CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, OCTOBER 20, 1917 
FARM TOPICS 
Another Sermon on Alfalfa.1199,1200 
Wheat Yield and Cost.1200 
"Easy Money” on a Farm.1200 
Winter Seeding Sweet Clover on Sand.1200 
A Crop Fertilized by Fire.1201 
Overloading Motor Trucks.1201 
Hope Farm Notes.1206 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Cost of a Cow.1200 
Crisis in Milk Business.1209 
The Future eof Dairying—Part 1.1216 
THE HENYARD 
The Cost of Poultry Production.1200 
The Guinea Fowl.1220 
HORTICULTURAL 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.1209 
WOMAN AND HOME 
A Knitting Question.1202 
Tlirashing Day.1210 
A Letter From Canada.1210, 1218 
The Tale of the Clock. 1211 
A Notable Farm Book..1211 
Russian Women Soldiers.! . . . 1211 
A Purchaser for Beavers.1211 
The Little Folks.1212, 1213 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks.... 1214 
The Home Dressmaker.1215, 1218 
Untrained Children .1219 
Notes on Meat Canning.1219 
A Time-tried Friend of THE R. N.-Y.1222 
Despoiling the Good Samaritan.1222, 1224 
Farmer and Editor.1224 
Friends in THE R, N.-Y. Family.1224 
Always on the Job.1224 
Soap for DentriSce.1224 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Prejudices About Food.1200 
Care of Sick Canary.1202 
The School Law.1202 
Egg Substitutes.1203 
Dried Pumpkin .1204 
Smudge to Prevent Frost Damage.!!l203 
Making Hard Cider Into Vinegar.1203 
Dyeing Fur.1203 
Celery Salt.1203 
Rendering Cheese Digestible.1203 
Grindstone or Emery Wheel for Tool Shar-. 
ening . .1203, 1205 
Rhubarb Cooked m Galvanized Vessel.1205 
Freezing of Water Under Pressure.1205 
Qualities of Cocoa; Nuxated Iron.1205 
Bottling Spring Water.1206 
Deed of Gift to Insolvent Son. 1206 
Distribution of Estate.1206 
Editorial .1208 
Notes from Department of Foods and Mair- 
kets . 1221 
Letter from Million-Acre Wheat Committee!! 1209 
Publisher’s Desk.1226 
Crops and Farm News 
The crops in thi.s .section are very 
poor; vheat about 20 bn. to acre, oats 
.•! 0 , rye 12 ; the beau crop a failure, uot 
over 8 bn. per acre, and some planters 
will not get their seed back,' some hardly 
worth haiwestiug .and the best not 
o\a‘r 10 bn. I fail to find one 
field ilO per cent normal. Onions 
good; not many jiotatoes raised here; 
:ipl)l<'S a failure; corn uot over half 
< roi); Inlying late, most of it put up in 
Septemlier and some in October. ■V\''hoat 
sowing is late and it is cold and wet; 
lias rained for a week. Many fields of 
beans green, need two tveeks of good 
weather. Cows from .875 to .81.50, all 
kinds of stock very high. Eggs 44c; but¬ 
ter, ;50c.; wheat, .82.05; rye, .81.00; buy¬ 
ers are talking .80 for beans. Can some 
wise man tell me how we can raise 
lieans for .80, with seed at $12 per bn. 
and fertilizer . 8-10 per ton, and yield 0 
to 8 bn. per acre? w, w, K. 
Ifiviiigston Co., N. Y. 
This is a dairy country, the milk goes 
to IMttsbnrgh, Pa. The wet weather and 
scarcity of help makes it very unfavor¬ 
able for the farmer, some are so much 
discouraged that they have begun to sell 
off their diaries. Owing to wet Aveather 
corn was planted a month late. Although 
the frost has not done much damage as 
yet—only on the low lauds—as there, is 
v(‘ry little prospect of its ripening, the 
farmers are putting it in their silos. 
Of the large acreage of oats, about a 
third was drowned out. About the time 
it was filling out, the weather was dry 
and hot, and consequently the grain is 
rather light in Aveight yet; much of it 
is .standing out in shocks. Little thrash¬ 
ing has been done throughout the 
county, and raining every few days. More 
bnckAA’heat then usual put in, hut a 
very poor crop. Applo.s, almost an en¬ 
tire failure. Potatoes on uplands doing 
well. Xot much Avheat raised in this 
jiart of the country; some hay not cut 
yet. All farm work is dragging, another 
year it means smaller crops and dairies, 
netting the crops Laiwested is onr 
greatest difficulty. All the help obtain¬ 
able is by exchanging AA'ork with neigh¬ 
bors. Vvd Avork from 14 to 15 hours pej^ 
day, and yet Ave are not considered the 
“laboruig class” by mir law maker.s. 
Ashralinla (’o., (). j. At. c. 
Buffalo Markets 
The Fall frosts have at last OA’ertaken 
the crops, and corn, tomatoes and the 
like are not growing any more. SAveet 
corn has done pretty well, but the field 
corn crop in this section is light, on ac¬ 
count of inability to get it planted in 
time and the Avet Aveather afterwards. I’o- 
t a toes will be a light crop here. They 
often rottfol in the ground and they grew 
indifferently if they did come up. Beans 
Avill hardly be a half croj); Often none 
grew. The one big Fall crop is piaicbes, 
as the |>ri<-cs show. K.iist'rs will sell them 
for 50 cents a bushel, especially if the 
buyer will take them away and perbaiis 
ifick them. The city wholesale price is 
.”5 t(^ 00c iier l-.’l-ini. basket. Almost 
everything else is going up. Apples are 
firm at .81 ti -82.2.5 jier bushel, with .Tona- 
than up to 80>.50 per bbl. Pears are .$2 
to .83.75 per bn. for Bartlotts and Duch¬ 
ess. Plums are identy at 30 to 40c per 
7-lb. basket, with inaines going to 45c. 
Grapes are coming in Avell. but the 
later picking will be hurt by frost. They 
sell !it 12e per pony basket, up to 7oc for 
20-lb. basket. Galifornia tokay.s are plen¬ 
ty. retailing at 8c per lb. Mn.skmelons 
are still plenty, at 40e to .81 jier flat for 
(dd sorts, and $1.25 to $1.50 for the new- 
honey dews, Honthern fruit is not so 
.strong. Pineapples are out of market, 
bananas sell at .81.2.5 to $3 per bunch and 
retail at 12o jicr dozen up. Oranges are 
$.3..50 to <84 and lemons $0.50 to .87.50 pi-r 
box; limes, .80 to DOc per 100. 
P>eans, from being practically prohib¬ 
itive in price, liaA-o adA'anced 50c per bn., 
selling as high as $0.50 for best grades. 
'I’he local crop is small and poor. Onions 
are firm at .83 to $3.25 jier 100 lbs. foi- 
Western and $1.75 to $2 per*1111. for home¬ 
grown. 1‘otatnes retail at .81..50 per bii. 
and niiw.-ird. 'I'hi'.v cannot be bought for 
less than $1.3.5 at wholesale. Sweets are 
.$3.50 per bbl. for, Virginias. I'egetables 
are ea.sy, as the farmers are rushing them 
in to aA’oid the frost. String beans ave 
$1.50 to $2.25; carrots, ,50 to 75c: canli- 
llower. $1.7.5 to .82..50; eggplant, .$1.25 to 
81.50: siiimich, 05 to S5c; tomatoes, ."Oe 
to .81.25, and yclloAV ttirnips, 40 to 50c, all 
tier bn.; I.ima beans. 18 to 20c per qt. ; 
celery, 35 to 70c for State per bunch; 
cucumber jiickles, 50 to OOe per 100; cab¬ 
bage, -822 to $25 per ton ; lettuce, 50 to 
OOo per 2-doz. box ; iVinter squash, $.3 to 
$4 per 100 lbs. 
Dairy products and eggs continue to ,a<l- ; 
A’ance. butter selling at 47c for best cream- ! 
ery; 41 to 44c for dairy ,; 38 to 42c: for 
crocks, and 30 to .37c for poor gr.ados. 
Cheese i.s firm and higher, 28 to 20c for 
best domestic, and 25 to 20c for loAver 
grades. Eggs are 55c for Avbite hennery, 
40 to 50c for mixed, and 42 to 48c for 
storage. Famiers are not feeding expen¬ 
sive grain much to poultry. 
Poultry is in light supply, Avith price.s 
firm, at 3.3 tr> 34c for turkeys, frozen; 27 
to 30c for fowl, 31 to 32c for broilei's, 21 
to 22e for old roosters, .33 to 34c for 
capons, 2(5 to 37c for frozen ducks, and 18 
to 10c for frozen geese, 'rnrkeys are in 
small supply and not offered other than 
frozen, which jirice is about 2e per lb. 
loAver than dressed fowl. J. av. c. 
WANTED! 
For a Country Club in Illinois 
An experienced Truck Fanner, married; wife 
to look after a couple of cows and chickens; 
board and room; state wages expected. Perma¬ 
nent position with advancement. 
Apply No. 2544, care RURAL NEAV-TORKER. 
On/ BestProducingDairy Farms 
in thii section, containineabout 200 acres, well wa¬ 
tered, eood buildings, silo, convenient to Railroad 
and Creamery. For particulara apply to 
ARTHUR DANKS, Mgr., Allamncby, M. J. 
Subscribers* Exchange 
If rou want to buy or aell or oxehanco. make !t known hare. 
Thta Rate will be 6 Cents a word, payable In advance, llm 
name and addreaa moat be counted aa j>art of the advertise* 
ment. No dlapl^ type need, and only Farm Products, Help 
and PosMona Wanted adautted. F^r aubseribers only. 
Dealers, iobbera and ffeneral manufaciorers’ announcements 
not admitted here. Poultry, Eras and other live stock adver¬ 
tisements will ao under proper beadinaa on other paaes. 
Seed and Nursery advertisements will not be accepted for 
thia column. 
Copy muat roach us not later than Friday morntni 
to appear in the foitowins week's issue. 
Farm Help 'Wanted 
WANTED—Reliable man to care for hoga and 
cattle; also good teamster. A. M. HONE, 
Lyon Farm, Lyons Falls, N. Y. 
W-4.NTED—Married man without children to 
Avork on stock and fruit farm; a good oppor¬ 
tunity for the right parties. l’LEA,SANT GROA’E 
FARM, Conottou, Ohio. 
WANTED—Family to run boarding house; man 
for general farm work; wife to cook for 18 
to 25 boarders. Heat, electric ligbt.s, no wash¬ 
ing. NO. 2543, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Farmer and wife or sister to work 
on small Connecticut farm; man to do farm 
wok, woman to help in owner's house and 
creamery. NO. 2547, care Rural New-Yorker. 
W.ANTED—Active man or woman or good boy 
for Avork on modern poultry farm; give age, 
references, nationality, jioultry experience. If 
any, etc. NO. 2558, care Rural NcAV-Yorker, 
W.ANTED—For March next, competent farmer. 
about 40 years old, to Avork 35 acres near 
Round Brook, N. J., on salary and shares; soil 
in good shape; large asparagus beds, orchard 
and pasture; team and tools on the place; de¬ 
sirable arrangement will be made Avith first-class 
man. “FAUMElt,” Box One, Bound Brook, N. J. 
WANTED—I’ractical farmer with good re<'ord 
for honesty and ability to operate dairy 
(Ouernseys) and poultry farm in Orange County. 
Attractive offer. STANDARD DRUG CO., Hud¬ 
son Terminal, New York City. 
WANTED—A cook capable of doing good all- 
rotind cooking for a househohl; no upstairs 
work requircil, or laundry; location sixty miles 
from New York City, .Address NO. 25tio, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
AA'-ANTED—Fsirracr and wife as manager of 
dairy larm in New Jersey; expcrieuitsl in 
growing crops, handling cows, etc.; house and 
hoard given: rel’enmces reipiired. No. 2 , 5 (: 7 . rare 
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Save your grain 
A concrete feeding floor .saves all your grain—no feed i.s trampled 
in the dirt. You save all the manure too. 
The concrete floor is sanitary — no cracks for vermin—easily 
cleaned by flu.shing. It i.s permanent—won’t rot or decay — needs 
no repairs. 
You and a farm hand can build a concrete feeding-floor, 2 ox 15 
feet and 4 inches thick, in a few days, Avith ordinary tools. Use 23 
bags of Atlas Portland Cement, i cubic yards of sand, 3 /^ cubic 
yards of pebbles or broken stone, and about 100 feet of i-inch 
boards for forms, including stakes for holding forms in place. Find 
out from your Atlas dealer how little these materials cost. 
How to build a concrete feeding floor 
F,.xcavale to a good firm base 2 inches 
below the surface. Back the soil well. 
For an apron—to keep bogs from rooting 
under thg pavement—dig a trench 6 inches 
wide and 8 inches deeper than the base of 
the floor. Use i-inch boards for outside 
forms, liigh enough to come 2 inches above 
the ground. 
Mix concrete, t part Atlas Cement, 2 
I>arts sand and 4 parts of pebbles or crushed 
stone. Fill the trench and form for the 
apron first. Place the floor in sections, $ 
feet wide and the width of the floor — 
removing the inside form and filling the 
next section as the concrete begins to 
liarden. Finish with a wooden float. 
Full direction.s are in the new Atlas Farm Book — and it tells hoAV to 
build concrete floors, foundations, walks, Avatering trough.s, manure-pits, 
and other improvements for the farm. Ask your Atlas dealer for this 
book or send us the coupon beloAV. 
The Atlas Portland Cement Company 
MeJitber of the Portland Cement A ssociation 
New York Chicago Phila. Boston St. Louis Minne.apolis Des Moines Dayton Savannali 
The Atlas Portland Cement Co., 30 Broad Street, New York, or Com Exchange Bank Building, Ciiicago. 
Send free Atlas farm book. I expect to build i ___ 
Name and .Addre.^s, 
POT’LTRYMAN—AA'antod at once a practical 
married man, caiiuble of taking full cliarge of 
plant. Wages, 875.00 per month and excellent 
Inmgalow, fuel and light furnished. Give full 
particulars. WM. BAIItD & SON, Cambridge 
8 prings, I’a. 
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, 
WANTED—Position as farm manager by mar¬ 
ried man; 12 years’ experience all branches of 
farming; strictly sober and relialile; good ref¬ 
erences. LESLIE E. THOMPSON, Springfield 
Center, N. T. 
WANTED—Position aa working farm manager; 
American; married; lifetime experience "^tli 
all kinds of farm machinery, stock, poultry, 
testing milk and a good butter-maker; best ref¬ 
erences. J. W. SLOAN, Springfield Center, N. Y. 
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—On or after November 
1 st, by successful farm foreman; married; 
small family; best of references. Address NO, 
2486, care Rural New-Yorker. 
AGRICULTURAL school graduate seeks position 
as dairyman or herdsman; three years’ A.R.O. 
experience. NO. 2562, care Rural New-Yorker. 
POSITION WANTED November 1st on large 
and well-equipped farm where there is chance 
for advancement; South preferred; American; 
single; age 28; life experience; state wages and 
particulars in first letter. NO. 2561, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
FARM MANAGER, ready for engagement No¬ 
vember 1st; forty; English; married; two 
children; years of practical, successful experi¬ 
ence In farming and dairying; five years In one 
position; do not use liquor or tobacco; ample 
reference given; reasonable salary, with house 
and usual perquisites. NO. 2563, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
H017SEKEEPE11 wishes position in country or 
suburbs; experienced in all housework and fa¬ 
miliar with farm work. NO. 2.559, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
FRTTIT Sl’EC'IALIS'r, agricultural college gradu¬ 
ate, with life experience in general and dairy 
farming, desires yiosition as manager of farm or 
estate. NO. 2565, care Rural New-Y'orker. 
AFTER January 1st, if not employed by the 
Government in i)oultry extension work, I 
would accei)t a position as suiwrinteudent on a 
praetical poultry plant: I have had 30 years’ 
practical training in every branch of the indus¬ 
try. For further particulars, address BOX 376, 
Wakefield, R. I. 
YOUNG married man with college training de¬ 
sires position as working manager on dairy 
farm wliere good results are wanted. NO. 2564, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
POULTRYMAN, scientific and practical experi¬ 
ence, desires position as manager inmltry plant 
or geijtleman's estate; excellent references. A. 
irOtil'R.'iNK, 124 Cbundler St., Boston, Mass. 
YOUNG FARMER, 22, siiort course graduati-. 
desires position; gentleiiian's small general 
farm in Nortlieru New Jersey: 6 years’ expio-i- 
ence; understands automoldles; wages., 835; be -1 
references. CARL I’A.SC.VL, Osceola I'arnis, 
Cranford, N. J. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
TO RENT, Of run on sliares, with the privilege of 
buying dairy farm, 75 to 109 acres tillaiile 
land. NO. 25t>0, care Rtiral New-Y’orker. 
wanted—B y experioiieed fanner and siei. 
farm; equipped, on sliares, or rent; iiiiderstaii 1 
all branches of farming and trucking; niusi I.- 
good productive soil; no other considered; Ne'.v 
Y'ork or New Jerse.v preferred. A. MITClli:i.l. 
A SON, Box .541, Monsou, Mass. 
FOR SALE—Poultry farm, .52 acres; 1.000 liirds, 
incubators, equipment, stock, crops; 7-rooiu 
bouse, improvements; county seat; 84,000; casii. 
$3,5(X»; mortgage. AVM. HOLZAPFEL, T-.iiis 
River, N, J. 
Miscellaneous 
PURR VERMONT MAPLE SiTGAR AND BYRUT 
—Best syrtu) in two-quart cans, 8,5c. ItKON- 
DALB FARM, East Hardwick, Vt. 
HAY FOR SALE—ALBERT PUTNAM, Sprakers, 
N. Y. 
SAVE SUGAR! Use pure extracted buckwheat 
honey. $1.40 delivered in second zone. Money 
order or check. HARRIS’ REE Y.VRD, Jeffer¬ 
son, N. Y. 
WANTED—Car cheap clover bay for cattle. A. 
S. BELL, Ashley, Pa, 
WANTED—Second-hand Cypliers or Prairie State 
incubators; large size; must be in good order 
and cheap; or I will give Wlilte I’iyinoutli Ro<-k 
pullets in exchange. L. IT. MYERS, Selkirk, 
N. y. 
FOR SALE—A Chase tractor and plow, very 
reasonable; now working; not a new macliine, 
but a good one: no further use for same. NA¬ 
TIONAL DEFENSE ORGANIZATION, 109 Sum¬ 
mit Ave., Summit, N. J. 
1,200-EGG Hall incubator; first-class condition; 
little used; $1.50; also Candee sections, $37..59 
each. A. H. PENNY. Mattituck. N. Y. 
EXCHANGE two nearly new Columbus Surreys. 
5Vant Pigs, Chickens, Milch (Joats, etc. J. 
Ct. SMITH, Box 108, Morgantown, W. Va. 
WANTED—100 tons baled Alfalfa. M’rite im¬ 
mediately, stating price. A. .\I. HONE, I.you 
Farm, I.yons Falls, N. Y. 
WANTED—1.200-egg Candee Incubator. E. T. 
CROWE, Adrian, Midi. 
FOR SALE—C.vphers, Prairie State Inculiators; 
Candee, 1,800, .$125; 3.000, $200; several New¬ 
town Colony brooders. JUSTA I’UULTRY FARM, 
Southampton, L. I. 
FOR SALE—-All kinds of live stock and farm 
machinery. The Consolidated Farms, at 
Somerville, N, J., having decided to reduce op¬ 
erations, will dis;K>se of a imrtiou of its equip¬ 
ment and rent 20 excellent farms. Comiuuni- 
eate 'vith C. DR5'S1).\LE BLACK, Agriculturist, 
233~Brbudway, New Y’ork, 
