CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, DECEMBER 15. 1917 
FARM TOPICS 
StII Another Alfalfa Sermon.........1413, 1414 
Connecticut Farmers and War Proflta.*....1414 
Figuring the Cost of Wheat.1414 
Back Yards and Potatoes Pens...1415 
Motor Trucks for Hauling Farm Produce.1415 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings.[420 
Crops and Farm Notes. 421 
Hope Farm Notes. 422 
Conservation of Grain sacks.1424 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Mixed Feed Situation. 
Meeting of the Dairymen’s League. 
A Cow-testing Association. 
Weighing Hogs by Measurements. 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
Dairy Ration; Curing Pork. 
Care of Brood Sows. 
Mississippi Is Tick-free. 
Salting Butter. .. 
Keeping Quality of Sweet Butter. 
Pasteurized Milk in Indiana. 
Indigestion . 
Cough . 
Lice and Fleas. 
Ailing Cow. 
Worms . 
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THE HENYARO 
Potatoes for Poultry.. 
Dust In a Poultry House.. 
Geese Stay Out Nights.. 
Nux Vomica and Hawks.. 
Origin and Character of Indian Runners 
Casting Out the Hen drones.. 
Leg Weakness. 
Soft Corn for Poultry. 
The Egg-laying Contest. 
Blood Clots in Eggs. 
Balanced Ration for Hens. 
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HORTICULTURE 
Experience With Misfit Trees.. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.. 
Birds Destroying Fruit.. 
Culture of Garlic. 
Jack-knife Remedy fo Squash Borers 
Care of Spraying Machinery. 
A Veteran Seed Fraud.. 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day.1426 
A Nutritious Cereal.1426 
Corn Sticks.1426 
The Rural Patterns.1426 
Soda Cracker Recipe: Conservation Cake.1426 
Keeping Scrapple in Missouri.1426 
Three Peanut Recipes.1426 
Conserving Household Furniture.. Part 1.1427 
Embroidery Desgins.1427 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Notes from Department of Foods and Markets... 1418 
Chinking a Log House.1418 
Repairing a Leaky Tank.1419 
Disinfecting a Vault.1419 
Cement Cover for Well.1419 
Utilizing Unused Well.1419 
Extracting Honey. 1419 
Events of the Week..*.1420 
Talks With a King Bee.1423 
Editorials .1424 
The New York School Law.1425 
Markets .1431, 1435 
Publisher’s Desk. 1434 
Boston Markets 
(Coutinued from page 1431.) 
Baldwin, $3 to $4; Hubbardston, $2 to 
$3; Snow, ?2 to $3.50; cranberries, bbl., 
$6 to $8; quinces, $3 to $5. 
VEGET.VRLES 
Potatoes, 100 Ib.s., $2.25 to $2.60; Brus¬ 
sels sprouts, qt.. 10 to 15c; cabbage, bbl., 
$1 to $1.50; carrots, bu,, $1 to $1.10; 
onions, 100 lbs., $2.75 to $3.25; spinach, 
bu., 75c to $1; squash, ton, $20 to $40; 
turnips, bu., 75c to $1. 
BEAN'S 
Yellow eye, 100 lbs., $14.60; red kid¬ 
ney, .$13.50 to $14.50; pea, $14 to $15. 
.LIVE STOCK 
Steers. $10 to $12; cows, $7 to-.$9; 
calves, .$9 to $14; sheep, $6 to $9; lambs, 
.$9 to $14; hogs. .$18 to $18,50; milch 
cows, head, .$75 to $150. 
The following prices are per hundred 
weights, as very little reduction is made 
on ton lots. Commercial dairy feed, $2.80 
to .$2.90; corn (old), $2.25 bu.; wheat 
(buying price). $2.10; oats, 60c; bran, 
$2; middlings. .$2.50; cottonseed meal, $3 
cwt.; oil meal, $3.25; calf meal. $5 
cwt.; poultry feed (scratch feed), $4.25. 
Hay, dealers pay $20 ton; oat straw, $10 
ton. It is rumored that the milk situation 
here is becoming serious; during the past 
three or four years two milk distributing 
plants of Mansfield controlled the price 
of milk in this locality. They kept the 
])rice paid to the producer at or near the 
cost of production, with the result that 
about 200 carloads of dairy cattle were 
shipped out of the county last year. This 
condition, with the high-priced feeds, has 
caused a shortage of milk. Last Winter 
a number of dairymen and farmers organ¬ 
ized and demanded higher prices for their 
milk from the local companies, and after 
failing to get a raise, organized the Farm¬ 
ers’ Dairy and Produce Co., and now op¬ 
erate a successful milk plant to the detri¬ 
ment of the old companies. The local 
companies now pay $2.90 cwt. for milk 
and retail it at from 9 to 12c qt., depend¬ 
ing upon delivery. About half corn husk¬ 
ed ; 50 per cent soft. e. e, o. 
Richland Co., O. 
U!IU»>DrAM,4u FOR SAIiB. New house.modern 
Ylll8g6r r0p8ny improvements, about acre of 
land, near Station. Post office, school and tJhnrehes. 
good for Snmmev home or all year, DcSIRABLc 
FARMS FOR SALE, under eood cultivation, good w^er, 
healthy climate, near church and school. to 
$4,000. Herman M. Chapman, Asliokan, N.Y 
, n 1 -\NAIMUTS-F0UR CENTS POUND; SHELL BARK 
HICKORY HUTS, seven cents pound; LARGE 
L Ul kJOlC hickory nuts, four to five cents pound. 
'ECANS twenty-two cents pound. HoiigItnd Miller. Boonville. Ind 
For Salo-'Wi’ Hommoth Incobitoro SSl” 
1916 Model. Location, central Ohio. 4800—1915 Mc^ej. New 
Jersey. 2400—1916 Model. Eastern Ohio. SOOO—Hall. 1917 
Model. Eastern Mass. Also Prairie State and Cyphers lamp 
incubators. Attractive prices for quick shipment. WATSON 
MfS. CO., zm, ItnciiliriPi. Bl|il.fOnoFEW. Biviliio Sl., Chieage,m- 
SMOKE 
HOUSE 
Don’t sell all your hogs and 
I pay big butcher bills. Save 
enough for your own use and 
I smokehams.bacon,sausages, 
in tho National Giant Smoko 
I House. This wonderful smoke 
house is portable. Can be oper¬ 
ated In and out-doors. Runs on 
sawdust, cobs and little bark for 
Beasoningr* The 
IHOTOMAL GIANT 
$NOHC house 
It a neat aaecess. After Bmokint meata 
Qse lor store house. Made In three sizes of 
beaey galvanized sheet steel. Flrepreof« 
Guaranteed. Send for 
FREEBOOK recipe?^or ^orln^ 
Baeon.Sausates.athome. Also set our low 
prices. Write today sure. 
PORTABLE ELEVATOR MFG. COMPANY 
2SO MeClun St* BloAmlntton. Ill* 
irt 
Reinforced with twisted steel, 
stronger, more durable walls, “ship- 
lap” joint blocks, uniform color— 
smoother,better looking mortar lines, 
continuous doorway—easy-climbing 
ladder. First cost—only cost. Tho 
quality construction in vitrified tile. 
Write for Catalogue 
J. M. PRESTON COMPANY 
D*pt.329 Lansing, Mich. 
Also get our offer on Climax Silage FUlort 
and Bidwell Threshers. 
SUBSCRIBERS’ EXCHANGE 
Farm Help Wanted 
WANTED—Herdsman in certified dairy of 260 
head. Good wages paid to man of excep¬ 
tional ability and experience. No others need 
apply. NO. 2Ct>4, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Single young women as attendants in 
an institution for the feeble-minded; salary, 
$30 a month and maintenance. Send references 
with application. Apply to SUPERINTEND¬ 
ENT. Letchwortli Village, Thiells, N. Y. 
HELP WANTED—TAvo new colony houses just 
completed. Two married couples, without 
children In their family, wanted; middle-aged 
persons desired; must be free from the use of 
liquor, tobacco or profanity. CHARLES F. 
JOHNSON, Supt., Industrial School for Roys, 
Kis-Lyn, Pa. 
WANTED—Single, reliable teamster; must un¬ 
derstand care of horses and be a good all- 
around farmer; no milking. Salary, $3.5 per 
month and board. Address GEO. L. BIDWELL, 
Rlegelsville, N. J. 
WANTED—Experienced man with help, for 
market garden and farm work, on shares; 
splendid opportunity; house; good market. W>I, 
L. McCLEARY, R. D. 1. Wheeling, W. Va. 
COW MAN—Single, $45 and hoard on a gentle¬ 
man’s place, with room and bath. Must be a 
cleanrcnt young man; no drinker need apply. 
NO. 2700, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—.'Vt once, a good, sober, reliable man 
to work in cow barn; a good place for the 
right kind of man. BLOOMINGDALB FARM, 
Belle Mead, N, J. 
WANTED—Superintendent for a farm in New 
Jersey, with diversified interests; dairy, hog.s, 
ponltry, sheep, etc. Apply by letter, GEO. S. 
WEINBERG, 120 Broadway, New York City. 
WANTED—Responsible, temperate married man, 
to work on 44-acre Niagara county, N. Y., vil¬ 
lage fruit farm; high school, railroad, 40 miles 
to Buffalo market; improved roads. Modern new 
buildings, equipment complete; splendid pro¬ 
ducer, owned by widow; might consider money 
rental. Give experience, references and salary 
wanted. Address NO. 2702, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—Single men to work In an institu 
tion, either as attendants or teamsters; sal 
ary, $35 a month and maintenance. Send ref 
erences with application. Apply to SUPER 
INTENDENT, Letchworth Village, Thiells, N. Y 
WANTED—Single milker and herdsman; must 
understand feeding for large milk production; 
40 head grade Holsteiils; two nien In dairy all 
the time; a third hand at, milking time. Salary, 
$35 per month and board. Address GEO. L. 
BIDWELL, Riegelsville, N. J. 
POULTRYMAN WANTED—Single, on up-to- 
date farm. State your experience; good wages 
paid to men who understand their business. 
BR.-VNF’ORD FARMS, Groton, Conn. 
WANTED—Reliable teamster; married man who 
thoroughly understands all farm machinery; 
no milking; wages, $50 per month; house, gar¬ 
den, milk and wood fuel. Address GEO. L. 
BIDWELL, Riegelsville, N. J. 
WANTED—Working foreman and herdsman for 
farm near Pittsburg, Pa.; registered Guernsey 
herd of twelve head; modern house furnished. 
State full particulars in first letter. Address 
NO. 2005, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Situations Wanted 
WANTED—Position as farm manager, to take 
charge on or before March 1st, by sober and in¬ 
dustrious young American, married, with small 
family; capable of handling men with best re¬ 
sults; state full particulars in first letter. Ad¬ 
dress manager DUNN’S FARM, R. F. D. No. 
1, Paterson, N. J. 
WANTED—Position as working foreman or 
herdsman; thoroughly experienced in raising 
field crops, handling poultry, feeding and care 
of dairy cattle, and excellent calf raiser. Ad. 
dress NO.2095, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM MANAGER wishes change; at present In 
charge of 1,500-acre farm; an A1 proposition 
only considered; good reasons for change. Ad¬ 
dress NO. 2099, care Rural New-Yorker. 
EXPERIENCED, energetic and ambitious poul- 
tryman desires a position as manager on a 
commercial poultry farm; best references. NO. 
2098, care Rural New-Yorker. 
COUPLE would like place on gentleman’s estate; 
understand all branches of farming, stock and 
incubation; no children; sober and reliable. J. O., 
R. F. D. No. 1, New Milford, Conn, 
EXPERT MANAGER would build or remodel 
poultry or pigeon plant for profit; Westchester 
Co., N. Y., preferred. AVM. P. GRAY, Mt. 
Kisco, N. Y. 
POULTRYMAN—Single, at present employed, 
seeks change; long experience on commercial 
plants; best of references. NO. 2703, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
POULTRYMAN — Managed own 90-acre farm, 
1,000 layers, successfully 10 years, seeks po¬ 
sition on large plant or on a profit-sharing and 
small salary basis; can manage country place; 
own farm sold to settle estate. NO. 2704, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
MARKET GARDENER wishes position as work¬ 
ing foreman under glass or with irrigation. 
American, 31 yearj old; married, one child; 18 
years’ experience on large market gardens where 
lettuce and all fancy vegetables are grown. NO. 
2705, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Position as farm foreman and herds* 
man; Pennsylvania or New Jersey preferred; 
married; references. NO. 2097, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
PO.'tITION WANTED—Poultryman with years 
of practical experience with Mammoth Incu¬ 
bators; can grow chicks, turkeys, pheasants, 
etc.; results guaranteed; salary or share; single. 
NO. 2091, care Rural New-Yorker. 
SINGLE MAN (33), practical experience in all 
lines of farming and poultry keeping, wants 
to connect with progressive young married farm¬ 
er who can furnish stock and tools, advertiser to 
work with other party on salary and percentage 
ba.sis. Give full particulars. Address NO. 2092, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
AMERICAN, married, farm manager, desires po¬ 
sition March first; practical experience with 
general farm crops and gardening; also stock, 
swine and poultry raising; can furnish best of 
references as to ability and cliaracter. LOCK 
BOX 83, New London, Conn. 
FARM OR ESTATE MANAGER-At liberty Jan. 
1st. Scotch, age 42; many years of practical, 
successful experience in all branches of estate 
management, dairying, sheep, strine, poultry and 
horses. Familiar with all modern methods and 
machinery, building roads, construction work, 
renewing run-down land. Alfalfa culture, keeping 
records and accounts; can also supply first-class 
dairyman and herdsman; also stud groom and 
several experienced farm hands. Nothing but a 
good proposition considered. Address NO. 2628, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Positions for two experienced, single, 
reliable men; general farm work, teaming, 
care stock, or dairy. State fullest particulars of 
work, accommodations! and wages paid, NO. 
2694, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
POJl S.\LE—381/,-acre Bucks County farm; sub¬ 
stantial buildings; 33 miles to Philadelphia; 
houriy train service. J. L. SCOTT, Perkasie, I’a. 
FOR RENT—368 acres, 3 teams, all tools; 306 
acres tillable; good buildings; rent $1,500; 
free rent until April. MEYERS, Hopewell, N. J. 
318-AORE FARM, with dairy, 5 miles from rail¬ 
road; basement barn and silo; $10,000; $3,0010 
down; balance, easy terms. J, D. SHBLMIDINE, 
Lorraine, N. Y. 
FOR S/LE—Excellent grain or dairy farm; 100 
acres, 1 mile from city of Ithaca, 2 miles 
from Cornell University; desirable home; mac¬ 
adam road; milk route; price right; terms easy. 
Write E. H. SIGNOR. Ithaca, N. Y., R. D. 38. 
FOR S.VLE—128-acre homestead tarm. Never- 
failing water; raise strawberries, small fruits, 
general crops, dairy and sheep. Mall route, 
school, telephone; three miles to station; 74-ncre 
timber tract, 7,000 cords wood; immense sugar 
bush. FRANK MASON, Tully N. Y. 
FARM FOR SALE—140 acres, equipped for ponl¬ 
try raising and general farming; write for 
particulars. WALTER HOIvSAPI>LE, Red Hook, 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
NEW YORK FARM FOR SALF.—80 acres un¬ 
der cultivation; 20 acres heavy hemlock tim¬ 
ber; 150 fruit trees; spring water; house, barns, 
carriage house; 7 miles to three railroads and 
new barge canal; timber alone worth nearly 
1 amount asked for entire property; photograph's 
upon request. W. E. COLYER, Saranac Lake, 
N. T. 
FOR SALE—135-acro dairy and grain farm. 
Northern Pennsylvania, near church, school 
and railroad; good markets, two houses, two 
barns, two silos; wintering 25 head cattle and 
four horses; price right. Address NO. 2701, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
TENANT WANTED—Either on sliares or for a 
cash rent, for a farm of 97 acres near Easton, 
Pa. Farm Is In an excellent state of <r)iItivation 
and its buildings in good repair; <-ontain8 an 
orchard, 1,000 bearing peach trees: farm has 
been used for the past six years for dairying and 
stock raising. All particulars on application to 
.'VI.FRED ANDREWS, Attorney-at-Law, 55 John 
St., New York City. 
MY full-equipped dairy farm, 55 acres, 13 head 
cattle, horses, all machinery, crops, hay, grain. 
12 tons corn, hogs, poultry, $5,800: 40 miles to 
Philadelphia. H. KONSUOK, Quakertown, Pa. 
Miscellaneous 
OR.V.NGES and Grapefruit—Golden russets, $2.00 
per box, half box $1.00 F. O. B. Miami, Fla.; 
mixed boxes same price. Boat rate on two or 
more boxes at one time prepaid to Baltimore, 
Philadelphia and Now York City, 87 cents per 
box, and can be forwarded from these points to 
destination by express, collect. GEO. B. CEL- 
LON, Tropical Grove, Miami, Fla. 
I WILL SEND yon, for a dollar, in time for 
Christmas, a full quart of delicious mince 
meat as made in our family for over a hundred 
years; twelve quarts for $10, delivered any¬ 
where within 500 miles. MRS. F, E. PERKINS, 
Burlington, Vt. 
FOR SAI.E—One 4,800 Candee Incubator, $2.50 
net casli; one 1,200 Newtown Giant, new, $1(!0 
net casli. LOCK BOX 27, Sonthold, N. Y. 
MAPLE SYRUP for sale; $1.50 per gallon. D. 
F. ROBINSON, Pawlet, Vt. 
RARE GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS—Buffalo horns, 
polished, unmounted; 1 large pair (male), $75; 
2 small pair (female), $60; beautiful diamond 
willow cane, very rare, cannot bo duplicated, $75. 
HARRY MOORE, Nazareth, I’a. 
W.VNTED—Tenant witli family able to work 
large dairy farm; convenient new buildings, 
ample equipment, Guernsey cattle; excellent 
markets; good land; grows Alfalfa, corn, oats, 
potatoes, etc. Most liberal terms to competent 
tenant. For full particulars, write, stating your 
experience and qualifications, to WM. lIlLL, 
Betliuny, West Virginia, 
FLORIDA—.$1,000; 15 acres best land, bouse; 
three minutes to depot. Pigs and cbickens. 
Particulars. JOS. RINCK, Huntington, Fla. 
FOR SALE—Clieap; 75-acre hay ami dairy farm. 
PETER FOX, Route 1, Blossvale, N. Y. 
FOR S.VLE—.53 acres; productive soil, first-cla.ss 
buildings, large house, basement under barn, 
and wagon house; good water, orchard: 100.Ooo 
feet sawing timber, mostly pine, hemlock; price, 
$2,300. BOX 83, Smithboro, N. Y. 
TO SETTLE ESTATE, 14 mile from Pittsfield, 
Mass., Country Club, 200 acres; two sets of 
farm buildings; best of laud; just the place for 
a city man. BOX 34, .So. Vineland, N. J. 
SH.IRE F.\RMER WANTED—240 acres, eight 
miles from good Hudson River city; 22 cows, 
5 horses, 6 sows, 30 Fall pigs, 100 chickens, 
milking machine; League prices for milk; big 
corn crop; first-class modern machinery; 100- 
ton silo; good barns, outbuildings and 10-room 
tenant bouse. Wanted January first; offer par¬ 
ticularly favorable terms to man of good refer¬ 
ences and responsibility. NO. 2693, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Incubator stove. No. 2, Candee; 
fine condition; guaranteed. JOHN McCLEL- 
l.ANl), Stamford, N. Y. 
CANDEE Mammoth Incubator; capacity, 2.400 
eggs; Cyphers Mammoth Incubator, capacity 
15.000 eggs; very reasonable. Write SMITH 
DUCK FARM, Crittenden, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—One Mann’s bone cutter. No. 12; 
power only; price $25. II. A. SPIES, Preston, 
Md. 
FOR S.\LE—3 Buffalo lncul)ators, 350-egg size; 
$15 apiece, or three for .$40. H. A. SPIES, 
Preston, Md. 
FOR S.VLE—'J'wo 1917 Newtown coal burning col¬ 
ony brooders; 500-cliick size; used but one sea¬ 
son; ns good as new; guaranteed. L. C. IIEL- 
F'ER, Minoa, N. Y. 
WANTED—Second-hand cyclone ditcher; state 
price and condition in first letter. NO. 2683, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—1917 sectional 3,000 Hall Mam¬ 
moth incubator in perfect condition: used only 
three liatchcs; price right. .TERSEYLAND 
POULTRY FARM, South Vineland, N. J. 
WANTED—Two sections Hall Incubator; good 
condition. BERYLSON, Liberty, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—100 tons Timothy hay, $30 per ton 
f. o. b. GATES HOMESTEAD FARM, Cliitte- 
nango, N. Y. 
~ If you can’t fight-farm 
Conditions demand that, where possible, you grow food 
Canada and the United States now working together. 
Western Canada’s virgin soil should attract you. No 
outlay for fertilizer now so hard to get. Get maxi¬ 
mum crops in grains and vegetables. Best stock coun¬ 
try on North American continent. Most desirable 
climate. Good' markets. Farmers pay for their land 
and expenses with a single year’s product. Splendid 
land near railroads from $15 to $30 per acre. Irrigated land up to $50 
per acre including deeded water right. Easy payments, one-tenth down, 
then no payment for four years on principal; two per cent, interest firs' 
two years. 
The Canadian Pacific Railway 
will advance you up to $2,000 to make permanent improvements, 
under certain conditions. 
CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, TELEPHONES 
Write now for literature. Renters of farm lands, get your own homes. Become independent. 
ADDRESS 
ALLAN CAMERON, Superintendent Land Dept. 29714 Ninth Ave., Calgary, Alberta, Canada 
or L. F. MOWREY, District Representative, 1 270 Broadway, New York City 
