1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
295 
MARKET NOTES 
POTATOES.—No Improvement Is noted in 
prices for domestic old. Offerings are 
rather in excess of current wants, and it 
i.s probable that few sales reach the outside 
tigures quoted. In new potatoes Havana 
1 -iime have sold highest, $7 per barrel for 
a few. Bermuda first quality are a little 
lower, but second grades sell considerably 
above best old home-grown. A few new 
Floridas are on hand, but mostly small and 
hardly quotable. There is quite a trade In 
Bermuda and southern second crop for seed 
p.urposes. 
GREEN STUFF.—New southern cabbage 
is selling well at nearly three times the 
price of old. Cucumbers from the South 
are getting more plentiful, so that the hot¬ 
house product no longer monopolizes the 
trade. We notice much inferior lettuce, some 
packages being rotted badly and refused 
by the consignees. Radishes are coming in 
car lots from the Middle South, going at 
about J1 per bushel basket. Peas and string 
beans are high and selling readily. As¬ 
paragus prices have dropped a little. Most 
that we see is white with green tips. The 
tip and about an inch of the stem are all 
that is eaten as ordinarily prepared in 
hotels. 
GRAIN MATTERS.—Comparatively little 
oat or Spring wheat seeding was done in 
the Northwest during March on account of 
inclement weather. Wheat and corn ex¬ 
ports from Atlantic ports were heavy dur¬ 
ing the last week of March, about l.OOO.OOi 
bushels of each being shipped in one day. 
A flurry in corn in New York sent up the 
price 10 cents in three days. Receipts were 
light, and speculators who had sold them¬ 
selves short for March delivery made a 
rush to get enough to carry out their con¬ 
tracts, The risks taken by these specula¬ 
tors, who are often on the verge of finan¬ 
cial wreck, would be fatal to the peace of 
mind of those unused to such excitement. 
The Australian wheat crop is very poor 
owing to drought, the average yieid for 
Victoria being only 1*4 bushel per acre. 
ORANGES.—Prices have been unsatisfac¬ 
tory to growers, and large quantities are 
said to have been held back In California, 
In the hope of a better market during 
April and May. which are heavy consuming 
months, as apples are not so plentiful, and 
the coming of warmer weather gives people 
a hankering after acid. It has seemed to 
us that a larger proportion of undesirable 
oranges than usual have been offered this 
.season, tough and stringy and of a per¬ 
sistent sourness which refuses to lose its 
identity though buried in sugar. These 
oranges have a beautiful color, and few 
but orange experts can detect them ex¬ 
cept on trial, which often results in the 
Reputalion Begets Cenliilence 
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If a manufacturing company of established reputation and high standing 
makes a positive statement in regard to their products and offers to demonstrate 
the truth of that statement to your satisfaction, is it not worth while to 
investigate it ? 
Bradley’s Standard Fertilizers 
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Bradley Fertilizer Works, Boston 
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fipterminatlon to use fewer orangies. 
Whether the trouble is with the varieties or 
something else we do not know, but it 
certainly is a mistake to load up the mar¬ 
ket with oranges of this type. The few 
really high-class Floridas that come sell at 
prices above the average purse, some at 
75 to 90 cents per dozen. The orange tribe 
can show many freakish looking specimens, 
one of which Is the King of Siam, rough 
and warty, and rather thick skinned, but 
.sweet, juicy and as easily separated as a 
Tangerine. But few of these are offered, 
retailing at 10 cents each. 
THOSE DISHONEST APPDES.—The re¬ 
marks of Mr. Cook on page 278 are right 
to the point. In the article referred to on 
page 103 it was not Intended to blame the 
producer solely. Very many of the apples 
that reach this market are not packed by 
the grower. We think more producers 
than are in the habit of doing so would 
find it profitable to pack and market their 
own apples. The practice common In some 
sections of the farmer and his men picking 
the apples, leaving them on the ground for 
several days In sun and rain, then hauling 
them in open barrels three or four miles 
to some centrail point where with hundreds 
of other barrels they are dumped into a 
storehouse to be sorted and packed, re¬ 
sults in damaging the keeping quality of 
a large amount of fine fruit. This stuff is 
what loads down the market and malces 
apples “dull.” The market Is every year 
getting more critical. One thing that 
makes It so is the increased quantity of 
apples that are picked and packed without 
bruising. When a buyer gets some of this 
kind he wants more, and is not satisfied 
with fruit that has been handled like cob¬ 
blestones. The Pacific coast people have 
this down to a science; not that they are 
more shrewd or nearer honest than eastern 
fruit growers, but they are obliged to get 
a premium price for their apples to make 
3,000-mile shipments profitable. Of neces- 
.they have set a pattern which others, 
particularly packers of boxed fruit, must 
follow or have their products fall fiat by 
contrast. w. w. h. 
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-FOOL TALK- 
About 35 years ago a young mechanic called on old 
Ck)mmodore Vanderbilt, then bead of the New York 
Central Railroad, in an effort to secure a trial on a 
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trains by compressed air. 
“Air! ” the Commodore is said to have exclaimed. 
“Air ! Stop a train with air 1 I’vo not time to listen 
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