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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Sept. 25, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Value of Coal Ashes .1154 
The Other Side of the Hairy Vetch.-1154 
The Rest of Dodder ...1154 
How Better Markets Were Secured.1154 
Fire Danger from Corn Smut .1154, 1155 
Hope Farm Notes .•...1162 
Crops and Farm News .1180 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Easy Money and Easy Stock Keeping.1154 
Raising Rabbits for Market ..•. . 1157 
The Business of Dog Training.1162 
Silage Notes . .1176 
Buying Milk by Test .•.. 1178 
THE HENYARD. 
Favorite Hen Contest .1160 
Squab Broilers . 1160 
Inbreeding .•.1160 
Improving Egg Production .1178 
Fall Chicks .•.1178 
Chicken-pox ..1178 
The Egg-laying Contest .1181 
Mosquitoes and Hens . 1181 
Blood Meal or Beef Scraps .1181 
Barley and Beans . 1181 
HORTICULTURE. 
The Farmer and the Grapevine .1153 
Saving an Old Grapevine ....1154 
Fruit Auctions .1154 
State Fruit Auctions . .1156 
Spread of Gypsy Moth ..1156 
Notes from a Maryland Garden......1157 
Clematis Wilt .1163 
Propagating Lilium Auratum . 1163 
Winter Protection for Roses .1163 
Lawn Dying Out . 1163 
Winter Protection for Raspberries.1163 
Lima Beans in Orchard . 1163 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
A Bachelor Back-to-the-Lander .1161 
To Make Wallpaper Stick ....1161 
A Talk About Whitewash .•.1161 
What to Do First ..1161 
The Boy on the Lonely Road .1165, 1167 
Tying the Family Cat .•..1166 
Selling Goods Through Advertisements.1166 
Notes ...• .1166 
Some Odd Jobs for Women .1167 
A Garbage-can Problem .•.1167 
The New Fall Dress. 1168 
Sunbonnet for Sweepers .-...lies 
A Talk About Sugar Making . 1170 
Dried Peaches; Tomato Catsup .1170 
Pioneers in New York .•.1171 
A Trip to a New Country .1171, 1174 
Peaches by Parcel Post.1172 
The Tenant’s Share of Purebred Stock.1172 
Shipping Eggs by Parcel Post .1172 
Premiums at County Fairs.*..1172 
Salesman for Farmers . 1172 
Furnishing a Small House ..1174 
“The Lonely Road’’ .1174 
Canned Chicken . 1175 
Favorite Chicken Recipes . 1175 
Preparing Lunches for School Children .1175 
Old-fashioned Cornmeal .-1175 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bulletin on Mosquitoes ....... 
Distribution of Property . 
Dealing With Lawless Children 
Duty of Bondsmen . 
Fraud in Contract . 
Finder of Property .. 
Good Words .•. 
Buffalo Markets .. . 
Boston Markets .•. 
Publisher’s Desk .. . 
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Cholera. 
I lost 11 pigs three months old within 
the last week; when taken sick they die 
within a day or two and would become 
lame, in one hind leg. Upon opening 
them it was found that the liver was 
hard and covered with bluish spots, and 
the stomach and intestines were some¬ 
what inflamed. They were running in 
an orchard on Alfalfa and were fed stand¬ 
ard middlings and milk. What killed the 
pigs? c. J. R. 
New York. 
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. The 
name and address must be counted as part cf 
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. 
^ Old cream separators or parts, con- 
NOYEs", Wilder, C Vt Send fuU partIcular8 ’ L ’ R - 
WANTED to exchange sweet potatoes for ap¬ 
ples, barrel for barrel; also would sell by bar- 
, or ™V' st l° 1 hampers. Write for particulars, 
etc. WM. LORD, East New Market, Md. 
nAY R0R SALE—Two carloads mixed, good 
„(no clover), p. o. B. Dalton, Mass. B. 
KRAU1ER, Windsor, Mass. 
FOR SALE—150-acre farm, good soil and good 
timber and water; 18 acres cleared; small 
house and barn; easy terms. R. H. RAMSEY. 
R. 3, Crewe, Va. 
FOR SALE—Valuable fruit and poultry farm, 
9V» acres. Price $3,300. Address MOORE & 
SON, Nazareth, Pa. 
FOR SALE—Dairy farm, 90 acres, tools and 
stock complete; write for particulars. WM. 
GRUNDMAN, Bernhards Bay, N. Y. . 
I OR SALE—Orchard 1014 acres, 60 miles from 
New York, in famous Hudson River fruit belt, 
1.500 peach and 550 pear trees; all peach in 
full bearing, and 350 pear bearing. Chance for 
city man to own an orchard while he retains his 
position in city. HENRY ENGEL, 60 East 190th 
St., New York. 
FOR SALE—Fine Delaware Co. dairy, poultry 
and fruit farm, stock, tools and team, regis¬ 
tered Holstein Friesian bull heads the herd; good 
soil, buildings and water: would make a fine 
country home; price, $6,000: inspection invited. 
Address B. care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM MANAGER—Life experience, green¬ 
houses, landscape gardening, fruit growing, 
poultry raising, farm improvements, vegetable 
and crop rotation, stock and dairy management. 
Aged 40, Scotch, married, small family. AG¬ 
RICOLA, care William Loughlin, 17 Stuyvesant 
FARM WANTED—100 to 200 acres within 150 
miles of New York, with some stock and im¬ 
plements, in exchange for residential house su¬ 
burb of New York; $5,000; equity $2,000; 20 
minutes 42d St.; 30 miuutes Cortlandt St. BOX 
231, care It. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—57 acres, one-lialf clear, fruit for 
home use; buildings in good condition; hen¬ 
house for 200 hens; 2(4 miles to Felton; $2,000. 
VAUGHAN C. DILL, Route 3, Felton, Del. 
FOR SALE—188 acre farm, stock and tools; 
good location; bargain. EARL PALMER, 
Georgetown, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Beautifully situated stock and Al¬ 
falfa farm. 137 acres, on James River, twenty 
miles from Norfolk. Fruit, oysters, fishing and 
game; everything complete. SAMUEL E. HUD¬ 
SON, Battery Park, Va. 
FOR SALE—19 acres vineyard, half mile from 
city; net income $2,000 year; sacrifice price, 
$8,000. JOSEPH ROGER, Lynchburg, Va. 
FARM FOR SALE—140 acres, cuts fifty tons 
hay, seventy-ton silo, sugar orchard, 100 M. 
growing pine, 300 cords hard wood. Good build¬ 
ings, ten cows, one pair work horses. DR. 
LOUIS I. MOULTON, Concord, N. H. 
FARM FOR SALE—85 acres, good buildings 
good soil; near town; Richland township, Pa 
BOX 228, care It. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—200-acre dairy farm, Kingston, N 
Y.; productive, well watered, home markets 
Inquire C. R. KNAPP, 136 Dana Ave., Albany 
N. Y. 
The symptoms and post mortem lesions 
indicate cholera, but a graduate veterin¬ 
arian should have been employed to 
make a post mortem examination and if 
he found the disease present he might 
have vaccinated the remaining pigs. The 
disease is incurable and new stock will 
have to be vaccinated if they are to es¬ 
cape the contagion in the infected prem¬ 
ises. A. S. A. 
Cough. 
1. I have a fine cow with her first 
calf; the calf is about eight months old. 
We milk her without the calf. She gives 
about 2 V -2 gallons a day, makes lots of 
butter. We feed her cottonseed and 
cottonseed meal, some corn and shucks, 
wet the shucks and pick out the smutty 
ones. She is in good shape but occa¬ 
sionally she will cough, not often, as 
though she might be choked. Ought we 
to use the milk? Can you advise us 
what to give her? She is lively, runs 
and plays, and seems to be in good shape, 
but occasionally she will cough. 2. I 
also have a pig that coughs. Could you 
tell me what to give it? D. L. E. 
Texas. 
1. Cough is merely an indication of ir¬ 
ritation affecting the throat or lungs, or 
may be due to stomach trouble, or some 
other cause. In all cases such -as you de¬ 
scribe the tuberculin test should be ap¬ 
plied, as tuberculosis may be present, 
and the test is the only way of deciding 
that. Any graduate veterinarian can ap¬ 
ply the test. If tuberculosis is absent 
the milk may be used; not otherwise. 2. 
Dust is a common cause of cough and 
worms may also be a cause, especially 
those of the lungs. If the pig has been 
fed milk from the coughing cow and the 
cow proves to have tuberculosis the pig 
may be similarly affected. Give the pig 
treatment for worms, on general princi¬ 
ples, according to directions often given 
here. A. S. A. 
FOR SALE—20-acre peach grove, 2,400 trees, on 
state road’ in Vineland, N. J.; fine location. 1 
mile to depot; price $4,800; terms easy. JOHN 
EMMELUTH, Owner, Vineland, N. J. 
FOR RENT—Farm 100 acres, 2 miles from de¬ 
pot in Southern New Hampshire, modern 
house, all buildings In perfect repair, house for 
100 hens, day-old chix trade established. BOX 
No. 235, care R. N.-Y. 
122-ACRE Alfalfa Farm for sale. Central New 
York: well located; good buildings. $8,000. 
F. II. RIVEN BURGH, Munnsville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—My 7-room house with water and 
gas on lot 50x125 in the village of East Islip, 
L. I. IRA TOMPKINS, East Islip, L. I. 
MAN WANTED—To build up rough grazing 
farm formerly tilled; house and barn, one 
mile from town; small salary will be paid. 
BOX 187, Foxburg, Clarion Co., Pennsylvania. 
FRUIT FARM FOR SALE—One of the best ap- 
pie propositions in New Jersey, 76 acres, all 
tillable, except 15 acres meadow and wood, 
about 20 acres set to apples (700 trees) over 300 
trees 18 years old, balance two and three years 
old, best marketable varieties. Paying invest¬ 
ment first year, see the orchard now. Address 
BOX 278, Dover, N. J. 
FARMER WANTED—To run grain farm on im¬ 
provement lease; sixty acres under plow; 
woods, barn and house; no stock nor implements 
on hand. References for character, ability and 
industry required; two miles from station. 
BOX 187, Foxburg, Clarion Co., Pennsylvania. 
WANTED—A couple for farm in Connecticut. 
Man must be experienced in general farming 
and the care of live stock. Wife to do house¬ 
work. Send full particulars and reference in 
first letter. BOX 216, care Rural New-Yorker. 
EXPERIENCED MAN to take charge of and de¬ 
velop dairy farm. College man preferred. 
Recommendations required. P. J. LITTLE, 
Ebensburg, Pa. 
BEAUTIFUL Country Home—10 rooms, all city 
conveniences, on best residence avenue in 
\ ineland, N. J.; beautiful shade, line lawn, ce¬ 
ment walks, trolley at door, 10 minutes’ walk 
to depot; up-to-date poultry houses, capacity 
15,000, electric lighted, cement floors, two large 
pigeon houses stocked with 500 pair best quality, 
550 peach trees bearing, pears, apples and other 
fruit; 5V 2 acres, facing two avenues, all in¬ 
cluded. Price, $14,000; terms. JOHN EMME¬ 
LUTH, Owner, Vineland, N. J. 
WANTED—Live tenant with full equipment to 
work on shares a 175-acre farm in Washing¬ 
ton County (Pa.). Good land and buildings, 
well watered. M. H. STEVENSON (Owner), 
417 Bakewell Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
SALE OR TRADE 50 acres near Bound Brook, 
New Jersey, 30 acres in bearing peach, apples 
and small fruits. Good buildings. Poultry 
plant. T. W. AYRES (owner). Fort Payne, 
Ala. 
DAIRYMAN WANTED—Single. 30 years or 
older, to milk and care tor fifteen to twenty- 
five head; must be familiar with Sharpless 
milker and capable butter maker; wages, $35 to 
start, with increase January 1st each year. 
BOX 219, c. Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Superintendent, married, for Mary¬ 
land farm, orchard and general farming. Sal¬ 
ary $50 per month, house, garden, chickens, 
milk. Answer, giving age and references. BOX 
225, Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Young married man to take charge 
of Maryland farm, for one-half the profits. 
House, garden, chickens, milk supplied, but no 
salary. Farm expenses paid. BOX 226, Kmal 
New-Yorker. 
WANTED—About December first, working fore¬ 
man for large farm and young orchard near 
Philadelphia. Must understand general farm¬ 
ing, care of horses and modern farm machinery. 
Small family desired, and wife must be good 
cook and housekeeper, ana willing to board one 
or two intelligent, self-respecting orchard men. 
Comfortable house, firewood, milk, garden, etc., 
furnished. Applicant must be sober, energetic 
and have a capacity for advancement. In re¬ 
plying state age, nationality; experience and 
wages required. An excellent opportunity for 
the right man. STAYMAN. Box 215. c. Rural 
New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York City. 
WANTED—Position as potiltryman; understands 
incubators and brooders; experience in raising 
chicks; first class references. BOX 232, care R. 
N.-Y. 
A GENTLEMAN wishes to secure a position 
for an intelligent young farmer now in bis 
service. Particulars on application to LEASIDE, 
Box 290, Pleasantville, N. Y. 
EXPERIENCED FARM MANAGER—Cornell 
graduate, open for position: only first class 
proposition considered. BOX 230, care It. N.-Y. 
DAIRY FARMER, ten years’ experience. 
thorough agricultural training, wants respon¬ 
sible position. BOX 229 care R. N.-Y. 
POSITION WANTED as housekeeper on a farm, 
understands cooking and baking and nearly all 
farm work, widow, 37 years. Address EXPE¬ 
RIENCE, Box 234, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED by herdsman, dairyman, 
single, agricultural school graduate, experi¬ 
enced with purebred stock, poultry and knowl¬ 
edge of general farming; references. HARRY 
DAVIS, 73 Church St., Itaynham, Mass. 
CARPENTER and General Utility Man, married, 
wants position with owner of private estate or 
farm, who will appreciate an honest day’s work 
and be willing to pay an honest price for same; 
only those meaning business. Address full par¬ 
ticulars and price to ROX 654, Suffern N Y 
SINGLE MEN and women wanted in an institu¬ 
tion for the feeble-minded ns farm hands at¬ 
tendants and cooks. Address SUPERINTEND¬ 
ENT. Letehworth Village, Thiells, N. Y. 
WANTED—Position as cow tester, four years’ 
successful experience; best of references. Ad¬ 
dress D. J., 709 W. Vine St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
WANTED—Position as practical working fore¬ 
man by sober, honest, married man with small 
family; born and grew up in community where 
hard, honest work was no crime. Unquestion¬ 
able references. Address BOX 233, Rural New- 
Yorker. 
SALESMAN WANTED—Any young man with a 
little ambition can make some money with no 
risk. Write us for full information. CON¬ 
SOLIDATED GAS AND GASOLINE ENGINE 
CO., 202 Fulton Street, New York City. 
ORCIIARDIST and Fruit Grower, disposing of 
his orchards, is open to first-class proposition; 
has had years of experience; thoroughly familiar 
with market conditions. BOX 222, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
SINGLE MAN wishes position in cow barn; a 
good, clean, dry-hand milker and reliable; use 
no liquors; state wages in first letter. P. O. 
BOX 83, Barnegat, N. J. 
WANTED—First class experienced farmer with 
adult family, to work my farm on shares, sit¬ 
uated at Congers, Rockland County, N. Y., on 
West Shore II. R. Div. of New York Central R. 
R.; only one hour from N. Y. City; about 50 
acres under high state of cultivation; corn, po¬ 
tatoes, grain and hay main crops; farm buildings 
and equipment first class and ample; will make 
very liberal terms, for first year.—W. H. PIT¬ 
KIN, Congers, Rockland Co., N. Y. 
BOOKS WORTH READING 
= | How Crops Grow, Johnson. 1.50 fl 
|| Celery Culture, Reattle. 50 || 
= 1 Greenhouse Construction, Taft.... 1.50 || 
The Rural New Yorker, 333 West 30th St., N. Y. 
PORTABLE STEAM HOISTING ENGINES AND BOILERS corn- 
r bined, 8 to 10 h. p.. Lidgerwood and others, $100 up. 
Also steam pumps, freight elevator Cheap. Peltiam 
Operating Co.,W.E. McCIstchey, Supt.,416 W.?6th St.NY.C. 
I Cfl Parma F0U SALE— near Phila. and Trenton markets 
lull I dI llIo koo<! railroad and trolley farilitiea. New cata¬ 
logue. Established 25 years. Horace (1. Boeder, Newtown, Penun. 
IF YOU DON’T KNOW 
about the great son of the World’s champion yearly butter producer, 
Finderne Pride Johanna Rue (1,470.59 Lb.) and the other great young 
bulls that will be offered at the Breeders’ Consignment Sale Co.’s 
18tli BALE 
to be held at the Syracuse Sale Pavilion, 
October 12-13, 1915, at SYRACUSE, 3XT.Y. 
Who is to be blamed? 
IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT 
if you do not embrace this great opportunity to buy a herd sire. If 
you haven’t the money to buy such a sire, combine with others in 
the same position as yourself and buy one of these high class bulls. 
It will be the greatest investment you ever made. 
150 HEAD 
will be sold including 
13 daughters of King of the Pontiacs 
10 daughters of Hillside Count Pietje 
4 daughters of King Hengerveld 
3 daughters of Tidy Abbekerk Prince 
2 daughters of King Lyons 
4 daughters of Belle Netherland Johanna Prince 
3 daughters of Hengerveld De Kol 5th 
3 daughters of Gordon Glen Pontiac 
4 daughters of Segis Fayne Burke 
2 daughters of King Segis 12th 
Twin daughters of Kin'g Walker Segis 
3 daughters of King Hengerveld Aaggie Fayne 
By the way, did you notice that the last three are sisters to the 
famous champion, 
Finderne Holingen Fayne . 3y 37.34 
Buter 30 days . 150.33 
Butter 7 days, 8 mo. after calving. 22.57 
Butter 1 year . 1,395.06 
Milk . 24,612.80 
(All World’s records) 
The above, of course, is saying nothing about the daughters of such 
famous sires as Prince Hengerveld Fayne, Beauty Walker Pietertje 
Prince, Sir Lilith Posch, Pontiac De Kol Korndyke, Sir Woodcrest 
Korndyke Kate De Kol, King of the Black and Whites, King Segis 
Champion, King Pontiac Artis, King of the Pontiacs Burke, Spring 
Farm King Pontiac, Spring Farm King Pontiac 6th, Sadie Vale Sir 
Ormsby, Sir Netherland Cornucopia Lad, Korndyke Butter Boy Jo¬ 
hanna, King Ormsby De Kol Korndyke, Hengerveld De Kol 3d, Judge 
Hengerveld De Kol, King Pieter, Johanna McKinley Segis, Winana 
De Kol King Segis, Pietertje Clothilde Concordia 3d, Prince Hazel 
Korndyke, Prince Homestead De Kol, Sir Prilly Walker, King Hen- 
girveld Homestead Fayne, King Hengerveld Segis, Count Pontiac 
Spofford, etc., etc. 
A large percentage are from A. R. O. dams with splendid records, a 
few over 30 lb. 
There is a large number of A. R. O. cows, including those with rec¬ 
ords close to 30 lb. 
Probably no sale has ever had as many high class A. R. O. cattle 
that still have as great prospects before them. It is a wonderful op¬ 
portunity to buy high class stock. 
All animals over 6 months of age will be tuberculin tested by state 
approved veterinarians. 
For catalog write at once to the sale managers, 
LIVERPOOL SALE & PEDIGREE CO., INC., LIVERPOOL, N. Y. 
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