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the rural NEW-YORKER. 
MARKET NOTES 
butter.—H xtra creamery l.s down two 
r-iits, and other grade.s follow in about the 
same range. 'ITiere is some increase in re¬ 
ceipts, and buyers naturally take less than 
they would on a rising market, knowing 
that prices must soon come to a lower le^vel. 
Storage creamery is about all gone. The 
sui'ply of State dairy is light and of a low- 
average. 
A PPTd'TS.—Considerable wilted and ordi¬ 
nary fruit is seen, evidently the last cellar 
holdings of many farmers who find that 
they can spare two or three barrels from 
the stock saved for family use. These sell 
poorly, as there are plenty of cold storage 
apples on hand. The highest prices noted 
at present are $4 for Spitzenburg and $3 for 
Greening, both choice cold storage. Green¬ 
ing has seemed to us to he gaining in 
popularity for the past year or two, as we 
hear more people speak favorably of it. 
IIS finality certainly warrants this and 
should more than counterbalance any 
objection on account of color. 
STRAWBERRIES are selling at a range 
of prices that must cut growers’ profits 
short, 10 to 18 cents per quart basket for 
very fair berries. The receipts from the 
Carolinas have been heavier than the de¬ 
mand for early strawberries would seem to 
warrant. The rank and file of consumers 
are not yet ready to use strawberries, even 
at low prices, as they do w.hen the nearby 
crop arrives. They think that these out-of- 
soason berries are sour and of low quality, 
which of course is true of many. For this 
reason the market will weaken now under 
receipts but a small fraction as large as 
arrivals for the same period in June. 
P.VCK.AGES.—In response to several re¬ 
quests we shall give dimensions of various 
packages .seen in this market from time to 
time. The figures will be for inside meas¬ 
urement. One style of standard California 
celery crate is 15 x 18 x 20, making nearly 
a square package. The Florida crate is 
flat, 8 X 20 X 25, containing about 1,400 cubic 
inches less. The celery is unwashed, and 
apparently just as taken from the earth or 
storage. Dealers here, several of whom 
handle nothing but celery, .some as many as 
800 cars of California celery per year, sort, 
wash and repack, according to the demands 
of the trade. Large quantities of broken 
or partly decaj'ed stalks are thrown into 
the garbage barrels every day, where they 
.-ire again sorted over by tramping market 
scavengers, who go about with baskets or 
bags, picking out the best of what is 
thrown away as unfit for sale. Now and 
tlien w-e see a little washed Florida-packed 
celery in smaller flat boxes lined with 
paper, but it seems to rot wor.se than that 
crated unw'ashed. The crate for new South¬ 
ern cabbage is 37 x 18 x 11, containing be¬ 
tween three and four bushels. A common 
Bermuda crate, used for onions, Romaine, 
etc., is 22'/i x 16 x 7, a very convenient pack¬ 
age. A crate 22 x 11 x 10, holding six oblong 
so-called four-quart baskets is used for 
shipments of early tomatoes, peppers and 
similar southern produce. The later crop 
of Jersey and other nearby tomatoes is 
packed in bulk in crates. A good many 
hothouse cucumbers come in boxes 18 x 18 
X 8 . String beans come in baskets and 
crates. The former are of the peach- 
basket type, varying in size from a third 
of a barrel down. The crates are octagonal, 
2'h4 long, 14 wide at widest part and 
‘)Vs at narrowest and seven deep. The 
lierry crate with hinged cover, holding 32 
quart baskets, is 22 x 14 x 11. There are 
four tiers of eight baskets each, separated 
iiy slatted partitions. Other standard or 
new packages will be described during the 
.- eason as noted. 
MONEY MATTERS.—In talking about 
financial questions the newspapers have liad 
much to say of late about digested and un¬ 
digested securities. Digested securities are 
stocks, bonds, etc., that have been absorbed 
liy the general public from the companies 
or syndicates marketing them, and are in 
more or less general circulation, forming 
I he goods used in financial business, much 
I lie same as butter, calico, molasses or po- 
latoes serve in other lines of trade. In the 
undigested are those of which but small 
■ mounts have been taken by the buying 
public, and others not yet offered, but held 
by syndicates for a favorable opportunity 
to market them. They are undigested in 
the .sense of not yet having entered the 
rinancial circulatory system, or contributed 
to financial brain and brawn. For the past 
four or five years there have been enor¬ 
mous issues of capital stock. Bankers 
have been ready to advance almost any 
amount to capitalize projects that seemed 
to iiromise profit. Thousands of investors 
liave diverted their money from savings 
lianks, few of which pay four per cent, and 
farm mortgages, many of which ara for 
f'ums more than the present selling value 
of the farms, to stocks, which pay larger 
percentages, and are backed by the strong¬ 
est moneyed men. The readiness with which 
such stocks were taken encouraged In¬ 
creased issues, which piled up far in excess 
of the demand until at present there are 
said to be $3(.t0.000,000 worth in the hands of 
syndicates and others waiting for an oppor¬ 
tunity to got on the market. This refers to 
stocks which may reasonably be supposed 
to have foundation and value. Of course, 
sharpers have taken advantage of this in¬ 
vestment craze to shower the country with 
circulars offering wildcat stocks w'orth 
about one-half cent per pound for old paper. 
Loading up the financial larder, even with 
good stocks, so greatly in excess of the 
appetite and digestive powers of investors, 
is a cpiestlpnable policy, even though no 
panic or financial stringency occurs as a 
result of tying up so much money in this 
way. To issue in four years stocks equal 
to the normal output of 15, is a little like 
turning every day into a feast, which would 
be distasteful, even though it be financial 
turkey and plum pudding. w. w. ii. 
THIS MAN 
•was perfectly and per¬ 
manently cured from 
Rheumatism byThe Jebb 
Discovery, after suffer¬ 
ing for twelve years. 
MILK NOTES. 
The prices of milk are about the same, 
three cents wholesale, six cents retail, also 
plenty of it; because cows are plentiful. 
'Phe price of grain is rather high. T am 
almost certain that as soon as the coopera¬ 
tive creameries have control the prices of 
milk will advance one cent. New milch 
cows have dropped about $12 per head. 
Beef is also cheaper than it has been. 
Lincoln Park, N. Y. 
The price of hay, grain and mill feed has 
been very high in this market. Mill feed 
has not sold at less than $25 per ton, and 
more often has been $30, while feed dealers 
have been unable to get stock fast enough 
to supply their trade. The retail price of 
milk has advanced from eight cents to nine 
cents per quart during the pa.st Winter, 
and there is still a brisk demand for fresh 
milk of good quality. The outlook for the 
near future is for contined high prices and 
good demand. T do not think the coopera¬ 
tive creamerie.s have had any appreciable 
effect on the price of milk in this locally. 
Allegheny Co., Pa. c. J- w- 
The outlook for milk and butter is below 
the normal this Spring. Last sea.son Was 
very wet; c*rops of almost all kinds w-eie 
drowned out, consequently many sold 
some of their cows. A good many cows 
have changed hands this Spring, selling 
for $40 to $60 apiece. Butter Is from 23 to 
26 cents; chee.se, 13 to 14 cents; meal is $1.15, 
middlings $1.20, .shorts, $1.10, oats 47 to 50 
cents. There is hut one creamery near 
here that is owned by persons who buy the 
cream, the rest are cheese factories which 
make for $1 to $1.10 per hundred. The out¬ 
look now is very good for an early Spring, 
which wili help farmers some on their 
feed bills, as a great many depend on 
their truck and do not raise their feed. 
No. Volney, N. Y. f. l. b. 
FOR WOMEN 
This man says: “For twelve years I suffered 
fearfully with Rheumatism. My back was so af¬ 
fected that I was nearly doubled together, my 
head and shoulders being lower than my hips. 
Thanks to The Jebb Discovery I now walk erect, 
and though years have elapsed, I have never felt 
a return of Rheumatism.” 
The Jebb Discovery for Rheumatism Is sent 
under a guarantee to cure. Two of the best banka 
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31,3 Main St., IJattle Creek, Mieh. 
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Paid in 
Capital 
91,000,000 
Assets 
9 1,600,000 
Surplus 
9185,000 
Deposits may be made or withdrawn 
at any time, and bear earnings for 
every day invested. Paid quarterly 
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from letters of depositors: 
“J know of no better conducted or 
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“I have found the Company very 
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tJKDEH STATE BANKING DEPABl'- 
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Our business is nonrspeculative. 
Write us for full particulars. 
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1134 Broariway*. New York. • 
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RHEUMATISM 
A CURE GI-VEN BY 
One Who Had It. 
Nine vears ago I wn.s at¬ 
tacked by muscular inftam- 
matory rheumatism. I suf¬ 
fered as those wlio liave it 
know, for over three years, 
and tried almost everything. 
Finally I found a remedy that 
cured me completely and it has 
not returned. I have myen it to a 
number who were terribly afllictcd, and it effected 
a cure in every case. Anyone desiring to give this 
precious remedy a trial, I will send it on receipt of 
10 cents In stamps to pay mailing. Addre.ss 
MARK H. JACKSON, 952 Unlv. Block, Syracuse, N. Y. 
GAIN ACRES 
by clearing that stumpy piece 
lof land THE IlKKCULEH 
Jstump Puller pulls any stump. 
^ ^ ,__ _ ^_^Saves time, labor and money. 
Catalog FREE. Hsrcules Mfg. Co., Oept.P.S. Centenillle,li. 
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'WHO CANNOT BE CURED. 
Backed up by over a third of a century 
of remarkable and uniform cures, a record 
such as no other remedy for the diseases 
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case of Eeucorrhea, Female Weakness, 
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Their financial responsibility is well 
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of whom they have done business for over 
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”I want to tell you of the great improvement 
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N C "When I began its use I was a physical 
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■World’s Dispensary Medical Associ¬ 
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A catalog describing them and a handsome 
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Gome To The Circus 
The ^ain is in shock and out of danger and the fanner 
and his family can now go to the circus. 
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