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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Condensed Correspondence— Continued. 
crop is thought to be generally ruined 
throughout western New York. Only one 
vineyard within the writer’s knowledge has 
escaped and that was on very high ground. 
Early cherries began to change color on 
Sunday, May 31. The crop will be medium 
in quantity. Early Rivers Peach trees are 
loaded, but a heavy crop is not expected 
from other varieties. It is said that there 
are no codling moths in this section this 
year. It is to be hoped that the rumor may 
be verified. s. A. L. 
Parke County, Ind.— We are still suf¬ 
fering from drought. But little rain fell 
during May—mostly a cold and dry month. 
Wheat continues to look well and promises 
large yield. Oats not good; corn is coming 
up badly. Pasture short and hay will be 
a very short crop. Apples and pears are 
short crops; the Kieffer and Bartlett being 
among the poorest in yield. Doyenn6 Bous 
sock, White Doyenn6 and Beurrd d’Amalis, 
being rather full. Of apples Benoni and 
Ben Davis are very good, other varieties 
uniformly short. The berry crop will be 
short. Most of the raspberries are badly 
frost-bitten and many will not yield more 
than one-third of a crop. What little rain we 
do have does not appear to do us any good. 
Is it on account of too much tile draining ? 
A. c. B. 
Labette County, Kan.— We are having 
very wet weather, not only in Kansas, but 
all through the West. The damage will 
prove quite serious. Immediately around 
us, the wheat, oats, etc., are laid on the 
ground and fruits are beaten off the trees 
by the hail storms. Not less than six inches 
of water fell in six days. The potatoes are 
rotting in the ground. The Crab Grass 
grows apace. This is considered a terrible 
enemy, but I have in several seasons, and 
in many places, found the best corn where 
it was the thickest. The reapers and bind¬ 
ers are moving and the crops of wheat and 
oats will be fine if the weather becomes 
fine. Stockmen and large farmers have 
been favored by the increased value of cat¬ 
tle ; but the advance is only the equivalent 
to the enhanced value of the feed. Hogs 
have been disastrous property; most of us 
would have been better off had the cholera 
taken them off the 1st of October. How¬ 
ever, our people are jubilant. j. b. 
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BURLINGTON ROUTE 
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Leave Chicago at 1:00 P. M., or Sr. Louis 
at 8:25 A. M., and arrive Denver 6:15 P. M. 
the next day. Through Sleepers, Chair 
Cars and Dining Cars. All Railways from 
the East connect with these trains and 
with similar trains via Burlington Route 
to Denver, leaving Chicago at 6:10 P. M., 
St. Louis at 8:15 P. M., and Peoria at 3:20 
P. M. and 8 :00 P. M. All trains daily. 
Tourist tickets are now on sale, and can 
te had of ticket agents of all roads and at 
Burlington Route depots in Chicago, Peo¬ 
ria and St. Louis. 
There is no better place than Colorado 
for those seeking rest and pleasure.— Adv. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Peanuts are dull. 
Oranges out of date. 
Pineapples plentiful. 
Dairy butter outsells creamery. 
Colored cheese sells second best. 
Snipe and plover sell for $1.50 to $2.50 per 
dozen. 
The bulk of the potatoes arriving are of 
the new crop. 
California cherries sold this week for $1.50 
to $3.50 per box. 
Most of the onions in market are from 
Bermuda and Egypt. 
Wooden packages for butter are growing 
in disfavor with dealers. 
A quart of strawberries retails for less 
than a quart of potatoes. 
Poultry prices have been subject to ex¬ 
treme fluctuations recently. 
The cultivation of ramie is attracting 
much attention on the Pacific coast. 
The first green apples from the South 
didn’t meet with a very warm reception. 
Simultaneously with the first receipts of 
Canadian eggs the price declined sharply. 
The poor prospect for new hay has its 
effect on the present market, rendering 
holders more confident and stiffening 
prices. 
Prof. Lintner, New York State Ento¬ 
mologist, reports a new insect enemy of the 
pear, discovered in the orchards of Geo T. 
Powell, Columbia County, N. Y. 
The Department of Agriculture has 
named Mr. Albert Koebele to visit Aus¬ 
tralia in the capacity of an expert on 
friendly insects in the interest of California 
horticulture. 
Reports from the Northwest are to the 
effect that oats will be a poor crop, spring 
and winter wheat average crops, hay a 
light crop. Corn is backward and is grow¬ 
ing slowly but it is impossible to say any¬ 
thing further of it for some time. 
A Florida pear-grower boasts of an or¬ 
chard, one row of trees in which are loaded 
with fruit while the rest are barren. The 
explanation is that last year the cows broke 
into the orchard and ate all the bark from 
the trees of this row without disturbing the 
others. 
Dried fruits of all kinds are lower and 
the trade is dull. Evaporated apples sell 
for 8 to 13 cents; cherries, 15 to 18 cents; 
raspberries, 16 to 18 cents; blackberries, 6 
cents; California peaches, peeled, 20 to 25 
cents; do. unpeeled, 10 to 12 cents; apricots, 
11 to 15 cents. 
The Kentucky Commissioner of Agricult¬ 
ure reports: Corn, acreage exceeding last 
year’s by five per cent. Wheat, acreage com¬ 
pared with last year’s, 106; condition 111. 
Oats, failure. Average setting of tobacco 
compared with contemplated acreage about 
20 per cent; unfavorable season. Fruits cut 
by frost; abundance left. 
A barrel of potatoes from Great Falls, 
Montana, has been on exhibition at 111 
Broadway for a few days. Many of the 
tubers weigh 2% pounds each. The variety 
is Early Rose. The potatoes seem firm and 
fine-grained, and are not pithy so far as ex¬ 
amined. The usual yield is reported as 800 
bushels per acre. The freight on them to 
this city was $4, so Eastern farmers have 
little to fear from this competition until 
lower freight rates are obtained. 
The Southern water-melon crop gives 
good promise for the coming harvest. The 
Melon Exchange last year seems to have 
failed to accomplish all it desired. This 
year the Georgia Melon Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion controlling certain sections of Georgia, 
will endeavor to govern the shipment and 
sale. At a recent meeting it was decided 
to ship no melons under 18 pounds, and 
the railroads have been requested to re¬ 
ceive none under that weight, or any that 
are deformed, sunburnt, green or overripe, 
without the prepayment of freight. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PBICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Saturday, June 13 , 1891 
Bkans show trifling changes. Trading is limited 
and the market dull. 
Marrows—New, (1 GO®$2 40; New Mediums choice, 
$2 35; Pea, ti 3i ; Red Kidney, $2 75®$3 CO; White 
Kidney, choice, $2 40®$2 50; Foreign Mediums, 82 10® 
82 15; do Marrow, 82 35@$2 40; Green Peas, 81124481 15. 
California Lima, 82 65382 70. 
Butter has changed slightly on some grades. Thero 
Is a large supply of fancy creamery and trading Is 
dull. The price of all grades Is considered too high 
for speculation or export, so large quantities are put 
Into cold storage. Stock must be strictly fancy to 
command outside quotations. Da'ry Is not so plenti¬ 
ful and prices are well maintained for fancy State on 
this account as the demand Is not large. Exporters 
have made some shipments to try the market. 
Creamery.— Elgin, best, 18J4®l9c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 15®19c; Western, best, I 834 ® 19c; do prime, 
17® 18c; do good, 16®1634c ; do poor, 14®15c ; West 
em Imitation Creamery, prime, 16®16J4c: do fine, 
11015c; do poor, I2®13c. Daiby.— State, best, 18!4®i9e; 
do prime, 17@13c; do good, 16@17c; do poor, 14®—c ; 
Western, prime, 15®—c ; do fair, 12@14c ; do poor, 10 
©lie; do factory, best, 14®14J4c; do prime, 13)4®:4c; do 
good, 12@13c. 
Cheese has declined somewhat on all grades but 
skims which have made a little advance. Exporters 
have been doing quite a business and the warm 
weather has ripened the cheese so that the home trade 
is picking up. As a consequence the market is In fair 
shape. 
Best factory, colored, 9®—c; best factory, white, 
9@9J4c; good factory, 8 %® 8 %c; fair factory, 83408 * 40 , 
part skims, best 7%®8c; fair skims, 6%®7c ; common 
skims, 5®Gc, full skims, 2®3J4c; Ohio flat, 7%®8c. 
Eoas have slumped this week under unexpectedly 
large receipts and moderate demands Many refuse 
to sell at present prices and much stock is going into 
cold storage. A few lots of Canadian have arrived, 
but they are held for higher prices and few of them 
were sold. 
Near-by, fresh, 16%®16%o; Canadian, —®—c; South¬ 
ern, 15%®16e; Western, best, 163401634c; Duck, 19@20c. 
Fruits.—A very few old apples are still sold at Trm 
prices. A few small lots of common new from North 
Carolina have sold at 81 50 per bushel, but there was 
little demand for them. Strawberries are plentiful 
and many of those from Jersey and further South 
are running small and poor. Some flue ones come 
from up the river. Peaches are more plentiful and 
lower. Cherries are plen y and some lots have 
brought extremely low prices. Huckleberries plenti¬ 
ful and lower. A few Florida water melons sold for 
75c@81 25 each. 
Huckleberries, 9®13cper quart; Lemons, per box, 
$3® 85 75; Peaches, per crate, $1 50@$3; do Peen to, 75c 
$1 50 per case; Gooseberries, per quart, 7@10c ; straw¬ 
berries, 4® 15c; Cherries, per lb. 2®ltc; Plums, Wild 
Goose, per case, $3 25@84. 
Hay is in good receipt, but moving out moderately. 
Reports of prospective shortage in the new crop help 
to sustain prices. 
Choice, 75@80c, Timothy, No. 1, GO®75c ; do No. 
2, 55®60o: shipping, 45055c; Clover Mixed, 55®60c. 
Straw—No. 1 rye, 80385c.; short rye, 50©55c; oat and 
wheat, 35®40c. 
Maple Sugar.— Choice new quoted at 7@7J4 cents 
per pound. Syrup, G0®70c for new. 
Poultry.— Live poultry Is dull and some grades aro 
a trifle lower than early in the week. Live fowls 
have sold up to 1334c for best lots during the past 
week, but a lot of six cars from the West filled the 
demand and prices dropped. Choice dressed poultry 
brings good prices under the light receipts. 
Poultry—Livk.— Chickens—Spring, per lb., 16c® 
23c; Fowls, near-by,per lb 1134@12c, do Western,per lb, 
ll®12c; roosters, old, per lb, 6 34c; Turkeys, per lb, 
9®10o; Ducks, Western, per pair, 65®85c; Geese, 
Western, per pair, 81 15®81 25 
Poultry.—Dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 9® 
lie; Fowls, western, choice, 113401234c; do common to 
good, 10011c, nearby, 12)4®—c; Ducks, good, 12318; 
Squab: white, per dozen, 83 25@8-; do dark, do,81 75 
Broilers, 25®S5c. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes have advanced a trifle undor 
light receipt 0 . Onions aro doing better. Cabbages 
aro selling for better figures. Peaso and beans have 
declined slightly, but the demand Is excellent for all 
choice stock Cucumbers are in largo supply. Toma¬ 
toes are plentiful, but a large part of the receipts are 
far from choice. Fine ones might exceed quotations. 
Other vegetables show little change. 
Potatoes—Charleston, per bbl. 85(W®8»<>0; Jersey, 
per do., 82 50383 75; State, do., 83 00084 00; Maine, 
do., 83 00 ®84 00; do Floridas, $3 50385 00; Scotch, 
Magnums, per 163 lb. sack, $3 25383 75; Sweets, do., 
$1 50®$3 25. Onions—Bermuda per crate, $1 50®$175; 
Egyptian, per bag, $2 50®$2 75; Cabbage, Southern, per 
crate, $125; Squash, Southern, per crate, 50c@$l; Tur¬ 
nips, per 100 bunches, $1 50®$2 50, Egg Plant, Southern, 
per bbl., $1@$6; Cauliflower, per bbl., —®—, String 
Beans, per crate, 75c®$2 50; Cucumbers, Southern, 
per crate, $1 25®$175. Tomatoes, per crate, $1 25@$2 50. 
Peas, per half-barrel, 30«75c; do Maryland, per half¬ 
bushel, 75c®$l 01. Beets, Fla., per crato, 40®75c ; 
Asparagus, per doz. bunches, 75c@$l75; Hothouse 
cucumbers, $1 09@$1 50 per doz. 
Wool—N ice XX fleece is quoted at 32@32J4c. New 
spring Texas quoted 17@22c, and Spring California 
i7@25c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—Sales.-Ungraded Winter Red, *1 0734® 
$111%; No. 2 Red Winter, afloat, $1 09%®$1 10; do, in 
store nominal at 81 09@$1 09)4; No. 1 Northern Spring, 
81 11)4 afloat; No. 2 June, $1 17%®$1 08)4; do July, 
$1 06)4381 07 ; do August, $1 03J4®$1 04; do September, 
$1 03®$1 03% ; do October, $1 03%®$ 1 03%; do Novem¬ 
ber, $1 04%®$1 04%; do Docembor, $1 04J4@$1 05; do 
January, $1 05%®$I 05%; do May, $1 C8J4381 09. RYE - 
Neglected and nominal. Western and Slate quoted 
at 83093c on spot, and 73@78c for do to arrivo in Sep¬ 
tember. CORN.—The spot market closed weak after 
a firm opening. Trading was less active. Sales—Un¬ 
graded Mixed and White, 66®7lJ4c; No 2 mixed, G 6 @ 
6634c In elevator; 67@6734c afloat; steamer mixed, 
nominal; low mixed, 63c elevator ; yellow, 6734c ele¬ 
vator; No. 2 June, 65c; do July. 6334® 65%c clovator ; do 
August, 63®64%c; do September, 62@63 3-16c. OATS.— 
Were likewise depressed and c oted with a general 
decline all around. On the spot thero was a decline 
of 34®l%c, with liberal offerings, while demand was 
more moderate. Sales—No. 3 mixed, 48c elevator; No. 
3 white, 51c elevator; No. 2 mixed, 4834@48%c elevator; 
4934 ® 49 %c afloat; No. 2 white, 5234c elevator; No. 1 
White, 6 !c elevator; No. 2 Chicago, 4934@49%e; Un¬ 
graded Mixed Western, 46@51c White do, 50® 62c; No. 
2 July, 43 34@4934c; do August, 42%@43c; do September, 
39089%c ; No. 2 White, July, 50J4@50%c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—Demand moderately active and prices 
advanced 10c on all desirable grades. “ Stll’ers ” sold 
at $4 75®f 6 20 for poorest to best; common to choice 
meal and corn fed steers at $1 85®$6 35; oxen and 
stags at $3 1234 385; bulls at $2 85g)$4, and four car¬ 
loads of prime still-fed do were delivered on contract 
at 84 40 ; and cows sold at $2 50083 35. City dressed 
beef in fair demand at 7@7J4e for Texas sides, and 8 ® 
9J4c for native do. Cable advices to date quote re¬ 
frigerated beef steady at Id, or scant 8 c per pound ; 
and American steers a trifle firmer with sales at 11® 
13c, estimated dead weight, sinking the offal. 
MILCH COWS.—Dealers report a very slack demand 
for the stock at $20@$45 per head, very few sales ex¬ 
ceeding $ 10 . 
CALVES.— Taking into consideration the liberal 
supply, prices held up remarkably well. Buttermilk 
calves ranged in price from 3%@4!4c ; mixed lots 
from 4@ 534c, and fair to prime veals from 5J4@5%c ; 
selected calves bringing 6 %@ 634 c, and culls going as 
low as 5c. Dressed calves rather slow, but steady at 
6J4®9c for country-dressed veals (little calves 5®6c); 
8@10c for city dressed (choice 10J4e), and 6®7c for 
dressed buttermilks. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS—Inferior to prime sheep sold 
at $4 25®$5 75, and a car load of choice selected went 
to an exporter at $ 6 ; three car-loads of Maryland 
lambs brought 834c per pound, and Virginia and 
Kentucky do sold at 7%®8c (few tops 834c). Dressed 
mutton steady at 9®1034c (choice 11c); dressed lambs 
easier, with general sales at 10@13c (best carcasses 
bringing 14c). 
HOGS.—$4 45@$4 65 for Western pigs, and $5®$5 25 
for good State hogs. 
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