CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Dec. 11, 1915, 
FARM TOPICS. 
The Question of Phosphate .1455 
A Great Crop of Mangels .1456 
Plowing Green Rye for Corn .1456 
College Graduates and Farm Management... 1456 
Government Auctions .1456 
New Hampshire Notes .1461 
Indiana Conditions .1461 
Hope Farm Notes .1462 
Locust for Fence .1462 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The Ramhouillet Sheep .1468 
A Quartette of Guernsey Cows .1468 
Milk Law in New York .1468 
Only Cottonseed Meal ..1470 
Feeding Beet Pulp .1470 
Ration for Maine Jerseys .1470, 1471 
THE HENYARD. 
Egg-laying Contest .1472 
Buying Foundation Stock .1472 
New Hampshire Poultry .1473 
Poultry on Shares .1473 
Inflamed Eyes ..1473 
HORTICULTURE. 
A Successful Fruit Farm .1455, 1456 
Evaporated Apples in New York.1457 
Notes from Maryland Garden .1458 
From an Alaskan Island .1463 
Plant Lice on Celery .1463 
Protecting Roses .1463 
Lilies from Seed .1463 
The Chick Pea .1463 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day ..1466 
The Rural Patterns .1466 
Three Holiday Recipes .1466 
Seen in New York Shops .1466, 1467 
A Rural Fair in Tennessee .1467 
Embroidery Designs .1467 
An Old-time Recipe .1467 
Cracklings .1467 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Selling Property to New Railroad.1457 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings .1458 
A Lightweight Barn Door .1459 
New Plan for Ice Supply .1459 
Defective Bridges .1459 
Taking Gravel for Road .1459 
Publisher’s Desk .1474 
erty horses brought from $100 to $200; 
cows from $.32 (a lioifer). up to $82; 
chickens, 10 and 1714c. a pound live 
weight; selling for about 22c. retail 
Oats brought 55c. and wheat 90c. a bu. 
Milk is 5c. per quart, and 22 per cent, 
cream, 19c. per quart. Good calves, lie. 
per pound. Pork is bringing 10c. per 
pound. Sausage, 22c. and scrapple 12c 
at. retail; fresh hams, ISc. per pound 
Gggs from 42 to 45c. per dozen. l. i. s 
Buckmanville, I’a. 
HAY FOR SALE 
T17I. are not dealers, but every member of our Association 
▼ ▼ is a farmer and producer i*f hay and we wish to sell direct 
to the consumer. Every bale is carefully inspected, graded 
and guaranteed, ami carries the brand of our Association. 
Alfalfa, Timothy, Clover, Mixed Hay and Straw 
Only sound, sweet, well cured goods offered for sale. We 
Keep the other kind at home. 
Onondaga Alfalfa Growers’ Ass’n, Inc. 
No. 3 Coal Exchange Building SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
FATTER HOGS 
MORE MILK 
MORE EGGS 
ON LESS FEED 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Dec. 3, 1915. 
(Continued from page 147.3) 
ity in husking and slow deliveries to in¬ 
terior markets. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 1 22 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 78 @ 80 
Flour, carlots. at N. Y. bbl. 5 30 ® 5 75 
Oats, as to weitrht. bush. 45 ® 40 
Rye, free from onion. 1 00 ® 1 02 
RETAIL PRICKS AT NEW 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. 55 ® 58 
Mixed colors, new laid. 42 ® 46 
Ordinary grades. 28 @ 35 
Cold Storage . 30 @ 35 
Butter, fancy prints, lb.. 38 @ 39 
Tub. choice. 32 ® 35 
Chiekens, roasting, lb.. 25 ® 27 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 28 @ 30 
Squab Broilers, pair.1 00 @ 1 25 
Fricassee, lb. .... 16 @ 20 
Turkeys. 25 ® 30 
Fowls . 18 ® 20 
Leg of lamb. 18 ® 20 
Lamb chops. 18 ® 20 
Roasting beef. . . 20 ® 24 
Pork etiops .. 18 @ 20 
Loin of pork . 16 ® 18 
Lettuce, head. 5 @ 8 
Radishes, bunch . 3 @ 5 
Cucumbers, each. 10 @ 15 
Apples, doz. 25 @ 35 
Cabbage, head . 5 ® 8 
Potatoes, peck . 50 ® 55 
Receipts at New York during week 
ending Dec. 2. 
Butter, lbs. 2,362,920 
Eggs, doz. 1.407.330 
Cotton, bales. 53.106 
Apples, bbls. 61.652 
Potatoes, bbls. 71,393 
Onions, lbs. 1,730,700 
Rye bush. 57,500 
Corn, bush. 67.266 
Oats, bu. 1.312.300 
Wheat, bush. 4,189,210 
Hay. tons. 5.490 
Straw, tons. 40 
Dressed Poultry, pgs. 42 593 
Live Poultry, crates. 14.397 
Cranberries, bbls. 941 
Lemons, boxes. 4.369 
Oranges, boxes. 139.702 
Rosin, bbls. 10,589 
Spts, Turp. bbis. 1.0-7 
Tar, bbis. 927 
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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. 
GRAPEFRUIT and Oranges, Brights, $1.75 per 
box, quarter box. 75 cents; Golden russets, 
$1.50 per box, quarter box. 50 cents, F. (). B. 
Miami, Fla. Quarter boxes delivered by ex¬ 
press within the fifth parcel post zone. Brights 
$1.50; Golden Russets. $1.25. Write us for ex¬ 
press rates and parflculnrs. GEO. B CELLON 
Tropical Grove, Miami, Fla. 
NEW HONEY Clover or Basswood in sixty- 
pound enns; best quality. C. A. HATCH 
Richland Center. Wis. 
FOR SALE—Farquehar sawmill, 4A A lax left 
hand. 3 head blocks inserted tooth lioe sn>v, 
Gang edges, 20-inch trimmer. 35 II. p. fire box 
boiler. Ajax center crank engine, lots of extras: 
?JUL?5 wed 0,10 j° l,: vood as new. DORR TROW¬ 
BRIDGE. Lansing, I’a. 
HONEY EOR CHRISTMAS. Direct from Farm 
Circular free. HARRIS T. KII.LE & BRO., 
owedesboro, New Jersey. 
FOR SALE—One Fnrquhar Portable Saw Mill 
outfit complete, size 5A. Style Right Hand. 
Has been used five months bv me. had been 
used about two years previous to that, but is in 
perfect condition in every way. Price six hun¬ 
dred dollars ($000). W. C. WHIPPLE, Pur- 
COT NTBY SAUSAGE—Old-fashioned, home- 
made sausage meat, in I lb. prints. Not made 
from trimmings, but from our own finest quality 
tender pig pork only; seasoned just right. All 
unusually tasty product; 4 lbs. postpaid for Si 
SANDANONAH FARM, Windham, N. Y. 
PECANS 30 cents per pound. JAMES F. Me- 
CALEB, Insmore, Mississippi. 
BARGAIN FARM Apparatus For Sale—25 II. P. 
_!• II- *'■ Tractor, 4 bottom plough. Sharpies 
Milking machine, 4 units. Davis 0 bottle filler 
(new). Star litter, and feed carriers, 400 feet 
track, 8 If. P. Stover gasoline engine on trucks. 
C. II. BAKER, 149 Broadway, New York. 
FOR SALE—Sliellbark hickory nuts, four cents 
pound, large hickory nuts, walnuts, 2o lb • 
pecans 15 and 10c. lb. HOUGHLAND MILLER 
Boonville, Ind. 
MANN Bone Cutter, size 7%; power or hand. 
Sell for $9. Perfect order. M. P. LEE St 
Michaels, Md. 
Tlay, $23 to $25 ; rye straw in bundles, 
$20. Cows, $75 to $100. good milch; 
milk, wholesale, 6c. per quart; retail, 9c. 
per quart. Eggs, 48e.-00c. per doz.; ap¬ 
ples, $2.50 and less. Butter. 38c.; honey, 
20c. per lb. Potatoes, $2.75 to $3 per 
barrel of three bushels or ISO pounds; 
rye (white), by measure, 90c.-$l per bu. 
Blauvelt, N, Y. G. w. d. 
Horses. No. 1, from 1.200 to 1.600 lbs., 
$200 to $275; from 900 to 1,200 lbs., $100 
to $200; all second class, etc., in accord¬ 
ance. Cows, $40 to $100, as to quality; 
hogs, live, 8c. lb.; dressed, 10c. lb.; .chick¬ 
ens. 17c. lb.; eggs, dozen, 40c.; butter, 
36c. Milk, wholesale, 4c. quart; retail, 
7c. quart. Potatoes, $1 bu., 60 lbs.; ap¬ 
ples, as to quality, 60 to 80c. bu.; cab¬ 
bage, $3 to $4, 100 heads, good. Peas, 
bu., 75c.; walnuts, bu., $1; corn, 70c. 
WANTED—-Miller desires to rent old grist mill 
reasonably. BOX 335, care Rural New-Yorker. 
-MAPLE COVE F'ARM—Products to consumer; 
5 boxes comb honey, 25 lbs. choice apples, 5 
lbs. chicken, 4(4 lb*, sausage, 5 lbs. pork. 4'/, 
best beef, (i lbs. good beef, 2(4 lbs. best print 
butter, 4>4 cream cheese; prepaid in second zone, 
all for $8.60 or $1 each. R. 2, Attiens, I’a. 
I O It SALE—4-horse Olds gasoline engine, good 
^repair, used less than year, cost $180; sell for 
,.’,.r, ca .? on ,. for sell ing want electric motor. 
HARRY L. COOPER, Salem, Ohio. 
FOR SALE—Finest quality buckwheat and 
white extracted honey; 10 lbs. by mail. $1.25 
within third zone; 50 lbs. or more. 10 cents per 
Pound. RAY C. WILCOX, West Dauby. N. Y. 
Berwick, Pa. 
Nov. 29. At one of the cow sales 21 
head averaged $89; one selling for $109.50 
and one for $108; they were good dairy 
cows. At a public sale of personal prop- 
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. 
3 FARMS FOR SALE—125 acres. 200 acres, 300 
acres, in good state of cultivation. CIIAS. II. 
DAVIS, Pemberton, N. J. 
122-ACRE Alfalfa Farm for sale. Central New 
York; well located; good buildings, $8,000. 
F. H. RIVENBURGH. Munnsville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—300 acre level farm, suitable 
grain, hay or stock raising; could do an 
awful business. A bargain for quick buyer. I. 
C. HAWKINS, Speakers, N. Y. 
POSITION WANTED by practical farmer, gard- 
ner and florist, as superintendent or foreman 
cn gentleman’s farm; can get results. BOX 441, 
care It. N.-Y. 
WANTED—Position, Mar. 1, 1916, by married 
man on farm. State wages. FLOYD BAR¬ 
RETT, Wyalusing, Pa. 
FOR SALE—95 acre farm, good buildings. Al¬ 
falfa land, nearly all tillable, near school and 
milk station, four miles Cazenovia. $50 per acre. 
M. D. RLAKESLEE, Cazenovia, N. Y. 
OLD AGE and poor health compels me to sell 
my splendid big farm, located in southern 
Ulster Co., N. Y., 70 miles N. Y. City, 340 acres. 
2 dwelling houses, new barn buildings. This 
farm is in a high state of cultivation; can 
nearly all bo worked with a tractor. Price 
witli terms, $40 per acre. GEO. HALL, Wall- 
kill, Ulster Co., N. Y., It. D. No. 1. 
GENTLEMAN wishing to buy good 18-acro poul- 
try farm, with id'eal city house, modern iin- 
provemonts, buildings and house new. located 30 
miles from New York: must bo soon to be ap¬ 
preciated Price. $12,000; cash, $7,000. For 
lullcr particulars write owner, (). 1 { HUGHES 
K. No. 2. New Brunswick, N. . 1 . 
FOR SALE—92'% acre farm 2% miles from 
x Ithaca. GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON, Ithaca! 
— 2-10 acre 30 cow farm; $2,000 down. 
^ IILKLERT DAVIS, Fergusonville, Del. Co., 
FORSALE—5-acre poultry and fruit farm. IDA 
AKENS, Pequea, Pa. 
FOlt SALE—123-acre farm, including stock and 
1,1 Steuben Co.; good location. Write 
BOX 340, care It. N.-Y. 
FOR SALE—Limestone, grain and fruit farm of 
ISi acres in the Shenandoah Valley of Va.; 
good buildings, 20 acres bearing orchard; land 
in high state cultivation. Bargain for quick 
buyer. Write owner for particulars. II. B. 
CASTLEMAN, Berryvllle, Va. 
$2,500 FOR FIFTY ACRE FARM; excellent land, 
new house, in beautiful section of lower Berk- 
shires. J. L. MINER, Cornwall, Conn. 
WANTED—Orchard 1 and fruit work bv experi¬ 
enced horticulturist: expert service guaran¬ 
teed. W. H. DA BROW, Green Mt. Orchards. 
Putney, Vt. 
WANTED—A practical poultryman to operate a 
large commercial poultry farm on a profit- 
sharing basis. Three thousand layers; stocked' 
ally equipped. Mammoth incubator; two large 
brooder houscs, colony houses, etc. Address 
I.ox 338, care of Rural New-Yorker. 
T> 'vnT'f A V , dairv f armpr wanted on shares for 
thm r!*. n ! |'° an< ! stapk fann - Good proposi- 
'''' 11 s ?ber, industrious man. j. w. RAN¬ 
SOM, Chagrin Falls, O. 
W D P Hp’n£~, A Position, practical treeman: ex- 
slflrt! !!»» , large orchards, shrubberv and 
shade tree doctoring. Box 35. Auburn. N. Y. 
IOSI1ION WANTED by married man, no cliil- 
dren, on poultry and' fruit farm. L. N 710 
South Main St., Scranton, Pa. ' lu 
5 0UNG POULTRYMAN, age 19, wishes steady 
position as assistant on a poultry plant located 
near 1 hiladelphla. Good experience and well 
recommended. BOX 339, care It. N.-Y. 
FARM WANTED—New York State general and! 
, fruit farm, fully equipped. Rent with op¬ 
tional purchase. BOX 333, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
id ®AL 50-acre fruit, truck and poultry farm, 
$3,200; borders lake. A sure money maker. 
Must sell at sacrifice. W. J. VESSEY, Putnam, 
ct. 
16,000 APPLE and I’cat- Orchard', in Southern 
Rhode Island for sale. Trees are six to four- 
teen yours old, standard varieties; property com- 
prises 500 acres, 225 in fruit: four dwellings, 
ample buildings and equipment. II. TV'. HEA¬ 
TON, West Kingston, It. I. 
WANTED—To rent farm with stock and tools, 
by experienced farmer. New Hampshire or 
Massachusetts farm preferred. BOX 138 
Nashua, N. II. ’ 
FOR SA^U—To settle estate. A fine dairy farm 
of 130 acres, 50 acres very productive, fine 
tillage, no rocks. Balance pasture and wood¬ 
land. lino trout stream. Clear spring water, 
piped to all buildings. Large dairy barn. Silos. 
Horse barn, garage, wagon and tool sheds. Fine 
14-room bouse, gas, steam heat, bath and all 
modern conveniences. Price right. II. O. 
DANIELS, Middletown, Connecticut. 
PARTNER—Manned or single wanted for up- 
to-date poultry farm, with experience- not 
less^than $2,000 to invest. BOX 337, care R. 
WANTED—A married man, to work on a farm 
All kinds of work required. Must have oxne- 
) ROY SQ 7 te iu age and ' lationn,| ty. Address I*. 
O. BOX 49 i r Monroe, New York. 
WANTED—A herdsman for producing grade V 
n ' ilk - Stfite nationality and qualifications 
and whether married or not. Address BOX 336’ 
care of Rural New-Yorker. ’ 
YOUNG, sober, married man wants position on 
farm; experienced. Handy with nil tools 
References. HARRY ItANDELL, Long Eddy! 
• LU—Position by married' man, good all- 
around farmer, or will take farm to work on 
. with stock and tools- MATTI1 
ADOLPHSEN, Pmo Plains, N. Y., R. F. D. 37. 
WANTED to work In an institution witii 
feeble-minded boys, $32 a month and main¬ 
tenance. Address SUPERINTENDENT. Letch- 
worth Village, Thiells, N. Y. 
GENERAL all-around farmer wishes position on 
M f ^n° milker. FARMER, 615 3rd Ave., 
N. I. City. 
GRADUATE of Agricultural School with 3 sum- 
mers experience on dairy farm of Guernseys, 
would like position on dairy farm; understands 
^Sfi. als » can te8t an<1 separate milk. 
TRUEMAN II. SPENCER, 43 Humboldt St., 
Newark, N. J. ’ 
EXPERIENCED Hardware man wants position 
_ til town affording chance for country home. 
BOX 334, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION IN SOUTH wanted by Northern 
man, ten years’ experience in farm manag¬ 
ing. At present successfully managing a large 
proposition. Experienced in dairying, stock 
raising and general farm crops, especially Al¬ 
falfa. Technical education; age 44. Have had 
four, years’ successful experience in the South. 
BOX 325, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position by practical market poul- 
trymnn on established plant, or plan and 
build plant in Spring. Salary expected. Mar¬ 
ried. No children. Former employers my refer¬ 
ences. Address BOX 332, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
GOOD OPPORTUNITIES. High salaries for 
ambitious young men, twenty-one years of age 
or over, on milk teams in or near Boston. Cash 
bond required. Apply by letfer to J. EDWARD 
HATCH, 487 Rutherford Ave., Charlestown 
Mass. 
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HTHIS valuable distillers’ grain contains about 
A 31% protein, 13% fat. It is twice as strong as 
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work of two pounds of bran, and saves $14 per ton. 
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Holds huncheds of official records and many world’s records. It is used and 
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To Sell Farm Food Products 
Good apples are in good demand, and prices are good. The 
auction market is crowded daily with buyers looking for choice 
fruit. The buyers of medium and poor grades are also present; 
but such fruit does not and will not bring high prices. The 
small grower, however, has a ready market and gets what the 
market will pay and all it pays, less the necessary and legitimate 
charges. Shippers are safe now in sending good fruit. 
Eggs are some lower; but choice fresh eggs yet sell at good 
prices; 50 cents was the top quotation last week. 
The Department is having many requests to handle dressed 
and live poultry, dairy butter, dressed calves, and pigs, etc. It is 
not practical to sell these at auction in the quantities as received; 
but we are prepared to handle them now through private sales¬ 
men. We can sell them at the market at the time they come; 
and, of course, insure an honest return. 
The Department of Foods & Markets, 204 Franklin Street, New York City 
