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September 12 
MARKETS 
THE WEEK’S QUOTATIONS. 
WHOIjKSALK IMIICR8. 
Prices obtained during week ending Sep¬ 
tember 3, 1903: 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, 89%; No. 1, 
hard, Manitoba, 95%; No. 1, Northern, Du¬ 
luth, 96%. Corn, 59@60. Oats, 37@40. Rye, 
State, 56@57. Barley, 49©55. 
GRASS SEEDS.—Retail prices, clover 
best medium red, bu., $.40. Timothy, fancy, 
clean, bu., $2.75. 
BEANS.—Marrow, $2.30@2.95; pea, $2@2.25; 
red kidney, $2.60@3.25; white kidney, $2.65@ 
2.76; yellow eye, $2.80(g)2.85. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, No. 1, 90(S95; 
No. 2, 82%@87%: No. 3, 72%@75; clover, 
mixed, 70@75; clover, 55@60; marsh, B0®55 
Straw, rye, 90@95; oat, 45<g)50. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 2% 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent 
freight Kone. Receipts for week ending 
August 29 were 2u7,114 cans milk and 10 ,b^n 
cans cream. The greatest quantity, 39,347 
cans, came by Ontario and Western. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 16@20; State dairy, 
14(0)18%; Western factory, 14@1 ; renovated. 
12@17; packing stock, 12@16. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 8@10%; skims, 2@ 
7%. 
EGGS.—Choice to fancy, 23(0)26; lower 
grades, 12(0)20. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 
6%07%; sun-dried, 3%(@)4%; raspberries, 18(g 
21; huckleberries, 14(0)14%; blackberries, 6; 
cherries, 20. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice, bbl. 
$1.75@3.50; under grades, $1(0)1.50. Pears, $2(0) 
4. Plums, 8-lb. basket, 15@45. Peaches 
basket, 6O(0)$1.25; carrier, $1.50(02.75. Grapes, 
carrier, 60@$1. Muskmelons, crate, 75i0$2.5O. 
Watermelons, carload, $50(0125. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, good to ch., 
bbl., $2(02.25; sweets, yellow, $2.25(02.50. Car¬ 
rots, bbl., 76@$1.26. Celery, doz., 10(035. 
Com, 100, $102.50. Cucumbers, %-bbl., $10 
1.50. Pickles, 1,000, $2.5005. Egg plants, 
bbl., $101.50; bu. crate, 50(060. Lettuce, 
case, $101.76. .Onions, bbl., yellow, $2.5003; 
red, $203; white, $3@5. Peppers, bbl., 60@$1: 
bu. box, 25040. Peas, bu. basket, $102. 
String beans, bu. basket, 76@$1.60. Squash 
crook-neck, bbl., 75@$1.26; marrow, $101.50. 
Hubbard, $101.50. Turnips, white, 100 bchs, 
$304; rutabaga, bbl., $1.7502. Tomatoes, 
bu. box, 25075. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—V e a 1 , 
calves, good to prime, 9011%; buttermilks, 
405. Pork, light, 909%; medium, 8%@8%. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Chickens, 13%014: 
fowls, 13; turkeys, 12; ducks, pair, 40075; 
geese, pair, 90@$1.25; pigeons, pair, 25035. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 15025; 
chickens, 12019; fowls, 10012; ducks, 13017; 
geese, 17; squabs, doz., $1.5002.50. 
LIVE STOCK. 
NEW YORK.—Steers, native, $405.70; 
bulls, $204; cows, $1.2503.50; calves, veal, 
$508.50; lower grades, $3.5004.50. Sheep, 
$203.50; lambs, $5.5006.50. Hogs, $6.1506.40, 
EAST BUFFALO—Butchers’ steers. $3.7E 
04.60. Sheep, $1.5003.65; lambs, $4.2505.85. 
Hogs, $5.9006.25; pigs, $6. 
CHICAGO.—Steers, good to prime, $5,350 
6; Stockers, and feeders, $2.5004.30. Tex¬ 
ans, $3.2504.46; cows, $1.6004. Sheep, $3,100 
3.85; lambs, $3.5006. Hogs, mixed and 
butchers’, $5.2005.85. 
MARKET NOTES 
BUTTER.—Fall trade is scarcely grow¬ 
ing yet, but receipts are not heavy enough 
to create any surplus of the better grades. 
Business in choice and fancy creamery 
stays very near the 20-cent mark. Other 
grades range from 14 cents up. Consider¬ 
ably more renovated butter than formerly 
Is sold. The name has a disagreeable 
sound, and it is hardly Just to apply it 
to the higher grades of this product, as 
we have seen tests made in which fair 
judges of butter were unable to tell the 
differences between best renovated and 
the grade of creamery known as extras. 
It is a common mistake to suppose that 
any kind of stuff can be worked over into 
prime renovated. While the process of re- 
churnlng with fresh milk, reworking, etc., 
tends to make the most inferioi* butter 
somewhat more wholesome, there is no 
known way of converting rancid butter 
into choice renovated. All that can be 
done with the vile soap-greasy odds and 
ends is to work them up Into something 
that bakers can use. There Is consider¬ 
able butter that Is sweet, of fair quality 
and texture and wholesome but not uni¬ 
form in grain and color. Here is a legitl-1 
mate field for the renovating process, as 
hundreds of pounds may be so handled as 
to make an entirely uniform product. This 
quality of uniformity was comparatively 
unknown in large markets a generation 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ago. The large creamery, the dairy school 
and public tests and exhibitions, have 
helped educate butter-maker and consumer 
toward an improved and uniform product. 
It has been found that A and B, work¬ 
ing hundreds of miles apart with differ¬ 
ent cows, can make butter so near alike 
that experts can scarcely tell the differ¬ 
ence. The limit of steady excellence has 
nowhere near been reached, for the best 
creameries now and then have bad luck, 
but tra.shy butter is being put more thor¬ 
oughly than ever where it belongs at the 
tail end of the list. Really there should be 
only two or three grades of butter on the 
market, and that all good and sweet, but 
perhaps this is more than can be expected 
now, considering the amount yet to be 
learned and put Into practice in regard to 
the feed and care of the dairy cow, sani¬ 
tation of stables, milk rooms, etc. A criti¬ 
cal market is, in the long run, a good 
thing for the dairyman, or. In fact, th? 
fruit grower or any other producer, stimu¬ 
lating him to better work than he would 
have thought possible without this pres¬ 
sure. 
HOPS.—A good crop Is being harvested 
in California. In Oregon and Washington 
considerable mold damage is reported. So 
far as we have learned the New York 
crop districts promise a fair yield with 
little Insect damage. The London market 
is firm, with considerable mold In some 
English hop sections. The Continental 
market is weaker. 
COTTON.—The season just closing has 
been a most exciting one for the speculate) 
and mill man. The latter, unless well 
stocked up, has been doing a hand-to- 
mouth business, hoping for some material 
drop in price, to within reasonable manu¬ 
facturing limits. Most cotton crop reports 
have to be taken with considerable allow¬ 
ance, being doctored to meet the views 
of one side or the other, and subject to all 
sorts of sudden contingencies of weather, 
bugs and disease. It has been quite gen¬ 
erally believed that the extreme prices 
prevailing for part of the season have been 
solely the result of manipulation not at 
all representing the commercial value ol 
the cotton, based on supply and demand 
Quite naturally the speculators have de¬ 
nied this, claiming that the crop is short 
enough to warrant these prices. The U. 
S. Secretary of Agriculture recently criti¬ 
cised the plainly evident cotton-corner¬ 
ing operations that have been going on 
this Summer, and when the charge was 
denied, he replied that the test would be 
the price paid growers for the new crop. 
If 13-cent cotton represents actual com¬ 
mercial value and not the misfortunes of 
speculative “shorts,” we see no reason 
why the grower should not receive some¬ 
where near this figure. But there is f 
still more serious side to this bull-and-bear 
cornering business. We raise more cotton 
than we can use at present and depend 
to some extent on European market.*^ 
Speculation that puts our cotton tempor¬ 
arily out of the reach of foreign spinners 
is no joke, as It lessens confidence in a 
market worth cultivating. It is entirely 
legitimate for England, France or any 
other European country using our cotton 
to do all in its power to promote cotton 
growing in its own tropical possessions, 
but it is certainly anything but good 
business for us to force them to hurry 
such arrangements by holding back cotton 
with no more plausible excuse than specu¬ 
lators’ greed. A market in the hand is 
worth half a dozen that have been fright¬ 
ened awav. This is true on both a large 
and small scale and applies to other thing 
than cotton. w. w. h. 
FRUIT AND CROP NOTES 
Potatoes are mostly struck by blight in 
this section, though there are some ex¬ 
ceptions, as where the Bordeaux Mixture 
has been u.sed. I have used the Mixture 
once and Intend to use It again, but 
thought if I could make it so it would 
spray any better w’ould like to as it both¬ 
ered quite a little before. I use a com¬ 
pressed air hand sprayer. Potatoes are 
not raised In this section very largely, from 
one-fourth to one or two acres, with one 
field I know of, of 10 acres. But few 
spray for blight though it is increasing. 
Randolph, Vt. k. h. h. 
Peach Tree Report.—I want to tell how 
my little peach trees are growing—so fast 
they are not “little” any more. In March, 
1901, I received a dozen little June-budded 
trees by mall, the parcel containing them 
not more than three inches thick and a 
foot in length. To-day (July 26, 1903), the 
bodies of these trees are 7% Inches In cir¬ 
cumference; in height they are just seven 
feet and the spread of the branches, hori¬ 
zontally. is eight to 10 feet, the lower 
branches of all of them touching the 
ground. I have others grown from seeds 
planted the same Spring (1901) budded the 
following August and set out where they 
are now growing through Spring of 1902 
before the bud started, which are trying 
hard to catch up with those I bought. It 
is an interesting race and they are very 
beautiful to look at as they grow. These 
trees are planted on a knoll of about as 
poor ground as any farmer has, almost 
“too poor to raise white beans,” and have 
not been fertilized in any way excepting 
cultivation and mulch. But they were not 
Strlngfellow root-pruned nor planted in 
the sod with a crow-bar. My ideal of a 
peach tree has five branches within a foot 
of the ground, and people look at them 
(the perfectly-rounded heads, wider than 
high and touching the ground) In “wonder, 
surprise and admiration.” w. a. d. 
Mt. Gilead, Ohio. 
Cumberland Raspberries. —I send a 
photograph of some second-crop Cumber¬ 
land raspberries growing upon canes ol 
this season’s growth. Some of the berries 
here shown measured very nearly seven- 
eighths of an inch in diameter. These sec¬ 
ond-crop berries are mostly found in the 
older plantings. With me the Cumberlanc 
is the king of raspberries. It seems to 
possess every desirable quality; perfectly 
hardy, a most vigorous grower, very pro¬ 
ductive fruit of best quality, handsome t. 
look at, firm enough to carry well to mar¬ 
ket. This variety alone gave us fresh 
berries on our table continually for five 
weeks, and the last of the berries were 
of good size and of fair quality. This 
from first crop only. The second crop is 
just now ripening. We picked 675 quarts 
of fruit from a little more than a quarter 
acre of very ordinary land, and part of the 
plants have been set for four years and 
have received but little attention. J. t. c. 
Hartstown, Pa. 
R. N.-Y^.—The photograph showed a 
heavy setting of fruit, but was so dim 
that it could not be engraved. 
My estimate for the apple crop of the 
State is 50 per cent of last year’s crop. As 
chairman of the State Fruit Committee 
for the American Bornological Society, 1 
have reports from members of said com¬ 
mittee in different sections of the State 
and base my estimate on these reports and 
my own observations covering this section 
of the upper Champlain Valley. No prices 
yet established for Winter fruit; Summei 
and Fall fruit very scarce and selling in 
local markets at $2 to $3 per barrel. There 
has been an almost entire absence of in¬ 
sect depredations, and the foliage is every¬ 
where strong and healthy and free from 
fungus attacks; the Apple canker, one of 
the most dreaded foes of the apple tree, 
and the scab of the fruit, are not In evi¬ 
dence to any appreciable extent this sea¬ 
son, and with favorable weather for the 
next few weeks to color and properly ripen 
the crop of Winter apples, the quality will 
be the best In years. The varieties that 
are bearing the crop are the late-blooming 
sorts. Northern Spy, Pound Sweet, Sutton 
Pewaukee, Wealthy, McIntosh, Shiawassee, 
and in a few localities Canada Red, Nod- 
head and Hubbardston. Very few varie¬ 
ties of grapes are fruiting, among those 
that are I would mention Green Mountain, 
Woodbury (white) and the old Clinton 
The pear crop is uneven, but will perhaps 
be for the whole State a low average crop 
as with the apple, the late-blooming varie¬ 
ties are the ones that have the fruit; in 
my section Tyson and Seckel are examples. 
Vermont Hort. Society. d. c. hicks. 
In referring to the outlook for the fruit 
crop in the counties bordering along tho 
Mississippi River in this vicinity, it has 
been estimated that there will be about 3i 
per cent of a full crop of apples. Peaches 
are a fiat failure and there will be no 
great amount of pears. ’There are various 
reasons for the shortage of the fruit crop. 
One theory Is advanced that when the 
trees were in full bloom with the pollen 
perfectly developed we had some very 
hard heavy rains which no doubt had the 
effect in some localities of preventing the 
proper fertilization. A greater reason for 
the failure was caused by an untimel> 
frost which fell heavily In this region of 
country about the first of May. Not¬ 
withstanding these obstacles it Is still 
noted that the Intelligent and persistent 
orchardist has more and better apples 
th.an those who did not have sufficient 
energy to make a reasonable effort for the 
success of their crops. The quality of the 
apples is reasonably fair. As a matter ol 
fact no apple grower here will ship out 
anything that will not pass muster in the 
markets. Commission men paid on the 
average about $1 per barrel for the Sum¬ 
mer apples and that is the amount they 
are offering at present for the coming croi 
of Winter varieties. While as Intimated 
the crop will not be plentiful here, thf 
commission men are satisfied that they can 
buy all the apples they want in other 
localities where conditions have been mori 
favorable. james handlt. 
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