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Furthur  Remarks  on  Ananias 
Wlien  a  sinner  conies  to  repentance  we  think  this 
act  deserves  even  more  publicity  than  the  sin.  So  we 
print  the  following  from  the  American  Agriculturist. 
That  paper  doubts  if  we  could  print  the  multiplica¬ 
tion  table  right,  and  so  we  photograph  its  own  print¬ 
ing: 
Hprticultural  Societies  Got  Mixed 
An  editorial  in  Our  issue  of  February  5 
discussed  the  indorsement  of  the  food  and 
market  department  by  the  western  New  York 
horticultural  society  meeting.  This  was  au 
error,  nod  we  are  glad  to  now  make  the  cor- 
market  department  by  the  Western  New  York 
horticultural  society  to  which  reference  was 
made,  but  to  another  horticultural  society 
Which  had  met,iu  Rochester  some  weeks  pre¬ 
vious  to  that  date  of  Issue.  The  Western  Now 
York  horticultural  society. was  meeting  at  the, 
time  the  editorial  referred  to  was  on  the  press, 
and  of  course  that  editorial  could  not  have 
applied  to  that  organization. 
At  the  Western  New  York  horticultural 
society  In  Rochester,  a  report  of  which  ap¬ 
peared  in  our  columns  Inst  week,  th.  food 
and  market  department  and  Mr  Dillon  both 
were  indorsed.  What  appeared  therefore  in 
the  editorial,  A  prejudiced  neighbor,  did  not 
apply  to  the  Western  New  York  horticultural 
society.  This  correction  is  made  with  regrets 
that  the  error  occurred.  We  extend  our 
Apologies  to  Mr  W  N.  Gould  who  Introduced 
the  resolution,  to  George  T.  Powell,  who  sec¬ 
onded  the  resolution,  and  to  K.  J.  T.  Bush,  a 
third  Jnember  of  the  committee,  and  to  the 
entire  society  that  indorsed  the  resolution. 
“An  honest  confession  is  good  for  the  soul,”  but  what 
Bhail  be  said  of  one  who  offers  an  abject  “apology” 
with  one  side  of  his  mouth  while  the  other  side  is  of¬ 
fering  more  stupid  insults  than  ever?  There  is  no 
sense  to  the  explanation.  Head  the  fifth  line  and  see 
what  connection  you  can  figure  out.  What  is  he.  glad 
to  make?  The  “other  horticultural  society”  was  evi¬ 
dently  the  New  York  State  Fruit  Grower's  meeting, 
and  this  is  merely  rubbing  the  insult  in.  Frank  N. 
Bradley  is  president  and  Edward  C.  Gillette  is  secre¬ 
tary.  The  American  Agriculturist  practically  accuses 
them  of  permitting  ward  politicians  to  turn  their  meet¬ 
ing  into  a  political  convention  aud  make  suckers  of 
1,000  of  the  best  fruit  growers  in  New  York.  The  re¬ 
solution  in  question  was  offered  by  Samuel  Fraser  aud 
endorsed  by  Mr.  Bush  and  Mr.  Powell,  the  very  men 
to  whom  our  subservient  neighbor  lias  apologized.  lie 
was  told  by  the  officers  of  the  Western  New  York  So¬ 
ciety  what  would  happen  to  him  if  he  did  not  crawl. 
He  promptly  Went  into  his  hole  and,  as  lie  went,  spit 
venom  at  the  "other  society'’  without  caring  to  name 
it  again. 
Now  what  about  the  other  equally  false  statements 
which  were  exposed  last  week.  Were  they  “errors”  or 
was  the  “apology”  left  out  by  mistake? 
There  was  one  commendable  thing  about  the  original 
Ananias,  lie  was  satisfied  to  be  known  as  the  champ¬ 
ion  liar.  Ilis  modern  descendants  want  more  and  reach 
out  after  new  laurels.  They  want  to  wear  the  brass 
medal  for  what  is  variously  known  as  assurance  or 
“gall”  or  “nerve.”  Thus  we  find  the  following  in  the 
American  Agricult  it  l  ist : 
Why  not  ask  Mr.  Sessions  to  appoint  a  committee  of 
five  or  seven  or  nine  to  canvass  the  situation  very 
carefully.  Let  this  body  recommend  a  man  who  will 
command  tin-  respect  of  all  agricultural  interests  of 
New  York,  the  Grange,  fruit  growers,  dairymen,  live 
stock  breeders,  market  gardeners  and  agricultural 
workers  generally.  This  committee  then,  should  wait 
on  the  Governor  and  advise  him  exactly  what  you  state 
in  your  paper.  Then,  Mr.  Dillon,  we  will  all  get  back 
of  that  man,  knowing  he  is  actually  serving  the  people 
of  the  State. 
Commissioner  Dillon  lias  said  repeatedly  that  when¬ 
ever  the  farmers  of  New  York,  through  their  organiza¬ 
tions,  will  agree  upon  his  successor  he  will  cheerfully 
give  up  the  office.  That  goes!  Gov.  Whitman  has  al¬ 
ready  been  told.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Agricultural  So¬ 
ciety  at  Albany  Mr.  Burkett  was  in  the  room  when 
Mr.  Dillon  made  his  open  announcement!  Already 
the  State  Agricultural  Society,  the  State  Grange,  both 
the  great  horticultural  societies  and  numberless  clubs 
and  local  Granges  have  endorsed  Mr.  Dillon  and  offi¬ 
cially  asked  him  to  remain  in  office.  No  man  has  ever 
before  received  such  general  endorsement  from  farm¬ 
ers  for  an  official  position  as  has  been  given  him. 
Yet  here  conies  a  blunderbuss  asking  all  these  sensible 
farmers  to  change  their  mind  and  write  themselves 
down  as  children  crying  for  a  new  plaything.  The 
great  farm  organizations  of  the  State  have  already  told 
Gov.  Whitman  what  they  want.  What  would  he 
think  of  them  and  the  business  they  represent  if  they 
now  acted  in  this  childish  way?  Under  the  circum¬ 
stances  this  is  the  greatest  example  of  pure-  unadulter¬ 
ated,  unvarnished,  unholy  “gall”  wc  ever  heard  of.  It 
would  make  a  government  ntule  leave  his  oats,  sick 
with  envy  at  the  conviction  that  a  human  being  had 
stolen  his  well-earned  reputation  as  an  example  of 
stupid  “nerve.”  Our  neighbor  might  perhaps  be  ex¬ 
cused  if  it  could  plead  ignorance  of  how  the  farmers 
feel  on  this  subject.  They  have  told  him  in  straight 
blunt  fashion  as  they  usually  do.  Here  is  the  copy  of  a 
letter  which  was  sent  to  the  American  Agriculturist 
and  there  are  many  more  like  it: 
Kindly  discontinue  sending  the  American  Agricul¬ 
turist  to  my  address  at  once ;  we  do  not  belong  to  the 
"knocker  family.”  If  we  are  too  narrow-minded  to 
boost  a  good  thing  we  at  least  do  not  try  to  destroy  it. 
It  is  not  Mr,  J.  .T.  Dillon  as  Commissioner  of  the  Foods 
&  Market  to  whom  you  are  trying  to  give  a  black  eye, 
but  you  are  trying  to  square  an  old  grudge.  The  nig¬ 
ger  in  the  wood  pile  is  easily  to  be  seen  by  all  who  have 
read  the  Myriek  exposures  in  The  R.  N.-Y. 
WELLINGTON  I.  FREED. 
Our  neighbor  says.  “W  will  all  get  back  of  that 
man!”  Is  there  any  such  man  in  the  State  who 
could  stand  such  backing?  Here  is  a  note  from 
one  of  the  leading  farmers  of  Ohio: 
I  have  been  incensed  at  the  despicable  attacks  that 
the  American  Agriculturist  has  been  making  on  you 
and  your  work.  I  know  them  and  their  methods  well 
enough  to  feel  that  it  is  to  a  man's  credit  to  be  at¬ 
tacked  by  them. 
We  knew  a  man  in  Mississippi,  who,  in  the  stren¬ 
uous  days  just  after  the  Civil  War,  went  out  to 
make  a  speech.  Before  him  sat  a  mean-looking 
citizen  with  a  big  bulge  over  his  pocket.  This  man 
got  up  to  move  around  behind  the  speaker  who 
turned  to  him : 
“What  are  you  doing  there?” 
“We  all  want  to. get  right  back  of  you!” 
"But  I  don't  wont  you  back  of  me.  You've  got  a 
knife  in  your  pocket.  You  stop  out  in  front  where 
I  can  keep  an  eye  on  you /” 
No  one  wants  a  knocker  with  a  knife  up  his  sleeve 
to  “back  him  up.”  The  best  public  service  a  "knock¬ 
er”  can  ever  render  is  to  knock  liis  own  sore  head 
into  a  state  of  insensibility. 
About  the  Auction  Market 
If  some  of  the  apple  growers  in  the  Stnte  could  have 
overheard  a  conversation  on  a  New  York  street  last 
week,  they  would  have  received  some  good  information. 
An  auctioneer  nf  the  Fruit  Auction  Company  met  an 
apple  peddler  and  asked  him  why  he.  had  not  been  to 
the  auction  during  the  week  to  buy  his  apples.  In 
reply  the  buyer  said  substantially  this:  “When  T  go 
to  the  auction  I  have  to  compete  with  HO  to  100  other 
buyers:  ”0  or  ”0  of  them  want  the  same  grade  of  ap¬ 
ples  I  buy.  I  must  compete  with  them.  I  buy  cheaper 
on  the  dock.  I  shop  around  from  one  receiver  to  an¬ 
other.  The  commission  dealers  all  have  their  own 
apples  that  they  hold  for  high  prices:  but  they  have 
Shipments  mi  assignments  from  individual  growers,  and 
these  they  sell  cheap.  By  shopping  from  one  to  the 
other  I  can  always  pick  up  a  bargain.  I  cannot  do 
that  with  so  much  competition  in  the  auction.” 
No  better  comparison  of  the  two  systems  of  selling 
could  he  given.  On  the  docks  the  private  salesmen  are 
all  competing  with  each  other  to  sell  to  one  buyer.  In 
the  auction  all  the  buyers  are  competing  with  each 
other  and  only  one  salesman.  Besides  this  the  com¬ 
mission  dealer  lias  bis  own  apples  to  sell,  and  will  al¬ 
ways  give  them  the  preference.  He  would  rather  the 
grower  would  keep  his  apples  home  anyway  and  leave 
the  market  to  himself. 
Growers  have  the  opportunity  of  their  lives  now  to 
overcome  this  discrimination.  Tf  all  the  growers 
shipped  regularly  to  their  own  auction  market  there 
would  he  no  bargains  to  be  picked  up  on  the  docks,  and 
all  such  buyers  would  go  to  the  auction  for  supplies. 
The  growers  would  have  a  market  of  their  own.  They 
would  have  regular  customers  aud  would  increase  con¬ 
sumption  and  increase  prices.  They  would  have  the 
satisfaction  of  knowing  that  they  got  all  the  goods 
sold  for.  and  a  prompt  return.  This  will  come.  The 
work  is  yet  young.  It  has  been  delayed  by  misrepre¬ 
sentation  of  selfish  interests,  lmt  the  farmer  has  been 
watching  it  on  his  own  account.  One  by  one  they 
come  to  the  auction  sales  and  go  away  convinced.  The 
commission  dealer  is  no  longer  the  boss  of  the  situation. 
He  takes  orders  now,  but  he  cannot  compete  with  the 
auction  system  and  must  give  way  to  it.  It  is  only 
a  question  of  how  long  the  farmer  will  consent  to  play 
the  losing  game. 
News  from  the  Auction 
During  the  present  week  approximately  four  car¬ 
loads  of  apples  were  Sold  at  auction.  On  account  of 
the  extreme  cold  weather  that  prevailed  during  the  first 
three  days  of  the  week,  with  the  temperature  hovering 
around  the  zero  mark,  some  of  the  fruit  arrived  in  a 
frost-bitten  condition  and  for  that  reason  the  buyers 
wore  not  enthusiastic  in  tlieir  bidding.  There  is  no 
question  but  that  the  prices  would  have  prevailed  higher 
had  the  fruit  arrived  without  having  been  touched 
by  the  frost.  This  would  seem  to  he  an  opportune  time 
to  call  the  attention  of  shippers  to  the  importance  of 
ascertaining,  if  possible,  the  weather  conditions  that 
are  liable  to  prevail  while  their  shipment  is  in  transit, 
so  that  they  may  judge  as  to  whether  or  not  the 
weather  will  be  such  that  they  should  hold  their  ear 
until  the  temperature  moderated.  The  future  outlook 
appears  very  favorable  for  (lie  shipment  of  apples  and 
we  believe  shippers  should  L  se  no  time  in  getting 
their  fruit  ready  for  transportation  to  the  auction 
market.  The  apple  receipts  throughout  the  general 
market  this  week  have  been  heavy  and  owing  to  the 
fact  that  a  great  volume  of  the  fruit  arrived  in  a  more 
or  less  chilled  condition  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
fruit  will  be  of  little  or  no  value,  and  no  doubt  the  sup¬ 
ply  will  run  short  of  the  demand.  After  conditions 
clear  up  for  this  week,  it  is  believed  that  there  will  be 
an  increased  demand  on  the  part  of  buyers  beginning 
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next  week  and  the  outlook  is  that  conditions  should 
be  much  more  favorable  to  the  shipper. 
t  Sales  were  as  follows : 
APPLES.— 9  bbls.  Gilliflower,  $2.25;  1  $1.50;  75 
Baldwin  $2.40;  23  $1.70:  22  Russet  $2.15:  6  $1.85:  6 
Canada  Red  $2.75;  1  $2.05;  15  Spy  $2.65:  1  $lt®5; 
9  Spitz  $2.55;  2  $1.80;  2  Greening  $1.20;  3  $1.25*1 
$1.30; 
4  Ben 
$1.40; 
10  bkts.  $1.25; 
1  Ben  Davis  $1.85;  18  Baldwin  $1.55;  1  75c; 
Davis  $2;  4  $1.35;  4  boxes  Boiken  $1.30 ;  5 
10  bids.  Greening  $2.40;  17 
1  $2.05 ;  19  King  $2.15;  10 
42  $2.50;  10  $2.05;  15  $2.00;  4  $3;  10  Green¬ 
ing  LM’5 ;  100  $2.20;  25  $2.30;  1  $1.95 ;  1  King  $2.85; 
8  Mann  $2;  0  $1.80;  1  $1.00. 
EGGS. -8%  cases  32c;  2  28e;  7  27l/.c;  24  30c;  2 
33c;  1  37c;  8  27c;  11  31c;  12  26c;  12  25c;  2  20y>c; 
5%  35c;  2  34c;  16  29c. 
j>2.35 ;  1  $2.15;  21  $2.25; 
>2.55 : 
9  Of 
MISCELLANEOUS. — 6  bags  potatoes,  frozen,  $1.95; 
8  hogs,  613  lbs.,  10c ;  1  calf.  111)  lbs.,  15c;  1  calf,  73 
lbs..  If) V£c ;  224  lbs.  poultry  21c;  35  fits,  chickens  21c; 
81  lbs.  fowls  20c;  ,8  pairs  Guineas  $1.75  pair;  10  lbs. 
butter  30c;  5  bags  turnips  90c;  765  lbs.  Red  Kidney 
beans  $8.20  per  100  lbs.;  511  lbs.  White  Kidney  $9.20. 
New  York  State  News 
BILLS  AFFECTING  FARMERS.— Assemblyman 
Grant  of  Lewis  County  has  introduced  several  bills  in 
the  Legislature  that  affect  the  farmer’s  interests. 
These  would  amend  the  agricultural  law  regarding : the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  imitation  butter  aud  place 
drastic  regulations  on  the  sale  of  adulterated  and  imi¬ 
tation  vinegar.  The  title  of  the  “imitation  butter”  sec¬ 
tion  is  changed  from  the  prohibition  of  the  manufac¬ 
ture  and  sale  of  such  butter  to  a  prohibition  of  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  “any  oleaginous  substance  in 
imitation  or  semblance  of  butter.”  Concerning  the  reg¬ 
ulations  for  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  vinegar  exact 
definitions  are  given  of  the  various  kinds,  as  apple, 
malt,  wine,  grape,  glucose,  spirit  distilled  and  grain 
vinegars.  There  are  provisions  for  marking  all  vine¬ 
gar  compounds  or  vinegars  reduced  with  water.  An¬ 
other  proposed  amendment  relates  to  the  bond  to  be 
given  by  milk  gatherers  which  must  be  at  least  $1000 
instead  of  not  less  than  $5000. 
STATE-  FAIR  COMMISSION.— The  State  Fair 
Commission  has  held  two  or  three  meetings  recently 
for  the  discussion  of  some  of  the  pressing  questions  of 
the  Fair,  as  well  as  of  the  State  Agricultural  Depart¬ 
ment.  At  one  of  these  sessions  Commissioner  Wilson 
met  the  State  fair  managers  and  some  of  the.  cheese  in¬ 
spectors  from  the  principal  dairy  sections  of  the  State. 
The  duty  of  these  inspectors  is  to  visit  factories  and 
advise  with  manufacturers  with  a  view  to  bring  about 
better  sanitary  conditions  and  raise  the  standard  of 
cheese  production.  Through  the  efforts  of  \V.  II. 
Manning,  superintendent  of  the  poultry  department  of 
the  State  Fair,  the  State.  Federation  of  Poultry  Asso¬ 
ciations  will  meet  in  Syracuse  simultaneously  with  the 
State  Fair.  It  is  expected  that  all  the  poultry  asso¬ 
ciations  in  the  State  will  affiliate,  in  number  about  100. 
The  membership  will  he  about.  10,000.  At  a  more  re¬ 
cent  meeting  the  plan  of  holding  a  spelling  bee  at  the 
Fair  was  pnqmsed  and  the  details  of  the  plan  are  to 
be  worked  out  by  Commissioner  Wilson  and  the  county 
district  school  superintendents.  The  question  of  freight 
and  passenger  rates  to  the  fair  was  also  under  dis¬ 
cussion  by  the  commission  aud  a  conference  of  rail¬ 
road  officials  with  the  commission  may  be  expected  later 
when  the  whole  subject  will  be  thrashed  out.  It  has 
been  a  trouble  to  the  society  for  several  years. 
FARMERS’  WEEK  AT  CORNELL.— More  than 
3.500  visitors  attended  the  annual  Farmers’  Week 
lectures  at  Cornell  this  year,  which  is  an  increase  over 
the  previous  year  of  about  500.  More  than  300  lec¬ 
tures  and  demonstrations  were  given  besides  numerous 
exhibits  and  entertainments.  It  was  a  strong  program 
throughout.  At  one  of  the  last  sessions  of  a  series  of 
conferences  the  Stale  Vegetable  Association  held  its 
annual  meeting  and  elected  F.  J.  Cook  of  Dunkirk, 
president:  Prof.  Paul  Work  of  Ithaca  secretary  and 
II.  J.  Reeve  of  Mattituck,  L.  I.,  treasurer. 
GROWERS  ARE  ORGANIZING— The  Onondaga 
County  Potato  Growers’  Association  will  be  formally 
completed  Oil  .Feb.  26  according  to  a  decision  of  the 
informal  meeting  of  potato  growers  held  recently.  F. 
II.  Brondfield  of  Manlius  is  chairman  of  the  organiz¬ 
ing  committee.  In  Chautauqua  County  an  organization 
of  apple  growers  will  soon  be  effected.  j.  w.  D. 
Canadian  Crop  Prices 
Commissioner  Johnson,  of  the  Dominion  Department 
of  Agriculture,  gives  the  following  statement  of  pre¬ 
vailing  prices : 
Quebec,  P.  Q. — Ontario  Spies  $6.50  to  $7  for  No.  1; 
$•>  to  $5.50  for  No.  2.  Baldwins,  Stark,  Greening,  Ben 
Davis  and  Golden  Russet,  No.  1  $4.25  to  85;  No.  2 
$1;  No.  3  $2.75  to  $3.  Nova  Scotia  Spies  $6  to  $6.50 
for  No.  1  and  $5  to  $5.50  for  No.  2.  Potatoes  $1.75 
to  $1.90  per  St l  pounds.  Onions  $3.75  to  $4  per  cwt. 
Montreal. — Spies  So. 50,  $4.5(1,  $3.25;  Baldwins, 
Phomix,  Canada  Red,  $4,  $3.25,  $2.50;  Golden  Rus¬ 
sets  and  English  Russets,  $4.50,  $3.00,  $2.50.  Other 
varieties  $3  to  $4  for  No.  1.  Auction  sale  of  No.  3, 
$1.50  to  $2.50  per  barrel.  Yellow  Globe  onions  $2  per 
75  pounds.  Red  Globe  onions  $2.75  to  $3  per  cwt. 
Potatoes  (very  firm)  $1.90  to  $2  per  90  pounds. 
Ottawa.  Prices  for  No.  1  stock:  Spies  $5.50  to  $6: 
Baldwins  $i  to  $4.50;  Golden  Russets  and  Stark  $4.50 
to  $5 ;  Bon  Davis  $3.50  to  $4.  No.  2,  50c  to  75c  less 
per  barrel. 
Toronto. — Spies  $5,50:  Baldwins  and  Golden  Rus¬ 
sets  $4.50.  Other  varieties  84  to  $4.50;  No.  2  50c  less 
per  barrel ;  No.  3  $2.25  to  $2.50.  Ontario  Spies  in 
boxes  $2;  Baldwins  and  Russets  $1.60  to  $1.75.  Bri¬ 
tish  Columbia  Rome  Beauty  and  Wuu'sap  $2.  Yakima 
Rome  Beauty  $2.25;  Spitzeuborg  $2.50.  British  Co¬ 
lumbia  and  Ontario  potatoes  81.95  per  90-pound  sack. 
New  Brunswick  Delawares  $2.15.  British  Columbia 
onions  23/iC  per  pound  aud  Outario  onions  l%c. 
Winnipeg. — New  York  Baldwius  $5.25  per  barrel; 
grade  Jonathans  and  Winesaps  $1.50  to  $1.75; 
“Fancy”  and  “Extra  Fancy”  (No.  1)  Rome  Beauties 
$2  to  $2.25;  crates  $1.50.  Red  Globe  onions  $3.50 
per  cwt.  Yellow  onions  $2.50  per  cwt.  Potatoes — 
British  Columbia  $1.50;  Manitobas  and  Albertas  $1.15 
to  $1.25  per  bushel. 
