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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Dec. 25, 1915. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Hairy Vetch as a Manure Crop. 
Alfalfa in Worcester County, Mass 
A Good Corn Crop . 
Agriculture in Guam . 
Ground Limestone . 
Hopi Corn . 
Use of Rockweed . 
Hope Farm Notes . 
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Turnips for Feeding Cows .1511 
The Milk Question .1521 
The “Long-Distance Dairy Champion”.1524 
Cow With Udder Trouble .1524 
Poorly Ripened Cream .1524 
Horse Refuses Carrots .1524 
Trouble in Churning .1525 
Paralysis .1525 
Coming Live Stock Sales .1525 
Ration of Home-grown Feed .1526 
Ration for Purebred Holsteins.1526 
Dairy Ration .1526 
Kieffer Pears for Stock Feeding.1526 
A Ration for Kentucky Jerseys.1526 
Ration for the Entire Herd .1527 
Ration for Guernsey .1527 
Corn and Cob Meal for Horse and Fowls.... 1527 
THE HEN YARD. 
How to Handle Chicken Manure. 
Shrink in Laying; Connecticut Ration 
Oat Sprouter . 
Feeding Green Bone . 
Dry Mash Hopper . 
Picking Ducks . 
Good Laying . 
The Hen Contest . 
R. I. Red Pullets . 
Ration for 10 Hens . 
New Hampshire Poultry . 
HORTICULTURE. 
The “Figures” of an Apple Crop.... 
Chickens and Raspberries . 
Fighting the Peach Borer . 
Mold on Spinach . 
Pecans in Maryland .. 
Fruit Notes from Missouri . 
Sheep Manure for Shrubs and Lawn.. 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day . 
Fruit Cake . 
The Rural Patterns . 
Cheese Souffle . 
Seen in New York Shops . 
Stove Comfort in the Home . 
Embroidery Designs . 
Blood Pudding . 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Power on Machinery . 
Value of Oyster Shells . 
Trapping Hints for Farm Boys. Part I 
Canning and Curing Meats. Part II... 
Smoking Small Quantity of Meat. 
Smoking Meat in the Chimney . 
A Gulf Coast Smokehouse . 
Buying from Agents . 
A Thieves’ Market . 
Husband and Wife as Joint Tenants... 
Revoking Offers to Lease . 
Bequest to Unincorporated Society.... 
Lightning Rod Protection . 
Concrete Chimney . 
Bushel Measure . 
Filter for Water . 
Red Wash for Bricks . 
Editorials . 
Notes From the Auction . 
Farmers and Co-operation . 
N. Y. State Agricultural Society. 
Publisher’s Desk . 
Humorous . 
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Products, Prices and Trade 
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Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Dec. 17, 1915. 
Fancy chickens and Spring ducks 
good demand. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 
Common to good. 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 
Broilers, common to good 
Squab broilers, pair. 
Roasters .. . 
Fowls.... 
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VARIOUS DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves are one-half higher. Hothouse 
lambs scarce. Pork and roasting pigs 
dull, few of the latter bringing more than 
13 cents. Large quantities of rabbits de¬ 
layed by storms are expected in the next 
few days. 
Calves. 9 @ 15 
Lambs, hothouse, head. 6 00 <§>10 00 
pork.. 10 
Rabbits, cottontail, pair. 30 @ 40 
Jacks, pair . 75 @ 85 
LIVE STOCK. 
Business in all lines of beef stock is ac¬ 
tive though no higher prices than last 
week are noted. Calves scarce and higher 
for choice veals. Sheep and lambs gen¬ 
erally 50 cents to $1 per hundred higher. 
Hogs dull. 
VARIOUS MEATS. 
Native Steers. 7 25 @ 9 00 
Bulls. 4 60 <§> 5 50 
Cows. 2 85 @ 6 40 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb .. 8 00 @12 50 
Culls. 6 00 @ 7 50 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 4 00 @ 6 00 
Lambs . 8 00 @10 00 
Qogs. 6 50 @ 7 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 8 00 @8 10 
Medium . 6 80 @ 6 90 
Pea . 6 70 @ 6 75 
Red Kidney. 8 80 @ 8 90 
White Kidney .10 00 @10 25 
Yellow Eye. 6 00 @ 6 15 
Lima, California. 5 40 @5 50 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Market on all lines of apples and small 
fruits is very dull. 
Apples—Evap., choice to fancy. 8§4@ 9^ 
Lower grades. 6)£@ 7 
Sun dried. 5 @ G‘4 
Prunes, lb. 6 @ 13 
Apricots. 8 @ 14 
Peaches. 4J^@ 14 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
Currants . 9 @ 12 
Raspberries. 23 ® 25 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The price range on barrelled apples is 
wide, but there is enough business at $4 
to $4.50 to justify this quotation on clean 
well graded stock of standard varieties. 
Other qualities sell down to $2 and oc¬ 
casionally lower. Cranberry market ac¬ 
tive. Strawberries scarce, but meeting 
very little demand. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 
Newtown, bbl. 
Hubbardston, bbl. 
Winesap. 
Wealthy. 
Twenty-ounce . 
Jonathan . 
Greening . . 
Baldwin. 
King. 
York Imperial. 
Spy. 
Culls, bbl. 
Pears—Kieffer, bbl. 
Anjou . 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, bbl 
Jersey, bbl. 
Long Island, bbl. 
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VEGETABLES. 
Market on potatoes firm, $3.25 being 
asked for best Long Island, and practical¬ 
ly nothing offered under $2.50. Sweet po¬ 
tatoes very dull, many receipts being 
frozen. Cabbage lower except red, which 
is scarce. Onions doing slightly better on 
anything showing good quality. White 
turnips, both old and new Southern, sell¬ 
ing well. Lettuce generally higher, a car 
of fancy from Texas bringing up to $3 
per half barrel basket. 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 2 75 @ 3 25 
Jersey . 2 25 @ 2 60 
Maine. 2 75 @ 3 00 
State. 2 50 @ 2 85 
Bermuda, bbl. 4 00 @6 50 
Sweet Potatoes. Jersey, bu. 60 @ 90 
Southern, bbl. 100 @ 1 50 
Beets, bbl. 75 @ 1 00 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 7 @ 11 
Carrots, bbl. 100 @125 
Cucumbers, bu. 2 60 @ 3 00 
Cabbage, ton. 6 00 @ 8 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 50 @3 00 
Onions, State., 100 lb. bag . 60 ® 2 00 
Conn. Valley, bag . 1 50 @ 2 00 
Peppers, bu. 2 00 ® 2 60 
Peas, bu. 2 00 @ 4 00 
String Beans, bu. 1 00 @ 4 00 
Celery, doz. 15 @ 60 
Turnips, white, bbl.1 00 @ 1 25 
Cauliflowers, bbl. . 100 @5 50 
Squash, bbl. 1 75 @ 2 25 
HAY AND STRAW. 
considerably higher. Milk, 4c. at farm¬ 
er’s door. Sc. retail; butter retail, 32 to 
35; apples, only a few good orchards, 
about $1 retail per bu. Potatoes scarce 
on account of rot and blight; consider¬ 
able shipped in sold at retail $1 to $1.20; 
onions, $1 per bu.; cabbage, scarce, $4 to 
$6 per hundred retail. Spring chickens, 
22 to 25c. per lb. retail, dressed; eggs, 
4Sc. M. L. R. 
Carbondale, Pa. 
Dec. 9. Butter, 33c.; eggs. 40c.; pota¬ 
toes, 60c. per bu.; apples, 75c. per bu.; 
cabbage, $2 per ton; pork, S^c. per lb. 
dressed. Buckwheat, $1.50 per 100 lbs. 
New milch cows from $50 to $80. 
Buffalo, N. Y. H. G. 
Hay, Straw and Cabbage 
direct from PRODUCER TO CONSUMER. Write for Grades 
and Prices. PATRONS’ CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF 
CAYUGA COUNTY. Inc., 211 Masonic Temple, Auburn, N. Y. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complying with several suggestions received 
recently, we open a department here to enable 
RURAL NEW-YORKER readers to supply each 
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be 5 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
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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 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. O. 15. 
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 particulars. GEO. B. CELLON, 
Tropical Grove, Miami, Fla. 
BARGAIN FARM Apparatus For Sale—25 H. P. 
I. H. C. Tractor, 4 bottom plough, Davis 6 
bottle filler (new), Star litter and feed carriers, 
400 feet track, 8 H. P. Stover gasoline engine 
on trucks, 3 H. P. Acme Vertical Steam Engine 
(new). Don’t write unless you want something 
—no time to answer idle inquiries. C. II. 
BAKER, 149 Broadway, New York. 
SECOND-HANDED Cypher Company 1914 or 
earlier model incubators wanted. Write O. 
M. LAUVER, Richfield 1 , Pa. 
WANTED TO BUY small farm or country home 
in New York or New Hampshire, 20 to 50 
acres; house must be in good condition and mod¬ 
ern, 8 rooms, near small lake or stream; terms 
and price must be reasonable; give full descrip¬ 
tion of house and grounds; also send photos if 
possible. Address ROOM 912, 30 North Dearborn 
St.. Chicago, III. 
16.000 APPLE and Pear Orchard, in Southern 
Rhode Island for sale. Trees are six to four¬ 
teen years old, standard varieties; property 
comprises 500 acres, 225 in fruit; four dwell¬ 
ings, ample buildings and equipment. II. W. 
HEATON, West Kingston, R. I. 
FARM FOR RENT, Franklinville, N. J.. 100 
acres, twenty-five miles from Philadelphia; 
good buildings; well drained, light soil. Write 
J. G. MOUNT, 904 Chestnut St.. Philadelphia, 
Pa. 
130-ACRE FARM—Fine limestone soil. Build¬ 
ings and everything up-to-date. JAS. Q. 
KEENER, Ravenna. Ohio. 
122-ACRE Alfalfa Farm for sale. Central New 
York: well located 1 ; good buildings, $8,000. 
F. H. RIVEN BURGH, Muunsville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Farm 220 aeres, two sets buildings 
(either one or two farms), city comforts, con¬ 
veniences. Strictly first class. Write BOX 92, 
Wooster, O., R. 7. 
FOR RENT in Eastern Penna., 300-acre farm 
stocked complete with chickens, horses, pigs, 
registered Jersey cows. All modern conven¬ 
iences. Good chance for the right man. Ad¬ 
dress FARMER, Box 345, Rural New-Yorker, 
New York. 
WANTED—A practical poultr.vman to operate a 
large commercial poultry farm on a profit- 
sharing basis. Three thousand layers; stocked. 
Fully equipped. Mammoth Incubator; two large 
brooder houses, colony houses, etc. Address 
BOX 338, care of Rural New-Yorker. 
CHICKEN MAN—Position wanted by American, 
26, understands poultry in all its brandies. 
BOX 357, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM MANAGER wants permanent position, 
poultry or hog farm preferred. Thoroughly 
experienced. Practical and scientific knowledge. 
Capable of taking entire charge and running 
farm profitably. BOX 358, care U. N.-Y. 
POULTRYMAN of experience desires position 
after Jan. 1st on commercial plant. Can handle 
all branches of the work. Will make valuable 
man. Address BOX 350, Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN wishes position ns assistant herds¬ 
man; good milker; understands care of stock; 
wages secondary consideration. B. ROSEN, 1109 
Columbia Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 
YOUNG, sober, married man, wants position as 
working foreman; life experience on a farm. 
BOX 355, care of Rural New-Yorker. 
There is very little change in the situ¬ 
ation. Most of the roads are embargoed, 
and demand is so light that stocks are 
working out slowly. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 23 00 @24 50 
No. 2.2150 @22 00 
No. 3 .17 00 @19 00 
Clover mixed.16 00 @22 00 
No grade .10 00 @16 00 
Straw, Rye,.13 00 @14 00 
COMPLETE SET of shingle machinery 30-in. 
horizontal saw, automatic trip table, 1 six 
knife edger for 1 or 2 men and buneher, all good 
as new; reason for selling, all cut out; cheap. 
BOX 33, Wyandanch, L. I. 
FOR SALE—Complete creamery outfit, including 
DeLaval Separator, steam turbine 1,250 lbs. 
capacity and boiler. Good as new, only used a 
few months; to be sold cheap. Inquire RALPH 
D. EARL, Herkimer, N. Y. 
WANTED—By February first, position as work¬ 
ing manager on country place, within 100 
miles from New York: guarantee full supply of 
garden and farm produce for any size family; 
understand thoroughbred stock, fruit and (low¬ 
ers. Hollander small family; references. BOX 
361, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED as manager of poultry or 
hog farm, by thoroughly experienced and 
practical man. BOX 359, care R. N.-Y. 
GRAIN 
The Government report, issued Decem¬ 
ber 15, puts our total wheat yield at 
1,011,505,000 bushels, which is 9,500,000 
more than the early estimate. Corn is 
given at 3,054,535,000 bushels, or 36,000,- 
000 less than in early reports, due mainly 
to the early October frost. The oat yield 
is 1,540,362,000 bushels, the largest crop 
ever reported, and 36,000,000 bushels 
more than early estimates. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring. 133 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 80 
Flour, carlots, at N. Y. bbl.5 75 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 46 
Rye, free from, onion . 1 00 
HERBS, ROOTS, ETC. 
Burdock Root. 
Colamus . 
Dandelion. 
Dog Grass. 
Pennyroyal Leaves. 
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RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
figures noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying opportun¬ 
ities of at least half of New York’s popu¬ 
lation. 
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.. 40 @ 42 
Tub. choice. 32 @ 35 
Chickens, roasting, lb. 30 @ 32 
Broilers, common to good, lb. 30 @ 35 
Squab Broilers, pair.1 20 @ 1 40 
Fricassee, lb. 16 @ 20 
Turkeys. 25 @ 32 
Fowls . 18 @ 22 
Leg of lamb. lb © 20 
Lamb chops. 18 @ 20 
Roasting beef. 20 @ 24 
Pork chops . 18 @ 20 
Loin of pork . 16 @ 18 
Lettuce, head. 5 @ 10 
Radishes, bunch . 3 @ 5 
Cucumbers, each. 10 @ 15 
Apples, doz. 35 @ 50 
Cabbage, head . 5 @ 10 
Potatoes, peck . 50 @ 60 
Receipts at New York during week 
ending December 16: 
Butter, lbs. 1.952.610 
Eggs, doz. 1,324.560 
Cotton, bales. 35.993 
Apples, bbls. 52,354 
Potatoes, bbls. 41,897 
Onions, lbs. 3,731.4(10 
Rye bush. 41.750 
Corn, bush. 72.8U0 
Oats, bu. 1.746.900 
Wheat, bush. 2,588.460 
Hay, tons. 4,556 
Straw, tons. 10 
Dressed Poultry, pgs. 23.401 
Live Poultry, erates. 8,299 
Cranberries, bbls. 6.971 
Lemons, boxes. 6,925 
Oranges, boxes. 129,930 
Rosin, bbls. 12,495 
Spts, Turp. bbis. 1,004 
Tar, bbis. 618 
Dec. 5. We have good markets in the 
upper end of the anthracite valley, as 
there seems to be plenty of work for 
everybody. Fresh scrub cattle sell from 
about $50 to $75, grades and purebred 
FOR SALE—No. 3 Sharpies Separator; good 
condition, $30. Lack of use. E. O. HAFF, 
Pittstown, N. J. 
FOR SALE—1,500 sawed yellow locust fence 
posts 7 ft. long 4x4 at the bottom, 2x4 at 
the top. The kind that last a lifetime; .30 each 
F. O. B. cars. N. CIIEESEMAN, Clinton Cor¬ 
ners, N. Y. 
PURE home-made red raspberry jam. Ten 4- 
ounce jars, $1; twelve 15-ounce jars, $3, pre¬ 
paid. DARROW & AIKEN, Putney, Vermont. 
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 Danby, N. Y. 
NEW HONEY Clover or Basswood in sixty- 
pound cans; best quality. C. A. HATCH, 
Richland Center, Wis. 
I OWN 100-acre farm in trucking section of 
Sussex Co., Delaware, for sale at $25 per 
acre, and have 2,000 acres level, fertile land on 
navigable river here in Virginia that I am sell¬ 
ing in any size farms, and will build to suit 
purchasers. Easy terms. Also want good farm 
band for 1910. NOBLE PALMER, Sweet Hull, 
Va. 
FOR SALE cheap, 50-acre combination poultry, 
fruit and dairy farm. GEO. MINER, Wil- 
liamstown, N. Y. 
FOR SALE OR RENT—Morris County, New 
Jersey, gentleman’s farm 65 acres. State road, 
all tillable land. OWNER, 2002 Ryer Avenue, 
Bronx. 
WANTED—Man to work on small up-to-date 
poultry farm. E. LUMLEY, Freeport, Long 
Island. 
WANTED—Position as foreman on first-class 
stock and dairy farm; must be near schools 
and church. Open April 1st. American, age 40. 
BOX 303, care Rural N.-Y. 
A PRACTICAL, common-sense business man, 
with over twenty years’ successful experience 
in farm, dairy and estate management and 
knows tile business and all the details from 
start to finish, is open for engagement as su¬ 
perintendent on plant where expert efficiency 
and honest business supervision is appreciated. 
Eminent credentials certifying to profitable 
management, salary or shares. BOX 302, care 
Rural New-Yorker, N. Y. City. 
WANTED—A working farm manager, under 40, 
married, to carry on, with one or two helpers, 
under owner’s directions, a rough, run-d'own, 
200-acre farm, Litchfield County, Conn.; 0 miles 
from station, 20 head Jersey's, hogs, sheep, poul¬ 
try. Much heavy work clearing fields. Must 
feed balanced rations, use up-to-date methods 
caring for stock, improving lands and raising 
crops; keep records and report to owner. Wife 
must be good housekeeper and butter maker ami 
board 1 help. Usual privileges. New England ex¬ 
perienced preferred. Write fully, giving refer¬ 
ences and wages. BOX 304, care It. N.-Y. 
HERDSMAN WANTED—One who is thoroughly 
qualified to manage registered Jerseys and 
Holsteins running for advanced registry and pro¬ 
ducing certified milk. Give full information and 
references in first letter. BOX 300, care It. 
N.-Y. 
To Sell Farm Food Products 
Apples should now be shipped in refrigerator cars only. 
Since the international association reported more apples in cold 
storage than there was a year ago, shipments have increased, and 
it is believed that regular shipments from now on will be to the in¬ 
terest of holders. Greenings, Jonathans and similar varieties 
should be moved promptly now\ The steady shipper will strike 
the average sales. Good and fancy apples are in good demand and 
prices firm. 
Eggs have been moving slower and lower. Fancy hennery 
white go as high as 54 cents a dozen top, but few shipments reach 
this figure. Many pullet eggs are coming, and they range down¬ 
ward to 35 cents. Brown fresh State eggs sell around 44 cents for 
highest. We are not yet in a position to do better than the whole¬ 
sale trade on eggs; hut we are developing a trade that we believe 
will be of great advantage to egg producers in the future. This 
will be explained later on. In the meantime we can only promise 
the wholesale rates. Except for a small trade we are not yet in 
a position to do better; but we are working towards it for the near 
future. 
The Department of Foods & Markets, 204 Franklin Street, New York City 
