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zr/ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December lo, 1017 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
Deckmber 0, 1017. 
Eggs. —Market dull on nearby white 
egffs. Most of arrivals are more or less 
mixed with stale or pullet eggs. Fancy 
nearby hennery whites, GO to 70c; nearby 
heunery browns, GO to G2c; nearby gath¬ 
ered whites, 58 to G7c; nearby white pul¬ 
lets, 54 to 5Gc; nearby gathered browns 
and mixed, 50 to 58c. 
EMPTY COOPS. 
N. R.—All empty coops are turned over 
to the express comi)anies promptly after 
arrival. We obtain a receipt for them. 
We are exerting every effort to induce the 
exiiress 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 receipt, and 
have their local agent trace the shipment, 
or as a last resort, file claim with their 
local express agent for their loss. 
Btttter. —Market firm and higher. Best 
Western creamery, 49% to 50c; prime to 
fancy, 48 to 49c: fancy Eastern dairy, 4.S 
to 48e; Eastern dairy in mixed packages, 
44 to 45c; dairy common to fair,,% to 42c. 
Poultry. — Market higher, good 
demand for heavy colored fowls and small 
fancy chickens. Heavy fowls, 24 to 25c; 
white fowls. 20 to 22c; heavy chickens, 
2i^ to 24c; light chickens. 24 to 27c ; old 
roosters, IG to 17c; ducks, 24 to 25c; tur¬ 
keys. 25 to 27c; geese, 21 to Live 
rabbits, 23 to 25c. 
Live Calves and Hogs. —IMarket firm. 
Prime. 1G% to lG%c; fair to good, 15 to 
IGc; common, 12 to 14%e; Kve bogs 
steady, ?1G.25 to .$17.50. 
Dressed Veal and Dressed Pork.— 
Country dressed calves in light supply and 
good demand. Market higher than last 
week. Choice veals, 28 to 28%c; prime, 
21% to 22%o; common, 17 to 18%c: 
buttermilks, 14 to IGc; dressed roasting 
pigs, 10 to 15 lbs., 27 to 28c; IG to 20 lbs., 
28 to 24c; dressed pork, 100 to 200 lbs., 
21 to 22e; 200 to 800 lbs. 20 to 21e. 
.\PPLES. —In moderate supply, market 
higher. Ungraded fruit selling slowly from 
$2..50 to $4. McIntosh, $4 to $7.50; .lon- 
athan, .$8 to $7; Spy, .$8 to .$G.50; Bald¬ 
win, .$8.50 to $5.25; Greening. $4 to $G; 
Beii Davis, .$2..50 to $8.75; King, $8.50 
to $5. 
Mapt.e Products and Honey. —JIaple 
eu*gar, 18 to 20c lb.; syrup, $1.50 to $1.G5 
gal. Honey, white clover extracted, 16 
to 18c; buckwheat extracted, 1.8 to 14c; 
clover comb, 21 to 28c. 
Potatoes. —Potato receipts light, good 
demand for fancy potatoes free from fi’ost 
and disease. The large percentage of the 
arrivals have been more or less frosted, 
and selling at irregular prices. State. ISO 
lbs., bulk. .$8.75 to .$4.25; 1G8-Ib. bags, 
.$8.75 to $4.25; 1.50-lb. bag.s, .$2..50 to 
,$8..50; Maine. ISO lbs., bulk. $4 to .$4..50; 
IGS-lb. bags. $4 to $4..50; Long Islands, 
180 lbs., bulk. $4.25 to $5: 1G8-Ib. bags, 
,$4.25 to $5; .Tersev round. 1G8 lbs., $8 to 
$3.50; .Jersey long, .$2..50 to $2.7.5. 
Onions. —In large accumulation, sell¬ 
ing slowly. Quality poor. State whites, 
,$2 to $2.50 cwt.; yellows, .$2 to $2.75; 
reds, $2 to .$2..50. 
Beans. —Market steady. Marrow, 15 
to IGc; pea, 14% to 15c; red kidney, 15% 
to IGc. 
NOTICE TO shippers. 
The ofiicials in charge of the food and 
drug act report that inspectors have found 
several interstate shipments of packages 
of fruit and vegetables, such as grapes, to¬ 
matoes and berries, which contain no 
statement on the package of foods as to 
the quantity of contents. The net weight 
amendment to the Federal Food and Drug 
Act requires that all packages of foods 
which are shipped into the interstate or 
foreign commerce must be marked plainly 
and conspicuously with a statement of 
the quantity of the net contents, either by 
weight or measure. Shippers who violate 
the law by not marking each package of 
fruits or vegetables shipped into interstate 
commerce with the quantity are liable to 
criminal prosecution. Several shippers 
have already been cited to hearings under 
the food and drug act for violating the 
provisions in this respect. 
Figuring Cost of Wheat 
If Ml'. Baird had to hire the money, 
or pay rent for land on which to raise 
wheat, I do not think he would figure 
$7 rent of land as profit on wheat. 
When a farmer applies stable manure 
to a crop that value of manure isn’t a 
profit on the crop, but an expense on 
the crop, although it is to be figured as 
nothing. Neither would horses or motor 
trucks unused produce a nickel. But 
would he rent such for nothing? I was 
always told the laborer was worthy of 
his hire, but I was once told that my 
strawberries didn’t cost anything because 
I rai.sed them. In the latter case an acre 
of wheat would cost nothing, and the 
whole crop would be clear profit. 
Of course if a farmer wants to, he 
can give the use of his capital, land, 
horses,^ machinery, fai’m manure, and he 
and his family work for nothing and 
board themselves and lay up money in 
bank, but in my opinion the savings 
would be labor income and capital in¬ 
come combined, and not all net profit. 
Vermont. c. E. K. 
Chinking a Log House 
Noticing the inquiry of F. .1. M. a.s to 
“chinking” a log-house, I was much in¬ 
terested, and took the matter up with 
Uncle William Crittenden, who was one 
of your “York State folks,” but has built 
many a log cabin in Michigan. He ex¬ 
plains the “chinking” as done according 
to the accompanying plan, which I hope 
will assi.st F. .1. M.: 
After the logs are in place, a “chink” 
is prepared. This is as long as the logs 
are, and is hewn so ns to fit between 
them. The “chink” is then driven in be¬ 
tween the logs and held in place by hick¬ 
ory pegs driven into the logs above and 
below the “chink.” Then such plaster as 
may be at hand is worked around the 
“chink” and the pegs, and smoothed over 
on the outside. Clay mixed with a very 
little sand works well, but will stand but 
a couple of years. Ordinary lime-sand 
plaster was used whenever it could be 
had. The inside of the log-houso was also 
finished with “chinks” pegged into place 
and generally^ finshed with lime-sand jdas- 
ter. ir. o. c. 
.Mount Clemens, Mich. 
Nux Vomica and Hawks Once More 
On page 1249 is a note on “Nux A'om- 
ica for Foxes.” I remember writing you 
several years ago about killing hawks by 
feeding nux vomic.a to chickens, but you 
didn’t seem to believe the story. Now I 
give it to you again. I feed a level tea¬ 
spoonful of powdered nux vomica in what 
I give to about 40 little chicks, feeding 
crumbled bread, any cold bread left over 
from the family meals, but it is mostly 
cornbread or soda biscuit. I should judge 
any kind of bread or soft dry mash would 
answer the same purpose. Feed once each, 
other day, three days in a week, and the 
hawk tliat eats the little chick will surely 
die. I mean little baby chicks, before 
they are feathered. Nux vomica fed ju¬ 
diciously is a fine tonic; feed it too long, 
and chickens will be mo^y, as though 
they had been doped. Care*’should be used 
in feeding eating sized chickens or laying 
hens, as the nux vomica will be in the 
eggs in sufficient quantity to cause un¬ 
pleasant feelings. 'I don’t know what this 
will do for foxes. A negro woman, a near 
neighbor, was losing some of her hens 
and she suspicioned one of her colored 
nieghbors and fed her hens nux vomica. 
One morning she misfwd a hen that she 
had been feeding with nux vomica, and 
along in the arternoon a child of the 
neighbor came Tunning, saying, “Mam¬ 
my, say, come dar quick ; she believes she 
gwine to die—she got cramps bad.” She 
told the child: “You go on back home, 
Y^our mammy won’t die. I know what is 
the matter; she done eat my hen.” Nu : 
vomica fed to little chicks w'ill kill hawks, 
I know as to that, and if foxes or other 
folks bothered my chickens I would try 
nux vomica. One of my neighbors puts 
strychnine in lard and rubs a little on the 
back of the little chick’s head and kills 
her hawks that way. s, ii. GAirsKn.i.. 
Florida. 
B. N.-Y.—^IN^e have been over this 
many times. Farmers in the South insist 
that the hawks are killed by nux vomica 
fed to the chicks. _ The scientific men will 
not accept the evidence thus far present¬ 
ed, and do not seem to care to settle it 
for themselves. 
Potatoes, wholesale, $1; retail, $1.25; 
beans, wholesale, $6.50 to $7 bu; retail, 
$10, Following prices are, first, whole, 
sale; second, retail. Butter, 44e, 54c,- 
cheese, 23c, .80c; eggs, 50c, 54c. Coal, 
$8..50 ton. Hired men on farms, $40 per 
month and board; the lumber camps pay 
$65 and board. The cold wave and snow 
has come and caught a lot of farm work 
not done. Over 100 acres of potatoes not 
harvested in this county, some silos not 
filled. Those who had potatoes to harvest 
offered to give one-half of crop to get them 
harvested. It looks as though 1918 would 
leave the farmers stripped of help at the 
rate it is going. j. w. c. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
MORE WORK!® 
YOUR HORSESy 
Heavy spring work takes the surplus flesh from 
the horse. His collar no longer fits. His neck 
and shoulders chafe and gall. He 
can’t do his full share of work and you 
lose money. Prevent these evils by 
using TAPATCO Pads. 
A NEW AND BETTER 
HOOK ATTACHMENT 
Consisting of wire staple, reinforced 
with felt washer (note where arrows 
point). This gives the hook a better 
hold and prevents pulling off. The 
weakest point is made strong and 
life of pad greatly lengthened. 
Found Only on Pads Made by Us. 
Look For The Felt Washer. 
SOLD B Y DEALERS EVER 'V’WHERE 
The American Pad & Textile Company 
GREENFIELD, OHIO 
Canadian Branch: Chatham, Ontario. 
PlLlnU.S.Die. 1.1914. 
Pat.taCu.lir.6,1915. 
I Fern, Xlnta, Maench, | 
Mericadel 
I the varieties of grapes so favorably | 
I mentioned in R. N.-Y. of Dec. 1st, I 
I page 1375, and other fine grape | 
I originations of T. V. Munson are | 
I for sale by | 
The Munson Nurseries 
I Desk Yf, Denison, Texas | 
I Send for catalog—If s Free. Also Publishers “Foun- I 
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the Nation • greater variety of products 
thanany other. Of all Florida's many 
great industries, citrus fruit growing is 
the largest. Ours are the largest ex¬ 
clusively citrus nurseries In the world. 
If you own or think of buying land In 
Florida, write for "Florida Facts",free, 
Bnckeye Nurseries, 
1210 citizens bank TAMPA. FLA. 
More Cash forYou! 
Put your own iiRPortnicnt on your lluw Furs. 
I We Rimraiitoa to pay you your price (soiuetiiiiesl 
more) or return your furs. Write now for ourf 
! Price list D. Good News for 
You ! 
H. HAIMOWICZ, (est.1894) 
1266-267 Main St., Paterson, 
Ship 
Your 
RAW 
to US and 
increase 
your pro (Its. 
Tlio fairness of 
our grading guarantees satis¬ 
faction. Thou.sands of satisfied 
shippers prove it. We pay ex¬ 
press and postage and make 
prompt rcuiriis. Sonil for pricelist. 
L. RABINOWITZ, 116 West 29th Street, New York City 
Raw Furs Wanted 
I will pay highest in-ices and give lilieral assortment and 
square deal. Shiiuiients held scjiai ale for approval upon 
request. Send trial sliiiunent at once. Will pay 6<6 ad¬ 
ditional oil shipments amounting to ja.-j.OO or over. 
267 7th Avc. 
References: 
BEN CORN 
RAW FURS New York 
(tcrman Kxchangc Rank ford RradMrects 
Send for onr price list today. 
' Let us prove to you that wo pay 
_ HIGHEST FUICES. We pay exactly 
W what wo quote and know you will be 
f pleased with our LIRERAL GltADING. 
WULFSOHN 
A house you can depend upon, 
I We make no deductions of any kind, give 
i every shipment individual consideration 
regardless of how small or large. On 
, account of our unusual outlet for 
furs, we can actually pay you 
I more morey. Write for price list, 
'M. Wulfsohn&Co. 
219 West 27th Street , 
New York City 
RAW FURS 
Our prices are always the highest the mar¬ 
ket affords. Liberal grading and prompt 
remittance guaranteed on all shipments. 
Send for Fur Price List 
Ogy ld Blustein Bro. 
EElfl West 27 U 2 St.-NewYork 
SKUNK 
HIGHEST PRICESp^_,_r„„- 
Paid for all kinds of IVdWrlirS 
I need lai-ge quantities of all 
kinds of furs, and it will pay 
you to get my price list. 
I especially solicit furs from 
all iiortlicrn and central 
section.s. Write for my price 
list and ahipping tags today to 
O. L. SLENKER 
P.O. Box M-2, East Liberty, O. 
Sabo Sure Catch Trap. De¬ 
signed to bo placed in the ani¬ 
mals burrow. Your hardware 
dealer has tliciii. Write for 
book-let. Agents Wanted. 
SABO TRAP MFC. CO. 
No. 3118 W. 25 St., Cleveland, O. 
Wo pay top prices for Skunk, Mink 
Muskrat, and nil raw Furs. Price list 
free. M. .1. JEWE’TT & SONS. 
REDWOOD, N. y. - DEPT. 29 
WANTED 
Sulphate of Potash 
in quantities from one bag upward, 
German Syndicate material 
G. S. ALEXANDER & CO., Inc. 
61 Broadway - New York City 
Make This 
Your Big 
FUR 
YEAR 
—Ship your pelts to the HOUSE 
of QUICK RETURNS-the 
HOUSE of LIBERAL ASSORT- 
MENTS. Send for S.& H. Pricelist. It’s free. 
STRUCK and BOSSAK, Inc. 
ISl West 28th Street, New York 
ShipJJs Your Raw Furs By Express 
We guarantee to hold all shipments entirely separate, and in ca.se our valua¬ 
tions are not .satisfactory we will return your goods at once, and pay all 
express charges both ways, 
H. A. PERKINS & CO, 
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT. 
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