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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 9 
Philadelphia has been suffering from a 
butter famine and the scarcity in other 
places prevents the shortage from being 
made up from outsids sources. 
The present price of eggs is said to be 
maintained by speculators who are buying 
and storing in anticipation of higher prices 
next fall. This holds prices two or three 
cents higher than usual at this season, but 
will have an opposite effect next fall. 
Reports from Washington indicate the 
greatest grain crop in the history of the 
State. The reports agree that the condition 
of wheat is much more favorable than on 
April 1, frequent showers of the past 10 
days putting the soil in a fine condition. 
Nothing put the most unusual conditions 
can prevent a great crop this season. 
Reports from Utica say that the hop 
market is slow and very strong this week, 
buyers paying 31 and 32 cents to growers. 
Brewers feel able to pay this, evidently, as 
small purchases are continually being 
made. The market may be said to have a 
bullish tendency, and the supply of first 
class hops in growers’ hands is certainly 
not large. Growers are confident of a speedy 
advance in prices, and cable reports encour¬ 
age them in this view. 
Reports from the Kansas wheat crop 
agree as to injury to the growing plant, but 
disagree as to the cause. Some ascribe it 
to a “new bug,” some to an unknown 
cause, some to the chinch bug, and some to 
the Hessian Fly. Others say that nearly 
all the fields which are suffering were sown 
on imperfectly prepared ground, or wheat 
or corn stubble without preparation. Of 
course, the Alliance is blamed for this con¬ 
dition of affairs. 
Beecham’s Pills cure Costiveness and Indigestion. 
IMPORTANT TO DAIRYMEN. 
A communication has been received by 
the Secretary of Agriculture from the 
“ Home and Foreign Produce Exchange, 
Limited,” London, in which the experience 
with the American cheese trade is re¬ 
viewed. Some points in this paper which 
should be of great interest to American 
cheese makers, we note: “ For some years 
past the United States product has been 
waning in popularity on the London mar¬ 
ket, relatively, because of the advance in 
Canadian make, both in quality and quan¬ 
tity ; positively, because of a distinct de¬ 
terioration from the earlier standards. To 
find a factory which, week by week, fulfills 
the requirements for a choice article is 
now the exception. It is a matter of uni¬ 
versal complaint that the American sup¬ 
ply has not come up to these essential 
conditions, with the result that losses and 
disappointments have been numerous.” 
The communication continues: “We do 
not presume to instruct practical makers 
as to causes and remedies. It is our duty 
simply to indicate those points where im¬ 
provement is needed, and to trust to the 
abundant energy and skill of the dairy 
farmers of America that they will make a 
strenuous effort to recover their lost 
prestige. We would point out that their 
interest is the same as ours. A good 
product not only commands the full market 
value, but makes the business crisp and 
pleasant to all concerned. 
“Last year a communication was re¬ 
ceived by Secretary Rusk from the Liver¬ 
pool Provision Trade Association calling 
attention to the exportation from the 
United States of ‘ filled cheese,’ and stat¬ 
ing that the article is a compound of 
skimmed milk and grease, such as old but¬ 
ter, oleomargarine or lard, the main ingre¬ 
dient being at present stale butter on ac¬ 
count of the belief of the manufacturers 
that they can thus defy the analyst. The 
protest stated that for five years the price 
of cheese Instead of advancing in the 
spring months had declined from this cause, 
and that it was highly injurious to the 
American cheese trade. 
“In connection with these protests the 
Secretary of Agriculture, calls the atten¬ 
tion of our dairymen to the fact that our 
butter exports have never recovered from 
the loss of confidence engendered in the 
British market by similar practices in¬ 
dulged in by some of our butter producers 
in the manufacture of butter for export. 
For years during the past decade there has 
been a steady falling off in quantity and in 
price in the butter exports, the past five 
years averaging per annum only about 
17,000,000 pounds of butter against 20,000,- 
000 pounds in the five years preceding. 
The price during the last five years aver¬ 
aged from three to five cents less than in 
the first five years. 
“Our exports of cheese are still consider¬ 
able, averaging for the past five years 88,- 
000,000 pounds aunually at an average price 
of over nine cents a pound ; but for the first 
five years of this decade our exports of 
cheese averaged yearly 120,000,000 pounds 
at an average price of nearly 11 cents a 
pound. It is of the utmost importance to 
the agricultural interests of the United 
States that we maintain and extend our 
foreign markets for agricultural products 
It is the present policy of the Secretary of 
Agriculture to bend all efforts of the de 
partment to effect this purpose; but no 
efforts, however well directed, can be 
effectual in this respect unless amply sus¬ 
tained by the character of the products we 
send abroad. The purity, the quality, and 
the uniformity of our dairy products must 
all be carefully studied, and the name 
American made synonymous with absolute 
integrity. The Secretary is well aware 
that only a few manufacturers in this 
country resort to the methods against 
which the foreign dealers so earnestly pro¬ 
test, but it is well understood that in this 
line of business the stigma justly attaching 
the wrongs committed by a few is invariably 
applied to the entire product coming from 
a country where such practices are possible. 
American dairymen are vitally interested 
in this matter, and the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, therefore, unhesitatingly invites 
the cooperation of the agricultural press 
in making these facts public.” 
One cent will mail this paper to 
your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after 
you have read it and written your 
name on the corner. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PEICES 
-OF- 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Monday, May 4 , x 8 gx. 
Beans are unchanged in price, except Red Kidneys, 
which are a trifle higher. Green peas are also higher. 
Marrows—New, $1 60®$1! 60; New Mediums choice. 
82 45; Pea, $2 35 ; Red Kidney, $2 75®$S 20. White 
Kidney, choice, $-9$-; Foreign Mediums, (2 If® 
$2 30: do Marrow, $2 85 g $2 60; Qreen Peas. $1 15®$. 20. 
California Lima, $2 ?5®$2 85. 
Butter is higher on almost every grade. The re¬ 
ceipts havs been light and tha demand good from 
both home and ou". of town buyers. The butter fam¬ 
ine in other towns is also making itself felt in this 
market. The market is anxious for everything pos¬ 
sessed of any quality at all to speak of. 
Creamery.— Elgin, best, 283284c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 27*283; Western, best, 274823c; do prime, 
264@27c; do good, 25 826); do poor, 22824c; West¬ 
ern Imitation Creamery, prime, 24*25e: do fine, 
2l®28o; do poor, 19®2Uc. Dairy.— State, best, 26®2?c; 
do prime, 25J4826c; do good, 24®25c ; do poor, 22823c ; 
Western, prime, 23 821c : do fair, 20822c; do poor, 12 
®19c; do factory, best, 23 i24c; do prime 21®22c; do 
good, 19®20c. 
Cheese has declined slightly for old under freer ar¬ 
rivals of new. There is a good trade, however, in 
everything except skims, which are dull. Fancy new 
full cream cheese sells for 11J48114 cents. 
Fancy, old, 1294@124c; line 1148—c; good,104@ll; 
fair, 1081014c; light skims, 6®9c; skims, 114®-o.; 
Ohio Flat, 840114c. 
Eggs are higher than one week ago, with a good de¬ 
mand. Receipts are moderate. Goose eggs are worth 
about 20 cents. 
Near-by. fresh, 154@15J4o. Canadian.—®—c; South¬ 
ern, 144315c: Western,best. 154c; Duck, 17@2Cc. 
Fruits.— Apples are dull. The receipts a e light, 
but there is little demand for any but choice table 
fruit. Florida oranges are extremely dull for all hut 
the choicest grades. Strawberries are more plentiful 
and slightly lower, but the demand is good for fancy 
fruit. Dried fruits are unchanged. 
Apples— N. Spy, $4®$5 00; Baldwin, $S50®$4 5); 
Green. $4 00 8 85 00; Ben Davis, $4UO®$5 00; common 
to good, $1 00888 00; Russet, $3 00@$4 00; Lemons, per 
box, $2 00@$4 75 Grape Fruit, per bbl., $4ffl$5. Florida 
Oranges, choice Indian rivers, $38$5; brights, $3 8 
$3 50; russets, $2 75; tangerines, $3 50@$5; mandarins, 
$2 60®$5; strawberries, 10® 23e. 
Domestic. — Apples — Evaporated, good to fancy, 
1S4®16 c; poor, 110124c ; coarse cut, 100104c ; sliced, 
10®18c ; do old, 843894c; Chopped, S4@4c; Cores and 
skins, 33,314c. Cherries, new, 25®28c ; do, old, 8®loc. 
Raspberries, 24@27c; Blackberries, 8®9c: Huckle 
berries, new, I8®19c; Blums, new, I0@12c: Peaches, 
California peeled,25®30c; do unpeeled, 12J4@ 18c. South¬ 
ern unpeeled, 6J4®7c Apricots, California, I4®l8c; 
Plums, Cal., 13815c. 
Game.— Wild ducks are outlawed. Other game is in 
light supply ana limited demand at higher prices. 
Snipe, per doz., $1 50®$2 00; Plover, do., $1 50@$2. 
Hay continues in light receipt and prices of some 
grades have advanced. The market is firm though 
demand is moderate. 
Choice, 75885c, rlmotiiy, No. 1, 60®70c; do No. 
2, 55® 60 c; shipping, 45850c; Clover Mixed. 50360c. 
Straw—No. 1 rye, 80865short rye, 50®55c; oat and 
wheat, 35®40c. 
Honey.— New Comb quoted nominally at 16@18c for 
white clover and 11® 14c. for buckwheat. California 
extracted, 7®7kc. 
Hops are firm with moderate dealings. 
State, ’90 crop, 39®82c; do, prime and choice, ’89, 21 
323c; do good, 19;»20c; Pacific Coast, 1890 crop, 26 
@32c 
Maple Sugar.—C hoice new quoted at 8 cents per 
pound. Syrup nominally worth 75® 80c for new, but 
no considerable quantity could be sold at the outside 
figure. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are active Fancy, hand-picked, 
quoted at 4J48—c. and farmers’ grades at 243394c; 
Pecans, 9®l’c ; Hickory Nuts, $1®$1 50 per bushel. 
Poultry.—L ive is considerably higher for fowls 
and chickens, unchanged for turkeys, and lower for 
ducks and geese. Dressed poultry is in good demand 
for fresh killed, but frozen is weak. Broilers are 
higher. The receipts have been light for a few days, 
a sort of reaction from the large arrivals previous to 
the Jewish holiday market. Dealers look for larger 
arrivals soon, in which case prices will probably de¬ 
cline. Squabs are lower and dull. Capons are worth 
from 15 *23 c nts. 
Poultry—Live.— Chickens-Spring, per pair, 50c@ 
81 00; Fowls near-by.per lb 14J48153. doWestern.per lb. 
1414®—c; roosters, old, per lb. 8®84c; Turkeys, per lb, 
138143; Ducks, Western, per pair, 75392c: Geese, 
Western, per pair, $1 12®$1 37. 
Poultry.—Dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 9® 
15c; Fowls, western, choice, 1101254c; do common to 
good, 9810c, nearby, 12V4c Ducks, good. 10018, Squat: 
white, per dozen, |3 <J0@$-; do dark, do. $175® 
$2 00; Chickens Western 12 *15c • Broilers, 41®55c. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes continue firm at unchanged 
prices for domestic. Florldas are a trifle higher if 
choice. A single cargo of Scotch Magnums in last 
week contained 9,003 sacks anl sold for $3 60* $3 75. 
Some Irish Magnums have sold for *3 S'*. There is a 
good demand for choice new potatoes. Sweets are 
very dull and considerably lower. Bermuda onions 
are firm and In good demand. Asparagus Isbecom* 
ing quite plentiful. Florida cabbages are almost a 
drug on the market. Dealers advise agal- st shipping 
any more at present. Ripe tomatoes are wanted. 
Cucumbers are scarce; those f'om the hothouses sell 
freely. Kale and spinach are getting to be back num¬ 
bers Judging by the price. 
Potatoes Bermuda, per bbl. $5 0 .k 8$3 00; Jersey, 
per do., $2 ?5@$3 50; State, do., $3 213*3 75 ; Maine, 
do., $8 50 *$3 75; do Florldas, $3 50 887 50; Scotch 
Magnums, per 168 lb. sack, $3 503$3 75; Sweets, 
do., $1 2!@$215 Onions- Bermuda per crate. $2 25; 
Egyptian, per case, $2 75 ; Cabbage, Florida per crate, 
71c@$l 21. Squash,Florida, per crate,75c8$125; Turnips, 
per bbl. 65®?5c, Egg Plant, Southern, per bbl., $48$6; 
Cauliflower, per bbl.,—@—, Celery, per doz.. $—@$—; 
String Beans, per crate, $2 60 384 00; Cucumbers, Fla., 
per crate, $2 3 $3. Tomatoes, per crate, $1 508$3 50. 
Kale. Norfolk, per bbl, 25340c; Spinach, Norfolk, per 
bbl,?5c*$1. Peas, per crate, $1 50®$ 3. Beets, Fla., 
per crate, 75c^8150; Asparagus, per doz. bunches, 
00@$3 00 Hothouse cucumbers. $1 508$1 75 per doz. 
Radishes, Norfolk, per 100 bunches 25@6Cc. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.-Sales-No. 2 Red Winter. $1 1674 In ele¬ 
vator, $1 18 In store, $1 :8#$118*4 f. o. b.; Ungraded 
Winter Red. $1 17.881 1956; No. 1 Hard Spring, $1 2)54 
to arrive, delivered; No. 1 Northern Spring, $1 18 ® 
$1 1856; No. 2 May, $1 1654®$1 17; do June. $1 1554® 
$1 1654; do July, 81 12968811394; do August, $1 08%® 
81 1054; do September, 810774381099*; do October, 
81 0894 : do December, $1 084@$1 15. RYE, BARLEY, 
and BARLEY MALT.—Dull and nominal. CORN.— 
Opened higher with wheat and advanced with it. 
Spot was also lc better but very slow, except for the 
little doing In special July shipments. Sales—No 2 
mixed, 82c In elevator; 83c afloat; Ungraded Mixed, 
79 <bS8c; steamer mixed, 80 , 4,810 In elevator, 8l@82c 
delivered: No. 2 Slay, 757487656c; do June, 725607354c ; 
do July. 7054 37154c ; do August, 70@7 >4c ; do Septem¬ 
ber, 1 994070c. OATS—Were up with corn, and on 
lighter futures offerings as well are better. Spot de¬ 
creased especially for No. 2 white, of which one 
operator sold 50,06o bushels at 624c to the trade. 
Sales—No. 3 mixed, 60e; No. 3 white, 61®6156u; No. 2 
mixed, 613614c In elevator; 6236254 c delivered; No. 
2 white, 6286256c; No. 1 mixed, 62 j ; No. 1 White, 6656c; 
No. 2 Chicago, 6236256c; Ungraded Mixed Western, 58 
®63c. White do, 63 .70c; No. 2 May, 59435944 c; do 
June, 5854c : do July, 57543 5794c ; do August, 44@4 c ; 
do White, May, 614362c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—The light supply, combined with the con¬ 
tinued upward tendency in Chicago prices, caused a 
firm feeling and the cattle sold readily at an advance 
of 15 cents per 1X1 pounds. Common to prime native 
steers sola at $5 20®$6 25 ; a car load of oxen at $4 70; 
bulls at *8 15®*4 40; cows and heifers at $2384 75. 
Cable advict s quote refrigerated beef slow at 454d, or 
scant 854c per pound. American steers are quoted 
firmer at 1 ®i2c(tops. 12.4c), estimated dead weight. 
The rumors current on Wednesday last that a well- 
known slaughtering firm at Jersey City was embar¬ 
rassed, were couflrmed, and it was announced that 
their checks had gone to protest. 
CALVES - Demand fair, but at a shade lower prices. 
Veals sold at 4 6c, and one bunch of selected do at 
64c per pound. Dressed calves opened weak, and de 
cllueJ on free receipts fully 4c pet-pound. Country 
dressed sold mainly at 6®84c (little calves at 4 „5c); 
city dressed veals at 6 ®10c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Market very firm with sales 
of poor to prime clipped sheep at $5 25 8 *6 25; unshorn 
do at $6 75 8 87 50; clipped lambs at $6 'i5®$0 59; wool- 
led do at $S3$S 50. Spring lambs ranged in price 
from $5®$7 50 per head. Dressed mutton In light 
supply and higher with sales at ll@12c ; dressed lambs 
also advanced In price and sold at 12®14c; dressed 
spring lambs firm at $53$7 50 per carcass. 
HOGS.—Market nominally steady at $4 60@$5 35 for 
pigs, and $5 2)@$5 50 for medium and heavy hogs. 
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