1903 
MARKET NOTES 
APPIjES.—T rade is lessening on account 
of the abundance of other fresh fruits and 
comparative scarcity of prime apples. In 
price Northern Spy now stands at the 
head. Nejct comes Russet, and Baldwin 
and Ben Davis are alike. There are a few 
early apples from the South, but mostly 
small and inferior, genuine post-mortem 
timber. 
STRAWBERRIES.—A good many oave 
arrived out of condition, owing to the re¬ 
cent rains, still there is more choice fruit 
than a week ago. The finest we have seen 
during the week were from Charles 
Momm, Irvington, N. J. They would 
pass as choice in any season, and retailed 
low, considering Quality, 20 cents per bas¬ 
ket. This was in a down-town store where 
the scale of prices is low. In other sec¬ 
tions they brought more. 
PAPER BERRY BOXES.—“In previous 
years I have seen references to paper 
berry boxes. Are they satisfactory, and 
where can I obtain them?’’ i. 
We do not know of anyone who is mak¬ 
ing these packages at present, 'fhe later 
reports that we had of them were un¬ 
favorable. 'Phey might answer for exhibi¬ 
tion purposes or a certain cla.ss of trade 
where but little transportation is required, 
but are too easily soiled, and the least 
dash of rain damages them. Clean splint 
baskets look nearly as well when new' and 
are not open to above objections. Paste¬ 
board of any reasonable thickness is not 
stiff enough to make a berry box to stand 
shipment. Even with quite careful hand¬ 
ling the package gets several hard knocks 
in taking on and off cars and trucks. 
STONE FRUrrS.—Abundance and Botan 
plums from Georgia are selling well, as 
high as $2.50 per carrier. We note but 
few good eastern cherries. They are small 
and lacking in color. Peaches are more 
plentiful, though a good many are specked 
or too green. The latter is a common de¬ 
fect, fatal to the quality. The time to 
pick peaches for market is when they will 
hold up to reach the consumer without 
being damaged in shipment, and no sooner. 
In practice this is often varied to catch 
the earliest trade or les.sen risk from rot¬ 
ting on the way, but for the good of the 
market in general as little of this as pos¬ 
sible should be done. We believe it bet¬ 
ter to lose an occasional crate from decay 
than to load down the stores with unripe 
peaches, which are always a disappoint¬ 
ment except for pickling. Varieties noted 
this week, not mentioned previously, are 
Triumph and Waldo, from Florida. 
VARYING PRICES.—A surprising differ¬ 
ence is found in retail prices of- all high- 
grade fruits in different quarters of New 
York. In a residence belt between Forty- 
.second and Eighty-first streets are sev¬ 
eral stores where $5 cuts but a small figure 
in buying fruit. Pineapples at $1.25 or 
more each; strawberries 75 cents per quart; 
oranges, 35 cents each; pears, 30 cents; 
apples, 15 to 25 cents; plums. 10 cents 
apiece, and hothouse grapes $5 per pound, 
are a few prices noted at times when all 
of these fruits are in their regular season. 
While some are of higher grade than could 
be had elsewhere in the city, most 
could be bought at much lower prices if 
one knew where to go. But these addi¬ 
tional dollars are far from being all profit. 
Rents are heavy; a large show window 
space must be filled; expensive delivery 
wagons run, in keeping with the habits of 
tho.se to whom they cater; and plenty of 
skilled help kept to handle orders on short 
notice. During those unaccountably “dull’’ 
weeks expenses eat alarmingly into the 
I'roprietor's surplus, and in the vacation 
season there is practically no trade. 
w. w. H. 
CROP CONDITIONS. 
The crops are in a good average condi¬ 
tion. The drought has not been so severe 
in this immediate section as in the re¬ 
mainder of the State. The hay crop will 
be light this year, but the other crops will 
be good. A. B. B. 
Batavia, N. Y. 
Niagara County perhaps has been peculi¬ 
arly fortunate in regard to rain. We had 
a very nice shower here on May 27, raining 
for about seven hours, which very ma¬ 
terially improved the situation. Grass was 
showing the effect of the drought, and 
oats and corn needed the rain, but this 
shower helped out wonderfully. Although 
hay will be a short crop, oats and wheat 
are looking well, and everything promises 
3- large crop of small fruits, apples, 
peaches and plums. Niagara County is 
primarily a fruit county. We had another 
nice rain on June 6, and it is raining again 
to-day, June 8. but only a slow drizzle. 
Brlor to the rain on May 27 plowing was 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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getting somewhat hard, but not sufficient¬ 
ly seriously to stop work. I am told that 
the rain of May 27 was local; in fact, was 
not promised in the weather forcast, but 
it did a lot of good just the same. Ni¬ 
agara County strawberries are coming 
into market and arc fair in quality, but 
rain of last few days will improve them 
very much. Pasture is in pretty good 
shape. c. l. n. 
Lockport, N. Y 
In this country the drought is broken 
and the farmers are waiting to see what 
the damage really is. In some parts it will 
not be as heavy as represented, and where 
the Borden Milk Co. does not take the 
milk the silo will be an important factor 
in making up the short hay crop. I can 
tell better one week from now what the 
damage is, and what the best way will be 
to overcome same. j. l. c. 
Sidney, N. Y. 
The conditions as to the drought in this 
section are very bad. The hay crop will 
amount to nothing; rye and oats about 
one-fourth, and very few have any corn 
or potatoes planted. 'I'hose who have re¬ 
port that they have not started growing. 
The principal crop in this section, the 
Ilelderbergs, is buckwheat which, if we 
continue to have rains, will without a 
doubt be a good crop. f. k., jr. 
Altamont, N. Y. 
The drought has been broken by rain 
here. We have had two or three copious 
showers and the indications are that we 
shall have more shortly. ’Phe situation 
was serious until the rain came, but there 
has been no great change or planting of 
new crops; a very few have put in more 
corn than they first Intended, and a very 
limited number turned their cows into 
their meadows, but this is the exception 
and not the rule. If conditions are favor¬ 
able we shall harvest a fair crop of hay, 
and while grazing lands have suffered 
considerably yet drastic measures will be 
unnecessary. I am of the impression that 
this is not the case both north and south 
of us. Silage seems to be the commodity 
that our people are looking to to help piece 
out a short hay crop. n. a. c. 
Brookfield. N. Y. 
FARMING ON A MAINE ISLAND. 
Deer Isle is probably about as rocky a 
place as there is on the face of the earth. 
The village of Stonington is literally 
founded on solid granite. Viewed from 
the sea one would not imagine there was 
earth enough for a hen to scratch. Back 
from the village the granite gives place to 
ledges, bowlders and millions of small 
rocks. Wherever land has been cleared 
the fields are surrounded by stone walls. 
It costs something to clear land here; one 
should first invest in a quarryman’s out¬ 
fit and a carload of powder. However, the 
land once cleared makes good farming 
land, and on the northern end of the Island 
the stones are not so numerous. Some 
pretty good farms are there though no 
very large ones. Very few people make 
a living wholly from their farms here. 
Those who do, make a good thing out of 
il. People live too near the sea to make 
good farmers. A taste for a sailor’s lif-^ 
is bred in their bones. Deer Isle sailors 
are famous everywhere. The crews for 
the great yacht races go from here. 
Stonington furnishes a market for all the 
farm produce raised about here. Probably 
not one-half of what is consumed is grown 
on the Isle. Milk sells for six cents a 
quart; butter is never less than 25 cents 
per pound. Potatoes sold last Fall for 75 
cents a bushel; apples from $1.75 to $2.75 
per barrel; eggs 32 cents a dozen; chickens 
(dressed) 17 to 20 cents a pound. These 
are the prices growers receive; there is 
no limit to what the storekeepers ask. 
The principal business here once was 
fishing; now the granite Industry heads 
the list, employing several hundred men. 
There are two sardine factories here, 
though they have not been operated as 
such for the last two years. Herring got 
a smell of them and started for France. 
All sardines are put up in Prance, or, at 
any rate, the can says so, and it is no use 
disputing with a can. It would no doubt 
surprise some people if they knew the dif¬ 
ferent kinds of fish herring can be turned 
into. I never ate a Brook trout, either 
canned or fresh, but if I bought a can 
marked Brook trout I should expect to 
have herring inside of me when I got 
them down. Herring also make most ex¬ 
cellent I-and-locked salmon, etc. Ten or 
a dozen years ago vast numbers of ale- 
wives and shad used to come here. All 
one had to do to catch them was to string 
a net across the cove. When the tide 
went hundreds of bushels of them would 
bo lying on the flats. 'I'hey were chopped 
up and used for manure. They are caught 
now, but in no such quantities as former¬ 
ly. Neither are they used for manure. 
The shad are sold for 25 cents apiece and 
the alewives are sold to the lobster catch¬ 
ers and fishermen for bait. 
This is a fine place in Summer. On the 
western and northern sides of the island 
there are quite a number of cottages of 
Summer people; very few of them down 
this way. They do not like to have their 
morning nap disturbed by the heavy 
blasting that is continually going on in the 
quarries. Two cottages here belong to 
people from Colorado; quite a way to come 
to spend a few weeks. The harbor is 
usually full of vessels, and in Summer lots 
of yachts stop here on their way to and 
from Bar Harbor. Though living on an 
island we are not entirely cut off from the 
outside world; two mails a day in Winter, 
three in Summer, also telegraph and tele¬ 
phone. _ DEER ISLE. 
The Wet Weather in Nebraska. 
We are still having very wet w'eather. 
We have had about 13 or 14 inches of rain¬ 
fall in the last few days, and some hall, 
but not enough to damage crops. I under¬ 
stood at Edgar, west of nere, the hall de¬ 
stroyed everything May 24. To-day the 
creek is clear out of its banks and all of 
the low places are full of water. We have 
planted no corn for about two weeks, and 
we cannot plant for several days if it does 
not rain. The corn that is planted is badly 
damaged; that is, covered up and washed 
out on hillsides, or even on sloping ground. 
We tried replanting on hillsides, but it 
washed out the first big rain and we are 
doing nothing now but wait for it to quit 
raining. The wheat is in rather bad way, 
as it is growing too rank anl will x)rob- 
ably go down and rust, so it will not be 
worth cutting, especially on the bottoms. 
The wheat that was pastured all Winter, 
until just before the rains, is in better 
condition to stand all of this wet weather. 
I did not pasture the wheat, as if it turns 
dry the wheat is of no account. The corn 
that is in the cribs cannot be shelled, and 
if shelled would not be fit to ship. It w’ill 
take at least a month of drying weather 
to dry the corn out so it would be fit to 
shell. Some complain of corn molding in 
the cribs. I have been here 23 years, and 
never saw the like rain, and do not think 
I ever saw it as bad in Illinois. I see from 
papers that the wet weather is general 
west of Missouri River. We hav’e said we 
need not be afraid of too much rain in 
Nebraska, but it looks at present as though 
it was possible to get too much here. 
Everything is getting moldy with the con¬ 
tinued downpours. It looks as though it 
was an oft year; no fruit. Peaches did not 
come out, and very little garden, as it 
was too wet, and we cannot get much of 
a crop of corn. w. c. b. 
Carlton, Neb. 
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