1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
239 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
SOME FINE PARSLEY has been re¬ 
ceived from New Orleans. It is tied up in 
small bunches and packed in boxes holding 
about half a bushel. The price received 
varies from $4 to $7 per 100 bunches. 
ASPARAGUS TOOLS.—A reader wishes 
to know where he can get an asparagus 
buncher and knives for cutting. The large 
seed houses handle these, and also a great 
variety of tools used by market gardeners. 
The price of the asparagus buncher is $3.25, 
and knives cost about 35 cents each. 
THE FOREIGN TRADE OF GREAT 
BRITAIN.—For the year 1899 the total ex¬ 
ports of Great Britain, exclusive of gold 
and silver, amounted to $1,350,000,000, an in¬ 
crease of $75,000,000 over 1898. Of this the 
value of the amount sent to Germany was 
$125,000,000. The United States was next in 
line with $90,000,000, an increase of 18 per 
cent over 1898. England’s next best custo¬ 
mers were France and Russia, with $75,000,- 
000 and $55,000,000 respectively. 
A RUNAWAY ROOSTER.—In the live 
poultry section of West Washington Mar¬ 
ket, they have a novel method of capturing 
chickens that get away in handling. A 
large red rooster escaped, and his thirst 
for liberty seemed to increase with each 
jump, flutter and squawk. A man grabbed 
a pole 10 feet long, at the end of which 
was a small scoop net, and went for the 
fowl in about the same fashion as a nat¬ 
ural-history crank catches butterflies. In 
a short time the rooster learned that, al¬ 
though he was living in a free country, a 
few of the human inhabitants have a 
monopoly of the freedom. 
A BANANA SHIP.—I recently saw one of 
these. It was tied to a covered wharf on 
which several trucks were loading up, and 
on the other side of the boat was a lighter 
with a number of freight cars which were 
being filled with the fruit. The cargoes 
vary from 10,000 to 15,000 bunches, and prices 
range anywhere from 60 cents for seconds 
to $1.30 per bunch for firsts. Sometimes a 
boat is delayed by storms, or the weather 
is unfavorable, and large quantities of the 
bananas spoil. I have seen them shoveled 
out of the hold and thrown away by the 
cart-load. The wharfs and deck of the 
boat are so thoroughly plastered with 
banana peel that standing up is rather un¬ 
certain business for a greenhorn. 
KNIFE GRINDERS are a common sight 
on the streets here. They have a frame 
in which a small grindstone or emery 
wheel is hung, and worked by foot power. 
Some carry the apparatus on thei- backs, 
and others have a larger frame which they 
trundle on the wheel th'at runs the stone, 
thus making the wheel work its passage. 
The grinder is an industrious fellow, and 
picks up a good many nickels and dimes. 
He has regular customers in many of the 
small restaurants and meat markets. In 
Washington Market one of these grinders 
has a shop on a larger scale. The stone 
runs by power, and he is kept busy sharp¬ 
ening the dozens of knives that are used 
there. 
CRANBERRIES.—New Jersey and east¬ 
ern Massachusetts produce the bulk of this 
country’s crop. The fruit is also grown in 
Canada, and some would be shipped to the 
United States were it not for the prohibi¬ 
tive ad valorem duty of 25 per cent on all 
foreign cranberries. The average annual 
yield of this country for the past 10 years 
has been 725,000 bushels. For some time 
growers have been dissatisfied with the 
prices received, and there is talk of a com¬ 
bine of producers to improve methods of 
marketing so that shipments shall not be 
poured into an already overstocked market, 
as is sometimes the case now. If the grow¬ 
ers were in touch with some central organ¬ 
ization, they would be better informed on 
market conditions, and less liable to ship at 
unsuitable times. As a general thing, con¬ 
sumers pay enough for cranberries. The 
money is made by speculators, who take 
advantage of gluts in the market to lay in 
stock to hold for higher prices. 
TOO MUCH POULTRY.—The market 
conditions for poultry have been unfavor¬ 
able of late. The Hebrew holiday Purim 
drew a large quantity of live poultry here, 
and after the rush of their trade was over, 
wholesalers found that a dozen carloads 
were left on their hands. At the beginning 
of this week 14 carloads more arrived, mak¬ 
ing a big surplus with trade running un¬ 
usually light. Probably there will not be 
any serious drop in prices at this time, on 
account of the large demand for live poul¬ 
try for the Hebrew Passover, which is quite 
near, beginning April 14. In dressed poul¬ 
try the situation has been still worse, and 
prices have declined. On account of the lib¬ 
eral offerings of fresh-killed poultry this 
Winter, the accumulations of frozen stock 
have been neglected. In previous seasons 
this frozen poultry has been worked off to 
advantage when other stock was scarce, 
hut many holders now find themselves with 
a bl £ surplus, which it may be difficult to 
dispose of except at a loss. w. w. h. 
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Potatoes, Onions, 
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Tobacco Crops 
By an expenditure of $3.75 the 
yield of Tobacco was increased in 
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