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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Crop and Market Notes—(Continued.) 
Potatoes will probably not bring the 
high prices of last year, although they are 
likely to be somewhat higher after the 
heavy shipments now being received are 
over. 
J. C. Honghton & Co. of Liverpool give a 
summary of reports as to the probable crop 
of apples in the United Kingdom. Returns 
from 140 different localities are summarized 
as follows: very thin, poor, or almost a fail¬ 
ure 16; half crop, or under the average 42; 
fair, good, or average 74 ; above average, 
heavy 8. From this it appears that the crop 
is undoubtedly under an average, but their 
opinion is it will be decidedly smaller than 
even these figures would lead one to sup¬ 
pose. 
Condensed correspondence. 
Tompkins County, N. Y.— Crops as a 
whole are better than last year. Hay is a 
good crop in this vicinity and brings $10 
per ton. Oats are a very large crop, worth 
35 cents. Wheat is of good quality and sell¬ 
ing for $1. Corn is good. Apples a nice 
crop. Pears and plums plentiful. Buck¬ 
wheat bids fair, and there is a large acre¬ 
age. The potatoes are a good crop, but 
rotting somewhat; worth 25 cents for nice 
stock. Cows have done well. F. E. t. 
Champaign County, III.—We have been 
passing through the most remarkable 
“heated term” of which I have ever known 
at this season. This is the first day for two 
weeks when the standard thermometer at 
our agricultural experiment station has not 
registered over 90 degrees at some time dur¬ 
ing the day—91 being lowest, and 96 being 
highest. This has been accompanied with 
drought. There has been but .35 inch of 
rain at the station during the month, with 
only .51 inch during the last half of August. 
Mach inconvenience has been felt by many 
farmers on account of scarcity of water. A 
fair, in some localities a large, corn crop 
has been put out of reach of daDgerof frost 
by this uncomfortable weather. As I write 
there is a slight shower. G. E. M. 
Labette County, Kan.— The country 
is fast approaching a conflagration. The 
thermometer does not go below 95 degrees 
and has not been below this month at 
3 P. M. The pastures are utterly bare and 
brown, and the usual water supplies for 
stock have failed. Rations of water have 
to be brought from a distance, and the won¬ 
der is how animals can keep their condi¬ 
tion on the dole of water distributed once a 
day. Farmers cannot work hard in the 
burning sun, and hence all farm work is 
running behind. Apples and pears are 
dropping an immense crop. Corn is a scant 
half crop, wheat a good crop, oats good, 
potatoes generally poor. Apples are not 
salable except the very choice ones. The 
others are rotting on the ground, as they 
will not pay for loading up. Winds are 
strong, and hence the ground is spread 
thickly with decaying fruit. Wheat is 80 
cents ; corn, 45 cents ; oats, 25 cents ; pota¬ 
toes, $1 per bushel; apples $L at retail for 
choice; damaged 10 to 15 cents per bushel. 
_ J B. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PHICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE 
New York, Octobers. 1891. 
Beans are a trifle lower, while trading Is quiet. 
Marrows--l\fcvv £1 60 a&'l Vi5 Mew jieuumi., oaolce, 
$2 25; Pea, $2 25 ; Bed Kidney, $2 25 4*2 30; White 
Kidney, choice, $2 030*2 20 ; Foreign Mediums, $1 so® 
$2 10; do Marrow, $2 Wa.il 20; do Pea, $2 Wail 15; 
Green Peas. $1 100*1 15. California Limas, $2 2Va$2 40. 
Butter Is unchanged and the market Is dull. There 
Is a surplus of inferior grades and such drag. Best 
grades are not In large supply. The cooler weather 
may Improve trade. 
Creamery. —Llgin, best, —0 c; State and Penn¬ 
sylvania, 24 925a; Western, best, 24925c; do prime, 
21(223;; do good, 18 920c; do poor, 16 9170; West¬ 
ern imitation Creamery, prime, 18<t23c: do fine. 15 
017o; do poor, 14 9-c. Dairy. -8tate, best, 22 923c; 
do prime, 20 022c; do good, 18®19c: do poor, 14c; 
Western, prime, 17218c; do fair, 14®15c; do poor 
12 :13c; do factory, best, 1569c: do prime lt014V9c; 
do good, 1891314c. 
Cheese shows little change, but that littl; is down¬ 
ward. The trading is light both for home an 1 export 
demand. The not weather was unfavorable for 
handling and much stock was put Into cold storage. 
The situation may Improve., 
Best factory, colored, 9'-9@—c ; best factory, white, 
949@—c; good factory, 8490949c; fair factory, 70849c; 
part skims, best 6-4719c; fair skims, 5®6c: com¬ 
mon skims, 4 <45490. full skims. 2ft 8s; Ohio flat. 6@849c 
Egos have advanced under light receipts, very few 
of which are fresh. The market Is firm. 
Mear-bj. fresu. 22 % -2l »22 ;; South 
ern. 205213: Western, best 2l®2149«. Ice house, 18«20c. 
Fruits.— Apples are quiet under liberal receipts and 
a moderate demand. The call is mostly for fancy 
table varieties. Pears are dull for all except fancy 
fruit. Peaches are in small supply, but slow sale. 
Plums are cull. The grape scare has depressed prices, 
but the market Is slowly recovering. Cranberries are 
considerably lower under heavy receipts and a pre-s 
ure to sell. Not likely to go much lower. Quinces 
are lower and cull. Dried fruits unchanged, except 
for r “errles and Callfornias which are lower. 
Apples-Kings, per bbl., $175®*2 00; Baldwin, do, 
$100 ji$ 150: Greer ings, do. 75c ,, $l<’0; Pears, Bart 
lett, per box, $100..xl75; do Seckel, per bbl.. $! 00 
®*3 00; do Anjou, per bbl., $ I 750(2 25; Lemons, 
box, $8 250*7:0; Peaches, per basket, 25c0*l 25; 
Plums, Green Gage, per ora*e, 60,»75c; do Egg. per 
bbl., $8 500$l 00; do Relne Claude, per bbl., $3 50 
0$4 5O; do Damsons, per bbl.. $i50»$4 00; Grapes, 
Niagara, per lb., 3@5c; do, Empire State, 3«i4c; do 
Concord, per lb.. 20219c; do, Brighton, 2@3c; do: 
Delaware, per lb., 3@4c: do, Worden, 2@3c. 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, per bbl., *40*5 50: do, per 
crate, *1 750*1 80. Quinces, per bbl., $2 50 $3 0'l. 
Dried. —Evaporated apples, fancy, 8 849c; prime 
to choice, 649 0749c ; good, 6 649c ; sun-dried sliced. 4 
05Hc; cores ard skins, 1*90-c; chops, 2-02Hc; cher¬ 
ries, new, 809)9c; raspberries, 1401544c; blackberries, 
3)9c: California peaches, unpeeled, 8010c; apricots, 
8 «10c. 
Hay Is quiet under a moderate business. 
Choice, $1®$-, I’bnoL.ij, No. i, 80*8>c; do No 
2 700—c shipping, 60 J—c; Clover Mixed 65 470c 
Straw—No. 1 rve 65070;.: short rye, 50055c. oat, 45- 
Hops are unchauged, but present prices are well 
sustained. 
State, l;9l crop seedlings, 15016c: do 1893 crop, 
pr me and choice, 14 216; do do, low and good,1 to 
lie; Pacific Coast, 1890 crop, best, 16; do, fair and 
good, 12014 
Nuts.—P eanuts are steady ; new fancy hand picked 
quoted at 40-c, farmers’ grades at 2>208^c f- r 
prime. Pecans-Straight lots of ungraded are quoted 
at 9011c. Hl;korynuts *1 ;*1 50. Chestnuts are now 
selling for *3 50 per bushel, but this price will not be 
long sustained. 
Poultry.— Live poultry had quite a boom In antl< 1- 
patlon of the Jewisn holiday which occurs to da;, 
but 23 car loads in two days besides the other large 
dally receipts depressed the market In spit-of the 
extra demand. The market Is well cleared, however, 
and In good shape. Prime dressed poultry Is In good 
demand at firm prices. Game birds have been mostly 
of poor quality and sold for almost anything offered. 
Poultry— Live. —Chlcaens-cpriug, per In., 
13c; Fowls, near-by, per lb 12013j, do Western, per 
lb, 12213s; roosters, old, per lb, 7490-c; Turkeys 
per lb, 122 - o; Ducks, Western, per pair, 45065c. 
Geese, Westsru, per pair, $1 152*1 37. 
Poultry. —Dressed —Turkey», mixed, per lb. 82 
16s; Fowls, western, choice, 1349314o; do common to 
good, 9213c, nearby, 142-c; Ducks, good. 8017; 
SqnaD; white, per doien, $3 252$3 50, do dark, do, 
$2 25; Chickens, 7020c. 
Vegetables.— Prices of all vegetables show little 
change. Receipts of potatoes are large and prices 
Irregular. Most vegetables are extremely Irregular 
in quality due In large part, probably to the extreme 
hot weather of the past few weeks. 
Potatoes L. I., per oDl. *1 25 9*1 50 do Jersey, oer 
do., 75c2*1 25; do, Sweets *1 03 -*200. Onions White, 
per bbl, $3 50 2*4 00; do Jersey Yellow, *1250*1 50; 
do Connecticut Red, *1 25 **1 50; do Orangs County 
Red, *1 4*1 37 ; do State Yellow, *1 50 4*1 75. Cabbage, 
per 100, *2 500*8 50; Squash, per bbl., 60075c: 
Turnips, Russia, per bbl., fO 475c, Egg Plant, 
per bbl., 75c0*1 00; Cauliflower, per 100, —0— ;'Llma 
Beans, per bag, *10*125; Cucumbers, per 1,000, 
75c0*l 25. Tomatoes, per crate, 25040c. Corn, per 100, 
85085c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—Sales for prompt and nearby delivery— 
No. 2 Red. store and elevator, *1 0249@*1 024$; do, 
afloat and delivered, *1 ('3490*1 0%; do f. o. b., *1 0349 
0*1 0499, No. 8 Red, 99 49c, Red and White and Spring 
ungraded, 9>49c0*t 0749; No. 1 Northern Spring 
afloat, 81 0549 4*1 05*4; No. 1 Hard Spring to arrive, 
*1 06990*1 0749. RYE was unsettled and dull; West¬ 
ern c. I. f. quoted at 93c. Sales of a ear lot rejected at 
82c ; merchantable at7’c and 200 bushels on dock at 
91c. BARLEY was slow and unsettled ; No. 2 Mil 
waukeewas quoted at 72c, —CORN was stronger In 
tone. Sales for prompt and nearby delivery—New 
York No. 2 In store and elevator, 614,06’c; do, de¬ 
livered, afloat. 6179ft62c; tngradid, in lots, tfft f2c 
No. 2 White, 6 i49&62c. OATS.-Sa'es-No. 2 whlte : 
3549c; No. 3 do, 34Hc; No. 2 , 8349®344ac; No. 3, 3249c' 
Whits Westers, 35(? 4()c : Mixed Western. 320 35 ; No. 2 
Chicago, afloat, 344921:449. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—The cool weather had no appreclible 
efTeet on trade. The fact Is butchers are loaded up 
with common beef and it Is necessary for them to 
get clear of Iheir stale stock before they will take 
hold with much relish. Fair to good Texans sold at 
*3 150(8 5 ( 1 , “Stockers” at $2 250*8 80, common to 
prime native steers at $3 75**5 75, rangers and half 
breeds at $3 6 ' 0*4 30, oxen and stags at *2 75* $4 ' 5 , 
and a few bulls at *2 2o®»2 80. City dressed beef 
steady at 44,0549c for Texas sides, 549®7c for Color ido 
and range beef an 6 949c for native sides, selected 
carcasses selling up to «49e. Latest cable advices 
quote refrigerated beef dull at 394d, or scant 699 c per 
pound, and American steers a fraction lower, with 
tops selling at 6491 , or 12s,c, estimated dead weight. 
MILCH COWS.—Good cows In fair demand, but 
common s'oek dull. Prices ranged firm, J25:< *45 per 
head, with a few choPe ml ker3 exceeding these 
qu- tations. 
CALVES —Supp’y moderate and veals firm, while 
grassers were dull. Grassers and buttermilks sold 
at 2 a 3c per pound; fed and mixed lots at 3a, 5e, 
Westerns at 8He, poor to prime veals at 5&8c, and 81 
selected do at 849c. 
SHEEP and LAMBS.—Wlih a light supply anl cool 
weather, the demand was sharp, and pr’ces for 
lambs advanced, loertogool sheep sold at *S0*5, 
and no prime stock offered : comnu n to choice lambs 
at *5 7 501 6 75; and an out‘lde butcher paid 7c per 
pound for one lot of extra State lambs 
HOGS.-Steady at *50*5 5’, with one bunch of light 
State hogs sold at *5 60 per too pounds 
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