1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
199 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There: 
FOREIGN EXPRESS.—As compared with 
domestic express, the charges to foreign 
countries are somewhat cheaper. For in¬ 
stance, one pound can be sent to London, 
England, for 30 cents, five pounds for 50 
cents, the first 100 pounds, $3.25, and each 
additional 100 pounds $1.70. To China and 
Japan ports one pound costs 60 cents, and 
five pounds $1.75. 
PARCEL POST.—The United States has a 
parcel post system with Mexico, some coun¬ 
tries of South and Central America, the 
West Indies and Germany. Arrangements 
with the last-named country were made in 
October, 1899, and since that time over 16,700 
pieces of merchandise have been handled. 
The limit of weight is 11 pounds. The par¬ 
cels must not be longer than three feet 
six inches, and the postage rate, which 
must be fully prepaid, is 12 cents per pound 
or fraction thereof. No writing is allowed 
on the parcels except the address and the 
name of sender. They must be delivered at 
the postoffice, not in street boxes, examina¬ 
tion made by the postmaster and proper 
custom house blanks filled out. 
FLORIDA VEGETABLES.—Receipts have 
been lessened by the recent cold wave. In 
northern Florida the temperature fell as 
low as 15 degrees above zero. All vege¬ 
tables were killed, and the orange trees 
probably damaged. The season has been 
most unfortunate to growers, as there have 
been several cold waves which injured the 
growing crops previously. It is said that 
where the vegetables were just out of the 
ground, some were saved by plowing earth 
over the rows and covering with various 
things. The shortage of Florida shipments 
has brought stock from other sources, and 
good prices have been obtained for Cali¬ 
fornia, Havana and Bermuda vegetables. 
Some lots from California have been re- 
shipped to this market from Chicago and 
other western markets. 
COTTON trade in this market has been 
exciting for the past week, and very heavy 
buying is reported in foreign quarters. On 
March 5 there were transactions in 800,000 
bales on the Cotton Exchange. The high¬ 
est figure reached was 9 6-10 cents. The 
rise was due to the unusual European de¬ 
mand. The price in the Liverpool market 
has risen $12.50 per bale since February 21. 
A feature of the trade is that some large 
southern cotton houses are buying months 
ahead. Prominent firms are offering to 
take next Fall’s crops at 7% to 8 cents. Re¬ 
ports from the cotton-growing districts 
show that a much larger acreage than 
usual will be planted. In some instances 
the increase is 20 per cent. Later in the 
week there was a break in the market and 
the price dropped Vi cent. At the close, 
the Indications are that there will be a 
further decline before any settled condition 
prevails. It was generally conceded that 
the rise in price was extravagant, and could 
not last. 
RHUBARB.—Small quantities of this are 
now seen in the market. It is tied up in 
bunches weighing a little less than a 
pound, each bunch containing five or six 
medium-sized stalks. At present they sell 
for 40 to 65 cents per dozen bunches, not 
far from one cent a stalk. Of course, all 
that comes from the North now is from 
hothouses or cellars. Some fine lots have 
been received from Michigan. Several 
years ago hothouse rhubarb brought a high 
price, but for the past two or three seasons 
it has been comparatively low. One would 
suppose that in a great market like this, 
tons of it would be consumed every week 
during the season when green fruits are 
scarce and high, but many people do not 
seem to realize its value as a food. In 
spite of its affinity for sugar, it makes a 
cheap as well as wholesome dish. Some 
of the restaurants now offer stewed rhu¬ 
barb on the bill of fare, and it would doubt¬ 
less pay others to do the same. I have 
noticed that it is largely called for, and 
know of at least one man who goes to a 
special restaurant because he can get rhu¬ 
barb there. After the season is over, he 
eats at other places. At the prices re¬ 
ceived, it would scarcely pay anyone living 
at a distance to ship a small quantity here. 
Quite likely better returns could be ob¬ 
tained from dealers in fruits and vege¬ 
tables in villages near the grower’s home, 
if a little effort were made to work up the 
trade. w. w. h. 
Wheat prospects are not good, owing to 
Hessian fly and no snow during several 
hard freezes. Nearly all the peach trees 
killed, cherries about half killed. Very 
little clover seed sown yet; price $5.50 per 
bushel; corn, 40 cents; wheat, 70 to 75. A 
few stock hogs are changing hands at six 
cents. The January and February lamp 
crop averages over 1V6 lamb per ewe, but 
in the last few days many dead lambs are 
being dropped, owing to the late severe 
cold, owners say. Tobacco buyers have 
suspended operations, as they have all 
warehouses full; prices range from seven to 
13 cents per pound. At the farmers’ insti¬ 
tutes which I attended, the past Winter, 
the cow pea attracted the most attention, 
and Early Black is the favorite. Some who 
have tried the cow pea cannot speak too 
highly in its praise. c. d. l. 
Brown Co., O._ 
BUSINESS BITS. 
At Hope Farm there is no one implement 
that is thought more of than the washing 
machine. A small boy runs it, and the 
family washing is turned out in short order. 
There is no need of any family going with¬ 
out a washer. The manufacturers of the 
Wonder washer will send a $7 machine, 
charges paid. You use it 30 days; if you 
are not then satisfied with it in every way, 
you send it back, and no questions are 
asked. It does not cost you a cent unless 
you conclude that you wish to keep it. 
The manufacturers are Whipple Bros. Co., 
20 Post St., Westerly, R. I. 
Twenty Years After.— There are still 
some farmers who undertake to argue that 
fertilizers are not lasting in their effects. 
All such farmers should read Twenty Years 
After, a pamphlet just issued by the Mapes 
Fertilizer Company, 143 Liberty Street, New 
York City. This pamphlet tells the story 
of a farm in Connecticut on which fertilizers 
have been exclusively used for 20 years. 
While practically all other farm methods 
have been changed on this farm, “twenty 
years after” finds the farmer still using 
the same fertilizer in the same way. A 
piece of land as poor “as ever lay outdoors” 
was brought back to usefulness, and profit, 
by the use of the Mapes high-grade ma¬ 
nures. It is a true story, we will vouch 
for that, and one that will put new heart 
into every fertilizer farmer. One would 
suppose that a 20-year test is long enough 
to establish the value of chemical fer¬ 
tilizers, and here we have the test. The 
pamphlet also shows why these high- 
grade manures give results which could not 
be obtained with superphosphates or 
cheap mixtures. The Mapes complete and 
special-crop manures act as judge and jury, 
and the farmer accepts their verdict. The 
proof of the pudding is always the call for 
a second, larger plate. This pamphlet 
states that last year six truckers at Nor¬ 
folk, Va., spent the following amounts for 
the Mapes manures: $2,399, $2,961, $5,475, 
$6,194, $7,077, and one over $9,000. This year 
they are buying even more. These keen, 
shrewd men, who conduct their great fruit 
and vegetable farms as they would a rail¬ 
road, cannot afford to fool with cheap, low- 
grade goods that are mostly “stuff and 
filler.” There is even more reason why the 
smaller grower should also use only the 
best. Readers will be interested to know 
that the Mapes Company are not connected 
in any way with the fertilizer combination 
or trust. The Mapes manures have also 
been very successfully used by fruit grow¬ 
ers. Men like Mr. J. A. Davis, wnose 
methods were described on pages 181 and 
182, use these manures exclusively, produc¬ 
ing large and successful crops. 
OOOD THINOS TO BAT. 
What they are depends mostly on the 
condition of the eater. 
Most anything is good to eat if a man is 
properly, healthily hungry. 
Every man is properly hungry at more or 
less distinct 
intervals if he 
is healthy. 
Corned beef 
and cabbage 
taste better to 
a healthy, hun¬ 
gry man than 
terrapin and 
pate de foi 
gras to the 
jaded appetite 
of a dyspeptic. 
The enjoy¬ 
ment of eating 
depends on 
the condition 
of the stom¬ 
ach, liver, 
bowels, and 
kidneys. I f 
these do not 
Qy their work 
properly there accumulates in them un¬ 
digested, fermenting, putrid, blood poison¬ 
ing matter. The appetite cannot be healthy 
till this is removed. A machine will not 
run if it is all clogged up with dirt. The 
stomach cannot appropriate food unless it 
is clean, and so healthy hunger cannot 
come. The stomach cannot be clean if the 
liver and bowels do not dispose of the food 
passed along to them. If poisonous, effete 
matter is allowed to accumulate and con¬ 
gest the liver and bowels more or less of it 
gets into the blood, and is carried all over 
the body. Is it any wonder that it makes 
you sick ? 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is 
designed to correct all disorders of the 
digestive and blood-making system and to 
drive all impurities out of the blood itself. 
It restores lost appetite and vitality, 
builds healthy flesh and muscle, changes 
sickness to health, misery to happiness. 
John A. Calloway, Esq., of No. 218 26 th Street, 
Columbus, Ga., writes : “ I had catarrh for four 
ears and also liver and kidney trouble. In 1894 
was working at night and I broke out in lumps 
all over and when these left, the skin peeled off. 
My eyes were sunken and I had pimples and 
brown spots on my face. Now these are all 
gone, ana I believe I am entirely well. I have a 
good appetite, but before I commenced taking 
your 1 Golden Medical Discovery ’ I had no 
appetite at all. Now I am like a child—ready 
to eat at any time of the day or night.” 
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the next 30 days we will send a 25c. sample FREE to 
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to any one sending 10 cents to pay for the mailing 
SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 160-164 E. Lake St., CHICAGO. 
YouSendNoMoney 
Until Goods Arrive. 
HA11 Steel and Iron but the 
pole. Easily handled by two 
horses. Send for delivery 
prices on all sizes. Disc 
Harrows, Lever Harrows, 11-foot Seeders. 
EMPIRE MFG. CO., 62 River Street, Sterling, Ill. 
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THE BEST, CHEAPEST 
AND MOST DURABLE. 
Wo also manufacture Grain Thresh¬ 
ers and Separators, Sweep Powers, 
1,2 & 3-horse Tread 
Powers, Hand and 
Power Corn Shell- 
era, Chilled Plows, 
Hand and Power 
Peed Cutters, 
Grinding Mills, 
Empire Mowers, Hay Rakes, Wood Saws, &c. , 
rilli, MFtr, CO., 'i'utuiny, l*tt. 
Soon Saves Its 
Labor Savor. 
A 12-Year 
Old Boy 
can do moro and better work, either 
In the Held or garden, with th 
HAND CULTIVATOR 
than three men can do with common hoes. 
Plows, hoes, cultivate*—astride or between rows. Ifnoagent 
in your town send $1.35 fot sample delivered and terms to agents* 
Ulrich Mfg*Co<f 20Rlvei St.,Rock Falls,III* 
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Good Seeding 
and cultivation cannot bo done with poor tools. The 
best garden tools are the JMatthews 
HEW UNIVERSAL MODEL 
HAND SEEDING AND CULTIVATING! IMPLEMENTS. 
Used by the most successful gardeners In America, 
sod recommended by ExperimentSt»tions.They do perfect work | 
they Bare time and money; are well constructed and will last a 
life-time. Only combination 1 and 2 wheelSeeder and Cultivator 
made. Write for book on garden tools. Popular pilces to early 
purchasers. Ames Plow Co.. Boston and Mew York. 
How to Grow Good Fruit. 
The Superintendent of the Lenox 
Sprayer Company of Pittsfield, Massa¬ 
chusetts, has delivered an address before 
the Lenox Horticulture Society, at Len- 
*ox, Mass. The address bore chiefly upon 
spraying and general culture of orchard 
and field crops, how to do it, do it cheaply 
and good, and how to obtain the most: 
profit from your labor in the easiest 
manner. The address is quite lengthy, 
about an hour’s talk. Owing to other 
matters ahead of it we cannot publish it 
in this issue. Had this address been 
placed on the market in book form it no 
doubt would have sold at a good price. 
The full address, profusely illustrated, 
in pamphlet form was intended to be 
sent to fruit growers and owners of es¬ 
tates, free for the asking, but to prevent 
imposition by the curious and disinter¬ 
ested, the book will he sent compli¬ 
mentary to any one enclosing ten cents 
for postage, to the Lenox Sprayer Com¬ 
pany, 420 West St., Pittsfield, Mass. 
If not more than pleased , return the 
book to our editor and you will receive your 
ten cents back 
A FIRST-CLASS POTATO PLANTER 
and Digger Combined. Two Machines for one 
price. Every farmer can afford to buy it. Special 
introductory prices to farmers this year. 
SCHOFIELD & CO., Freeport, III. 
COLD 
Is made in using or selling the Nagley Automatic 
TRANSPLANTER. 
Used in transplanting Tobacco. Cabbage, Celery, 
Tomatoes, Sugar Beets, Sweet Potatoes, Straw ber¬ 
berries and other plants. Potato planting attachment 
extra. Absolutely guaranteed to do the work. Write 
for prices. NAGIIEY MFG. CO., Uyons, N. Y. 
Lean’s Harrow 
An all-Mteel lever harrow; light, but strongest 
and most durable. Teeth instantly adjusted to 
any angle by the simplest yet most perfect ad¬ 
justment device ever invented. Adapts itself to 
all kinds of soil; does the most and best work 
under varying conditions. Will save enough in 
one season to pay for itself. Writo for circular. 
RODERICK I,KAN MFC. CO., HANSFIKLD, O. 
The Spangler Corn Planter. 
With or without Fertilizer Attachment. Write for 
circulars and prices of Planters and Grain Drills. 
We can SAVE YOU MONEY. Address 
SPANGLKK MFG. CO., York, Fa. 
tv >f BROADCAST OATS 
uon L sow OATS WILD 
It is lust as profitable to drill oats as wheat. 
Do it with the SUPERIO R. It Don’t Choke. 
SOW OATS WITH A 
SUPERIOR DISC DRILL 
and Save Seed (at least half bushel per aerel. 
Save Time. Save Labor. Once through 
the field with the SUPERIOR Disc Drill and 
the crop is in. You don’t have to follow with a 
harrow. With the SUPERIOR you can sow in 
standing corn stalks and cover all the seed. 
SUPERIOR DISC DRILLS NEVER CLOC. 
Made in all sizes—8 to to 22 disc. 
If your dealer does not handle the 
SUPERIOR write to us for “Spring 
Sowing” SPECIAL PRICE. 
Your request on a postal card will bring you 
a Catalogue. It tells all about them. 
THE SUPERIOR DRILL CO., 
Box P Springfield, Ohio. 
POTATO MACHINERY 
THE ONLY CONCERN IN THE WORLD MAKING A COMPLETE LINE OF POTATO MACHINERY 
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ALSO 
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