IShe RURAl. NEW.YORKER 
1277 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
I 
October 25, 1917. 
Egos. —Fancy nearby whites scarce and 
liigher. Fancy hennery whites 08c to 70c; 
fancy hennery browns, 52c to o9e; nearby 
gsithered whites and mixed, 50c to 00c. 
Candle your eggs before shipping, and do 
not pack cracked eggs. Use new <'ase 3 
with new flats and fillers, placing excelsior 
on top and bottom. 
P.tTTXKR. —Market firm and higher. Ilest 
Western creamery, 45i4c to 46c; prime to 
fancy, 45c; fancy Eastern dairy, 42c to 
44c; Eastern dairy in mixed packages, 
40c to 43c. 
Five Poultry. —Market dull and lower; 
fowls, white, 10c; colored, IS'c to 19c; 
chickens, 18c; State ducks, 23c to 24c; 
old roosters, 16c. Live rabbits, 25c. 
empty coops 
All empty coops are turned over to the 
exj)re.ss companies promptly afier arrival. 
^Ve obtain a receipt for them. SVc arc 
exerting every effort to induce the exjn-ess 
companies to return them to the shipper 
promptly. Shippers who do not receive 
the coops promptly should write us for a 
copy of the express receipts, and have 
their local agent trace the shipment or as 
a last resort, file claim with their local 
express agent for their loss. 
Live Calves aa'd TTogs. —Market un¬ 
steady, p'-ime calves, 16c to 16i^ ; fair to 
good, 14%c to l594c; common, 11%c to 
14%c; buttermilks, 8c to 9c. Live hogs 
lower, 16e to 16t{.c. 
Dressed Calves and Dressed Pork.— 
Market dull and light receipts. Choice 
veal.s, 21c to 22c: prime veals, 2(j^ to 
20% ; common veals, 17c to 18c; butter¬ 
milks, 13c to 14c; dressed pigs, 12 to 20 
pounds each, 24c to 28c; dressed pork, 
22c to 27c; dressed hothouse lambs, 24c 
to 28c. 
Pears. —Market lower, Kieffer j>ear 
mai-ket demoralized on account of sugar 
famine. Fancy Kieffer, .$.3 to $3...50; or¬ 
dinary .$1.50 to $2.50 barrel: Seckel, .$.5 
to $9 barrel; Anjou, $3 to $6; Pose, .1^1 
to .$8; Clairgeau, $4 to .$7. 
QnNOFS.—Fancy large, .$5 to $5.50; 
No. 1, $3 to .$4.50. Little demand for 
<iuinces on account of the sugar famine. 
Crapes. —Concord, ton, $40 to $75; 
Niagara, ton, .$40 to $70; Delaware, ton. 
$60 to $100. 
Apples. —Fancy apples are selling free¬ 
ly at h’gh i)rices. There is also a good 
demand here for ungraded stock at from 
$3 to .$4..50 barrel. McIntosh, ,$.3 to .$7; 
.Tonathan, .$.3 to $7; Wealthy. .$3 to .$6; 
Snow’, .$.3 to .$.5..50; King, .$2.,50 to .$.5..50; 
^>py. $4 to $6.50; Paldw’in, .$.3..50 to 
$5.50; Ben Davis, .$2.50 to $4; Creening, 
$.3.50 to $6; Pippin, $.3..50 to .$5.50. 
Maple Products and Honey. —Sugar, 
light, pound, 15c to 10c; syrup, gallon, 
$1.2.5 to $1.40; clover white extracted, 
14c to 16c; buckwheat, extracted, 12c to 
14c; clover, comb honey, 16c to 20c 
pound. 
I’otatoes. —Potato market fully 50e 
lower than last week. Trading has been 
very slow during the first four days of 
this week. Arrivals show wide range of 
(piaMty. N. Y. State bulk 180 pounds, 
.$4.75 to $5; N. Y. State 1.50 pound bags. 
.$4 to .$4.25; Maine 180 pou'uks bidk. $5 
to $5;.50; 16.5-pound bag, .$5 to $.5.25; 
.Ters»‘y, round, 168-pound bag, .$4.50 to 
$4.75; Jersey long, 168-pound bag, .$.3..50 
to .$3.75. 
Onions. —Market lower, trading t|uiet. 
State white, 100-pound bag, $2.75 to 
.$3.50; State yellow, .$2.75 to $.3.r^; State 
red. .$2.50 to .$3; Conn. Valley, yellow, 
$2.75 to $3.25. 
Beans. —Marrow, 14c to 15%>c; pea, 
I3%c to 1.5%c; red kidney, 1.3c to 14c; 
white kidney, 1.3%c to 1.5c. 
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS. 
'I'lic officials in charge of the food and 
drug act report that inspectors have found 
several interstate shipments of packages 
of fruit and vegetables such as grape.s, 
tomatoes, and berries, which contain no 
statement on the package as to the (pianti- 
ty of contents. The net Aveight amend¬ 
ment to the Federal Food and Drug Act, 
Tecpiires that all packages of foods Avhich 
are shipped into the interstate or foreiirn 
commerce must be marked plainly anl 
conspicuously with a statement of the 
quantity of the net contents either by 
weight or measure. Shippers wdio violate 
the law, by not marking each package of 
fruits or vegetables shipped into inter¬ 
state commerce with the quantity, are 
liable to criminal prosecution Several 
shippers have ah'cady been cited to heai‘- 
ings under the food and drug act for 
violating the provisions in this respect. 
Buffalo Markets 
I'resh eggs are quoted in the next 
• ounty at 44e to the_ farmer, having lately 
been 38c, but the city wholesale px'ice is 
60e. The wholesale city price of potatoes 
is 50c per bushel more tlian the price 
to the farmer. They are also going up, 
as is also cabbage, as well as beans and 
poultry. 
Peaches are getting dry and often are 
frosted, at 3.5c to $1 per 1-3-hu. basket; 
pears, $1 to .$2.25 per bu.; apples, $1 to 
.$2225 per bu.; prune.s, .38c to 40c per 7-lb. 
basket, plums bcTig out of market; grapes, 
20c to 22c per 7-lb. basket, or .$60 per 
ton, many of them frosted ; muskmelons, 
2.5c to 35c for home grown, per small 
basket and $L25 to $1..50 per fiat for 
honeydew’S. 
I’otatoe.s arc going up, in spite of the 
big crop reported by the Dovernment, be¬ 
ing $1.60 to .$1.70 per bn. for whites and 
$1.80 to .$1.90 per h.ampei* for Jersey 
sweets. A good supply from Michigan is 
underselling the home crop. Onions are 
also higher, $2 to .$2.25 per bu. for home¬ 
grown and .$3 to .$3..50 per KXl-lb. bag 
for Western. Beaus ai’e back to $11 for 
best gi-ades, hav’ng lately been .$9. The 
comparative failure of the local crop ap¬ 
pears to have been general. Southern 
fniits are steady, with lemons up to $7.50 
to $8 per box; oranges, $3.,50 to .$4 for 
Valencias; limes, 80e to 90c per 100*; 
bananas, .$2.2.5 to $4 per bunch for yel¬ 
low, red bananas and pineapples being 
out of market. Vegetables are firm and 
will go higher soon. Lima beans, 30<’ per 
qt.; beets, 80c; caiTots, .50c to 70c; cauli- 
llower, $1.65 to .$2; cucumbers. $2..50 to 
.$.3; eggplant, .$1.2.5 to $1.50; spinach, 60c 
to 80c; tomatoes, .50c to $1.20; turnips,- 
50c to 7.5c, all per bu.; cabbage, $7 to $9 
j)er 100 heads; celery, $1.50 per bunch 
for Western; lettuce, 60c to $1.2.5 per 
2-doz. box; squash, .$2.50 to .$2.75 per 
100 lbs. 
Butter is quiet at 46c for best <Team- 
ery, 42 to 4.3e for best dairy, ,38c to 42c 
for crocks, .35c to 36c for i>oor and 27c 
for ob'oiinircarine. f’heese is only steady 
at 2Tc to 29c for fancy, 25c to 26c for 
fipr. Eggs are dull for high grades at 
.58c to 60c for white hennery, 41c to .50c 
for candled and 40c for storage. The 
weather is cold and rainy, not favoring 
jtroduction. Poultry is active and strong, 
the high jirice of eggs preventing heavy 
offerings. Frozen turkeys are 34c to 3.5c; 
live fowl, 16c to 24c; broilers, 2.3c to 
24c; old roosters, 18c; ducks, 22c to 24c; 
gf'cse, 18c to 19c; dressed poultry brings 
at present .5e or more over live. 
'riie i)roduce outlook is not reassuring. 
Fall frosts have destroyed entire crops 
of tomatoes and taken late corn and 
beans, which were small at the best. 
Vegetables generally are in only fair sup¬ 
ply and they w'll go into Winter storage 
often nipped by frost. Potatoes will be 
a light crop here and apples are in salable 
amount (uily hei'c and there. j. av. c. 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Feeding Roots to Swine 
Brain is very liigb, $4 per 100 lbs., and 
qiiite likely Avill not be niiich cheaper. 
Not an ear of corn in all these parts. I 
have potatoes, carrots, b.-ets and ruta¬ 
bagas and Avill hav’e my buckwheat milled, 
selling the flour and reservMig the oft’al 
for feed, if tliar, is goo<l, ('an you define 
pie a pig ration f 1*0111 these? Last Winter 
I had a lot of apples, potatoes and tur¬ 
nips, Avhich I fed to four pig>;, linisliing 
them AV’th a bushel or so of com and 
tankage. I got them to around 250 lbs. 
in January and to our taste the meat was 
superior (and is now) to mueh Ave have 
bought. I can find nothing on the sub¬ 
ject, and Avill be glad of your help. 
Vermont. L. AA’. 
Henry’s "Feeds and Feeding” contains 
information relative to the feeding of 
roots to P'gs. There is no record, how¬ 
ever, nor have I had any exiierieuce, in 
feeding rutabagas to swine. You can 
make a satisfactory ration by cooking the 
potatoes and adding a slop of buckAvheat 
off’al and wheat middlings. The carrots 
and beets may be chopped and fed raAV 
ad lib’tnm. A ration of 60 parts corn, 
,30 parts middlings and 10 parts tankage 
is a good one to put on the finishing 
touches. H. L. .1. 
Feeding for Advanced Registry Test 
put on the test ration. This ration is lax¬ 
ative and av31 induce the coav to lay on 
the flesh Avhich is so necessary. If the 
rest period comes out of pasture season, 
a.s is most likely the case, there is nothing 
better to supply that pasture succulence 
than good corn silage. This should be 
given ill tAvo feeds, together with tAvo 
feeds of Alfalfa or clover hay and the 
grain mentioned above. Give the cow 
Avhat silage and hay she Avill clean up in 
good shape and supply enough grain (five 
to 10 lbs. ii day) to keep the coav gain'ng, 
so her bones are Avell covered and she 
looks plump Avheii she calves. Some ex¬ 
ercise in the yard is a g<x»d thing for the 
cow duniig til's time. 
When the coav freshens, aside from 
giving a bran mash, kee;) her on the same 
gra'ii ration for tAvo or three days that 
she has had before fresTiening. 
The.grain ration used during the test 
should contain variety and be very pala¬ 
table, A ration of equal parts ground 
oats, brau, gluten feed, dried distillers’ 
grains (T on the market), cottonseed 
meal, oil meal and hominy is a good one. 
The COAV should be changed to this ration 
gradually and the amount given increased 
a pound or tAvo each day or so as the 
cow responds. Watch the cow carefully 
!iud do not feed more than she Avill 
clean up. 
Mangels are a great feed for coavs on 
test. It is a g.xtd plan to feed mangels 
twice a day and s’lage twice a day, feed¬ 
ing the grain on top. This is where the 
cow is milked fovir times in 24 hours, a.s 
is usually the case. Some of our record 
coAvs have consumed 20 to .30 lbs. of grain 
da'ly. The legume hay should be fed 
twice daily throughout the test. The 
cow needs plenty of salt and water. It is 
a good thing to provide the salt in the 
grain, adding 1 per cent to 1% P<'i‘ cent 
Avhen mixing up Avith the ratxm. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
GOMtUiqnDollans 
iobe Saved in ^&ges 
by tire American Dairy Famicf in 
the f ir^t year of our Great 
Military authorities agree with U. S. Senator McCumber that 
the war will put five million Americans into theIrenches. 
Dairymen are asking themselves what they are to do for labor. 
Although I am experienced in feeding 
dii'ry cattle T am hi the dark Avhen it 
comes to feeding for Advanced Registry, 
If you could give some information in 
the TL N.-Y. I would greatly ajipreciate it. 
Massachusetts. 8. 0 . S, 
The first thing to consider is the kinds 
of feeds that are most desirable. For 
roughages: these are corn silag*, man¬ 
gels and clover or Alfalfa hay. The con- 
eentiTlIes that may he used are many, but 
those very desiiTilile are ground oats, 
Avheat bran, gluten feed, (listillers’ or 
brawers’ grains, cottonseCil meal, linseed 
oil meal, hominy and dried beet pulp. If 
oue is go’iig to test a cow for Advanced 
Registry, using the short-time test, it is 
bert to have her freshen in the Pall, Wiii- 
ter'or early Spring mouths. A coav can 
be crowded more in cool weather than 
Avhen it ’s hot. Her milk Avill also test 
higher in cool weather. 
The time to begin to feed a cow for 
test is six Aveeks to two months before 
'the COAV freshens. She should go dry for 
this period, if possibD. If the resting 
period comes during pasture season, let 
the cow run on good pasture, and supple¬ 
ment this with one or two feedings daily 
of Alfalfa or clover hay. A grain ration 
of one part cornmeal, hominy or ground 
oats, one part wheat bran and one-half 
part liu.seed oil meal makes a gooil ration 
to ff'cd until the cow has fre.shened and 
Selling the milk cow for beef doesn’t 
appeal to the dairyman. He is not in the 
habit of dodging a problem. 
In Canada, labor-saving ma¬ 
chinery is lolvin g it. Tractors, 
milking machmes, gasoline 
engines are at work by the thousands. 
What Canada buys is also significant. 
Take the matter of milking machines. 
Much attention is given to labor-sav¬ 
ing and time-saving, economy of 
upkeep and long-wearing ability, 
but the important consideration is the 
welfare of the cow and her con¬ 
tinuous Milk production. 
This is what has made the Empire Milking 
Machine predominate. In less than two years, 
sales in Canada alone have trebled. 
With the Empire Teat Cup, sore teats do not nor 
cannot result—between each two spurts of milk 
the teat is completely relaxed and mas¬ 
saged from tip to udder, precisely as 
when the calf milks, a fact 
which accounts for the usual 
increase in flow when Empire 
Milkers are installed. 
With this practical Milker, many a 12- 
year old boy or girl is replacing two hand 
milkers, at a saving per man of $600 a 
year. Before January 1 st, Elmpire Milk¬ 
ers will have replaced over 100,000 
hand milkers—a saving to dairymen of 
the United States over $60,000,000 
a year. What the figures will total at 
1918 wages cannot even be conjectured. 
With the Empire factory crowded to capacity, 
shrewd dairymen are getting their orders in for 
Empire Outfits while their dealers can take care 
of them. Do this without delay and write im¬ 
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