RURAL NEW-YORKER 
997 
EGG-LAYING CONTEST 
Connecticut Contest 
Following ia the record at Storrs, 
Conn., for week ending August 7, and 
total to date: 
Barred Bocks. 
Merritt M. Clark, Conn. 
Michigan P. Farm, Mich. 
A. B. Hall, Conn. 
Jules F. Francais, h. I. 
Hampton Institute, Va. 
Fairflelds Poultry Farms, N. H. 
Norfolk Specialty Farms, Ontario... 
Kodman Schaff, N. H. 
Bock Koso Farm, N. Y. 
'White Bocks. 
Holllston mu P. Farm, Mass. 
Benjamin P. Low, N. H.. 
Albert T. Lenzen, Mass. 
Buff Bocks. 
Koshaw Farms, Conn. 
A. A. Hall, Conn. 
"White Wyandottes, 
A. L. Mulloy, Conn. 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
A. L. Vreeland, N. J. 
Grant Buler & Son, Pa. 
Joseph Moreau, R. I. 
Obed G. Knight, R. I. 
Brayman Farm, N. H. 
Beulah Farm, Ontario . 
Vine Hill Farm, Mass. 
Mrs. R. W. Stevens, N. Y. 
Everett E. Wheeler, Mass. 
J. E. Watson, Conn. 
Tom Barron, England . 
Harry Kendall, N. Y. 
Jay H. Ernisse, N. Y. 
Nybrook Farm, L. I. 
Buff Wyandottes. 
H. P. Cloyes & H. R. Sullivan, Conn. 
Dr. N. W. Sanborn, Mass. 
Bhode Island Beds. 
Frank E. Turner, Mass. 
Frank B Turner, Mass. 
Colonial Farm, N. H. 
A. B. Brundage, Conn. 
Hlllvlew P, Farm, Vt. (U. 0.). 
Homer P. Deming, Conn. 
Charles O. Polhemus, N. Y... 
Pequot Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Springdale Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Laurel Hill Farm, R. I. 
George W. Harris, Conn. 
Harry B, Cook, Conn. 
A. "W. Rumery, N. H. 
F. M. Peasley, Conn. 
Allan’s Hardtobeat Reds, R. I. 
Glenview Poultry Farm, Conn. 
Fatherland Farm, Mass. 
Jacob E. Jansen, Conn. 
Royal Farms, Conn. 
Conyers Farm, Conn. 
Plnecrest Orchards, Mass. 
White Orpingtons. 
Obed G. Knight, R. I. 
Harry Paxton, N. Y. 
'White X,eghoms. 
'A. B. Hall, Conn.. 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pa. 
Jay H. Ernisse, N. Y. 
Broad Brook Farm, N. Y. 
J. O. LeFevre, N. Y. 
Rollwood Poultry Farm, Conn. 
W'm. L. Gilbert Home, Conn. 
Francis F, Lincoln, Conn. 
P. G. Platt, Pa. 
Koshaw Farms, Conn. 
F. M. Peasley, Conn. 
Chas. Heigl, Ohio . 
Tom Barron, England . 
Will Barron, England . 
J, Colllnson, England . 
Abel Latham, England . 
Bushkill Poultry Farm, Pa. 
A. P. Robinson, N. Y. 
Eglantine Farm, Md. 
Frank R. Hancock, Vt. 
Margareta P. Farm, Ohio . 
Merrythought Farm, Conn. 
E. A. Ballard, Pa. 
W. E. Atkinson, Conn. 
Hilltop Poultry Yards, Conn. 
N. W. Hendryx, Conn. 
Clifford I. Stoddard, Conn. 
George Phillips, Conn . 
Hampton Institute, Va. 
Toth Bros., Conn. 
White Leghorn Club, 111. 
Oak Hill Estate, Pa. 
Geo. A. Stannard, Kansas . 
Jas. F. Harrington, N. J. 
H. W, Colllngwood, N. J. 
Windsweep Farm, Conn. 
Windsweep Farm, Conn. 
W. J. Cocking, N. J. 
M. J. Quackenbush, N. J. 
Dr. E. P. Holmes, Maine. 
Hlllview Farm, Mo.. 
Conyers Farm, Conn. 
Hillside Farm, Conn. 
Silver Campines. 
Eugene Van Why, Conn. 
Dneowa Campine Yards, Conn. ...... 
Totals .. 
W eek Total 
, 
1457 
39 
1410 
20 
1068 
23 
1231 
30 
1075 
37 
1680 
35 
1192 
27 
1307 
il 
1240 
44 
1439 
33 
936 
34 
1250 
22 
1276 
22 
978 
25 
1237 
27 
1516 
41 
1260 
34 
1298 
30 
1361 
35 
1362 
40 
1338 
30 
1210 
21 
1233 
T 34 
1329 
n 29 
1096 
25 
1148 
34 
130 
43 
994 
31 
1346 
29 
1124 
33 
1485 
31 
1276 
41 
1264 
26 
1322 
38 
1187 
18 
1164 
38 
1458 
20 
1187 
35 
1352 
31 
1406 
35 
1259 
24 
1214 
20 
1448 
29 
1210 
36 
1392 
33 
1061 
47 
1573 
24 
1147 
13 
860 
26 
1419 
21 
999 
27 
1149 
30 
1370 
26 
1363 
8 
1096 
41 
1526 
47 
1629 
42 
1355 
40 
1291 
43 
i»a2 
34 
1130 
54 
1397 
48 
1328 
33 
1235 
46 
1377 
53 
14,36 
29 
1)69 
30 
1048 
40 
1169 
35 
1362 
33 
1306 
35 
1344 
46 
1815 
39 
1391 
32 
1498 
32 
1131 
41 
1399 
38 
1606 
30 
1343 
38 
1617 
45 
1228 
47 
1625 
26 
1259 
34 
1005 
23 
979 
33 
1372 
39 
1270 
47 
1493 
27 
1291 
43 
1323 
47 
1565 
48 
1606 
44 
1238 
51 
1351 
46 
1249 
28 
1219 
26 
1344 
33 
1333 
29 
1091 
37 
939 
3390 
129681 
In an Old White Linen Dress 
(Contimied from page 988) 
voice agaiu. I knew I must come right 
here tonight and ask you to marry me. 
Will you, Emmy? I need you so.” 
‘Robert,” her voice faltered as her 
eyes wandered to the suitcase. Yes, she 
must tell him that it was not from choice 
she had worn he old white linen dress. 
She drew away from hie outstretched 
arms and groped for the right words. 
Then in broken sentences she told the 
story of the blue foulard dress she had 
left behind. She tried to give her story 
a humorous turn, but her words trailed 
out into a tearful whisper as she finished. 
“So you see, Robert, I’m not calm, and 
sweet and gentle and all that you think. 
I’m-” 
“I wouldr^t have you different, dear, 
not the least in the w’orld.” He held her 
fast and she clung to him, shaken by sobs 
and happy laughter, while he smothered 
her lips in kisses. 
Simple Science 
(Continued fi-om page 983) 
ing this. Still, there ai’e cases where 
something of the sort seems to be needed, 
and here is a mixture which is harmless, 
and if the last two items cost too much 
you can as well leave them out: Pow¬ 
dered talc, 13 ounces; boric acid, 2 
ounces; salicylic acid, % ounce; benzoic 
acid or sodium benzoate, ounce. 
F. D. c. 
Cracking of Baking-powder Bread 
Why does a loaf of baking powder 
bread always crack lengthwise? Can it 
be prevented? I never have this trou¬ 
ble with raised bread. mbs. w. g. r. 
Raised bread rises because the yeast 
plant feeds on the sugar and starch and 
makes carbonic acid gas. As the loaf is 
warmed in the oven the plants act fast¬ 
er at first and then are all killed by the 
heat, which, meanwhile, is expanding 
rather gently the gas they have made. 
At the same time the gluten, the gum, 
of the flour used with water, makes the 
dough rather sticky, and the outside of 
the loaf has dried and begun to bake, 
thus _ making u sort of skin to hold the 
gas in for a while. Even though this 
skin bakes to a very tender crust, it is 
rather tough when wet or even when half 
baked, and rather ela.stic, too, so even 
though the gas expands it tends to 
stretch over the loaf and hold the gas 
till the last momeut. 
Baking powder bread is raised by the 
carbonic acid gas set free from bicar¬ 
bonate of soda, (rarely carbonate of 
soda), by some acid, the exact kind of 
acid differing according to the powder, 
hut always a harmless one. This action 
of the acid on the soda begins just as 
soon as the powder is wet or even moist¬ 
ened, and is greatly hastened by heat. 
So that, since the quicker the making the 
better it raises, in baking powder bread 
the flour scarcely gets a chance to get 
gummy, and in the oven the gas goes off 
promptly, raising the bread after a fa.sh- 
ion, to be sure, hut breaking the outer 
skin as it goes. It breaks down the mid¬ 
dle because there is the most strain and 
least strength. There may be some trick 
to beat the baking powder; if so we 
would be glad to hear it. To wet up a 
part of the flour with some of the water 
before the powder was added might help. 
F. D. C. 
Cleaning Out a Sink Drain 
What acid will cut the grease in a 
drain from a kitchen sink? MRS. G. H. B. 
New York. 
Acids are of no use in these cases; it 
requires an alkali, soda lye, or caustic 
soda, which is sold in small cans under 
several trade names. The contents of a 
can of this, containing about 13 ounces, 
is dissolved in two gallons of water, and 
brought to a boil in an iron kettle, and 
caustic fluid, with all precautions consid¬ 
ering its very dangerous character, is 
poured slowly into the drain and fol¬ 
lowed by at least four times the volume of 
boiling water. If you can get at the far 
end, to stopper it, the lye may be let 
stay in the pipe for an hour or so and 
then washed out with the boiling water. 
More than one treatment will probably 
be required. f. d. c. 
Water Glass Discolored by Oak 
I used an oak butter-tub for preserv¬ 
ing eggs in waterglass. The liquid turns 
a dark reddish color. Is there anything 
poisonous about this? What is it? 
S. B. 
You merely extracted, with the excess 
alkali of the waterglass, some of the 
natural coloring matter of the oak, plus, 
perhaps, some of the color which had 
been used in the butter. It will not hurt 
the quality of the eggs, unless it gives 
them an “oaken” flavor, which I would 
hardly expect, but some of the color may 
transfer itself, i.e. “dye,” the shell, but 
this would be harmless. Some of the 
reactions of these organic coloring mat¬ 
ters are only to be determined by experi¬ 
ment. Oak hark or chips will dye in an 
acid bath, leather gets its color that way, 
but I do not know what it will do in an 
alkaline hath. There may he a trace of 
iron in the waterglass, and in that case 
the whole thing will slowly turn to ink 
and the shells will dye black, but in any 
event there is nothing poisonous present. 
F. D. C. 
Preserving Powders 
I have received a sample of a preserv¬ 
ing powder. Do you think it is right 
to use those things? G. A. S. 
Freeport, Me. 
A sample of the same article reached 
our hands also, and has been examined. 
It is a mixture of sodium sulphite and 
boric acid, the sulphite, with the acids of 
fruit, gives a little free sulphurous acid, 
which is a fairly active germ-killer, and 
the boric acid is also a mild disinfectant. 
As the sulphurous acid soon goes over to 
sulphuric and as the boric acid is rather 
colorless stuff, harmful perhaps in quan¬ 
tity, but surely not in the amounts or¬ 
dered to be used, we find it hard to he 
convinced that anyone’s stomach is go¬ 
ing to he hurt by the amounts that they 
would finally get in a saucer of rasp¬ 
berries, say, some time next Winter. 
The real reason why this sort of thing 
should not be used is that at best they 
are not very efficient, and are liable to 
fail unexpectedly, and by depending on 
them the canner is less likely to use 
properly fresh fruit and take care. If 
only first-class fruit or vegetables are 
used, and the work is done right, these 
preservatives are not needed, so why take 
a chance? f. d. c. 
Philadelphia Wholesale Markets 
BUTTER. 
Market is strong on practically all 
grades. Prints especially scarce. Fancy 
creamery, 42 to 43; good to choice, 39 
to 42. Prints, 44 to 45. 
EGGS. 
New laid of uniform quality, very 
scarce. Fancy nearby, 45 to 46; gath¬ 
ered, best, 37 to 40; lower grades, 33 to 
36. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls and chickens in moderate sup¬ 
ply and selling fairly well. Fowls, 23 
to 25; roosters, 16 to 17; chickens, 25 to 
30; ducks, 17 to 19; pigeons, pair, 22 to 
28. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Demand good and market higher. 
Fowls, 24 to 26; broilers, best, 38 to 40; 
medium to good, 30 to 35; ducks, 21 to 
22; squabs, 11 to 12 lbs. to doz., $4 to 
$4.65; lighter, $2.40 to $3.75. 
FRUITS. 
Picked apples in good demand; peaches 
steady; muskmelons rather slow. Ap¬ 
ples, bu., 50 to $1.75; peaches, crate, 
$2.50 to .$3.75; muskmelons, Maryland, 
bu., $1 to $2.25. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes steady; onions doing better. 
Potatoes, bbl., $2 to $3; %-bu. bkt., 40 
to 65; sweets, hbl., .$6 to $7; onions, %- 
hu. bkt., 60 to 65; mushrooms, lb., 25 to 
40. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay market slow, especially on the 
medium and under grades. No. 1 Tim¬ 
othy, $20.50 to $21; No: 2, $18 to $19; 
No. 3, $15.50 to $16.50; Clover mixed, 
$14.50 to $18.50. Straw, rye, $12.50 to 
$13.50; Oat, $10 to $11.50. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers, $9.50 to $12.50; hulls, $7 to $9; 
cows, $6 to $8.50; calves, $10 to $14; 
sheep, $6.50 to $10.75; lambs, $9.50 to 
$15; hogs, $14 to $16. 
Rochester Markets 
The Southern potatoes are now rapid¬ 
ly being replaced with home-grown sup¬ 
plies. The new tubers are selling for 
$4 to $4.50 per barrel. The first home¬ 
grown sweet corn of the season was sold 
at 40c a dozen ear.s. Peas have been 
selling well at $1 per bu.shel and green 
beans at 30 to .35c per basket. A small 
offering of beets moved at 10 to 15e 
per dozen bunches. Tomatoes quoted at 
$1 per basket. All vegetables are now 
growing well and a marked increase in 
the offerings is expected soon. Other 
truck was quoted as follows: Cucum¬ 
bers, 30 tO' 55e peir dozen; Summer 
squa.sh, 60 to 75c dozen; green onions, 
8 to 10c dozen; turnips, 35 to 40c bas¬ 
ket ; cabbage, 40 to 60 q dozen; lettuce, 
10 to 1.5c; carrots, 10 to l‘2c; parsley, 
20c; rhubarb, 15 to 20c; butter beans, 
30c ha.sket. 
Raspberries have been moving at firm 
prices. Buyers paid 14 to 16c quart 
for r('d caps, 10 to 12c quart for blacks 
and He quart for Shaffer berries. Red 
currants sold for 6c pound, whites at 
7o and blacks at 9a Sour cherries 
brought 6c a pound. Apples were plenti¬ 
ful at 40e per basket and peaches sold 
at $1 per basket. For evaporated ap¬ 
ples dealers were paying evapoa-ators as 
follows: Prime, 1916, bags, 814c lb.; 
choice, 1916, hags, lOe lb.; fancy, 1916, 
bags, lie Ih.; cores and skins, 1916, 
2%c lb.; chops, 1916, 2%c lib. 
Live poultry met with a good inquiry, 
buyers paying 20 to 22c a pound for old 
fowls and 24 to 25c a pound for broilers. 
Live ducks sold at 19c a pound. Eggs 
were quoted at 36 to 38c a dozen by 
some sellers, and 40 to 45c by others. 
Country butter brought 30 to ,35e a 
pound; cheese, 24%c. a. h. p. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Society of American Florists and Or¬ 
namental Horticulturists, New York 
City, August 21-2.3. 
Summer meeting New York State Po¬ 
tato Association, Kasoag. Oswego Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y., August 25. 1917. 
Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, August 
22-31. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, August 
27-31. 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, August 
.31-Sept 9. 
Kankakee Interstate Fair, Kankakee, 
Ill.. Sept. 1-7. 
Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept. 
2- 9. 
Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, 
Sept. 3-7. 
Minnesota State Fair, HamHne, Sept. 
3- 8. 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association, 
annual convention, Stamford, Conn., 
Sei)t. 5-6. 
Illinois State Fair, Springfield, Sept. 
7-15. 
Solebury Farmers’ Exhibit, Solehury 
Deer Park, Solehury, Pa., Sept. 7-8. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 10-1.5. 
Agi’icultural Society of Queens-Nassau 
Counties, seventy-sixth annual exhibi¬ 
tion, Mineola, N. Y., Sei)t. 25-29. 
American Poinological Society, regular 
biennial meeting, Boston, Mass., Oct. 31- 
Nov. 4. 
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Standard S. C. W. LeghomM 
and White Rocks 
Line-bred and trapnested. The blood 
of Storrs and Vineland winners. 
PULLETS for Sale to begin laying 
from August to November. 
Cockerels and Hens 
EVERGREEN FARM. Chappaqua, N. Y. 
1 ^ ^ LEGHORN PULLETS FOR SALE-April 
■ 1 5-J hatched—farm raised—REYNOLDS 
^ ^ FARM, R. F. D., ANNANOALE, N. J. 
S. O. W. Leghorns. 8c. andnp. Money 
refunded for dead chicks. Cir. free. 
W. A. LAUVEK, McAlisterville, Pa. 
Chicks 
F or SAI,B—MAKCH AND APRIL HATCHED 
PULLETS. Parks’ 200-egg Barred Rock strain. Also 
■Whita Wyandottes. CHAS. MANLEY, Braintree, Vt. 
F OR FALL AND EARLY WINTER EGGS. LANSING’S LATINS 
LEGHORNS, tl.15. E. 0. LANSING, ROMULUS. NEW YORK 
Tom Barron I White Leghorn 
WyckoffStriinS.C.W.Loghorni ~ 
Satiafaetion guara nteed. J. M. OASE.Gilboa.N.Y. 
Sau HiceBarred RockCockerelo Hiwarurr.";.;; 
100 White Plymouth Rock Hens 
One yaar old. Large, vigorous and healthy birds. 
Priea, 81.50 each. IRVINS>. FAVOR. Jr., Kyaenke, H. t. 
Whifal Bffhorns Males.SI.SOeach 
lATiiia "nnoLOgnOrnS giiipp^d on approval. 
Blverdala Ponltry Farm, Box 165, Riverdale. N. J. 
. Eke* chicks in season. 
A. C. JONES. Marvel Homestead Farm, Georgetowfi. Delaware 
S. C. Rhodelsland Reds NeV Y^"'k® s h o w s 
two consecutive years. High-grade utility breeding 
stoc^ also eggs for hntcliing. Send for circular. 
MAPLECROFT FARMS, Box R. Pawling,N.Y. 
j l5 per lOO 
140 per 1,000 
siLvtH, wniit XNU COLUMBIAN DAlrlM niieLllNive 
WYANOOTTES.S.C.R.I.REOS and r9Kin UUCKIIIIgS 
Aldham Poultry Farm, R. 34, Phoenlxville, Pa. 
Leghorns-Banon-WyandotteSera’pKrlduced: 
Pullets and cockerels from imported stock, records 300 to 
2S2. Imported hens with records over 260, very reasonable. 
Tested yearling cocks. Ds Isrrsn Fsrm, A. I, CsnnsUtnUs. Ps. 
Pullsi$andCocksrelsB'!5ia'g,kf« 
Wyandottes. R. I. Reds, Black Minorcas and Silver 
Campines. Maple Cove Poultry Yards, R. 2, Athena, Pa. 
fin RdoI Rraail* Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Hares 
UU DBSI DiBBUS Dogs and Cavies. Stock and Eggs, 
Catalogue Free. H. A. SOtTDEIt, B ox 2», 8.ll«r.TiU«,ra. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
"Specially bred for heavy eoo-pradnetion." Bred for many 
generations from higli-record hens. 1,000 selocted 
breeding hens and cockerels at $1 and $1.60 each. 
Mu.st have room for growing stock. Buy early and 
save money. O.W. I.O NQE.NKOKEK, Bos SU. ElizabethtoTm, Ps. 
THE “MOHEGANITE” STRAIN 
Of S. C. White Leghorns and Rhode Island Whites, “8 
hens in 1,” from trapnested ancestry, recording ISO to 250 
eggs in pullet year. Prime pullets $1.10, August delivery; 
yearlings $3,60. MOIIEUAN FARM, Box ¥, Pe.ksklll, K.V. 
WANTEDiar.f»'leghorn 
Belmar, N. J. 
April, Full Barron Il^n. Te.SyH.?rn.?^. 
BARRON’S LEGHORNS 
6 hens of 248 to 260-egg itock, mated to cockerel (314- 
egg stock) for $10. Pullets of same stock $2 each. 
K. CLAUDK JONES . CraryvlUe, N. Y. 
For Sale-800 S.C. White Leghorn 
Hens for breeders. tlOO per 100. 
year-old Lay i ng 
GEORGE GRIGG, Sorntrs. N. T. 
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ana baby chicks must understand that they are assuming 
soma risk when ordering from a distance. For the most part 
eggs and chicks carry safely, but sometimes rough hanoling 
by the azprass companies or exposure to heat and cold causes 
dsmago. That egn fail to hatch or chicks die is not conclusive 
evidence of bad faith on the part of the seller, and wo shall 
not consider claims on that basis. To avoid controversy 
buyer and seller should have a daAnita understanding as to 
the responsibility assumed in case of dissatisfaction. 
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