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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, OCTOBER 6, 1917 
FARM TOPICS 
The Fanner Says, "Forward, March!”.1147, 1148 
Fall Seeding of Sweet Clover.1148 
No Pods on the Beans.1148 
Some Notes on Land Values.1148 
Increase Fertility with Straw.1143 
Unusual Plowing Methods.1151 
Storage Cellar of Cement Blocks.1151 
A Homemade Sundial.1151 
Deepening a Well.1151 
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.1153 
Asparagus on Long Island.1153 
Wheat Prices .1167 
Hope Farm Notes.1154, 1165 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.1164 
LIVE STOCK AND DIARY 
The Milk Situation.1157 
A Day on a Dairy Farm.1160 
Cabbage for Live Stock.1160 
Feeding Calves .1160 
Milking Heifers .1160 
Beef Cattle in New England.1162 
Dairy Ration in New York.1162 
Calves and Separator Milk.1162 
THE HENYARD 
A Ration of Cold Chicken Facts.1148 
The Egg Contest.1165 
Loss of Feathers.1166 
HORTICULTURE 
The Himalaya Blackberry in California... .1149 
Orchard Land as Loan Security,.1149, 1150 
Shape of Sugar Maple.1155 
The Peach Borer and His Work.1155 
Seed with Guaranteed Label.1155 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day......1158 
Christmas Packages for Soldiers and Sailors. 1168 
The Rural Patterns.1158 
Seen in New York Shops.1158, 1159 
Saturday’s Baking .1159 
Embroidery Designs .1159 
Cold Weather Washday Help.1159 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Boston Markets .1150 
Notes from Department of Foods and Mar¬ 
kets .1152 
Farmer for the Legislature.1157 
Spirit of the City Papers.1157 
Events of the Week.1164 
Publisher’s Desk .1166 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest prices 
noted here, but represent produce of good qual¬ 
ity and the buying opportunities of at least half 
of New York’s population: 
Butter—Prints . S .50 @$ .52 
Tub . 
.49 
Eggs—Best . 
C3 
.65 
Gathered good to choice.. 
.55 
(a). 
.60 
Medium grades . 
.45 
.52 
Potatoes, lb. 
. 03% <3! 
.04 
Cabbage, head . 
.08 
.10 
Lettuce, head . 
.05 
(0! 
.10 
Fowls, lb. 
.30 
(3 
.32 
Chickens, lb . 
.38 
.42 
Peaches, 16-qt. basket. 
. 1.25 
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RECEIPTS AT NEW YORK DURING WEEK 
ENDING SEPTEMBER 26. 
Butter, lbs.3,280,980 
Eggs, doz.2,421.240 
Dressed Poultry, pgs. 14,276 
Cotton, bales . 
. 37,404 
. 44,805 
. 899 
. 46,942 
. 36.344 
. 86,088 
. 8,400 
. 3,661 
Oats, bu.•. 
Rye, bu. 
Wheat, bu. 
. 940,000 
. 136,300 
. 350,000 
. 15,175 
Spts. Turp., bbls. 
I'lIILADELPHIA WHOLESALE MARKETS 
BUTTER. 
Market firm, except on unattractive qualities, 
tlie proportion of which is rather large. Best 
creamery, 46 to 47; common to good, 42 to 44; 
prints, i53 to 54. 
EGGS. 
Choice new-laid very scarce; lower grades 
dull. Best nearby, 50 to 51; gathered, good to 
choice, 42 to 44. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Business dull. Fowls, 23 to 27; chickens, 23 
to 26; ducks, 20 to 22; guineas, pair, 45 to 50; 
pigeons, pair, 20 to 25. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Fowls and facny chickens scarce. Fowls, 29 
to 32; roosters, 20 to 22; chickens, 28 to 36; 
turkeys, 20 to 25; ducks, 25 to 26; squabs, doz., 
$2.50 to $5.25. 
FRUITS. 
Apples, choice varieties, bbl., $4 to $6; %- 
bkt., 50c to $1.25; pears, bu., $1.25 to $2.50; 
peaches, %-bu. bkt., 40c to $1; crate, $1.25 to 
$2..50; grapes, 15-lb. bkt., 50 to 70. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes and onions selling slowly. Potatoes, 
bbl., $2..50 to $3.50; %-bkt., 70 to 85; sweets, 
bbl., $2.50 to $3.50; cucumbers, bu., $1 to $2; 
onions, $1.25 to $1.75; celery, doz., 25 to 75. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers, $11.75 to $14.75; bulls, $6.75 to .$9; 
cows, $5.25 to $8; calves, $11.50 to $16.50; 
sheep, .$8.50 to $12; lambs, $14 to $17.50; hogs, 
$20 to $20.75. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Timothy, No. 1, $21.50; No. 2, $20 to $20..50; 
No. 3, $17 to $18; straw, rye, $13 to $14; 
wheat and oats, $10.50 to $11.50. 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2 red, $2.26; corn, No. 2 yellow, 
$2.22 to $2.25; oats, 65 to 66. 
Most of the crops were looking good 
until the hard frost of September 11. 
Buckwheat is scarcely worth cutting, ex¬ 
cept a small percentage of early sown. 
Most of the corn was immature, and all 
was frosted. Potatoes, our largest money 
crop, are no better, if as good as last 
year, with the rot added to it. Dealers 
are trying to get carloads at $1 per bush¬ 
el. Oats looked good in field, but light 
on ground, and a good many fields yield¬ 
ing lightly. Dairy cows are bringing 
good price, although some are selling their 
dairies, as feed is so high. Some good 
wheat raised around here. Hay was a 
bumper crop, with barns filled and some 
stacks. Beef, meat and hide, at 12 to 
12% cents a pound. Teals are bog- 
dres.sed and shipped to New York mostly. 
Pork is high in price and no large amount 
around. But few sheep ^'ept here. Large 
quantities of poultry are being shipped 
to the city markets, as feed is so high and 
local egg prices are not high enough in 
proportion. E. G. 
Otsego County, N. Y. 
Visitor: “How does the land lie out 
this way?” Native: “It ain’t the land 
that lies; it’s the land agents.”—Credit 
I.ost. 
WANTED! 
Farm Superintendent 
1 am looking for a good man, whose 
record will bear the fullest investi¬ 
gation, to take charge of my farm 
of 130 acres in New England. He 
must be married and his wife mutt 
be a good butter-maker. Will pay 
good wages to the right man and 
furnish house (furnace heated) 
with bath and hot and cold water. 
Apply FRANK PRESBREY 
456 Fourtli Avenue New York City 
Subscribers’Exchange 
If you want to buy or sell or exehansre. make it known here. 
This Rate will be 5 Gents a word, payable In advance. The 
name and address must be counted as part of the advertise¬ 
ment. No display type used, and only Farm Products, Help 
and Positions Wanted admitted. For subscribers only. 
Dealers, jobbers and fireneral manufacturers’ announcements 
not admitted here. Poultry, Egrt^s and other live stock adver¬ 
tisements will go under proper headiners on other pages. 
Seed and Nursery advertisements will not be accepted for 
this column. 
Copy must reach us not later than Friday mornine 
to appear in the following week*s issue. 
Farm Help Wanted 
WANTED—Capable, energetie man of sterling 
character, to operate 60-acre place near Boon- 
ton, N. J., on shares; dairy and orchard exi)eri- 
ence required; give references. NO. 2527, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
HELP WANTED—A young man over 18 to do 
general work in garden and about house and 
as soon as possible run a Ford ear for errands. 
Good wages for the trustworthy man. ELM 
VALLEY FARM, Bedford, N. Y. Tel. 116. 
WANTED—Experienced man to test and stand¬ 
ardize cream for shipping; also for sterilizing 
cans, milking machine, separator, etc. Apply 
LYON FARM, Lyons Falls, N. Y. 
POULTRYMAN—Wanted at once a practical 
married man, capable of taking full charge of 
plant. Wages, $75.00 per month and excellent 
bungalow, fuel and light furnished. Give full 
particulars. WM. BAIRD & SON, Cambridge 
Springs, Pa. 
HOFSEKEEPER for widower on farm; two 
small girls. Address C. C. IJAMES, Wake¬ 
field, Kansas. 
WANTED—Help for general hons.ework; mod¬ 
ern improvements; family small; good home, 
good wages; gentleman’s place; no children. 
HILL ACRES FARM, High Bridge, N. J. 
FARMER to take charge of 80-acre farm near 
Philadelphia; modern Improvements; no chil¬ 
dren; state age, experience, salary and refer¬ 
ences. Address J. H. McNEAL, Liberty Build¬ 
ing, Philadelphia, Pa. 
WANTED—Single man to work in cow barn on 
modern dairy farm; must be good dry band 
milker and do other chores; wages, .$40 per 
month and board; permanent position. Address 
.T. S. HATHORN, Rose Hill Farm, Geneva, N. Y. 
ENERGETIC farmer, for 500 acres, interested in 
apple industry, Red Hook. Wonderful oppor¬ 
tunity. Address OHANLER, 147 East 19th 
Street, New York. 
wanted—A t once, to fill positions vacated by 
draft, two unmarried men on a commercial 
Leghorn farm in Pennsylvania; 1,800 layers; 
one must be a practical poultryman who under¬ 
stands Hall incubator, raising chicks, candling 
eggs, etc.; the other man a helper; the two men 
will room together and be furnished board; 
state wages expected, experience and references; 
a permanent position for tlie right men, who 
may expect advancement if worthy. NO. 2538, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Reliable boy, 16 or 17, on small 
farm; good home; state wages and references. 
WM. H. PANCHER, Oliverea, N. Y. 
Situations Wanted 
OPEN for engagement from Nov. 1st to April 
1st in Florida; twenty years experience in 
marketing fruit and produce; competent to 
manage large acreage, L, A. Page, Palmyra, 
N. J. 
WANTED—By December first, position as man¬ 
ager of large estate; two positions for the 
past twenty years; best of references as to 
ability and character. Address NO. 2492, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
W.\NTED—Position as farm manager; life ex¬ 
perience; American; best of references; mar¬ 
ried. J. O. GIBBS, JR., care of general deliv¬ 
ery, New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 
FARM or estate manager at liberty October Ist; 
Danish, age 38; thoroughly understands care and 
operation of modern machinery; life experience 
in rotation of all kinds of crop®, raising of pure¬ 
bred domestic stock; practical knowledge of 
vegetables and flowers; not afraid of work; will 
board help; no children; graduated from the 
Royal Danish Farm College (3 years); best of 
references. NO. 2524, care Rural New-Yorker. 
SITUATION AVANTED—On or after Nov. 1st, 
by successful farm .foreman; married: small 
family; best of references. Address NO. 2486, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
COUPLE, at present employed, seek position 
together, preferably on fruit farm; man 
(American) capable of managing orchard work 
or in any responsible position with fruit; has 
had also general farm experience and college 
work; wife good cook and seamstress; under¬ 
stands American-French kitchen; references. 
NO. 2526, care Rural New-Yorker. 
EXPERIENCED single man, middle age, com¬ 
petent to perform, oversee or manage any 
work belonging to fruit and general farming, 
dbslres a position after December 1. II. 
.SONNICHSEN, Germantown, N. Y. 
HERDSMAN desires position; experienced cer¬ 
tified milk production, A. R. feeding, calf 
raising; married; A1 references. NO. 2536, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
W.INTED—Position as caretaker of country es¬ 
tate by young woman of practical experience 
in the care of stock where own three head 
could be accommodated; Massachusetts, Con¬ 
necticut or Eastern New York preferred. NO. 
2534, care Rural New-Yorker. 
A YOUNG MAN desires position on poultry farm 
where there is an opportunity to learn. Ref¬ 
erence given. NO. 2531, care Rural New-Yorker. 
SITUATION WANTED—Head gardener or estate 
manager; life experience in gardening and 
farming; 14 years in last place. JOS. WIDLY, 
care of Al. Riedel, 155 E. 75th St. New York. 
FARM OR ESTATE MANAGER—Married, 
college training, ten years experience in prac¬ 
tical farming, especially dairying. Will be open 
for position Oct. 15th. Can furnish first-class 
references. Temperate and good manager of 
help. NO. 2530, care Rural New-Yorker. 
SUPERINTENDENT—Open Oct. 31. Thoroughly 
experienced in all branches farming, stock 
raising, poultry raising and care of same. None 
but those near school and church considered. 
References exchanged. BOX 303, Westbury, 
N. Y. 
POU’LTRY MANAGER, married, thoroughly 
competent, desires situation; 13 years’ experi¬ 
ence on large plants; finest references. NO. 
2533, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POULTRYMAN desires position as manager on 
private or commercial plant; 6 years' prac¬ 
tical experience; college training; best of refer¬ 
ences as to character and ability. NO. 2515, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
YOUNG MAN, now on poultry farm, desires po¬ 
sition on a commercial poultry farm; refer¬ 
ences; strictly temperate, non-smoker and esi)e- 
cially good at raising young chickens, care of 
fowls, etc.: state wages paid, etc. Address 
NO. 2520, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc- 
200-ACRE dairy and grain farm for sale, to set¬ 
tle an estate near New Egypt, within five 
miles of Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. NO. 
2506, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM WANTED for about $3,500; equity in 2- 
family house in Arlington, N. J.; will add 
small amount cash. HARRY VAIL, New Mil¬ 
ford, Orange Co., N. Y. 
FOR RENT—Fruit farm, 7 acres fully set and 
under prime cultivation; fine chance for one 
or two young men. NO. 2.537, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FOR SALE—.54-acre farm; stock and crops in¬ 
cluded; bargain; must sell. N. ROSENBERG, 
East Nassau, N. Y. 
WANTED—To buy farm near R. R. station and 
school; creamery; moderate price; Orange Co. 
preferred. P. 0. BOX 13, Lincoludale, N. Y. 
WANTED—To rent on shares, a good modern 
farm. NO. 2525, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—One of the best 96-acre farms in 
New Jersey; on Pennsylvania Railroad. NO, 
2535, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—On shares, farm; high state of cul¬ 
tivation; up-to-date buildings, fine stock, tools, 
etc., by high-grade man. NO. 2528, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK lias investigated 
my references and found them all right. I 
want to buy through same modem equipped 
farm with at least 40 milk cows, more than 
200 acres. NO. 2504, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED TO RENT—Farm with stock and 
tools, with privilege of purchase; near good 
market. New York or Penna. preferred. E. P. 
BANNING, Pavilion, R. 36, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Boarding house and farm, 136 acres, 
Freehold, Greene Co., New York, 18<X) feet 
altitude; best view entire Catskill Mountain 
range. Fine swimming pool; accommodation for 
75 guests; large barn; garage; ice house; other 
out-buildings. For particulars, address FRED’K 
B. MONTFORT, Mineola, New York. 
SON DRAFTED—Must sell 180 acre farm, 100 
acres apple orchard. See apples on the trees. 
Make offer. MRS. E. F. STRAIGHT, Holland, 
Mich. 
50-ACRE FARM in New York State, 90 miles 
from New York City. Equipped especially 
for poultry and with a well-established trade in 
that line, but adapted for dairying also. All 
buildings in best of repair. House, all im¬ 
provements. $8,.500 with stock, equipment and 
good will; $6,000 farm only. NO. 2532, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Miscellaneous 
WANTED—^Locust logs and lumber. C. C. GAL¬ 
BRAITH & SON, 47-49 West street, N. Y. 0. 
"WANTED—Second-hand Cypher Company incu¬ 
bators. SANDY KNOLL HATCHERY, Mc- 
Alisterville, Pa. 
FOR SALE—New Deering 6-roll Husker and 
Shredder; has husked less than 50<) bu. 44 
CHURCH ST., Lyons, N. Y. 
FOR S.\LE—All kinds of live stock and farm 
machinery. The Consolidated Farms, at 
Somerville, N. J., having decided to reduce op¬ 
erations, will dispose of a portion of its equip¬ 
ment and rent 20 excellent farms. Communi¬ 
cate with 0. DBYSDALE BLACK, Agriculturist, 
233 Broadway, New York. 
FOR SALE—Appleton 4-ron husker; cutter bead; 
good condition; .$225. W. J. HAINES, Elk- 
ton, Md. 
SASH WANTED (second-hand hotbed); state 
price and condition. R. B. CHIPMAN, Clif¬ 
ton Heights, Del. Co., Pa. 
WANTED 60 busliels of wheat and 60 bushels 
of oats. F. FREYER, East Northport, L. I. 
WANTED—Car load of Mangel Beets or Golden 
Tankards. Also car load of chicken cabbage. 
LAURELTON FARMS, Lakewood, N. J. 
NEW one-horse disk, grain and fertilizer drill, 
Chatham fanning mill and cider mill; cheap 
if sold now. BOX 158, Williamsport, Ohio. 
WANTED—Muskmelons, grapes, pears, peaches 
and apples from producer to consumer. R. W. 
READ, Poland, N. Y. 
WANTED—500 bushels beets or carrots; quote 
price f. o. b. Lake Placid. SMYRNA WOOD, 
Lake Placid, New York. 
FOR SALE—4,800-egg Candee Incubator, com¬ 
plete; $300.00 net casli; 1,200 Newtown Giant, 
new, $175.00 net cash. HORTON’S PT. POUL¬ 
TRY FAR.M, Southold, L. I. 
