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Tbr RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
to wait till an opportunity offered, per¬ 
haps until harvest time, to dispose of 
their produce. Some have sent their 
children to high school, some have paid 
off mortgages, and some have bought 
more land, and more modern machinery, 
while again it must be remembered that 
the market calls for many things that 
they never thought of producing before. 
Summary of Sales. —Plenty of mar¬ 
ket baskets are always on hand, and are 
sold to the people at cost, which is 10 
cents each; also a small weekly Market 
News is printed each week, giving the 
current prices, and is free to all. We 
have given the history of the. beginning 
of the market in 1017; we will now give 
you the report of the first 10 months of 
the present year, 1910, ending October 
31st. 
We will here give a brief summary of 
the sales and number of loads of produce 
which have been disposed of for the first 
10 months of this, the second year of our 
market: 
No. of 
Av’ge 
Loads 
Load 
January .. 
... 594 
$17.63 
$10,476.10 
February . 
. .. 568 
21.89 
12.433.79 
March . . . . 
. . . 596 
24.33 
14,215.14 
April . 
. . . 608 
24.09 
14,649.77 
May . 
26.35 
19.450.81 
June . 
... 709 
25.80 
18.295.41 
July . 
. .. 90S) 
25.75 
23,336.40 
August .. . 
. . . 1.271 
29.80 
37,877.00 
September . 
.. .1,285 
30.35 
39.001.01 
October . . . 
. . .1.101 
32.86 
35,552.49 
Total ... 
...8,379 
$225,317.98 
As can be readily seen, by January 1, 
1920, we will easily reach the big sum 
of over a quarter of a million dollars in 
sales. 
Last year, 1918, during the last seven 
months, the total sales were about one- 
half of this amount, being $113,634.65, 
with 5.195 loads of produce. 
The total cash bonus given to the pro¬ 
ducers during these 10 months has been 
$11,920. and as the sales have been $225.- 
317.98 the bonus would amount to 5.3 
per cent of the sales. Would it not pay 
any municipality to follow the way Mr. 
Johnson lias led in offering the farmer 3.3 
per cent if the farmer will save the people 
of that municipality 25 per cent? They 
are doing it in Johnson City. 
JOHN S. PATTERSON. 
Market Master. 
Boarding a War Baby 
Here i> a new one—at least it will be 
new to many of our folks. One of our 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. NOV. 29. 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Thanksgiving Thoughts in an Ohio Co—- 
field .1741. 1742 
Phosphorus and Manure. 1742 
Corn and Potato Questions..... 1742 
Hope Farm Notes...... 1750 
A Name for the Farm. 1751 
Federation of Farm Bureaus. 1753 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Short Milk Weight. 
Collecting Milk Bill. 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 
Injured Leg . 
Ringworm . 
Dairy Ration . 
Sick Cow ... 
Feeding Buckwheat and Oats. 
Nervous Cow and Tuberculin Test.. 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
Starting a Boy at Milking a Cow... 
Flintstone Farm Sales. 
Slaughtering with the Bullet. 
Autumn Butchering . 
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THE HENYARD 
Cold Storage Eggs. 1753 
Connecticut Egg Contest Winners. 1769 
Ailing Hens . 1769 
Coccidiosis in Fowls. 1769 
Mashes for Chicks and Hens. 1769 
New Corn for Laying Pullets. 1769 
HORTICULTURE 
Tomato Grafted on Potato. 1742 
Apple Crop in Nova Scotia. 1751 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Boarding War Baby. 
The Pastoral Parson.1745. 
Meat That Is Different. 
Nourishing Toast .-.. 
Honey—the Farm Sugar. 
Dried Apple Dolls. 
Society of Pennsylvania Farm Women. 
Their Best Thanksgiving.1754. 
Which Shall It Be? . 
Boarding a War Baby... 
A Warm Dinner in the Wood’s. 
Boys and Girls... 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman. . . . 
Who Knows How to Eat. 
The Home Dressmaker... 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Why Is Sugar Short?. 
The Story of a Successful Public 
ket . 
Editorials . 
Buffalo Markets . 
Sweeping Powder . 
Preserving Apple Syrup. 
Removing Iron Flavor from Kettle.. 
Removing Rust from Well Point.... 
Thinning Asphalt Paint. 
Clearing Sink Drain. 
C’eaning Sink Drain. 
Sticky Fly Paper. 
Sweetening Power of Molasses. 
Publisher's Desk .. 
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people says he found it hard to feed his 
family on his income as a hired man, 
and so they took a war baby to board. 
But let him tell his own story. The 
baby is shown iu the accompanying pic¬ 
ture. 
As feeding my family of four on $50 
per month, my wages as farm hand, does 
not leave me much to buy Liberty bonds, 
we hit upon the scheme during the war 
of adding to our own income and also 
helping win the war by boarding a war 
baby. Her mother worked as stenographer 
in the city, while her father was in 
France, and still works while be is re¬ 
cuperating after being wounded and 
The TFnr Baby Faces the Ga-mera 
gassed. We have bad the baby since she 
was four weeks old. She is now 15 
months old and a fine healthy baby. I 
enclose her picture at 14 months. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
MODERATE SUPPLIES AND FAIR TO GOOD 
DEMAND, WITH FIRM PRICES. 
While prices are not much higher than 
a week ago, most of the changes have 
slanted upward. The feature underlying 
the strength of the market is the short 
crop of the principal vegetables, especially 
potatoes, cabbages and onions. 
MORE APPLES THAN EXPECTED. 
Apples may hardly be considered a 
short crop. Estimates have increased 
every month, and the reported total is now 
about the same as last year. The North¬ 
western States evidently had a tremen¬ 
dous crop, and even the Eastern crop has 
turned out better than anticipated, owing 
to the large size of the apples. Thus 
while the Michigan crop was at first con¬ 
sidered much below last year, the actual 
shipments have been far ahead of last 
season. Naturally the apple situation is 
causing a little uneasiness to holders who. 
paid high prices early in the season. The 
heavy movement during October was in 
excess of demand for use at this time, and 
holdings in cold storage increased more 
than a million bushels during that month, 
the shortage being chiefly of the crop from 
the boxed apple States. Prices have held 
u)) well, everything considered. 
TOO MUCH DULL-COLORED FRUIT. 
About the only weak spot in the whole 
produce market, is in the values of low 
grade apples. There are extremes of from 
83 per barrel for inferior stock to over 
$11 for best grades of fancy varieties, 
and even in the same general grade of the 
same varieties there is considerable range, 
as for instance, Baldwins of poor color 
hut large size are from $4 to $5 per bar¬ 
rel. while bright color No. l’s range $5.50 
to $8.50 on the various city markets. 
Much of the trouble with the large hut 
poorly colored stock is the presence of 
sooty blotch. Spraying experiments in 
<)hio showed that about 90 per cent <>f 
the fruit would be free of the blotch if 
trees were sprayed as directed, which 
means about, two or three sprayings more 
than most growers give the crop. In sea¬ 
sons with warm moist weather during the 
ripening period the spraying apparently 
gives liberal returns. 
FOREIGN MARKETS WEAK. 
The weakness in the foreign markets 
has tended to unsettle values hen to some 
extent. The commercial crop is largely 
out of growers’ hands now, but what is 
left goes a little slowly, the hesitation 
reflecting perhaps the uncertainty regard¬ 
ing export values. Fancy red stock still 
sells in English cities to net exporters 
about $9, hut much of the stock is sold 
to net not over half that price, and some 
hardly paid expenses. In Western New 
York shipping sections choice Baldwins 
still bring $7 or more per barrel and bulk 
stock about $3.50 per 300 lbs. Demand 
for cider stock is not so urgent, and prices 
have eased off a little from the top figures 
at the height of the season. 
POTATO HOLDERS CONFIDENT. 
Shipments of potatoes are falling off 
rapidly, owing to the usual causes, as at 
the approach of Winter in the principal 
producing sections markets have tended 
upward right along since the digging sea¬ 
son, and holders appear to he in n< hnrrr 
to sell. This feeling is especially notice¬ 
able in the West, where the. crop is short. 
Prices at shipping points range from 
$2.25 to $2.75 in the West, and from 
$2.40 to $2.82 in the East for 100 lbs., 
while city prices range from $2.75 to 
$3.50 in the West, and from $2.60 to 
$3 in the East. Rot seems to have 
•passed the worst stage in the Northeastern 
States, but Southern potatoes seem to be 
keeping poorly on account of the ex¬ 
tremely wet weather which prevailed dur¬ 
ing the harvesting season in that section. 
CANADIAN SURPLUS NOT VERY LARGE. 
In response to an inquiry about Cana¬ 
dian potato situation, it may be said that 
while exports from that country may be 
of considerable volume, they are not 
likely to be sufficient to offset the shortage 
in the crop in this country. Ordinarily 
the exports and imports taken together 
are equal to only about one per cent of 
the crop of this country. Occasionally in 
years of shortage exports have been 
heavy, amounting to an equivalent of 
from 10 to 20 thousand ears in a few 
seasons of shortage. So far this season 
Canadian imports have averaged less than 
150 cars per week, or from two to three 
per cent of the shipments of the domestic 
crop. White potatoes cost $2 per 100 
lbs. by the earlot in Montreal, a price 
which would mean no great profit for 
exports. 
STRONG PRICES FOR ONIONS AND CABBAGE. 
Onion markets have shown continuous 
strength. Best stock has reached tops of 
$5 per 100 lbs. in Western New York pro¬ 
ducing sections, which is about equal to 
the top quotation in city wholesale mar¬ 
kets. When stock advances faster in 
shipping sections than in the cities it is 
commonly a sign of still further advances 
in the wholesale markets, but sometimes 
the speculative ideas of buyers at ship¬ 
ping points have led them to run the 
price too high. Shipments are coming at 
about two-thirds the rate of a year ago. 
About three-fourths are from the four 
States of New York, California, Massa¬ 
chusetts and Ohio. About one-third of 
the onion crop appears to have gone into 
storage in the principal Northern onion 
States. Cabbage markets have tended up¬ 
wards for many weeks, and this stock has 
reached a range of $30 to $45 per ton 
bulk in the principal city markets, while 
inferior stock has ranged from $20 to $30. 
G. B. F. 
This county’s leading farm industries 
are mostly truck farming, with some ex¬ 
tensive orchards. White and sweet pota¬ 
toes are grown in some sections with good 
results. Grain and pasture is small. 
Most of the truck goes to Atlantic City 
by trucks. Berries and fruits go to New 
York and Philadelphia. White potatoes, 
$5.50 per bbl.: sweet potatoes, $4 per 
bbl.; cabbage, $3 per bbl.; peaches, $1 
to $1.50 per 10-qt. basket; apples. 75e 
to $1; pears, late, 75c to $1. G. n. ir. 
Burlington Co., N. J. 
Following were the past season’s prices: 
Corn, sweet, $2.50 per 100. average; 
beans, string, $1.50 per bu.; beets, bn., 
$2; doz. bunches, 40o; carrots, bu.. $2; 
doz. bunches, 35c; cabbage, bu.. $1.75; 
lettuce, y -2 bbl.. $2; squash, bbl., $2; 
pumpkins, bbl., $1.25; peppers, bbl., $3; 
turnips, white and yellow, bbl.. $3 ; toma¬ 
toes. $1 per 20-qt. crate: radishes, $1 per 
100; horseradish, Sc per lb.; romaine, 
$1.25 bu. Rye, $1.73 bu.; not much 
other grain raised, only for home use. 
Strawberries, 25o qt. As a general rule 
farmers are not satisfied with the prices 
received, as in comparison with the high 
cost of labor and all. other things on the 
farms. Most of the farms have been sold 
out here to the mill owners for real 
estate purposes. Some have bought farms 
in Central New Jersey. Most of tin 1 hoys 
have left the farms to go to other work; 
shorter hours and big pay is what gets 
them. The quantity and quality of staple 
crops this year is rather below the nor¬ 
mal. The business outlook is rather good 
if the labor conditions would settle down. 
Passaic Co., N. J. p. s. 
November 29, 1919 
Wheat. $2.20; oats, 70 and 75c; pota¬ 
toes, $1.25; hay, $22 per ton. Pork, 10c 
dressed srt the butcher shop, and they 
sell at 40c. Are the farmers getting a 
square deal? I for one would like to see 
the farmers in the United States organize 
to get what belongs to us. Mi'k, $3,60 
per 100 lbs. at creamery and 60c a gallon 
at ice cream factory. The corn acreage 
was large and we had a good crop. $1.50 
per bu. Wheat was a large acreage, 
from 10 to 20 bu. per acre. Large acreage 
again put out; is looking fine. Farm 
labor $3 per day. Miners all out on 
strike; things at present look pretty blue. 
I am glad for the stand you take to help 
us farmers get what belongs to us. 
Bedford Co., Pa. j. b. 
Wheat, $2.20; a good crop of straw, 
but grain averaging about 4% bu. per 
100 sheaves. Potatoes, full acreage; crop 
fair, but have been rotting up to the 
present time. Price $1.50 per bu of 60 
lbs. Oats not up to the average in pro¬ 
duction ; price 70c per bu. of 32 lbs. 
Corn is a very good crop and seems to 
be well matured, and mostly husked at 
the present time. Price, out of the field. 
$25 per ton. League price for milk. 
Eggs. 70c per doz. at Belvidere; S5e at 
Easton, 10 miles away. The farms in 
Warren County are generally farmed in 
rotation of grass, oats and potatoes, 
wheat and cor" We have good farms, 
good markets and good farmers, with 
good machinery and good stock. There 
is getting to be a large number of regis¬ 
tered Holstein cattle in this county now. 
Hired help is hard to get because we can¬ 
not compete with the wages men receive 
at all other kinds of employment. Farms 
that used to have three men now have 
two or one. and so on down. Conse¬ 
quently they are working their heads 
nearly off, and are not making as much 
money as they did 10 years ago. No 
fruit this year. Winter wheat looking 
fine. E. R. s. 
Warren Co., N. J. 
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