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SUPPLIES MODERATE AN1) PRICES SHOW 
IMPROVING TENDENCY. 
Sound stocks of old vegetables and 
fruits are decreasing and prices tended 
moderately upward the last half of Feb¬ 
ruary. Volume of new Southern truck 
is increasing. About 1,000 cars average 
of all leading lines of fruits and vege¬ 
tables have moved each week day, of 
which stock fully one-third were pota¬ 
toes. Apples continue the strongest fea¬ 
ture and beans the weakest. Apples, 
onions and old cabbage of best grades in 
sound, firm condition have made good 
advance in prices and potatoes have re¬ 
covered considerably from the low point. 
Most kinds of Southern truck have been 
maintained or increased in market value. 
ADVANCE IN ONIONS AND CABBAGE. 
Onions are doing very much better, the 
best lots exceeding $3 per 100 pounds in 
various city markets and the bean range 
has strengthened to $2 to $2.To. l'oor or 
soft stock shows little advance. Not 
only is good stock in lighter supply than 
last year, but the prospect is for a long 
season of demand, owing to the light 
planting in the South. The situation of 
old cabbage is somewhat light. That of 
onions but less favorable, owing to the 
larger crop and to the liberal supply from 
the South. Good hard Northern and 
Western stock has advanced to $20 to 
$40 per foil in bulk. The outlook seems 
good for cabbage that will keep well a 
while longer, although Southern ship¬ 
ments will no doubt increase. • 
FAIR RECOVERY IN POTATO MARKETS. 
Potatoes at the low point in February 
were fully as low as at any time in 
November, reaching $l.o0 to $l.<o in 
Western cities and $1.75 to $2.10 per 
100 pounds in the Fast. Before the end 
of the month recoveries reached a level 
of $1.05 to $1.80 in the West and $1.80 
to $2.25 in the East. Shipments seem to 
be easing up a little and are now less 
than a year ago. Heavy shipments of 
Canadian stock have tended to upset 
hopes of higher prices, but the outlook 
on the whole appears better than a year 
ago, when enormous home supplies held 
hack by the severe Winter conditions were 
overhanging the market. Prices a year 
ago were just beginning the Spring slump, 
but still ranged higher than now at $l.<o 
to $2.50 per 100 pounds. The mild Win¬ 
ter has permitted the even distribution 
of much of the stock. The limited area 
planted in the South this year suggests 
that old stock will be in demand as long 
as it remains in good condition. 
SHORTAGE OF APPLES AND SURPLUS 
OF BEANS. 
Apples have reached the $10 mark 
for best cold storage Baldwins, the 
prices now appear to be about as hijjn 
as can bo paid for the export trade, which 
has been the backbone of the recent 
steady advance. Top grades of North¬ 
western boxed apples have reached $4 ■)(• 
in many markets. The general range for 
choice barreled apples is $8 to $10 m 
large lots per barrel. The bean market 
continued dull and weak, with movement 
almost at a standstill in some sections. 
Growers, East and West, find that $0 is 
about the top price they can obtain 
locally for white stock. City markets 
range from $(>#>0 to Jfi.oO for roolennod 
sacked white stock. The whole situation 
depends considerably on resumption . of 
buying for export, but the waiting period 
is very trying to growers who need the 
money. G< 
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BUTTER. 
Best creamery prints. 00 to Ole; tub, 
choice. 54 to 55c; packing stock, 35 to 
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38c, 
Eggs. 
Nearby choice, 52 to 55c; gathered, 
best, 43 to 40c; lower grades, 40 to 42c. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls, 38 to 39c; chickens. 30 to 38c; 
roosters. 24 to 25c; ducks, 38 to 42c. 
PRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, 43 to 45c; chickens. 34_to 
35c; fowls. 28 to 35c; roosters, 27e; 
ducks. 38 to 40c; squabs, doz., $0 to 
$8.25. 
FRUITS. 
Apples, bbl.. $7 to $10; cranberries, 
bbl.. $15 to $25; strawberries, qt., o0c 
to 75e. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, No. 1. 100 lbs., $1.7;> to 
$2.25; %-bu. bkt., 80 to 90c; sweet pota¬ 
toes, bu.. $1 to $1.75; cabbage, ton, $40 
to $42; onions, 100 lbs., $1.25 to $3. 
Would 
following 
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Guy Wires on Private Property 
you advise me what to do in th 
ease? An electrical company i 
high-tension line along our farn 
, , .... placing their poles on the rni 
road right of way. which passes along ou 
land. Our land is separated from th 
railroad by fences. After setting th 
poles the electrical company put up guid 
wires, which were carried onto our lan 
and fastened to logs which were the 
buried 4 ft. in the ground. I asked tliei 
to remove them before their work wn 
completed, but they finished, and the r< 
suit is that we are unable to plow withi 
three or four feet of the line fence. 
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places where the area is long and namv 
these wires will cut quite a figure. Tin 
never asked permission. What do yo 
think the best course to pursue, now that 
the evil has been done? MRS. A. R. 
New York. 
The best course for you to pursue is to 
inform the electrical company to take 
their guy wires down immediately and to 
give a specified time for them to do so. 
However, if this appears to be too much 
trouble for you. go into the field with any 
sort of an instrument you think is capable 
of cutting the wires or putting the field 
in the condition it was before the wires 
were put up, and then proceed to rid your 
land of the nuisance. After doing this 
you can, or not, as you see fit, notify them 
of what you have done. The more socia¬ 
ble way, of course, would be to give them 
a chance to remove them. They have ab¬ 
solutely no right to put the guy wires on 
your property without your permission, 
and are liable in trespass for the damage 
they have done you. 
Thrashing Small Quantities of Grain 
I have noticed several inquiries in past 
issues of The K. N.-Y. in regard to 
thrashing small quantities of grain. I 
made a very good thrashing machine by 
cutting the cylinder and concave out of 
an old thrashing machine, then bolted 
same standard to the frame, bringing it 
to a proper height for feeding when it 
stands on barn floor. I placed a shield 
in front of the cylinder to direct the grain 
and prevent scattering, and lowered the 
steel drum under the cylinder to let the 
straw pass out. I clean up the grain 
with an ordinary fan mill; a small gaso¬ 
line engine will run it easily. J. s. A. 
Frankfort, N. Y. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MARCH 8, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Seed Corn on Long; Island.413, 414 
A New England Fanner and Tractors. 414 
Ownership of Manure. 414 
Sweet Clover as a Soil Builder. 415 
Tile Drainage by Machinery. 415 
What to Do for Corn Smut... 415 
Hill Selected Seed Potatoes. 416 
Use of Sawdust. 422 
Bean Board . 422 
Applying Lime and Manure. 449 
Improving Poor Land. 430 
Treating Grain Smut. 430 
Plain Long Island Crops. 430 
Fertilizing an O’d Meadow. 430 
Spreading or Piling Manure. 430 
Use of Pigeon Manure...... 430 
Sorghum Bagasse for Fertilizer. 430 
Sweet Com and Field Corn. 431 
A Bunch of Farm Questions. 431 
Hope Farm Notes....434, 435 
Hog Manure for Sweet Potatoes. 435 
Up-State Farm Notes.. . 437 
Coal Ashes and Potatoes. 449 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Bunch of Milk Notes. 437 
Pasture and Forage Crops. 440 
Feeding for Milk. 440 
Death of Calves. 440 
Red Polled Association. 440 
Warming New-born Pigs... 440 
Cull Beans for Cows. 442 
Improving a Ration. 442 
Ration for Heifers: Ownership of Manure: 
Alfalfa Seeding . 442 
Massachusetts Agricultural Meeting. 444 
Feeding Forty-one Cows. 444 
Deficient Protein . 444 
Ration for Jerseys. 446 
Poor Milker . 446 
Feeding Freshening Cows. 446 
Ration for Cows: Milk Fever. 446 
Dairy Ration . 446 
Horse Meat for Hogs. 446 
Acorns for Sheep..... 446 
Improving Dairy Ration. 446 
lice . 447 
Ringworm . 447 
Thin Horse . 447 
Ascites . * . 447 
Lard or Bacon Hogs. 448 
Effect of Water in Which Potatoes Are 
Boiled . 448 
Feeding Shotes . 448 
Feeding Calves Without Milk. 448 
A Sheep Bumper. 451 
Lameness . 452 
Hard Milker . 452 
Tumor . 452 
Pigs in a Chickon Brooder. 455 
THE HENYARD 
A Monstrous Egg. ; . 452 
Brief Story of Duck Raising. 452 
Giving tho Hatching Eggs a Chance. 454 
Weight of Broilers. 455 
Tho Light in the Henhouse. 455 
Egg-laying Contest ...456 
Sex of Guinea Fowls: Mating Geese. 456 
HORTICULTURE 
Apple Trees by the Roadside. 414 
Christmas Tree Fanning—Part II. 416 
Planning a Vegetable Garden—Part I...417, 418 
A Satisfactory Little Greenhouse. 418 
Renaming Old Strawborry... 422 
Growing Tomato Plants,.... 422 
Moneywart in Lawn. 422 
Moles Damaging Roots. 422 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.. 423 
The “Unit Orchard” Once More. 426 
Fruit for Southwestern New York. 426 
Roadside Fruit Trees. 431 
Spraying Time Again—Part II. 433 
A Sure Way to Germinate Parsley. 435 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 438 
The Rural Patterns.. • • 438 
Normal Students and Rural Schools... .438, 439 
Pleasures of a Vermont Farm.439 
Embroidery Design .439 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Sale of Army Material. 
Evonts of the Week. 
Making the Dug Well Safe... 
Creosote Drip in Chimney. 
Old-fashioned Stone Work. 
Improving Flashlight . .. 
Beekeeping as a Side Line.... 
Editorials . 
A Round Over Daylight Saving 
Trouble with Hydraulic Ram.. 
Pumping from Spring.. 
Blasting Stumps . 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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