1034 
THE re URAL NJiW-YOKKER 
August 21, 1915. 
Dairy Notes. 
(Continued from Page 1032.) 
5. ti:ree, and three cents deducted for 
(ach 1-10 below 4.5. Also 10 cents pre¬ 
mium per 100 pounds for score of 68. 
This must mean 43 on methods and 25 on 
equipment. In addition those of us who 
deliver milk to their Grade A station at 
Cobleskill receive an additional premium 
of 10 cents per 100 pounds if our bacteria 
count is below 00,000 per eu. c. m. Thus 
in August, if a dairy was up to standard 
test it would receive $1.55 plus 20c plus 
10c., plus 10c., or $1.95 per 100 pounds, if 
it met all the requirements. The checks 
come the 15th of every mouth. I think it 
is only twice in seven years that they have 
failed to come on that day, and then they 
were only a few days delayed. The in¬ 
spectors that the company sends out are 
young fellows who seem to want us to 
get all the extra premiums the company 
Jiang up. 
For a farmer who has a silo full of a 
good quality of silage, an abundance of 
good clover or Alfalfa hay, and enough 
peas and oats to form the basis of his 
grain ration, the dairy business is all 
right. He needs to have good business 
sense in buying and mixing his feed, and 
in selecting his cows, either by raising 
or buying them. Give a man who has a 
natural inclination towards the cow and 
is a liberal feeder the above named con¬ 
ditions and he ought to make good. When 
I think of the prices we used to receive 
for our milk and how we often got cheat¬ 
ed by city dealers, I am pretty well sat¬ 
isfied with conditions as they are; but 
when I think of the price the consumers 
pay for our milk and the dividends the 
stockholders of the milk companies re¬ 
ceive on stock, largely water; then it 
does seem as if some one else is getting 
the lion’s share of the dollar. J. C. G. 
Ilyndsville, N. Y. 
Boston Market Review. 
The extremely wet and sultry weather 
has been very unfavorable to all condi¬ 
tions of the market. The supply, the 
handling and the demand have all suf- 
ered severely. While a few’ growers will 
be lucky enough to have a fair supply 
of green stuff and profit by the good 
prices that happen to range along their 
line of goods, many more have had so 
much of their crops spoiled by wet and 
blight that no prospect of their coming 
out anywhere near even existed and these 
are feeling pretty blue. In the matter of 
early cabbage this season’s demand has 
been very poor for some reason, and as 
past month’s weather has been favorable 
to the growth of this crop it has been im¬ 
possible to get enough out of it to pay 
for growing and marketing. One grower 
offered to give away two acres to anyone 
who could clear the land at once, so an¬ 
other crop could be grown in its place. 
This grower only has about one hour's 
drive to market and if in his favorable 
location he cannot afford to market this 
crop, what about those who have several 
hours’ drive and no home market or home 
animals to feed to at this season? Even 
the hen men could not use a large quan¬ 
tity to any advantage. This is just an 
example of how it goes sometimes, and 
is not all profit in the market garden 
business; in fact the last few years have 
shown a balance on the wrong side of 
the sheet in a good many cases. 
Native tomatoes are now coming in 
and go at $3 to $4 per box ; inside grown 
10c per lb.; Jersey $1 per crate. Sum¬ 
mer squash $1 per box; Southern mar¬ 
row 7 $1.50 per crate. Beets 75c per box; 
carrots $1; parsnips 75 per doz. bunches; 
radishes 75c per box: peppers 75 to 90c 
per crate; spinach 75c and better per 
box; peas $1.75 per box; green corn 
ripens slowly and sells up to $1.50 per 
box. Lettuce as high as $1.25 per box; 
parsley 75c per box. Cucumbers show¬ 
ing blight which means short crop, sell at 
$3 for best, others $1.50 to $2.50. New 
celery $1215 and $1.50 per dozen. Green 
beans 75 to $1.50 per box; wax $1.50 and 
$2; shell beans $1.75; Southern Limas 
$2.50 per basket. Potatoes slightly high¬ 
er, but still too low to pay much or any 
profit to grower; Southern $1.50 per bbl., 
$1 per two-bushel bag; Sweets $4 per 
$1 per two-bushel bag; Sweets $4 per bbl. 
California Bartlett pears $2 per box; 
watermelons 35 and 40c each. A few 
pineapples at $3.50 per crate for reds and 
$4 to $5 for Cayennes. Peaches very 
plenty for season and cheap; California 
$1 per box; Georgia best $2 per 6-basket 
crate; Texas $1.50 per big basket. Cal¬ 
ifornia plums $1.50 per 4-basket crate. 
Late oranges $4.50 to $5.50 per box; 
lemons $3 to $4 per box ; grapefruit $3 
to $5 per box. Fair cantaloupes $1.50 to 
$2 for Southern and $3 for best Western. 
Blueberries somewhat scarce at 15 and 
16c for good mediums, poor 10 and 12c. 
Blackberries about the same. Nice^ ban¬ 
anas $3.50 per bunch, others $1.50 to 
$2.50 according to size; reds $2 to $4.50 
per bunch. Southern apples $1 to $2 
per basket. Natives not of fancy quality 
but very good, $1.25 and $1.50 per box; 
crop uneven, some localities heavy 
Another small drop in butter has taken 
place, also slow market still exists for 
cheese. The former, best, 28 to 30c; 
medium to fair 26 to 28c, are about the 
figures. Cheese 14 to 16c when sales are 
made. Fresh eggs in fair supply but not 
burdensome at 30 to 34c per doz; West¬ 
ern stock plenty and easy at 22c to 27c. 
Meats and poultry about as last quoted. 
Ilay $22 to $31 per ton. Grain of all 
kinds the same or slightly higher. 
A. E. P. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Philip C. Wadsworth, 
one of the founders of the Cotton Grow¬ 
ers Cooperative Society of Atlanta, Ga., 
was arrested by Post Office Inspectors 
Mayhew and Martin, August 6, in the 
offices of Raymond Pynehon & Co., brok¬ 
ers, 111 Broadway. New York. He was 
arraigned before United States Commis¬ 
sioner Houghton on a warrant charging 
him with using the mails to defraud in 
a scheme to organize all the cotton grow¬ 
ers of the South so they might throw off 
the shackles imposed on them by cotton 
manipulators. Wadsw 7 orth was vice- 
p”esident of the Cotton Growers’ society. 
The society’s alleged plan for scientifical¬ 
ly marketing the entire American cotton 
crop provided for the hiring of one su¬ 
perintendent and nine supervisors for 
each of the 800 counties in the cotton 
belt. These men were to be selected by 
leading fanners, business men and bank¬ 
ers of the community and were each to 
receive a salary of $3,000 a year as well 
as commissions on the cotton they 
brought in. Each of the 8.000 superin¬ 
tendents and supervisors was inquired to 
buy stock in the society at $115 a share. 
All traffic in the Panama Canal was 
stopped, August 7, by another slide in 
the Culebra cut. Eleven big ships, in¬ 
cluding the Finland, which is taking 560 
passengers from New York to the San 
Francisco Exposition, are held up on the 
Colon side of the slide. This slide is said 
to be the largest since the canal has been 
completed and hundreds of thousands of 
tons of earth have been deposited in the 
waterway. Dredges are at work and it 
is said that the recurrence of the slides 
has determined Gen. Gocthals to put the 
great steam shovels hack on excavation 
work again. 
Washington, Aug. 9.—The decision of 
the Interstate Commerce Commission on 
the application of 41 Western railroads 
for an increase in freight rates has been 
Teaehed. It grants liberal increases on 
the ground that rates have not kept pace 
with the increased costs of operation and 
because revenues are now too low. Meth¬ 
ods of cutting down operating expenses 
are pointed out in the report. Among 
these are suggestions for increasing effi¬ 
ciency of organization and equipment and 
the curtailment of certain privileges to 
shippers. The grain carrying roads in 
the Northwest will be the largest bene¬ 
ficiaries of the increased rates. The chief 
products on which relief was sought were 
grain, gra : n products, live stock, fresh 
meats, coal, hay, fruits and cotton piece 
goods. The increases asked for would 
have netted the railroads additional rev¬ 
enue of $10,060,000 a year, it is esti¬ 
mated. The roads asked for varying in¬ 
creases on different commodities and 
showed that in the last seven years they 
had been forced to spend more than $100,- 
000.000 a year for additions and better¬ 
ments and yet in the same period their 
revenues had increased only a little. 
A heavy windstorm swept through 
Laurel, Del., and adjacent towns, August 
9, causing heavy damage. It was said 
the damage will exceed $1,000,000. The 
local electric light plant, which lights 10 
other towns, was put out of commission. 
At Erie, Pa., the victims of the storm 
are now put at 35 only, that number of 
bodies being recovered. 
The largest shipment of geld ever 
made to this country from a foreign na¬ 
tion arrived at New York, August 11. 
It was shipped from Great Britain by 
way of Halifax. The gold is valued at 
$34,000,000. With it came securities 
which increase the value of the shipment 
to $50,000,000. The gold is British coin. 
This makes the total gold imports from 
Ottawa and London about $170,000,000 
s : nce January 1. Of this amount nearly 
$133,000,000 has come from Ottawa. Ac¬ 
cording to Robert E. M. Cowie, vice-pres¬ 
ident and general manager of the Ameri¬ 
can Express Company, the gold and se¬ 
curities were sent from England to Hali¬ 
fax in a fast British battleship, which 
was probably well guarded by a fleet of 
destroyers until safely out of the war 
zone. On its arrival in Halifax the 
treasure was immediately placed in the 
hands of the American Express Company. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The nine¬ 
teenth annual show of the Vermont State 
Poultry Association will be held at St. 
Albans, January 18-21, 1916. 
The annual show of the Paterson Poul¬ 
try Association will be held at Paterson, 
N. J., Nov. 16-20; secretary Dr. G. 
Johnson. 210 Market St., Paterson, N. J. 
The Department of Agriculture reports 
a new outbreak of foot and mouth dis¬ 
ease at Hornell, N. Y. As no known 
cases of the disease had previously been 
found within a radius of over 75 miles, 
the source of the infection remained a 
mystery until two days later, when 125 
swine, divided among five herds, were 
found infected within a half mile of the 
first-discovered premises. These swine 
had evidently had the disease in a mild 
form for a considerable length of time. 
Infection had been carried from these to 
the cattle through drainage. The De¬ 
partment warns hog raisers to watch for 
symptoms of the desease which are often 
overlooked. Since the first case of foot 
and mouth disease found in a herd of 
hogs in Michigan, which later permitted 
the infection of the Chicago Stock Yards, 
hogs more than any other animal have 
been responsible for the spread of the 
disease. A few months ago, in the out¬ 
skirts of Philadelphia, in a district con¬ 
taining close to 20.000 swine kept in 
small lots, several thousand were found 
to be infected. 
After spending each Sunday guarding 
their corn, potatoes and other produce 
against marauding auto parties, the 
farmers of Nassau County. N. Y., are 
now confronted with picnickers who make 
fires ar.d go away, leaving them burning 
to set fire to the woods. Many damag¬ 
ing fires h ve recently occurred from pic¬ 
nic parties. The executive committee of 
the Nassau County Farm Bureau Asso¬ 
ciation offers a reward of $25 for informa¬ 
tion of any one leaving or making a fire 
which would damage the woodland on 
their premises. 
Permits for shipment of 50.000 bags of 
beet sugar seed from Germany to the 
United States have been issued by the 
British government, after long formal 
negotiations conducted by the trade ad¬ 
visers of the State Department. All ship¬ 
ments will be consigned to the Secretary 
of Agriculture, who will distribute the 
seed to the farmers. 
August 11, 20 thoroughbred horses, 
valued at $300,000, arrived at New York 
from Great Britain on the liner Minne¬ 
haha. The Curragh, a stallion colt, form¬ 
erly owned by the late Earl of Cadogan. 
was one of the consignments. He was 
insured for $150,000 and won the New¬ 
market and Jubilee stakes. It is said he 
was purchased by John Sanford, of Am¬ 
sterdam. N. Y. Maybud and Brotherton, 
valued at $50,000 each, are s. id to have 
been purchased by Harry S. Page. The 
thoroughbreds are the most costly con¬ 
signment that has been shipped west¬ 
ward on the Atlantic in five years. 
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