1903 
477 
MARKET NOTES 
milk prices.— Taking' effect June 14 
the Ne-w York Exchange price was re¬ 
duced one-fourth cent or to 2% cents net 
to shippers in the 28-cent freight zone, 
who pay only freight and ferriage. 
jjQPS._The outlook for New York State 
has Improved since the rain. Conditions 
on the Pacific coast are said to be favor¬ 
able. there being but little Insect damage. 
In England cold and wet weather have 
given the crops a setback, while on the 
Continent the prospect is said to be gen¬ 
erally fair. 
POULTRY.— The market for live poultry 
Is weak, as the hold-over from last week 
was quite heavy, and arrivals are increas- 
ing. Dressed Spring chickens are plentiful, 
and prices are a trifle easier on account of 
light demand. The floods in the South¬ 
west have held up a good many shipments 
from that section, probably preventing a 
further break In local prices. 
COTTON.— Advices from Liverpool tell 
of excited cotton markets. Heavy buy¬ 
ing orders from the Continent, Egypt and 
this country, added to the local demand, 
advanced prices over 20 points. This ex¬ 
citement was reflected In New York and 
New Orleans, where July delivery ad¬ 
vanced to 13.55 cents. Current prices at 
this writing are: Middling uplands, 12.60; 
Middling Gulf, 12.86. 
TOMATOES are arriving in carload lots 
from Mississippi. The quality is as good 
as could be expected of such perishables, 
transported so far and necessarily picked 
quite immature. These tomatoes come in 
nat packages 14 x 20 x 4 inches, holding 
four so-called three-quart baskets. The 
northern-grown hothouse tomatoes, how¬ 
ever, are much superior, and of course 
cost more pound for pound, about 10 or 12 
cents wholesale at present; but there is 
very little waste in them, and considering 
everything it is probable that they are 
as economical for the small user. 
fruit for TRAVELETRS.-At this 
season, when travel to Europe is heavy, 
all of the higher-grade fruit stores, and 
many street stands on the West Side near 
the steamer docks, do considerable busi¬ 
ness in packing baskets of assorted fruit 
for steamship passengers. For a dollar 
one can get a fair-sized basket. From 
that the price runs to $2 or ?3, or even 
$5. The purchaser may select the fruits 
wanted, or leave it to the packer, in which 
case the basket will contain small quanti¬ 
ties of about everything that is for sale. 
Those dealers deliver the baskets on board 
the ship a short lime before sailing, and 
lind this class of trade profitable. 
FRUITS.—T’he peaches seen at present 
are miserable-looking affairs, and they 
taste even worse than they look. Some 
have sold as low as 25 cents per carrier, 
and were expensive at that, being either 
badly specked or green and hard as 
stones. Eastern cherries are rather scarce 
and selling well at fair prices, five to 12 
cents per pound. The rains have damaged 
strawberries, the later ripenings being 
soft and lacking flavor. There are still 
good berries; Hilton and Irvington, west¬ 
ern New York and up-river sections, sell¬ 
ing at 8 to 14 cents, and now and then a 
lot above. About all blackberries and 
raspberries are soft and poor. The weather 
is too cold for watermelons, which have 
dropped ?50 or more per carload. 
"SINKERS” is the expressive name 
given by the unappreciative public to the 
quickly-made griddle-baked biscuits con¬ 
cocted and executed in the show window 
of a type of quick-lunch restaurants fa¬ 
miliar to people in this city. We have 
watched the window baker prepare the.'-e 
biscuits. Flour, water, salt and some sort 
of baking powder appear to be all the 
ingredients, harmless in themselves, but 
the finished product is a good thing to let 
alone. Yet dozens of people breakfast at 
these restaurants day after day on sink¬ 
ers and coffee. We saw one man whose 
regular breakfast was six of them and two 
cups of coffee. It is reported that the 
quick-lunch idea has just invaded Lon¬ 
don; and that at the opening of the first 
large restaurant of this type the crowd 
of customers was so great that several 
policemen were needed to prevent a street 
blockade in front of the place. The idea 
seems to have taken well wherever intro¬ 
duced in this country. Some of the places 
are clean, and much of the food is whole¬ 
some, or at any rate less deadly than the 
■'sinker.” 
POTATOES.—Old tubers are not much 
of a feature in this market now. Arrivals 
are light, but demand sufficient to sustain 
the recent advance to $2.75 to $3.25. New 
potato trade is lively, and considerable 
excellent stock from the South is seen, 
occasional lots of Rose bringing a pre- 
jPium above quotations. This variety 
“wears” extremely well. It has kept at 
the top notch with the best of the later 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
introductions, and seen some, much-laud¬ 
ed on the start, drop out on account of 
defect of tuber or habit of growth. The 
weather now is favorable for pushing 
along the nearby early crop supplying this 
market after Southern receipts slacken, 
but there is no doubt that the drought 
has put Long Island and Jersey growers 
considerably behind, except In very favor¬ 
able localities. This is likely to extend 
the period of high prices and perhaps raise 
them a trifle if the nearby receipts do 
not come quickly enough to fill the gap 
when Southern stock drops pff. From 
present indications we Judge that the en¬ 
tire early crop of the East is likely tr. 
bring a high figure. w. w. h. 
STRINGFELLOW TREES 
Cautious in Rhode Island.—I tried some 
experiments in root and top-pruning apples, 
both in Nebraska and in Rhode Island 
The practical outcome in both cases was 
the same; namely, that we got better 
growth and to me a more satisfactory tree 
from pruning back the branches about 
half, and leaving the roots unpruned if 
they were in good condition. In Rhode 
Island all the trees lived, no matter how 
badly we abused them. In Nebraska half 
of the Strlngfellow trees died, though we 
lost none by any of the other methods. 
I think I have not taken up any of the 
trees longer than one year after planting, 
so that I cannot speak of the root growth 
except as it appeared at the beginning, 
when we did take up and examine trees. 
The Strlngfellow trees which were planted 
here and left have made a good growth 
as well as the others. If one likes a tree 
headed right at the ground I am not sure 
that there may not be an advantage in 
cutting them down like this, but I still 
think that even then it would be better to 
leave the roots as you find them than to 
cut them off in the Strlngfellow way. So 
far as I did observe I could detect no in¬ 
dication of a different rooting habit. 
R. I. Ebcp. Station. [Prof.] f. w. card. 
Hopeful in Massachusetts.— Last Fall 
I set out 42 apple trees; Baldwin, McIn¬ 
tosh Red, Gravenstein and Northern Spy. 
The ground had been plowed and harrowed 
but once (sod before). The trees were 
large, nearly an inch in diameter. They 
are all alive and appear to be doing well, 
although since they were planted we have 
had the most terrible Winter for years, in 
which all peaches were half killed, and 
now this Spring we are in a long drought. 
This Spring I planted over 100 more trees, 
peaches, plums, cherries and pears, all in 
an experimental orchard in which I am 
trying to learn how to do it. They are 
doing well also, although many were quite 
dry when received by freight, and the 
weather has been dry since planting. One 
cherry that was pruned, root and tree, like 
the rest in April has not only thrown out 
leaves but several blossoms! A friend also 
planted about a hundred more trees and 
these are doing splendidly. We have fol¬ 
lowed this method, although advised not 
to do it here in New England by a promi¬ 
nent nursery man. But from the present 
outlook after the severest tests we both 
resolve to plant our future large or¬ 
chards with this method throughout. I 
am satisfied that the trees ought not to 
be too large as they (the large ones) cost 
more and do not do any better work than 
the smaller ones. We have considerable 
land in stumps that we propose to plant 
to apples, hoeing each tree and mulching 
with manure until stumps have all rotted 
and can be torn out—trees growing mean¬ 
while. We think this will save time and 
with the Strlngfellow method of planting 
can ^e done handily on large territory with 
least expense. I am Inclining more and 
more to favor the McIntosh apple here. 
It is hard and thrifty, right size for high 
prices, beautiful red, white flesh, with de¬ 
licious flavor like Fameuse, and will soon 
be in general demand. I am thinking also 
of the Wismer’s Dessert, a new apple that 
is being praised unusually. h. j. w'. 
Beverly, Mass. 
Cooked Hay.—H ay grass is about cooked 
and will be very valuable, as cooked food 
is more easily digested. Our hay looked so 
well in the Spring that I bought a side de¬ 
livery rake and hay loader, but I shall not 
want it much for haying, but think I can 
educate the thing to harvest apples, both 
picking from the trees and picking up the 
drops, and for loading Darrels it will bo 
great. We expect to put in 55 acres of 
beans and the manufacturer says the rake 
and loader will harvest beans (perhaps) 
and thrash them at the same time. Our 
first beans are up nicely and hoed and cul¬ 
tivated with a weeder with a bag of dirt 
on elthei- end of the weeder to make rt dig 
deep. We use over ixninds of copper 
sulphate on our orchard and hope, with 
the dry weather, to have clean fruit. 
Medina, N. Y. c. a. 
The crops are not Ih as bad condition as 
represented here; the rains we have had 
for the last few days have improved the 
pasturage and meadows. Farmers are not 
plowing up meadows or planting new crops 
in this section any more than usual. The 
hay crop will not be as large as usual 
from the present outlook. Should we have 
occasional rains from now on the hay crop 
■will be average. g. h. s. 
Cuba, N. Y. 
The End of the Drought.—As to the 
terrible drought, it has been broken here 
(June 15), and we have had plenty of rain 
for a few days just past. Many farmers 
have plowed up oats and planted to corn. 
Many arc planting the second time, and 
some are still plowing for corn and pota¬ 
toes. The meadows present a sorry sight. 
Some of them will not see a machine this 
year. In my own case I am obliged to turn 
cows in meadow in order to have sofhething 
for them to eat beside grain in the stable 
Castleton, N. Y. o. j. l. 
ScoHARiE Co., N. Y.—While we had a very 
dry May and first 10 days of June, we are 
now getting plenty of rain, and the ground 
is well saturated with moisture. Grass is 
late and will not be quite an average crop, 
although a better crop than might be ex¬ 
pected after such a drought. Winter grain 
is looking fair, with some nice pieces on 
flat lands. Planted crops are late and just 
coming up. Farmers are planting plenty 
of corn and hoping thereby to produce suf¬ 
ficient fodder to take the place of the short¬ 
age in the hay crop. Hops are backward. 
I do not think the drought has injured the 
fruit to any great extent, and prospects 
are good for a nice apple crop. c. h. p. 
Late Planting.— The crops in this sec¬ 
tion have suffered greatly, owing to the 
continued drought of the past two months. 
Hay will be a very light crop, especially 
new seedings, as they have nearly dried 
up. There has not been much over half of 
the planting done yet, and a great deal of 
that will have to be replanted again, as 
the stand is very poor. Owing to the rains 
the past three days the ground has become 
very moist and the farmers are plowing in 
earnest, and this week will see a greater 
part of the corn, potatoes and beans in the 
ground. A greater quantity of fodder corn 
is going in than usual, and a great many 
silos are being built. The outlook for ap¬ 
ples Is lessening in this vicinity every day. 
as they are dropping very badly. Straw¬ 
berries nearly a failure. Prospect for plums 
and late cherries good. There will be a 
large quantity of Hungarian and millet 
sown this season. Not more than 60 per 
cent of the sugar beets are sown yet out 
of the 5,000 acres contracted for the Lyons 
factory. w. h. h. 
Newark, N. Y. 
THE FARMER FAILS 
In health just as does the city-man, and 
he fails commonly from the same cause, 
” stomach trouble.” The farm is a 
wholesome place to live; the farmer’s 
life is a healthy life ; but no external ad¬ 
vantages can overcome the effects of s 
diseased stomach. When the stomach 
and its allied 
organs of diges¬ 
tion and nutri¬ 
tion are dis¬ 
eased, the food 
eaten is imper¬ 
fectly digested 
and assimilated, 
and the conse¬ 
quent loss of 
nurtition results 
‘ in physical de¬ 
bility. 
Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical 
Discovery cures 
diseases of the 
stomach and 
other organs of 
digestion and 
nutrition, and 
enables the per- 
f e c t digestion 
and assimilation 
of food. It 
builds up the 
body with sound flesh and solid muscle. 
"I used ten bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery and several vials of his 
‘ Pleasant Pellets a year ago this .spring, and 
have had no trouble" with indigestion .since,” 
writes Mr. W. T. Thompson, of Townsend, 
Broadwater Co,, Montana. "Words fail to tell 
how thankful I am for the relief, as I had .suf¬ 
fered so much and it seemed that the doctors 
could do me no good. I got down in weight to 
one hundred and twenty-five pounds, and was 
not able to work at all. Now I weigh nearly 
one hundred and sixty and can do a day’s work 
on the farm. I have recommended your medi¬ 
cine to .several, and shall always h.ave a good 
word to say for Dr. Pierce and his medicines.” 
The sole motive for substitution is to 
permit the dealer to make the little more 
profit paid by the sale of less meritori¬ 
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