1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
45 
Publisher's Desk. 
For several months past we have been 
paying club raisers liberal commissions, 
and have not given any extra prizes. On 
this plan, each agent was rewarded for 
just the amount of work actually turned 
in. As we have reported from time to 
time, the results have been highly satis¬ 
factory, though the greater part of our 
subscriptions come direct from individ¬ 
ual subscribers. Just to stir up a little 
interest with club raisers, we are going 
to give nine prizes for the nine largest 
clubs received from January 22 to 31, 
both days inclusive. The prizes will be: 
Prize. Cash. 
First .$7.00 
Second . 5.00 
Third . 4.00 
Fourth .3.00 
Fifth . 2.00 
Sixth . 1.00 
Seventh .1.00 
Eighth . 1.00 
Ninth . 1.00 
The time is only a little over a week. 
This is in addition to all commissions 
now allowed, and each subscriber will 
also he entitled to the new rose, Ruby 
Queen, if applied for. While the prizes 
are not large, the time is short, and 
agents will get good returns for a little 
work. We will send samples promptly, 
if needed. 
Remember you can get your own paper 
for a year free, for sending a club of 
four at $1 each. 
Have you all the books you desire? If 
not, get one of your neighbors to give 
you $1 for a year’s subscription to The 
R. N.-Y. Send it to us with his name, 
and we will send you a choice of one of 
these books for your trouble. He will 
be entitled to the rose, too, if you apply 
for it for him. Here are the books: 
The Business Hen.40 
The Nursery Book.50 
How to Rid Buildings of Rats.20 
First Lessons in Agriculture.$1.00 
The Cauliflower . 1.00 
Popular Errors About Plants. 1.00 
Landscape Gardening .50 
The Dairy Calf.25 
Books and rose are sent post paid. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
GRADING AND PACKING PRODUCE.— 
This matter has often been mentioned, yet 
it does not seem to be well understood. 
“I wish you had been around yesterday,” 
said a commission man, “we had a package 
of turkeys that was a regular curiosity. 
They were of all sorts and sizes, prime and 
inferior, drawn and undrawn, all packed 
in one case. It is almost impossible to sell 
.such stuff to advantage, and the shipper 
will do some tall growling, because we 
could not get a high price for the lot.” 
Appearance counts largely. If a package 
opens in poor shape, all who see it are 
prejudiced, and the price is sure to be low. 
Shippers should study the requirements of 
their market, and one point to remember 
about shipping poultry to New York is that 
it should not be drawn. 
NOTES FROM BALTIMORE.—While at¬ 
tending the convention of the National 
League of Commission Merchants in Balti¬ 
more, Md., I spent a few odd minutes look¬ 
ing around the markets and wharves. Sit¬ 
uated on the great Chesapeake Bay, this 
city has excellent shipping facilities. Ships 
from all parts of the world come here. A 
large business is done in grain and seeds, 
and flour seems to be a specialty. There 
is also an extensive trade in molasses and 
syrups, lubricating and burning oils, coffee 
and tea, and, of course, tobacco. As one 
goes toward the South, he finds an in¬ 
creased consumption of chickens in the 
place of beef and other meats. Live poul¬ 
try is in favor here. I saw quite a quan¬ 
tity of both chickens and turkeys. They 
were in crates, large enough so that the 
fowls were not crowded or misused, and 
strong enough to handle without bending— 
quite a contrast to the cases of cruelty to 
live fowls in the New York market report¬ 
ed in this column recently. The young 
roosters here were crowing, and did not 
seem to mind their confinement at all. 
A RHETORICAL BOOTBLACK.—“Step 
right in, gentlemen, and have your pedal 
teguments artistically illuminated for the 
infintessimal remuneration of one dime.” 
Who could resist such a sign in front of a 
shoe-cleaning place, especially when he 
had been running around the streets and 
sadly needed a “shine,” and I can vouch 
for the “artistic” work of the colored gen¬ 
tleman announced on the sign as Prof. 
John B. Middleton. He had a copy of a 
sporting paper and a History of the World 
for his patrons to read while having work 
done, and in the room was also a notice 
that music would be furnished for ball 
parties and parades. Quite a mixture— 
almost equal to that of a certain New York 
man, who, after going to grand opera or 
one of the great oratorios, always stops at 
a “frankfurter” place under an elevated 
railroad station, and as a dessert for his 
musical feast has a sandwich consisting of 
a roll, a sausage with plenty of mustard, 
and a good sprinkling of sauerkraut. 
w. w. H. 
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF COMMISSION 
MERCHANTS.- 
The eighth annual meeting of the Na¬ 
tional League of Commission Merchants 
was held at Baltimore, Md., January 10-11. 
The purposes of this Association are to 
promote the interests of the producers and 
handlers of fruits and other farm products 
usually sold on commission, and to weed 
out frauds. Its members number 286 
firms, situated In 25 cities of the United 
States. Work was the motto of this meet¬ 
ing: three sessions being held the first day, 
and the chinks filled in with committee 
meetings. Among the matters discussed 
were transportation, uniform packages, 
butter and egg interests, and fraudulent 
commission merchants. The following 
brief quotations from speeches will give a 
general Idea of the tenor of the meeting: 
“Dealing with frauds is simply a question 
of law and its enforcement. It should be 
the great aim of every commission man to 
place his business above suspicion. We 
must be very careful to admit no unworthy 
firms to membership. We must aid local 
authorities in bringing offenders to jus¬ 
tice, and give information wherever fraud¬ 
ulent circulars are sent out in violation of 
the postal laws.” . . . “There is need of 
strong protest against the methods of 
some express companies, which represent 
to shippers from the South that they have 
good facilities for handling perishable 
produce, and then deliver it to receivers in 
the North in a frozen or otherwise spoiled 
state.” ... "A barrel of flour contains 
196 pounds, and a bushel measure 32 quarts. 
We wish uniform packages for fruits and 
other produce so that there will be no short 
measure or weight.” . . . “In 1898 the 
value of the butter and cheese handled on 
commission -was $750,000,000; poultry and 
eggs, $290,000,000; fruits and vegetables more 
than $275,000,000; a total of $1,315,000,000; twice 
as much as the money in all the National 
banks in this country.” . . . “On ac¬ 
count of the improved methods of handling 
milk and cream, 75 per cent of the butter 
made to-day is of better quality than the 
exclusive 25 per cent of 15 years ago.” . . . 
“In 1880 we shipped to England 15,000.000 
pounds of cheese. Through filled cheese, 
our trade has dwindled so that In 1899 it 
was only 3,000,000 pounds, while Canada, 
with strictly-enforced laws, exported more 
than 17,000,000 pounds.” . . . “Denmark 
sends $37,000,000 worth of butter per year to 
England. She sells butter and eats oleo¬ 
margarine, consuming with her 2,000.000 
population three-fourths as much of this 
tallow butter as we do in this country with 
35 times as many inhabitants.” . . • 
“During the past year the production of 
oleo has increased 50 per cent, 15 factories 
turning out 83,000,000 pounds. The great 
capital of the packing interests is behind 
oleo. The dairymen have a tremendous 
political power. It is dollars against 
)tes.” 
L. G. Powers, of the Bureau of Statistics, 
'ashington, D. C., spoke of the value of 
correct census on farm products, stating 
lat correct figures on butter, eggs and 
nail fruits were difficult to obtain. In 
any cases the farmer has no accurate 
:count of his products, and usually esti- 
ates them too low. As a typical case, 
3 said that a census-taker asked a farmer 
ie value of the butter he produced in a 
:>ar The answer was $100. The census 
an said; “I think you consume more than 
iat in your own family.” The farmer did 
Dt believe it, but called in his wife and 
lughter, and on figuring the matter up 
»und that the census-taker was right, and 
iat he was actually making more than 
00 worth per year. As the census is to be 
iken in June, Mr. Powers suggested that 
>mmission merchants in correspondence 
ith their country patrons mention this 
atter in some way so that its importance 
ay be realized. He said that the Depart- 
ent has prepared a little circular giving 
ie farmer some brief hints as to what 
jestions will be asked, and that these cir- 
ilars would be furnished free to any de¬ 
ring to send them out in their regular 
Jr Simons, a commission merchant of 
ndon and Liverpool, and a member of 
rllament, said, in a brief speech: “Ameri- 
ns are proud and conceited, and, if T 
ire an American, I should be the same, 
u have something to be proud and eon- 
ted about, not only on account of this 
eat country, which you could not pos- 
>ly spoil, but because you have done the 
ry best with it, showing what a free 
o’ple can do in governing themselves, 
en though we rather unwillingly gave 
u the opportunity. We sell American 
fit under its true name on the other side, 
cause our people have learned that it is 
good as anv in the world. We don’t 
en find any insect blight on it. for an ex- 
se to exclude it for the benefit of higher 
ices to our home trade.” This little 
rust at German methods brought out 
eat applause. 
Any outsider who looked in on this con¬ 
vention saw a body of men in whom work 
is a fixed habit. Keen-eyed and with wits 
sharpened by competition and the rough 
edges of business, they certainly have the 
power to handle produce to the advantage 
of the shipper provided they stick to 
straight and honest methods, and this 
seems to be a point on which they are all 
emphatically agreed. w. w. h. 
Eastern New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety.— The following programme has been 
arranged for the fourth annual meeting of 
the Eastern New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, which will be held February 7-8 at 
the rooms of the American Institute, 19-21 
West 44th street, New York: Wednesday, 
9:30 a. m., report of secretary-treasurer; 
report of committees; Fruit Diseases in 
the Hudson Valley in 1899, F. C. Stewart; 
Legislation on Fruit Packages and its Re¬ 
sults, W. D. Barns; appointment of com¬ 
mittees; 2 p. m.. New Varieties of Fruits 
not yet Generally Introduced, Prof. S. A. 
Beach; Domestic and Foreign Markets for \ 
American Fruits, Geo. T. Powell. Thurs- , 
day, 10 a. m., New Injurious Insects and , 
Remedies, Prof. M. V. Slingerland; Cold , 
Storage, its Advantages and Disadvantages, 
A. W. Williams; election of officers 2 p. m.; I 
Irrigation, Walter F. Taber; Fruits and 
Vegetables under Glass, fruits, Wm. Tur¬ 
ner, vegetables, C. E. Hunn. 
The American Institute will offer $250 in 
prizes for exhibits of fruits, vegetables and 
flowers. The annual membership fee is $1. 
For premium list and further particulars, 
address the secretary of the American In¬ 
stitute as above, or Edwin C. Powell, sec¬ 
retary, Ghent, N. Y. 
CONSUMPTION. 
The germs of consumption are every¬ 
where. You may breathe them in with 
the air, drink them with water, eat them 
with your food. They are not dangerouB 
if you are in per¬ 
fect health but if 
you hi 
cold, o 
if you 
ited weak lungs, 
or if you are weak 
and run-down gen¬ 
erally—look out! 
Once consump¬ 
tion gets a strong 
foothold it is al¬ 
most impossible to 
dislodge it. The time to cure it is at the 
beginning or before it starts. If you are 
run-down — build yourself up. Make 
every tissue ao strong and well that con¬ 
sumption germs cannot find a foothold. 
Fill your body with rich, red blood— 
build up strong, healthy flesh—put your 
digestive system in perfect order. Don’t 
drag along half dead. You may be well 
as well as not. The following letter from 
Mrs. Jennie Dingman, of Van Buren, 
Kalkaska Co., Mich., will tell you how 
to do it. She says: “Before I took 
Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical 
Discovery 
I was hardly able to do my work at all; 
had pain in my left side and back, and 
had headache all the time. I tried your 
medicine and it helped me. Last spring 
I had a bad cough; got so bad I had to 
be in bed all the time. My husband 
thought I had consumption. We 
thought we would try Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery and before I 
had taken one bottle the cough stopped 
and I have since had no signs of its 
returning.” 
ve a slight 
r cough, or 
have mher- 
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