^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
30i 
The Farmer and the City Hunter 
(Contimifd from page 289.) 
you do not. The city voters in most 
of the Assembly and Senatorial districts 
are far outnumbered by the farmer vo¬ 
ters, still the city voters make most of 
our game laws. Why is this true? It 
is because the city voters are not slow 
about asking for what they want. Xow 
let the farmers do the same. 
You will find a list of State Senators 
on page .*54 of the .Tan. l.‘5tb issue of The 
H. X.-Y. Y'ou will find a list of Assem¬ 
blymen on i>age 110 of the Jan. 
27th issut* of the same publication. 
IVrite to them and <fov. Whitman, and 
tell them just what you want. Do it 
now before you forget it. 
(’oluiubia ('<).. X. Y. e. l. croxk. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. February 24, (917. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Corn In Southern Jersey.270 
Kelp and Seaweed as Manure.271 
Apple Pomace as Fertilizer .272 
Wild Honeysuckle .272 
Do Bean Harvesters Pity?.272 
California .275 
Onions from Seed .276 
Lime for Corn and Tomatoes .276 
Night Soil as Fertilizer .276 
Cabbage Damps Off .276 
Sorghum With Cow Peas .276 
Handling the Corn Crop .277 
Speltz and Emmer .277 
Colorado Beet Growers Combine .279 
A New York Corn Variety .279 
Coming Farmers' Meetings .280 
Muck Soils and Lime .281 
Plowing Manure Under .281 
Sow Sweet Clover Seed Now .281 
The Value of Coal Ashes .281. 282 
Planting Pumpkins With Corn.282 
Wireworms In Potato Soil .284 
Hope Farm Notes .286 
Small Potatoes for Seed .287 
The Farmer and the City Hunter.289 
Crops and Farm Notes .300 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
A Winter’s Day With the Sheep.269, 270 
The Food Price of Milk .271 
Guinea Pigs .272 
That Skunk Dog .286 
The Towner Milk Market Bill .289 
Will Start Ox Farming .292 
Cows Shrink In Milk .292 
A Small Flock of Sheep .292 
Building a Sguare Silo .292, 293 
Grain With Low-protein Roughage .294 
Dairy Rations Without Silage .294 
Improving a Dairy Ration .294 
Ration With Cow-pea Hay .294 
Ration With Rye Middlings .294 
Ration for Holstelns Unbalanced Ration.294 
Ration for Young Pigs .294 
Ration for Grade Jerseys .294 
Slaughter-house Waste for Hogs .295 
Beet Pulp and Leaves as Silage .296 
Too Much Protein .296 
Digester Tankage and Stale Bread .296 
Feeding Thin Calf .296 
Rye for Milch Cows .296 
Fattening Cow .296 
Cost of Live Stock .296 
Ration Low In Protein .296 
Lung Worms .298 
Foul in Foot .298 
Occluded Tear Ducts .298 
Itch .298 
Blood In Milk .298 
Ailing Ewes .298 
Proud Flesh .298 
Quidding Feed .298 
Infected Eyes .298 
Fistula; Lameness .298 
THE HENYARD. 
Pullets Cease Laying .29? 
Economizing Grain; Burnt Wheat .297 
Incubating Turkeys and Chicks Together.297 
Scaly Leg; Longwing; Incubator Stock.297 
Flagstone Floor for Henhouse .302 
Black Minorca Fowls .302 
Frozen Comb .302 
Heating Small Brooder House .302 
Value of Sunflower Seed .302 
Commercial Squab Culture .302 
Handling Ducks .303 
Poultry With Colds .303 
Marketing Water Glass Eggs .304 
Fowls for Table Use .304 
Turkeys With Crooked Breastbones.304 
Poor Laying .304 
Small Eggs .304 
Selecting Breeding Stock .304 
Dairy Feed for Hens .304 
Fowls in Small Space .304 
Egg-laying Contests .305 
Brooder House .305 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Cover Crops for the Hudson Valley.270 
Platform Wagon for Orchard Work .270 
Brown Rot of Plum .272 
Grapes In Maryland: Pine Posts .272 
Euonymus from Cuttings .272 
Growing the China Aster .273 
Notes from a Maryland Garden .277 
A Fruit Grower’s Travels. Part 1.277 
Transplanting Wild Evergreens .282 
Western N. Y. Horticultural Society, Part II....283 
Sunscald Upon Apples .287 
Norway Spruce for Windbreak .287 
WOMAN AND HOME. 
From Day to Day .290 
Seen In New York Shops .290 
The Rural Patterns .290 
Learning to Read Without Books .290 
Conserving the Food Supply .291 
Embroidery Designs .291 
Small Economies .291 
Notes from Delaware .291 
Connecticut Imperial Cake .291 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
New York State Grange .274 
Cement Floor Outdoors .276 
Outlawed Account .278 
Disposition of Property by Will .278 
Buying Property at Tax Sale .278 
Tuition in High Schools .278 
Rights Under Contract .278 
Closing Road .278 
Distribution of Estate .278 
The Township System of Schools, Part III.279 
Return of Life Interest in Property .278 
Signing Lease by Agent .278 
Events of the Week .280 
Keeping Water Out of Cellar .284 
How Tree Stumps Are Killed .284 
Power from Three-inch Stream .285 i 
Blue Clay; Fireplace Radiator .285 j 
More About Concrete Tile .285 | 
Sawdust on Cement Floor .285 i 
Whitewash or Lime Paint .285 | 
Editorials .288 I 
The State Constabulary Bill .289 | 
Concrete Foundation Wall .295 I 
A Woman on Blacksnakes .295 j 
Notes from Department of Foods and Markets. .297 
Stray Bees .303 | 
Products. Prices and Trade .299 I 
Publisher’s Desk .306 I 
Buffalo Markets 
Potatoes continue at top prices, being 
quoted wholesale at .'P2..36 to $2,60 per 
bu,, with upward tendency. Bermudas 
are ,$8 to $1) per bbl. and sweets .$1,50 
to $2.25 per bu. hamper. Apples have 
not advmnced and are in good .supply at 
.$•*> to $5.50 per bbl., down to 7.5 cents per 
bu. for low grades. The market is quiet. 
Beans are still at top prices, $7 to $8 
per bu. for the various grades. Onions 
are firm at $5 to .$5.50 per bu., which 
is a very high price, for home-grown yel¬ 
low. and $4 per sack for Havana. 
Strawberries are scarce at 25c to 32c 
for southern, with little demand. Cran¬ 
berries are dull at $3.50 to .$5.50 iier bu. 
Southern fruits are easy at $2.7.5 to 
$3.50 per crate for oranges and $:>..50 to 
$4.2.5 for lemon.s. A few limes sell at 
$1.25 per 100 and grapefruit is $3 to $4 
per box. 
Butter has advanced to 44c for be.st 
creamery, with best dairy .37 to 38c, 
roll butter 35c, and poor 28 to 20c. 
Cheese is unchanged, hut firm at 26e 
for best domestic and 22 to 2.3c for fair 
to good. The egg market is sti’ong, on 
account of cold weather, but increased 
receipts are looked for at once. Best 
white hennery 4t)e, and storage not be¬ 
low 43c. 
All vegetables are firm and will be 
likely to remain so till the weather 
abates, in spite of the appearance of 
some Spring sorts from Florida. Xew 
cabbage is $2.75 to $.3 per hamper, new 
beets are 65 to 75c per dozen bunches. 
'Pexas spinach is $2 to .$2.25 per basket, 
liorhouse cucumbers are .$1.7.5 to .$2.25 
))er do; ■'•hV tomatoes, southern, .$2..50 
to .$4.50 per carrier. In home-grown 
vegetaiiles lettuce is most plenty, at $3 
to $4.50 per hamper and endive about 
the same price. lYax beans are .$,5 to 
.$5.50 per hamper; beets, old. $‘2 per bu.; 
cabbage, old. ,$5 to .$6 per 100; carrf)ts, 
81.50 per bu.; celery, Florida. $2.2.5 to 
$2.75 per crate; par.snips $1.50 per bu.; 
turnips ,$2.25 to $2.50 for yellow and 
•81.75 to $1.85 for white. 
I’oultry is scarce and active, especial¬ 
ly live, as the Winter has not been fav¬ 
orable to the marketing of it. Turkey is 
28 to 30c per lb., live; fowl, 21 to 2.5c; 
old roosters 18c; ducks 23 to 26c; geese 
18 to 20c; chicken 22 to 26c; capons 
.3.‘> to .‘14c. Dressed poultry is about .3c 
liigher than live. Rabbits are still oT- 
ft red freely at 45 to 50c per pair for 
gt>od cottontails and 75 to 00c for jack.s. 
Hay has not changed in price materially 
this Winter, being $16 to $17 per ton- 
for Xo. 1 Timothy and .$14 to .$15 for 
Xo. 2. j. w. c. 
We get .30 and .34c for our butter; 
40c for eggs; $1.75 for potatoes. 
Delaware Co., X. Y. ir. s. n. 
Potatoes are being cleaned up at $2 
per bu. by the car. Wheat .$1.75 to 
$1.82, according to quality; cabbage .$80 
Iter ton. Hay $18 per ton; .straw $16; 
corn $1.20 per«bu.; oats 68c. Bran .$.35; 
middlings .$40; dairy cows .$40 to .$75. 
llilk .Sc Iter qt.; butter .3.5c. Hoi’ses 
$1’2.5 to $200; mules .$.*100 to .$475 per 
pair. Fowls 20c per lb.; eggs 45c. 
.Schuykill Co., Pa. i. e. a. 
68 Tfearso/ftuntKfto^^ 
in this Gmi 
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Year of Years to Plant Potatoes 
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If your problem is to decide on 
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European farmers use 600 
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American farmers, on the aver¬ 
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The average European yield of 
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