THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FEB. 14 
i 3o 
E. L. Goodsell continues his daily auction 
sales of Florida oranges. 
A sweet pomelo has been originated in 
Orange County, Florida. 
A company has been organized at Marys¬ 
ville, Cal., for the growing of olives. 
Many Louisiana farmers are reported to 
be holding their cotton for better prices. 
Reports from California say that rains 
have been light but sufficient to carry the 
whf at crop safely nntil late in February. 
Reports from the Delaware Peninsula 
say that the prospect for peaches was never 
better than at present. The peach growers 
want two weeks of cold weather now, and, 
if it comes, anticipate the largest crop in 
many years. 
Several reports have come to hand to 
the effect that speculators are traveling 
through the hop districts of California, 
trying to contract for a portion of next 
year’s crop. The extreme earliness with 
which the speculators have started out 
leaves room for the suspicion of an attempt 
to work the market, and growers should 
be chary in their dealings. 
Bekcham’s Pills cure Bilious and Nervous Ills. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PKICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Monday, February 9 , i 8 gi. 
Beans.— The market Is firm on everything but Bed 
Kidneys, which are a trifle lower. Bright, choice lots 
might sell a trifle above our quotations, but such lots 
are scarce. Arrivals of domestic are light. Green 
peas are firm and the demand Is good, 
Marrows—New, si H5®$2 SO; New Mediums choice, 
$2 25; Pea, $2 25 ; Bed Kidney, $8 00® $3 10, White 
Kidney, choice, $2 40® $2 50 ; Foreign Mediums, $1 75® 
$2 00; do Marrow, $2 654 $2 75; Green Peas, $110®$1 05. 
California Lima, $2 95 (a $3. 
Butter shows little change in price since our last 
eport. Receipts h»ve been well cleaned up and 
good, fresh stock Is In good demand The market, on 
the whole, Is in much better condition than one week 
ago. 
Creamery.—E lgin, best, 26k>®27c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 18@26c; Western, best, 26k-c; do prime, 
22®24c; do good, 19®21c; do poor, 16®18c; West¬ 
ern Imitation Creamery, prune, 19®2lc: do fine, 
16®18c; do poi r, 18®14c. DAlRY.-State, best, 23>*@25c; 
do prime, 21®23c; do good, 19®20e ; do poor, 14®18c ; 
Western, prime, 18a—c ; do fair, 13®15c ; do poor, 11 
@12c; do factory, best, 18hj®19c. do prime 16®18c; do 
good, 13S15c. 
Cheese.— The market has developed unexpected 
strength. The demand has exceeded all expectations, 
and reserves have been largely drawn upon. Pr.ces 
continue to advance steadily. The lower grades 
have been taken to such an extent by shippers that 
stocks have become quite low. 
Fancy, lU4g®10ifcc; line 9%'®10c; good, 9j6@944; fair, 
9®9j4c; light skims, 5®8>*c; skims, 2®256c.; Ohio, 
Flat, 746® 10c. 
Eggs are firm. Receipts have been light and the 
market is closely cleaned up. The approach of Lent 
will have its effect, as the consumption of eggs then 
is largely Increased. 
Near-by, fresn, 25®25j6c;Canadlan,—®—c; Southern, 
24®2444c; Western, best. 24 a.25c. 
Fruits.- Apples are in moderate receipt and prices 
continue Arm. Fancy prices, of course require that 
the fruit must be fancy. Cranberries are in fair re¬ 
ceipt from South Jersey, but the Cape Cod crop is 
about all marketed. Prices are no higher than last 
fall. Fancy oranges are in goo 1 demand at better 
prices, but common grades are slow. Grapes are in 
light supply and firmer. Catawba is the leading 
variety, with some Isabellas. The “ long keeping ” 
Niagara is not to be seen. Dried fruits are unchanged. 
Apples—N. Spy, $3ui$5 00; Baldwin, $2 50®$5UO: 
Green, $3 50<Jr$6 £0; Ben Davis, $4 00®$5 00: common 
to good, $100a$4 00; Lemons, per box, $3 l)0®$4 00; 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, $ 1 U50@$12 00 per bbl.; $3 00® 
$3 25 per crate; do Jersey $2 755$8 00 per crate; Grapes, 
Catawba, Is® 25c per basket. Grape Fruit, per bbl., 
$4®$5. Florida Oranges, fancy bright fruit, 176 to 
200, $3 25; fancy brlghts mixed counts, $3, common to 
fair grade, $2 50@$2 75; coarse frutt. $26 $2 25; russets, 
$2@$2 37; tangerines, $4®$5; mandarins, $2 5u@$s and 
dull. 
Domestic. — Apples — Evaporated, good to fancy 
1856@15}4c; poor, 11 ® 12c; coarse cut, 8k,®9e; sliced, 
8® 11c.; do old, Sj6®344c; Chopped, 4®4J4c; Cores and 
skins, 344@4c. Cherries, new, 29®81c; do, old, 8®10c. 
Raspberries, 27829c; Blackberries, 8®9c: Huckle 
berries, new, 18@19c; Plums, new, 10@12c: Peaches, 
California peeled,.S0fflS2c; do unpeeled. 13®18c. South¬ 
ern unpeeled, 6*4@?c; Apricots, California, 15®2Ce; 
Plums, Cal., 15® 16c. 
Game.— Wild ducks'are scarce and firm. Snipe and 
plover are in good demand for prime, but most of the 
stock is in poor condition. 
Wild Ducks Western, Canvas, per pair, $3 5'k3$6 50; 
do, do, Redhead, per pair, $1 50@$3 50; do, do, Mallard, 
per pair, 60 ®85c; do, do, Teal Blue wing, per pair, 85® 
40c; do, do, common, per pair, 20®26c. Snipe, per 
doz., $1 50@$2 25; Plover, do., SI 50@$2. 
Hay is quiet for best grades and active for all 
others. 
Choice, 70@75c, Timothy, No. 1, 55@65c ; do No. 
2, 50®55c; shipping, 40®45c; Clover Mixed, 45350c. 
Straw— No. 1 rye, 85@90c.; short rye, 50®60c; oat and 
wheat, 40®50c. 
Honey.— New r Comb.quoted nominally at 16®18e for 
white clover and 11® 14c. for buckwheat. California 
extracted, 64437c. 
Hors.—No change in prices. Trading is in small 
lots only, w’ith.increasing firmness to the market. 
State, ’90 crop, 85® 86c; do, prime and choice, ’89,24 
®26c; do good, 22®2Sc do common, 16®20c; do 1888, 
good and prime, 15®17c; do do, common, I2®14c; 
Pacific Coast, 1889 crops, 18® 26c; do, 1890 crop, 29®85c. 
Nct 8 .—Peanuts are unchanged. Fancy, hand-picked, 
quoted at 456®4%c, and farmers’ grades at 3 ( 3344 e; 
Pecans, 11® 12c; Chestnuts, $2 00®$5 50 per bushel; 
Hickory Nuts, $1 75®$2 (.0 per bushel. 
Poultry.— Receipts are light and as the demand for 
poultry increases prices advance. The frequent 
warm weather renders some of the dressed poultry 
out of condition, but good, sound lots sell for outside 
quotations Sufficient straw is not nsed by many in 
packing. Squabs are considerably higher. 
Poultry— Live.— Chickens-Spring, per lb, 9®9J*e. 
Fowls near-by, per lb, 10310(60, do Western, per lb, 
10@l()J<c; roosters, per lb, 6 c 656c; Turkeys, per lb, 12® 
1256c; Ducks, Western, per pair, 60®80c; Geese, West¬ 
ern, per pair, $1 15®$1 50. 
Poultry.- Dresser— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 10® 
15c; Fowls, western, choice, 8 ® 11c; do common to, 
good, 5®8c; Ducks, spring, good, 10® 16; Squab; 
white, per dozen, $4 50®$-; do dark, do, $2 75; 
Chickens, spring, Philadelphia, ll®i 6 c.; Western, 9 
®12c; Fowls, near-by, 10312c. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes are not overplentiful and 
the market is firm. Foreign sell best. Sweets are in 
moderaie demand. Reports indicate light arrivals of 
foreign potatoes for some time to come, but much 
higher prices are improbable. Prices of onions taller. 
Kale and spluach easier. All the Southern vegetables 
sell well when of good quality, but there is a wide 
range of prices and qualities. 
Potatoes- Bermu la, per bbl. $6 00®$6 50; Jersey, 
per do., $1 50®»3 25; State, do., $3®t3 25 ; Maine, do., 
$3 00n$3 50; Magnums, per 168 lb. sack, $2 75® 
$3 00; Sweets, do., $1 50®$3 25. Onions—Western New 
York. $3 75@$4 00, Connecticut Red, $8 75®$4 00 do 
White, $5 00®$6 00; do yellow. #3 75®$4 00. Western, 
$3 50®$4 60; Jersey, $3 75®$4 ; Cabbage, L. L, per 100, 
$4@$S; Squash, per bbl., $ @$1 25; Turnips, per bbl. 
60®75c, Egg Plant, Southtrn, per bbl., $1 50®$5; Cauli¬ 
flower, per bbl., —6—, Celery, per doz.. $1®$150; 
String Beans, per crate, $4®$5 UO; Cm umbers, Fla., 
per crate. $1 00«$l 50. Tomatoes, per uox, 25@75c. 
Kale, Norfolk, per bol, 70®?.‘c; Spinach, Norfolk, per 
bbl, $i 2fg $1 75. Peas, per crate, $3a$4. Beets, Fla., 
per crate, *1®$1 50. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—The weather in the winter section had 
moderated to some extent, and this, c upled with the 
small clearances had a weakening effect. Silver was 
lower, and this, too, bad something to dowi'h the 
depression. Spot lots responded with a break of 13 
1J4C and closed heavy. Small lots of ungraded winter 
red and spring were bought by shippers to fill at $1 01 
®tl lOs*. Sales Ungraded Winter Bed, $101«$112; 
No. 2 Red, quoted, $1(3% store, $11144 afloat; No. 1 
Hard spring. Nominal, $1 2u afloat; No. 1 Northern, 
$1 17 afloat; No. 2 February, $1 1U®$1 ;04$; do Marcn, 
$1 10^$t 104 s; do May, $1 06% u $1 07 7-16; do June, 
$1 04%®$ 1 05 1-16; do July, $1 U1H®$1 01%, do August, 
»7%®9;46e; do September, 97c; do December, 9»%3 
99%c BYE.-Had alight Inquiry, with prices more 
or less nominal. Western, in boatloads, quoted at 
60®84c; Canada, 72®74c to arrive; State, 8 ®85c. latter 
fancy. BARLEY.—Quiet, but held firmly. Sales—No. 
2 Milwaukee, quoted at 81@82c. Ungiaded Western, 78 
®92c; No. 2 Canada, 87c; extra No. 2 do, 90c; No. 1 
Canada, 98.5 95c, two-rowed State, 80®81c. CORN.— 
Spot lets ruled unsettled, though the close was Arm. 
Sales—Ungraded Mixed and White, 63%®65c; steamer 
mixed, 63%®634ge elevator 64%®64%c afloat; No. 2 
Mixed, 68%®65c elevator, (444 « 65c afloat; low mixed, 
64c elevator; yellow, 64c elevator; steamer yellow, 
63%c elevator; No. 2 February, 63Jtc; do March, 62%® 
68c; do May, 6044861 1- 6c; do June, 60c do July. 6J%c. 
OATS.—Spot lots declined wlto freer offerings, while 
demand was only moderate. Sales—No. 3 mixed. 5)%c 
elevator; No. 8 white, 52%(a53c elevator; No. 2 mixed, 
52%®52%c elevator, i348'S53%c afloat; No. 2 white. 5344 
®54c elevator, 5444 c afloat. No. 1 White, 56%c elevator; 
No. 2 Chicago, 534*c; Ungraded mixed and Western, 
50®54c, do white, 54®6.’c; No. 2 F'ebruary, 524tc; do 
March, 5244c; do May, 5144852c; No. 2 White February, 
53%®5344c; do March, 54®54%e; do May, 63%®53%c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVFS.—Trade was slow and dragging, with good 
cattle in light supply and steady, while common and 
medium steers sold at easier prices. Ordinary to 
prime native steers sold at the range of $4 ®$5 80 per 
1(0 pounds; oxen and stags at $3 603$4 50; cows at 
$2 10(«t3 40, ana a few fat Western bulls w’ere retailed 
at $3 25®$4. City dressed beef In moderate request 
at 6>4®8c; a few extra sides bringing 8k®8t«c. Cable 
advices to date report trade a little slow at 4%d, or 
scant 8%c for rt frigerated beef, and I0(«®12c for 
American steers, estimated dressed weight sinking 
the offal. A few tops slightly exceed these figures. 
MILCH COWS.-Selliug mainly at $253140 per head; 
but one dealer reports three choice to extra milkers 
retailed at $503$6i 50 per head. 
CALVES—Firm lor veals, but barely steady for 
Wesiern calves. Fair to prime veals soldat7®8c; 
choice Bucks County at 8 * 4 ® 8 %c; and three head 
were sold at 844 c. The few sales of Westerns were at 
$2 50 a62 90 per 1(0 pounds. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Demand less active for sheep 
and feeling weak, but good heavy lambs were wan ted 
at well sustained prices The pens were not fully 
cleared. Fair to choice sheep sold at $5«$6 ; good 10 
choice lambs at $6 40 <,*7. ana one lot extra brought 
$7 10. Dressed mutton In fair demand at 7®8 hc, with 
prime heavy wethers going out at 9c: dressed lambs 
had some call at 9®l0*c, with 10c a more general 
price for slri tly prime quality. Dressed spring 
lambs sold at $5#§'.0 per carcass. 
HOGS.—Nominally steady at $3 85@$4 10. 
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The Twenty Largest Crops in the Great Potato Prize 
Contests for the two years were raised on Stockbridge 
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These twenty acres were scattered all over the country, and were planted . 
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