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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
APRIL 18 
lief to the people in the transportation of 
their products, and if that cannot be done 
to abolish the commission. They also de¬ 
manded that the election laws be so 
changed or amended as to require the ap¬ 
pointment of one inspector of elections in 
each precinct from the most numerous 
political party not in power at the time of 
election. 
The Farmers’ Alliance and the Jute 
Bagging Trust, of Atlanta, Ga., have made 
peace. The proposition of the Cordage 
Bagging Company to supply bagging at 
6)4 cents per yard for two pounds, and 7% 
cents for two and a half pounds has been 
accepted. These are the maximum prices, 
and competition may reduce them. It is 
thought that this means the sale in advance 
of bagging for at least half the cotton crop. 
Heretofore the farmers have obeyed the 
Alliance, although it caused them to buy 
bagging at over $1 a bale extra cost. Now 
that the price of jute bagging is reduced 
the Alliance men will adopt it. The Cord¬ 
age Company represents all but one of the 
jute bagging factories in the trust two 
years ago. The factory left out is said to 
be located at Charleston. The action of 
the Alliance leaves the farmers free to buy 
cotton bagging if they prefer, but as jute 
is cheaper, few of them, it is believed, will 
buy it. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Greeley County, Neb.— The winter in 
this section was very mild up to February 
1 ; since that time a great deal of snow has 
fallen and the weather has been quite cold. 
March 29 rain and snow fell steadily all 
day. Unless aid is given after the plan in 
Brown County, S. D., much less grain will 
be sown than usual; owing to the drought 
last year, many of the farmers are without 
seed or feed for their teams. Stock has 
come through the winter in poor condition 
many depending almost entirely on the 
fields of corn stalks for feed. Hay is in 
good demand at $5 and $6 per ton. Wheat 
is worth 70 cents; corn and oats, 40 to 5o 
cents; potatoes, since digging time, have 
sold for $1 per bushel; beans are worth $3 
per bushel ; butter, 18 cents; eggs, 15, have 
been 20 most of the winter; cows sell to 
the butcher for two cents; hogs on the 
market bring three cents. w. R. w. 
Fob a disokdered liver try Beecham’s Pills. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
[If you don’t find what you want to know on these 
pages, ask for it.] 
Wool is higher in Philadelphia. 
Hides are tending downward in price. 
Heavy rains have delayed seeding in 
many parts of the West. 
Delaware peach growers report peach 
buds uninjured by the recent cold snap. 
Peach blossoms in Kentucky and Indiana 
are reported extensively damaged by frost. 
Cattle and hogs are five to ten cents per 
100 pounds higher at Western markets than 
last week. 
There is a hay famine in Iowa, Nebraska 
and Missouri, and prices have gone up. 
Baled hay sold in St. Louis last week for 
$17, and large quantities are shipped there 
from Chicago and other points. 
Reports from Norfolk say the rains have 
rotted large quantities ot the potatoes 
planted and the truckers have plowed up 
the fields. This will make the crop much 
later and will be likely to enhance prices of 
the old crop. 
Governor Burke of North Dakota, says 
that the crop outlook in that State is the 
best for seven years and he believes the 
wheat crop will be the largest ever known. 
There is plenty of moisture and the ground 
is in good condition. Seeding is quite gen¬ 
eral throughout the Red River Valley and 
elsewhere. The acreage is larger than 
last year. Stock raising is proving profit¬ 
able. Thousands of sheep have been shipped 
into the State in the last six months. As 
to the all around conditions as compared 
with last year, at this time last season the 
prospect was never poorer, and it has not 
been better for the past seven years than at 
present. North Dakota will be very pros¬ 
perous this season is his conclusion. 
Severe cold was endured over a large 
part of the county, in the early part of last 
week. More or less damage was done 
where vegetation was advanced. Reports 
from southwest Georgia, northern Florida 
and Alabama show great damage to vege¬ 
tables, fruit and cotton crops by Sunday’s 
frost. The melon crop is badly injured. 
The frost was the severest ever known so 
late in the season. Thomasville, Ga., re¬ 
ports thin ice and much damage from frost 
on the same day. Thousands of acres of 
water-melons were killed in southern 
Georgia, peaches were seriously injured, 
and further damage was done to the Le 
Conte Pear. The prospects now are for an 
exceed, ngly short crop. Irish potatoes and 
beans were also frozen to the ground. 
Florida reports damage to tender plants 
amounting to 40 to 50 percent. The straw¬ 
berry blooms were killed in many places. 
The failure of the Signal Service to send a 
frost warning is the cause of much loss 
that might have been avoided. 
Niagara Grapes Again.— Grape Grower, 
on page 286, takes oxception to our remarks 
on the Niagara as a market grape. Well, 
we are not responsible for facts, and facts 
are what we stated as regards that variety 
in this market. We cannot blame those 
who have got stuck by the Niagara White 
Grape Company on its much lauded vine¬ 
yard plan, for standing up for this grape. 
Personally we like the grape when well 
grown and well ripened, but our object is 
to show just what it is in this market to 
the end that our friends may not be led to 
plant it extensively at exorbitant prices 
for the vines in the'.belief that the fruit will 
sell for superior prices. The Niagaras sold 
in this market last fall bore the seal of the 
Niagara White Grape Company, which is 
supposed to be a guarantee of the finest 
fruit, carefully packed. Much of it was 
~oorl packed. The fruit we have eaten 
from these baskets was not equal to the 
Concord in quality though selling at an 
equal price. We admit that we did not 
sample many baskets because we preferred 
the Concord. We bought the Lady and 
Martha when possible because of their su¬ 
perior quality, although they sold for 
higher prices. “ Grape Growers,” nursery¬ 
men, propagators and others may bring all 
the arguments and statements they please 
in regard to the superiority of new vari¬ 
eties, but when we see them selling day 
after day alongside old standard kinds ; 
when they arrive in such condition as 
shows them to be poor keepers and ship¬ 
pers; when the demand for old varieties 
exceeds that for the new ten-fold, we con¬ 
sider it our duty to state these facts to our 
readers. If they prefer the testimony of 
interested parties to ouf disinterested tes¬ 
timony, that is their misfortune, 
Reliable Commission Merchants.— One 
of the frequent requests from our readers 
is the name of some reliable commission 
merchant, the important adjective being 
often quoted, underscored or otherwise 
designated to mark its importance. It is 
important. But what is meant by reliable ? 
Does it apply to the man who advertises to 
make returns on receipt of goods, or to the 
man who promises to secure higher prices 
than other dealers; or to the firm organ¬ 
ized so far back in the dim and misty past 
that its origin is decidedly obscure ? Or is 
the “reliable” man the dealer who can 
sell any and everything a shipper chooses 
to send at the “highest market price ?” 
None of these we fear will fill the bill, not 
on these claims, at least. There are hun¬ 
dreds of commission merchants in this 
city. The nature of the business in which 
they are engaged gives opportunity for 
crooked dealing, and there are some dis¬ 
honest rascals in the business, just as there 
are dishonest merchants, lawyers, mechan¬ 
ics, farmers, etc., but we believe the rank 
and file of them are as honest as men in 
other branches of business. Still we would 
not guarantee any one of them. Why ? 
Because there are dozens of reasons for our 
not doing so. Should we recommend our 
friends to ship to certain ones, and should 
they meet one loss after making dozens of 
satisfactory shipments, we would be blamed 
for the loss. Many shippers send inferior 
goods, and because they do not receive the 
prices quoted for the best grades in the same 
line, they complain. Many ship when the 
market is glutted, and to sell their produce 
then would be almost like giving it away ; 
still if prompt returns are not received, a 
vigorous protest is made. Then again, any 
man who deals personally with another 
face to face is liable to be overreacned; is 
it to be wondered at, then, if the same thing 
happens in dealing with people at a dis¬ 
tance ? Please remember, then, that if we 
recommend any commission merchants 
whom we believe to be thoroughly reliable 
we do not guarantee their responsibility, 
and will not be held responsible in any way 
for any failure on their part to satisfy 
shippers. There are many of these mer¬ 
chants who do not solicit or desire small 
shipments of produce. These many times 
come from persons unaccustomed to ship¬ 
ping to a distance, and the annoyance of 
dealing with them is so great in proportion 
to the amount involved that dealers prefer 
shipments from those sending large lots. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PBICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Monday, April 13, 1891 
Beans. - There is a moderate but steady demand for 
good grades, but many of the arrivals are of poor 
quality and sell below quotations. 
Marrows—New, $1 6!)®#2 30; New Mediums choice, 
#2 25; Pea, #2 25 ; Red Kidney, #2 50@#2 60, White 
Kidney, choice, #2 59@$2 60 ; Foreign Mediums, #1 90® 
#2 10. do Marrow, #2 153$2 40; Green Peas, #110®#1 15. 
California Lima, #2 75®#2 85. 
Butter.— The market has declined a trifle more on 
some grades. The best brands show most firmness. 
The arrivals are fair and demand good. The situa¬ 
tion Is favorable. There Is less than the ordinary 
difference between the prices of creamery and dairy. 
Creamery.— Elgin, best, 26}$®—c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 26}$®2?c; Western, best, 26}$® 27c; do prime, 
24@25c; do good, 23®24c; do poor, 21®22c; West¬ 
ern Imitation Creamery, prime, 24®—c; do fine, 
21@283; do poor, 19@20c. Dairy.—S tate, best, 26®-c; 
do prime, 24®25c; do good, 28@24c; do poor, 20®21c ; 
Western, prime, 21@22c ; do fair, 19®20c; do poor, 12 
@18c; do factory, best, 23®-c; do prime. 21@22c; do 
good, 18®20c. 
Cheese.— Prime has advanced another quarter cent, 
but trading is naturally limited. A few small lots of 
new skims and part skims have arrived and sold 
fairly well. Pennsylvania skims have been In better 
export demand. 
Fancy, 12@12}$c; fine, 1! k®llJ4c; good, 10}$@n; 
fair, 10® 10J4c ; light skims, 9}$®lUc; skims, 194®—c.; 
Ohio Flat, 8}$®ll}$c. 
Eggs have slumped, butlhe week closed with lighter 
arrivals and a firmer market. The demand Is fair 
Much lower prices are Improbable, as the tariff will 
increase the cost of Canadian eggs and packers will 
soon absorb the surplus If i rices are much lower. 
Goose eggs sell for 35®40 cents. 
Near-by, fresh, 15®-c; Canadian,— a—c; South¬ 
ern, 18}$® 15c; Western, best, 1494® 15e; Duck, 21@?4c. 
Fruits.— Apples show little change, the receipts 
continuing steady and moderate. Florida oranges 
equal the demand and are dull for all but fancy fruit. 
Grapes are quiet. Strawberries show little change. 
Dried fruits are unchanged. 
Apples—N. Spy, $1®#5 00; Baldwin, #4 50®$5 00 ; 
Green. #4 00®#7 00; Ben Davis, #5 00@#6 50; common 
to good, #1 00®#4 00; Russet, #4 00@$5 00; Lemons, per 
box, $1 75@#3 25 Grape Fruit, per bbl., #4@#5. Florida 
Oranges, choice Indian rivers, #4s#5; brlghts, #3® 
#3 50; russets, #2 75; tangerines, #3 50®#5; mandarins, 
#2 G0®#5; strawberries, 15@45c. 
Domestic. — Apples — Evaporated, good to fancy, 
13}$®16c; poor, ll@12}$c ; coarse cut, 10®10}$c; sliced, 
10@13c; do old, 3}$@894c; Chopped, 3}$®4c; Cores and 
skins, 3®3}$c. Cherries, new, 25®28o; do, old, 8®10c. 
Raspberries, 24®27c; Blackberries, 8@9c: Huckle 
berries, new, 18@19c; Plums, new, 10@12c: Peaches, 
California peeled,25®30c; do un peeled, 12}$® 18c. South¬ 
ern unpeeled, 6}4@7c Apricots, California, 14®l8c; 
Plums, Cal., 18@15c. 
Game.— Wild ducks are unchanged. Snipe and 
plover are lower and dull. 
Wild Ducks, \yestern, Canvas, per pair, 75c®$2 CO ; 
do, do, Redhead, per pair, 50c@#l 25; do, do, Mallard, 
per pair, 45@70c; do, do, Teal Blue wing, per pair, 25® 
40c; do, do, common, per pair, 20®25c. Snipe, per 
doz., #1 50®#1 75 ; Plover, do., *1@#1 75. 
Hay Is firmer under light receipts. The hay famine 
in the West, spoken of in another column will have 
the effect of drawing some supplies from this mar¬ 
ket. 
Choice, 75®80c, Timothy, No. 1, 60@70c ; do No. 
2, 50®55c; shipping, 40®45c; Clover Mixed, 45@55c. 
Straw—No. 1 rye, 85®91)3.; short rye, 50®60c; oat and 
wheat, 40®50c. 
Honey.—N ew Comb quoted nominally at 16@18c for 
white clover and 11® 14c. for buckwheat. California 
extracted, 7®7}4c. 
Hops are steady but trading is quiet. 
State, ’90 crop, 29®3ic; do, prime and choice, ’89, 21 
®23c; do good, 19®20c; Pacific Coast, 1890 crop, 25 
@31c. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are steady. Fancy, hand-picked, 
quoted at 4®—c, and farmers’ grades at 2}$@3}$ci 
Pecans, 9®llc ; Hickory Nuts, #1@#1 50 per bushel. 
Poultry’.— Live is scarce and has made quite an ad. 
vance. Receipts continue very moderate and good 
stock is wanted. Dressed stock is higher and sells 
readily If of good quality. Frozen stock sells lower. 
Broilers have made another advance. Capons are 
scarce and a trifle high* r selling for from 15®22 cents 
per pound. 
Poultry—Live.—C hickens—Spring, per pair, 50c@#l 
Fowls near-by, per lb 14®-e, do Western, per lb- 
14®-c; roosters, old, per lb, 8®—c; Turkeys, per lb* 
13® 14c; Ducks, Western, per pair, 75c®#l; Geese,’ 
Western, per pair, #1 37®#1 62. 
Poultry.—Dressed—T urkeys, mixed, per lb. 11® 
17c; Fowls, western, choice, 12®14c; do common to 
good, S®12c; Ducks, good, 10®18; Squao ; white, 
per dozen, #4 00®#-; do dark, do, #175@#2 50; 
Chickens, spring, Philadelphia, 14®16c.; Western, 12 
®15c ; Fowls, near-by, lS}$ai4o; Broilers, 22®55c. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes are quiet and show little 
change. Some dealers say there will be no deprecia¬ 
tion in prices until the Norfolk stock arrivas in June. 
Bermudas and Florid as are lower. Choice domestic 
potatoes suitable for seed have sold for #4.25 during 
the week. Onions are higher under a goo 1 demand. 
Florida vegetables are, many of them, more plentiful 
and lower. Tomatoes keep up well. 
Potatoes—Bermuda, per bbl. #6 0J®#9 50; Jersey, 
per do., #2 50@#3 25; State, do., #8®#3 50 ; Maine, 
do., #3 50®#4 00 ; do Floridas, $4 00®#8 50; Scotch 
Magnums, per 168 lb. sack, #3 25®#-; Sweets, 
do., #1 25®#300. Onions—Western New York, #4 00 
@#4 75; Connecticut Red, #5 00®#5 50, do White, 
#5 00®#8 00; do yellow, #5 00@#5 50. Western, #3 50 
®#5 00; Jersey, #4 00@#5 00; Cabbage, Florida, per 
crate, 75c®#l 75; Squash, per bbl., #2 50®#3; Turnips, 
per bbl. 75®85c, Egg Plant, Southern, per bbl., #6®#9; 
Cauliflower, per bbl.,— ®—, Celery, per doz., #1®#2 00; 
String Beans, per crate, 75c@#2 00; Cucumbers, Fla., 
per crate,-®-. Tomatoes, per crate, #3®#3 50. 
Kale, Norfolk, per bbl, 75®90c; Spinach, Norfolk, per 
bbl, #1 50®#2 25. Peas, per crate, #1®#2. Beets, Fla., 
per crate, #1 25@#1 50; Asparagus, per doz. bunches, 
#3 00@#7 50; Lettuce. N. O. per boJ., #3 00®#4 00 ; 
Chicory, N. O., per bbl,, #3 00®#5. Hothouse cucum¬ 
bers, $1 25®#1 75 per doz. 
GRAIN MARKETS 
WHEAT.—The early cables from English markets 
were strong. Paris cables reported dry,cold weather 
In France, but Paris flour quotations were 40@50 
centimes lower. The monthly Government report 
gave the condition of the winter wheat at 98.10 per 
cent, against 81 per cent a year ago, with 99 per cent 
the highest in Michigan, Kansas and California, and 
96 in Missouri, while 92 was the lowest in New-York. 
Chicago advanced }$c on this, to indicate that the re¬ 
port had already been discounted. Sales—No. 2 Red 
Winter, #1 16}$®$] 18}$ in elevator and store, 81 1994 
afloat; Ungraded Winter Red, *1 05}4®$1 0794 ; No. 1 
Northern Spring, $1 24}$; No. 1 Hard spring, No. 2 
Milwaukee spring, c. 1. and f., to arrive, to Interior 
ports; No. 2 May, #1 13}£®$1 14}$; do June, #1 11}$® 
#1 12}$; do July, $1 08J$®#110 3 16; do August, #1 04}$® 
#10515-16; do September, 81 04(8,#1 04%; do October, 
#1 04}$ ; do December, #1 05}$®#1 06}$. RYE.—Demand 
unchanged. BARLEY.—Quiet and steady CORN.— 
No 2 mixed, 77}$®78}4c in elevator; 78t$@79}£c afloat; 
Ungraded Mixed, 76}$®79c; steamer mixed, 77}$@78c 
In elevator, 78}$@79c afloat; low mixed, 77}$c In ele¬ 
vator; steamer yellow, 79kc In elevator, yellow, 79® 
79}$c in elevator: No. 2 May, 73}$®749$c; do June, 71?$ 
@719$c; do July. 7)}$®7!c; do August, 6994@709$. 
OATS—Sales—No. 3 mixed, 59c; No. 8 white, 60@6lc; 
No. 2 mixed, 59}$@60c In elevator; 60}$c afloat; No. 2 
white, 6094@61}$c; No. 1 mixed, 61c; No. 1 White, 62}$c; 
Ungraded Mixed Western, 57®62c White do. 60 a 66c; 
No. 2 Chicago, 60kc; No. 2 April, 59}$c ; do May, 599$® 
5994c; do June,59®59‘4c; do July, 58}4®5894c ; No. 2 
White, April, 6094c; do May, 60}$@6094c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—Trade was slow, with no export demand. 
It was difficult to sell out, but prices ruled firm and a 
shade higher. Fourteen car loads of corn fed Colo- 
rados sold at #5 15; medium to prime native steers at 
#5 05®#5 65 ; cows at #2 75@#8 75. Cable advices show 
no improvement in the London and Liverpool mar¬ 
kets. Refrigerated beef sells slowly at 4}$d, or scant 
8}4c per pound, and American steers are dull at 11® 
ll}$c (tops Il9i@l2cj, estimated dead weight. City 
dressed beef was firm and in good demand at 8®9}$c 
for ordinary to choice sides. 
CALVES.-Demand only fair. Most of the sales were 
at 4§6c for poor to good veals ; the few really prime 
sold at 6}$c. Dressed calves unchanged at 4®8}$c for 
country dressed veals; 5@9}$c for city dressed, with 
choice carcasses bringing lCc. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—The market was sluggish. 
The supply of stock was more liberal, the figures at 
which it had been selling the past few days seem 
very tall for butchers, and while sellers saw no In¬ 
dications in Western advices for weakening and held 
steady, buyers in many cases preferred to wait. Poor 
to prime clipped sheep sold at #4 50®#5 75, unshorn 
do at #5 S0@#7, a car-load of clipped lambs at #6 75, 
unshorn do at #7 75®#8. State spring lambs at #3 50@ 
#6 per head, Jersey do at #5®#7 50. There was a boom¬ 
ing dead market. Dressed mutton sold at 10® lie, and 
up to like for choice, dressed lambs at 10}$®12c, and 
some sales were made at U}$c. Dressed spring lambs 
firm at #5® J 8 per carcass. 
HOGS.—Nominally firm at #4 40@#4 70 for pigs, and 
#5 45@#5 75 for good medium and heavy weight hogs. 
“ When we find a paper that has back¬ 
bone enough to tell the truth, let us 
have backbone enough to help it along.”— 
L. W. LIGHTLY. 
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TW E NEW 
POTATO CULTURE. 
By ELBERT S. CARMAN. 
Editor of "The Rural New-Yorker.” 
Originator of the Foremost of Potatoes -Rural New- 
Yorker No. 2. 
Originator of The Rural Trench System. 
Grower of Over 1,000 Bushels of Potatoes per Acre. 
This book gives the result of 15 years’ 
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It treats particularly of: 
How to increase the crop without 
corresponding cost ol production. 
Manures and Fertilizers; Kinds and 
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The Soil, and how to put it in right 
condition. 
Depth of Planting. 
How much Seed to Plant. 
Methods of Culture. 
The Rural Trench System. 
Varieties, etc., etc. 
Nothing old and worn-out about this 
book. It treats of new and profitable 
methods, in fact of The NEW Potato Cul¬ 
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these experiments at the Rural Grounds, 
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