1903 
557 
MARKET NOTES 
fruits— Plums make a great show, in 
this market at present, mainly those from 
the Pacific coast. The packers get their 
pibels somewhat mixed, and there is more 
or less uncertainty about plum nomencla¬ 
ture anyway, but the following can be 
Identified in the fruit district now: Abun¬ 
dance, Burbank, Chabot, WIckson, Climax, 
Peach’, Mikado, Fellenburg, Tragedy. Si- 
n^cni and Mystery. Little can be said for 
the quality of some of these. The one 
Known as Peach is popular, being quite 
f’-ce and somewhat acid, though rather 
coarse in flesh. All are picked too green 
to be best from the point of view of an 
orchard test. Early apples are unsatisfac¬ 
tory. We see many small knotty speci¬ 
mens not worth shipping. There are a few 
good-sized Pacific coast Alexanders retail¬ 
ing at $2.50 per bushel box. Peaches are 
higher. Watermelon market overstocked. 
the squab market.—“Is there any 
regular demand for squabs? How old are 
they when marketed, and what do they 
weigh? What breeds are best?” a. d. 
Pennsylvania. 
There is a regular trade in squabs, al¬ 
though the demand at some seasons is 
larger than at others. Just now, when so 
many of the buyers of expensive meats are 
away from the city, trade is rather dull 
and lower prices are the result. The mar¬ 
ket weight runs at six to 12 pounds to the 
dozen. The latter is unusual, and some¬ 
times as much as $6 per dozen is paid for 
birds of this weight. A fair average is 
from three-fourths of a pound down. We 
sp.w some to-day which weighed seven 
pounds to the dozen at three weeks old. 
As to breeds, Homers, or a cross between 
Homers and Runts are favorites. As a rule 
prices run from about $1.50 per dozen for 
dark to $2.75 or $3 for white. Like all other 
specialties in the poultry line, or any other 
business, for that matter, squab-raising is 
something that one should go into on a 
small scale and feel his way along care¬ 
fully. Experience gained from a few birds 
is not neariy so expensive per cubic foot 
as where one starts in with several hun¬ 
dred. 
THE COMMISSION RECEIVER.—In pro¬ 
ducing any specialty it is well first to get 
in touch with some reliable dealer in the 
nearest market; follow out his instructions 
as to production and shipment, and stick 
to him so long as he does reasonably well. 
He knows the wants of his trade and can 
give valuable advice. Of course confidence 
of this sort is often abused by commission 
men, but seldom by the better class with 
any reputation worth having or a trade 
. that they care to hang on to. We know 
of many cases where most satisfactory re¬ 
lations have existed for years. People have 
told us that they sent their stuff to So-and- 
So for five or six years and came out better 
in the long run than their neighbors who 
had shipped to a dozen men in the same 
period, spending time and energy looking 
up new men constantly. There are those 
who expect practical impossibilities of a 
receiver. We just learned of a case where 
several consignments of hothouse tomatoes 
were sent to a dealer in this city very late 
in the Spring. Returns for each lot were 
made promptly, the whole amounting to a 
little less than $100. When the hothouse 
tomato season was over the shipper claimed 
that he ought to have received twice as 
much for the stuff. Perhaps he had, but 
who was to be the judge? He did not dis¬ 
pute the correctness of the returns, or say 
that more than what was right had 
been deducted for charges. They would 
have brought more earlier in the season 
before southern tomatoes arrived in such 
large quantities. It is generally recognized 
that the last run of glass house stuff can 
be grown more cheaply than where there 
is a heavy charge for artificial heat. Quite 
likely the man was honest in his protest, 
but from a market point of view he had 
no just ground for complaint, and would 
probably have acknowledged it had he seen 
all the conditions. About two years ago 
we had occasion to look up a complaint 
against the same commission house, re¬ 
garding butter, which the shipper claimed 
was paid for at much under value and 
short weight. The house was one with a 
record for square dealing and diligence in 
disposing of products to best advantage. 
We found that the shrinkage in weight was 
only what is usual in shipments in that 
sort Of package, and the butter itself was 
of very low grade. It was some time on 
the road and might have been damaged 
thus. It sold for all it was worth; there 
was nothing to show that the man had been 
unfairly treated, and we were obliged to 
tell him so. He felt injured at first, but 
apparently got over it, and we learn that 
he is now sending produce regularly to the 
same house. These instances are men¬ 
tioned merely to show that there are two 
sides to most of these questions. The R. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
N.-Y. has no disposition to butter over the 
shortcomings of commission men. Some of 
them are as fully feathered rascals as any 
who wear the convict’s garb, but the same 
might be said of some doctors, lawyers and 
even politicians. w. w. h. 
THE FARMER AND THE ELECTRIC 
ROAD. 
Another Side Developed. 
Not long ago there appeared in The R. 
N.-Y. two letters stating the advantages 
which the farmers are receiving from the 
electric roads, which now run through 
the country. I was in hopes these letters 
would bring out some discussion, and we 
would hear more about it. While the state¬ 
ments made are true, in a measure at least, 
I believe the subject Jias another side. At 
a town meeting which I attended a farmer 
made the statement that he had not been 
able to keep 10 cents in the house since the 
trolley was built, and there was undoubt¬ 
edly truth in the remark. There Is a con¬ 
tinual temptation for all connected with 
the household to ride to the city, where 
they visit the great department stores and 
buy things. While the farmer referred to 
had been led to believe that this line would 
help his property, he discovered before the 
end of the first year the fallacy of the 
statement. The whole character of the 
community through which one of these 
roads runs seems to change. Contact with 
the city, its extravagances and show, breeds 
discontent with the homely virtues, fru¬ 
gality and simplicity. Electric roads usu¬ 
ally have a terminus at some wooded plade 
near a sheet of water, perhaps where a 
pavilion is erected and sacred concerts are 
advertised for Sunday afternoon. The 
young people of the family soon find their 
way there, and it is not strange. Attend¬ 
ance at service at the “meeting house” in 
the village becomes less frequent and 
finally given up. These “meetings,” not 
always interesting at the best, are “dead 
slow” compared with the exercises at the 
“lake.” The concerts referred to are ad¬ 
vertised in the papers and by posters, but 
are sacred only in name, for the manage¬ 
ment knows full well what will draw. It 
is money, money they are after, and so 
every Sunday all through our rural dis¬ 
tricts these cars are running loaded to the 
guard with pleasure-seekers. For these 
hard days’ work, which are so profitable 
to the owners of the road, the motormen 
and conductors receive less than $2 per 
day. 
Trolley lines are operated primarily to 
pay dividends, of course, and the money is 
obtained from banks, insurance companies 
and capitalists living in the cities. These 
persons, speaking generally, have no in¬ 
terest in the farmer, nor anything else in 
the country except as it will assist in in¬ 
creasing their dividends. The farmer to 
them is a “hayseed,” to use or not to use 
as they see fit. The charters of these roads 
are very carefully drawn in their interest, 
the interest of the company, under which 
they can carry out any scheme which they 
are always careful to state is for the ben- 
fit of the “traveling public”—not the 
farmer. Very soon after a line is in work¬ 
ing order it is found necessary to make im¬ 
provements, and the more beautiful the 
more diversified the highway is, the 
more extensive and the more outrageous 
will be these changes. In colonial days 
many of the shade trees in the country 
were placed outside the fence; that is, in 
the highway, and all through New Eng¬ 
land these fine old landmarks have been 
destroyed, made into firewood, and all “for 
the Interest of the traveling public.” The 
farmer finds that his home where he has 
spent his life and where the family has 
gathered for generations is being greatly 
changed—possibly nearly ruined—while the 
manager stands around as the work is go¬ 
ing on and “laughs at his calamity.” It 
is strange that anyone can be found to 
superintend the construction of trolley 
lines. It is “dirty” business. With barrels 
of money and hundreds of Italians the 
hills are leveled off or deep cuts are made, 
changing the grade entirely and leaving, 
possibly, the adjoining property high and 
dry. 
Another feature of the matter is seldom 
considered, and that is that the towns 
through the country (in order to bring 
about changes which would be obnoxious) 
are controlled by the trolley. The writer 
of this is acquainted with a condition of 
alTairs where the first .selectman is a mo- 
torman, and at a town meeting a measure 
for the interest of the town was defeated, 
the motion being made by an employee of 
the road. At an election or at a caucus the 
trolley people are active. A side track Into 
a large peach orchard might be beneficial 
to producer as well as to the carrier, and 
a farmer owning an unproductive farm in 
a remote district, but in some respects a 
desirable situation for keeping boarders, 
where guests from the city would have 
good air and good water as well as fresh 
milk might be benefited by a trolley. It 
may be too early definitely to state all the 
consequences which will result from elec¬ 
tric roads. Nevertheless I believe enough 
has been seen to show that the actual good 
which the farmer will receive from them 
is very doubtful, and it may mean that 
these new conditions will result in the 
passing away of that simple life which has 
made our farming community all these 
years happy and contented. 
Connecticut. clarence brtant. 
PASTURE NOTES. 
I like clover better than Blue grass for 
hog pasture, because the hogs seem to eat 
it better and consequently thrive better. 
As for substitute I have found rape the 
best of anything that I have tried, very 
nearly equal to clover. J. a. c. 
I.one Rock, Wis. 
I have been raising sorghum for several 
years, and think it very good for sheep 
for a change, but would rather have clover 
if we could always get it cured well. I 
never tried rape. w. h. w. 
Ottawa, Ill. 
When the life of Mrs. Ruff was 
hanging in the balance she used 
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and was restored to health. Her ex¬ 
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"Five years ago when my life was hang¬ 
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women.” 
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New York State Fair 
Syracuse, September 7 to 12, 1903. 
$60,000 in Premiums and Purses. 
It will be the Best and Largest Agricultural Exhibition ever given in the State. 
More cash offered than formerly. The number of classes In all departments have been 
Increased. 
The New York State Commission for the St. Louis Exposition will pay transportation 
charges to St. Louis, and return, on all Cattle, Sheep and Swine, owned in New York State, 
and awarded First Premium, at the New York State Fair, to be held at Syracuse, the week 
beginning September 7th, 1903. 
Live Stock Exhibit 
promises to be larger than ever. New classes have been added in the Cattle, and Swine 
Departments. Full classification for 
Poultry, Pigeons and Pet Stock 
The increased Interest and cash offered in this Department promise one of the Best 
Poultry Exhibits ever held in the States. 
The Implement Display 
Will exceed the unusual large exhibit of last year. A new dock and increased unload¬ 
ing facilities have been provided for the quick and safe unloading of machinery. Special 
care will be given to locating the Machinery Exhibit in advantageous positions. 
The Domestic Department 
will interest the ladies. More clas.se8 than formerly have been added this year to this 
department bringing it up to date. To appreciate the additions made, a copy of the prize 
list should be secured at once. 
Farm Produce 
will be one of the most interesting e.xhibits of the Fair. Owing to the large increase in 
classes added this year, an unusual fine exhibit may be expected. Send for prize list and 
note the changes. 
Dairy Exhibit 
More money than ever will be offered in this department. Several new classes in Cheese 
have been added, insuring a larger exhibit than the fine one of last year. 
Fruit and Flowers 
will interest everybody, as an unusual fine display will be seen this year. New classes 
have been added in this Department. 
Entries in the Live Stock Department close August 8th, In all otner Departments, 
August 3l8t, except Machinery, which closes on September 7th. Send for prize list. 
S. C. SHAVER, Secretary, Albany, N. Y. 
