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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Feb. 18 
The Rural Publishing Company 
Times Building, New York 
PUBLISHERS OP 
The Rural New-Yorker 
A weekly newspaper. Established 1860. De¬ 
voted to profitable agriculture and progres > 
slve country life. $2.00 a year; $3.00 to 
foreign countries In the Postal Union 
Terms to clubs on application. 
American Gardening 
A monthly magazine of horticulture, fruits, 
flowers, vegetables and ornamental gar¬ 
dening ; averages 100 pages monthly. 
Illustrated. Price, $1.00 a year; $1.25 In 
New York City ; $1.60 to foreign coun¬ 
tries In the Postal Union. 
Out-Door Books 
In all branches of agriculture and horticul¬ 
ture. Catalogues on application. Inquiries 
for any books wanted will be promptly 
answered. 
PRODUCERS OP 
FINE PRINTING 
ENGRAVING 
ELECTROTYPING 
E. H. LIBBY, General Manager. 
NO DAY LIKE TO-DAY. 
Harvest time for crops is months 
ahead. Harvest time for thought, for 
plans, is now. The days of quiet are the 
crucial days for success or failure next 
summer. Now the man who is to succeed 
plans his campaign. To do this, he must 
know what others are doing, so that he 
will not be left in the race. The Rural 
New-Yorker will tell him more for a 
dollar than he can learn by himself for 
a hundred dollars, for The R. N.-Y. is 
made by a thousand practical farmers. 
Are you trying to have your neighbors 
understand this fact ? How is your club 
growing ? Are you going to win one of 
the “ specials ” and a share in the $ 2,000 
cash to be divided up on May 1 among all 
those who send us clubs of five or more 
new subscriptions? The R. N.-Y. never 
before grew so fast as now. The few 
who are really working for these prizes 
are making good wages. Many more 
ought to share in the results, help their 
neighbors in the thought harvest, and 
help The R.N.-Y. at the same time. Will 
you do it ? 
$200 WILL BE PAID 
In premiums for the best products 
from the 
Carman Grape Vines, 
The New Roses, 
The New Potato and 
The New Tomatoes, 
Being sent and to be sent out in due 
season to our subscribers. The con¬ 
ditions will be made known in due time. 
REMITTANCES ARE ACKNOWLEDGED, 
for subscriptions, by change of the date 
labels on the paper. At this season, 
however, it is often impossible to get the 
changes made under two or three weeks, 
because of the many hundreds coming in 
daily. Remittances for clubs are also 
acknowledged to the sender by postal 
card in the return mail. 
GOOD VALUE AT LOW COST. 
The premium articles mentioned in the 
issue of December 17 may be secured at 
any time, even if your subscription for 
1893 has already been paid. For example: 
in case of an article that you want which 
calls for “ a renewal and a new subscrip¬ 
tion ” and a certain amount of money, if 
your renewal has already been sent in, 
you have only to substitute another new 
' subscription for your own ; that is, send 
in two new subscriptions and the amount 
of money named. And so on for any of 
the articles in the list. Many of our sub¬ 
scribers thus obtain some valuable, use¬ 
ful goods at the lowest possible cost. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Butter Isn’t always butter. 
Clover seed Is a little higher. 
Buckwheat flour Is higher In price. 
Live pigeons are higher and firmer. 
The supply of sweet potatoes Is small. 
Turkeys are steady, as the supply Is not large 
Onions are scarce and have advanced In price. 
Dried plums have declined several cents a pound. 
Kale and spinach are coming In lively from Nor¬ 
folk. 
Hickory nuts are scarce and sell for $1.75 to $2 per 
bushel. 
Evaporated rasberrles have made a considerable 
advance. 
The hay market Is well supplied, and prices are 
barely steady. 
Domestic grapes are not much of a feature In the 
market now. 
Boston and the other New England cities prefer 
the brown eggs. 
Live poultry Is dull under heavy receipts and a 
limited demand. 
What constitutes the difference between a fruit 
and a vegetable? 
The supply of cranberries Is small, and prices are 
likely to continue good. 
The supply of beans Is light, and the market Is firm 
at well sustained prices. 
Frozen eggs will sell, but at a much lower price 
than fresh, sound ones. 
Prices on most live stock are higher. The demand 
Is brisk, and receipts only moderate. 
Receipts of apples have been light, the demand 
good, and former prices well maintained. 
It doesn’t seem as though there could be much 
money In growing turnips at present prices. 
The shell Is but a small part of the egg, but Its 
appearance makes a big difference In the sale. 
Some grades of evaporated and dried apples have 
crept upward during the week, while all are firm. 
Don’t ship good butter to a man making a specialty 
of handling potatoes, vegetables, fruits, poultry, 
hides, etc. 
The first lot of California Navel oranges arrived 
during the week, and sold at auction for $3 to $3.75 
per box. 
Tenegerlnl Is the way one Italian fruit vender an¬ 
nounced to the public the fact that he had tange¬ 
rines for sale. 
Large quantities of game have been frozen aDd 
starved during the recent severe weather In different 
parts of the country. 
Improved and cheapened fast freights are placing 
more and more eggs and other products from the 
far West In our markets. 
Receipts of Florida oranges have not been exces¬ 
sive. and the feeling Is firm. Messina oranges are 
becoming plentiful, but they are too sour to suit 
most tastes. 
The Texas fruit crop Is reported as being badly 
damaged by the recentcold wave Peach, pear, apple 
and plum trees have been In bloom for some time 
and a freeze at such a time can but result in grea 
Injury. 
There Is little change in the cheese market. There 
Is some export demand, but prices on best grades 
are too high for that trade Small sizes of full cream 
cheese are selling In a small way at about one half 
cent above quotations for best full cream. 
The egg market has been an up-and-down affair 
for the past few weeks Recent larger arrivals, and 
the light demand incident to high retail prices have 
again reduced the price. As the price goes down, 
consumption will Increase, and trade will be more 
brisk. 
NearOlendale. Ohio, an epidemic of hydrophobia 
Is reported to have sprung from dogs eating the car¬ 
cass of a cow that died of hvdrophobla, and as a re¬ 
sult the butter and milk Industry of several town¬ 
ships has been destroyed, people being afraid to use 
them. 
The butter market Is quiet, the demand appearing 
limited, purchasers probably waiting for lower 
prices. Outside quotations are possible only for the 
best goods. Receipts are light, so the Immediate 
future market depends upon the demand. Rest 
grades of dairy butter seem to show most firmness 
Rrlces in Boston and Philadelphia are about tbe 
same as in New York. 
The potato market Is dull. There have been large 
arrivals of Scotch potatoes, and more are reported 
on the way, so that, even at the lower prices ruling, 
the market Is weak. Growers who are keeping their 
potatoes expecting to get exorbitant prices are likely 
to be disappointed. Potatoes will not be cheap, but 
It is doubtful If they again sell for so much this year 
as the prices already paid. 
Can Consumption l»e Cured ? 
This question Is an Interesting one to all—a 
vital one to manv. We answer, “ Yes.” It is, how¬ 
ever . true that In a large majority of cases it Is not 
cured. 8o great is this proportion that the state¬ 
ment that one can cure consumption meets every¬ 
where with great Incredulity. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
the discoverers and sole dispensers of Compound 
Oxygen, stake their personal and professional rep¬ 
utation on the assertion that they have often cured 
consumption in their practice of twenty three years. 
They court the fullest Investigation of this declara¬ 
tion. They will prove It In the very words of manv of 
the best and best known people in the country. 
They will, on request, mall a book which shows 
how and why Compound Oxygen cures this dread 
disease. If you have consumption; If you are 
threatened with consumption; or If your friend Is so 
menaced, do not give up hope, but rather write us 
a plain statement of the case and have pointed out 
te you, without any expense, a well-traveled way Of 
escape. Investigate and act at once. Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, or Chicago, 
an Franolsco, New York, and Toronto, Ont .—Adv 
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AY Tj ^ i- ^ -s/** material in trying to obtain 
i our jl si inter a shade °\ , co f ior u and has f 
even resorted to the use of 
ready mixed paints, the ingredients of which he knew nothing about, because 
of the difficulty in making a shade of color with white lead. This waste can 
1 e avoided by the use of National Lead Company’s 
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These tints are a combination of perfectly pure colors put up in small cans 
and prepared so that one pound will tint 25 pounds of Strictly Pure White 
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and pure colors. Insist on having one of the brands of white lead that are 
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■ ATLANTIC ” (New York) 
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‘ COLLIER ” (St. Louis) 
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“ MORLEY ” (Cleveland) 
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“ ULSTER ” (New York) 
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These brands of Strictly Pure White Lead and National Lead Co.’s Pure White Lead 
Tinting Colors are for sale by the most reliable dealers in paints everywhere. 
If you are going to paint, it will pay you to send to us for a book containing informa¬ 
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NATIONAL LEAD CO., 
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WE WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW! 
If you don't see what you want, ask for it. 
Is there an established market for dried currants, 
and If so, where? How is the jelly made and put up 
for sale? Where Is there a market for It? s. D. w. 
Ans.— There Is no market for dried currants, unless 
It may be some small local demand. There Is no 
market for jelly In our large cities, that a small pro¬ 
ducer can take advantage of. The extensive manu¬ 
facturers supply all large dealers much more cheaply 
than any small manufacturer could do It. There 
Isn’t the demand for home-made jellies, jams, etc. f 
that some writers represent. The only way Is for 
one to build up a trade In bis home town, or nearby 
city, unless be has Influential friends in larger cities. 
But why consider the question of drying or making 
Into jelly? Ripe currants are always In demand at 
good prices, and the market Is never fully supplied 
with good fruit. Better supply the existing demand 
than to try to supply one that doesn't exist. 
In one Issue of The R. N.-Y. eggs are quoted at 40 
cents. The next week they are quoted at 35 cents In 
the market report, while under Market Notes we are 
told that they had droppped 11 cents—10 cents in a 
single day. How can that be? 35 cents isn't 11 cents 
less than 40 according to my arithmetic? w. l. h. 
Ans.—E asy enough. No mystery about that. Eggs 
sold for 40 centB as quoted During the next week, 
owing to causes which It Isn’t necessary to explain 
here, they ran down to 29, then up again to 35, at 
which they were quoted when Tiie R. N.-Y. went to 
press. They did not stop there, however, but went 
on up to 40 again by the time the paper reached Its 
readers. The figures In the report were correct The 
facts stated under Market Notes were also correct. 
If you see it in The R. N.-Y.’s market report it's so. but 
the price given is that at which It Is selling when the 
report Is made. No guarantee can be given ns to 
what the price will be a week later or on any day in 
the Interval. 
What are the best packages In which to pack eggs 
for shipment to your market ? C. Y. 
Ans.—T he patent egg cases with pasteboard 
frames which keep each egg separate from all 
others. These are now most largely used. Many 
eggs were formerly shipped In barrels, and some still 
are. but such large packages are Inconvenient to 
handle and unpack, and are not popular with buyers. 
Many retail buyers do not wish to purchase so many 
at once, and the quantity contained In one of the 
cases about suits tbelr needs. Then, too, the cases 
are neat packages from which to retail the eggs 
direct, while, If purchased In barrels, they must 
needs be unpacked before being ready for sale. These 
things all count with the busy grocer. A layer of 
excelsior should be placed In the bottoms of the 
cases before filling and another on top to keep the 
eggs from the case. Eggs for a fancy trade are 
sometimes packed In fancy pasteboard boxes, a 
dozen in a box, and sell for extremely high prices, 
but one must have a special market to render this 
profitable. A japanned tin egg case was mentioned 
In The R. N-Y. some time since, but for ordinary 
shipping by express, this would be of little value, 
as It would he likely to be banged out of shape In 
short order. Some of the ordinary egg cases are 
made so cheaply that they are not returned to tbe 
shippers. Some from nearby points are returned 
free by the transportation companies. 
Would It pay me here In Orange County, N. Y., to 
grow such crops as beets, carrots, squashes, beans, 
etc., for the New York market? lean ship by boat 
during the fall; ship from here In the evening, ar¬ 
rive In the city In the morning. If I grow peas and 
beans of the kinds that are sold green, will they 
pay If left on the vines until ripe and sold then ? 
M. d. F. 
Ans.—A s thousands of farmers and gardeners are 
growing these crops under circumstances, and In lo¬ 
cations similar to your own, and stick to the business, 
we must conclude that they find It profitable. 
Whether you would find It so would depend upon 
your soil and yourself. If your soil Is suitable for 
these crops, and your methods are right, there Is no 
reason why thev should not afford a satisfactory 
profit. They sell for higher prices some seasons than 
others, bnt if of good quality will seldom sell at an 
unprofitable figure. Your shipping facilities are cer¬ 
tainly good, and should be cheap, an Important 
factor. As to the profit In the dry peas and beans, 
you probably wouldn’t find much profit In them un¬ 
less, In the case of beans of desirable varieties, they 
might be sold for seed 
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