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November 30 
rHE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Cabbage is extremely dull. 
Thanksgiving takes the turkey. 
The supply of cauliflower is large. 
Hothouse radishes are now in market. 
Bananas are arriving in large quantities. 
The grain market is quite dull in all lines. 
Arrivals of pork are considerably heavier. 
Chestnuts are bringing pretty good prices. 
The market for dry beans is extremely dull. 
Choice white comb honey is scarce and firm. 
Butter is reported dull in the Boston market. 
A scarcity is reported in Maine canned corn. 
Pure beeswax is firm at 29 to 30 cents per pound. 
The cheese market is very quiet, and sales slow. 
The London grain market is reported very dull. 
The fur trade has not yet opened to any extent. 
Supplies of Southern vegetables are increasing. 
Canadian cheese is reported pretty well sold 
out. 
Cranberries are in good demand and prices 
firm. 
The export demand for provisions is only mod¬ 
erate. 
California canned Bartlett pears are very 
scarce. 
There is a good demand for celery of prime 
quality. 
Potatoes are in large supply, and prices re¬ 
main low. 
There have been large arrivals of Dutch granu¬ 
lated sugar. 
Exports of apples have not been half so heavy 
as last year. 
Onions are doing a little better, bnt the price is 
still very low. 
Considerable Western straw has recently come 
to this market. 
Hops are a little more active, but with little 
change in prices. 
November is usually the month of shortest 
supply of fresh eggs. 
Dry packed poultry has the preference now if 
it arrives in good condition. 
Larger arrivals of New Orleans lettuce have 
materially reduced the price. 
Some very fine locally fattened geese have sold 
for as high as $2 to $2.25 per pair. 
Choice maple sugar is scarce and firm at 11)4 
to 12*4 cents per pound, with syrup at 75 to 90 
cents per gallon. 
Fancy pears fit for table use, are in light 
supply and steady at good prices. 
Green peppers from Florida have sold for good 
prices lately on account of scarcity. 
A few second-crop potatoes are in market from 
Virginia, but receive little attention. 
Recent weather conditions have generally been 
favorable for the winter wheat crop. 
On account of the existing game laws, there is 
a scarcity of many kinds of game birds. 
Strictly fresh eggs are scarce and firm at 
quoted prices, and in some cases at prices still 
higher. 
The season for shooting rabbits has opened in 
New Jersey, and the animals are reported 
plentiful. 
A number of canal-boat loads of potatoes have 
arrived recently to go into winter quarters for a 
later market. 
The mammoth turkey has had his day in mar¬ 
ket; those weighing from 8 to 12 pounds are now 
most in demand. 
The Cuban crop of sugar cane has been injured 
by a cyclone, to the extent of 10 to 40 per cent in 
different localities. 
Choice apples, especially red varieties, are in 
good demand, and the market is firm at some¬ 
what advanced prices. 
J. H. Brigham of Ohio, has been re-elected Mas¬ 
ter of the National Grange. This is his fourth 
term of two years each. 
For the week ending last Saturday, there were 
shipped from Montreal, 81,722 boxes of cheese, 
and 1,211 tubs of butter. 
Messina and Palermo oranges and lemons are 
arriving in considerable quantities. TheFloridas 
will be missed this year. 
The lowest price on record for lard was lately 
reached in Chicago ; its rival, cotton-seed oil, is, 
probably, largely responsible. 
Reports from English and Scotch markets in¬ 
dicate firmness for red apples, but a tendency 
toward lower prices for green sorts. 
Many of the grapes now in market are of poor 
quality and dragging, but choice, freshly packed 
ones are steady at a slight advance. 
Don’t forget that all poultry for this market 
should be undrawn and have heads and feet on. 
By all means, have the crops empty when the 
birds are killed. 
In Kentucky, and probably in other localities, 
it is said that large droves of turkeys are driven 
long distances to the railroads on which they are 
shipped to the city markets. 
A salt combine is now reported to be squeezing 
the meat packers’ combine, and the latter’s yearly/ 
supply of salt will cost them several hundred 
thousand dollars more in consequence. 
The raising of flax, which was formerly quite 
an industry in Wyoming County, N. Y., but which 
had fallen off considerably since the War, is 
again on the increase in that county. 
Receivers have been trying to force up the price 
of sweet potatoes, and in consequence the de¬ 
mand was reduced and the market weakened 
with a considerable accumulation on hand. 
The evaporated apple market is showing 
greater activity. Exporters are becoming larger 
buyers, and are paying higher prices. The extra 
demand doesn’t seem to be for sun-dried stock. 
Last week’s Western pack of hogs was 510,000 
against 595,000 a year ago, which was the largest 
on record. This year’s pack is fully up to the 
average. The quality is said to be good and im¬ 
proving. 
A steamer which recently sailed from Montreal 
for Liverpool, took out what was said to be the 
largest cargo of live stock that ever left this 
side of the Atlantic. There were 940 cattle, and 
4,308 sheep. 
Secretary Morton has officially informed the 
Treasury Department that the foot and mouth 
disease has appeared among the cattle of Brazil. 
He, therefore, has recommended to the Treasury 
Department that all hides coming from all the 
countries of South America be disinfected before 
being allowed to enter the United States. 
A Toledo firm, in reply to questions, have re¬ 
ceived replies from 3,359 reliable dealers and 
millers, covering the eight States which gener¬ 
ally raise three-quarters of the winter wheat 
crop of the United States. Of these, 2,276 are 
from the important counties and 1,083 from the 
smaller. These States also produce and use most 
of the clover seed crop. Winter wheat is back¬ 
ward. It has improved greatly since recent 
rains. Condition now in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Penn¬ 
sylvania is about 85 per cent of an average. It 
varies but little in the different States; 457 report 
it above an average, 1,034 an average, 632 a trifle 
below, 430 for three-quarters of a crop, 342 two- 
thirds and 464 for half a crop or less. The crop is 
more susceptible to a severe winter than usual. 
Acreage sown was a trifle smaller than the 
amount harvested from the last crop. Stocks in 
local mills and warehouses average about two- 
thirds as much as a year ago. Clover seed crop 
was very irregular, but the crop is a trifle larger 
than was expected earlier in the season. Domestic 
demand promises to be larger than last season. 
Clover sown last year was destroyed in many 
sections by the drought. 
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