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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MARCH 21 
The following Chicago ordinance is of in¬ 
terest to all intending to market fruit in 
that city: Section 1. No persons, firms, 
company or corporation shall offer for sale 
or cause to be sold or offered for sale at 
retail, within the city of Chicago, any ber¬ 
ries or other fruits in baskets, boxes or 
other packages, except when put up in 
packages containing a barrel, bushel or 
some aliquot part of a bushel, according to 
the table of dry measures. And every such 
package shall contain the quantity which it 
purports to contain; provided, however, 
that this section shall not apply to dried or 
preserved or to the sale of fruits when re¬ 
tailed by the piece. Section 2. All berries 
or other fruits, whether fresh, dried or pre¬ 
served, when sold or offered for sale in 
packages within the city of Chicago, shall 
be of equal quality throughout the pack¬ 
age. Section 3. Every person who shall 
be convicted of a violation of any of the 
provisions of this ordinance shall be fined 
not less than $5 nor more than $25 for each 
offense. 
The proportion of wheat still in the 
hands of farmers is lower than an average 
of the last 10 years, the range being from 
26 to 33 per cent. It is 28.2 per cent, or 
112,000,000 bushels. It has been lower in 
only two years of the last 10 after the 
meager crops of 1881 and 1885, which were 
smaller than that of 1890. Including the 
visible stocks the supply is 135,000,000 
bushels, The consumption of the last 12 
months is estimated at 299,000,000, seed 
used 530,000,000, and exports about 98,000,- 
000 from Msrch 1, 1890. The low percent¬ 
ages of the spring wheat States are especi¬ 
ally noticeable. Half of the present stocks 
will be required for spring seeding. The 
proportion of the crop estimated for con¬ 
sumption within the country is 52.1 per 
cent, against 48.1 last year. The average 
weight per measured bushel is 57.2 pounds. 
The average of 1889 was 57.7 pounds, which 
was the precise average of seven crops from 
1883. In bushels of 60 pounds the aggre¬ 
gate is 381,000,000, or 90,000,000 less by 
weight than the preceding crop. 
Beecham’s Pills cure Bilious and Nervous Ills. 
BEST GRAPES FOR THIS MARKET. 
The vineyardist who expects to make a 
success of market grapes must plant what 
the market demands. The testimony of 
experienced market men on this point is 
worth all the assertions and promises of 
all the propagators and nurserymen in 
the country. The price at which a few 
fancy clusters of some new variety sold is 
no criterion of its value as a market grape. 
Any scheme for supplying the markets, 
regulating the supply and thereby con¬ 
trolling prices is contrary to every principle 
of trade, visionary and impracticable. 
What the consumers want, will buy and 
pay for is what must determine the ques¬ 
tion of profit or loss. The grower who re¬ 
alizes this and acts accordingly is wise; the 
one who ignores it is—the contrary. It is a 
suggestive fact that of the thousands of 
new varieties, of every kind of fruit, that 
have been put forth with such a flourish of 
trumpets during the past few years 
scarcely a dozen are found in the markets 
at the present day. The old varieties are 
the popular ones. 
The grape is no exception to this rule. 
The assertion has before been made in 
these columns that from appearances more 
Concords weie sold here than of all other 
varieties put together, and experienced 
dealers who have been questioned sustain 
this view. G. S. Palmer, one of the best 
informed commission men in the city, says 
that the Concord seems to take the popular 
fancy. Most people like a black grape. 
The sale of white grapes is limited. He 
says that Moore’s Early is a good, early 
grape and that more should be planted. It 
comes early when there is a good sale for 
grapes, is of good quality and fine appear¬ 
ance and sells readily at good prices. Not 
another Champion vine should be planted. 
This variety kills the sale of more grapes 
than are ever sold of the variety. This 
grape is one of the earliest; but is picked 
and shipped so green that it is unsatisfac¬ 
tory to the buyer and his appetite for 
grapes is destroyed, and for some time he 
hesitates about making further purchases. 
The Worden is a good grape for immediate 
shipment and sale but will not bear hold¬ 
ing. Many of those shipped are not picked 
soon enough; this should be done as soon 
as the grapes are black. This variety is 
not so well known in this market as it 
should be, as many of them as well as of 
toher black varieties are sold as Concords. 
For a grape to follow Moore’s Early this is 
an excellent variety. 
But how about the much-lauded Niag 
ara ? Don’t plant it for this market, at 
least not until the vines can be purchased 
as cheaply as Concords, and then only to a 
limited extent. Probably not one-tenth of 
the Niagara vineyards of the country are 
yet in bearing, and yet Niagaras sold the 
past autumn in this city at the same price 
as Concords. The demand for them is 
limited. How will they sell when the 
large numbers of vineyards not yet in 
bearing, or bearing only partial crops, 
begin to fruit f The Niagara seems a 
hardy grape, prolific of handsome clusters 
of fruit of fine quality, but it is a poor 
shipper and keeper. The skin cracks 
badly, and a package of grapes sours 
and spoils rapidly after this occurs. 
There are some other varieties of 
white grapes found in the markets that 
are of much better quality and more de¬ 
sirable in every way than the Niagara, 
though possibly they may not be produc¬ 
tive enough to be profitable. Among these 
the Lady and Martha are oftenest seen. 
Among the red grapes Catawba of course 
takes the lead, but this cannot be grown 
except in favored locations. It is the best 
keeper on the market and it carries well. 
To the writer’s taste, there are other red 
grapes of equally good quality, but tastes 
differ, and time is required to test new va¬ 
rieties. The Delaware has quite a sale but 
the prices for which it usually sells would 
seem to be too little above other varieties 
to make it profitable to grow to any ex - 
tent. As yet there is no grape to take the 
place of the Catawba for long keeping. 
The Isabella is sold to a limited extent but 
this requires conditions similar to the 
Catawba to bring it to perfection. 
The R N.- Y. would not be understood 
as discouraging the testing of new vari¬ 
eties, but for market purposes the bulk of 
the planting should be of those kinds for 
which there is a demand. Test the new 
ones in a small way and some maybe found 
far superior to the old varieties. It takes 
time to displace old favorites and this must 
be done gradually if at all. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New Y*rk, Monday, March :6, i8gi. 
Beans are quiet. Trading Is limited and the situa¬ 
tion is in buyers’ favor. 
Marrows—New, $1 69®$2 60; New Mediums choice. 
$2 25; Pea, $2 25 ; Red Kidney, $2 75@$2 85; White 
Kidney, choice, $2 5 >®$2 69 ; Foreign Mediums, $1 90® 
82 10: do Marrow, 82 60g$2 65; Green Peas, 81 00381 05. 
California Lima, $2 80 £$2 99. 
Butter Is again on the decline. Since our last re 
port, prices have been even higher than we then quot¬ 
ed, but the demand had decreased materially, aud 
arrivals of fresh made have increased so the e is now 
some accumulation. Elgin creamery sold during tne 
week at 36337c, but buyers are very cautious about 
stocking up at such extreme prices. The prices 
quoted below are those ruling as we go to press, but 
it is likely that they will be much lower before 
they reach our readers. They are certain to be soon. 
All good qualities of held butt r have been in good 
demand, these being the scarcest brands of all. 
Creamery.— Elgin, best, 32385c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 24®S4o; Western, best, 83.881c; do prime. 
Sl@32c; do good, 29380c; do poor, 26@28c; West¬ 
ern Imitation Creamer^, prime, 29®31c; do fine, 
24®26c; do poor, 19®21c. Dairy.— State, best, 31338c; 
do prime, 29®Slc; do good, 24®2Sc; do poor, 18320c; 
Western, prime, 24326c ; do fair, 20@22c; do poor, 16 
318c; do factory, best, 293-c; do prime. 25®28c; do 
good, 21®23c. 
Cheese —Fancy and some other qualities have ad¬ 
vanced another eighth. The situation is unchanged, 
there being a fair demand and light supply. Some 
Ohio flats have sold at 11 cents. Colored cheese have 
the preference. Skims have sold out very closely, 
the supply hardly equaling the demand. 
Fancy, 1196®ll>4e; line 1094311c; good, 10J4®1054; 
fair, 994® 10c ; light skims, 9)4®lUc; skims, 2®254c.l 
Ohio Flat, 84431094c. 
Egos are in larger supply, trade is more moderate 
and prices a little easier. As much as 19 and 20 cents 
have been paid for choice lots during the week. 
Duck e^gs are weak. 
Near by, fresn, 1794318c; Canadian,—3—c; South¬ 
ern, 1731794c: Western, best. 1794<?; Duck, 27@29c. 
Fruits.— Receipts of apples light. The market is 
active and Arm for flue fruit. Cranberries are nearly 
out of season and what are left move slowly. The 
Jerseys are the main ones left; sell now for $2.25@ 
$2 75 per 80 quart crate. Theie are a few Catawba 
Grapes selling yet at 20®30 cents per flve pound 
basket. Fancy oranges are in limited supply aud 
Arm. Florida strawberries are declining in price and 
sell slowly. Evaporated apples are Arm. Small fruits 
quiet and in moderate demand. 
Apples—N. Spy, $4 385 00; Baldwin, $4 50@$5 00 ; 
Green. $4 00 3 87 00; Ben Davis, $5 00®$6 00; common 
to good, $100384 00; Lemons, per box, $175@83 25; 
Grape Fruit, per bbl., $4®$6. Florida Oranges, choice 
Indian rivers, $4«$5; brights, $3 £$8 50, russets, $2 75; 
strawb°rrles, 13a8'c; tangerines, $8 50@$6; mandarins, 
$2 50® f 5. 
Domestic. — Apples — Evaporated, good to fancy 
1844316c; poor, 1131244c; coarse cut, 9®1044c; sliced, 
9®12c; do old, S443394c; Chopped, S®894c; Cores and 
skins, 3®344c. Cherries, new, 25®29o ; do, old, 8@l0c. 
Raspberries, 24®27c; Blackberries, 8@9c: Hu«kle 
berries, new, 18@19c; Plums, new, 10@12c: Peaches, 
California peeled, 28330c; do unpeeled. 13318c. South¬ 
ern unpeeled, 644@7c Apricots, California, 1532fc; 
Plums, Cal., ’4 316 ?. 
Game.—W ild ducks lower and dull. Snipe and 
plover firm and in good demand at advanced prices. 
Wild Ducks Western, Canvas, per pair, $1 0 >382 50 ; 
do, do. Redhead, per pair, 7Ec®$l 50; do. do, Mallard, 
per pair, 75380c; do, do, Teal Blue wing, per pair, 353 
50c; do, do, common, per pair, 20®25c. Snipe, per 
doz.. 81 50382 25 ; Plover, do., $1@$2 00. 
Hay is quiet, receipts liberal and prices unchanged. 
Choice, 70@75c, Ttmotny, No. 1, 55@60c; do No 
2 50®—c: shipping, 40®45c; Clover Mixed. 40350c. 
Straw—No. 1 rye, 85®—c.; short rye, 50®60c; oat and 
wheat, 40345c. 
Honey.— New Comb quoted nominally at 16@18c for 
white clover and ll®14c. for buckwheat. California 
extracted, 73744c. 
Hops unchanged. Trading limited to small lots for 
home demand. 
State, ’90 crop, 29@30c; do, prime and choice, ’89, 21 
324c; do good, 19@21c; Pacific Coast, 1890 crop, 25 
®30c. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are dull. Fancy, hand-picked, 
quoted at 4®444c, and farmers’ grades at 244® 346e, 
Pecans, 9®l!c ; Hickory Nuts, $1 50@$1 75 per bushel. 
Poultry.—L ive poultry is in light receipt, but the 
demand has been so limited that prices have shown 
no advance. Dressed poultry is dull. The supply is 
large for everything except fr-sh killed Frozen 
stock is in limited demand excepting turkeys, which 
are wanted at good prices 
Poultry—Live.— Chickens—Spring, per lb, ll@—c ; 
Fowls near-by, per lb, 1144®12o, do Western, per lb, 
1144312c; roosters, per lb, 6®7c; Turkeys, per lb, 11® 
1244c; Ducks, Western, per pair, 70390c; Geese, West¬ 
ern, per pair, 81 25381 50 
Poultry.—Dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 11® 
17c; Fowls, western, choice, 11312c; do common to 
good, 7310c; Ducks, spring, good, 10316; Squab; 
white, per dozen, $4 00384 50; do dark, do, $3 00; 
Chickens, spring, Philadelphia 16®20c.; Western, 12 
315c ; Fowls, near by, 1231244c ; Broilers, 20®40c. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes are steady. Receipts of 
foreign have been large and the demand for them 
good, but many of them have b en in poor con lit ion 
and sold below quotations. Sweets are firm. Onions 
are firmer and a trifle higher Cabbages are firm. 
Southern vegetables are plentiful ani sell well. 
Potatoes—Bermuda, per bbl. $7 0o®$8 00: Jersey, 
per do., $2 50®83 25; State, do., $3383 25 ; Maine, do., 
$3 00383 50; Magnums, per 168 lb. sack, $2 75 A 
$3 25; Sweets, do., $1 50@$S 25. Onions—Western New 
York. $3 09383 75; Cont^ptlcut Red, $3 75®$4 00 do 
White, $4 59®$6 00; do yellow. $3 50@$4 25. Western, 
$3 C0383 50; Jersey, $3®$3 5); Cabbage, L. I., per 100, 
$6®$S; Squash, per bbl., $2 $$2 50; Turnips, per bbl. 
75@85c, Egg Plant, Southern, per bbl., $6@$12; Caull 
flower, per bbl., —3—, Celery, per doz.. 75c ®$1 50 ; 
String Beans, per crate, $2 00®$3 50; Cucumbers, Fla.. 
per crate, -®-. Tomatoes, per box, 25®90e. 
Kale, Norfolk, per bbl, 50®75c; Spinach, Norfolk, per 
bbl, 75c £$1 50. Peas, per crate, $t"»$2 59. Beets, Fla., 
per crate, 75c®$l 00; Asparagus, per doz. bunches, 
$2 50@$5 00; Lettuce. N. O. per bbl., $3 00®$5 00; 
Chicory, N. O., per bbl,, $3 00®$5 00. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—On the spot there was a decline of 144c, 
with freer offerings, sympathizing with options. 
Millers remained indifferent. Sales Ungraded Spring 
Winter Red, at 874«c ■$! 12V6: No. 3 Red. quoted $1 07- 
elevator; No. 2 Red, $1 1496 in store; do. $1 16 afloat; 
No. 1 Hard spring, Nominal, $1 25V6; No. 1 Northern, 
$1 21!*, both delivered; No. 2 March, $1 1396381 1496; 
do May, 81 103$l 1144 ; do June. $1 0896381 099*; do 
July, 81 05963 81 06 9 16; do August, *1 0296381 02% ; 
do September, f 1 01J6-»$1 0’44 ; do December, 8104® 
*1 04 11 - 16 . RYE.—Scarce and prices entirely nominal. 
BARLEY.—Strong and more active ; sales (latterly), 
250,000 bushels Ungraded Canada. In bond, 5536244c 
for export, mainly to tbe United Kingdom No. 2 
Milwaukee quoted. 83c; Ungraded Western. £0383c; 
No. 2 Canada, 86®S7c; extra No. 2 do, 87®88c; No. 1 
Canada. 905592c, two-rowed State, 80c. CORN.—Spot 
lots declined 44@94c and there was more of a pressure 
to sell, while demand did not amount to much. 
Sales—Ungraded Mixed and White, 714437394c; No. 3 
Mixed, 724437294c elevator; steamer mixed. 7237214c 
elevator, 7337344c afloat; No. 2 Mixed, 7!®7294c ele¬ 
vator, 73« 7814c afloat; No. 2 White, 7394c elevator 73c 
to arrive ; low mixed, yellow and steamer yellow, all 
721437294c elevator; No. 2 March, 71 He; do April, 7014c; 
do May, 6714* 69c; do June, 663 6716c; do July. (596® 
e7c. OATS—The spot market reclined 14* 94 c, though 
opening was fairly steady. Trade was less active 
Sales—No. 3 mixed. 573 5714c elevator; No. 3 white, 
5714c elevator; No. 2 mixed, 5835814c elevator; 59® 
5914c afloat; No. 2 white. 58®59c elevator; No. 1 White, 
5914(a69c elevator; No. 2 Chicago, 59®59!4c; Ungraded 
Mixed Western, 56®5914c White do, 5836114c: No. 2 
March 5694c; do April, f694c; do May. 5694 35894c; do 
July, 559435714c; No. 2 White, March 56J6C; do April, 
57@5796c; do May, 5735814c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS 
BEEVES.—Trade was a little sluggish, but sellers 
were unwilling to make any marked concessions to 
buyers. Illinois “stlllers” sold at $5 20, half-breeds 
at $4 £0. decent to choice native steers at $4 753 85 75 
bulls, cows and oxen at $2®$4 45, Including a car¬ 
load of slop fe 1 bulls at *4 '-5. City dressed beef firm 
and In fair demand at 73814c, and Chicago dressed 
sold at 694®8c. Private cable advices report a firmer 
market for refrigerated beef at 4>4d, or about 844c 
per pound, and American steers selling at 544 ®6d, or 
1014312c, estimated dressed weight, sinking the offal. 
MILCH COWS.—Dealers report a steady feeling and 
quote the market at $20@$45 per head for poor to 
good cows 
CALVES.—The market still further declined, with 
very little strictly prime stock offered A bunch of 
yearlings sold at 2c; Westerns at 214c; poor to good 
veals, at 4@7c: and prime and choice selected are not 
quotable above 744 c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Trade was slow and prices 
for sheep barely steady, wMle lambs were a shade 
lower. Fair tc choice sheep sold at $5 50386 40 per 100 
pounds; good to choice lambs at $6 50387 10. Spring 
lambs weak at $3 4 87 SO per head. Dressed mutton 
dull ar d lower. The bulk of the sales were at 9®»44c. 
Dressed lambs were also easier, and it took extra 
slock 10 bring over 10c. General sales were at 9 <4 0c. 
Dressed spring lambs sold at $3g$7 50 per carcass. 
HOGS.—Nominally firm at $3 75@$4. 
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