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September 19 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
THE WEEK’S QUOTATIONS. 
WHOLESALE PltlCES. 
Prices obtained during the week ending 
September 11, 1903: 
GRAIN.—Wheat No. 2, red, SSVs: No. 1. 
Northern, Duluth, 93. Corn, 58@59. Oats, 
38@42. Rye, State, 56@57. Barley, 49%@52. 
BEANS.—Marrow, $2.40@3; pea, $2@2.25; 
red kidney, $2.60@3.2r): white kidney. $2.65® 
2.75; yellow eye,- $2.80@2.85. 
GRASS SEEDS.—Clover, best medium 
red, bu., $9. Timothy, fancy, cleaned, $2.70. 
HAY AND STRAW.-Hay. No. 1, 87^@90: 
No. 2, 80@85: No. 3, 70@72V&; clover, mixed, 
65@75; clover, 65@67^4: marsh, 50®55. Straw, 
rye, 70@95; oat, 45@50. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 214 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent 
freight zone. Receipts for week ending 
September 5 were 201,546 cans milk and 9,440 
cans cream. The greatest quantity, 38,094 
cans, came by Ontario and Western. 
BUTTER—Creamery, 15@20; State dairy, 
14®19: Western factory, 14®16: renovated, 
13@17; packing stock, 12@15. 
CHEESE.—Pull cream, 8^@10%; skim.s, 
3@8. 
EGGS.—Choice to fancy, 22@27; lower 
grades, 15@20. 
DRIED FRUITS.-Apples, evaporated, 4® 
7‘^: sun-dried, Sy2@4'^; raspberries. 19@20: 
huckleberries, 14@14>/^; blackberrie.s, 6%@6: 
cherries, 20. 
FRESH FRUITS.-Apple.s, choice, bbl., 
$1.75@3.60: under grades, $1®1.50. Pears, 
bbl., $1®4.50. Plums, 8-lb. basket, 5®30; bu. 
basket, $1@1.25. Peaches, basket, 25@$1.26: 
carrier, $1.50®2.75. Grapes, carrier, 50@$1. 
Muskmelons, crate, $1@3.50. Watermelons, 
carload, $50@125. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, good to Ch., 
bbl., $1.37@2; sweets, yellow, $1.75®3.25. 
Carrots, bbl., 75@$1.25. Celery, doz., 10®35. 
Corn, 100, $1®2.50. Cucumbers, bbl., $3.50® 
4..50. Egg plants, bbl., $1.25®1.50; bu. crate, 
50®65. Lettuce, case, $1®1.75. Onions, bbl., 
yellow, $2@3: red, $2@3; white, $2.50@4. 
Peppers, bbl., 60@90. Peas, bu. basket. 60® 
$1.75. String beans, bu. basket, 60@$1.50. 
Squash, marrow, or Hubbard, bbl., $1@1.50. 
Turnips, rutabaga, bbl., $1.50. Tomatoes, 
bu. box, 26®$1. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—V e a 1 , 
calves, good to prime, 9®lli4; buttermilks, 
4®6. Pork, light, 8%@9^; medium, 8@8%. 
1.1 V E POULTRY.—Chickens, 13@13%; 
fowls, 13; turkeys, 12@13; ducks, pair, 40®75; 
geese, pair. 90@$1.25; pigeons, pair, 20@25. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 14@25; 
chickens, 13@21; fowls, 11@13; ducks. 11®17; 
geese, 17; squabs, doz., $1.50®2.60. 
LIVE STOCK. 
NEW YORK.—Steers, native, $4.50@5.70; 
bulls. $2.50@4; cows, $1.60@4; calves, veal, 
$5®8.75; lower grades, $3®4.50. Sheep, $2.50® 
3.85; lambs, $4®6.75. Hogs, $6.20@6.35. 
the surface .soil of vast areas of semi-arid 
pasture and grain lands becomes more and 
more dry as Summer advances. Add to 
these the further fact that violent winds 
sometimes occur here at all seasons, the 
dry Summer time Included, and one has all 
the ingredients of a duststorm. 
If one fresh from the East, without any 
knowledge of western life, should, on a 
Summer day when a freshening and cool 
breeze was already impatiently whisking 
up little clouds and whirls of dust, hear a 
native say that it was likely to storm soon, 
and that hard, he would be apt to imagine 
inky black clouds o’er head, earth-shak¬ 
ing crashes of thunder, blinding flashes of 
zig-zag lightning, and the thirsty earth 
deluged and soaked with rain. But that 
would be a wrong inference, in the par¬ 
lance of an inhabitant of arid or semi- 
arid plains of the West, the Impression, 
‘‘a storm,” when used in Summer time, 
means nothing more nor less than a vio¬ 
lent wind more or less heavily surcharged 
with earth in the form of dust. A lusty 
and well-developed specimen of the genus 
duststorm when seen at some distance 
(one can often see them 40 or more miles 
away) looks much like a cloud bank of a 
monotonously unvaried dirty yellowish 
gray or grayish yellow hue. The darker 
it appears the more severe the storm. 
When for the first few times in the midst 
of an ordinary one, it is a novel sight to 
note the scenic effect as the varying de¬ 
gree of intensity now conceals and now 
reveals objects half a mile or less awi' 
Duststorms, buildings, orchards, Alfalfa 
meadows, wheatfields varying in color 
from green to gold of ripening grain or 
stubble, and distant foot-hills and moun¬ 
tains, when blended in this way, produce 
a somewhat weird effect; an effect not 
lessened by the varying light of a bright 
midsummer sun, as its rays are at times 
more or less Intercepted by the varying 
volume of the flying dust, as well as by 
fleecy white or gray clouds which drift 
across the sky. 
“We had some dust yesterday,” I ob¬ 
served, just after one of the former storms, 
to a man who has resided in many and 
various parts of the Pacific West in the 
past 15 years. 
“Oh, yes, a little; but not much. It is 
much worse than that here sometimes; 
that is, some years. But if you want to 
see duststorms at their best—i»r worst, 
rather—you would better go up to the low, 
broad foot-hills, about 40 or 50 miles north¬ 
east of here. I have seen it 15Iow dust so 
hard up there that at times one could not 
see six feet in front of him; and, yes, 
sometimes he could not see at all—when 
his eyes had been shut by dust.” 
Whenever they occur with frequency or 
severity duststorms are to be considered 
as the worst feature of the climate from 
the standpoint of health; also as a great 
disadvantage to horticulture and agricul¬ 
ture, by reason of their breaking down 
fruit trees which are heavily laden, and 
bruising and drying out many of the more 
tender of garden and farm products. 
WARD A. MARTIN. 
of any variety. Nine-tenths of the young 
chickens we get here are roosters. There 
is very little demand from poultry-raisers 
for pullets at this season of the year; con¬ 
sequently, all birds that come to the mar¬ 
ket are slaughtered. Poultry-raisers and 
shippers in this community hold their 
early pullets for Pall laying, running their 
old stock off each year. Consequently, we 
very seldom get any pullets until late in 
the season. The late-hatched birds are 
usually shipped just as they come, pullets 
and roosters together. o. r. fergu.son. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
NEW YORK STATE BREEDERS MEET, 
A meeting of the members of the New 
York State Breeders’ Association was held 
at the Yates Hotel, Syracuse, N. Y., Sep¬ 
tember 10. President M. H. Olin, of Perry. 
N. Y., presided, and Secretary Chapman 
recorded. The question of changing the 
place of annual meeting from Rochester, 
N. Y., to some eastern point was discussed 
at some length and the matter was disposed 
of by a motion to the effect that the secre¬ 
tary correspond with the different associa¬ 
tions which meet with the Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation, with a view to finding out 
whether it would be agreeable to such as¬ 
sociations to change their meeting place 
to some eastern point agreed upon by the 
Breeders’ Association and that the decision 
of the place of meeting be left with the 
executive committee. The secretary was 
further instructed to correspond with the 
different cities in view and find out the 
Inducements each city would offer. The 
places most prominently mentioned were 
Syracuse, Auburn and Albany. An Invita¬ 
tion was extended to the American Ayr¬ 
shire Association to meet with the Breed¬ 
ers’ Association at their next annual meet¬ 
ing. The meeting was addressed by Mr. 
Ferine, Superintendent of Horses and Pair 
Commission; E. B. Norris, Master of State 
Grange, and Major Alvord, of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. Washington. It was 
decided that the date of the annual meet¬ 
ing should be Wednesday and Thursday, 
December 16 and 17, at such place as desig¬ 
nated later by the executive committee. 
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EAST BUFFALO.-Calves, $5.25®8. Sheep, 
$1.50®4; lambs, $4.50@5.40. Hogs, $6.20®6.50; 
pigs, $6@6.15. 
CHICAGO.—Steers, good to prime, $5.50® 
6.05; Stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.15. Tex¬ 
ans, $3.25@4.50; cows, $1.50@4.60. Hogs, 
mixed and butchers’, $6.60@6.20. 
WESTERN DUSTSTORMS. 
There was a storm sweeping across this 
section of eastern Washington a few days 
ago. It was the third visitation of the kind 
which we have experienced here this sea¬ 
son; and while none of them has been at 
all severe, as duststorms go, yet all have 
been strenuous enough to send the average 
person indoors with irritated eyes, and a 
sense of oppression in the chest if he had 
remained out some time. The idea has 
occurred to me that eastern boys and girls 
—and grown-ups too, perhaps, may be in¬ 
terested by a description of duststorms as 
they are. 
In order to understand the causes which 
produce the effect in question the reader 
must remember that the climate of most 
parts of the Pacific West is marked by the 
division of the year into two characteris¬ 
tic seasons, a wet and a dry. The lengths 
of each vary greatly in different sections 
of the sanie State, as also their degrees of 
intensity. In the section from which this 
is written it may rain at any time from 
late September until the end of the follow¬ 
ing June, with an uncertain but usually 
light snowfall occasionally in Winter. On 
these Columbia River plains the total an¬ 
nual precipitation is comparatively very 
slight; though it is quite heavy on the 
higher foot-hills and mountains east of 
here; and heavier yet, very heavy, indeed, 
on the west side of the Cascade Range, at 
the other end of this State. For the re¬ 
mainder of the year no appreciable amount 
of rain can be expected in this section- 
that is, on the low inland plains. The 
heat by day is often very inten.se, so that 
MARKETS FOR SQUABS. 
Squabs are in good demand at all times 
of the year. We do not know whether 
squab raising pays or not, but we believe 
the future is promising as far as demand 
is concerned. Prices of course will be 
regulated by the supply. We do not know 
very much about the raising of squabs, 
but the Homer pigeon, on account of hav¬ 
ing the largest body, makes the best squab 
that we know. Squabs are selling here at 
$1.60 per dozen. They oftentimes bring $1.75 
to $2 per dozen, paine & williams, inc. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
We have handled three times as many 
squabs the past six months as a year ago. 
It looks to us as though farmers are rais¬ 
ing more of same than year ago. We look 
for a plentiful supply all the year. Prices 
to-day are $1.25 to $1.50 a dozen. Condition 
will, we think, be higher in two months; 
think the profits are about same as last 
year. Demand is good and will be until 
game season opens up. It seems the farm¬ 
ers are holding back pullets. The best 
come from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. We 
dress all live squabs, also lots of poultry 
every day in the year. romer bros. 
Cincinnati, O. 
Squabs are in very good demand here 
at most all seasons of the year, especially 
in the late Winter and Spring. They are 
bringing at present in the eastern markets, 
from which we draw our principal sup¬ 
plies, $1.75 a dozen for dark squabs, and 
$2.50 to $2.75 for light squabs. I think squab 
raising has a very bright future, as there 
are a great many more squabs used each 
year. In regard to pullets very few come 
to this market at this season of the year 
PAR.4LYSIS IN Sow.—Referring to note of 
O. W. Mapes on page 639, about paralyzed 
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six grains, mix with tablespoonful of flour, 
divide into 12 powders and give one every 
three hours—give In about a pint of bran. 
You cannot poison a hog. w. h. f. 
Indiana. 
Planting Melons.— I use a hand corn 
planter successfully by closing up the seed 
space to the required capacity. To do this 
I had to drill a new hole for the set screw, 
which was only a few minutes’ job. 
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