1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
449 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
General trade is improving. 
Gooseberries are very dull and prices low. 
Cheese is doing a little better for best qualities. 
especially for this trade, and is fully equipped 
with all modern appliances. Importers are doing 
all in their power to keep up with modern trade 
conditions; are our domestic growers as wide¬ 
awake ? 
Chickens are considerably lower; demand good. 
A shortage in the French wheat crop is pre¬ 
dicted. 
Game is in moderate demand, which the supply 
fully equals. 
The supply of all kinds of poultry is ample for 
all demands. 
A very few fancy Southern apples brought ex¬ 
treme prices. 
Russian cereal crops, especially rye, are re¬ 
ported very large. 
Eastern hop reports are unfavorable, mostly 
because of drought. 
Cabbage from the South will no longer bring 
enough to pay expenses. 
Receipts of potatoes continue large, and prices 
will probably soon decline. 
Prime maple sugar is 7 to 7*4 cents per pound ; 
syrup 60 to 75 cents per gallon. 
Beeswax is quoted at 30 to 32 cents, the latter 
for strictly fancy North Carolina. 
Eggs lower; receipts heavy; cold storage full; 
sales forced; quality not of the best. 
Strawberries are doing better, though the dry 
weather is telling on the size and quality. 
Evaporated apples have been selling more 
freely, and somewhat higher prices prevail. 
The quality of most of the fruit arriving is poor; 
fancy fruit would sell quickly at extra prices. 
All kinds of fresh vegetables have come in 
large quantities, and prices are extremely low. 
Some fancy muskinelons from New Orleans 
realized $2 to $2.50 per case of six or seven melons. 
Cherries are only in moderate supply, but the 
demand seems to be light, and sales are slow at 
low prices. 
Potato onions from the Eastern Shore have 
commenced to arrive. They are mostly small aud 
of poor color. 
Raspberries have made their appearance, aud 
sales at extreme prices are reported for those 
of good quality. 
Tomatoes from Charleston have arrived in 
small quantities, and bring somewhat better 
prices than those from Florida. 
The result of the trials of the new cellulose 
made from the pith of corn stalks, recently men¬ 
tioned in The R. N.-Y., was very favorable. 
Arrangements have been made to cremate the 
sweepings and rubbish at the Public Stores in 
thi 3 city. Just what should be done with all 
street sweepings. 
Receipts of Georgia peaches are large, and 
many are arriving from South Carolina. Quality 
is generally poor, and prices realized low for so 
early in the season. 
Georgia peaches are hereafter to be sold on 
Pier 29, North River, where they will be landed, 
Instead of being scattered all over the city in the 
stores of the receivers. 
On Wednesday, 2,000 crates of strawberries 
came in from western New York, including eight 
refrigerator cars. Much of the stock was poor, 
and prices realized low. 
Receipts of tomatoes Monday footed up to 
20,000 carriers, all from Florida. Quality was 
generally good, but the demand was so far short 
of the supply that low prices were realized. 
A proclamation has been issued stating that, 
as the duty on Canadian eggs imported into the 
United States has been reduced to three cents per 
dozen, this rate of duty henceforth will apply on 
eggs imported into Canada. 
Receipts of watermelons last week were 32 car¬ 
loads, of 1,000 melons each. The acreage through¬ 
out the South is reported unusually large this 
year. Later arrivals are large in number, but 
small in size, and prices are considerably lower. 
Butter prices are unchanged, but much of the 
goods received, is of imperfect quality. Consid¬ 
erable is being put into cold storage, and at the 
present rate, it will not take long to exhaust the 
capacity. If receipts continue large, a slump is 
imminent. 
The second annual convention of the South¬ 
western Winter Wheat Millers’ Association, repre¬ 
senting $50,000,000 of invested capital, has been in 
session in Kansas City. The primary object of 
the convention was the opening of Mexico to 
American flour. 
As showing the advantages accruing to the pat¬ 
ent wire cars for poultry, it is reported that such 
a car which was in transit for this market, was 
wrecked, and the stock was unloaded and put n 
coops and shipped on flat freight cars, it taking 
five cars to bring the stock which was in one pat¬ 
ent car. 
A new fruit steamer has just arrived from Med¬ 
iterranean ports with 14,000 packages of oranges 
and 31,000 packages of lemons. She was built 
Summer Homes and Tours. 
A beautifully illustrated book—list of 
over 3,000 summer hotels and boarding¬ 
houses in Catskill Mountains and central 
New York. Send six cents in stamps to 
H. B. Jag-oe, General Eastern Fasseng-er 
Agent West Shore Railroad, 363 Broad¬ 
way, New York, or free upon applica¬ 
tion.— Adv. 
Secretary Morton has just issued new meat in¬ 
spection regulations which will take effect July 
1. They provide for the branding of all con¬ 
demned carcasses, the keeping of a record giving 
in detail the disposition of them, notification to 
transportation companies, etc., so as to pre¬ 
clude effectually, it is believed, the use of con¬ 
demned meat for food purposes. 
California expects to cut quite a figure in the 
lemon trade, as the crop promises to be barge. 
The chief objection to this fruit in the past has 
been the poor condition in which it arrived owing 
to defective curing and packing ; but this will 
probably be overcome. When properly cured and 
packed, the fruit compares favorably with the 
Messina lemons in appearance and keeping quali¬ 
ties, and will probably sell with them. 
Crop reports from all parts of Ontario, Canada, 
show that grain is well advanced and was not 
materially affected by frost. The hay crop will 
be light, except on low lying land. Fall wheat 
promises an average crop. Spring grains are 
suffering from want of moisture, and straw will 
be short, and unless rain comes soon the crops 
will not be up to the .average ; rye is generally 
good ; oats better than the average ; corn looks 
promising; barley about the average crop. From 
all points comes the statement that fruits are 
badly damaged by frost.' 
The short crops of most California fruits this 
year, are attributed to the cold weather early in 
the year, and to subsequent rains. Formerly the 
seasons in California were divided into two 
periods, wet and dry. But within the last few 
years, the seasons seem to have undergone a 
change, there having been much more ram and at 
unusual periods. A theory prevails that the 
change results from the great increase in terri¬ 
tory under irrigation, causing a moister atmos¬ 
phere and a greater rain precipitation over large 
areas, which in former times, were visited by 
rains only during the winter months. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Livinuston County, Ii.l. —The drought which 
has prevailed here the last month is not abating. 
The hay crop is a total failure. The drought 
which has heretofore not affected the corn, is be¬ 
ginning to affect it also. x. 
Dutchess County, N. Y.—The ground is get¬ 
ting very dry, and fruit begins to suffer. Straw¬ 
berries are ripening 10 days ahead of their sea¬ 
son, and, if rain do not come soon, the season 
will be short. Much blight on pears and some on 
apples. w. v. t. 
McLean County, III.— The hay crop of this 
county is gone beyond all hope. No quantity of 
rain could do it good now. The clover was ruined 
by the late frost. The oats will yield little or 
nothing. Some are headed with stalks not over 
six inches long. Many fields will not be cut ex¬ 
cept for fodder. The corn prospect is fair as yet, 
despite the frost and drought, and the fact that 
much of it was replanted. j. c. 
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BEANS AND PEAS. 
Beans, Marrow, 1894, choice.2 50@2 55 
Medium, choice, 1894 .2 00(3,2 05 
Pea, 1894, choice.2 15@2 20 
White Kidney, 1894, choice.2 25@2 30 
Red Kidney, 1894, choice.I 95@2 00 
Black Turtle soup, 1894. 1 40@1 50 
Yellow Eye, 1894, choice.2 15® — 
Lima. Cal., 1894 (60 lbs).3 15@3 20 
Medium, foreign, 1894. 1 75®1 86 
Marrow, foreign.2 26@2 35 
Pea, foreign, 1894. 1 90@2 00 
Green peas, bbl., per bushel.1 05@i 07 
Bags, per bushel. 1 00® 
Scotch, bags. 97@1 00 
BUTTER—NEW. 
Creamery, State and Penn., extras.18 @18*4 
Elgin and other Western, extras.18 @lo *4 
Western, firsts.16 @17 
Western, seconds.14 @15 
Western, thirds.12 @13 
State dairy, half tubs, extras.16)4@17 
Firsts.15 '@16 
Seconds. 13 @14 
Welsh tubs, extras. 17 @— 
Welsh tubs, firsts.15 @16 
Welsh tubs, seconds. 13 @14 
Tubs, thirds. 11 @12 
Western dairy, firsts.12 @13 
Seconds. 10 @11 
Thirds. 9 @10 
Factory, extras.. 12 @— 
Firsts. 11 @ 11)4 
Seconds. 9J4@10 
Thirds. 8 @9 
Western imitation creamery, firsts.14 @15 
Seconds. 11 @12 
Thirds. 8 @10 
CHEESE—NEW. 
State, full cream, large, colored, fancy . 
Large, white, fancy. 
Large, white (natural color), fancy 
Prime to choice. 
Fair to good. 
Common. 
Small, white, fancy. 
Small, colored, fancy. 
Small, good to choice. 
Small, common to fair. 
Part skims, Chen. Co., etc., best. 
Fair. 
Common. 
Full skims. 
EGGS. 
7)4@- 
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7 @ 7*4 
6 H® 714 
6 * 4 @ 6)4 
5)4® 6 
7 94® 8 
7 @ 7*4 
594® 644 
4 @ 4)4 
3 @ 4 
194@ 2 
l @ 1)4 
New-laid, fancy (nearby), at mark. 14 @ 14*4 
N. Y. State & Penn., fresh collections.... 12 * 4 @ 13*4 
Northern Indiana and Ohio, choice. 12*4® — 
Western, northerly sections, choice.... 12 * 4 @ 12*4 
Western, southerly sections, choice. UJ4@ 12 
Western culls, per 30-doz case.2 25 @2 75 
FRUITS—GREEN. 
Blackberries, N. C., per quart . 5 @ 15 
Cherries, fancy, large, per lb. 6 @ 7 
Red, good to prime, per lb. 4 @ 5 
Poor to medium, per lb. 1 @ 3 
Gooseberries, Jersey, green, per quart. 2) 4 @ 5 
Huckleberries, N. C., per quart. 6® 10 
Delaware and Maryland, per quart. 7@ 10 
Peaches, Georgia, per 6-basket carrier. 76@2 25 
Georgia, per Hat case. 50@1 25 
N. C. and S. C., per carrier.1 00@2 25 
N. C and S. C., per Hat case. 75® 1 25 
Plums. Ga. Beach, per 6-basket carrier.1 00@1 50 
Wild Goose, per carrier.I 75@2 25 
Strawberries, Upper Jersey, f’cy, l’ge, per qt. 7@ 9 
Upper Jersey, fair to prime, per quart... 3@ 6 
Southern Jersey, average, per quart. 2® 7 
Staten Island, per quart. 6@ 12 
Up-River, fancy, large, per quart. 8® 10 
Up River, fair to prime, per quart. 3@ 7 
Western N. Y., fancy, per quart. 9@ 11 
Western N. Y., fair to good, per quart... 4® 8 
Muskmelons. Fla., per bbl.1 00@3 00 
Per basket. 50@1 50 
Watermelons, Fla. and Ga., per 100. 10® 20 
Per car-load.100 00@200 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat.70 @85 
Rye.70 @75 
Barley.— @— 
Buckwheat, silver.60 @— 
Buckwheat, Japan.65 @70 
Corn.53 @61 
Oats.32 @42 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, No. 1. 70 @75 
No. 2.65 @70 
No. 3.50 @60 
Shipping.45 @— 
Clover, mixed.55 @— 
Clover.60 @— 
Salt.50 @60 
Straw, long rye.60 @65 
Short rye.45 @60 
Oat.40 @50 
Wheat.40 @50 
MEATS—DRESSED. 
Veals, country dressed, prime . 8*4® 9 
Fair to good, per lb. 8 @ 8)4 
Com. to med., per lb. . 6!4@ 7*4 
Buttermilks, per lb. 5!4@ 6)4 
Small, per lb. 5 @ 6 
Spring lambs, dressed, prime, per lb. 6)4® 6)4 
Poor to good, per lb. 4 @ 6 
Pork, country dressed, light, lean, per lb. 7 @ — 
Medium, per lb. 6 @ 6)4 
Heavy, prime, per lb. 5 @ 5)4 
NUTS. 
Peanuts, Va., h. p., fancy, per lb. 4 @ 4*4 
H. p., extra, per lb. SJ4@ 3% 
Shelled, No. 1, per lb. 394® 4 
No. 2, per lb. 2)4@ 2)4 
Spanish, shelled, No. 1, per lb. 5)4® 594 
No. 2, per lb. 3 @ 3)4 
Pecans, ungraded, per lb. — @ — 
POTATOES. 
Eastern Shore Rose, prime, per bbl.3 25@3 75 
Norfolk Rose, prime, per bbl .3 25@4 00 
N. C. Rose, per bbl. 3 26@3 50 
Chili red, prime, per bbl.3 00@3 25 
Charleston Rose, prime, per bbl.3 25@4 00 
Chili red, prime, per bbl.3 25@3 75 
White, prime, per bbl.3 26@3 50 
Savannah Rose, prime, per bbl.3 25@3 50 
Chill red, prime, per bbl.3 25® — 
Southern, fair to good, per bbl.2 25@3 00 
Seconds, per bbl.1 50@2 00 
Culls, per bbl.1 00@1 25 
Old, per bbl or sack.1 00@1 50 
POULTRY-FRESH KILLED. 
Turkeys, clear hens. 8 @ 
Young toms. 8 @ 
Chickens,Phila., under4 lbs. to pair,per lb 28 @ 
Phila., 4 lbs. or over to pair,per lb ... 23 @ 
L. I. broilers, scalded, per lb. 22 @ 
Western scalded, per lly. 13 @ 
Western, dry-picked, per lb. 20 @ 
Fowls, Western, scalded, choice. 8)4® 
Dry picked, choice. 9 @ 
Common to fair . 7 @ 
Old roosters, per ib. 5 @ 
Ducks, L. I., spring, per lb. 17 @ 
Eastern spring, per lb. 18 ® 
Squabs, tame, white, per doz.2 25 @ 
Mixed lots, per doz.2 00 @ 
Dark and poor, per doz.1 60 @1 
POULTRY—LIVE. 
Spring chickens, large, per lb. 20 @ 
Small to medium, per lb. 14 @ 
Fowls, local, per lb. 10)4® 
Western, per lb. 10 @ 
Southern, per lb. 10 @ 
Roosters, per lb. 5*4@ 
Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 8 @ 
Ducks, local, per pair. 60 @ 
Western, per pair. (Ml @ 
Southern, per pair. 40 @ 
Geese, fancy fattened, per pair.1 (X) @1 
Western, per pair. 80 @1 
Southern and S’westem, per pair. 60 @ 
Pigeons, per pair. 15 @ 
VEGETABLES. 
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Asparagus, per doz bunches. 50@1 00 
Beets, L. I. and Jersey, per 100 bunches. 3 00@6 00 
Cabbage, L. I., per 100 . 1 50@2 00 
Norfolk, per bbl . 40@ 80 
Cucumbers. Savannah, per basket. 40® 60 
Charleston, per basket. 60@1 00 
New Orleans, per doz. —@ — 
Green peas, Norfolk, per half-bbl. 20® 30 
Maryland, per basket. 30@ 50 
Jersey, per basket. 50® 75 
Long Island, per bag. 60® 75 
Eastern Shore, per basket. 26@ 40 
Onions. Md. and Va., potato, per basket.1 00@1 25 
Bermuda, per crate.1 25@1 40 
Egyptian, per 110-lb bag.2 00@2 15 
String beans, N. C., wax, per bushel. 75® 1 25 
Green, round, N. C.. per bushel. 75@1 25 
Norfolk, wax, per half-bbl basket.1 75@2 25 
Norfolk, green, per half-bbl basket.1 75@2 00 
Charleston, wax, per basket. 50® 75 
Charleston, green, per basket. 50® 75 
Squash, Marrow, per bbl-crate.1 00@1 50 
Turnips, Jersey, white, per 100 bunches.1 00@2 00 
Tomatoes, Fla., fancy, per carrier. 80@1 00 
Florida, poor to good, per carrier. 60@ 75 
Charleston, per carrier. 75@1 60 
MILK AND CREAM. 
The total daily supply has been 22,736 cans of milk, 
220 cans of condensed milk and 872 cans of cream. 
The average price paid for the surplus on the plat¬ 
forms has been $1.10 a can of 40 quarts. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yokkek. 
Poultry, Fruits and all Produce 
sold at top prices. Daily returns. 
For stencils, prices and references, 
write F. I. SAGE & SON, 
183 Reade Street. New York. 
CHOICE^PRODUCTS 
Highest prices. No use for poor goods. Creamery 
Butter in tubs and prints a specialty. Live and 
Dressed Poultry and Eggs, Hogs, etc. Stencils, etc., 
on application. GARNER & CO., Produce Commis¬ 
sion Merchants, 32 Little 12th Street, New York. Kef 
erence : Gansevoort Bank. 
ESTABLISHED IN 1876. 
SOMERS, BROTHER & GO. 
headquartersfor 
Fruits and Produce 
Beeoive and sell, in car load lots and smaller 
quantiti es, all Products of the Orchard, Gardes ', 
Dairy. Hennery and FarmT" 
Market Reports, Special References, Stencils, etc., furnished 
free on application. 
611 Liberty Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
(Lplrauiries and Correspondence Invited. 
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GOES INTO THE HANDS 
OF A RECEIVER. 
Not the Page Fence but the animal or thing 
that undertakes to go through it. Andisn’t 
it a great satisfaction to know that the “Re¬ 
ceiver” Is so competent to l ake care of and 
protect all interests and deliver Into proper 
hands when the danger Is over? 
The land owner who puts up Pago fence 
should count it, not an expense, hut a per¬ 
manent investment. Like good substantial 
buildings it adds more than it costs to the 
value of his property. 
PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian,Mich. 
CABLED FIELD AND HOC FENCE: 
Steel Web Picket Lawn Fenco: Steel Gatos, Steel 
Posts and Steel Rails; Tree, Flower and Tomato 
Guards; Steel Wire Fence Board, etc. Catalogue free. 
DeKALB FENCE CO., n High 8t.,DeKalb,Ill. 
BALING 
P RESSES 
1 ALL KINDS 
HORSE and 
| STEAM POWER 
Address Manuf'rft 
fCOLLlflS PLOW CO 
Box 11 QUINCY, ILL. 
BEFORE 
BUYING 
ANEW 
HARNESS 
Send 2-cent stamp for 80-page Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue of Custom Hamb- 
made Oak Leather Harness, sold 
direct to consumers at wholesale 
prices. Why not buy from first 
hands and save the middleman's 
profit. You can buy by mail as 
well as though here iii person. 
Making to order a specialty. 
KING Hi CO., No. 10Church St., Owr K o, N.Y. 
CRIMSON CLOVER 
Hardy, American-grown seed, 26 cents per pound, 
postpaid; 10 pounds or more at 12 cents por pound; 
per bushel, $5, free on board cars or express. 
Turnip Seed. Rutabagas, Buckwheat, Heed Wheat, 
etc., at growers’ prices. Send for Special Whole¬ 
sale Prices. FRANK H. BATTLES, 
Seed Grower, Rochester, N. Y. 
(Crimson (Hover. 
The Fanners’ New Allv, 
SLAY MARK Ii & SON, 
. Special circular free 
Dover, Delaware. 
ry„ ■■■-» Ilf — J. — -I Of 60 to 100 acres, 
railti if anted " oar t 4 h ? 1 Hud8on 
River. Address 
E. II. O., No. 20 Fourth Street, Uoosick Falls, N. Y. 
\J\1 A A| T" F |^—Position as Manager 01 
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enced. Reference. Married and no children. 
Address FARMER, Warren, K. I. 
WE FOUND IT AT LAST. 
DO YOU WANT IT P 
We have seen other papers offering cheap 
watches to their subscribers, and often looked 
them up to see if we too could not offer them to 
our readers; but in every case, we found the 
watches to be so worthless that we would have 
nothing to do with them. We had about given up 
the idea of finding a satisfactory cheap watch. 
We mentioned our experience in this direction to 
the representative of a large American watch 
company, and through his help we are now able 
to offer a real good watch at a very low price. It 
is guaranteed to keep accurate time, has seven 
jewels, expansion balance, cut pinions, porcelain 
dial, stem wind and set in solid nickel silver open 
face. You see this is not a cheap clock move¬ 
ment put into a tin oval case. It is a watch that 
you can rely upon. If not satisfactory, return it 
and get your money back. Price delivered, $ 3 . 75 . 
We will send it free for a club of seven new sub¬ 
scriptions. Or, it and one new subscription for 
rest of this year for $4. 
THE»RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
