1903 
THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER. 
99 
MARKET NOTES 
big peanut sales.—T he goober, as 
it is familiarly called In the South, is a 
small afEair, yet It is proving a money¬ 
maker for Virginia farmers this year, large 
numbers of whom have sold their crops 
for 70 cents per bushel. A great many 
peanuts are shelled and sold to confec¬ 
tioners, or made into salted peanuts, which 
are taking the place of almonds for cheap 
trade. 
POTATOES.-=-Domestic stock has re¬ 
mained nearly unchanged In price for sev- 
weeks, the receipts and demand be¬ 
ing about on a level. Bermuda potatoes 
sell slowly. Arrivals from Europe are 
light and will probably continue so unless 
some unexpected shortage in domestic 
tubers occurs. In sweet potatoes $2.50 to 
$4 per barrel covers the range of South 
Jersey stock, except on some fancy lots 
that it would be misleading to quote. 
LONDON FUR SALES.—Reports received 
thus far indicate a generally higher range 
of prices than last year on most small 
furs. The percentages of gain are about 
as follows; Otter, 10 per cent; marten, Vl^k\ 
badger, 15; house cat, 25; skunk, 10 to 40, 
mink, 15; raccoon, 20, and muskrat, 35. 
Brown and black bear went 20 per cent 
lower, and wild cat 10 per cent. Red fox 
sold the same as last March. Prices here 
are somewhat unsettled, but will soon 
adjust themselves probably on a generally 
higher level in sympathy with the results 
of the London sales. 
WOOL.—Business is quiet and mostly 
confined to present needs of mill men, who 
show no disposition to stock up heavily. 
Dealers are not inclined to make con¬ 
cessions in prices. Nominal quotations on 
domestic fleeces are; Delaine, 26@27; extra 
pulled, scoured, 48@50; X and XX, 28(g)32. 
The attendance at the present London wool 
sales is large and buying active. Follow¬ 
ing are some of the prices obtained; 1,500 
bales New Zealand, scoured, 12i/^@40 cents; 
32,000 bales New South Wales, scoured, 
24@48: 1.400 bales South Australia, greasy, 
ll<g/23; 2,300 bales Natal, scoured, 15@33 cents. 
apple wood.—S everal readers ask re¬ 
garding the market for this wood. Form¬ 
erly pipe manufacturers used large quan¬ 
tities, but now a variety of gum wood has 
largely taken its place. There is some de¬ 
mand for it for tool handles; but handle 
manufacturers say that they get about all 
that they require at little above cordwood 
rates from nearby farmers, and do not care 
to make contracts for shipments from a 
distance. Extra fine sound apple wood of 
fair size, say 12 inches in diameter, suit¬ 
able for cabinet work, would be handled by 
lumber dealers in this city, but stuff of 
this type is extremely scarce, and ship¬ 
ments are not encouraged. Many hard¬ 
wood dealers have on hand apple that is 
unsalable on account of being wormy or 
shaky, or having a grain so contrary that 
it can be surfaced only with a scraper and 
sandpaper. 
GREEN VEGETABLES.—New Orleans 
salads are meeting a fair trade when in 
good condition, sales of escarol as high as 
$5 per barrel being reported. Florida peas 
and string beans drag along mostly far in¬ 
side of extreme quotations. This is not 
because people do not care for choice out- 
of-season peas and beans, but because 
practically all of this long-distance stuff 
is inferior by the time it reaches the con¬ 
sumer. Most buyers prefer to wait until 
the nearby product Is on hand. Norfolk 
kale and spinach are meeting a good de¬ 
mand. although at considerably reduced 
prices from last year. Old cabbage is plen¬ 
tiful and low, white domestic seed going 
as low as $5 or $6 per ton. That raised 
from imported seed runs about $2 a ton 
higher. This distinction is made because 
the foreign seed is supposed to produce 
superior cabbage. While this may be the 
rule, there is doubtless home-grown seed 
that is just as good, the product of which 
is marketed with that from Danish seed. 
DON’T.—This is for anyone about to send 
low grade or mixed lots of apples to this 
market in boxes. So many shipments of 
this sort have been seen lately that a 
word of warning seems timely. In one 
place we noticed a lot of mixed apples in 
returnable berry crates, the kind that had 
seen two or three years of service. They 
were big and little, smooth and knotty, 
and red, white and green. The commission 
man had a letter from the shipper, stating 
that they were a choice lot, and that he 
expected a considerable premium on ac¬ 
count of their being sent in this shape, as 
he noticed that western boxed apples 
brought high prices. A weather-beaten 
crate is not to be recommended as an apple 
package. It might be excusable if the ap¬ 
ples were choice, although we think that 
the rusty old package would discount the 
fiuit, and believe that a bushel of apples 
fit to sell in this way is worth a new pack¬ 
age. Low-grade apples sell better in bar¬ 
rels. In small packages they seem to show 
off worse than they really are. In nearly 
every case in the boxed fruit quoted as 
selling for $2 or more, every apple is fine 
enough to put on an exhibition plate. The 
culls are disposed of in some other way. 
'Ihe profits are not so great as might be 
imagined, yet there is ordinarily a better 
margin than on barrel shipments of the 
same grade of fruit, and there is the addi¬ 
tional advantage of getting choice trade 
that would not handle barrel lots. The 
unsatisfactory small-package shipments re¬ 
ferred to damage the box trade and preju¬ 
dice commission men so that they discour¬ 
age anything but barrel shipments. 
_ w. w. H. 
Our Benevolent Feudalism, by W. J. 
Ghent. The Macmillan Co., New York. 
Price, $1.25. A volume of less than 200 
pages, and a singularly able review of 
present social and economic conditions, 
marshalling the Indisputable and unflatter¬ 
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to the unevitable conclusion that we have 
practically returned to a condition of feu¬ 
dalism under which a handful of money 
lords and trust magnates Impose their will 
upon a graded mass of subordinates, who 
are in the main content to submit to this 
irregular domination in return for an Im¬ 
aginary protection from panics and severe 
commercial disturbances. This feudal dom¬ 
ination is to be largely benevolent, the 
magnates granting their loyal retainers a 
passable subsistence in return for unques¬ 
tioning fidelity. The rewards for subservi¬ 
ency in the way of recognition and employ¬ 
ment are those most conducive to main¬ 
taining the ascendency of the lords of cap¬ 
ital. The loudly proclaimed gifts to char¬ 
ity in the way of college, hospital and li¬ 
brary donations, and the much belated ad¬ 
vance of railroad workers’ wages are mere 
crumbs from the general loot of public 
resources, but quite sufficient to amuse and 
conciliate the dependent retainers. There 
Is much veiled satire in the canting pre¬ 
tensions of timorous conservatives and re¬ 
spectables who so dread antagonism of the 
magnates that they submit to and finally 
endorse every new imposition and en¬ 
croachment on our ancient theory of Indi¬ 
vidual opportunity. One may quarrel with 
the author’s conclusion that an acknowl¬ 
edged system of money lordship and indus¬ 
trial serfdom is at hand, but a considera¬ 
tion of the startling array of facts here 
gathered is not conducive to easy-going 
optimism on the part of those who prefer 
to think everything Is in the best possible 
condition. It is not so stated in plain 
terms, but the broad inference is given 
that farmers and wage-workers, w'ho really 
hold the balance of political and econom¬ 
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their privileges with much discretion. A 
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by a few hundred thousand independent 
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When there is a falling off in flesh in 
■woman or man there is «something 
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of digestion and 
nutrition. Some¬ 
times this loss of 
flesh is a c c o m - 
panied by variable 
appetite, but in 
many cases the ap¬ 
petite does not fail 
and there may be 
a constant desire 
to eat. Languor, 
nervousness, irri¬ 
tability, sleepless-' 
ness, are symptoms 
often associated 
with this loss of 
nutrition and fal¬ 
ling off in flesh. 
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I commenced feeling better with the first bottle 
aud kept on improving. Now I am so greatly 
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I most heartily recommend these medicine* to 
*11 suffering as I was.” 
The People’s Common Sense Medical 
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Pierce, N. Y. 
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ELIZABETH WAGON WORKS, 
B. F. STRAUSS, Prop’r, 
35=41 SOUTH SPRING STREET, 
ELIZABETH, N. J. 
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LOUIS BACKMAmt. 
463 Broooe St. New York. 
The Northboro Woolen Mills. 
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Gentlemen—I purchased several bottles of “Save- 
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ground w i t li o u t 
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A LITTLE TIME 
:TH 1 ^^FROSf 
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Spsiviiv 
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THE KELLY fSolMIll 
does perfect work 
grinding ear corn, 
In husk or out, mixed 
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