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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 30 
The Business End. 
IjAst week we had something to say 
about advertising. We suggested Tiik 
R. N.-Y. as a paper middleman or “ me¬ 
dium of exchange ” between seller and 
buyer. There are two ways in which 
Thk R. N.-Y. may act as a middleman— 
by cooperative or individual advertising. 
Let us take up the former plan first. 
Here we will say, at one railroad station, 
are John Smith and 11 other shippers, 
each with potatoes, apples, hay and eggs 
to sell. One way, and a common one, is 
to make 12 different shipments to com¬ 
mission-men in the city. The 12 differ¬ 
ent lots make increased charges for 
freight, cartage, handling, packing and 
commission, and all these extras come out 
of the farmer. Bach of the dozen farm¬ 
ers pays a tax for the sake of doing an 
independent business. He also pays all 
the costs aDd takes all the risks between 
his station and the city. He has to go to 
the buyer and take what he can get. 
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Now let us suppose that John Smith 
and his 11 friends “ pooled their issues,” 
and put all the crops into one big lump. 
They then advertise for a buyer, and some 
man who wants their goods comes to 
them and makes a bargain for so much 
cash, f. o. b. The man could not pos¬ 
sibly run around to a dozen different 
men, but can go and bargain for the 
whole lot at one place. That is coopera¬ 
tive selling. Combine and get the goods 
in one lump, and advertise the fact that 
they are for sale, in The R. N.-Y. Here 
we are in the greatest market on the 
Continent. We can put your advertise¬ 
ment before the best list of buyers in 
America. Why not bring the buyer to 
your goods ? Here is the copy of an ad. 
that just appeared in a London (England) 
paper: 
AY! HAY!! Famine owing to 
drought! JOSHUA KKKV1L, BRIXTON, 
S. W., has just traversed Germany and Hungary, 
bought G,000 tons of hay, and can supply In London 
at low rates. J. K. Is cash buyer of any hays. 1,000 
horses fed dally. Established 70 years. 
See that ? This man sent out buyers to 
get the hay. That is the way Americans 
can do, and they will be glad to know 
just where to go to for a definite quantity. 
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It pays a man in the long run to make 
a quick cash sale at a fair price. There 
are, of course, men who are shrewd 
enough to hang on just 
long enough to get a little 
more for their goods. It is 
not a bad plan for a farmer 
to do business on the 
clothes-pin basis. Just 
stick to the line and make 
the natural force of your 
business hold your goods 
up to view. The clothes¬ 
pin Is the most economical 
example of useful force we 
have. It sticks because the 
wood is bound to bend back 
into place. Let The R. N.- 
Y. act as a clothes-pin to 
spread your call for a buyer 
to the world. We can give 
you advertising space as a 
premium for new subscriptions. Speak¬ 
ing of cash prices, read this from an old 
subscriber : 
Shall I tell you wbat one of these leeches (middle¬ 
men) told me the other day ? 1 will, and then you 
can tell your readers. It’s good advice. He said: 
‘‘When you can get a .fair price for an article at 
home, cash down, never coiuiUin it.” 
You will find it a good deal cheaper to 
advertise than to consign. 
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Several times in years past this very 
thing has been tried by Granges and Al¬ 
liances that have advertised with us. 
We believe they have always found buy¬ 
ers. So can you, for all the buyers who 
really buy, can be reached through The 
R. N.-Y. Here is a scheme for practical 
cooperation. You need quantity, uni¬ 
form quality, and a middleman. We 
nominate The R. N.-Y. for the last- 
named position. Some friend may start 
up and say we ought to do all this for 
nothing ! Why ? Does your lawyer get 
you out of legal troubles for nothing ? 
It doesn’t cost you a cent for doctors’ 
bills, we suppose ? When you sell a 
barrel of apples, do you throw in the 
sugar and flour needed to make apple 
pies? We give you 52 issues of a good 
paper for $1. Being a reasonable man, 
of course you don’t want the entire 
earth, and when we offer you a line of 
advertising for every subscription you 
send us, naturally you will say: “I 
wouldn’t do more than that myself ! ” 
CROP AND MARKBT NOTES. 
Pears are selling well. 
Cheese continues climbing. 
Cabbage Is In good demand 
Turkeys are extremely dull. 
A few quinces are In market. 
Receipts of potatoes are light. 
Evaporated apples are firmer. 
Tomatoes are plenty and cheap. 
Grapes are plentiful and eheap. 
Bean prices are for the 1892 crop. 
Lima beans are not over plentiful. 
Receipts of cranberries are heavy. 
Cauliflower received Is mostly poor. 
Cucumber pickles are very plentiful. 
Beeswax Is 25 to 25)6 cents per pound. 
Peach prices have ruled low this week. 
Butter prices are still tending upwards. 
Plums are not In large supply and sell quickly. 
The Bartlett Is the favorite pear while It lasts. 
Water-melons have practically ceased arriving. 
Red and yellow onions are dull, but whites are 
firm. 
Musk-melons are dull, the season being late for 
them. 
There Is a good steady demand for choice green 
apples. 
A lot of 100 barrels of new Red Kidney beans were 
sold to go to Cuba. 
Corn is scarce, and good, large, well-filled ears sell 
quickly at high prices. 
Greening apples and Sheldon and Howell pears were 
received during the week. 
Sweet potatoes are In lighter receipt, but the mar¬ 
ket Is dull and prices are lower. 
New Red Kidney beans are coming to market, and 
$2.50 per bushel Is the highest offer. 
The New York hop harvest Is now over, and the 
shortage Is estimated at 20,OJ0 bales. 
Receipts of Jersey peaches were heavier the past 
week than at any previous time this season. 
E. L. Goodsell sold 10 car-loads of California fruit 
at auction on Thursday, besides a cargo of 11,000 
bunches of bananas. 
A shipment of two car-loads of Red Kidney beans 
was received, but they were too soft for export, the 
only outlet for them. 
The Michigan crop bulletin gives the percentage 
of yield of potatoes for the whole State as 5G, of ap¬ 
ples 21, and of peaches 67. 
The market for dressed poultry Is strong on ac¬ 
count of light receipts, and this helps out somewhat 
the depression In live poultry. 
Last week the first new evaporated apples were re¬ 
ceived, 129 cases. They were of good quality, and 
sold for 9 to 9>jj cents for prime to fancy. 
A large number of entries of South Down sheep 
have been made for the special prizes of $1,250 con¬ 
tributed by the American South Down Breeders' As¬ 
sociation. 
Large quantities of live poultry were received this 
week from one to three days too late for the Jewish 
feast day, and prices were consequently somewhat 
depressed. 
And now the New York Board of Health Is trying 
to make Itself more ridiculous, if that were possible, 
by talk of confiscating all the mushrooms In market. 
More about this next week. 
The American South Down Association will meet 
In Assembly Hall, Jackson Park, September 27, at 
10 a. m. An excellent programme has been prepared. 
J. G. Springer, Secretary, Springfield, Ill. 
The hop exporters want the duty on hops reduced 
from 15 to 8 cents per pound, on the ground that the 
revenue to the Government Is several hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars less than under the lower duty. 
The North American Bee-Keepers’ Association 
will hold Its 24th annual convention Octobor 11-13 In 
the Louisiana Hotel, Chicago. Frank Benton, Sec¬ 
retary, Department of Agriculture,Washington, D. C. 
A rainy day depresses the market and one so un¬ 
fortunate as to have fruits or vegetables arrive on 
such a day Is likely to suffer In consequence. So we 
see how circumstances utterly beyond control or 
foresight affect prices. 
The State authorities having failed In their scheme 
to collect seed grain for the farmers of western Kan¬ 
sas, the AnclentOrder of United Workmen has taken 
hold of the project and will endeavor to furnish the 
needed aid to all members of the organization, and 
to others if a surplus of seed be collected. 
On Monday and Tuesday this week, the receipts of 
live poultry were 37 cars, the largest for that time 
ever known to the trade. This was In anticipation 
of the Jewish feast on Wednesday afternoon from 
3 o'clock to sunset. No Jewish retailer was allowed 
to sell after 12 o’clock on that day, so the time left 
for the wholesalers to dispose of the enormous sup¬ 
ply was very short. Some of them worked continu¬ 
ously from early Monday morning until Tuesday. 
The accumulations were not entirely cleared up, but 
were fairly well disposed of. The market will now 
assume Its normal condition again. 
The Northwestern Miller reports the flour output 
of Superior and Duluth for the last week at 66,396 
barrels, against 48,317 the week before, and 20,898 for 
the corresponding time In 1892. The sales of flour 
for the week did not equal the output, buyers not 
having confidence In the advance on wheat. 
A New Jersey genius Is about to begin the manu¬ 
facture of sausages from horse flesh for sale In 
Europe. He says that there Is a great demand for 
sausages over there, with no embarrassing questions 
asked as to their composition. He proposes.to kill 
other cheap animals to mix with the horse flesh. 
This may be a solution of the dog question. 
Advices from Glasgow are to the effect that gran¬ 
aries are choked with American grain and are un¬ 
able to receive Incoming cargoes. Importers are 
therefore seeking storage facilities outside of Glas¬ 
gow. The grain market Is glutted by the overabund¬ 
ant supply. Merchants have taken advantage of the 
situation to buy heavily, believing that bottom prices 
have been reached. 
The National Provlsloner says that the future sal¬ 
vation of the farmer will depend to a large extent on 
the diversity of his products. A greater variety of 
stock, as well as crops, will Increase his chances of 
profit materially. In many sections the systematic 
raising of hogs has been much neglected. Hogs In¬ 
crease rapidly, eat a great many different kinds of 
food, and can be full fed for market In a compara¬ 
tively short time. 
The New York State Weather Bureau reports a 
generally favorable week for growing crops, as late 
potatoes, late vegetables, etc., and for meadows and 
pastures especially. The weather has been gener¬ 
ally bright, but rather cold for ripening corn and 
fruits In some more northern counties, but was fav¬ 
orable for finishing the belated harvests of these 
sections. Farmers have been busy cutting corn and 
digging potatoes. Corn cutting proceeds somewhat 
slowly on account of the bad state in which It was 
left by the recent storms. Early potatoes are very 
generally turning out poorly, but late ones are re¬ 
ported from many sections as still growing and to be 
much Improved. The soil has been In fine condition, 
seeding progressed rapidly and Is approaching com¬ 
pletion In many counties. 
Reports so far received from the cranberry bogs 
of Cape Cod and New Jersey, as well as from the 
western fields, indicate a crop fully equal to that of 
last year. Last year 52,249 barrels and 45,008 boxes 
were received at New York, a number slightly below 
that of the previous year; but last year larger quan¬ 
tities were shipped to other markets. Prices opened 
a little higher last year than this, but were not long 
maintained. The first berries always come from 
Cape Cod, those from New Jersey being considerably 
later, thus reversing the general rule about fruits. 
Most of those sold thus far are bought by specula¬ 
tors, as there Is little consumptive demand until the 
weather becomes colder. The fruit can be held for 
a long time. There are some reports of damage by 
Insects In some parts of New Jersey, especially by 
katydids, but It Is not thought that the crop will be 
materially shortened. 
After October 1 all hogs slaughtered for the Inter- 
State and foreign trade will be Inspected before 
slaughter, and again at the time the carcass Is being 
dressed. This has been enforced heretofore In the 
Inspection of cattle and sheep only. The law pro¬ 
vides, however, for an Inspection of all meat which 
goes Into the Inter-State trade, and Secretary Morton 
has determined that our own people shall have the 
benefits of this inspection as well as the foreign con¬ 
sumer. The microscopic examination of pork which 
Is Intended for export to countries requiring such 
Inspection will be continued, but will be confined to 
this trade. The Instructions to Inspectors cover the 
Inspection of cattle, sheep and swine, and their pro¬ 
ducts, and will be enforced In all parts of the coun¬ 
try. Inspectors are instructed to condemn carcasses 
and to see that they are not used for human food 
when affected by any of the following diseases or 
conditions: Hog cholera; swine plague; charbon or 
anthrax; malignant epizootic catarrh; pyaemia and 
septicaemia ; mange or scab In advanced stages; 
advanced stages of actinomycosis or lumpy jaw; in¬ 
flammation of the lungs or Intestines; Texas fever; 
extensive or generalized tuberculosis; animals In an 
advanced stage of pregnancy or which have recently 
given birth to young; any disease or Injury causing 
elevation of temperature or affecting the system of 
the animal to a degree which would make the flesh 
unfit for human food. Any organ or part of a carcass 
which Is badly bruised or affected by tuberculosis, 
abscess, suppurating sore, or tape worm cysts must 
be condemned. 
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This Barytes is a heavy white powder (ground stone), having the appearance 
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