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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. JAN. io 
have a peculiar look. Whether they will 
survive the ordeal is a question. F. G. 
Labette County, Kan.— The year 1890 
has been an exciting and unprofitable one. 
The food product has been much under the 
average. Some years ago the member of a 
New Orleans commission house informed 
the writer that the talk of the Southern 
States about the South raising its own 
corn, etc., was nothing but “blague.” 
“Corn,” said he, “ grows in Louisiana, but 
the stalk is 15 or 10 feet long, and the ear 
but three or four inches.” Briefly, corn is 
the Northern and cotton the Southern 
product, and, without a change in climate, 
the present custom will endure. Farming 
affairs are discouraging. We had a miser¬ 
able crop of corn, which brings a low price, 
and not more than one farmer in ten can 
spare an ear for sale. The price here is 50 
cents per bushel. The farmer who has 
stock seems to lose all he feeds. Hog 
cholera is devastating all the young stock. 
He has been feeding corn at 50 cents per 
bushel. If he has the luck to escape the 
cholera he will realize 24 cents per bushel. 
If the hogs die he will lose 50 cents per 
bushel on every bushel he has fed to them, 
so that his corn crop is worse than a total 
failure, as if the simple crop were lost he 
would not have to pay for gathering, hous¬ 
ing, etc. Hog cholera is worse than ever 
before known, and no stock hogs will be 
raised in this county. ,j. b. 
Deserving Confidence.—There is no ar¬ 
ticle which so richly deserves the entire 
confidence of the community as Brown’s 
Bronchial Troches. Those suffering 
from Asthmatic and Bronchial Diseases, 
Coughs and Colds should try them. They 
are universally considered superior to all 
other articles U‘ed for similar purposes. 
The late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said of 
them : “ I have never changed my mind 
respecting them from the first, except I 
think yet better of that which I began by 
thinking well of. I have also commended 
them to friends, and they have proved ex 
tremely serviceable.”— Adv. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
A California Chinaman sold his Lima 
bean crop for $12,000. 
Many California farmers are storing 
their potato crop for better prices. 
The amount of hops exported last year 
was the smallest in either of the last three 
years. 
Louisiana planters are rushing their 
sugar to market in anticipation of a de¬ 
cline. 
During 1890 there were received at Chi¬ 
cago 3,484,280 cattle; 7,663,825 hogs, and 
2,182,667 sheep. 
The first sale of sugar reported under 
the new law was 500 barrels of granulated 
at cents per pound. 
Our exports of butter during last year 
amounted to over 20,000,000 pounds—three 
times as much as in 1888. 
A fire in West Washington Market, this 
city, New Year’s morning, burned about 
2,000 fowls and caused $15,000 to $20,000 
loss. 
E. L. Goodsell is holding daily auction 
sales of fancy Florida oranges, sandwiched 
in with grapes, winter pears, etc. The 
auction system has come to stay. 
California’s wheat exports during the 
year 1890 were valued at over $17,000,000. 
Exports were made chiefly to Great Britain, 
France, Belgium and Brazil. 
It is said that notwithstanding the cry of 
rot which was said to have destroyed a 
large portion of the crop, Canadian farmers 
have considerable quantities of good pota¬ 
toes to dispose of, and judging the outlook 
from present appearances they will receive 
remunerative prices for their deliveries. 
California reports the past as a very pros¬ 
perous year. The fruit crop was the largest 
ever known. The shipments of green fruit 
amounted to 105,000,000 pounds; dried 
fruits, 36.318,000; oranges, 3,187 car loads; 
raisins, 40,000,000 pounds. Wheat receipts 
at San Francisco and exports therefrom 
were larger than in 1889. The total ex¬ 
ports were 13,666,809 centals. Flour export 
reached 1,201,304 barrels. The wine product 
of 1890 reached 18,200,000 gallons. 
The Boston Chamber of Commerce has 
decided to classify eggs as follows : Extras, 
firsts, seconds, thirds and known marks. 
Extras shall comprise the very best qual¬ 
ities fresh laid, clean eggs in season, put 
up in the best manner, where every condi¬ 
tion necessary to place fine eggs in Boston 
market has been complied with. Firsts 
shall comprise fine marks of eggs such as 
come in carload lots, or smaller lots, that 
are packed in fine order, fresh in season 
and reasonably clean, such stock as gives 
satisfaction to most consumers. Seconds 
shall comprise all stock that Is merchant¬ 
able and inferior to firsts. Thirds shall 
comprise all poor stock in bad order, rotten, 
etc.; stock not considered really merchant¬ 
able. Known marks shall comprise such 
sorts as are well known to the trade under 
some particular designation or mark, shall 
be of such quality as those familiar with 
the mark generally understand it to be, in 
the season in which it is offered. Extra to 
pass at the mark must not lose to exceed 
one dozen per 100 dozen, and firsts not more 
than two dozen per 100 dozen or one and a 
half dozen per barrel, if sold in barrels. 
Bkecham’s Pills cure Bilious and Nervous Ills. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Monday, January 5 , 1851 
Beans are steady; no change In prices, but holders 
of choice sto-k anticipate Increased demands and 
consequently better prices. 
Marrows—New, *1 85@#2 80; New Mediums choice. 
$2 15; Pea, $2 15; Red Kidney, 88 20® $3 25; White 
Kidney, choice, 82 40@$2 50 ; Foreign Mediums. 81 75® 
82 00; do Marrow, 82 65® $2 75; Green Peas. 81 (0381 05. 
Butter is in liberal supply and holders are anxious 
to'sell at quotations. Some grades have declined 
slightly. State dairy shows most firmness. 
Creamery.— Elgin, hest, 29 329>tc; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 20@29c; Western, best, 23 2281*0; do prime, 
25@27e; do good, 22324 s; do poor, 19a421c; West¬ 
ern ImJtatim Creamery, prime. 22< 4 21c • do fine, 
18321c ; do po-r, 18315c. Dairy.— State, best, 24@25c; 
do prime, 22@23c; do good. 1932!c: do poor, 14@18c ; 
Western, prime, 19320c ; do fair, 13315c; do poor, 11 
@'.2c; do factory, best, 21323; do prime 16@18o; do 
good, 10313c. 
Cheese remains practically unchanged in price. 
There is only a moderate movement and holders are 
free sellers at quotations. 
Fancy, Sept., 994<&9%c; fine »44®9%c; good,S@8%; fair, 
7@7%c; light skims, 6%<s.694c; skims, 2<ft2."*c.; Ohio, 
Flat, 644® 9c. 
Kaos advanced again under light receipts incident 
to the cold weather. Future prices will depend much 
on the weather; any long continued warm spell will 
result In a considerable decline, while severe cold 
will maintain or increase prices. 
Near-by, fresn, 30.»3lc; Canadian, —@—c; Southern, 
26 328c: Western, best. 29 3 80c; Ice-house, 20323c; 
Limed, 23 32334c; Fall packed, 243 26c. 
Fruits.- Aoples are firm with receipts light and 
sales prompt. Grapes are dull, prise low, quality 
poor. Cranberries show little change. Receipts 
were quite light on oranges. Prices are a little 
firmer. No change In dried fruits. 
Apples—N. Spy, $8®85 00; Baldwin, 82 50@85 25: 
Green. $8 50?$6 00; Ben Davis, 84 003 85 25; common 
t> good, 81 00 483 50; Lemons, per box, 83 003 8 4 00; 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, 810 503813 00 per bbL; 83 253 
83 75 par crate; do Jersey 82 75 288 25 per crate; Grapes, 
Concord, 14@20c per basket. Catawba, 14® 2"e per 
basket. Florida Oranges, fancy Bright fruit, 176 to 
2(0, S3 2>; fancy bright* mlxej counts, 83, common to 
fair grade, 82 503*2 55: coarse fruit $2® 82 25; russets, 
823*2 37; tangerines and mandarins, dull with prices 
easier. 
Domestic. — Apples — Evaporated, good to fancy 
183431534c; poor, 11312c ; coarse cut, 83439c; sliced, 
8311c.; do old, 844@894c; Chopped, 43434 c; Cores and 
skins, 39434c. Cherries, new, 29331c; do, old, 8 @ 10 c. 
Raspberries, 27329c; Blackberries, 839c; Huckle 
berries, new, 18319c; Plums, new, 10312c: Peaches, 
California peeled, 30383c; do unpeeled. 16319c. South¬ 
ern unpeeled, 63437 c; Apricots, California, 17®2(c; 
Plums, Cal., 15316a. 
Game is generally dull. Partridges and grouse are 
out of (season. Wild ducks are rather scarce and in 
demand. Rabbits are ridiculously low, but at ruling 
prices (he trade is brisk and large numbers are sold. 
Quail, prime, per doz, 81 0038125; Wild Ducks 
Western, Canvass, per pair, 83 5J@$5 50; do, do, Red¬ 
head, per pair, $1 50382 50; do, do, Mallard, per pair, 60 
385c; do, do, Teal Blue wing, per pair, 40350c; do, do, 
common, per pair, 20325c; Rabbits, per pair, 6312c. 
Hay Is a triple lower on most grades under heavy 
receipts and light demands. 
Choice, 70375c, llmotny, No. 1, 55@65c; do No. 
2, 50355c; shipping, 40345c; Clover Mixed, 45@50c. 
Straw—N o. 1 rye, 85390c.; short rye, 50363c; oat and 
wheat, 40350c. 
Honey.—N ew Comb quoted nominally at 16318c for 
white clover and :2314c. for buckwheat. California 
extracted dull at694@7c. 
Hops are unchanged in price, but the trading Is 
light. Holders continue hopeful. 
State, ’90 crop, 333 40c; do, prime and choice, ’89, 2 
327c; do good, 28324c do common, 17821c; do 1888, 
good anl prime, 15817c; do do, common, 12314c; 
Pacific Coast, 1889 crops, 18326c; do, 1890 crop, 33336c. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are quiet. Fancy, hand-picked, 
quoted at 444@494c, and farmers’ grades at 83394 c 
Pecans, ll@12c; Chestnuts, $2 00885 50 per bushel; 
Hickory Nuts, $1 758*2 10 per bushel. 
Poultry.— Live fowls and chickens are much 
lower, about the lowest of the season. Supplies of 
all kinds are liberal and the general run of the stock 
is good. Turkeys, ducks and geese show little change 
in price. 
Poultry—Live.— Chickens—Spring, per lb, 58644c. 
Fowls near-by, per lb, 78734c, do Western, per lb, 
7@74<jc; roosters, per lb, 43—c; Turkeys, per lb, 103 
1044 c ; Ducks, Western, per pair, 50375c ;.Geese, West¬ 
ern, per pair, 90c381 25. 
Poultry.—Dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 93 
14c; Fowls, western, choice, 83834 c; do common to, 
good, 788c; Ducks, spring, good, 10314; Squao; 
white, per dozen, $2 50382 75 ; do dark, do, 81 75; 
Chickens, spring, Philadelphia, 11816c.; Western, 8 
810c; Fowls, near by, 8310o. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes continue strong under light 
receipts. There is little change In prices, but that 
lltt’e Is an advance. Onions are also strong in price 
and scarce. Considerable Southern truck is begin¬ 
ning to arrive, but qualities are so variable that 
prices show a wide range. 
Potatoes-Long Island, per bbl. $3 25383 50: Jersey, 
per do., 81 508*3 25; State, do., 833*3 50; Maine, .do., 
$3 00 a $3 50; Magnums, per 16S lb. sack, 83 003 
$3 60; Sweets, do, 81 75®$3 50 . Onions—Western New 
'York. $3 00384 00. Connecticut Red, $3 5(l@$<00 <j 0 
White, 84 013$6 00; do yellow. *3 50384X0. Western, 
$3883 50; Jersey, $3383 50; Cabbage, L. I., per 100, 
$6388; Squash, per bbl, $’3$1 25; Turnips, per bbl. 
85«90c. Egg Plant, So ithfrn. per bbl., 82 03386, Cauli¬ 
flower, per bbl., 81383 50, Celery, per doz.. 15c® 81 ; 
String Beans, per crate. 81(382 50; Cucumbers. Fla., 
per crate. *1 OR a$l 50. Tomatoes, per oox, 6'c@$l 00. 
Kale. Norfolk, per bo), 81; Spinach, Norfolk, per bbl, 
$3 4 $3 25. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT —There wa« export inquiry to a moderate 
extent. Sales -No. 2 Red quoted, 81 03443$! 0344 in 
store, 81 0‘46®$l 05 '4 afloat: No. 1 Hard spring. Nom¬ 
inal, 81 1331 1344; No. 2 January. 81 0894: do February, 
8 1 0394; do March, 81 04%; do May, $1 04%’81 04 7-16; 
do July, 93%399%c; do December, 99%c. RYE.—Quiet 
and nominally unchanged. Western, In boat loads, 
quoted at 77®8‘’c; Canada, 73 374c; State, 78380c. 
BARLEY.-Had a slow inquiry. Sales—No. 2 Milwau¬ 
kee. quoted at 82c; Ungraded Western, 75@86c; No. 2 
Canada. 87c; extra No. 2 do, 90c; No. 1 Canada, 95c. 
BARLEY MALT—Quiet and a: out steady. CORN.— 
Receipts were light, but this was offset by the con¬ 
tinued small clearances. Sales—Ungraded Mixed and 
White, 584436144c; No. 8 mixed, 57%c elevator; steamer 
mix< d, 539435844c elevator 594*c afloat; old No. 2 
Mixed. 6194c delivered; No. 2 January, 59c; do May, 
58%« 5944c, do July, 59443 5994c OATS.—Sales—No. 3 
mixed. 49c elevator; No. 8 white, 49443 4944c elevator; 
No. 2mixed, 49943 4944c elevator; No. 2 white, 50443 
5044c elevator; No. 1 White, 5344c elevator; No. 2 Chi¬ 
cago, 509435044c; Ungraded mixed Western, 48351c; 
do white, 50356c; No. 2 January, 4994c; do February, 
5' 44c do May, 5094® 59%c; No. 2 White Jauuary, 5094c; 
do February, 5044c; do May, 53c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVfS.—Decent to prime st' ers sold at 83 97443 
84 90 two car-loads of “Stockers” at$3 25®$3 80 ; a 
carload of oxen at 84 10; dry cows at $2 10 * 82 75; 
bulls at *2 25382 80. Two premium Ohio heifers aver¬ 
aging 1,660 pounds, were bought at the handsome 
figure of *5 50 per 100 pounds. Private cable advices 
to date quote refrigerated beef firmer and selling at 
4%d, or scant 844c per pound, and American steers 
dull at 11312c (tops 1244 c), estimated dressed weight, 
sinking the offal. 
MILCH COWS.- Market quiet and quotations are 
8203845 for poor to good cows. 
CALVES.—Market steady at 2443844c for Wester*s, 
and 5g8e for common to choice veals. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Demand slack with prices 
barely steady for sheep and lambs fully 44 c lower. 
Common to prime sheep sold at $4 303$5 52%.'prime 
to cboi e lambs at $6 6244@86 75 ani a car load of 
Canadians brought $7. 
HOGS.—Market firmer, and fair to good hogs are 
quoted at $5 50383 85 per 100 pounds. 
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS. 
Wheat firm under light receipts; No. 2 Penn. Red 
fti grain depot *106; elevator 9944 c. Corn firmer; 
steamer mixed. No. 2 in grain depot 59c ; on track 
60c; No. 3 in elevator for export, 55c. Oats firm 
under light offerings ; No. 2 mixed 4844 c; No. 8 white 
4944 c: No. 2 white 50 to 5044c; No. 1 white 5144c. 
Poultry firm under light receipts. Fowls, live, 8c, 
dressed, 7 to 10c chickens, dressed, 7 to 10c : old 
roosters, 5c ; turkeys dull; live, 10 to 12c; dressed 8 to 
12c: gees* and ducks, dressed. 7 to 10; live, 8 to 10c. 
Butter Western, solid packed fresh creamery, extra, 
27 to 28c ; special brands and jobbing selections 1 to 
2c above quotations; do fair to prime, 22 to 25c: 
imitation creamery, choice and faney, 22 to 24c; ladle- 
worked, extra, at 21c ; exceptional lots higher • do 
first, 16 to 20c ; Pennsylvania creamery, prin's, extra, 
jn wholesale lots at 30c ; do prime to choice. 23 to 29c 
do fair to good, 25 to 21c ; prints jobbing at Si to 84c; 
as to quality. Eggs, strictly fresh, 30 to 3'c; held, 20 to 
26c ; limed 20c. Cheese, New York full cream, large 
sizes, ICe : do do small sizes, 1044c ; New York, large 
fair to good, 9% to 994 c ; Ohio flats, choice, 9 to 944 c ! 
do do fair to good, b 44 to 894c ; part skim*. 6 to ?c ’• 
full skims, 2c ; domestic Swiss, 10 to 1244c 'or good to 
choice. Apples, firm for fancy fruit; Yellow Belle 
flower, fancy, $5 ; Kansas, Ben Davis, fancy, 84 75 to 
85 ; Wine-saps, fair to fancy, $3 75 to $5 ; Greenings, 
choice and fancy, $5 at 85 50; Michigan mixed cars 
choice to fancy, $4 to 84 25 ; do do fair to good, 83 to 
83 75; Kansas and Missouri, mixed cars, choice, 
83 75 to 84 ; do do fair to good, $3 to *3 50. Cran 
berries, Cape Cod, per bbl, $11 to 814 ; per crate 
$3 75 to $4. Jersey, per crate, $2 75 to $3 75: Florida 
oranges, in ear lots, assorted sizes, §2 25 to $2 90: do 
do bright, per box of 176 to 225 at $3 to $3 25 do do 182 
to 150 sizes at $2 50 to 82 75; do do 96 to 128at *2 to $225; 
do russets, as to size and quality, $2 to $2 75. Potatoes, 
per bushel, Rose Pennsylvania, choice, $1 02 to $1 10; 
Rose, New York choice, $1 to $1 05; dodo, fair to good, 
90c to 95c; Burbanks, H. brons and Stars, choice, 81 to 
81 05; do do, fair to good, 90c to 95c: Mammoth Pearl 
choice, 9„c to 9 c Scotch Magnum, per ’.68 pound sack’ 
$3; Nova Scotia Mercers per 182-pound sack, $2 75 to 
$2 90; Sweet Potatoes, per basket, good to choice. 40e 
to50e: some fancy lots higher. Onions. Yellow Globes, 
per bbl, choice, $t to $4 2i; Yellow Danvers, per bbl, 
$3 75 to 84; Yellow Globe, per bushel. $135 to $140; 
Yellow Danvers, per bushel, 8125 to 81 35. Beaus and 
peas were firm for choice lots, but dull for inferior 
and stained stock; Marrows, bright H. P., 1890, per 
bushel. 82 90: exceptional lots higher; do stained, 1 90, 
per bushel, 82 to *2 75; medium Beans, bright, 1890, 
at *2 20: Marrow Pea Beans, bright H. P., 1990, per 
bushel: 82 20. do do stained, per bushel, 8’ 25 to 82; 
foreign marrows at 82 75 to 82 90, exceptional lots 
higher; foreign medium, *1 75 to *2; foreign Pea Beans, 
per bushel, *1 85 to $2 10. Gre°n Peas, per bushel, 95c 
to $1. Hay plentiful- Timothy, choice, at $10 50 per 
ton; do fair to prime, 89 to $10; Mixed Hay, choice, 
83 50: do fair to prime. $7 to $8, Rye Straw, straight, 
without wood, &17 to $17 iO per ton, and do tangled at 
$11 to $11 50 per ton. 
A FEW POSTSCRIPTS. 
I CLAIM that there is no early-maturing 
potato in this climate. There are early 
setting potatoes, hut none that mature the 
tops early. I have made the Early Rose 
grow from early spring until frost killed 
it, and can do it again if any one can tell 
me how to keep the flea beetles away. I 
claim to know something about potato 
rot. I am quite sure that potatoes can be 
planted so that they cannot rot, while they 
will be very productive, yielding, say, from 
400 to 800 bushels to the acre, according to 
their freedom from the flea beetle. That is 
the only terror to me. r. w. c. 
Stratford, Conn. 
Have you tried tobacco water ? 
Against Pasturing Clover.— There is 
a common notion that there is nothing 
better for the soil than to pasture down a 
clover crop. Farmers lose sight of the in¬ 
jury done by tramping ground when wet • 
nor do [they understand the importance of 
encouraging the root growth of clover, or 
that the roots are worth more as a fertil¬ 
izer than the tops. (sec.) l. n. bonham. 
Tomatoes for Canada.—So far the 
Canada Victor, Livingston’s Perfection, 
andJAcme have proved the best tomatoes 
here. I have had 4,200 bushels of the Can¬ 
ada Victor on seven acres. I generally 
save my own seed from the best-shaped and 
earliest to ripen. I tried the Atlantic, but 
it was neither so early nor so large as the 
Canada Victor. .The Red Gross gave a 
poor crop of nice, smooth tomatoes. Hen¬ 
derson’s New Queen is too late for us. 
R. b. 
The Akin Apple, which originated in 
Lawrence County, Ill., was shown at the 
recent meeting of the Illinois Horticultural 
Society, at Cairo. It is, to my taste, one of 
the best in quality of its season—late 
winter—and if it is as hardy and produc¬ 
tive as is claimed, it will make its mark as 
a variety for home use. It is hardly large 
enough to compete with the Ben Davis in 
market, but its nice red color and superb 
quality can hardly fail to bring it to the 
front—if hardy and productive. B. B. 
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