1640 
November 8, 1010 
is not great. Such articles as green corn, 
beets carrots, turnips, spinach, parsley 
ami other, things which can stand a little 
squeezing without damage to themselves 
or their neighbors in transit, may thus 
be brought cheaply to the table of the 
consumer. Of course eggs, tomatoes and 
watery or eruslmble articles cannot be 
sent thus. If prices for some of the com¬ 
mon products of the farm arc as high as 
apples and potatoes are here it would 
apparently pay to send even small quan¬ 
tities of these, paper wrapped, in the food 
bags. They are made in various sizes. 
In one of the smaller from 15 to 20 ears 
of corn may be stowed. They are pro¬ 
vided with a cord to tie the top, but need 
a regular “puckering string” to hold 
securely and in addition a loop for attach¬ 
ing shipping tag. G. S. l\ 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
,M PIU.IKS DKCKKA.SK FT'RTHEK and prices 
TKM i UPWABD. INTERESTING CONDI¬ 
TIONS l'OR APPLES. ONIONS AND 
CAHHAGE. 
It is a time of gradually decreasing 
supplies and firm prices in most lines of 
produce. The situation is interesting for 
potatoes, apples, onions and cabbage, all 
these lines being in strong position on 
account of the light to moderate crops. 
Prices arc quite high already, but in such 
cases there are always reasons why some 
people expect further gains. 
RECOVERY IN FOREIGN APPLE .MARKETS. 
The outlook for apples is growing bet¬ 
ter. British markets are paying top local 
prices for best stock and sometimes for 
No. 2. which means about $9 per barrel 
net for shipments in this country at 
present unfavorable rates of changing 
English money to American basis. Our 
own markets make a good showing; ship¬ 
pers in Western New York ask $7 for 
best A214 Baldwins, also $3.25 per 100 
lbs. for bulk Baldwins, and even the 
mixed cider stock reached $1.00 per KM) 
lbs. last week. Virginia and West Vir¬ 
ginia shippers are getting $G to $7 for 
best Ben Davis and Yorks; cider stock 
is lower in most sections than in New 
York, but demand is active in all sec¬ 
tions. 
ACTIVE POTATO MOVEMENT. 
Potatoes are going forward in a most 
satisfactory way. Some shippers are 
holding back, but that is their own affair. 
Many States have exceeded the liberal 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 8, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Investing Proceeds from a Farm Loan.... 1639 
Up-State Farm Notes. 1644 
Crop Notes . 1644 
Hope Farm Notes.1650, 1651 
How City Bankers Regard Agricultural 
Loans . 1653 
Public Comment on Agriculture. 1653 
The Business of Crushing Soy Beans. 1662 
Shall I Go Farming?. 1666 
A Back-to-tlie-Lander’s Bees. 1666 
Farming a Small Place. 1666 
What's the Matter with Farming?. 1666 
Labor on a Small Farm. 1666 
A New Back-to-the-Land Proposition. 1666 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Survey Shows Need of Better Sires Cam¬ 
paign .. 1638 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 1660 
Stable Ventilation . 1660 
Tumor . 1662 
Fistula of Teat. 1668 
Mammitis . 1668 
Leaking Teats . 1668 
Infected Quarter . 1668 
lameness . 1668 
Hemorrhagic Septicemia . 1668 
THE HENYARD 
More About Lighting Henhouses. 1662 
Fgsr-laying Contest . 1669 
Fumigating Brooder House. 1669 
Poultry Ration . 1669 
HORTICULTURE 
A Competence in Water Lilies.1637, 1638 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1641 
Grafting Upon Root Sprouts. 1641 
Nee-lected Vineyard . 1642 
Mildewed . 1642 
Winter Cart of Grapevines. 1642 
Keeping Celery . 1642 
Blanching Celery . 1645 
Failure with Lettuce and Sweet Corn. 1645 
Best Apples to Plant. 1648 
Peaches for Western Pennsylvania. 1648 
Apples for Oklahoma. 1648 
Acid Phosphate on Strawberries. 1648 
Country Garden Notes. 1651 
Bark Injury of Apple Trees. 1651 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1656 
Canning in Two-quart .Tars. 1656 
Fmbroidery Design .. . . . . 1666 
Pear Chips; Preserved Citron; Mustard 
Pickles . 1656 
Keep the Young People on the Farm. 1657 
Child Labor on the Farm. 1657 
Economical Cakes . 1657 
The Kural Patterns . 1657 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Parcel Post and Food B-«rs.1639, 1640 
Autumn Maple Sugar Making. 1645 
Editorials . 1662 
A Grange on Welfare Bills. 1652 
Painting a Silo. 1662 
Inexpensive Light Power. 1662 
Is the Small Tractor Possible?. 1662 
The Pipeless Furnace Again. 1662 
Buffalo Markets . 1664 
Publisher’s Desk .. 1670 
Tbt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
early movement of last season, even 
though the crop is lighter this year. In 
Minnesota, for instance, they have already 
pretty nearly cleaned up in some im¬ 
portant producing sections and have 
shipped 2,500 cars more than in Septem¬ 
ber and October of last year. About the 
same is true of Maine, and New Jersey 
has moved the bulk of its very large crop. 
I 11 fact, the liberal movement from East 
and North has considerably more than 
offset, .so far, the looses, in shipments from 
tlie Middle West and Iloeky Mountain 
States. 
PRICE HIGHER WEST THAN EAST. 
Shippers in Far Western producing 
sections are receiving $2 to $2.50 per 1(M) 
lbs. and in the East $2.20 to $2.35, while 
city wholesale prices range from $2.35 to 
$3.35 for large lots in the Middle West, 
and $2.40 and $2.00 in the East. Not 
for many years have Eastern consumers 
paid less than Western for potatoes, but 
such is the situation at present. Cana¬ 
dian imports may cut some figure in a 
tew markets, but as yet are only two to 
three per cent of the total current sup¬ 
plies. Best .stock is not much lower in 
Canadian cities, than in our own markets. 
WESTERN ONIONS STORED. 
Onion markets have continued con¬ 
sistently strong, although demand has 
been rather dull in city markets, as 
might be expected with such a high level 
of prices. Fancy stock has reached $4 
per 100 lbs. in Western New York pro¬ 
ducing sections. Most of the New York 
crop seems to be rather small and hardly 
suitable for long storage: accordingly a 
good many Eastern dealers have boon 
buying the large and fine California crop, 
and many thousand bushels of California 
yellow and brown onions are reported 
stored around Chicago and in Eastern 
pities. This California stock must cost 
the owners, on delivery and storage 
charges paid, more than the stock would 
sell for at present prices. The heavy 
purchases indicate the confidence of these 
dealers in a still higher range of prices 
before the season is over. 
HEAVY PLANTING IN TEXAS ONION 
COUNTIES. 
Southern growers appear to be inter¬ 
ested in the situation. About twice as 
much land will be planted to early onions 
in Southern Texas as last season, accord¬ 
ing to present indications. California 
and Louisiana growers also talk of grow¬ 
ing larger areas. This means probably 
twice as many Southern onions shipped 
North as came last season, and very pos¬ 
sibly a time of lively competition with 
Northern stock next Spring, provided noth¬ 
ing happens to check the development of 
plans of the Southern producers. 
SHORTAGE IN LATE-KEEPING CABBAGE. 
The cabbage markets have so far failed 
to respond to the apparent strength of 
the situation, with the crop fully 10.000 
oars less than last year, and some Eastern 
States, especially New York, very much 
below last year's yield. The outlook 
ought to be good, particularly for stock 
suitable for storage. So far the supplies 
have been ample, owing to the large crop 
in Colorado and A\ iseonsin. The greater 
part of the Colorado crop has now been 
sold, and the test will come; whether 
other markets will respond to the short¬ 
age of the crops usually held in long 
storage, especially the New York crop. 
At present even the best stock sells at 
$ls to $25 per ton hulk in producing sec¬ 
tions. Last week prices went as low as 
$12 to $15 in New York City, owing 
probably to local transportation condi¬ 
tions, most of the markets ranging about 
$M» . and some Middle Western cities 
quoting $45 per ton. Southern growers 
are expecting a good market for their 
crop next Spring, and they seem likely to 
get high prices unless they ship too many. 
Texas is planting three or four times 
last year’s final acreage, while Texas and 
California arc increasing. G. u. F. 
Lily of the Valley for Forcing 
Cau you f ell me how to cure lily of the 
valley pips so as to sell the same for forc¬ 
ing? The tops are dying at this date, hut 
the roots are fleshy and soft, and I do not 
know how to treat them after digging. 
Ohio. L. b. p. 
It is not at all likely that these roots, 
if grown under ordinary garden condi¬ 
tions. would he satisfactory for forcing. 
The best forcing “valley” pips come from 
Oonnany, where they are specially grown 
by experts. The fields arc deeply plowed 
and heavily manured, and the roots set in 
the Fall. The plant is grown two years 
or three years in the open field, under the 
best cultural conditions, and watered in 
a dry season. We do not know of any 
special curing process; the roots are care¬ 
fully sorted, runners and weak pips culled 
out. and only strong pips with abundant 
fibrous roots used for forcing. They must 
he kept plump, and not shriveled. The 
pins brought to this country arc put in 
cold storage, kept at a temperature of j 
about 2$ degrees, and forced after two or 
three months’ rest. New “valley” that 
has not been in storage requires a strong 
bottom heat to force it hut storage valley 
may he forced without bottom heat. We 
have made various efforts to force garden- 
grown “valley” without bottom heat dur¬ 
ing Winter, hut have never succeeded. It 
would he well to communicate with some 
of the large greenhouse men of your dis¬ 
trict as to the forcing possibilities of local¬ 
ly-grown valley, for soil causes great va¬ 
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