1889 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
685 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY, October 5, 1889. 
A VERY destructive rain-storm, accom¬ 
panied by hailstones of large size visited 
Philadelphia and vicinity on Tuesday even¬ 
ing. Great damage was done to green¬ 
houses, many of them having every pane of 
glass broken, and many valuable plants in¬ 
ured. Some damage also resulted from 
ightning. Crops are generally secured, or 
tne damage would have been much greater. 
.A Philadelphia milkman is in 
trouble for selling milk containing 28 per 
cent, of water. 
The Whitman Agricultural Co., of St. 
Louis, received the Grand Prize and Object 
of Art on their Hay and Straw Press after 
a three days’ trial at the Paris Exposition. 
Besides the Grand Awarding Jury, the 
trial was witnessed by the President of the 
French Republic, and representatives of 
nearly all the European governments. 
Presses from French, English, Austrian 
and German manufacturers were in compe¬ 
tition. The Whitman press was also 
awarded the Grand Gold Medal at the In¬ 
ternational trial at Turin, Italy this sea¬ 
son. American implements seem to be in 
the front rank. 
A lot of new California Lima beans were re¬ 
ceived at this market on Wednesday. This 
is remarkably early. They were of excel¬ 
lent quality.The bean crop of 
this country is unusually short this year, 
but prices are not likely to be extremely 
high, as foreign beans have grown into fa¬ 
vor within the past two or three years, 
and large quantities of them of very good 
quality are now being imported. 
The barns of a farmer near Asbury, N. J. f 
burned recently, with all their contents, 
causing a loss of several thousand dollars. 
Cause: a boy, a lighted match, and a wisp 
of hay projecting from a knot hole; a dan- 
f erous combination. 
'loral Hall on the fair ground at Attica, 
N. Y., was destroyed by lire.Some 
of the West India Islands which usually 
get their supplies of flour from this market 
are sending orders for wheat, proposing to 
do some grinding on their own account.... 
-The Farmers’Review reports that the 
potato crop of *89 will probably exceed in 
quantity any previous crop in the United 
States. The yield is estimated at 233,700,01X1 
bushels, an excess over last year of over 
17,000,000 bushels. This is indeed “good 
news if true,” for the general belief has 
been that the crop would prove a very 
small one. 
At the Paris Exposition Walter A. Wood 
has on exhibition a straw-band binder. 
The machine is an experimental one. Mr. 
Wood says that he had on exhibition at 
Vienna in 1873, a machine for binding grain 
with wire which was not so near perfec¬ 
tion as his straw-binder now is, and yet he 
placed the wire-binder on the market with¬ 
in three years. He has great faith in the 
ultimate success of his straw-binder. If 
this machine be perfected, it will effect a 
saving of millions of dollars annually to 
the farmers of this country for binding ma¬ 
terial . 
Prof. Riley who has been at the Paris Ex¬ 
position in the interest of the Department 
of Agriculture for the past five months, has 
returned to Washington. Prof. Riley 
thinks many of the criticisms upon the 
American exhibit have been unjust, al¬ 
though the display did not do the country 
full justice. Still, he thinks it reflects 
credit upon the country. It was surpassed 
by the exhibits of but three countries, 
France naturally being first, with Belgium 
and England second and third respectively. 
The agricultural exhibit from the United 
States received commendation from all 
sides, and was regarded as the most char¬ 
acteristic of all the A nerican displays. 
Crops & HLviicts. 
DOMESTIC FRUITS AT AUCTION.. 
Saturday, October 5,1889. 
The first auction sale of Eastern fruit 
was held by E. L. Goodsell at his auction 
rooms 103 Park Place, on Tuesday after¬ 
noon, and consisted of one car-load of Con¬ 
cord Grapes shipped by the Chautauqua 
Grape Growers’ Association. The fruit ar¬ 
rived the same day, each basket being 
stamped with the association’s brand and 
also with the grower’s name; it was packed 
in 10-pound baskets, and evenly graded. 
Each grower’s fruit was placed in a sepa¬ 
rate lot, and samples of each were exhibited. 
In this way, if any grower had packed in¬ 
ferior fruit, or graded it imperfectly, his 
negligence would result in his own injury 
only. The grapes were offered in lots 
of 40 baskets, the highest bidder hav¬ 
ing the privilege of choosing from any 
lot that number, or taking the whole lot. 
Then the balance were offered in the same 
way, and so on until all were sold. The 
first lot sold for 30 cents per basket, one lot 
sold for 25 cents, the bulk of them selling 
for 20 with some at 27 and 28, the car-load 
averaging about 27 cents per basket. About 
15 minutes were consumed in the sale, 
every basket was sold, and within 24 hours 
the check for settlement was on its way to 
the shippers. At the time of this sale; 
commission merchants were selling the 
same grade of fruit for 25 cents per basket 
in lots to suit the purchaser, and many of 
them were carrying stocks that could not 
all be sold, and would be thrown on the 
market next day at, in many cases, greatly 
reduced prices. It will be seen that in the 
matter or quick sales and prompt returns, 
the auction system is greatly to the inter¬ 
est of the grower. 
The auction system of disposing of 
i ierishable fruits was adopted by several 
Irms in London and Liverpool, about 20 
years ago, in deference to the growers who 
were dissatisfied with the system of selling 
and with the returns they were receiving. 
An ignominious failure was predicted, and 
the idea was denounced as impossible. Suf¬ 
fice it to say, the results have proved far 
otherwise, and the system is the establish¬ 
ed way of selling perishable fruits. Three 
years ago the California fruit-growers did 
not believe in this system, but to-day the 
by-laws of the two large Unions of growers 
and shippers say that the fruit must be 
sold at auction. 
The advantages of this system over the 
old method of consignments to commission 
merchants are many. One of the most im¬ 
portant is the immediate and total sale of 
fruit upon its arrival, before it has any 
chance to deteriorate ; losses of this kind of 
course must be borne by the producer. 
Everything is sold and returns are made at 
once. In selling through the commission 
houses, 50 fruit-growers may ship to as 
many different commission men. The 
jobbers in search of fruit go from one to 
another beating down the price, and these 
50 commission men are virtually competing 
with each other to make sales. This can¬ 
not fail to depreciate prices. Under the 
auction system, these 50 growers will com¬ 
bine and ship their fruit together to one 
house. Railroad facilities are such that 
the time of arrival is definitely known, and 
the sale can be advertised, together with an 
exact catalogue of the goods to be offered. 
The jobbers meet and instead of going from 
one place to another in search of the com¬ 
mission man who will give them the lowest 
prices, are forced to become competitors, 
and the highest bidder secures the fruit. 
A comparison of the two systems shows the 
advantage of the one over the other in this 
direction. 
Will it succeed ? We think it will. 
There is powerful opposition from the com¬ 
mission men. As one of them remarked: 
“We shall fight it to the last ditch, because 
if it prove successful, it will take away our 
bread and butter. ” The system is firmly 
established in England j California fruits 
are sold in this way in all the Eastern 
cities ; Florida orange-growers are moving 
to have their fruit sold in the same manner. 
There is no apparent reason why the sys¬ 
tem should not be extended to include all 
perishable fruits and vegetables, and why 
it should not be successful. Of course, the 
system is not yet perfect, but, as time re¬ 
veals weak points, they will be remedied. 
The greatest obstacles to be overcome 
are at the producers’ end of the line. 
The producers must combine, and ship 
all tneir products to the auction house. 
This gives them control of the goods 
and the jobbers must come to them. 
Another very important requisite is that all 
products must be evenly graded, and pack¬ 
ages must be of uniform size. This neces¬ 
sitates organization and co-operation on 
the part of shippers and producers. One 
noticeable feature of the auction sales of 
fruits in this city is the fact that the finest 
and most carefully packed fruits are the 
most sought after and invite the sharpest 
competition. Some dealers say they prefer 
to buy of commission-men, because they 
can find with them any kind of produce 
they wish to buy, but the ultimate object is 
to apply the system to all kinds of produce 
that are now sold in the markets. The 
commission-men many times turn re¬ 
tailers themselves to dispose of lots 
they do not wish to carry over, thus 
becoming competitors of the regular dealers, 
and tending to still further depreciate 
prices. This the auction system will not do. 
As the auction house acts as an agent of 
the shipper, a vast number of middlemen 
are dispensed with, and this, of course, 
must result in a considerable saving of fees. 
The modern method of selling goods is by 
sample. The wholesale grocer does not 
equip his salesman with barrels of sugar, 
boxes of teas, and bags of coffees; he fur¬ 
nishes him samples of the goods offered 
which represent his stock, thus enabling 
him to transact a large amount of business 
in a small space of time. This is precisely 
what the fruit auctioneer does; he shows 
samples of each lot and variety offered, 
from which sales are made, and tne fruit is 
transferred direct from the cars to the pur¬ 
chasers’ stores, avoiding unnecessary hand¬ 
ling and enabling the auctioneer to make 
large sales with great rapidity. 
Mr. Goodsell, who is the pioneer in the 
auction trade in this city, has every 
facility for conducting tne business, 
and is very enthusiastic as to its ulti¬ 
mate success. He says that with shippers 
combined, and the business reduced to a 
system, he could handle every package of 
produce coming to this city. Since July 1, 
he has sold over $200,(XX) worth of Califor¬ 
nia fruits, and the interest in these sales is 
on the increase. His idea is to develop the 
business to include all kinds of produce, 
having hourly sales of different lines of 
goods, beginning at three o’clock, a. m., and 
continuing throughout the day. 
Wheat does not show the advance in 
price that circumstances would seem to 
warrant. There is a heavy demand from 
local mills all through the interior, and 
stocks of flour are small; this coupled 
with the demand from many foreign mar¬ 
kets should make a stronger price, but the 
gamblers unsettle everything connected 
with the market so that it is impassible to 
make any predictions. Left to the legiti¬ 
mate law of supply and demand, good 
grades of wheat would be higher. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw Yokk, Satubday, October 5, 1889. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton —The quotat ions, according to tbo American 
classiflcaUou, uro as follows : 
FARM MILLS 
OF FRENCH BUHR, 
Twenty-eight Sizes and "tyles. 
FACTORY ESTABLISHED 1851 
WARRANTED 
MILLS for grinding ear corn, shelled corn, corn and 
oats, buckwheat and rye. A BOY CAN OPERATE 
and kpep In order. A complete mill and shelter for 
le^s than * mo- Reducrd Prios tor Fall ol 1N8JL 
Ovkr 20 l>00 IN USB. Rceelved lllnhfNt Awards at 
*t. Louts. Cincinnati, New Orleai s and Inuianapolis 
fairs and Expositions, send for Book No. is—inter¬ 
esting and valuable. Mention paper, and address 
Nordyke «fc Mnrmon Co.» Indianapolis, Ind. 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. Texas 
Ordinary. 3 3)4 . 
Strict < rdlnary. 8 7-16 8 11-16 . 
Good Ordinary.994 95s . 
Strict Good Ordinary. 9 13-16 Id 1-16 . 
Low Middling.10 5-16 10 9-16 . 
Strict Low Middling..Id 9-16 10 13-16 . 
Middling.1(94 11 . 
Good Middling.I1M 11)4 . 
Strict Good Middling. 11)4 1194 . 
Middling Fair.1115-16 12 3-16 . 
Fair.12 9-6 12 13-16 . 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary. 7% I Low Middling.. 9 13-16 
Strict Good Ordinary. 8)4 | Middling.1094 
Wool.—S pring Texas, 17@23c. and Fall do TO^'iSc; 
Fall California, U@18c. and Spring do I8@21; Scoured 
Texas 52«- 53c; Delaine. 36c; Indiana, 29c; Scoured 
Territory. 55c; Donskoi, 24)4c; XX Ohio, 34c; Scoured 
Colorado, 53c; Australian. 88 c. 
Poultry.—C hickens— Spring, per lb, ll)4@l2c. Live 
Fowls near-by. per lb, 12® 12t«c; do Western, per ib. 12 
ai2)4c; roosters, per lb, Turkeys, per lb. 10® 
12c; Ducks,Western, per pair, 60@75c; Geese.Western, 
per pair, $l 40®$1 75. 
Poultry.—dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 10® 
16c; Fowls western, choice, 12® 12Hc; do common to 
good, 7®9c; Ducks, spring, good. 10017; Squabs, 
white, per dozen, 13 25® $3 50; do dark, rlo.$l 50® $1 75; 
Chickens, spring, U@17c; Fowls, near by, ll@12c. 
Gamk.—P lover, per doz, $1 S5@$l 75 : Snipe do, do, 
$1 25®$ 1 75, Woodcock, per pair $1 00@$1 25; Grouse, 
dodo. 80®90c; Partridges, do, $80@$1 25, Duck, Mal¬ 
lard, 40®60c; do, Teal, 35®40c. 
Hops.—S tate. New, 11® 13c: do, P 88 . Desl, 12® 13c; do. 
prime, 10@Uc; If). low grades. 7®9o : do do. 1387. 3® 
5c; do do do, California new, best, 13c; prime, 10c. 
Hay and Straw. Old Hay—Timothy, best, 85@90c. 
do good, 75® 8 uc; do medium, 60@70c: shipping, 55 ®- c; 
New Hay—Timothy, best ;5®80c; do good, 6o@7tc. 
do medium, 55®60c ; si ipplng, 50 a55c ; clover, 4V350c; 
Straw—No. 1 Rye, —®S0c; short do, 50®60c ; oat do, 
45® 55. 
Beans.—M arrows. New, $2 503-: New Mediums, 
choice, $115®2 20; Pea, $2 2i ®$2 25, Red Kidney. $3 75; 
White Kidney, choice, *2 60@2 70, Foreign Mediums. 
$1 35 ®$l 55, California Lima, $8 60@$—; Green Peas, 
$1 20®$ 1 30. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are quiet. Fancy, hand-picked 
quoted at 794@8c, and farmers’ grades at 6 @ 6 )«c. 
Pecans. 5@6)4c 
Seeds.—C lover is hard to sell; exporters quiet New 
prime, future deliveries offered at 7. and choice. ? 94 C, 
with fancy at 7 J 4 C. Timothy quoted at $1 50® $1 60. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Vegetables — Potatoes-Jersey, per bbl, $165® $175; 
Long Island do, $2 U 0 MS 2 25; Sweets do. $2 00@$’ 50. 
Cabbage, new per n 0. $3 50@$i sn. Egg Plant, per bbl, 
$ I 51® $2 OU. Tomatoes, per orate, 30®75c Corn, per 
ltd. $1 OUw$1 50. Onions —Orange Co. Red. $l (»i ®$2 50; 
Eastern White, $2 U )@$8 50 ; Eastern Bed, $2 50. $2 75; 
State, Yellow. $1 50®$2 00. Lima Beans, per bag. $ 250 
®$3 00. 
Fruits.-Fresh.—A pples, per bbl. $1 00®$4 50 
Pears, per bbl. *2 (Hi® $8 00; do per keg. $1 25®$4 00: 
Plums, per crate, $1 00@$1 25. Peaches, per basket; 
$u b0®$2 00. Grapes best per lb, 3<- 4 c. do. good. do. 
2®3c. Cranberries. C. C . per bbl, $6 hi@$S 0" ; do do, 
per crate, $2 25® $2 75 . Quinces, per bbl, *2 00@$5 uo. 
Lemons, per box. $3 50®$7 to. 
Domestic Dried Apples—Evaporated. old.4)4@6)4c; 
do choice, new. 8 ) 4 ® c : prime, 7)4®Sc ; sliced, new. 
4®5c; do old. 3®394c: Chopped. 294 ®—c. Cores and 
skins,c. Cherries new, 10@l'.’e: do. old, 8@10c. 
Raspberries new 22 ®25c: Blackberries. 5 ) 4 ® 594 c 
Peaches. Delaware evaporated, peeled, I5<«i8c. dodo, 
unpeeled, 8®l0c; Georgia, evaporated, peeled, new 12 
® I 4 c; do do « 1 <>, unpet ted. 7 ) 4 ® 10 c ; do do, sundried. 9 
@10c. Huckleberries, new, ll@l2c. Plums, new, 6 ® 
9)4c. 
PROVISION MARKETS. 
New York.-Provisio.ns—Pork— New Mess, $12 25 
@$1275; Short,Clear. sr2U)@*lS 5U; Extra Pilme Mess. 
$10 25®$ 0 75; Prime do. $10 75® $11 W>, and E’amlly 
$2 00*813 00. Beef —Ind'a Mess. In tierces, $:2 50® 
$14 0d; Extra Mess. In barrels, $7 00'a$7 50; Packet, 
$7 25®$S (0 per bbl, and $11 (K>®*1'2 00 In tierces; 
Plate, $7 50@$8 00; Family at $11 OK)®*14 00. Hams — 
$15 25®$15 75 winter packing. Cut Meats. Quoted 
12 lbs, average, Bellies. 7«*-c; Pickled Hams. 
Hams, lo9t@lle, pickled Shoulders 4T*@5c Smoked 
shoulders 194 c; do Hams, UV*&1194c. Dressed Hogs — 
City, heavy 10 light. 6 7-16@674c. Pigs, 7c. Lard. City 
steam, $6 20; October. $6 50 ; November, $6 32 , De¬ 
cember, $6 25; South America, 7 25c. 
Boston.-Provisions tirm and steady New Mess. 
Pork. $13 75@$I4 U0; Old Mess Pork. $18 00@$13 25; Ex¬ 
tra Prime new, $13 00@$13 25. Lard, $8 50@$9 50. 
Philadelphia. Pa. — Provisions. —Potatoes, Mary¬ 
land Bose, per bbl $1 50.t-$l 75. Provisions were 
steady. Bekf.— City family, per bbl. $3 00; do pack¬ 
ets, S3 00@$3 50; Smoked Beef 12 .> 14c; Beef Hams $16. 
Pork.— Mess, $13 50»$14 50; do Prime Mess. new. $13. 
50; do family. $i.M0j$ 15 50; Hams, smoked, per Ib. 12 
(« i4c; do, S. P., cured. In tierces. 9i»<allc; do do. In 
sad. lie; sloes, clear ribbed, smoked—® 8 e, Shoul¬ 
ders. lh dry salt and fully cured, 6 ) 4 @ 694 c; do do, 
smoked. 7c ; Shoulders, pickle cured, 7® Lie; dodo 
smoked, 8 ® 8 He : Bellies, in pickle. 8 ®SQje; do break¬ 
fast Bacon, 9ie@i0c. Lard. Steady. City refined, 3c; 
do steam, i@7)*'e; butchers’ loose, 6)4®7c. 
Chicago.-M uss Pork.—$10 7U@1075. I.a rd—*595<c $6 
00 per 100 lbs; Short Rib sides ilooset, $495, dry saltco 
shoulders boxed. $4 60; short clear sides, boxed. 
$5 25® $5 37. 
DAIRY AND EGG MARKETS. 
New York.—Butter— New—state aud Penn. Pest,25)4 
(a 26 ; Elgin, best, 2664 c: Western.best 25@25)4; do prime. 
20®23c; do good, 15® 18- do poor. 12® 14; State, Dairy, 
half-flrklns, tubs, best, 24®25c; do do prime. 20®23; 
do do tine, 16-18; Welsh tubs, due. 19<s2lc; Uo do, 
good. 15@17; drklus. best, —@-c; do pilme, c; 
do due,—@—c. Western Imitation Creamery, best, 
16 (<z. 1S: do due, 12@15; Western dairy, due, 12® 14c; 
do fair, 10 ) 4 ® lie; do poor.9@10c; do factory,fresh, best, 
12@13c, do prime, 11@U)«; do good, 9®10 ; do poor, 7 
@9c. 
Cheese.— State tactory, fancy, 1094 e ; do ao one, 
9Q,«10Q|C; do do, prime, 9@U)c: do do. fair to good. 
S94@9 )bo: Ohio, dat, prime, 9)4®9943; do good, —@—c; 
do. good. —@—; Skims. Ugnt, 7@8e; do medium, 
2@3; do full, l@2c. 
Eogs,— Near-by. rresh, 24@25c; Canadian. 23)4 
@24c; Southern. ‘22®23c; Western, best,23)a®24c; limed, 
19c; Ice house, 16@l9c. 
Philadelphia.—Butter scarce Pennsylvania cream 
ery extra, at24@25c: Pennsylvania Prints, extra. 28 ® 
3Uc; B.C. ami N Y.creamery extra.24c; Western factory 
15@16c. packing butter, ll@V2c. Sggs.—Wore drm; 
Pennsylvania Arsis, 23®—c; Western drsts. 19@20c: 
Cheese dull steady, demand fair: New York full 
cream, at 8 l»e Ohio flats, choice, 7)4@7)4o; da fair to 
prime. 14@14)4o. 
Chicago, llL— Butter.— On the Produce Exchange 
to-daythe butter market was generally firm. Fancy 
ceamrev. 24@25c. ebolep Western. 17@l9e. choice 
dairy, 20<322e; common to fair, 9@10c. Eggs Arm at 17® 
17)4 c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT —Ungraded Winter Red. 77@83c; No. 
Red 82c. elevator; Steamer No 8 Ked. 76)4e elevator; 
Steamer No 2 Red, 82 c elevat- r: No. 2 Red, 8194 << 19 <O 4 
c afloat do In elevator quoted h 94&8ic; No. 2 October, 
85$4®8694c do November, 86 15-16a)S7?4c do December, 
83®89c. do January. k9)4<u9uc, do February. 9u)4c: do 
May. 9294 9394c. Liverpool Stocks—October t. 889 - 
Wheat, centals. 2,071,UK) corn, centals 3 3,1X10: flour, 
sacks. 108 000. October 1 ,188s—Wheat, centa's 2,392,1 fid; 
corn centals. S9u,ooo flour, sacks, 5,800. RYE.-Ftrm 
and in mederate demand. Sales 51)4@5l9ic: State 
quoted 55@*6c. CO-IN sales. Ungraded v ixed. 38i«@ 
41c; N-., 2 Mised, 891 k@3994c elevator 39)4"4(>94c afloat; 
No. 2 White, 39)4@39)yc elevator, 41c delivered: No 2 
Mixed, c. f and L. 40 ) 4 ® 4094c, No. 2 Octoi er. 39)4« 3994; 
do November, 40®4o94c; do December, 40T4@41He 
do May, 42®42 5-16c. OATS. Sales No. 325J*c; No 3 
White. 26@'.6Qc; No. 2. ■26@26)*c No. 2 White. 8)4®98?4 
c No. 1 White 3-c Mixed Western. 24®@28c; White 
do, 27@35c; No. 2 October, 26 ]-'6'a26t4c: do v ovember, 
2694c; do December, 2 ti 94 'a 26 )*c do May, '2S94e. 
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LIVE-STOCK MARKETS. 
New-York, Saturday, October 5, 1839. 
BEEVES.—Dressed Beef at 5*4<§ 7)4c. per lb for poor 
to choice native sides, and at 4)4<S5c. for Texas do. 
CALVES.—Sales slow. Poor to good ’"eals sold at 
from 5c. to 7Hc. perlb- adeck-loadof rathercommon 
Western Ca ves at S(a3)4c., and (crass*rs at 2@29fc. 
Dressed Veals sold at 9® 13c. per lb, dressed Grassers 
and Buttermilks at 4@6c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS—Poor to prime Sheep sold at 
3)4’'’5inc per Ib; common to prime Lambs al 5®694c, 
with a deck load up to 7c peril). Dressed Muttou had 
a fair call at 8®9)4c. per lb; dressed Lambs at 9®ltc. 
HOGS —Common and ordinary heavy Hogs would 
go down to $4 50@$4 € 0 . 
Communications Received for the Week Ending 
October 5 , 1889 . 
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