THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, October 9, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Save the Liquid Manures .1213, 1214 
Getting Rid of Trespassers ..1214 
Burning the Sawdust ..1214 
The Back-to-the-Lander .1215 
Good Farming and Good Fertilizing.1215 
Making "Liquid Manure” .1220 
Apple Pomace and Manure .1220 
Plowing Under Cow Peas .1220 
Value of Hardwood Ashes .1220 
Crops and Farm News.1218 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.1218 
New Men at Pa. State College .•.1218 
Hope Farm Notes .1222 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Purebred Cattle and Alfalfa_•.1230 
Ice and Milk House . 1230 
Pig With Cough.1230 
Feeding Pigs Profitably .1232 
Feeding an Orphan Foal .1232 
Rickets from Improper Feeding .1232 
Brood Sow .1232 
Thin Horse .1232 
Value of Cocoanut Meal .1232 
HENYARD. 
Raising Geese in Indiana .1214 
Egg-laying Contest .1233 
Cooking Water-glass Eggs .1233 
Intestinal Trouble .1233 
Grain Ration; Barley Meal .1233 
Hens With Corns .1233 
Leg Weakness.1233 
"Salts” for Hens .1234 
Loss of Ducklings . 1234 
HORTICULTURE. 
Tompkins County, N. Y., Fruit Growers Or¬ 
ganize .1215 
Fall Buying of Nursery Stock .1216 
Advice About California .1216 
The Fruit Exhibit at the New York State 
Fair .1218 
Okra and Its Culture .1219 
Notes from a Maryland Garden .1219 
Storing Endive .1219 
Fall Spinach .1219 
Celery and Melon Blight .1220 
Effect of Fallen Peaches .1220 
Heating Small Greenhouse .1223 
Destroying Poison Ivy .1223 
Renewing an Old Lawn.1223 
Exhibition Gladiolus Blooms .1223 
Notes of the Flower Trade .1223 
The Dasheen .1223 
The New York Cherry Business .1223 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .122C 
Seen in New York Shops .1226 
Embroidery Design . 1220 
How to Place the Lamps .1226, 122” 
Reading for Parents .1227 
Corn Relish; Pepper Recipes .1227 
The Rural Patterns .1227 
A Chocolate Cake from Hawaii .1227 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Driving English Sparrows Away.1214 
The Luther Burbank Society .1215 
Pu nping from Spring .1217 
A Concrete Road .1217 
Construction of Cesspool .1217 
Events of the Week .1218 
The Regeneration of Sarah (Continued).... 1221 
Rights in Wills .1221 
Right to Disinherit .1221 
Damage by Change of Grade .1221 
Editorials .1224 
Review of the Auction Markets.1225 
Development of the Auction System.1225 
A Remarkable and Important Fair.1232 
Publisher’s Desk ....1234 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Oct. 1, 1915. 
(Continued from page 1231) 
(luce of good quality and the buying op¬ 
portunities of at least half of New York’s 
population. 
Eggs. fancy white, doz. 45 ® 50 
Mixed colors, new laid. 35 ® 40 
Ordinary grades. 30 @> 32 
Butter, fancy prints. R>.. 33 @ 34 
Tub, choice. 30 & 32 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 28 ® 30 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 30 @ 33 
Squab Broilers, pair.1 00 @ 1 25 
Fricassee, lb. 18 ® 20 
Fowls . 20 @ 22 
Leg of lamb. 18 ® 20 
Lamb chops. 18 ® 20 
Boasting beef. 20 ® 24 
Pork chops . 18 ® 20 
Loin of pork . 17 ® 20 
IvOttuce, bead. 3 @ 6 
Radishes, bunch . 2 <§> 3 
Cucumbers, each. 1 ® 5 
Sweet corn, doz. 15 ® 20 
Cabbage, bead . 5 ® 0 
Muskmelons. each. 5 «u s 
Potatoes, peck . 35 ® 40 
Peaches, 4 qts. 15 ® 20 
Tomatoes, qu. 3 ® 5 
Preventing Calves from Sucking. 
We have a cow that gives milk to the 
calves, in spite of their having a muzzle 
on. She turns over for them, and is de¬ 
termined they shall have it. Can you 
give us any help? E. B. 
Massachusetts. 
If you cauuot keep the calves away 
from the cow, which of course would be 
the right thing to do, put a wide bandage 
around the udder and body to keep the 
calves from sucking. A. s. A. 
Lameness. 
I have a horse four years old that is 
very lame; when he first gets up in the 
morning not able to put one forward foot 
to the ground for some minutes. The 
lameness soon passes off so it is scarcely 
noticeable during the day, and does not 
interfere in the least with his work. 
What is the trouble and what is the 
cure? This same horse has stable sores 
which are hard to heal, and when healed 
soon open up again. What can I do for 
him? m. O. R. 
Pennsylvania. 
The lameness indicates navicular dis¬ 
ease of the foot as the cause and in that 
case unnerving, by a skilled surgeon, will 
give the only hope of relief. It is possi¬ 
ble that the veterinarian may find some 
other foot lameness present, but we can¬ 
not say as to that without making an 
examination. Allow the horse a box stall 
when in the stnble and bed with clean 
planing mill shavings or sawdust. Wet 
the sores often with a mixture of one 
ounce of sugar of lead and six drams of 
sulphate of zinc in a pint of soft water. 
Label the bottle “poison’’ and shake it 
well before use. A. s. A. 
Cowpox. 
I have two cows that get small lumps 
on their teats forming a scab on the out¬ 
side. They get so sore it is difficult to 
milk them. 1 think it is cowpox. What 
can I do for it? g. a. b. 
Ohio. 
Isolate the affected cows and milk 
them last, as the disease is spread by the 
milker’s hands. Bathe the udder with a 
mixture of equal parts of bay rum and 
glycerine and if found necessary paint 
the sores with glycorite of tannin. 
A. S. A. 
Ringbone. 
Our four-year-old horse has ringbone. 
We had it blistered, then fired over a 
month ago, and he is still very lame; in 
fact at times can hardly walk. We have 
consulted another veterinarian and he 
suggests unnerving. What is your opin¬ 
ion regarding that operation? Is there 
any danger of paralysis later? Horse 
seems to be in good physical condition; 
at present ho is in the pasture. 
New York. a. h. g. 
If the ringbone is on a fore pastern 
unnerving should have been done at first, 
as it is the only treatment likely to re¬ 
lieve the lameness. The operation is 
not likely to be followed by paralysis 
and if properly done there should be lit¬ 
tle danger of lockjaw. Sloughing of the 
hoof occurs in some instances where the 
high operation is performed, but seldom 
when the hoof is sound. a. S. a. 
Probably Cholera. 
I have an O. I. C. registered boar five 
months old. He became suddenly ill; all 
skin turned red, with blue spots ou neck 
and ears and tongue. I rubbed him with 
cream three times, cut his feed to sour 
milk and grass. He improved slightly. 
I feed all the pigs with cornmeal, mid¬ 
dlings and bran three times daily. What 
sickness is this and cure? Is it epidemic? 
New Jersey. n. m. 
The symptoms indicate cholera as the 
disease present, and if so it is contagious 
and will spread to the other pigs and 
prove fatal in a large percent of cases. 
The disease is incurable; but it may be 
prevented by vaccination. At once em¬ 
ploy a graduate veterinarian to investi¬ 
gate and he will vaccinate the remaining 
pigs, if lie finds cholera present and does 
not think it too late to vaccinate for pre¬ 
vention of further losses. Meanwhile 
change the pigs on to new ground and 
feed milk and middlings, instead of rich 
Slop. a. S. A. 
Swellings. 
I have a driving horse 14 years old 
that has enlarged places on his neck, one 
just behind his ears qmd about six in 
other places, while his withers are swol¬ 
len the worst. They are not swollen 
more than five inches below his mane,* 
but seem very hard and sore. I have had 
him on a fresh and salt pasture most of 
the Summer, but feed him twice a day ou 
dry feed. He seems to eat his corn well, 
but not the fodder and is losing flesh all 
the time. He has been like this about a 
month. Can you tell me what to do for 
Lim? j. e. s. 
Virginia. 
You should have an examination made 
by an educated veterinarian as the horse 
may have farcy, the skin form of glan¬ 
ders; or abscesses may be present and 
have to be opened for liberation of pus. 
Meanwhile swab the lumps with tinc¬ 
ture of iodine every other day. Give the 
horse a tablespoonful of Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of arsenic night and morning. Have 
the examination made at once. a. s. a. 
Uncle Jack asked little Celia if she 
didn’t want him to play with her. “Ob, 
no,” she said, “we’re playing Indian, and 
you’re no use, ’cause you’re scalped al¬ 
ready.”—Chicago Tribune. 
Subscribers Exchange 
FOR SALE—90-aere farm, Canterbury, Conn; 
good soil; good location. BOX 251, I{. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—44 acre farm near Kingston, stock 
crops, tools; terms. BOX 29A, R. D. 1, King¬ 
ston, N. Y. ” 
FOR SALE—220 acres In Greene Co., near Cats¬ 
kills, good conveniences, home market for all 
products, very attractive for cltv party who 
wants line summer home; also fine proposition 
for business purposes; full particulars ou re¬ 
quest. BOX 71, It. 1)., Medusa, N. Y. 
PAYING commercial poultry business and farm 
65 miles from New York City: established pri¬ 
vate market; Jersey Central Railroad; telephone, 
12 acres near town, main road; modern build¬ 
ings and improvements; stocked * 1 with S. C. 
White Leghorns; accident to owner compels 
sale. BOX 250, care of R. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—Poultry farm, near good markets, 
chicken houses, 3.500 square feet cement floor¬ 
ing: 1,200 incubator capacity, 83,800. ROX 245. 
care R. N.-Y. 
1235 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complying with several suggestions received 
recently, we open a department here to enable 
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name and address must be counted as part cf 
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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 bo accepted for this column. 
NEW HONEY Clover or Basswood in sixtv- 
pound cans; best quality. C. A. HATCH 
Richland Center, Wis. 
FOR SALE—New 4 h. p. sweer* horse power 
with jack, complete. “BURNBRAE,” Mans¬ 
field Depot, Conn. 
HAY AND STRAW FOR SALE—Good baled 
Timothy in car lots; also bright clean wheat 
straw. Write for delivered prices. HILL CREST 
FRUIT FARM. Washington, Ind. 
SWEET POTATOES direct to consumer; cireu- 
^ lar free. WILLARD B. KILLE, Swedesboro, • 
WANTED—Cultivated horseradish root: must ho 
cheap; growers write. R. II. DAVIS, West- 
ernport, Md. 
SWEET POTATOES, .$2 per barrel, not prepaid; 
good quality. C. W. STRICKLAND, Princess 
Anne, Md. 
HAVING bought silo filler will sell No. 11 Ohio 
Feed Cutter; used but little. MAPLE DALE 
FARM, Wooster, O., It. 7. 
EAST NEW MARKET, MI).—Producer to con¬ 
sumer, any quantity gold skin sweet pota¬ 
toes. F. E. LENNIS. 
NEW LAID BROWN EGGS and dressed poul¬ 
try, large or small lots regular to private cus¬ 
tomers; deposit or references required. C. B. 
SANBORN, Poultry Farm, Laconia, N. H. 
I DESIRE POSITION as Manager of moderate- 
sized farm, especially adapted to care and 
management of horses; references. Address 
BOX 243, care R. N.-Y. 
POT'LTRYMAN desires position as manager of 
plant; only A 1 proposition considered. BOX 
212, c. R. N.-Y. 
WORKING FARM MANAGER open for position 
at once; American with twenty years’ practi¬ 
cal experience in farming, with up-to-d’ate 
methods, raising crops, soiling, dairying, feeding 
and caring for purebred stock, feeding for A. O. 
R., care of all modern farm machinery, gas 
engines, etc.; one that can and does tilings him¬ 
self; please give full particulars in first let¬ 
ter; best references. Address P. O. BOX 16, 
South Hanover, Mass. 
WANTED—On or before Dec. 1, to work by 
month or year, energetic, temperate, single 
man, experienced in all farm work; capable 
with stock; references. Address BOX 64, Elba, 
EXPERIENCED POULTRYMAN—Single, wants 
position, private place; understands all 
branches; references in answer; state waces 
BOX 252, care R. N.-Y. ’ 
WANTED—Position by practical market poul- 
tryman on established plant or build plant on 
salary; former employers nv references Ad¬ 
dress POULTRYMAN, Bo 249, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
EXPERT HERDSMAN WANTED—I want a 
steady, experienced man, who is an expert in 
purebred Holstein cows, A. R. O. testing and 
feeding, dairy feeding and calf feeding. O. H. 
BAKER, Singer Bldg., New York. 
OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENT—Practical up-to- 
date orehardist. accustomed to diversified work 
on large propositions: A1 record East and West; 
permanent. BOX 248, R . N.-Y.. New York City. 
WANTED—A good, practical farmer, to run a 
300-acre farm on shares; a good dairy and 
fully equipped. WM. HAMMOND, Pawling, 
N. Y« 
Jj.vii 01 nineteen desires some light occupation 
on a farm In New York or ad M aeent state. 
Remuneration, however small, accepted; health¬ 
ful occupation being principal object. Address 
BOX 247, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as poultryman, having bad 
a good experience in producing eggs and 
broiler raising; commercial or private; good ref¬ 
erences. BOX 246. Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION as Superintendent by sober, energetic. 
reliable, well educated, practical farmer 16 
years’ experience; age 41; understands care cf 
machinery and stock and has theoretical and 
practical knowledge of all usual farm and or¬ 
chard crops, soil fertility and cultivation. J. 
HOWARD BROOMELL, Kennett Square, Pa. 
SINGLE MAN, 24, desires responsible position 
on farm, life experience, no liquor or tobacco. 
CHAS. E. BROKAW, Bordeutown, N. J. 
EXPERIENCED HERDSMAN, competent in oil 
branches; good references; young, single, 
wants position. MELROSE, Brookfield, Mass. 
BOARD—Permanent boarder wanted, refined 
home, health giving locality, tine climate, al¬ 
titude 2,500 feet, mod’est board: consumptives 
not wanted. GREEN MT. FARM, Newfane, 
Vermont. 
WANTED—To rent or buy small farm with 
fruit, within 100 miles of New York. BOX 
254, care II. N.-Y. 
122-ACRE Alfalfa Farm for sale. Central New 
York; well located; good buildings, $8,000. 
F. H. EIVENBURGH, Munnsville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—135-acre farm, 14 miles from Bal¬ 
timore , ’/i mile from railroad. Address 
OWNER, Box 244, care R. N.-Y. 
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. 
WANTED—An ambitious young man in each lo¬ 
cality can make money selling gasoline en¬ 
gines and farm machinery; no experience neces¬ 
sary; no risk; no money required. Wrie to-day 
for full information. CONSOLIDATED GASO¬ 
LINE ENGINE CO., 202 Fulton Street, New 
York City. 
FOR SALE or exchange for small farm or other 
business, thousand-acre river farm; very pro¬ 
ductive. N. R. PALMER, Sweet Hall, Va. 
SACRIFICE, 138 acres, vicinity Duke’s $10,000.- 
000 estate, highly cultivated, grand buildings, 
orchards, implements, Manhattan commuting. 
RAIILGREN, 212 Broadway, Manhattan. 
FOR SALE—410 acres. 19 cows coining fresh 
tills fall, 12 head young stock, 2 horses, one 
colt, 4 hogs, 100 hens, all tools, all fodder and 
silo filled for winter. Sacrifice price for quick 
sale. For full particulars address 1’. II. STONE, 
Hancock, N. Y. 
MY FARM FOR SALE—•97 1 /5 acres truck aiul 
grain; 3% miles West Harrington. II. WIL¬ 
LIAMS, Harrington, Del. 
WANTED—Farm near Schenectady. N. Y., 3 to 
5 years’ lease, with option: full particulars. 
BURGER, 65 East 117th, New York. 
ON BRICK ROAD in Geauga Co.. ()., 35 miles 
from Cleveland, 2% miles from county seat, 
% mile to store, church, school and creamery, 
farm of 136 acres, 25 on one side of road, with 
dandy 10-room house, good barn and other build¬ 
ings; plenty of fruit of all kinds; 111 acres on 
the other side of the road with one large barn 
and two orchards; 65 acres of work land; $3,500 
either (dace. MRS. S. J. FINCH, Jefferson, O. 
If It’s Good To Eat — 
Well Sell It 
The Department of Foods and Markets has now demon¬ 
strated the advantage of the auction system over private selling 
for farm food products. Even with a small and irregular supply 
the auction has brought better prices grade for grade—than the 
private sales by dealers, for the limited varieties of fruits sold. 
The Department has now concluded to open wide the auc¬ 
tion market to everyone for the sale of all kinds of farm food prod¬ 
ucts from everywhere. The produce should be shipped in pack¬ 
ages or crates or other containers — but not in bulk. 
Parcel lots will be received but the growers should ship as 
much as possible in car lots. Several growers may ship individ¬ 
ually-marked packages in the same car. 
Carefully graded, high quality produce will bring best prices, 
but lower grades will sell at prices corresponding to the quality. 
The commission for selling is 5%. Account of Sales and 
check will be made the day following sale. The sale will be 
open and public. The State of New York will keep an official 
record of the price and condition of each shipment. You will 
know just what it sold for, and who bought it. You will be sure 
of a square deal. 
All shipments should be directed to the State Department of 
Foods and Markets, New York City. 
Prompt notice of all shipments and car number and initials 
should be sent by mail to the 
State Department of Foods and Markets, 204 Franklin St, New York City 
