THE RURAL N RW-YORKER 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Nov. 20, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Buckwheat-Rye-Vetch Combination .1370 
The School and the Farm .1370 
The Wonders of Hairy Vetch .1370 
The Story of the Silage Harvest .1370 
Auto Trucks and Farming .1371 
Hope Farm Notes .1378 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A House for Butchering .1384 
Making a Pig Grow .1384 
Washing Butter in Cold Water.1384 
Feeding Bull Terrier .1385 
English Sheep Dog . 1385 
Grazing Wheat Stubble .1385 
Leaky Tile Silo .1386 
The Size of a Silo .1386 
A New England Ration .1388 
Measuring Silage; Grain Ration .1388 
THE HENYARD. 
Poultry Inbreeding on Utility Lines .1371 
Hen Contest .1389 
HORTICI/LTURE. 
Storing Summer Roots .1372 
Peach Varieties .1372 
Dormant Spraying of Peach .1372 
Keeping Peach Pits .1372 
How to Save Seeds . 1373 
Ginseng Culture . 1373 
Transplanting Apple Trees; Pntning Ram¬ 
bler Roses . 1373 
New England Fruit Show .1374 
Treatment of Peach Orchard .1378 
Winter Care of House Plants .1379 
American Institute Chrysanthemum Show... 1379 
Keeping Cabbage . 1379 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .1382 
The Rural Patterns .1382 
Seen in New York Shops .1382 
Improving the Housewife’s Profession.1383 
Counting Steps .1383 
Embroidery Designs .1383 
Pickled Beets .1383 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Drought and Business Depression.1369, 1370 
The Regeneration of Sarah (Concluded).... 1375 
Paying Rent to Mortgagee .1375 
Storing Ice . 1377 
Softening Hard Water .1377 
Editorial .1380 
N. Y. State News .1381 
Government Crop Report .1. .1381 
The Auction Market .1381 
A Commission House Deal .1381 
Products, Prices and Trade. 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Nov. 12, 1915. 
(Continued from page 1387.) 
Apples—Evap., choice to fancy 
Lower grades. 
Sun dried.. 
Prunes, lb. 
Apricots. 
Peaches. 
Currants . 
8 @ 
6 14 ® 
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6 @ 
8 @ 
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7 
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13 
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FRESH FRUITS. 
Arrivals of apples have been heavy, 
and prices running generally 25 cents per 
barrel lower. Grapes selling well when 
sound. Niagara is about gone, but Ca¬ 
tawba is in hand in good condition. Cran¬ 
berry demand increasing. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 
Newtown, bbl. 
Hubbardsaton, bbl.... 
Winesap... 
Wolf Kiver. 
Wealthy. 
Twenty-ounce . 
McIntosh. 
Jonathan . 
Greening ... 
Baldwin. 
King. 
Culls, bbl. 
Grapes. 181b case. 
41b. bkt.. 
Bulk, ton . 
Pears—Bartlett, bbl.. 
Bose... 
Anjou .. 
Sheldon. 
Quinces, bbl. .. .. 
Cranberries, Cape Cod bbl 
Strawberries, pint . 
. 2 00 @ 2 75 
. 2 50 @ 3 50 
. 1 75 ® 2 75 
. 3 00 @ 4 25 
. 2 50 @ 3 50 
2 00 @3 00 
2 U0 @ 3 50 
2 50 @ 4 25 
. 3 00 @ 4 25 
. 2 00 @ 3 75 
2 00 @ 3 25 
2 Oil @3 50 
75 @ 1 25 
40 @ 75 
10 @ 15 
40 00 @45 00 
2 00 @ 5 50 
2 50 @0 60 
3 00 @3 25 
3 00 @ 6 00 
2 50 ' @ 5 50 
5 50 ® 8 00 
25 @ 35 
Chicago. Apples, bbl.. 2 00@3 00. 
St. Louis, 1 50@2 50 
Pittsburg. 2 00 »3 25. 
Cincinnati, 2 U0@3 25. 
Buffalo, 2 00&3 50. 
Boston, 2 00@5 00. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potato market weaker, as receipts are 
large and demand only medium. There 
are no price changes on the better grades, 
though lower qualities of both State and 
Western are 25 cents lower. Onions in 
heavy surplus. Cabbage and cauliflower 
dull. Squash slightly improved and 25 
cents higher on best. 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 2 25 @ 2 75 
Jersey . 1 75 @2 10 
Maine. 2 25 @2 40 
State. 2 00 @2 25 
Sweet Potatoes. Jersey, bu. 35 @ 75 
Southern, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 60 
Beets, bbl. 75 @100 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 4 ® 8 
Carrots, bbl. 1 00 @ 1’25 
Cucumbers, bu. 50 @ 125 
Cabbage, ton. 3 00 @ 9 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 25 @ 75 
3-doz. crate. 50 @ 1 50 
Onions. State.. 100 lb. bag . 50 @ 1 75 
Conn. Valley, bag . 1 50 @ 2 00 
Peppers, bbl. 50 © 1 00 
Peas, bu. 125 @4 00 
String Beans, bu. 50 @ 2 00 
Lima Beans, bu. 1 00 @ 3 00 
Celery, doz. 25 ® 35 
Turnips, white, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Cauliflowers, bbl. 75 @ 2 75 
8 quasb, bbl. 75 @ 1 26 
Egg Plants. Southern, bu. 2 00 @ 3 00 
Tomatoes, Jersey, bu. box. 25 @ 75 
Chicago, Potatoes, bbl., 1 20@1 40. 
Cincinnati, 1 50@1 75. 
Pittsburg, 1 65@2 00. 
Denver. 1 00@1 25, 
Indianapolis, 2 UU @2 25. 
NUTS. 
Chestnuts, bu.. 00 @ 5 00 
Hickory Nuts, bu.. 100 @150 
Black Walnuts, bu. 50 @ 75 
HAT ANI) STRAW. 
The terminal sheds are heavily crowd¬ 
ed, with embargoes on the Central and 
Erie. The hay market as a whole is in 
better condition, as the great surplus of 
low quality stuff is working off. 
Uay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 24 00 @25 00 
No. 2.22 OU @23 50 
No. 3 .17 00 @20 00 
Clover mixed.16 00 @22 00 
No grade .10 00 @14 00 
Straw, Rye,. 13 00 @14 00 
MILLFEED. ’ 
Bran, car lots.23 00 @25 00 
Middlings.24 00 @28 00 
Red Dog .32 00 @33 00 
Cornmcal.30 00 @31 00 
GRAIN 
Wheat is arriving in large quantities 
at the primary markets and moving out 
fairly well. The yield of milling wheat 
in the Central West is apparently going 
to run considerably under early estimates. 
Weather has been favorable for corn 
hardening. 
W heat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 16 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush'... 75 @ 76 
Flour, carlots. at N. Y, bbl. 5 30 @ 5 60 
Oats, as to weight, bush.. 40 @ 41 
Rye, free from onion. 1 05 @ 1 06 
RETAIL PRICKS AT NKVV YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying oppor¬ 
tunities of at least half of New York’s 
population. 
Eggs, fancy white, large, doz. 61) @ 65 
Mixed colors, new laid. 40 @ 45 
Ordinary grades. 28 @ 30 
Cold Storage . 30 @ 35 
Butter, fancy prints. Ib.. 35 @ 36 
Tub. choice. 30 @ 33 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 25 @ 28 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 28 @ 30 
Squab Broilers, pair.1 00 @ 1 25 
Fricassee, lb. 16 @ 20 
Fowls . 20 @ 22 
Leg of lamb. 18 @ 20 
Lamb chops. 18 @ 20 
Roasting beef. 20 @ 24 
Pork chops . 18 @ 20 
Loin of pork . 17 @ 20 
Lettuce, head. 2 @ 4 
Radishes, bunch . 2 @ 3 
Cucumbers, each. 5 @ 7 
Apples, doz. 20 @ 30 
Cabbage, head . 3 @ 5 
Potatoes, peek . 40 @ 45 
Butter, lbs. 2,SS7,020 
Eggs, doz. 1.533,450 
Cotton, bales. 52.091 
Apples, bbls. 110,012 
Potatoes, bbls. 55.414 
Onions, lbs. 3,943,4110 
Rye. bush. 2,500 
Oats, bu. 752,900 
Wheat, bush. 3,426,460 
Hay, tons. 8,592 
Straw, tons. 220 
Nov. S. All crops except potato fair. 
Auction prices as follows: Cows in milk 
$50 to $100; hogs, live, 7 to 8c; veal 7 
to 8c; butter 35; eggs 45; hay $12 to 
$15. Potatoes 75c to $1. Milk $1.35 
per hundred. Cheese 18 to 20c lb. All 
good sightly places are being sold to 
city people for Summer residences, and 
they then are productive farms no longer, 
so that this once fertile valley does not 
produce enough to sustain us and we pay 
New York prices. A. L. B. 
South Dorset, Vt. 
Oct. 31. Wheat bran is selling out of 
feed houses at $32.50 per ton. Cotton¬ 
seed $33.50, wheat middlings $3S, beet 
pulp $20 per ton off car; cornmcal $1.70 
per hundred. Wheat is selling at $1.10 
per bu., oats 45c, buckwheat 70, rye $1. 
Eggs 40c and scarce. Sheffield Farms 
get a large quantity of milk from this 
section at their contract prices; farmers 
are very much dissatisfied at their prices 
and lots are going out of the milk busi¬ 
ness, cows are 10 to 20 per cent, cheaper 
than last year, j. b. ii. 
Newton, N. J. 
HAY FOR SALE 
W K are not dealers, but every member of our Association 
is a farmer and producer of hay and wo wish to sell direct 
to the consumer. Every bait is carefully inspected, graded 
and guaranteed, and carries the brand of our Association. 
Alfalfa, Timothy, Clover, Mixed Hay and Straw 
Only sound, sweet, well cured goods ottered for sale. We 
keep the other kind at home. 
Onondaga Alfalfa Growers’ Ass’n, Inc. 
Ho. 3 Coal Exchange Building SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
Subscribers Exchange 
FOR SALE—50 4-gal. railroad milk cans, drop 
bandies. New York pattern; cost $3 each. 
These cans are only slightly used; will take 
$1.50 apiece for lot. Having sold our dairy we 
have no further use for same. PEERLESS 
FARMS, Oswego, N. Y. 
WANTED—A farm superintendent for 300-aere 
farm on which is growing a five-year-old or¬ 
chard. We want a good competent man to run 
the farming end of our proposition.. Will have 
about 80 to 100 acres available for cultivation. 
Will furnish house, garden, and also part of 
tlie equipment and will give tenant from % to 
% of crops raised, depending upon what the ten¬ 
ant furnishes. Will consider only first-class 
man of good references. Farm located near 
Charlottesville, Va., but prefer a Northern man 
who is aggressive. Write G. L. BURGESS, 715 
Bessemer Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
POULTRYMAN and farmer, single, life expe¬ 
rience, Cornell training, wishes responsible 
position. Address BOX 314, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED by single man, 25, as 
teamster or farm hand, bandy with tools, no 
milker; A1 references. BOX 315, care R. N.-Y. 
WANTED—General farm hand, near Youngs¬ 
town, experienced and temperate, wages ex¬ 
pected. PARADISE FRUIT FARM, Caila, O. 
WANTED—Working foreman or manager for a 
farm fifty miles from New York. Only those 
nearby need apply. Must be active man not 
afraid of work and wbo can handle help. Mar¬ 
ried man preferred, who has had agricultural 
college course and understands A. R. A. work. 
State age and full particulars, also references. 
BOX 311, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—-Garden farm, three acres, double 
house, good barn, on state road, city three 
miles, suburbs large village. Poultry equip¬ 
ment. FRED WARD, Savona, N. Y. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complying with several suggestions received 
recently, we open a department here to enable 
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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. 
NEW HONEY Clover or Basswood in sixty- 
pound cans; best quality. C. A. HATCH, 
Richland Center, Wis. 
CORN FOR SALE—Car lots a specialty; also 
Timothy bay. Write for prices. HILLCREST 
FRUIT FARM, Washington, Ind. 
GRAPEFRUIT—Fancy brights, $1.75 per box, 
quarter box, 75 cents; Golden Ruslsets, $1.50 
per box; quarter boxes. 50 cents, F. O. B. 
Miami, Fla. Quarter boxes delivered within 
ttie fifth parcel post zone, Brights $1.45, Golden 
Russets, $1.25. Russets are the same In all 
respects, except in outside appearance. GEO. 
B. CELLON, Tropical Grove, Miami, Fla. 
FOR SALE—Shellbark hickory nuts, four cents 
pound, large hickory nuts, walnuts, 2 c. lb. 
HOUOLAND MILLER, Boonville, Ind. 
THANKSGIVING and Xmas Plum Pudding by 
Tarccl Post. $1.50 and $3. Receipt 100 years 
old. ANNA D. LOVERING, Concord, Mass. 
FOR SALE—One Farquliar Portable Saw Mill, 
outfit complete, size 5A. Style Right Hand. 
Has been used five months by me, had been 
used about two years previous to that, but Is in 
perfect condition in every way. Price six hun¬ 
dred dollars ($600). W. O. WHIPPLE, Pur¬ 
chase, N. Y. 
NEWTOWN Little Giant Brooder, good condi¬ 
tion, 300 to 500 chicks, $10 if taken soon. 
HIGHLAND FARM, Housatonie, Mass. 
BARGAIN FARM Apparatus For Sale—25 H. P. 
I. II. C. Tractor, 4 bottom plough. Sharpies 
Milking machine, 4 units, Davis 0 bottle filler 
(new), Star litter and feed carriers, 400 feet 
track, 8 II. P. Stover gasoline engine on trucks. 
C. II. BAKER, 149 Broadway, New York. 
WANTED—A few bay cock covers. IIILLEN- 
MEYER’S SONS, Lexington, Ivy. 
FOR SALE—Chestnut fence posts in car lots at 
ten cents each, our station. QUAKER HILL 
FARM, Plainfield, N. ,T. 
FOR SALE—One two-unit Hlnman milker in 
good shape with two h. p. engine for $90. 
FRED TUTTLE, Manlius, N. Y. 
FOR RENT with option of purchase, a higli- 
class suburban residential property close to 
N. Y. C. Com., $7.15. OWNER, Box 313, care 
R. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—A farm of 23 acres, new house and 
barn, good location for chickens; running 
water in bouse. ANTHONY BAUER, Mileses, 
N. Y. 
3 FARMS FOR SALE—125 acres, 200 acres, 300 
acres, in good state of cultivation, CHAS. II. 
DAVIS, Pemberton, N. J. 
FARM, 68 acres; 50 woodland, est. 75,000 ft. 
Hickory, oak, maple, chestnut. Painted 7- 
room bouse, shop and woodshed. 42 ft. barn 
with cowbarn attached. Henhouses for 500 
beads. 20 kinds grafted apples, peaches, pears, 
plums, grapes, 2 l /> miles to station, mile to 
church and school. Price, $2,500. GEO A. 
COSGROVE, West Willington, Conn. 
FOR SALE—362-acre farm, 15 miles from Al¬ 
bany, N. Y; buildings worth $3,000, live stock 
$1,000; implements $1,000, wood $2,500, house¬ 
hold goods $500; ready to step right into. All 
for $5,500; one-half cash. Address FARMER, 
Box 312, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—140-acre farm two miles from Gen¬ 
eva, N. Y., all tillable, underdrained, 14 acres 
young orchard; good buildings. B. W. SLOCUM, 
Shortsville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Pecan orchard, 5 acres, just out 
side city limits of DeLand, Florida. Eigb 
year old trees; good’ varieties. Ample room be 
tween for oranges or graps fruit. Price *750 
GOULD-WOOTTEN CO., DeLand, Florida. 
1391 
FOR SALE—Modern poultry farm, capacity 
1,200 bens; incubator, capacity, 1,200 eggs; 
near good markets; $3,S00. BOX 308, care R. 
FOR SALE—With or without stock, electric 
feed mill and store, witti grocery department, 
living rooms above, private track, thrlftv farm¬ 
ing section, nearest mill five miles. Forty thou¬ 
sand dollars a year business. Reason for sale 
poor health. G. M. HAZARD, Charlotte. Vt. 
on this fine 318-acre stock farm at 
LOUIS ROBENSTEIN, Berkshire, N. Y. 
or time, 
$9,000. 
FOR SALE—Butternut Valley farm, 96 acres. 
Write EZRA BOLTON, Burlington Flats, New 
York. 
York: well located; good buildings, $8,000. 
F. H. RIVENBURGII, Mnnnsville, N. Y. 
miles from railroad, four miles from village. 
Rural delivery and telephone. Good buildings, 
17 cows, 12 bead young stock, 3 horses, 100 
kens, 100 cords stove wood, 50 tons hay, 100 
tons ensilage, 300 bushels oats; complete work- 
intf equipment of tools. Implements, wagons, 
sleighs, harnesses, etc. Price, $5,500; half cash, 
half mortgage. CHAS W. GRAY, Greene, N. Y. 
OLD HOMESTEAD in the Berkshire®, grand 
views, mountain spring water (soft), a home 
that is wortii while. ELDON L. FRENCH 
Housatonie, Mass. 
House 10 rooms, bath, hardwood floors, gas, 
electric light, city water, hot water beat, large 
porch, elegant lawn and shade on best lesi- 
dence avenue, 10 minutes’ walk to depot and 
town If ),000 population; paved street and trolley 
at door; barn and garace, electric lighted, poul¬ 
try house 110x30. Cement floor, running water 
and lighted. Capacity 1,500 birds. Two pigeon 
houses, 85x20. Stocked with 500 pair best qual¬ 
ity, Cnrneaux, Maltese. White Kings; 550 peach 
trees in bearing; choice stock; 70 pear trees, 
apple/s, grapes, berries all kinds; 5 y 2 acres fac¬ 
ing on two avenues; bargain price; terms. 
JOHN EMMELUTII, owner, E. Landis \ve„ 
Vineland, N. J. 
BEAUTIFUL PEACH GROVE on State Road, 
2,400 trees, choice stock, one mile to Vine- 
land. N. J. Plot facing on three roads; grand 
location; bargain price; terras, etc. JOHN 
EMMELUTII, owner, E. Landis Ave., Vineland, 
N. J. 
FOR SALE or trade, 82-acre farm, ideal loca¬ 
tion, near State Road, between Philadelphia 
and Allentown; good buildings, excellent soil, 
plenty water and some timber. Price. $5,600. 
For information write to owner, BOX 310, care 
It. New-Yorker. 
MAN AND WIFE WANTED—Man to help with 
all farm and stable work. Wife cook and 
general housework for owner’s family. Wages, 
$50 per month. BOX 291, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—A herdsman to take entire charge of 
a small herd of Ayrshire cattle. Apply to (’. 
HARRIS, Blithewood, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
WANTED—Position as working foreman by 
married man, 39 years old, life experience on 
stock and grain farm. LOCK BOX 263, Rod 
Bank, N. J. 
POSITION WANTED by practical farmer and 
fruit grower, experienced in clearing, drain¬ 
ing, restoring and conserving fertility, all crops, 
Stock and machinery, handling labor, accounts, 
etc. American, age 44, married, small family. 
BOX 309, c. R. N.-Y. 
GENERAL all-around farmer wishes position on 
farm; good milker; four years’ experience. 
BOX 307, care R. N.-Y. 
WANTED—Ry an experienced, married Ameri¬ 
can. position ns foreman-manager. Thorough¬ 
ly understands diversified farming and handling 
men; no children; M. A. C. graduate; references. 
FARMER, Chnrlemont, Mass. 
POSITION WANTED as Poultryman; years of 
experience in egg production and broiler rais¬ 
ing; willing to help in dairy and bookkeeping. 
BOX 306, c. Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as farm-manager by man, 
28 years old, best of habits, understands ap¬ 
ple, general crop. Alfalfa production, breeding 
of livestock, tile drainage; raised on farm, year 
Cornell, theory and practice, in three States. 
References gives and asked. “PROFICIENCY,” 
Box 305, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position on furin as blacksmith. 
BOX 219, Cranford, N. J. 
To Sell Farm Food Products 
On Monday of last week the apple market opened strong; 
but prices dropped during the week on several days’ soft 
weather. 
Potatoes remain in good demand. New beans are high. 
Cabbage, white turnips and carrots yet in poor demand. Don’t 
ship them. Cold storage eggs are dull; but New York and 
nearby strictly fresh eggs are in good demand, prices ranging 
from 40 cents for browns to 62 for fancy white. 
Auction sales are attracting attention from all the States. 
Prices seem to be a shade higher at times in some other 
cities for some goods; but in New York the prices at the auction 
sales fully equals the local market grade for grade even on lim¬ 
ited shipments. 
We can never promise in advance what the price will be. We 
do not know ourselves. The goods are put up at auction and 
sold in public to the highest bidder. They are closed out daily. 
There are no stale goods the second day to obstruct the sale of 
fresh goods. It is no merit of ours if they sell high; no fault of 
ours if they sell low. The prices are public and the deal is 
square. 
A public record is kept of the sale, and whether the price be 
high or low, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you get 
all the buyer pays. 
The Department of Foods & Markets, 204 Franklin Street, New York City 
