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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MAY 11, 1918 
FARM TOPICS 
A City Potato Drive.665, 666 
Renting: to Anti-robbers. 666 
Methods of Seeding Clover. 666 
Russian Sunflowers for Silage. 667 
A Farmer’s Wife on Living Qusetions. 667 
Vetch for Green Manure and Feed..667, 668 
Plaster for Fertilizer . 668 
Fertilizing Value of Pine Needles. 668 
Acid Kiosphate on Limed Land. 668 
Carbide Refuse on Fertilizer. 668 
Farmers in the Legislattire.. 670 
Com in New England. 670 
More Crow Bait. 670 
Beans between Com. 670 
Mustard Seed . 673 
Cold Storage Potatoes. 673 
Figuring a Com Yield. 676 
Fifty Farmers in the New York legislature 679 
Saving Daylight on the Farm . 679 
Have We a “Farmers’ Representative”.... 679 
Hope Farm Notes. 676 
A Letter from the Northwest. 686 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Feeding Potatoes to Hogs. 673 
Keep a Purebred Bull... 679 
Selling Water as Milk. 679 
The Milk Situation is Acute. 679 
Taking a Chance on Pigs. 682 
Selling Cattle . 682 
License for Selling Milk. 682 
A Work Horse Relief Association. 682 
Trouble with Pigs. 682 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 682 
What the Dairy Cow Did. 684 
Legumes for Milk. 684 
Milk and Farm News. 686 
Damaged Com for Feeding. 686 
Diluted Mi’k for Calves. 686 
Feed for Young Figs... 686 
THE HENYARD 
Ill-flavored Water Glass. 673 
Hens Going Light. 689 
Incubation Questions . 689 
Egg-laying Contest . 688 
Raising Young Geese..688, 689 
HORTICULTURE 
Cultivating the Norway Spmce. 666 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 669 
Onions Going to Seed. 669 
A Spraying Caution for 1918. 675 
Growing Norway Maples. 677 
Advice About Apples. 677 
Grapevines Fail to Bear. 677 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day... 680 
Beeft in New York Shops. 680 
Embroidery Designs . 680 
Starch Paste .’.. 680 
Vegetable or War Pudding. 680 
Suet Pudding with Oorameal.680, 681 
Cold Pack Method of Canning Emits and 
Vegetables .681 
Wheat-saving Breads . 681 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Homemade Drag Saw. 666 
Recruits for the-Estates. 674 
Waterproofing Concrete . 670 
Foundation of Chimney. 674 
Working for Pleasure. 674 
Pumping Water from Creek... 674 
Saving Daylight .671, 673 
Frozen Water Pipes. 673 
Crops and F2urm News 
Cows worth around $100 for grades. 
Hutter, 4.5c. Light pork, 22c; veals, 13e; 
«gg.s, .*140. In spite of high prices for 
cows, many farmers ai’e without outlet 
for milk, a number having sold their 
herds. F. M. S. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
Grade cows, $.50 to $100; milk, Oc; 
butter, 45 to 50c per Ih. Purebred cattle 
not very plentiful in thi.s section. Po¬ 
tatoes around $1 per bu. Peach bud.s all 
killed; fair prosjiect for other fruit if no 
late frosts. a. P. s. 
Clearfield Co., Pa. 
The leading crops here in Monmouth 
County are fruit and vegetables, potatoes 
being the leading pr<Kluct. Last week 
they were $2.50 per bbl., and a large sup¬ 
ply on hand. All sorts are raised, not 
any one kind in particular. Corn is bring- i 
ing $2 to $2.25 per bu., on the ear, 70 lbs. j 
to a bushel. Hay, $2.5 to $.^0 per ton at 
auction. Pigs, six weeks old, .$1.5 per 
pair. Eggs, 4()c per doz. The vegetable 
farmers here are very much hampered op 
account of high prices for seeds and a 
shortage of help; are afraid to plant for 
the latter reason. Many farmers around 
here are giving up farming and tuiming 
their farms into dairies, as it requires less 
help. Milk is bringing 8c per qt. at 
wholesale and retails at lOc per qt. Cows 
are high, from .$100 to $150 each. 
Monmouth Co., N. J, N. C. M. 
We had a very fine sap season here, and 
a good price for syrup and sugar. The 
season is very late and cold, yet cows are 
high, from $0.5 to .$100. Pigs, .$0 each. 
Milk, $2.50 less 40e at skimming station. 
No market for hay; stock has Wintered 
well. B. O, P. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
Milch cows, $80 to $120; horses }.ood, 
.$175 to $2.50, according to gcr 
the higher in price; oats, oei lu.; 
potatoes, 80c; hay in b.'"” .$-0 dairy 
feeds, $04; horse feeds, $70; ^ - .'.ug pigs 
4 wks. old, $0 to $7 each; veal, dressed, 
22e per lb. c.n.B. 
Erie Co., N. Y, 
This is a dairy section. Milch oow’s 
from $7.5 to $150, horses from $100 to 
$.300, veals from 22c to 2.3c dressed, butter 
40 to 45c at the stores; cheese 22c, eggs 
35 to 40c at the stores. Dressed pigs 
23c. Maple syrup $2 per gal.; maple 
sugar 25c per lb. Potatoes about $1 per 
bu. and no sale at that price. Hay $20 
per ton; straw $10. I sell my products 
direct to the consumer and get a little 
better than the 3.5-cent dollar. I am re¬ 
ceiving .50c per lb. for butter; 45c for 
eggs. I sold my potatoes last Fall and 
Winter and received $1..50 and .$1.00 per 
bu.; am getting $1.25 for seed potatoes. 
We are held up by the feed dealers here 
as elsewhere. I am paying the following 
prices: $3.85 for cornmeal, .$3..3.5 for 
cottonsee<l,^ $3.25 for oil meal, .$3.80 for 
hominy, ,$.3.(!.5 for distillers’ grain and 
bran .$2.50 per cvvt., middlings .$3. 
Fulton Co., N, Y s. p. 
Grass fields are well set and we have 
plenty of rain. Wheat looks fair, and has 
improved greatly during the last few 
weeks. Fully 9,5 per cent of tobacco crop 
sold and delivered. The tobacco average 
for this year will be about same as a year 
ago. If farm labor were not so scarce 
it would be increased by one-fourth. To¬ 
bacco beds are all sown, and some of the 
plants are beginning ito show. Seed 
corn in Lancaster Co. is testing well, and 
very little trouble is expected in getting a 
good stand. May 12 is the average date 
of planting here. Most of Spring plowing 
is over. Oats about all sown. Gardening 
well advanced. Peach ci'op is expected to 
be short. w. L. F. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Chronic Founder 
I would like to know what is the mat¬ 
ter with one of my mares. She" seems 
tender-footed on her front feet. Her feet 
and hoofs seem to be in perfect condi¬ 
tion, but at the same time she favors hex 
front feet all the time, especially when 
she stands fo#some time she can hardly 
walk at all, and walks on her hind feet, 
barely touching the ground with her 
front ones. After she walks some dis¬ 
tance she walks somewhat better, but 
stumbles along all the time. She is six 
yeai's old and weighs 1,5.50 lbs. I had 
her shod with a padded shoe and oakum 
and tar. That seemed to help her for a 
short while to a good extent, but she 
finally got to stumble along so much 
with the shoes that I had to take them 
off, and now she is worse than ever. Her 
feet must hurt her badly, for she wants 
to lie down whenever .she gets a chance. 
When she gets up she stands on her hind 
feet for a long time, barely touching the 
ground with her front feet for some hun¬ 
dred yards. She seems to walk like on 
pins. F. s. 
The mare has been foundered and prob¬ 
ably has “dropped soles.’’ If so the soles 
will be found bulging downward and 
very tender when tightly tapped with a 
hammer. If so, put on thin-heeled, wide- 
ribbed bar shoes over pine tar, oakum 
and thick leather pads. Then clip the 
hair from the hoof heads of both fore 
feet and blister them two or three times 
at intervals of three weeks. A suitable 
blister is composed of two drain.s ehch 
of biniodide of mercury and powdered 
cantharides and three ounces of lard. 
Hub it in for 1.5 minutes on one foot. 
Tie horse short; wash bli.ster off in 48 
hours; then apply lard daily. Blister the 
other foot three of four days later. 
Clean Barns 
Tho time and trouble it taTccs to mix ■whitewash 
keeps many bnrn.s dirty, dark and gloomy. You 
can mako yours snow-v/hilo and, -without extra 
cost or labo^ kill all lice and mites nd prevent 
the perms or disea.scs that affect livestock, from 
getting a start in your herd, 
is a mineral paint combined with a germicide 20 
times stronger than carbolic acid—a paint and 
disinfectant in one. Comes in powder formready 
to use when mixed with water. Ai)ply with 
brush or sprayer. Will not flake, blister or peel 
off nor spoil by standing. Nodisagreeableodor. 
Use It Instead of White-wash 
in stable, dairy, poultry house, piggery and cel¬ 
lar. Get some to<lay from your dealer and have 
it handy for a rainy day job. 
10 Ihs. GO gals.}, $1 and postage. 
2011)8. (20gals.), $2 delivered. 
60 ’bs. (60 gals.), $4 delivered. 
Trial package, enough to cover 260 sq. ft., and 
booklet “Tho Disinfectant That Faints” for 25 
cents postpaid and your dealer’s name. 
Carbola Chemical Company 
7 Eaat 42n<l St. Dept. R New York 
DO YOU 
NEED 
FARM 
HELP? 
We have many able-bodied young 
mew, mostly without farming 
experience, wlio wish to -work 
on farms. If you need a good, 
steady, sober man, write for an 
order blank.Ours is a philantlu'op- 
ic organization and we make no 
charge to employer or employee. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOOETY 
176 Second Avenue N. Y. City 
If in Need of Farm or Garden Help 
of any description, write to Mr. G. M. HesseIs,Se(:re- 
tai-y of the.\grieuitnral and Industrial Labor Relief, 
1123Broadway,NewYork. All services rendered free. 
Farm Help Wanted 
W-ANTED—Working foreman for general farm; 
singla; good milker; steady po.sition; state 
age, reference, and salary expected in first let¬ 
ter. FARM MANAGER, Retreat, Pa. 
WANTED—Capable woman to do plain cooking 
and washing; family, two adults, one child. 
BO.N 236, Dalton, Mass. 
SUBSCRIBERS’ EXCHANGE 
Feirm Help Weuited 
W.\NTED—Farm laborer for gentleman’s coun¬ 
try place; married; .$00 per month and cot¬ 
tage. Address BOX 121, Smlthtown Branch, 
New York. 
WANTED—Young man below draft age Who is 
interested in bees and wants to learn more as 
heljier -with .500 colonies. ELTON L.\NB, Tni- 
manshurg. New York. 
WANTED—Married man, draft exempt, familiar 
■with horses and general farming; willing to 
board one or two men; all-year position, Orange 
Co., N. Y. ; house, garden, wood and milk fur¬ 
nished; state age, nationality, experience and 
wages expected, with references. Also single 
farm hand; must be good milker. Address AD¬ 
VERTISER 4080, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—'Two married men to work on farm; 
must be good workers, and understand the 
handling of mules; house, garden and wood fur¬ 
nished. Apply, with references, to HAMILTON, 
manager, The Hermitage Stock Farm, Centre- 
ville, Md. 
WANTED—Female nurses for sanatorium in the 
country, wages $24 per month; apply by let¬ 
ter; state age, married or single; BOX 4, Belle 
Mead, N. J. 
WANTED—Married man on large modern dairy 
farm; excellent position with everything fur¬ 
nished, including board; a few men to Iward; 
nice locality In Northern New Jersey on stone 
road; permanent position for right party; posi¬ 
tions also open for good milkers and teamsters; 
also a second married man; position without 
hoarders; state nationality, experience, and 
wages expected. ADVERTISER 4993, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
WANTET)—Healthy, willing boy, 14 to 18, who 
likes chickens, to learn commercial poultry 
farming on modern, practical plant; good home, 
small salary to start. LAY-BRED LEGHORN 
FARM, Phoenix, N. Y. 
WANTED—At once, married man with small 
family to work on farm; good position for 
sober, reliable man, one past draft age preferred'. 
BOX 602, Somerville, N. J. 
KNOLLCROFT FARM, Lyons, N. J., offers open¬ 
ing as heriisman’s assistant in its herd of Hol- 
stein.s to capable and thorough young man not 
in draft; remuneration in direct jiroportion to 
ability aiKT interest taken In a growing herd. 
Apply at once. 
WANTED—For gentleman’s country place work¬ 
ing farm foreman, between 31 and 45, accus¬ 
tomed to care of stock and fields; married, will¬ 
ing to board one helper; $85 per month; comfort¬ 
able cottage; give references and state experi¬ 
ence and religion In first letter. AddVess ROX 
121, Smithtown Branch, New York. 
WANTED—Married man or man with mother for 
chore work around house, such as care of lawn 
and drlvewa.v: year-around postiion; answer; 
reference. .VDVERTISER 400.5, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
WANTED—Male mouth heln, $50 limit. SUNNY 
VALE PAP.M, Smyrna, N. Y. 
W.VNTED—'IWo married men for dairy; must 
be flrst-clnss milkers and up to date; house, 
wood, butter and milk furnished; good wages. 
Apply, -with references, to HAMH/rON, manager. 
The Hermitage Stock Farm, Centreville, Md. 
WANTED—Single man for fruit farm; wages 
$.50 to .$00 per month and board Write A, E. 
GRANTHAM, Newark, Delaware. 
WANTED AT ONCE— A motlier's helper or a 
reliable girl or woman for general honsework. 
MRS. FRANK WiyrMORE, Freeport, N. Y. 
WAN’PED—Man to work with Is-es and farming. 
ROSCOB P. WIXSON, Lakeniont, N. Y. 
WANT young man of gooff character and farm 
training to help on small dairy farm; can at¬ 
tend High School during Fall and Winter; mod¬ 
erate compensation; good home and fine oppor¬ 
tunity for ambitious man. ADVERTISER 4091, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Middle-aged woman for general 
housework, 3 in family: no laundry work; 
must be accustomed to live in country year 
around; no farm work; Orange Co., N. Y.; ref¬ 
erence; answer. ADVER'riSER 4090.. care Rural 
New-Yorker. -- 
WANTED—Roy of 1.5 to 17 years on a general 
farm; good home and wages for a willing 
worker. L. H. L5'<>N, Belchertown, lilass. 
R. D. 1. 
Situations Wanted 
SHEEPMAN would like to manage sheep ranch, 
or will establish such a farm for any one de¬ 
siring and appreciating competent service; only 
flrstrcl.ass proposition considered; reference. 
ADVERTISER 4081, care Rural New-Yorker. 
MARRIED COUPLE, no children, having com¬ 
pleted short agricultural course, want posi¬ 
tion on well-euipped general farm with con¬ 
genial people; New York, Connecticut or >lassa- 
chusetts, ADVERTISER 4084, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
F.VRMER, reliable, married, age 32, capable in 
an.v branch of farming; poultry and grain pre¬ 
ferred; wife excellent cook, good housekeeper; 
have two children, six and eight years; further 
jiartlculars upon request. GUS WOLFRAM, care 
Arthur White, Calais Stage, East Montpelier, Vt. 
M.VRRIED MAN desires position as working 
foreman, or will accept position as supt. of 
small dairy. ADVERTISER 4089, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
AMERICAN, forty, married, would like position, 
institution or manage estate, farm, clubhouse; 
thoroughly competent; handle all classes help; 
familiar with machinery and automobiles; thir¬ 
teen years last position: best references; would 
interview jiarties in or near N. Y. upon request. 
L, M. G., 14 Henry St.. Stamford, Conn. 
EXPERIENCED FARM MANAGER wants posi-‘ 
tion on farm where competent, honest manage¬ 
ment will be appreciated ; thoroughly experienced 
in the care of sheep, also cows, swine and poul¬ 
try; wife first-elass butter-maker: best of refer¬ 
ence. ADVER'riSER 4080, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
POSITION WAN'l’ED—Married man. strictly 
temperate, desires position as caretaker; thor¬ 
oughly understands garden, poultry, etc.; good 
house essential. ADVERTISER 4092, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
STRONG YOUNG MAN desires work on largo 
farm; state wages and board. Send answers 
to ADVERTISER 4085, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WOMAN, experienced, wishes charge truck gar¬ 
den or chickens. ADVERTISER 4087. care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
FOR SALE—Poultry farm containing 15 acres, 
one-fonrth mile from town of 3,500 population, 
with splendid schools and churches, situated on 
Du Pont. Boulevard; farm equipped as follows: 
incubating capacity, 9,000 eggs; brooding ca¬ 
pacity, 12,000 chicks; laying houses for 4,000 
hens; oOO apple trees; large house containing 
H rooms; tho owners are engaged in other husi- 
mi??. ‘UVIt proper attention. 
THE DELAWARE EGO FARM, .Milford, Del. 
FOlv SALE Poultry lot; about 1 .acre; hou.se, 
-''’•’'•ess AL.MA VAN- 
WlNKTjl!/, 1{ 1, Allenwood, Pa. 
FOR SALE—My beautiful village farm, three 
minutes’ walk from high school, churches, de- 
Pot. etc. T. R. WOOD.VRD, Morrisvllle Vt 
—Printing otHce in Greater New 
York for farm between Danbury and Water- 
bury, Conn J, H. MacCOHMACK, 480 Ea,st 34th 
St., New York, 
WANTED TO RENT a farm with stock and 
tools, one that will keep 10 cows and team 
for term of years, with privilege of buying If 
sulteiL Address ADVERTISER 4090, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
FARM with stock and tools now open for tenant- 
terms made to suit tenant; the only require¬ 
ment is that the party must know how to pro- 
duce results. C. B. ROLAND, 1000 Eye St. 
S. E., Washington, D. C. 
DAIRY and poultry FAR.M—Near village 
03 acres, eleven-room hou.se; with or without 
stock and equipment. RIEDE, Rl, Howells, 
FOR SALE—At Westwood, New Jersey, 25 acres 
principally cut over woodland; good elevation: 
price $50 per acre; will take Liberty Bonds on 
^stelments. JAMES M. REID, Granite Springs, 
farm of 100 acres; will sell for 
$800 for a quick buyer. H.\RRY A. HUGHES. 
Romsen, N. Y. 
TY .1., 1 ivr.iv J.’—,-5mau rarm, privilege buy¬ 
ing, commuting distance New York. ADVER¬ 
TISER 4088, care Rural New-Yorker. 
F()R SALE—155 acres; house, barn; 8.50 fruit 
trees; team horses, Jersey cow, calf, pigs 
wagon, plows, tools, potatoes, for .$7,000; first 
payment, .$2,500. ADVERTISER 4008, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
Miscellaneous 
BO.-VRD W-tNTED—Refln<*d young lady, who is 
in a run-down condition, wishes board with 
congenial family where she will receive consid¬ 
erate and homelike treutmenr. JRmltliful loca¬ 
tion, high, dry air, reasonably near railroad sta¬ 
tion. within 100 miles of New York preferred’ 
needs fresh milk, eggs, and cheerful surround¬ 
ings; send full particulars and rates in first 
letter. -VDVERTISER 4094, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Avery Tractor, 5-10 H.P.; slightly 
ufie<l: perfect order; reasonable. REUBEN P 
ELY, Hillside Farm, New Hope, Pa. 
TRA('TGR FOR SALE—Mogul 8-10, used only 
one week; in storage for year; now at Rye 
N. Y. Apply ADVERTISER 4005, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
'VA-'ir-it—lon-gai. pasteurizer; must be m 
good condition. Also want a milk bottle filler 
and some standard 3x4 bottle cases. OLD 
BROOK F’.VRM, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
INCT'BA'TORS! 144 Cyphers, $14; 390 
1915, .$22; Prairie State, 240, $18; 
plete; iiorfect order; crated F. O. B. 
POULTRY F.\RM, Southampton, N. Y, 
Cyphers, 
all com- 
JUSTA 
FOR SALE—A whole set of brand new Farmers’ 
Cyclopedia; seven volumes In all, at half 
price; shipped on approval. Address MICHAEL 
MESZAltOS. Carnytliani Farms, Bridgehampton 
Long Island, N. Y. 
rwn j-.vin-,— j unn in-ji) Tractor and 3 bottom 
John Deere plow; used very little. WM 
BROWN, Bclvldere, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Avery .5x10 tractor; just as good as 
new; reason for selling. R. BANKIR, AVnntagli, 
L, 1, 
WANTED—Second-hand commercial cider outfit, 
also hay baler, also large evaporator; state 
lowest prices. COX RURAL DELIVERY 1, 
Hampton, Connecticut. 
FOR SALE—31/4 squares galvanized steel roofing 
In sheets 2x4 feet at 5 dollars per square. 
PINEYWOOD FARM, Route 1, Riverdale, N. C. 
FOR .8.\LE—Peerless steam traction engine, 15 
H. P., excellent working condition, water 
wagon, $1,1)00. WILLIAM PENROSE, Jr., 
Neshamlny, pa. 
IRON AGE POTATO PLANTER—New last year; 
as good as new now; $85 f, o. b. S. BATES, 
Concord Junction, Mass. 
FOR SALE—Five cars nice Timothy hay, $25 
per ton f. o. b. Portlandvllle, N. T. JESSE 
CRONKITE, Milford, N. Y. 
WANTED—f^econff-hand milk cans. J. K., Rl, 
Box 65, Litchfield, Conn.. 
INCUBATOR—Genuine Cyphers Co,, two hun- 
dVed and forty-four capacity, perfect condi¬ 
tion, not a scratch on it, $15. Hand plant (X't- 
ter, used but little; valuable for setting plants 
out In dry weather; makes its own season; $2.50 
SILVERS, Waldorf, Md. 
FOR SALE—Ten tons wheat straw, $18 per ton 
f. o. b. here; also car of bay. EMERSON 
ECKERT, New Oxford, Pa. 
COLT CARBID LYTING plants for sale at half 
price. We chose this as much the best of 
the Carbide system, and haff several years 
most satisfactory use. As we now have un¬ 
limited electric current from water falls we 
will sell much below value. Several generators, 
large gasometer, complete piping and fixtures for 
4 clubhouses and over 100 buildings. You thus 
get the best acetyline lyt in the world at half 
cost. LAKE PLACID CLUB, Essex Co., N. Y. 
PURE MAPLE SYRUP .$2.00 per gal.; sugar in 
5 or 10-lb. pails or one-lb. cakes or small 
scallop cake 25c; satisfaction guaranteed. AL¬ 
BERT FISHER, Rupert, Vt. 
FOR SALE—Dairy outfit, filler, capper aerator, 
electric motors, separator, ensilage cutter, 
gasoline engine. FIELD ESTATE, Port Rich¬ 
mond. Staten Island. 
