1013 
Silage Compared With Clover Hay. 1013 
A Field Meeting in Connecticut. 1015 
The Potato Situation. 1015 
Agricultural Fairs . 1022 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Wool at Auction in Otsego Co., N. Y. 1015 
Raising Good Ayrshire Calves. 1020 
The Champion Dairy Cow. 1020 
The Guernsey Cow and the Fat Test. 1020 
Obstructed Teats . 1020 
Choking . 1020 
What About Belgian Hares?... 1021 
Weaning a Calf. 1021 
Blue Ridge Silo Corn. 1033 
Silo of Paving Brick. 1033 
Decay in Large Silo. 1033 
Breeding and Developing Holsteins, Part II. 1024 
THE HENYARD. 
Ducks and Potato Beetles. 1008 
Dipping Hens for the Dep-uming Mite_ 1024 
Chicks With Colds. 1024 
Weight of Chicks; Oats and Buckwheat for 
Poultry . 1024 
Hen With Cough. 1024 
A Portable Henhouse. 1024 
HORTICULTURE. 
Summer Pruning; Theory and Practice, 
Lime-sulphur and Peach Borers. 1008 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1012 
Alfalfa as an Orchard Crop. 1012 
Setting California Privet. 1013 
Girdling Trees . 1013 
Transplanting Evergreens . 1013 
An Apple Crop to be Marketed. 1015 
Great Cherry Crop in Wayne Co., N. Y... 1015 
Rome Beauty in Hudson Valley. 1023 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day. 1018 
Seen in New York Shops. 1018 
Care of Mocking-birds. 1018 
Sauce for Clambake . 1018 
Homemade Dustless Duster. 1018 
Velvet Cake . 1018 
Dishwashing at the Farm. 1018, 1019 
Success With Meringues. 1019 
The Needs of Farm Women. 1019 
How to Make Bread. 1019 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Concrete Cisterns . 1008 
Building Concrete Block Houses. 1009 
Extent of Rain-water from Roof. 1009 
Events of the Week. 1010 
Amending the Constitution. 1010 
The Regeneration of Sarah (To be Con¬ 
tinued) . 1011 
Payment by Mistake. 1011 
Landlord’s Proceedings . 1011 
Editorials . 1014 
Plain Talk About the Auction Markets... 1015 
Who Said Snakes. 1022 
Freight Charges; Underground Streams... 1026 
Publisher’s Desk . 1026 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Aug. 6, 1915. 
(Continued from page 1022) 
Turkeys, choice, lb . 20 @ 21 
Common to good. U @ is 
Chicuens choice broilers, lb. 26 @ 27 
Broilers, common to good . 23 @ 25 
Squab broilers, pair. 40 @ 50 
Roasters . 22 @ 24 
towls .. H @ 17 
bpring Ducks. 10 @ 17 
Squaos. doz. 1 25 @ 3 60 
LIVE STOCK. 
Choice steers and fat cows have brought 
50 cents to $1 per hundred advance; un¬ 
der grades lower than last week. A few 
Pennsylvania steers averaging about 1500 
have sold above $10. Calves higher, 150 
from Eastern N. Y. selling above $13. 
Sheep and lambs scarce and higher; 300 
Virginia and Kentucky lambs brought 
$30 per hundred. 
Native Steers. 
@10 50 
Bulls. 
Cows. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb. 
Culls. 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
Lam os . 
. 9 00 
. 6 00 
@13 00 
@ 6 50 
@ 6 25 
Hogs. 
@ 9 00 
WOOL 
The market is firm though less active 
than in recent weeks. Carpet wools are 
in strong demand. Sales at Boston of 
Michigan and New York unwashed De¬ 
laine have been at 20 to 27 cents; half 
blood unwashed, 32 to 33; and three- 
eights blood 37 to 38. Ohio and Pennsyl¬ 
vania Delaine has brought 29 to 30: 
half blood combing, 35 to" 36; 
eights blood, 38 to 39. 
and 
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three- 
BEANS. 
Marrow. 100 lbs. 
. 7 00 
. 5 60 
4 9() 
@ 7 55 
Medium . 
Pea . 
Red Kidney... 
White Kidney . 
Yellow Eye 
L.ima, California. 
5 70 
7 40 
. 4 70 
4 S5 
@ 6 10 
@ 7 6(1 
@ 4 75 
@ 5 00 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Choice apples of standard varieties are 
scarce, bringing $2.50 to $3 per barrel; 
windfalls and low grades plentiful, not 
bringing expenses. From one lot of six 
bushels noted four bushels of rots were 
sorted out. They came only GO miles 
so must have been in this condition when 
shipped. Peaches in large supply but 
demand good, as quality is improving. 
Best up-River and Jersey have brought 
50 cents per basket, and $1.25 to $1.50 
covers most sales of choice six-basket 
crates from Maryland and Georgia. Rasp¬ 
berries and blackberries soft because of 
the heat and recent rains. Huckleberries 
from Nova Scotia ariving in small quan¬ 
tities and as usual bringing five to seven 
cents above local. 
Apples—Duchess, bbl. 
Transparent, bbl _ 
Astrachan, bbl. 
Culls, bbl. 
Raspberries, red. pint. 
Black caps, pint. 
Cherries, 71b bkt .... 
Currants, qr. . 
Blackberries, qr. 
Huckleberries, or. 
Nova Scotia, qt. 
Plums, carrier. 
bib bkt. 
Goosberries. qt.. 
Pears—KiefTer, bbl. 
Clapp bbl. 
Le Conte, bbl. 
Bartlett, bu. bkt. 
Peaches, Del. and Md. bkt 
Del. and Md., carrier .. 
Jersey, bkt. 
Geonria. 6 -bkt., carrier 
Muskmelons, bu . 
Watermelons,carload ....’ 
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VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes doing a trifle better. Some 
Island have brought above 
$1.25 per barrel, but this is the top for 
most shipments of Jersey and Maryland, 
and $1 the minimum for good sound stock. 
Cabbage and onions are still in large sur¬ 
plus. Sweet corn lower, as rains and hot 
weather have matured it rapidly. Some 
who ship corn in hags are giving short 
count. J he bags are all marked as con* 
taming 100 ears, and some do, blit 
many only 75 or 80. Under such condi¬ 
tions the only safe way is to count the 
contents of every bag. a tedious and un¬ 
profitable job when there is a rush of 
business. Otherwise customers will 
buy 75 ears when they think they 
are getting 300. Of course such mis¬ 
branding is unlawful, but the writer 
has found # very little attempt to get 
after violations of this sort. Certain¬ 
ly the commission man would not prose¬ 
cute the farmer because of labelling the 
corn dishonestly. It is easier to count 
the corn and make returns for the actual 
amount. And probably there are not in¬ 
spectors to trace up violations that origin¬ 
ate out of the city. 
Potatoes-Long Island, bbl. 
Del. and Md. 
Jersey . 
Beets. 100 bunches. ... 
Carrots. 100 bunches. 
Cucumbers, bu. .... 
Pickles, bbl. 
Sweet Potatoes. Jersey, bu. 
Eastern Shore, bbl. 
Cabbage. 100. 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 
Onions, nearby, bu. 
Peppers, bbl."" 
Peas, bu.' 
String Beans, bu.. 
Lima Beans, bu. 
Celery, doz. 
Okra, % bu. 
Turnips, white, bbl. . 
Cauliflowers, bbl. 
Squash, bbl." 
Sweet Corn, 100_.......... 
Egg Plants bu. 
Tomatoes. 6 -bkt. crate. 
Jersey, box. 
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HAY AND STRAW. 
New hay is selling fairly well if not 
heated—about $24 to $25 for good. Hay 
baled before being properly cured is very 
undersirable, as anyone who has cut open 
a bale put up in this condition knows. 
If there is only a small rotten spot in 
the center, the remainder is likely to have 
a nasty moldy smell, and it may be so 
bad that there is only a shell of apparent¬ 
ly sound hay outside. The market on good 
old hay is firm. Some of the terminals 
are crowded and the Erie has an embargo 
on hay. Straw is scarce, and straight, 
old rye 50 cents higher. 
Uay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 
No. 2. 
@29 00 
No. 3. 
Clover mixed. 
@27 00 
@25 00 
@16 00 
New, as to quality . 
8 traw. Rye. 
GRAIN 
This is a nervous time with prices on 
now wheat, as every day brings different 
reports about yield and damage to the 
harvested wheat by rain, or of rust to 
the growing, plant. Demand for oats 
and corn is light. Old oats are scarce. 
W beat. No. 1. Northern Spring, new.. 1 20 @ 
No. 2. Red, new . 124 ® 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 89 ® <10 
Oats, as to weight,, busb. 65 © 67 
Rye, free from onion. 1 00 @ 1 10 
MILLFEED. 
Bran, car lots. 24 00 @26 U0 
Middlings.27 60 @35 00 
Red Dog .36 00 @37 00 
Cornmeal. ,.,.33 00 @34 00 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying opportuni¬ 
ties of at least half of New York’s popu¬ 
lation. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 25 @ 38 
Mixed colors, new laid. 28 @ 32 
Ordinary grades. 22 @ 26 
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. 18 @ 20 
Fowls . an @ 22 
Leg of lamb. 20 @ 22 
Lamb chops. 93 22 
Roasting beef.’’ 20 @ 24 
Pork chops . ]8 @ 20 
Loin of pork . 17 @ 20 
Lettuce, bead. 3 @ 4 
Radishes, bunch . 2 @ 3 
Cucumbers, each. 1 @ 5 
Sweet corn, doz. 18 @ 25 
Cabbage, head .3 @ 6 
Muskmelons. each.4 @ 10 
Potatoes, peck . 20 @ 25 
I live S miles from small country 
towns, namely Arena and Margetville, 
N. Y. Price of butter in these towns is 
27 cents at present. I am making butter 
nnd send some to New York City and to 
North Haven, Conn., to private custo¬ 
mers, getting 31 cents and postage for 
sending by mail, and am packing in 10- 
pound pail for some neighbors, getting 
one cent above the dairy quotations. 
Pork is selling to our butchers for 10 to 
11 cents per pound, dressed, and calves 
from 11 to 13 cents, dressed, according to 
quality. Good beef cattle are five cents 
per pound, live weight. Old potatoes have 
been from 10 to 50 cents per bushel, and 
new ones at the store is about $2.50 to 
buy. Not any gardening in my neighbor¬ 
hood,_ except for home use fruit is most¬ 
ly shipped into town trom early growers 
and not much raised here only for home 
us ^. d. H. T. 
Leaking Milk. 
I have a three-year-old heifer that leaks 
her milk quite bad. Can you tell me 
what to do for her? w. M. w. 
New York. 
Soak the teats in strong alum water 
twice daily and if that does no good paint 
the ends of the teats with flexible collo¬ 
dion after each milking, or put wide, weak 
rubber bands or wide tapes around the 
teats to retain the milk, but see that they 
do not stop the blood circulation. A. s. A. 
Buttinsky, who heard some traveling 
men talking about the monorail, adopted 
his usual tactics. “I rode on one of 
those once.” he piped in. “Rode on 
what?” “A single rail.” “I’ll bet you 
did,” replied one of the drummers; “and 
I’ll also bet there was a man carrying 
each end of the rail.”—Judge. 
Subscribers Exchange 
LIME REQUIREMENTS determined. Write for 
information. HARRIS T. KILLE, Swedes- 
boro, N. J. 
NULL’S Famous Melilotus Clover Honey, 10 lb. 
pail, SI.50; express prepaid. W. D. NULL, 
Demopolis, Ala. 
FOR SALE—12 II. P. double cylinder gasoline 
engine, good as new. mounted on truck, will 
sell for about half price. J. I. HERETEIt, 
Gettysburg, Pa. 
FOR SALE—Cream separators, De Laval No. 
12, Sharpies No. 4. Babcock 12 bottle tester. 
Big bargains, closing estate. F. A. MINARD, 
Shelter Islaiuf Heights, New York. 
FOR SALE—11-room house and 5 acres of land, 
500 feet west of Battle Monument, Schuyler- 
ville, N. Y. Barn, 500 capacity hen house. 
Abundance of fruit, picked 500 quarts of rasp¬ 
berries; good water. PHILIP KAHN, Schuyler- 
ville, N. Y. 
WANTED—September 1st, position by young 
married man as foreman or gardener on gen¬ 
tleman’s estate. Experienced in both. Good 
reference. HENRY W. VALIi, Mount Kisco, 
N. Y. 
WANTED—-Single, white, man for teamster 
and care of horses. On farm. Do not answer 
unless you can work in my interest faithfully. 
Wages $30 month and’ board. JNO. MERKEL, 
care of BOX 752, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
WANTED—Ox yokes and bows, all sizes. WAL- 
NAI’PLE FARM, Friendly, W. Va. 
COLLEGE GRADUATE, energetic, capable and 
gentlemanly, wants responsible position on 
general farm, Columbia or neighboring counties, 
wages secondary, highest references and stand¬ 
ing, thorough knowledge all lines. BOX 170, 
care It. N.-Y. 
YOUNG MAN (with mother) Americans, scien- 
tiiie and practical training, understanding 
clerical work, wants situation on modern farm 
or gentleman’s estate. ALAN BROWNE, 910 
Gates Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
SINGLE man desires position. Understands 
purebred’ cattle, butter making, poultry, vege¬ 
tables and with knowledge of general farming. 
References. HARRY DAVIS, 84 Stevens St., 
East Taunton, Mass. 
EXPERIENCED MANAGER wishes position on 
country estate or general purpose farm. 
American, single, age 32. References. Ad¬ 
dress BOX 172, care It. N.-Y. 
WANTED to lease with option to buy, 150 
acre, well-drained farm within 100 miles of 
New York City. No objection to wood plot. 
Buildings not essential. BOX 171, care It. 
N.-Y. 
FARM WANTED—Possession in Fall, or next 
Spring. Price under $1500. Send description. 
CORWIN, 1920 Anthony Avenue, New York 
City. 
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. - Tlia 
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 admitted 
here. Poultry, Eggs and other live stock adver¬ 
tisements will go under proper headings on other 
pages. Seed and Nursery advertisements will 
not be accepted for this column. 
FOR SALE—7-acre poultry farm; equipped; 
about 2,200 hens and chicks; modern build¬ 
ings; near good markets; $4,500. BOX lit, 
care R. N.-Y. 
WANTED—To sell stock and tools and let 
farm. A first, class chance to go into the 
retail milk business. Plant will pass for cer¬ 
tified milk. Cheap rent for good man. BOX 
167, care It. N.-Y. 
WANTED—100 acres, 50 under cultivation. 
Must be ideal potato soil and within 100 
miles of New York City. Mention particulars. 
WM. BURGER, West Camp, N. Y. 
A RARE CHANCE to make a 100 cent dollar. 
25 acres truck, fruit and poultry farm. Sell 
all to consumers from wagon. One mile from 
thriving town. Five steamers every day in 
Summer make twelve round trips a day. Farm 
one-half mile from station and trolley, large 
house and outbuildings. One hour and' quarter 
from New York. Good opportunity for man 
with one or two smart boys. Sell or lease. It. 
A. LEONARD. Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY ACRE FARM In 
Berkshire, fertile, hog-feneed, water, good 
buildings, large timber; $4,500. C. RAYNOR, 
Whitestone, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Fruit, dairy and poultry farm of 
45 acres. W. S. RAVATT, Bordentown, N. J. 
fruit, within fifteen miles of Camden 
169. Care RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
BOX 
mile from town, good buildings, fine view 
price $4,000; $2.;>00 down. Further information 
write owner N. C. JENSEN, Laurens, Otsego 
Co., It. 1, N. Y. 
with or without stock, tools, crops. Good 
buildings; well-watered; timber, sugar bush 
G. W. SCARLETT, Owner, Cincinnatus, N. Y. 
WAN 1 ED—First-class farm superintendenev. 
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 hustling work; eminent creden¬ 
tials. Add’ress “BUSINESS,” care Rural New- 
1 orker. 
WANTED—To rent or work on shares, small, 
good farm; must have good house, not over 
one hundred miles from New York; Connecticut 
preferred. BOX 164, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Dairy Farm, in Ulster or Dela¬ 
ware County, of about 250 acres. In answer¬ 
ing give full particulars. Address H. B. 
It ATHLON E, 169 Madison Ave., New York 
City. 
122-ACRE Alfalfa Farm for sale. Central New 
York; well located 1 ; good buildings. $8,000. 
F. II. RIVENBURGH, Munnsville, N. Y. 
POULTRYMAN—Single, practical and college 
experience, businessman, seeks position with 
private or commercial plant. TEMPERATE, 
Box 162, Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM FOREMAN—Married, wants position, life 
experienced in farming and stock raising and 
thoroughly competent in nil branches of agricul¬ 
ture and landscape gardening, with best of ref¬ 
erences. WILLIAM PENNINGTON, Wyckoff 
N. J. 
POSITION WANTED by farm bred man age 
■ 19. Experienced cost accountant and sten¬ 
ography, thoroughly familiar with all branches 
of farming. Add’ress BOX 145, Suecasunna, 
N. J. 
PRACTICAL POULTRYMAN with knowledge 
of agriculture wishes permanent position. 
Small family. BOX 168, Care RURAL NEW- 
YORKER. 
POSITION WANTED—By married’ man with life 
experience in feeding and care for cattle; 
good milker, understand milk-testing, balance 
ration, butter making, small family. Address, 
"HOLLANDER,” It. F. D. 3, BOX 83A, New 
Brunswick, N. J. 
WANTED-—A permanent position with a fruit 
grower or market gardener. College gradu¬ 
ate with several years’ experience. Good ref¬ 
erences. WALLACE LYNCH, Altamont, New 
York. 
POULTRYMAN—Desire position, commercial 
or gentleman estate. College training, eight 
years’ practical experience. No tobacco nor 
liquor. Single, reference furnished. BOX 166, 
care It. N.-Y. 
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IF THE GROWERS OF APPLES AND S 
PEARS wish to receive the highest market [ 
price in the City of New York for their 
fruit during the season of 1915 - 1916 , * 
and be sure of a SQUARE DEAL and \ 
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 
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | 
/ 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. 
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