December 12 
860 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during the week ending 
December 3, 1903: 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red. SS'/i; No. 1, 
Northei-n Duluth, 91%; No. 1, Northern 
Manitoba, 94%. Corn 49(g)50; Oats 4(»^43: 
Rye. Stale, $5d@58; Barley, |48@63 
BDANS’—Marrow, $2.70@2.85: pea, $2.1.=)a 
red kidney, $3; yellow eyes, $2.90. 
DAY AND STRAW.—Hay No. 1, S,5(cj9i): 
No. 2, 77y.(g)82%; No. 3, 70@80: Clover, mixed, 
6^2%: clover, 60@65: marsh 50. Straw, rye 
^KU-l.'lO. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 3% 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent 
freight zone. Receipts for week ending 
November 28, were 197,827 cans milk and 
7,807 cans cream. The greatest quantity 
38.126 cans, came by Ontario & Western. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 18@25%; State 
dairy, $154^21; Western factory, $13y2(<<i.) 
renovated. 13@18; packing stock, 12%@15. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 9(8)12; skims. 3(88. 
EGGS.—Choice to fancy, 35@40; lower 
grades, 20@30. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 
9%@7; sun-dried, 3%(8)4%; chops, 100 lbs, $2.5t» 
(^2.62; cores and skins, $L37@(1.62; rasp¬ 
berries, 22@23; huckleberrlea, 14@14i/2; blai 
berries, 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice, bbl. 
$2.75(84; under grades, $1.<8'2; bushel box. 
Western* $1.50(&3.60. Fears, Kleffer, bbl., 
$1.(8'3. Grapes, 4-lb. basket, 12(818; bulk, 
ton, $60^f^. Cranberries, bbl., $6@8.50. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, good to choice, 
bbl. 2(82.37; lower grades, $L60@L87; sweets , 
yellbvy, $1.50(g3.25. Carrots bbl., $75(81.3o; 
Brussels Sprouts, qt., .6(812. Celery, doz. 
10845. Cabbage, Danish, ton, $15818; Cauli¬ 
flower, bbl., $1.5084.50;Lettuce,New Orleans, 
bbl., $485. Onions, bbl., yellow, $1.2<*83; 
red, $1.5082; white, $285. Squash, bbl., 
marrow, 7581. Hubbard, $181-25. Turnips, 
white, bbL, 758$1.00; rutabaga, bbl.. 
75885. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.— Veal, 
calves, good to prime, 10%812; buttermilks, 
4<S«. Pork, light, 788; medium, 6%87. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Chickens, 10%; fowls, 
11%; turkeys, 12; ducks, pair, 80890; geese, 
pair, $1.5081.62; pigeons, pair, 20825- 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 15820 
chickens, 13818; fowls, 11812%; ducks, 10- 
817; geese, 13818; squabs, doz., $1.7583. 
FURS AND SKINS.—Black bear, $20830; 
Cubs and yearlings, $5815. Badger, $181-50. 
Otter, $7816. Beaver, large, $689; medium, 
$58'6; small, $384. Fox, silver, $508300; 
cross,$8826; red, $2(84; grey, 758$1- Fisher, 
$5810. Wolf, prairie, $181-50; timber; $28 
4. Wolverine, $488. Lynx, $488. Wild cat; 
508$1.00. Civet cat, 25830. House cat, 
black, 25; colored, 8810. Marten, dark, 
$^15; pale, $3(85. Skunk, black, $1,258 
1.40; h^f-striped, 80890; longTStriped, 80- 
890; striped, 40(^0; white, 20830. Rac¬ 
coon, 7581-40. Opossum, large, 50860; 
medium, 208^0; small, 10815. Rabbit, 18 
1%. Mink, $1.5085. Muskrat, winter, 208 
25; fall, 13818; kits, 485- 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices given are 
for single ton to carload lots f. o. b.. New 
York; Nitrate of Soda, ton, $43846. Dried 
blood, 12 to 13 per cent ammonia, $50855. 
Concentrated tankage, $15820. Ground 
bone, $22827. Acid phosphate. $10815. Mu¬ 
riate of potash, $4^45. Sulphate of potatb 
$42848. Kainit, $10812.50. Sulphate of Cop¬ 
per per barrel of about 300 pounds; 6% 
cents. 
LIVE STOCK 
NEW YORK.—Steers, native, $486.30; 
bulls, $2.2584; cows, $1.1083.50; calves, veal, 
$588.75; lower grades, $2.50(84.50. Sheep, 
$2.2584; lambs, $5(86. Hogs, $585-20 
EAST BUFFALO.-Prime steers, $5,158- 
6.66; Stockers and feeders, $2.5083.85; calves 
$1688.26. Sheep, $1.5083.75; lambs, $4,508 
5.75. Hogs, $4.80(^.85; pigs, $4.8584.90. 
CHICAGO.—Steers, good to prime, $5.20- 
(g6.86; Stockers and feeders, $2(84.10; 
Texans, $3(84; Cows, $1.50(84. Sheep, $3.60- 
85.75; lambs, $3.5085.80. Hogs, mixed and 
butchers’, $4.20(84.65. 
MARKET N E W S 
POULTRY.—Quite a good many delayed 
and long-distance shipments intended for 
Thanksgiving have been arriving, meeting 
the usual depressed after-holiday trade. 
When it became evident that the shortage 
of the eastern turkey crop was a fact, not 
mere talk, and that a pound of choice 
turkey was going to be worth 25 cents 
wholesale, birds intended for other mar¬ 
kets or later trade were sent here. Some 
got in in time to catch the last of the 
Thanksgiving trade, and the rest has been 
straggling along a week or more late. The 
continued cold snap has avoided the mar¬ 
ket smash-up that sticky weather would 
have brought, and whatever was fair to 
choice of these late arrivals has been dis¬ 
posed of favorably, if not at the extrava¬ 
gant price prevailing last week. One 
drawback has been the quantity of iced 
poultry in these shipments. Wliile this 
is the only safe way to ship from a dis¬ 
tance early in Winter, on account of the 
possibility of warm weather on the way, 
buyers are sure to pick out the dry-packed 
first if in good condition. The iced poultry 
can be wixted off and dried so as to be 
passable, but it always has a wilted and 
bleached appearance, so that the one who 
is to eat it will have a better appetite if 
he does not see it until it is put on the 
table. Icing is always a safeguard and 
often a necessity for anything but nearby 
shipments, but dry-packed poultry is al¬ 
ways sure to sell better if the weather is 
at all favorable. 
GOLD MOVEMENTS are supposed to be 
a fair indication of trade relations between 
different countries. If the trade of this 
country with England, for Instance, for a 
certain period of time were equal in value 
to the trade of England with us for the 
same time, it would be easy to make a 
settlement with paper alone, thus avoid¬ 
ing the troublesome and risky process of 
shipping the actual gold back and forth. 
But nowhere near this even balance can be 
maintained, and in order that every bill of 
exchange may have a firm batels bankers 
receiving or issuing these bills must actu¬ 
ally handle more or less of the only metal 
that is a world standard, gold. Individual 
business men, other than bankers, do not 
care to bother with the transferring of 
gold to maintain the balance. This is the 
legitimate work of bankers, and other 
business depends on them to do it. If A 
ill London owes B in New York $1,000, and 
C in New York owes D in London $500, it 
is clear that their bankers can so arrange 
matters that the sending of $500 in cur¬ 
rency from London to New York will en¬ 
able all four Interested parties to settle 
their affairs satisfactorily. There may be 
thousands of similar tran.sactions for vary¬ 
ing sums, and the whole thing become so 
complicated that no one tries to follow the 
thread from one end to the other or sort 
out the A’s or B’s, but the principle of 
settlement is the same. If the obligations 
of Europe to the United States are greater 
than ours to that country, they must send 
gold to us for the difference. Of course 
this trade balance never gets exactly set¬ 
tled; there is a constant see-sawing in the 
effort to have ample margin for the pro¬ 
tection of all bills of exchange. During the 
past month gold to the value of something 
more than $10,000,000 has been sent to the 
United States from other countries, but 
this cannot be taken as denoting anywhere 
near the exact trade balance in our favor, 
as obligations are incurred or paid in so 
many ways other than through selling of 
tangible merchandise, such as deals in in¬ 
vestment securities and loans. The fact 
that the course of trade h', bringing gold 
to a country is no sure sign of permanent 
prosperity, nor is the exportation of gold 
an indication that the country is going to 
the dogs. w. w. h. 
Some New York Potatoes.— I was much 
interested in the account of potato grow¬ 
ing as given by Henry Field, of Iowa, on 
page 801. I will give you an account of 
my own growing in Cayuga County, N. 
Y., this year. I had an irregular piece of 
ground containing 177 square rods, or 
1 and 17-160 acre, from which I dug, Sep¬ 
tember 15, 415 bushels of potatoes. The 
variety was Early Michigan, and as the 
weather was very dry at the time of plant¬ 
ing, May 10, I planted many of them 
whole; this is at the rate of 375 bushels 
per acre. I used no manure, but 200 pounds 
muriate cf potash, 100 nitrate of soda and 
700 pounds of ground bone, scattering same 
broadcast on the ground about June 20, 
and cultivating soon after. If I could 
have kept off the late blight I would have 
had more. .f. m. p. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
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