1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
219 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
FOREIGN GAME.—For some time there 
has been a difference of opinion between 
the game dealers in this market and the 
State authorities. The dealers claimed 
that the State laws were for the protection 
of domestic game only, and that foreign 
game could be offered for sale at any time. 
The officers took the opposite view and 
threatened to prosecute any who violated 
the law. This year a dealer in imported 
game decided to make a test case. He was 
fined in the police court, but the Court of 
Special Sessions reversed the decision and 
acquitted the dealer. This is in line with 
a recent decision of the Supreme Court in 
favor of a fish company in Buffalo, N. Y. 
No doubt these decisions will tend to in¬ 
crease trade in foreign game, especially 
during the close season here. 
THE SANDED BUTTER CASE.—Some 
time ago mention was made of a dispute 
between two dealers in this city over 10 
tubs of butter which were found to con¬ 
tain sand. The butter was tested at the 
time of sale, and nothing wrong was de¬ 
tected. When the sand was discovered, 
the price of butter had dropped three cents 
per pound, and the seller refused to take 
it back at the purchase price. The buyer 
would neither arbitrate nor pay for the 
butter, and he was suspended from the 
Mercantile Exchange. Bater he agreed to 
submit the matter to the Arbitration Com¬ 
mittee, and they have just rendered their 
decision that, as the butter contained a 
foreign substance making it unsalable and 
unlit for food, the seller must take it back 
at the original price. On investigation 
it was found that the sand got into the 
butter through a defective pump at the 
creamery. 
ON THE AMERICAN DINE DOCK for 
shipment to Europe on the steamer St. 
Paul, I saw about 50 barrels of apples for 
the Paris Exposition. The fruit may have 
been all right, but the packages seemed 
to be mostly old flour barrels, and some 
looked as though they had been standing 
in the corner of the barn for two or three 
years. There were some half barrels, and 
one sugar barrel, from Waynesburg, Va., 
had a mixture, being marked one bushel 
Albemarle Pippin; iy 2 bushel Spitzenberg; 
and one bushel Northern Spy. The Ben 
Davis tribe had a representative from 
Dawrence, Pa. There were also 75 barrels 
for the regular English trade, branded 
Savewell Pippin and Golden Russet, and 
saw 250 boxes of cheese and 200 barrels of 
oysters in the shell consigned to England. 
Foreign oysters are said to be much 
smaller than ours, and inferior for cook¬ 
ing purposes. 
FRESH EGGS.—“is there any place 
where I can get a fancy price for a crate 
or so eggs per week that I know to be 
every one prime?” We often get inquiries 
similar to the above. A man who can fur¬ 
nish eggs of a uniform size and color, and 
is willing to take care that none but fresh 
ones are sent, certainly deserves a better 
price than one who puts in every new nest 
he finds, that the hen has been sitting on 
for a week, and mixes in occasional nest 
csss of unknown age. There are grocers 
and hotel keepers who are willing to pay 
3 or 4 cents extra per dozen for eggs that 
they are certain are fresh. If these pro¬ 
ducers and consumers can be brought to¬ 
gether, the results will usually be satisfac¬ 
tory all around. The difficulty with selling 
to one hotel keeper or grocer in the city 
is that in Summer many people are away 
and trade is dull. Just at this time, how¬ 
ever, the hens often do their best laying. 
One man writes: “I can’t seem to educate 
my hens to lay when eggs are scarce, and 
take their vacation when the demam 
stops. Probably trade could then b 
picked up with the better class of Summe 
hotels, particularly at seaside resorts lik. 
Dong Branch, N. J., or Manhattan Beach 
x. Some of these hotels charge enor 
mous prices for board, and spare no ex 
pense to get the best possible provisions 
it a man does not care to take the troublt 
to look up these individual customers h< 
can in many instances get nearly as goo< 
prices from the best commission merchants 
they are the great distributors, and are ii 
touch with all sorts of trade. w. w. h. 
I or the Band's Sake!”— That expres¬ 
sion started in New England, where a 
majority of leading American ideas have 
originated. Some man who wanted to 
speak with power and yet feared that he 
might be profane substituted “land” for 
Dord. He was wise, for when a farmei 
does something to improve the land he 
certainly does something for humanity. A 
man with an untrimmed tongue would get 
it “For the land's ache!” He would still 
be right, provided he used the Stockbridge 
and Bowker’s fertilizers. The ache of the 
land is quickly cured by the use of these 
complete fertilizers. The Bowker Fertil¬ 
izer Co., Boston, Mass., is an independent 
concern—not a member of the new combi¬ 
nation. Its business slogan is “For the 
land’s sake!” for it furnishes the food that 
will cure the ache of the soil. Send for the 
pamphlets and circulars which tell the 
story. 
We supply everything in the Fertilizer line whether 
_ ^ raw or manufactured, native or imported, which the 
vHtTYT? TTTtTTTT world ’ s markets afford. We sell Wood Ashes, Peruvian 
Guano, Bone and Agricultural Chemicals, as well as 
the best mixed Fertilizers possible to produce. 
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s; “ For the Land’s Sake” 3 
| Use Bowkers Fertilizers J 
I They Enrich the Earth. % 
Write To-day for Catalogue and Prices. 
BOWKER FERTILIZER CO., lm ...... 
[Independent Company.] 1441 444 4444 4444 % 
43 Chatham St., BOSTON. 68 Broad St., NEW YORK. 
Pulverizing Harrow, Clod Crusher and Leveler. 
Adapted to all soils, all work. 
Crushes,cuts,lifts,pulverizes,turns, 
levels in one operation. Made en¬ 
tirely of Cast Steel and Wrought Iron. 
Practically Indestructible . 
Cheapest Riding Harrow on earth. 
SENT ON TRIAL pense if not satisfactory! 
I deliver free on board at New York, Chicago, Columbus, Louisville, Minneapolis, Kansas City, 
San Francisco, etc. 
Address DUANE H. NASH, Sole Mfr., Millington, N. J., or Chicago, Ill. 
PLEASE MENTION THIS PAPER. { 
^Catalog 
3v Mailed 
Free. 
Agents 
Wanted. 
Sizes 
up to 
feet 
H ow Many Apples 
does It take to make a barrel of , 
Cidert No matter;It will ^ 
take less If ypu use a 
HYDRAULIC 
CIDER PRESS 
and thecider will be better, 
E urer and will keep longer, 
on’t buy until you got our catalogue, 
HYDRAULIC PRESS MFC. CO. 
ta Slain Si., Mt. Gllcud, Ohio. 
Rife Hydraulic Engine 
Pumps Water Automatically by 
Water Power. Place this engine two 
feet or more below your water supply 
and It will deliver a con¬ 
stant stream of water 30 
feet bitth for every foot of 
fall. 
WITHOUT STOPPING. 
WITHOUT ATTENTION. 
I'OWER SPECIALTY CO., 126 Liberty Street. NEW YORK. 
HALL STEEL TANKS 
ara the beet for • implying 
water for live stock. Being 
made of galianlied eteel they 
cannot mat, rot, burst from 
. , , . _ , freealng, fall to pieces from 
drying oat, etc. We make tanks for allpurposes. Also troughs for 
feeding calves and pigs, cooling milk, hauling liquid manure, 
etc. Write for what you want. We will make it. Special price 
to jirst trvjuiries from neto territory. Circulars anil price list 
mailed THE HALL STEEL TANK CO. 
free. 68 N. Ashland Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. 
r, ^ 
There are 
186,000 miles 
of Railroad in 
the United States 
f the farmer could see 
II the McCormick Machines 
' at work this season from the 
car window, while traveling this 
tremendous journey he would 
see lO Machines each mile. This ^ \ 
enormous output is caused by the 
building of the Best Machines in the world \ .C^-3 
• ■.. ' vr.-v. ■■■!■ 
IN E COMPANY CHICAGO 
$12.95 
Buys a good Farm 
Harness. 250 styles 
Harness, Saddles, 
FI ynetsA Laprobes 
$18.25 
For No. 76—12-16 Disc 
Harrow, with2,3,4 horse 
$9.70 $32.50 
Eor a 16-in, all 
steel plow. We 
have 284 styles 
and sizes plows. 
Prices $2.25 up 
is the price ot our 
Check-row Corn 
Planter. We have 
Itostylesplanters 
•it lowest prices. 
$11.90 I $2.50 
Buys this two- 
horse Cultivator 
furnished with 
4. 6, 8 or 10 
shovels. Riding 
Cultivator$17.50 
- - r .^^„ l evener. 8sizes and styles to select from. .... . vuul , aw( .,. tn . ,. ulllv . 
WE HA VE HO AGENTS. WE SA VE YOU DEALERS’ PROF T 
loguc in unted ask tor Catalogue Mo. 114. .Both catalogues nent on request! 
For steel beam 
Cultivator plain 
with 5 shovels. 
80 styles for 
field & garden 
Itivation. 
$20.55 
Huys an 8 foot steel 
Wind Mill. We 
have-mills 8to 16 ft 
Also towers,pumps 
etc. 1_J^ Inch pipe 
10c. per foot. 
Send for FREE 858 
MARVIN SMITH 
$ 1.00 
Lor bow seeder. 
Crank seeder for 
tl.15. Sows all 
grain and grass 
seeds. Prices 
reduced. 
$3.20 75 
cents 
buys 
this 
hand 
corn 
>lantr 
>lx 
„ styles 
For this Hay Carrier._ 
7 styles. For steel cable and 
Our 160-page vehicle cata¬ 
logue illustrates and gives 
prices of 185 styles of ve- 
' 1 * u ,“ uie auu h,c lea. When writing for 
wood trick. All kinds hay tools, it ask forcatalogue No. 34. 
Co‘‘ Agricultural Catalogue >o 85. If Vehicle Cata- 
CO., 55-57-59 N. Jefferson St., X-l 6, Chicago. 
