CONTENTS 
1915. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. August 21, 
farm topics. 
The "Strong Arm” on the Potato Digger... 1031 
Wheat Growing in New York State. Part 11.1031 
An Eastern Man Out West. 103] 
Preparing Bones; Potash . . 1033 
Some Mysteries of Clover. . 1033 
Arguments for Cover Crops. . 1033 
Use of Hen Manure ...!!.] 1033 
Hope Farm Notes .!!!.!!!.'1036 
Sweet Potato Questions . [., 1032 
Test the Crimson Clover Seed . . 1032 
Crops and Farm News .1032, 103*1 
L7VE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Canned Goods for the Cattle.1029, 1030 
Conditions in the Dairy Business. . . . 1035* 
Dairy Notes .| 1032 
The Dairy War in Poughkeepsie. 1012 
Blackleg . . 
Worms in Cat. 1042 
Farrowing Troubles ..' 1012 
Influenza .! "!' l012 
Raising a Foal .1012 
Medicine Mixture for Cattle .. , ' 1042 
The Belgian Hare. Part II.1043 
Lice on Hogs . . 1043 
Training Dogs . I 0 d 3 
Mixing Crops in the Silo . . 104! 
THE HENYARD. 
Investigation of a "Freak” Egg.1030 
Poultry and Potato Beetles . ' 1037 
The Egg-Laying Contest . 1045 
Care of Rooster: Fireplace .1045 
Hens Without Males .1045 
The Milk-fed Poultry Business .1045 
HORTICULTURE. 
The New York Apple Law. 1030 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Summer 
Field Meeting. Part 1. 1033 
In Memory of Col. Brackett .1037 
Lima Beans Fail to Seed...1037 
Kudzu Vines in Missouri .1037 
Hot Water for Peach Borers .1037 
Notes From a New York Garden.’.1037 
Roadside Trees .1037 
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onion.s low. Tomatoes going at a wide 
range of prices, a few fancy bringing SI 
per bushel, and lower grades 15 cents. 
Potatoes-Long Island, 001 . 1 25 @ 
Del. and lid. 1 GO ^ 
_ Jersey .. 1 ou 
Beets. 100 bunches . 75 
Carrots. 100 bunches.’ 33 
Cucumbers, bu. 95 
Pickles, bul.1 00 
Sweet Potatoes. Jersey, bu. 2 00 
Eastern Shore, bbl. ’ ' vyo 
Cabbage. 100 ." 50 
Lettuce, half-bbl. uasket. 
Onions. Orange Co., bag. . . . 
Jersey, white, bu. 
Long Island, bbl. 
Peppers, bbl. 
Peas, bu. . 
String Beans, bu. 
Lima Beans, bu. 
Celery, do/.. 
Okra, Jtj bu. .’ 
Turnips, white, bbl. 
Cauliflowers, bbl.. 
Squash obi. . 
Sweet Corn, 100... 
Egg Plants bu. . 
Tomatoes, 6 -hkt. crate. . 
Jersey, box. 
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Complying with several suggestions received 
°P e " 11 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 wiil 
be 5 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
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 he accepted for this column. 
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Fosi 1 ION WANTED—As foreman on gentle.- 
man « estate or farm, thoroughly experienced 
m all branches of farming, use of machinery 
care and breeding of thoroughbred stock tem¬ 
perate. no tobacco, American, married: none but 
fust-class position considered. BON “ ^ 
Rural New-Yorker. 
176, care 
WANTED —By 
y young man 121 ). just 
one year at Agricultural School.' place o fruit 
farm wages no object. A. L. RUSSELL I 
111 Park St.. Westfield, N. J. 1K ” 
WANTED—CONGENIAL PARTNER to go into 
poultry raising on small scale at start S *Yunl 
S U -' ,0N * *» 1 C! 
LIME REQUIREMENTS determined. Write for 
information. HARRIS ’I’. KII.r.E. Swcdcs- 
boro, N. J. 
NOTICE—Practical farmer with scientific train 
ing. will rent medium sized farm for term of 
years Prefer some stock and tools 
rionced dairyman and orehardist. Will 
bond to insure sincerity; object 
1 st. Address CASH, Box 175, 
I'OIv SALE—12 IT. P. double cylinder gasoline 
engine, good as new. mounted on truck, will 
sell for about half price. J. 1 . HERETER 
Gettysburg, ra. 
Expe- 
furnish 
purchase, April 
care It. N.-Y. 
PRACTICAL POULT HYMAN 
Mneiiin n.wl 1 
a nd 
manager, ex- 
11 A V and straw. 
gvutlo old Timothy has sold at 
$30. New goes 
if not heated in 
Hi 
fancy prices, even above 
at $25 or a little better 
bale. Rye straw scarce 
mand. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . ... 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Clover mixed. 
New, as to quality .] .’ 
Straw. Rye. 
but in light de- 
IN(TBATOR — New one-liundred-egg Essex 
model standard. Will sacrifice. INGLESIDE 
I ARM, Lancaster, N. Y. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .1040 
Seen in New York Shops .1040 
The Rural Patterns .1040 
Apple-sauce Cake; Canned Corn and Beans.. 1040 
Dustless Dusters . 1040 
The Housewife’s Vacation .1040,’ 1041 
More About Apples . 1041 
Embroidery Designs .1041 
Ways With Pears ......1041 
Chicken Salad Without Mayonnaise.1041 
Labor Saving and Meringues .1041 
Spanish Rice .’ " 1041 
Plain Pancakes . 1041 
Oregon Apple Sauce Cake . 1041 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Events of the Week . 1034 
The Regeneration of Sarah (Continued). .!! .1035 
Liability for Injury .IO 35 
Recovery for Injury to Animal.1035 
Parol Contract to Sell Land .1035 
Buying Hay for Tenant .1035 
Purifying Water; Rain Bombs .1036 
Cement Posts .1036 
Editorials . 1038 
Products, Prices and Trade .1044 
Publisher’s Desk .1046 
Damage from Highway .1046 
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Bran car lots. 24 00 
Middlings,....*. 97 50 
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GRAIN 
< rop news on wheat would suggest 
lower prices, but this has been offset by 
heavy export demand for both the grain 
and flour. Corn and oats are fractionally 
higher. 
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Wheat. No. 1 . Northern Spring, new.. 1 22 
No. 2. lieu, new .. 125 
Corn.as to quality, oush. §9 
Oal 3 , as to weight, bush. , t ;8 
Rye, free from onion.. 1 00 
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Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Aug. 13, 1915. 
(Continued from page 1022) 
WOOL 
The market lias been decidedly 
both here and in Europe, with but 
price changes. At Boston there 
been sales of Michigan and New 
fleeces, unwashed Delaine, at 26 
cents; half blood. 32 to S3; Ohio half 
blood combing, 35 to 36; three-eighths 
blood, 38 to 39; and unwashed Delaine, 
29 to 30. 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium .-,#r -•••••..-jus. 
Pea ■....... 
Red Kidney. 
White Kidney . 
Yellow Eye. 
Lima, California. 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The quality of apples is 
good specimens of Transparent. Blush 
uid Duchess being offered. Nondescript 
kinds and windfalls .very low, some fairly 
sound going at 20 cents per bushel. I’eaeh 
market in rather better condition. Brices 
•ire still low, but demand good enough to 
keep anything usable moving. Bears in 
only moderate supply, the bloom on many 
iree.s in the north having been nipped by 
kite frost. Blums selling slowly and at 
lew prices. A few grapes from the Mary¬ 
land section are on hand, but not attract¬ 
ing much attention. Muskmelohs in 
heavy supply and bringing all kinds, of 
I d ices, from 50 cents to $3 per bushel, 
depending on quality. 
*ppies— Duchess, bbl. 
Transparent, bbl .. 
Astrachan. bbl.. 
Wealtby ... 
Culls, bbl.. 
Raspberries, red. pint. 
Black caps, pint. 
Grapes, 181b case. 
1 arrants, qr. 
Blackberries, qr.. 
Huckleberries, qr.. 
Nova Scotia, qt 
Plums, carrier. 
Slbbkt. 
Pears—Kieffer, bbl. 
Clapp bbl. 
Le Conte, bbl. 
Bartlett, bu. bkt’.’.’. 
Peaches. Del. and Md. bkt."..". 
Del. and Md., carrier. 
Jersey, bkt... 
RETAII, PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, but represent produce 
ot good quality and the buying oppor¬ 
tunities of at least half of New York’s 
population. Meats remain high, but most 
fruits and vegetables are low. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
Ordinary grades. 
Butter, fancy prints,lb.. . 
'I’db. choice. 
Chickens, roasting, lb. .... .... 
Broilers, common to good. Im.. 
Squab Broilers, pair. 
Fricassee, lb.. 
Fowls.. 
Leg o f 1 am b." 
Lamb chops. 
Roasting beef. 
Pork chops . ... 
Loin of pork . 
Lettuce, bead. . 
Radishes, bunch _ 
Cucumbers, each. 
Sweet corn. do/..’’" 
Cabbage, head. . 
Muskmelons. each. 
Potatoes, peek .. 
Peaches, qr. . . 
Tomatoes, qr.. . .". 
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Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
American Bornological Society, Berke¬ 
ley, Cal.. August 23-25. 
Cambridge Valley Fair, Cambridge, N. 
Y., Aug. 23-27. 
Cayuga County Fair, Moravia, N. Y 
Aug. 31-Sept. 3. 
Northern Nut (I rowers’ Association, 
Bowers Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 
farmers’ Exhibit, Solebury Deer Pa 
Solebury, I’m. September 3-4. 
Orleans County, N. Y 
Sept. 8-11. 
New York State Fair 
September 13-18. 
Bergen County Fair, 
Sept. 14-18. 
Genesee County !• 
September 21-25. 
Trenton Inter-State 
J-. Sept. 27-Oct. 2. 
Farmers’ National 
meeting, Omaha, Neb. 
tober 1. 
International im.i inrnmig congress, 
Denver, Colo., Oct. 1-7. 
International Wheat Show ant 
sit ion. Wichita, Kan.. Oct. 1-1 • 
Fifth annual apple show 
kcultural Society, Irnli; 
6-13. 
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Fair, Albion, 
Syracuse, N. Y., 
IIobokus, N. 
Batavia, N. 
Fair, Trenton, 
To 
Y., 
N. 
Congress, annual 
September 28 -Oy- 
Dry Farming Conj 
Expo- 
Indiana llor- 
inapoiis) ' NoV. 
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Georgia. 0 -bkt., carrier.] 
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annual 
Reading. Pa., 
Muskmelons, bu . 
Watermelons, carload 
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Chrysanthemum Society of America 
Ohio. November 
10-14.1915. Special show, San Francis¬ 
co, Cal. 
1 a terson Poultry Association 
show, Paterson, N. ,1., Nov. 16-20. 
Berks Corn Contest, I 
Dec. 24. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa- 
t.ion, annual show, Reading, Pa.. Dec. 
Annual Corn and drain 
Minn., January 3-8. 1916. 
Vermont State Poultry 
annual show, St. Albans 
18-21, 1916. 
Show, T 
racy, 
Association, 
Yt., January 
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VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes got scarce for a 
and made a startling advance 
week, but. later dropped back 
knee of $1 to $1.25. with a 
• weet corn lower, $1 being rhe top for 
lost nearby. Cabbage, peppers and 
day or two 
early in the 
to their old 
dull market. 
Subscribers Exchange 
WANTED-Fai’i" about 30 acres, near 
•V J., .?100 down. BOX 182, care 
60 ACRE FARM FOR SALE—Write 
ll - a i ’ s - MILESES, Box 23, Sullivan 
FOR 
M. 
Trenton, 
N.-Y. 
R. 
for partie- 
Co., N. Y. 
$;tLE—120-aere farm. For 
81 A( 5 , Elm Grove, Mass. 
terms address 
Co. farm for sale. 
DA\ IS, 2 Rector St.. New York Opr. 
C. M. 
1 LA( TIES FOR SALE—Between 800 and 1.000 
, ,s of Peaches for sale. Address FRANCIS 
W. PLII'ER, It. F. D. No. 1. Fishers 
Ferry, Pa. 
FOR SALE—A 
it’s a Ross 
new ensilage cutter and blower, 
cutter with blower attachment 
eomp. with pipe and distributor. Guaranteed 
” d0 T 'n^v k A^ , ; ice ’ ?7 ° F - °- J’erkasie, 
la. JERSEY GLEN FARMS, Perkasie, Pa. 
V* ANTED—First-class 
, ,. „ ,, farm superin tendency, 
lettering both held and dairy branches, by man 
or 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" 
Mals. Address "BUSINESS.” care Rural New- 
t orker. 
WANTED—By a 
rience, position 
on farm, estate; 
Dural New-Yorker 
practical woman of farm oxpe- 
to run boarding house for iielp 
references. BOX 173, care 
1 nnl" Y i MAN ,1 , esires a Position on plant. 
su ts- wm ha ~ made g . 00<J a'" 1 ran produce re- 
J ymfs T (Ti'niivc^r 0 ’ wa ^ es secondary. 
MLS J. Cl MMINGS, Contoocook, N. — 
IT. 
EXPERIENCED MANAGER wishes position ou 
country estate or general purpose farm. 
American, single, age 32. References. Ad¬ 
dress BOX 172, care R. N.-Y. 
^T I ' FI ? Permanent position by sober, honest 
industrious young married man. Nov. 1st. life 
experience in farming; good reference. BOX 
1'ARM WANTED—Possession in Fall, or next 
CORWIN non Tm 1 ' $1500 - sp,,fl description. 
J-,. t I IN, ],i_o Anthony Avenue, New York 
BOY 
ing 
tiling 
over 16, 
wants 
BOX 179, Rural 
with general knowledge of farm- 
position on farm: start at anv- 
New-Yorker. 
ELDERLY LADY offers use of furnished house, 
firewood, ten or more acres land, in return 
for board and taxes. Must be intelligent re¬ 
fined people. MRS. J. THOMSON. Millwood 
WELL BRED 
position on 
W. 111th St., 
young man. 20 . experienced, wants 
farm. CHARLES MICHEL. 113 
New Y’ork. 
WAN FED—-Farm, New Jersey, fifty acres for 
i,*n rU1 ^’ ' vlthin fifteen miles of Camden BOV 
169, Care RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
1 ~v‘T r ’ K Alfalf a Farm for sale. Central New 
F. H. iaVENBURGH 1 ; JhmtvnuT' $8 "°°°" 
GOOD FARM FOR SALE in 
information. Price .$3,000. 
SON, Coventry, R. I. 
R. 
E. 
I. 
A. 
Y. 
Write for 
RICHARD- 
WANTED—To 
within three 
house, modern 
age, in or near 
tion and terms. 
rent, 
hours 
I Ot I, I R YMAN desires permanent position as 
manager or assistant: single, age thirty, ex¬ 
perienced on modern equipment; not afraid 
Best references. Address BON 17S 
New-Yorker. 
work. 
Rural 
to 
care 
M ANTED—Position as herdsman or 011 poultry 
lann by American. 29, single; temperate; best 
references, W. LAKIN, Long Hill, Conn. 
I os I I ION WANTED—As working foreman or 
manager of trucking, dairying, gardening or 
general (arming, practical experience, short 
course graduate at Rutgers. Age 28 siti-le 
Strictly sober. BOX 1,59, care R. N.-Y- 8 
New York. Connecticut, 
of New York City, small 
improvements, barn, small acre- 
village or town. Give ileseriu- 
„ ^ Ti WILLIAM H. HINMAN 00 
Last Park Place, Rutherford, N. J. ’ 
sha i‘ es > a fully stocked dairy 
ia,! ar ! ’ per ( *ont. to the owner clear of all 
labor, or would accept the management of a 
good farm. NESTOR, Hutboro, Pa. 
I’OR SALE—-New York dairy farm, 135 acres 
one-half mile to creamery, feed ami 
store, R. R. station; never 
to house and 
r ... - grocery 
failing spring water 
5V 1 , 1 ,’’ Iwo-year course Agriculture Penn 
state College, desires permanent place on good 
BOX 51, Bayonne, X. J. 
farm. 
WANTED—A married working farm manager, 
tor a rcuigli, run-down farm in Connecticut. 
Mus-t be good worker, capable of liand’ling pure- 
lued Jerseys, Berkshire hogs, sheep, poultry 
and clearing and improving farm. Wife must be 
good housekeeper and first-class butter maker 
and board hired help. Write fully, giving de¬ 
scription, experience, reference and 
BOX 177, care It. N.-Y. 
wages. 
WANTED—Sifuation on farm 
New Hampshire by married 
teamster, understands general 
dairying; would take position 
mail or general farm band. 
Claremont, N. H. 
in Vermont or 
man 45. good’ 
farming and 
as working fore- 
LOCK BOX 96, 
to House and barn, good house and barn, produc- 
R. V D. No 1 AS " PKTKUS ’ Bloomvilte, NY, 
WANTED—Westchester County, N. Y., or south- 
western Connecticut, small farm for poultry 
bouse of 8 rooms. II. M . B„ Gaylordsvllle, Coim 
I'OR SALE—.50 acres, good stone buildings, mile 
from station and good town. OWNER Penns- 
burg, Pa., It. F. D. 1. Box 40. 
1 SAI ‘ E ~s" : " ,v fn,lt fan "’ containing 600 
young peach trees 111 full fruit, other fruit 
AUlafa, (,-room house, barn 33x35 feet, never 
failing water at house and barn. Cheap to quick 
Xriia"' BRADFORD, R. D. No" 1? SooJ 
WANTED 
plant or 
-TO RENT 
arrange for 
(or any) small poultry 
oral farm (with board). "EulTpartlciilil-J ’' 1 
-MON, 309 East 120th St., New Vo ‘ 
fork. 
HTUATION 
\S ANTED—Gardener or superin¬ 
tendent, married’, thoroughly competent to 
take charge gentleman’s estate. Life experi 
cnee in greenhouses, landscape work, farming 
and stock: excellent references. A \l i<a; 
-3d St., N. Y. C. 
5V. 
FOR 
•SALE ^ Farm 68 (4 acres, stock and tools 
one mile to school and cheese factory 
WINTERS, Burlington Flats, N. Y. 
II. 
F, f,Vl!v ;\ N V POULTRY FARM, forty-five a.-r, 
nui> stocked' and equipi)ed, Peekskill N N‘ 
I.ow cash rental or will let on percentage,’ in' 
cone about forty-five hundred dollars, best ref- 
erem-es required as to ability anil honesty first 
letter. Address BOX 180, care Rural New- 
1 orker. 
ORCHARD EXPERT—During three weeks’ v 
callou Hus Fall would like work supervisi 
orchard planting, pruning, etc. Best referent- 
1 ales v, pc,- ,] ay „ ih1 expenses. Address J. 
••• Mila Otis Place N. W.. Washington, 1). 
FOR SALE 
C. 
w. 
42 acres poultry, truck and fruit 
,. 1 ™; pcaeii and apple orchards and fruits of 
",11 kinds; 3 good markets, running spring water. 
1 clephone in the house. For full particulars 
call or apply to FRANCIS W. PE1FER, R. F D. 
No. 1 . Fishers Ferry, Northumberland Co., 
Pa. 
TO SELL APPLES AT AUCTION 
HH Department of Foods anti 
,, _ Markets has signed a contract with the 
l'ruit Auction ( otnpany of New York to sell the apples and other pro 
coming ye e ar° SUpervision of the Department during the 
The Department will begin with the sale of apples and pears at auction- 
and it desires to know how many apples are likely to be shipped to it. provided 
the prices realized are as good or better than the private sales. The work will 
be under direction ot a committee of 
and put on the market as desired and 
Ik- handled prudently, skillfully and conservatively 
possible for the growers. All experience shows 
growers. The apples may be stored 
is prices warrant. The business must 
to get the best prices 
experience shows that the auction brings bet- 
Di puces than the private sales. If it dues not prove so in this case, the 
apples must be sold privately or as the grower directs. The commission will 
he o per cent. The only extra expense will be 2 cents a barrel for printing 
daily catalogue and labor. The commissions above expense of wholesale 
will be used to promote retail trade at fair prices to increase consumption, 
keport and check will be returned to shipper daily. Growers in all parts are 
approving the plan and want it tried out. \Y e should know the probable 
amount of shipments, provided they sell at auction at or above the prevailing 
price. Will you hi] in, sign and mail the attached coupon at once? 
DEPARTMENT OF FOODS & MARKETS, 71 W. 23rd St., New York City 
will reserve anil ship.barrels of apples or pears, to be 
public auction, in New York City, under the direction of the New York State 
meat of Foods and Markets as above indicated; but will feel free to withhold, or 
other markets, if auction prices are not as good as private sales. 
sold at 
Depart- 
ship to 
