1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3i3 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
EGGS GO DOWN.—I saw a 30-dozen case 
drop from the top of a high load bound 
for the Havana steamer. They struck the 
pavement on Broadway in front of the 
Post Office, and made an instantaneous and 
thorough hatch right there that would dis¬ 
count the work of the best incubator on 
the market. 
A MIXTURE.—Every day at the lunch 
hour there is a crowd on Fulton street, 
east from Broadway, and here the peddlers 
and push-cart men gather in great num¬ 
bers. In a walk of three blocks I counted 
85 push carts, and some of the things 
offered for sale were: Combs, spectacles, 
pocketbooks, brushes, shoestrings, fruits 
of all sorts, peanuts, suspenders, collar but¬ 
tons, caps, collars, neckties, stereoscope 
pictures, books, tobacco pipes with stems 
a foot long, knife sharpeners, flies and car¬ 
penters’ tools, candy, and a bushel of 
tooth brushes selling at two for five cents. 
How all of these peddlers make enough to 
live is a mystery. Plenty of people stop to 
look at their goods, but very few buy, and 
often the whole stock on a cart is not worth 
more than a dollar or two. 
THE MOST USELESS THING that I have 
seen offered for sale by the street fakirs 
here is a little toy consisting of an imita¬ 
tion of two roosters, which, when worked 
with a string, jump up and strike at each 
other in something the manner of fowls 
fighting. What they are for is a mystery. 
They are surely too simple for a grown per¬ 
son to play, and it is hard to believe that 
any decent parent would buv such a de¬ 
grading plaything for a child. The seller 
stands by the hour working the toy. 
What a mentally elevating employment! A 
large dog, which I shall always remember 
with respect, nearly demolished one of 
these outfits one day. The motion of the 
toy attracted him, and he made a grand 
plunge for it. That fakir will be on the 
lookout for big dogs In the future. 
AGRICULTURAL IMPORT NOTES.- 
Durlng the five years, 1894-1898, the value 
of our imports of wool, hides, silk, fruits, 
sugar, tea, coffee, fibres and other agricul¬ 
tural products, averaged $368,700,000. Of this 
amount, sugar figured at $90,500,600 and 
coffee, $83,500,000. The yearly average from 
Germany was $23,000,000, consisting of beet 
sugar, hops, hide, rice flour, spirituous liq¬ 
uors, coffee and bristles; China’s average 
was $17,000,000, chiefly silk, tea, opium and 
rice; Japan sent silk, tea and rice worth 
$16,900,000; France, wines, hides, silk, fruits 
and vegetable oils valued at $16,600,000; 
Italy, silk, fruits, nuts, macaroni, cheese, 
wool and liquors worth $14,000,000. Great 
Britain’s yearly average was about $33,000,- 
000, consisting of wool, hides, feathers, flax, 
sugar and spirituous liquors, mainly the 
products of British dependencies re-export¬ 
ed from the mother country. Hawaii av¬ 
eraged $12,000,000, the chief items being rice, 
sugar, coffee, bananas and hides; Canada, 
$9,900,000 in horses, cattle, hay, potatoes, to¬ 
bacco, wool, flax, peas and beans; the 
Netherlands $9,000,000, about one-half 
Sumatra tobacco, and the rest sugar, oils, 
cheese, seeds, hides and flax; and Egypt's 
annual average was $5,000,000 in cotton and 
goat skins. 
THE SALMON COMBINE Is far from be¬ 
ing the unqualified success that its pro¬ 
moters anticipated. Pacific Coast advices 
state that this year 80 per cent of the fish 
will be handled by packers outside the trust 
known as the Columbia River Packers’ As¬ 
sociation. The original idea was to get a 
majority of the packers into this concern, 
which would then be strong enough to 
dictate to the tinplate and twine manu¬ 
facturers, and prevent them from selling to 
competing packers. Without nets and tin¬ 
plate, outsiders would not stand much 
chance. These and numerous other plans 
for controlling the Columbia River out¬ 
put came to grief, and the combine does 
not seem to have any special hold on any¬ 
thing at present. It is stated that packers 
will pay six cents per pound cash for April 
and May fish weighing over 19 pounds. 
CHICAGO MILK MATTERS.—Advices 
from Chicago state that the Retail Milk 
Dealers’ Association in that city has failed 
to control the market as it anticipated, 
and that the price to the consumer has 
dropped from 7^ to six cents per quart. 
This is one-fourth cent lower than before 
the combination started last Fall. The idea 
was that the small dealers could either be 
absorbed or crowded out during the Win¬ 
ter. so that the trust would have things its 
own way in the Spring; but so many con¬ 
sumers dropped the big concern and pat¬ 
ronized the outside dealers that the latter 
felt encouraged to hold out, and they are 
making a good showing. It is claimed that 
the combination has thus lost from 10 to 
20 per cent of its patrons. 
CHEESE NOTES.—Not far from 260,000,000 
pounds of cheese are produced in this coun¬ 
try annually. New York has nearly 2,000 
factories, turning out 76,000,000 pounds dur¬ 
ing the past year. Other heavy producing 
States are Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio. 
Wisconsin and Illinois. The New York 
State output dropped nearly 60,000,000 
pounds in seven years. This is largely due 
to the fact that makers of inferior grades 
have counterfeited well-known brands, thus 
bringing them into disrepute. This has 
done the greatest damage to our foreign 
trade. If a producer who has taken the 
trouble to make a grade of uniform excel¬ 
lence has no protection against his brand 
being stolen and put on a lot of poor stuff, 
he is apt to become discouraged and either 
go to making a poorer grade or quit alto¬ 
gether. While we have been making low- 
grade and filled cheese, Canada has been 
Improving her product, which has grad¬ 
ually taken the place of ours in the Eng¬ 
lish market, and the number of factories in 
Canada has increased from a few hundred 
to nearly 2,500. Canadian exporters have 
bought in upper New York large quantities 
of cheese, shipped it to Liverpool as Can¬ 
adian product, and received a higher price 
than the same grades brought under Ameri¬ 
can brands. Within the last year or two, 
we have been waking up to these facts. Our 
product is being improved and efforts are 
being made to secure legislation which will 
thoroughly protect labels. Illinois makes 
most of the filled cheese. The output last 
year was about 2,000,000. The makers have 
to pay an annual license of $400 and a tax 
of one cent per pound additional. 
_ W. W. H. 
Missouri Apples for Paris Exposition. 
On March 3 the apples held in cold stor¬ 
age by the Armour Packing Company were 
all examined, sorted, repacked in new bar¬ 
rels, and shipped in a refrigerator car with 
a through train of meat direct to the 
steamer St. Paul at New York City. The 
barrels were entirely new, made of the 
best flour stock, and all the hoops painted 
red, so that they could be easily distin¬ 
guished from any others, and yet present a 
neat appearance. As the superintendent 
of the Armour Cold Storage department 
said, it was the neatest shipment ever 
made from their plant. The steamship St. 
Paul sailed on March 14, and cold storage 
was provided on board for all the apples 
to be sent, and they were delivered at 
Havre, France; there placed In cold storage 
and drawn upon each week as needed to 
keep up the display. A Missouri table 
will be kept full of fruit during the whole 
exhibition. We have 73 barrels of the very 
best apples that could be secured in the 
State, and feel sure that we shall have a 
most creditable exhibit, as there are enough 
of them to use three or four barrels each 
week of the six months of the Exposition. 
The following varieties were sent in 
quantity, because we wish to make this 
a strictly commercial exhibit: Ben Davis, 
Gano, York, Clayton, Winesap, Willow- 
twig, Ingram and Janet. A number of 
barrels were also sent containing about 20 
varieties, thus showing others of our mar¬ 
ket apples. We have in this collection 
more than any other State except one, and 
shall, of course, expect an excellent dis¬ 
play. We wish to draw the attention of 
those Europeans to our western apples, 
and thus open a market for more of them 
than ever before. l. a. Goodman. 
Westport, Mo. 
Florida Transportation. 
This would be a great vegetable country 
here if given any encouragement by rail¬ 
way. But the Plant system seems to have 
settled on a game of freeze out. They 
don’t see that a cheaper rate with three or 
four times the amount of freight would In 
the end make them more money than pres¬ 
ent prohibitive tariff. They will ship a 
barrel weighing say 100 pounds from Chi¬ 
cago here for 75 cents or 80 cents, and yet 
if that same barrel is filled to be sent back 
the rate is $1.50. Last season a man a few 
miles north of here had some melons to 
ship; on the switch at his station was a 
car from Chicago loaded with wagons that 
had been shipped there for less than $50. 
It was going back empty. He wanted to 
load it with melons for Chicago, but the 
rate back was $150, so he didn’t ship. At 
another point on the same railway was a 
large acreage of cabbage, but the market 
was down and the growers couldn’t afford 
to ship under existing freight rates. Thev 
went to the authorities and said that if 
they could get rates reduced half they 
would ship entire crop, and would thus 
be enabled to make something themselves. 
They were refused. They then offered to 
crate the cabbage and deliver entire crop 
at depot to railway if the railway would 
allow them the freight rates. In other 
words, they would give the railway the 
cabbage if they would pay the growers 
what the railway was charging for taking 
it to market. This was also refused, and 
the entire crop rotted in the field, d. r. 
Florida. 
The Missouri Southwest remarks that 
farmers in that section who have been 
subsoiling for the past few days rather 
than talking politics or discussing the Afri¬ 
can war, will get some results. 
Sweet butter can’t be made in a sour 
churn. The stomach is a churn. A foul 
stomach fouls the food put into it. When 
the food is fouled the blood made from 
it is fouled also. Foul blood means dis¬ 
ease. Cleanse the churn and you have 
sweet butter. Cleanse the stomach and 
you have pure blood. The far reaching 
action of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery is due to its effect on the 
stomach and organs of digestion and 
nutrition. Diseases that begin in the 
stomach are cured through the stomach. 
” Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has 
proved a great blessing to me," writes Mrs. 
Ellen K. Bacon, of Shutesbury, Franklin Co., 
Mass. « Prior to September, 1897 , I had doctored 
for my stomach trouble for several years, going 
through a course of treatment without any real 
benefit. In September, 1896 I had verv sick 
spells and grew worse; could eat but little. I 
commenced to take Dr. Pierce’s medicine and 
in a short time I could eat and work. I have 
gained twenty pounds in two months.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical 
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Dr. R. V. Pierce, 663 Main Street, Buf¬ 
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Successful Fruit Growing. 
The address delivered by the super¬ 
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pany, of ^’ttsfleld. Mass., before the 
Lenox Horticultural Society at Lenox, 
Mass., mention of which we made in 
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education to fruit growers, fruit dealers, 
and, in fact, to anybody eating fruit or 
even having but few fruit trees, or in 
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an hour’s talk. It is said that had it 
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a good price. All rights were reserved, 
however. The full address, profusely 
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