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NOV 28 
MARKET NOTES. • 
Letters come iu almost every day from 
farmers who have been swindled by unreli¬ 
able commission merchants. It is too often 
the case that parties who do the most per¬ 
sistent soliciting of business are the most un¬ 
reliable. The best way is to ignore all solici¬ 
tation from houses other than of known reliabil¬ 
ity, Price-lists whose average quotations are 
materially higher than the prices in the Rural 
are misleading and are usually issued by 
houses of a questionable character. After 
all, a price-list should ouly show what produce 
has sold for and is no evidence of what the 
selling price will be. 
The Pearmain apple is a great favorite on 
the best apple stands in New York. As a 
rule, red apples sell best. On some of the best 
fruit stands various colored apples are 
arranged so as to form bright-colored figures. 
The newer varieties of apples are not m 
much demand at retail. The good old varieties 
still hold the popular taste. 
Quite a number of farmers near the city 
depend upon the city markets for laying hens. 
They sell off their own hens in Mayor June 
and in September buy pullets from the stands 
near Washington Market. This business is 
not very satisfactory as a rule. The business 
of buying youug roosters for capons is grow¬ 
ing. Youug Plymouth Rock roosters can be 
bought now and caponized. Such stock is low 
now. We had a chance to buy a coop of fine 
birds at eight cents per pound last week. As 
capons they would have sold at 24 cents per 
pound next January. Many White Leghorn 
roosters are sent in. It is hard work to sell 
them. Customers believe, with truth, that 
the flesh will be tough and dry. The markets 
this year are lower than last year at this sea¬ 
son. Whdethe sale of poultry at the holidays 
is enormous the prices are never satisfactory. 
The supply is too great for the demaud. 
One of the most careful and observing cat¬ 
tle breeders iu the country writes as follows: 
“1 quite agree with you that more attention 
should be given to the quality of beef thau 
has been the practice heretofore. The inhab¬ 
itants of our cities, both large and small, 
are becoming better judges of the meat they 
use aud more fastidious in their taste, and the 
breeder aud raiser eauuot afford to overlook 
the greatly increased demand for a better 
quality of beef.” This is as true as it cau 
be. The managers of fat stock shows and 
other exhibitions where prizes are offered 
for beef cattle, stimulate the production of 
quantity of meat. Every Christmas we have 
several “Christmas oxen” hung up iu the 
markets. They are tremendous fellows in 
si?.e— just about half tallow. Good judges of 
beef never buy this “Christmas” stuff. 
From the marketman’s point of view, beef 
cattle are large enough uow. We want bet¬ 
ter beef and less offal. 
Some splendid specimens of parsnips are 
found in the markets. There is not much 
demand for this vegetable. A very small 
addition to the regular supply would spoil 
the price. The most that are sold go to the 
larger restaurants aud hotels. For feeding 
purposes farmers call them about equal to 
carrots. The demand for beets increases 
from year to year. There is a full supply 
this year. Many restaurants keep a dish of 
pickled beets on every table. When this is done 
patrons eat less bread and potatoes. There 
is very little money in selling squashes here. 
Squash is not a popular vegetable among 
city people. The more popular celery becomes 
the less squash will there be eaten. Even 
squash pie is less popular than formerly. 
Some years ago the restaurauts used to buy 
great quantities of pumpkins for pies, now 
most of this work is done by various Pie 
Baking Companies which supply 1>0 per cent, 
of the pies used at public eatiug-houses as 
well as a good proportion of those used in 
boarding-houses and private families. They 
cau afford to sell a large pie for 12 cents. 
Thes • companies buy pumpkins in large lots. 
Turnips sell better thau last year. Poor 
people are yearly advised to let turnips aud 
cabbage alone. The poiut is made that these 
vegetables contain less nutriment than others 
that cost the same in spite of this, people 
buy more aud more of them every year. 
Shiploads of potatoes are being brought 
here from Nova Scotia and oven from Scot¬ 
land. Prices continue good, however, and 
are not likely to go lower than at present. 
Many farmers near New York are so tempted 
by the high prices now received that they are 
selling all their marketable potatoes and de¬ 
pending upon small ones entirely for next 
spring’s seeding. The best potato growers 
call this folly. Seed potatoes will be very 
high in the spring, and even at present prices 
it will pay to hold a few barrels of good 
tubers for seed rather than to plant all little 
ones. Many farmers this year are assorting 
their potatoes into three sizes, the second size, 
about the size of a hen’s egg, serving for seed, 
It looks now as though the market for early 
potatoes would be nest next year. Bate pota¬ 
toes are so high this fall that everybody wants 
to raise them 1 ext year. Early potatoes will 
be uegleeted and, hence, fairly high in price 
Wbat is known as “cow hay” cau be bought 
at the piers on the East River at (JO cents per 
hundred, baled. It appears to be coarse 
meadow hay with a mixture of weeds and a 
little clover in it. The name, “cow bay”seems 
to follow out the generally held idea that 
the best bay should go to the horses and (lie 
poorer to the cows. Clear Timothy hay is 
considered the best for horses in this part of 
the country. Many farmers living wilhiu 25 
miles of New York believe it cheaper to sell 
their own bay, loose, in the out-lying towns 
or cities aud buy this baled “cow hay” to take 
the place of the product sold. Good Timothy 
hay can now be sold in Paterson, Orange or 
other cities at $2 00 per 100 pounds, loose. 
They can get, the “cow hay” delivered at 
their railroad station for about $14.50. This 
shows an apparent profit of $5 50 per ton, but 
there are several points they do not consider. 
The cost of hauling the loose htiy to the mar¬ 
ket will be considerable—the value of a day’s 
work for a team aud man. Then again, more 
grain must be fed with the “cow bay” or the 
cows will fall off in flesh and milk. The cost 
of hauling hay and the cost of extra grain, 
will about make up the difference in price. 
The only way to make cash at this business is 
to starve the cows aud that will leave an ac¬ 
count to be paid later when tue wasted flesh 
is to be put back. There are many market 
gardeners who will try feeding cattle this 
winter. It may pay them to buy Ibis “cow 
bay” and feed extra grain, but for farmers to 
sell good hay, pay freight on poor hay aud 
add grain enough to make a good ratiou will 
be a losing business. 
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